The Practice Is Here and Now | Karthik #1 | 3.7.22

Karthik and Dhammarato talk about the knowledge required to establish practice.

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00:00 Just enough knowledge

05:18 Ian Stevenson database; haunted houses on the History Channel

08:07 Work to do right now

12:20 Eating meat

16:30 Ānāpānasati is fit for everyone; seeing things as they really are; metta

22:23 Hindrances are thrown out of the mind as soon as they are seen

23:23 Concentration vs. ways of freeing the mind

25:18 1st jhāna - developing the skills through ānāpānasati 

29:53 Applied and sustained wholesome thought; sukha; piti; absence of hindrances (fit for work)

34:05 Piti alone is not first jhāna

36:18 Not ready for paticcasamuppāda; work with the physical first

39:36 Dukkha dukkha-nirodha; dealing with what’s real

52:29 Practice four to six times a day