This is the Path | The Sangha US #37 | 5.6.22

The Sangha discuss wakefulness, sleep, and consciousness as an object of meditation, mindfulness as profound contact, nibbāna, knowledge and vision of what is and is not the Path, the fantasy of enlightenment as an incentive for practice, and delight in practice and in the Dhamma. #enlightenment #sleep #saddha 

Majjhima Nikāya 2

Sabbāsavasutta - All the Defilements

https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin (Bhikkhu Sujato)

https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false (Bhikkhu Bodhi)

https://suttacentral.net/mn1/en/suddhaso?reference=none&highlight=false (Suddhāso Bhikkhu)

The diverse problems of the spiritual journey demand a diverse range of responses. Rather than applying the same solution to every problem, the Buddha outlines seven methods of dealing with defilements, each of which works in certain cases.

“I am the way, the truth, and the life”

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/John%2014:6

“I and the Father are one”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010%3A30-38&version=NIV

Illegitimi non carborundum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

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00:00:00 Learning about doing meditation vs. doing meditation; skill development

00:11:10 Samādhi as outcome of the Noble Eightfold Path and the jhānas 

00:13:55 Piti and relaxation; staying awake during the night; wakefulness training (MN 2)

00:39:19 Consciousness as an object of meditation; experiment with your own body

00:52:27 A new way of thinking about going to bed

00:56:32 Mindfulness of swimming; golf; zen and the art of archery

01:02:15 Profound contact vs. noting or thinking about meditation; frustration with Mahasi

01:06:11 Sati vs. concentration practice; Western meditation is a set of incorrect translations

01:09:41 Nibbāna is something you make; cessation vs. everything is relative; the quality of success

01:14:34 Elimination of doubt: knowledge and vision that this is the path

01:16:12 “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6); the magic of life; illegitimi non carborundum

01:21:50 Delight in the practice; utility in the fantasy of enlightenment 

01:29:00 Hindrances as melting snowflakes