Samatha and Vipassana Meditation

A Dhamma Talk from Birken Forest Monastery

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[Mwaterfall]

...teaches us that we too must die to the "self" that we like Christ may live and attain glorification. There is nothing wrong with action in itself. Rather is "blind reaction" that produces sin.

"Deluded by his identification with the ego, a person thinks, 'I am the doer.' But the illumined man or woman understands the domain of the gunas and is not attached." Gita 3:27,28

[Mwaterfall]

... both at the same time.

Hence, you must implement and schedule "watching" or "witnessing" in your life. In the very act of pure awareness, you are in the state of divinity. In the very act of doing, thinking, and being a good human being, you are in the state of humanity

This is best explained by the nature of Jesus Christ. It is said, Jesus was fully man, thus, called the "Son of Man." Yet he was fully God, thus, called the "Son of God." Even the message of him dying on the cross..

[MrSweatish]

commercial in beginning :P

[Roelisc]

@ruzickaw Not exactly. Your untrained mind is seeking these thing's, so naturally you will find them. Why they have subtle tone's is because of their mindfullness, their extremely keen to every moment, and speak softly and calmly, naturally, not engaged, it's just a byproduct of meditation.

[108shadow108]

to say you can't get samatha, vipassana or samadhi is totally untrue, if he cant get his knowldge right then why listen to him

[ruzickaw]

@dharmasack I agree with you. Boring speaking. Most buddhists have weak voices

because of lack of vitality and exercise.

[sensibilita]

how can someone talk about 'boring' here? If so, you're not ready for this instruction ... and what violent inner conflicts you have (your strange dreams) .... take it easy, take it slowly, 'dharmasack'!

[dharmasack]

Interesting, this guy does know what he's talking about, but his delivery is so boring that during the lecture I fell asleep; I had three dreams and in each one I blew my brains out...

Someone throw a pie or something! Let's come to life and be happy, it's Buddhanature!

[Mwaterfall]

makespeaches

We share the same passion and longing for liberation from this "world of sin" or from the ignorance of the limited ego.

makespeaches, bear in mind that we can NEVER combine reflecting on action in context - how it arised and where it led, with action, speaking, and thinking. We would never be human if we failed to act, and we wouldn't be God if we failed to "see"

One aspect of a righteous life deals with witnessing; the other, with thinking. But you cannot do both...

[makespeaches]

if we reject the internal world for the world of the senses, then the thoughts will come back again and again, we will speak/act inappropriately precisely because we never reflected on the action in context: how it arised and where it led.

also, if we just live in this internal world alone then we will never act.

i feel very passionate about this because insight into how suffering arises, via the 'internal-s/v' journey, is the only way to not repeat the sin, so to speak.

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