The Foundations of Mindfulness with Bhante Vimalaramsi

In this talk, amidst images of nature from Missouri and California, and Bhante Vimalaramsi himself, he discusses a very important step that many meditation teachers have left out in their teaching of the classic Breathing Meditation and other foundations of mindfulness. In this talk he compares the Mahasi Style, taught in Burma, with the method which he proposes that the Buddha really meant to teach, which is what is written in the Theravada Buddhist Suttas themselves.

He talks about a critical step that enables the meditator to reach very high levels of tranquility- even far up into the Jhanas in a relatively short time. Students on his retreats have reported very fast progress over other styles of retreats.

He talks about this different "Tranquil Meditation" he is teaching versus the "Absorption/Momentary Concentration Meditation" of today's Buddhist Vipassana Teachers.

Bhante Vimalaramsi meditated up to 22 hours per day in Burma and finally left because he still felt there was something more. He found that, with Sinhalese teachers in Malayasia who told him, "Throw out the commentaries and only go with the Suttas'" After much study and practice he now tells us what he has found.

This is the 10 minute version of the full 30 minute video posted to Google Video that is free to view. You search for more films using "Vimalaramsi" as the key word at google video.
Discuss with Bhante himself at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dhammasukha/
Get the video on DVD here or more info on Bhante:
http://sites.google.com/site/begintosee/

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