mister--wizard on Nostr: how goes it? i noted with interest your posts from el salvador (el zonte?) especially ...
how goes it? i noted with interest your posts from el salvador (el zonte?)
especially the video of the waves washing onto the shore was relaxing and peaceful. i hope you're enjoying your time there.
here's another video from that monk i mentioned i've been listening to.
here he's talking about the anapanasati sutta (the Buddha's instructions on breath meditation and _sati_, usually translated as _mindfulness_ but which i like to think of less politically correctly and therefore more clearly and plainly, as meaning how to cultivate sanity, i.e., nonconfusion.
one minor thing i think -- if i may presume to say so -- that ven chandima may be remembering incorrectly is that whereas i think he says in the video that of
first 4 of 16 steps, i.e., what we call the first tetrad (body tetrad: other 3 are feelings, mind, and mental phenomena) when the 16 steps are organized into 4 sets of 4 instructions, all 4 steps of the first tetrad end in pali (thus, begin in english) with _pajanati_ ("one knows that...") rather than _sikhati_ ("one trains oneself to..."), i think it is actually only the first two steps (breathing in/out long..., breathing in/out short...) that end in pajanati, which means that it is only the first two steps in which we just try to watch passively (though as another sri lankan monk -- ven henepola gunaratana -- has pointed out, even this is actually a sort of participatory observation; i.e., we cant ignore the dact that, even in the 1st two steps, as we watch the breath we are affecting it...and the point in the first tetrad, as made clear in the instructions at the next 2 steps, is that we figure out in the midst of this participating and observing how to skillfully relax and calm the bodily activities, i.e., breathing).
(sorry to be overly detailed. i have probably been studying/practicing this sutta for sthg like 30 years! let me know if you want good pdf which shows pali with literal english translation in case you are into language and like me want to learn it in language it was spoken in by the Buddha so as to minimize any possible distortion of meaning. it is respect for the Buddha, not disrespect for Ven Chandima, that makes me point out slight issue above about which steps end in pajanati vs sikkhati.)
but ven chandima explains this sutta quite well! far better than i can!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJhZyrDqvE
especially the video of the waves washing onto the shore was relaxing and peaceful. i hope you're enjoying your time there.
here's another video from that monk i mentioned i've been listening to.
here he's talking about the anapanasati sutta (the Buddha's instructions on breath meditation and _sati_, usually translated as _mindfulness_ but which i like to think of less politically correctly and therefore more clearly and plainly, as meaning how to cultivate sanity, i.e., nonconfusion.
one minor thing i think -- if i may presume to say so -- that ven chandima may be remembering incorrectly is that whereas i think he says in the video that of
first 4 of 16 steps, i.e., what we call the first tetrad (body tetrad: other 3 are feelings, mind, and mental phenomena) when the 16 steps are organized into 4 sets of 4 instructions, all 4 steps of the first tetrad end in pali (thus, begin in english) with _pajanati_ ("one knows that...") rather than _sikhati_ ("one trains oneself to..."), i think it is actually only the first two steps (breathing in/out long..., breathing in/out short...) that end in pajanati, which means that it is only the first two steps in which we just try to watch passively (though as another sri lankan monk -- ven henepola gunaratana -- has pointed out, even this is actually a sort of participatory observation; i.e., we cant ignore the dact that, even in the 1st two steps, as we watch the breath we are affecting it...and the point in the first tetrad, as made clear in the instructions at the next 2 steps, is that we figure out in the midst of this participating and observing how to skillfully relax and calm the bodily activities, i.e., breathing).
(sorry to be overly detailed. i have probably been studying/practicing this sutta for sthg like 30 years! let me know if you want good pdf which shows pali with literal english translation in case you are into language and like me want to learn it in language it was spoken in by the Buddha so as to minimize any possible distortion of meaning. it is respect for the Buddha, not disrespect for Ven Chandima, that makes me point out slight issue above about which steps end in pajanati vs sikkhati.)
but ven chandima explains this sutta quite well! far better than i can!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJhZyrDqvE