Also a subtag of Right Concentration
48 excerpts, 3:00:47 total duration
1. “Could you comment on the issue of feeling that there need to be certain conditions in place for me to practice?” [Meditation] [Conditionality] // [Ajahn Chah] [Mindfulness] [Discernment] [Continuity of mindfulness]
Quote: “You can go off to the forest and be happy on your own or you can stay here and I can teach you how to be happy all the time.” — Ajahn Chah to Ajahn BahnKow. [Ajahn BahnKow] [Happiness] [Seclusion] [Everyday life]
1. “Could you talk about how to integrate interaction and physical seclusion to develop citta viveka - mental seclusion?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Seclusion ] [Community] // [Concentration] [Continuity of mindfulness] [Relinquishment] [Happiness] [Contact] [Proliferation]
Quote: “Cittaviveka is essentially sāmadhi.” [Seclusion ]
2. “What is the difference between upadhi viveka and citta viveka?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Seclusion ] [Concentration] [Discernment] // [Relinquishment] [Aggregates] [Characteristics of existence]
Quote: “Upadi viveka is more transportable. You can carry it with you.” [Seclusion ]
Sutta: SN 22.22: The Burden (Chanting Book translation).
10. Quote: “You can go back to your cave and learn to be peaceful there, or you can stay here and learn how to be peaceful anywhere.” — Ajahn Chah. Quoted by Ajahn Pasanno. [Ajahn Chah] [Tranquility] [Seclusion] [Equanimity] // [Upatakh]
2. “How to find a good balance between personal individual practice and helping the community? How have you practiced with this yourself, having had the role of abbot for such a long time?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Meditation] [Service] [Ajahn Pasanno] [Abbot] // [Seclusion ] [Restlessness and worry] [Ajahn Sumedho] [Idealism] [Becoming] [Craving not to become] [Monastic routine]
Quote: “You really have to learn how to step back from your own mind and give attention to that sense of solid connection with the Dhamma practice.” [Seclusion ] [Dhamma]
Quote: “If we don’t really develop a sense of giving and sharing and lovingkindness and compassion, any amount of meditation that you do never really comes to much fruitition.” [Generosity] [Goodwill]