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A good Dhamma talk given by Steve Armstrong and Hla Myint on the the Progress of Insight.

http://dharmaseed.org/retreats/1300/

I am looking forward to purchasing their transalation of Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw's "Manual of Insight" when it gets published.

Thanks Don

Are you familiar with this?
The Progress of Insight (Visuddhiñana-katha) by The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw
translated from the Pali with Notes by Nyanaponika Thera
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... gress.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
kind regrds,

Ben

Ben wrote:Thanks Don

Are you familiar with this?
The Progress of Insight (Visuddhiñana-katha) by The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw
translated from the Pali with Notes by Nyanaponika Thera
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... gress.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
kind regrds,

Ben

Thanks for the link Ben.

Some teachers would discourage students from reading about the Nanas on their own... It can create inhibiting expectations and self-diagnoses...

This is on the same subject

The seven purifications and insight knowledges by Ven Matara Nanarama

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/bm7insight.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

With metta

Matheesha

Viscid wrote:It can create inhibiting expectations and self-diagnoses...

Hi Viscid, aren't these just more objects to be mindful of?

rowyourboat wrote:This is on the same subject

The seven purifications and insight knowledges by Ven Matara Nanarama

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/bm7insight.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

With metta

Matheesha

Thanks for the link Matheesha.

dhamma_newb wrote:

Viscid wrote:It can create inhibiting expectations and self-diagnoses...

Hi Viscid, aren't these just more objects to be mindful of?

Viscid wrote:Some teachers would discourage students from reading about the Nanas on their own... It can create inhibiting expectations and self-diagnoses...

I fail to see how such a closed-hand habit would be in keeping with the open-hand Dhamma. Maybe if the Nanas are somehow an extra spice on the Dhamma, it makes sense to watch out who learns about them and when?

Well it's kind of hard to avoid information on the Progress of Insight today, it's on many forums and websites. I'm pretty sure I came across it when I first learned Vipassana and did a search on Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw. There's a link to the Progress of Insight on his Wikipedia page.

If this information is supposed to be for teachers only then they've done a poor job of keeping it from beginning students.

daverupa wrote:

Viscid wrote:Some teachers would discourage students from reading about the Nanas on their own... It can create inhibiting expectations and self-diagnoses...

I fail to see how such a closed-hand habit would be in keeping with the open-hand Dhamma. Maybe if the Nanas are somehow an extra spice on the Dhamma, it makes sense to watch out who learns about them and when?

I agree.