Vipassana recreates infancy?

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rowyourboat
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Re: Vipassana recreates infancy?

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Hi Rick,

When you are thinking, the mind is scattered. When the mind is scattered there is no samadhi (concentration). When there is no samadhi, there can be no insight (panna).

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tiltbillings
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Re: Vipassana recreates infancy?

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rowyourboat wrote:Hi Rick,

When you are thinking, the mind is scattered. When the mind is scattered there is no samadhi (concentration). When there is no samadhi, there can be no insight (panna).

With metta

Matheesha
Yes, and in that, verbalization is not "annihilated."
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
rowyourboat
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Re: Vipassana recreates infancy?

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tiltbillings wrote:
rowyourboat wrote:Hi Rick,

When you are thinking, the mind is scattered. When the mind is scattered there is no samadhi (concentration). When there is no samadhi, there can be no insight (panna).

With metta

Matheesha
Yes, and in that, verbalization is not "annihilated."
Indeed.

Some verbalisation may even be helpful if used 'skillfully' -the counting of the breath in samatha and noting (again really in samadhi practice), in 'vipassana'.

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Matheesha
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Re: Vipassana recreates infancy?

Post by ricketybridge »

ok cool, thanks all.
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