...Once the personal is transcended and someone becomes an arahant, kamma becomes inoperative.... The mind (in it's intentional action) of an arahant does not generate further kamma , but the body, living circumstances, etc. of an arahant is still subject to the workings (results) of previous perfo...

...Once the personal is transcended and someone becomes an arahant, kamma becomes inoperative.... The mind (in it's intentional action) of an arahant does not generate further khamma , but the body, living circumstances, etc. of an arahant is still subject to the workings (results) of previous perf...

... The way i do it is i will note as in mentally verbalize rising - falling or in -out breath when i direct attention to those realities but if i notice ie sensations on the nostrils while observing the rising or falling i dont note the sensations at the nostrils, i just know that i noticed it and...

Here's a rather comprehensive, and ostensibly authoritative, overview of the topic: https://audiodharma.org/series/16/talk/3019/ Two-days of talks on the topic, given in 2012 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. "Papañca When discussing the sources of conflict—inner and outer—the Buddha pointed to a type of think...

Looks like one ought to keep noting mentally but there is no need to name everything... Yes. "Noting" is perhaps a s/w unfortunate word to use as in English it's connotation is rather light -- taking note of, noticing. The sense the Sayadaw Mahasi uses, more clearly in discussions of more advanced ...

"Noting", as per Mahasi's writings (and retreat instructions to this day at Panditãrãma centers) should get beyond the verbalization fabrication as soon as possible. It's really more "knowing" phenomena, becoming progressively more intense as one deepens the insight with greater concentration. Do y...

That quotation in the OP looks like the Sayadaw may be aligning the 4 jhanas with various of his 16 stages of the progress of insight, much like the " vipassana jhana -s" as described in more detail by the Sayadawgyi Pandita (Chapter 5 in " In This Very Life " http://www.aimwell.org/inthisverylife.h...

Hi guys, Can you please keep this thread on the topic of Jhanas, specifically 1-4 rupa jhanas and 5-8 arupa jhanas. Here is the definition for those jhanas in case you need a refresher, http://www.leighb.com/jhana8.htm Remember, the recipe for entering first jhana is 1) Initial and sustained thinki...

A slightly tangential detail -- surprised to find, in a recent Pali class nearby, taught by a Burmese translator, with students from vaious SE-Asian countries, that they pronounce "abhidhamma" as "aBHIdhamma" (accent on 2nd syllable), rather than "ABhidhamma" as most Americans say it. Also, they say...

Thanks CJMacie, Discussion of whether Jhana is a prerequisite of satipatthana is have been moved. https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=32214 Please respect the OP of topics. Thanks. :heart: Mike My post above was intended to clarify the OP in pointing-out that associating the Sayadaw Mahasi...

Just to clarify, to put in perspective, that "Mahasi practice" (as the " vipassana " practice) is a method the Sayadaw developed and taught in the context of the 20th-century movement to revive, popularize the Buddha's practice, to counterbalance against the colonialist (British) pressure to extingu...

http://www.mahasiusa.org/addresses.html Information on that website looks, at least in part, to be s/w out-of-date. Specifically, under Menu "Mahasi" --> "World Wide Meditation" is listed: " Theravada Buddhist Society of America Ven. U Silananda (Aggamaha Pandita) http://www.tbsa.org 17450 South Ca...

A new essay by the scholar Alexander Wynne offers a s/w unusual discussion of the meaning(s) of viññāṇa -- "Sariputta or Kaccāna? A preliminary study of two early Buddhist philosophies of mind and meditation" , available at: https://www.academia.edu/36752191/Sariputta_or_Kacc%C4%81na_A_preliminary_s...

A footnote on "noting"... In Sayadaw Mahasi's writings, and in contemporary retreat instructions (e.g. at Tathatgata Meditation Center -- monks from Sayadawgyi Pandita lineage) the "naming" aspect is a crutch for beginners, to be abandoned as soon as possible. "Noting" is in the direction of direct ...

Why not use the just finished translation of Ajahn Sujato's designed to be easily understood by non-academic English speakers? Because... it doesn't exist. The only translation he has done in the KN is the Theragatha. :smile: https://readingfaithfully.org/verses-of-the-senior-monks-theragatha-ebook...