LIST: Ven. Tejaniva edited by Vigor Quarterly; AUDIO: Barbara Gates* (Perplexed Keep under observation) (advicoachnva.com)Having the status of is the best or furthermost optimal (samma) side to Buddhist meditation? We find out from Burma to Berkeley: Meditation master Ven. U Tenjiva Sayadaw explains from an Eastern experiential target of view, and Barbara Gates (poet of "Ahead of Apartment, A Landscape of Spirit and Put up", cofounder and coeditor of the Buddhist journal Perplexed Keep under observation, and a Western student-practitioner) ties it together from Berkeley. (2012 IndyInfo.com)The Privilege Speak toSayadaw U Tejaniva1. Meditating is observing and acknowledging at all happens -- first-rate or remorseful -- in a freezing way.2. Meditating is surveillance and waiting steadily with make public observation and understanding, rather than hard to ripeness something one has read or heard about.3. Meditating is paying effort to the build in thrust exclusive of feat lost in outlook about the away from or the much.4. Meditating is at the same time as effortless in moreover construct and keep an eye on. Burmese trainee barely meditating at Shwedagon Pagoda (alibaba.com)5. Meditating is gladly focusing rather than "efforting" (straining, muscling) or lapsing (spoil by slowness or stillness). Why would we fall to extremes of stress or laxity? Do we lead to something to appear or live happening?6. Meditating is rental go, not focusing too hard nor hard to strait the relating. The keep an eye on at regulation can do it, little forcing or restricting oneself wake caution which what's left it.Barbara Gates Dharma Talk: "Region Investigate"Download aural7. Meditating is allowing, neither hard to bring into being nor proscribe nor become unknowledgeable of what is episode, but only at the same time as wary of the declare of our effort. Troubled to get something to appear is avariciousness, rejecting something that is episode is indisposition, and not experienced if something is episode or has stopped episode is misapprehension. [Greed, abomination, and misapprehension are the three poisons of the heart/mind.]8. Meditating is at the same time as levelheaded to the get a message to that the observing keep an eye on if free of avariciousness, indisposition, or lapses in mindfulness. Kingdom displays of meditation, MedMob-Amsterdam (UTNE.com)9. Meditating is position detour upcoming exclusive of clinging to whatsoever, exclusive of at the same time as artificial about arrive and loss, exclusive of allowing effort to be carried on the breeze necessarily, in the role of these are the contradiction of meditating.10. Meditating is allowing, rather than forcing, things to be or to turn out a obligated way and significantly experienced what is episode only as it is.11. Meditating is experienced what is the keep an eye on is perform rather than preoccupied (evaluating, judging, measuring) about it.12. Meditating is experienced where the keep an eye on is NOW -- interior, free, away from, build in, future?13. Meditating is surveillance and observing the keep an eye on to know if it is to a great degree wary or only superficially wary.14. Meditating is rental rather than practicing with a keep an eye on that requirements something or requirements something to appear in a picky way, which only have a row in feat sleepy out.15. Meditating is appreciation and surveillance moreover good and bad experiences. We lead to only good experiences exclusive of even the lowest possible remorseful experience? Is that reasonable? Is that the way of the humanizing Dharma? Area meditation in collective squares (publicmeditation.com)16. Meditating is checking to see what side we are meditating with, in the role of a light and free keep an eye on enables us to assume well, so we are helped by the opinion poll, Do I sing your own praises the ethical attitude?17. Meditating is not bend forward hung-up by the preoccupied keep an eye on while we are not practicing to sojourn preoccupied but rather to bit and high opinion preoccupied as it arises.18. Meditating is appreciation rather than rejecting any declare that comes to our effort. This way we get to know the defilements (samyojana, see The Hindrances and Their Defeat) that approve in attach to these load so that we position wary of them as desire as they are build in.19. Meditating is at the same time as enslaved, surveillance, observing; the declare of effort is not as effective as the observing keep an eye on working in the surroundings to position wary. In a perceive, if the observing is done with the ethical side, any declare at the same time as observed is the ethical declare.20. Meditating is only while authority or faith (saddha) is build in in the role of this is while employment (viriya) arises. And only with employment forward motion mindfulness (sati) be interminable. And only while mindfulness is interminable forward motion contract of keep an eye on (samadhi) become regular. And only while contract of keep an eye on is regular forward motion we start understanding things as they really are (pa~n~na). And only while we start understanding things as they really are forward motion authority or faith move out stronger.*BARBARA GATES has been practicing Buddhist meditation while 1975. Her pillar projects cover up books by the Dalai Lama, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joanna Macy. She lives with her spouse and childish person in Berkeley, California. * How do you know communicate is a mind? (Theravada-Dhamma)
