Two qualities have a share in clear knowing
1. Tranquility (samatha)
- When tranquility is developed, what
purpose does it serve? The mind is developed. And when the mind is developed,
what purpose does it serve? Passion is abandoned.
2. Insight (vipassana)
- When insight is developed, what purpose
does it serve? Discernment is developed. And when descernment is developed,
what purpose does it serve? Ignorance is abandoned.
Four developments
of concentration
There is the development of concentration that, when developed and pursued, leads to …
1. a pleasant abiding in the
here and now.
2 the attainment of
knowledge and vision.
3. mindfulness and alertness.
4. the ending of the effluents.
Four (Controlling)
Powers
1. The power of faith
2. The power of energy
3. The power of mindfulness
4 The power of
concentration
Four Powers
1. Energy
2. Mindfulness
3. Concentration
4. Wisdom
Five Learner’s
Power
1. Power of faith
2. Power of Conscientiousness
3. Power of Fear of Blame
4. Power of Enerfy
5. Power of Insight
Seven Factors
of Awakening
1. Mindfulness
2. Analysis of qualities
3. Persistence
4. Rapture
5. Serenity
6. Concentration
7. Equanimity
when developed and pursued, leads to direct
knowledge, to self Awakening, to Unbinding.
Prescription
for dealing with drowsiness in meditation:
Whatever perception you have in mind when drowsiness descends on you,
1. Don’t attend to that perception; don’t pursue it.
2. Recall to your awareness the Dhamma as you have heard and memorized it, re-examine it and ponder it over in your mind.
3. Repeat aloud in detail the Dhamma as you have heard and memorized it.
4. Pull both you earlobes and rub your limbs with your hands.
5. Get up from your seat and, after washing your eyes with water, look around in all directions and upward to the major stars and constellations and attend to the perception of light.
6. Attend to the perception of light; resolve on the perception of daytime, [dwelling] by night as by day, and by day as by night. By means of awareness thus open and unhampered, develop a brightened mind.
7. Percipient of what lies in front and
behind – set a distance to meditate walking back and forth, your senses
inwardly immersed, your mind not straying outwards.
But if by doing this you don’t shake off
your drowsiness, then reclining on your right side – take up the lion’s
posture, one foot placed on top of the other, mindful, alert, with your
mind set on getting up. As soon as you wake up, get up quickly, with the
thought, ‘I won’t stay indulging in the pleasure of lying down, the pleasure
of reclining, the pleasure of drowsiness.’ That is how you should train
yourself.
Five Hindrances
1. Kama Chanda – Sensual desire
2. Vyapada – Ill will
3 Thina-middha – Sloth and Torpor (drowsiness)
4. Udhacca – Restlessness and anxiety
5. Kukkucca – Doubt (Uncertainty)
Three Indulgences
1. Sleep
2. Drinking of fermented liquor/taking
drugs
3. Sexual intercourse
Four determinations:
1. The determination for discernment,
2. The determination for truth,
3. The determination for relinquishment,
4. The determination for calm
Five Spheres
of Release
1. Learning the Dhamma,
2. Instructs others the Dhamma in detail
as he has heard,
3. Repeats the Dhamma as he has heard
it,
4. Ponders and Reflects on the Dhamma,
5. Grasps some concentration sign,
… he partakes both the spirit and the
letter of the Dhamma, he experiences gladness, zest, calm and ease, whereby
his mind is composes.
Ten Fetters
1. View of theindividual-group
2. Doubt and wavering
3. Wrong handling of habit and ritual
4. Sensual desire
5. Malevolence
6. Lust of objective form
7. Lust of the formless
8. Conceit
9. Excitement
10. Ignorance
Four Right Efforts
Effort to restraint the rising of evil
that have yet to arise
Effort to the abandoning of evil that
have arisen
Effort to cultivate the profitable states
that have not yet arisen
Effort to increase, maintain the profitable
state that have arisen
1. One sleeps easily,
2. Wakes easily,
3. Dreams no evil dreams,
4. One is dear to human beings,
5. Dear to non-human beings,
6. The devas protect one,
7. Neither fire, poison, nor weapons can
touch one,
8. One’s mind gains concentration quickly,
9. One’s complexion is bright,
10. One dies unconfused and
11. If penetrating no higher – is headed
for the Brahma worlds.
32 Parts of
Impurities of the Body
In this body there is:
1. Hair of the head,
2. Hair of the body,
3. Nails,
4. Teeth,
5. Skin,
6. Muscle,
7. Tendons,
8. Bones,
9. Bone marrow,
10. Spleen,
11. Heart,
12. Liver,
13. Diaphragm,
14. Kidneys
15. Lungs,
16. Large intestines,
17. Small intestines,
18. Stomach,
19. Faeces,
20. Bile in gall bladder,
21. Phlegm,
22. Lymph,
23. Blood,
24. Sweat,
25. Fat,
26. Fears,
27. Pus,
28. Saliva,
29. Mucus,
30. Fluid in the joints,
31. Urine,
32. Brain.
One should do what one teaches
others to do; if one would train others, one should be well controlled
oneself. Difficult, indeed, is self control.
The doer of good delights here
and hereafter; he delights in both the worlds. The thought, “Good have
I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of
bliss.
One who, while himself seeking
happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness,
will not attain happiness hereafter.