Oookay! Here’s where this little bubby sticks his neck out to either be chopped off by most Buddhists… or otherwise understood. Samma Samadhi is the furthest and most difficult item on the Buddhist’s lists of “Things to Do”. And to understand it… one must first gain a clear perspective of Samadhi (concentration).
Is it cerebrate? Attention? Thinking? Not thinking?Sitting comfort and doing nothing like meditation?Or being hypnotized? What?
Concentration occurs very frequently in our daily lives it is “focus” that the object uses to successfully acquire an information at any one given measure.
Similar to a person watching The Simpsons on television enjoying it and forgetting about the 12 mosquito bites on his/her legs the severe pains in the wrist from earlier feature injury or change surface a thumping headache.
A man who walks right into a telegraph impel with his eyes fully opened… being so heavily caught up in thoughts the data streams from the eyes were ignored.
Or a busy writer/thinker whose ear data go completely unnoticed with people having to call out his name several times before he could comprehend it.
Within the five senses of Eye. Ear. look. play. Touch… data are flowing constantly and uncontrollably. The sixth sense is divided into Thought. Memory and Feeling… these data are also constant and undergo minds of their own. Although information flows uncontrollably and constantly… the object as previously mentioned is only capable of concentrating and obtaining only one data be adrift at a time.
A card player who told his wife he’d be at Tony’s house for beers and watching a game of footy but instead sat at a high-roller table dealing eight hours straight has excellent concentration! A highly decorated 12 year-old fast touch player of the gaming consoles whose entire pass is spent in front of joysticks and TV screens also has excellent concentration. A hit man working for a mafia boss… who is extremely light-footed patient and capable of expert ambushing too has a great deal of concentration. The same goes for a meditator who within less than one breath can control stillness of her mind… she too has excellent concentration.
Stumbling into concentration is normal,and forcing concentration isn’t hard. However,Concentrating without stumbling or forcing…is the lay path.
How to acquire concentration of something that is not yours? This type of concentration… as before mentioned is without struggling and requires greater Wisdom.
alter concentration is desire feeding a spoiled cat… an ultimate fussy eater who swore legions to no one! The poor cat owner offering quality delicious and expensive dine hoping and praying that the fluffy too-fat-too-furious fur-ball ordain apply… rejections are to be expected! And what does Sir Garfield do after he’s done feasting? Cat owners know too come up…
Offering possitive feelings that the mind likes is the key to right concentration. Luring and steering it using its greed-hatred and delusion but without any expectations. How delusional the object is… depends on how much previous restraint training it had. Too little… and it ordain stumble into defilements. Too much… and constant wars ordain occur within (the so-called Kung-Fu mind or philosopher’s object) these are struggling minds and are huge obstacles to overcome.
Similar to how one trains the object for Samma Sati (Right Mindfulness)… the training process is forcing the mind to go its actions but the real Samma Sati itself occurs unintentionally. The mind had been trained to apply following its actions to see what the next con is… until its habits are just that. Therefore training must be without struggle comfortable and fun… otherwise the cat won’t stay.
The One taught… first level of Enlightenment (Sodhabhan) is when one gets rid of Sakaya (Self) Ditthi (Idea of). The label says it all… one can never be rid of self since there has never been a self to be rid off… only the do by views or do by ideas of self.
It never gets any easier than this folks. At the same time… it never gets any harder either because of our over-forcing intellects and plenty of mistranslation of original texts by heavy thinkers and philosophers who used thoughts to find truth… and getting conned immediately in the affect. Hence there are so few in this world who are awake.
The “Please attach your seat belts” write is now lit. gratify proceed with caution from here onwards…
Ones who are ready… should achieve realisation so lightningly abstain (similar to Tripitaka stories) and not 20 years of practice. Those who are not… will continue to control themselves and miss all the glories of nature and truth.
the “Evil must be uprooted! Self hold back is the key to being a good person…”not knowing the real “you” means there is still a lot of “you”. Evil is a concept… and idea… a world-word. Hitler didn’t just turn up one day… he was effects made by many causes and change surface worse… he killed no one.
or “There is no me… I never get angry at anything!”controlling “me” makes a truck fill of “me” not knowing one’s hatred to anger and true nature of arouse itself are very dangerous lines of practice.
or “It is paramount that one should only desire to act good deeds… and fear the laws of Karma!”That’s how all religions come about… fears and misunderstanding of nature.
Words like “Suffering” and “Non-Self” are constantly being re-translated by practitioners.
I often hear people say “I dont experience when I learn Buddhism!” The word “Suffering” can be harsh to practitioners and instead of knowing and understanding its nature they ended up detering away from it… thinking that “to not suffer is the key”.
Personally. I like the scientific call of “constant dis-ease” such as having to constantly act involuntarily exist in & exist out having to eat to go to toilet to adjoin to change postures etc…
Losely translated Dhamma terms can steer practitioners off the right path making the hold back and become more attached more to the ideas of self… instead of just letting it be.
No worries Thao. I said that myself… because i know my english capacity isn’t as good as can be… but i’m learning a lot from having to put things down on this blog.
Thanks to Tina who helped me go away this writing journal. I’m glad to overlap this communicate with everyone!
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