Video: Meditation: Suttas vs Commentaries
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It's just so simple-minded. I'm looking for a teacher who is smarter than me. He does not qualify.
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lol so its different than what that teacher teaches.
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How so?thelotuseffect wrote:lol so its different than what that teacher teaches.
>> 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
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
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This is becoming trite and obtuse.thelotuseffect wrote:Well Vipassana notes all arising and passing away phenomena. Noting all phenomena is not a step in Bhante V's method. The only noticing occurs during the event of a hindrance and then purifying that before coming back to your meditation object.
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So, following Vimalaramsi's method, what do you between noting the hindrances?thelotuseffect wrote:This is becoming trite and obtuse.thelotuseffect wrote:Well Vipassana notes all arising and passing away phenomena. Noting all phenomena is not a step in Bhante V's method. The only noticing occurs during the event of a hindrance and then purifying that before coming back to your meditation object.
>> 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
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
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Stay on your object of meditation. Mine is generating metta. If no hindrance arises then chances are high that you are in a jhana.
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Metta practice will lead to arahanta? Where does insight into the three mark come to play in this practice?thelotuseffect wrote:Stay on your object of meditation. Mine is generating metta. If no hindrance arises then chances are high that you are in a jhana.
>> 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
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
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Knowledge and vision are attainments achieved through practice. By learning how minds attention works through meditation one gains insight into Dependent Origination which is an impersonal process.
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Re: Video: Meditation: Suttas vs Commentaries
So, how does this work doing metta practice?thelotuseffect wrote:Knowledge and vision are attainments achieved through practice. By learning how minds attention works through meditation one gains insight into Dependent Origination which is an impersonal process.
>> 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
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
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I listened to a lot of Bhante V's talks back in 2007/2008 so perhaps I can have a go at answering this.tiltbillings wrote:Metta practice will lead to arahanta? Where does insight into the three mark come to play in this practice?thelotuseffect wrote:Stay on your object of meditation. Mine is generating metta. If no hindrance arises then chances are high that you are in a jhana.
Bhante V's instructions use metta as the primary object (to use Mahasi terminology) for building concentration. When a hindrance arises one is aware of it, goes through the 6R process he describes, then goes back to the object (metta). The awareness of the hindrances is the vipassana aspect (the hindrances are anicca, dukkha, anatta, they arise via the DO sequence, etc, similar to how other teachers would teach it).
So, in broad terms, it's not that different from what many teachers teach, except that:
1. I have not come across other teachers using metta in quite this way, as a "primary object" in vipassana-oriented practice. Most other teachers use objects like breath, abdominal motion, motion of feet, etc for that.
2. The 6R thing is a different way of explaining how to get back to the primary object from the way other teachers explain it.
But I don't see any serious contradictions.
Mike
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Thanks. Basically, then, Vimalaramsi is teaching nothing really new.mikenz66 wrote:I listened to a lot of Bhante V's talks back in 2007/2008 so perhaps I can have a go at answering this.tiltbillings wrote:Metta practice will lead to arahanta? Where does insight into the three mark come to play in this practice?thelotuseffect wrote:Stay on your object of meditation. Mine is generating metta. If no hindrance arises then chances are high that you are in a jhana.
Bhante V's instructions use metta as the primary object (to use Mahasi terminology) for building concentration. When a hindrance arises one is aware of it, goes through the 6R process he describes, then goes back to the object (metta). The awareness of the hindrances is the vipassana aspect (the hindrances are anicca, dukkha, anatta, they arise via the DO sequence, etc, similar to how other teachers would teach it).
So, in broad terms, it's not that different from what many teachers teach, except that:
1. I have not come across other teachers using metta in quite this way, as a "primary object" in vipassana-oriented practice. Most other teachers use objects like breath, abdominal motion, motion of feet, etc for that.
2. The 6R thing is a different way of explaining how to get back to the primary object from the way other teachers explain it.
But I don't see any serious contradictions.
Mike
>> 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
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
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That's my impression. If I ignore all his statements about other teachers, it seems to me that he has his own way of explaining how to examine experience that doesn't particularly disagree with what I've learned from others. But I've never seriously used his instructions, so I'm just going on what I've listened to.tiltbillings wrote:Thanks. Basically, then, Vimalaramsi is teaching nothing really new.
Mike
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Basically, then it is repackaged vipassana, still using "noting" -- developed by Mahasi Sayadaw -- as a primary tool. But from what has been presented in these videos it seems a bit fuzzy. Maybe the Vimalaramsi practice could be explained a more detail.mikenz66 wrote:That's my impression. If I ignore all his statements about other teachers, it seems to me that he has his own way of explaining how to examine experience that doesn't particularly disagree with what I've learned from others. But I've never seriously used his instructions, so I'm just going on what I've listened to.tiltbillings wrote:Thanks. Basically, then, Vimalaramsi is teaching nothing really new.
>> 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
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
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Re: Video: Meditation: Suttas vs Commentaries
As a supposed "Suttanta method" what is being presented here looks to be naught more than a variation of Burmese Vipassana.
>> 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
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
Re: Video: Meditation: Suttas vs Commentaries
Well, it is a little different, using metta as the primary object.
When I look in terms of general approach I see more similarities than differences between what I use and what most of the "vipassana" teachers teach (e.g. most of Ajahn Chah's students). I've had a couple of short retreats with Ajahn Tiradhammo (an Ajahn Chah student), which again isn't so different from Mahasi (though he doesn't use noting, there's still that primary/secondary object thing). He did say, though that the most useful meditation book he found was The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Ven Nyanaponika...
Mike
When I look in terms of general approach I see more similarities than differences between what I use and what most of the "vipassana" teachers teach (e.g. most of Ajahn Chah's students). I've had a couple of short retreats with Ajahn Tiradhammo (an Ajahn Chah student), which again isn't so different from Mahasi (though he doesn't use noting, there's still that primary/secondary object thing). He did say, though that the most useful meditation book he found was The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Ven Nyanaponika...
Mike