Hi Tiltbilling, all
10% is obviously more than enough to color her followers approach, and she certainly does not do anything to tamp down the triumphalist attitude of her followers as we can hear in the
hear in the talk linked above. If you can show us something different, please do.
Well, I'll be out of this thread now, but I'll just leave a taste. I find the best thing is to just get her talking about the natural development of understanding, which must be very gradual,and of course accompanied by detachment. (I assume we are acknowledge that as panna is kusala, it must -- as all kusala cittas must -- be accompanied by alobha. Now, to be honest, these days I am listening to other teachers because I am wanting fast results, instant tips for how to fend with sense door objects in a more strategic way, for example, in order to lead a more wholesome life and be happier. And surely the Buddha in many suttas does so as well. I think in particular of the MN sutta where he, for example, tells Rahula to consider the implications of his actions, or when he talks of when he decided to categorize his thoughts into two categories, very pragmatic strategies or remedies that can be applied upon hearing, as long as they are remembered by a basic level of sati. So when I listen to Joseph Goldstein, for example, there are lots of useful tips for negotiating daily life. And yet, when I listen to her when she is just talking like in the first five minutes of the following link, there is something much subtler, much closer to the heartwood, I feel, a real appreciation of anataness and detachment that develops little by little from the beginning along with understanding. But I am too impatient for results to be content with such a gradual development of understanding.
http://www.dhammastudygroup.org/audio/i ... aya_02.mp3
In any case,I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to hear her, and look forward to making another trip in January. (Lovely people and great food and lovely settings as well, that is maybe as big of a reason to want to go.)
OK, I will move on from this thread.
Thanks.
Phil