Be Original.

Another thing that I had encountered with some of these, so called meditators at Nilambe was that they wanted to discuss things, which are original. That is one must speak from one's own 'experiences', but not from books or any other outside sources.

But for me, what I spoke was always of my 'experiences' of the Bhavana, Buddhist practice of Mind development. In that, my experiences was similar or exactly the same, with the explanations found in the Buddhist texts and scriptures. This, these so called meditators could not understand as they have not practised the same mediation I have done.

So I was in a state, emphasising to them this practice they have to do, as I felt that they always talk about the surface things, as experiences and understanding,  which one contemplates at the beginning of the practice.

What was this surface things they discuss constitutes, are 'Thinking', 'Thoughts', 'Emotions', 'Feelings' (not sensations= Vedana in Pali, but for example feelings of anger and such.) and their reactions and responses within and without.

This is the beginning of Bhavana where one contemplates of such things as 'Thinking', 'Thoughts', 'Emotions', 'Feelings', etc. to understand them in relation to the suffering created at the surface level, and also to understand that they are the obstacles which one has to free oneself to come to Samadi, the perfect state of Sati, where Sati is established firmly and only on the Breathing.

After contemplating and understanding that these 'Thinking', 'Thoughts', 'Emotions', 'Feelings', etc. are obstacles (5 Nivranas), when one decides to put away these things, one should categorise them as Anger, Desire, Lust, Ignorance and Neutral things making a distance of them, which would help to distance of them with oneself.

This will help the 'Labelling' technique and also to detect them quickly without getting involved in them and to come back to the Attention on Breathing.

I never came across anyone who have done this. But I found they remained at the contemplation stage, thinking it as the Bhavana, trying to understand them more deeper.

So there was none in Nilambe or elsewhere with whom I could discuss the deeper level of Samadi.


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