..續本文上一頁eople of the world appear differently than they used to. But you”re the only one who sees this. Absolutely everything changes. Your thoughts are transmuted: other people now think in one way, while you think in another. They speak about things in one way, while you speak in another. They”re descending one path while you”re climbing another. You”re no longer the same as other human beings. This way of experiencing things doesn”t deteriorate. It persists and carries on. Give it a try. If it really is as I describe, you won”t have to go searching very far. Just look into your own heart. This heart is staunchly courageous, unshakably bold. This is the heart”s power, it”s source of strength and energy. The heart has this potential strength. This is the power and force of samadhi.
At this point it”s still just the power and purity that the mind derives from samadhi. This level of samadhi is samadhi at its ultimate. The mind has attained the summit of samadhi; it”s not mere momentary concentration. If you were to switch to vipassanŒ meditation at this point, the contemplation would be uninterrupted and insightful. Or you could take that focused energy and use it in other ways. From this point on you could develop psychic powers, perform miraculous feats or use it anyway you wanted. Ascetics and hermits have used samadhi energy for making holy water, talismans or casting spells. These things are all possible at this stage, and may be of some benefit in their own way; but it”s like the benefit of alcohol. You drink it and then you get drunk.
This level of samadhi is a rest stop. The Buddha stopped and rested here. It forms the foundation for contemplation and vipassana. However, it”s not necessary to have such profound samadhi as this in order to observe the conditions around us, so keep on steadily contemplating the process of cause and effect. To do this we focus the peace and clarity of our minds to analyze the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, physical sensations, thoughts, and mental states we experience. Examine moods and emotions, whether positive or negative, happy or unhappy. Examine everything. It”s just like someone else has climbed up a mango tree and is shaking down the fruit while we wait underneath to gather them up. The ones which are rotten, we don”t pick up. Just gather the good mangoes. It”s not exhausting, because we don”t have to climb up the tree. We simply wait underneath to reap the fruit.
Do you get the meaning of this simile
Everything experienced with a peaceful mind confers greater understanding. No longer do we create proliferating interpretations around what is experienced. Wealth, fame, blame, praise, happiness, and unhappiness come of their own accord. And we”re at peace. We”re wise. It”s actually fun. It becomes fun to sift through and sort out these things. What other people call good, bad, evil, here, there, happiness, unhappiness, or whatever - it all gets taken in for our own profit. Someone else has climbed up the mango tree and is shaking the branches to make the mangoes fall down to us. We simply enjoy ourselves gathering the fruit without fear. What”s there to be afraid of anyway
It”s someone else who”s shaking the mangoes down to us. Wealth, fame, praise, criticism, happiness, unhappiness, and all the rest are no more than mangoes falling down, and we examine them with a serene heart. Then we”ll know which ones are good and which are rotten.
WORKING IN ACCORD WITH NATURE
When we begin to wield the peace and serenity we”ve been developing in meditation to contemplate these things, wisdom arises. This is what I call wisdom. This is vipassana. It”s not something fabricated and construed. If we”re wise, vipassana will develop naturally. We don”t have to label what”s happening. If there”s only…
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