..续本文上一页body, one should really stay this body here, with its hair, nails, teeth, skin bones and sinews -whichever objects one may chose -but they should all stay in this body.
The confusion usually comes up when we start wondering, whether the way we reflect is right or not, whether it is really the way the krooba-ajahns taught, whether we are thinking correctly. That”s already the start of things falling apart, and it will continue if we don”t cut it out straight from the beginning. It will keep on going. "Did the krooba-ajahns really teach this way...
Hmm..., is this way of thinking okay
The krooba-ajahns, who have practiced before, did they really do it this way
". At this point things are already getting out of hand; "This monks says to do it like this, this monk says to do it like that." This is how it keeps going around and around without end. Once it started, it never stops. So if you start thinking in many different directions, you need to try to stop it. Focus on the breath again, or think about a certain Dhamma-passage, if you like.
Question: Could you speak about walking meditation please
Luang Por: When you do walking meditation establish mindfulness at the soles of the feet, and repeat "Bud -dho, Bud -dho" , together with the left or right foot. It doesn”t matter which foot, I don”t think this has to be determined, whatever you feel suits you. But try to keep to your style -one side "Bud"- the other side "dho", and keep doing this over and over. Try not to go to other things, only keep to " Buddho”, even if there is some kind of thinking that comes up in your mind - it doesn”t matter just keep up mindfulness merely knowing Buddho. If it”s the case that you have kept Buddho, going all along, but eventually you start thinking, and Buddho disappears, it means that you have been lacking mindfulness. Then you need to go back and re-establish mindfulness again. Sooner or later your mind won”t go astray and the thinking will become less. If you do Buddho, on and on, and you keep up only Buddho, everything else will be gradually cut off by itself.
When you loose Buddho, it means that the other thoughts you had at that point were very weighty. Then you need to give Buddha more weight and all the other thoughts will become very light and finally disappear. It all depends on how we think. It”s not that we cut out thinking competely while doing Buddho. There is still some thinking. Our brain keeps having thoughts of some kind, but we try to have mindfulness with it.
Tan Moshe: When sitting watching the breath and a certain chant that we like comes up in our minds, can we also use this to develop samadhi
Luang Por: If you like, you can also repeat a certain chant, but when you do this, please always stay with this particular chant - whatever you like. Passages of chanting are just another form of parikamma (meditation mantra). Anything that makes your mind unified can be used. Some people really like chanting. You can chant the patimokkha (the recitation of the monks rules), that”s nice and long. Whatever object of meditatior we take up, Buddho for example, this becomes the one object we need to look at, but to exchange Buddho into a certain chant also works.
Actually, meditation is not difficult -at least that”s my opinion, but the problem is, that you don”t know the method of doing things. Sometimes, when you are just about to reach peacefulness, you start making it unpeaceful again. This is the crucial point, the reason why peace won”t come up. Sometimes you start thinking: "Wow, this really feels good, but, hey, wait a moment, am I really doing things correctly...
" This is where doubt comes into play, where the hindrances arise. You go off thinking something else and make it all unpeacefull again.
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