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　　You don”t need to be concerned about whether your mind is peaceful or not peaceful. Do you understand

　　Tan Tithabho: When my breathing is about to become light and refined I usually become excited and the peace is gone.

　　Luang Por: You don”t need to be excited, you don”t need to worry, just look what it is like, only that much. Simply know what is happening.

　　The breath will become lighter and lighter, more refined and softer. The mind feels light, there is a feeling of ease and relaxation without having to think much, up to the point that when one hears sounds, they don”t stir up the mind. If the breath is very light the heart feels light and at ease, too. Try being at ease at this phase, relax the mind. When you hear sounds from the outside, it doesn”t matter, they won”t disturb you in this state, because you are in a relaxed state already.

　　Tan Tithabho: What about reflecting...

　　Luang Por: If you are at the point of being relaxed, let it be. Relax - until you don”t know how to go further, then, that”s maybe the end, so in that case you should take up investigating the body or some reflection on Dhamma. But at first you need to continue up to the feeling of relaxation until you don”t know what to do any further. Then you can take up reflecting on Dhamma. In this way you will use the power of samadhi for the investigation, until you have penetrating, clear insights. They come easier this way than when just sitting normally. You can reflect for example, that you will have to die just like any other person. Of course, this is something that we have thought about before, but we haven”t yet been able to fully take it in or wholeheartedly believe it. But when we come to the point where the mind is at ease before we start reflecting like this, we can fully internalise these truths and enable ourselves to truly believe them. This is what is meant by using on samadhi for the process of attaining insight. Our thoughts are much more powerful then, compared to average normal -life -situations.

　　Ajahn Jayasaro: This is an old question, but nevertheless: What are the advantages and disadvantages between trying to enter apanna-samadhi (jhana) directly in contrast to investigating before

　　Luang Por: Investigation of the body is capable of pulling the mind into apanna-samadhi but those people who have powerful samadhi already might only need to put their attention on the arising of the breath, and straight away their mind goes into apanna. This is due to practices they have done in past lives. If we cannot rely on old potential like this, we use investigation of the body in order to come to the same point, or any kind of reflection on Dhamma. The mind gradually becomes more peaceful.

　　Suppose today it has only reached a certain level of peace, so we continue tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow we can feel how the amount of peace has grown. We will be able to feel this in our hearts. When we have really enter this state of inner rest, there won”t be any worries about the outer world any more, for example when we hear sounds. If we withdraw from this kind of samadhi, usually some kind of special feeling remains in our hearts, the energy of samadhi, that can help maintain the state of not being irritable for a while, when somebody else criticizes us, for example.

　　Ajahn Jayasaro: The krooba-ajahns in our tradition usually practise more walking meditation than sitting meditation. I don ”t know the reason why.

　　Luang Por: The reason is -this is just my opinion - that our krooba-ajahns- haven”t practiced to the full level of peace. They have taken the very end of Luang Por Chah”s practice to be the beginning and the beginning to be th…

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