Mine labelled item:

A flight seat: mine for a bit of a time then our label is removed

What is honor?

It has no meaning by itself

How to handle your memory

How to handle your imagination

Light and happiness happen within you

As wel as agony & Ecstasy

Or Joy & Misery

And peace & Turmoil

Don’t attach any significane to any thought

Thought: recycling of data already gathered

A person embodies : 1 type of memory

When you’re attached to some (cyclic ) moments of life

→ 𝑦𝑜𝑢′ 𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒!

When you live by accident

→ 𝑎𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙

Life energy (vayy)

5 fundemental ways of manifesting life energy

Samana vayu: healing

Prana Vayu

Apana Vayu

Udhana

Vyana
1.views:

Wrong views : to be abandoned (First)

Things .e. no liberations no karma

Existentialism: harmful for us

Because we can’t start a path with it!

2. Intentions:

Other wrong intentions include the attachement to:

1.Sensual: pleasure (seeking), wrapped up in desire.

2.Malice: wrapped up in grudges

3.Cruelty: taking delight in harming others

A Balanced Mind: free from attachment to sense objects.

Mundane (Right) Intentions :

1.Renunciation: A Balanced Mind, without any attachements.

2.Benevolence: includes fortitude, neo-Patience.

3.Compassion

3. (Correct) Speech

4. (Correct) action

5. (Correct) Livelihood

6. (Right) effort :4 supreme strivings to cultivate new virtues and sustain old ones

No harmful thoughts.

Enables 5 hindrances , gain concentration & Develop wisdom.

7. (Right) Mindfulness : 4 establishments: body feelings mind, phenomena.

Ornament of clear realization (book of dharma practice in, good before tantra).

8. (Right) Concentration: the 4 Jhanas concentration realm

States of concentration, helpful for wisdom

The Jhanas involve giving up the 5 hindrances of Concentration:

1. Sensual Attachement
2. Ill will
3. (Skeptical)Doubt
4. Slough, torpor
5. Retlesness and worry

Wrong non-Virtues:

1. Lying: harsh speech

2. Divisive speech: gossip
3. Harsh speech: in front of the person
4. Idle Talk:
Words hurt more than sticks and stones
It can cut

A Buddha’s Path of Wisdom:

First, as a student of life , you must eradicate 5 (6) things:

1. Sensual Attachement
2. Ill will
3. Laziness!!!!!!!

4 Jhanas of Concentration:

1st Jhana Level:

Contains 5 features: