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  1 Pre     |            which was established in 1978 on land purchased and donated
  2 Pre     |    purchased and donated by her. In 1979 she ordained as a Nun in
  3 Pre     |            Nun in Sri Lanka, and in 1982 she established the International
  4 Text, 2 |             name, an age, a sex, an ability, an occupation. "I am a
  5 Text, 15|    particular moment as you must be able to be aware of -- has already
  6 Text, 24|        working hard." So they say, "Absolutely no need to worry, just take
  7 Text, 31|                  So we can be quite accepting of the fact that since we
  8 Text, 21|            just the reverse. If one accepts and bears that fright and
  9 Text, 11|          one single thing acting in accord all the time. There is mind
 10 Text, 2 |              I am a doctor. I am an accountant, I am a student." And we
 11 Text, 14|      spiritual path is never one of achievement; it is always one of letting
 12 Text, 11|        thinking and making the body act. Now that is the first step
 13 Text, 26|           just the speech, just the action. There is the experience
 14 Text, 26|          completely liberated still acts, still thinks, still speaks
 15 Text, 2 |            and rather wispy sort of affair, because if it weren't why
 16 Text, 2 |            threatened so often. ~We affirm "self" again and again through
 17 Text, 2 |             with a certain name, an age, a sex, an ability, an occupation. "
 18 Text, 10|            called the five clung-to aggregates. That is their name, and
 19 Text, 1 |           that is what the teaching aims at, the experience of no-self. ~
 20 Text, 22|            bar your windows and you alert your neighbors. You tell
 21 Text, 26|            understand impermanence, anicca, fully, it is called the
 22 Text, 29|              They are not as strong anymore, and they do not manifest
 23         | anyone
 24 Text, 29|        happen. Things are happening anyway. So the first instance of
 25 Text, 31|          fact that since we are not arahats, we still have greed and
 26 Text, 11|           with the feeling that has arisen." ~
 27 Text, 12|        these are phenomena that are arising, which stay a moment, and
 28         | around
 29 Text, 12|          when we are thinking about at-but while it is happening, then
 30 Text, 15|           from being, we cannot pay attention to what there really is.
 31 Pre     |        Forest Monastery near Sydney Australia, which was established in
 32 Text, 10|         memory, my thoughts, and my awareness of my consciousness. And
 33 Text, 25|             fears about it, all the barring of doors and windows and
 34 Text, 29|             Dhamma must have as its base the understanding that there
 35 Text, 21|         reverse. If one accepts and bears that fright and goes through
 36 Text, 24|              Again, it's wonderful, beautiful. This time you last for
 37         | became
 38         | become
 39         | begin
 40         | beginning
 41 Text, 28|          interest, and certainly no belief, in rites and rituals. They
 42 Text, 28|            liberation (if they ever believed that before). And then a
 43 Text, 28|             such a person no longer believes they can bring about any
 44 Text, 11|       taking the "me" apart, of not believing any more that this is one
 45 Text, 12|          parts of the khandhas that belong to the mind apart. When
 46 Text, 11|           But if meditation has any benefit and success, it must show
 47 Text, 3 |            If we gain, the ego gets bigger; if we lose, it gets a bit
 48 Text, 16|              It's the same thing as biting into the mango to know its
 49 Text, 3 |     eventually. Even the Buddha was blamed. ~
 50 Text, 31|          hate. It isn't a matter of blaming oneself for having them:
 51 Text, 19|            guts and their bones and blood and everything is full of
 52 Text, 19|             insides, guts and their bones and blood and everything
 53 Text, 9 |        would never feel frustrated, bored. If we ever do, whatever
 54 Pre     |            Preface~Sister Khema was born in Germany, educated in
 55 Text, 8 |           one that has holes at the bottom. If you pour water into
 56 Text, 10|            is wrong or partial, and bounded by the ego, we must look
 57 Text, 8 |             in for it's full to the brim. Such a person, so full
 58 Text, 28|            longer believes they can bring about any kind of liberation (
 59 Pre     |       established the International Buddhist Women's Centre near Colombo.
 60 Text, 25|            Once it is gone, all the burden of looking after it, all
 61 Text, 23|            there has been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood. And
 62 Text, 15|        really is. All this becoming business is, of course, in the future.
 63 Text, 22|             seaside holiday. So you buy new locks for the doors
 64 Text, 7 |            not be clinging to motor cars and houses, it may not even
 65 Text, 12|             stay a moment, and then cease. How long does mind-consciousness
 66 Pre     |      International Buddhist Women's Centre near Colombo. She spends
 67 Text, 2 |  identification. We identify with a certain name, an age, a sex, an
 68 Text, 31|           impact and makes a marked change in our lives.~
 69 Text, 29|          called stream-entry, makes changes within us. It certainly
 70 Pre     |            educated in Scotland and China, and later became a United
 71 Text, 23|           wind, and the spot you've chosen on the beach is nice and
 72 Pre     |        later became a United States citizen. She now lives at Wat Buddha
 73 Text, 13|             called I or me or John, Claire, then who is having the
 74 Text, 27|             enlightenment have been classified before one comes to the
 75 Text, 23|            on the beach is nice and clean. The waves are warm and
 76 Text, 10|              any possession that is clung to, is what stops us from
 77 Text, 24|          are in a state of complete collapse. Total desperation. Depressed.
 78 Pre     |        Buddhist Women's Centre near Colombo. She spends most of her
 79 Text, 11|             is in the way. Clinging colors whatever we believe to be
 80 Text, 16|        constantly falling apart and coming back together. And that
 81 Text, 9 |          would never feel a lack of companionship, of ownership. We would
 82 Text, 18|     viewpoint. That shift I like to compare with a kaleidoscope that
 83 Text, 30|         non-returners, and complete conceit of self, only with arahat. ~
 84 Text, 17|       events. And when the mind can concentrate, then it experiences states
 85 Text, 17|            mind comes about through concentration. Most meditators have experienced
 86 Text, 17|         mind can only know ordinary concepts and ideas. If one wants
 87 Text, 15|           there is in the future is conjecture, it is a dream world we
 88 Text, 11|          the mind-consciousness has connected with the feeling that has
 89 Text, 31|            they arise. But with the continued practice of meditation,
 90 Text, 7 |           government should run the country, all of that makes it extremely
 91 Text, 7 |           we cling to a view of who created this universe. Whatever
 92 Text, 26|           it means we are no longer creating kamma. A person who has
 93 Text, 28|             traditional or that are customary, but such a person no longer
 94 Text, 9 |                                   I dare say we are not. But may
 95 Text, 2 |         wife, I am a mother, I am a daughter, I am a son." Now, in the
 96 Text, 24|         This time you last for five days. On the fifth day you are
 97 Text, 6 |             a matter of the life or death of the ego, which it usually
 98 Text, 31|            from. They come from the delusion of me. I want to protect
 99 Text, 24|        collapse. Total desperation. Depressed. So you go to the neighbors,
100 Text, 28|         exactly that which has been described, and having seen it, one'
101 Text, 22|             years and you think you deserve a holiday. So now, what
102 Text, 30|          fully enlightened. Sensual desire and hate only go with non-returners,
103 Text, 24|            complete collapse. Total desperation. Depressed. So you go to
104 Text, 27|       stream. That person cannot be deterred from the Path any more.
105         | did
106 Text, 23|       looking after your place. You didn't have to come back. Everything
107 Text, 6 |            children, or if they all die, we are no longer a mother.
108 Text, 16|      believe it or not, it makes no difference. In order to know it, you
109 Text, 27|         once, one loses some of the difficulties one had before. The most
110 Text, 17|            in the sense that it can direct itself to where it wants
111 Text, 3 |           we like the praise and we dislike the blame. The ego is threatened.
112 Text, 2 |               I am a lawyer, I am a doctor. I am an accountant, I am
113 Text, 15|           it as quickly as they are doing it. ~
114 Pre     |          1978 on land purchased and donated by her. In 1979 she ordained
115 Text, 10|          can't possibly get out the door. There is no way I can move.
116 Text, 10|    consciousness. And no one starts doubting until they start seeing.
117 Text, 27|            one had before. The most drastic hindrance that one loses
118 Text, 15|       future is conjecture, it is a dream world we live in. The only
119 Text, 6 |            of living and what is it due to? Only one thing: ego,
120 Text, 26|            we understand suffering, dukkha, fully, it is the desireless
121         | Each
122 Text, 22|              You should be quite at ease and so you go off on your
123 Pre     |          Khema was born in Germany, educated in Scotland and China, and
124 Text, 2 |           if we lose the people who enable us to retain that "self" --
125 Text, 30|        necessary, and arahat, fully enlightened. Sensual desire and hate
126 Text, 27|        Nibbana once and has thereby entered the stream. That person
127 Text, 10|           cling to most. That is an entire clinging. We don't even
128 Text, 17|           is unperturbed and still, equanimity, evenmindedness, peacefulness
129 Text, 1 |           just an idea, because the essence of the Buddha's teaching
130 Text, 17|  unperturbed and still, equanimity, evenmindedness, peacefulness arise. ~
131 Text, 17|          gets perturbed by everyday events. And when the mind can concentrate,
132 Text, 3 |           to blame us for something eventually. Even the Buddha was blamed. ~
133 Text, 17|            longer gets perturbed by everyday events. And when the mind
134         | everywhere
135 Text, 28|           left because one has seen exactly that which has been described,
136 Text, 15|           Interested in becoming an excellent meditator. Interested in
137 Text, 21|         that person does not really exist. What a frightening and
138 Text, 26|            is the experience but no experiencer. And because no kamma is
139 Text, 18|             impermanence to such an extent that it sees itself as totally
140 Text, 2 |           we are. When any of these factors is threatened, if being
141 Text, 10|           for that seeing we need a fair bit of empty space apart
142 Text, 22|            in it so that should you fall upon hard times, it will
143 Text, 16|        whole universe is constantly falling apart and coming back together.
144 Text, 17|            your universe constantly falls apart and comes back together
145 Text, 3 |              The ego is threatened. Fame and infamy -- same thing.
146 Text, 17|             we have to fortify that far more than just the beginning
147 Text, 25|           looking after it, all the fears about it, all the barring
148 Text, 19|             got ideas, thoughts and feelings. And even when it doesn'
149 Text, 20|          imagination. At first that feels very insecure. ~
150 Text, 24|          last for five days. On the fifth day you are convinced that
151 Text, 31|             clearer and clearer. It finally understands. And when it
152 Text, 21|          for a happy life -- once I find that person -- that person
153 Text, 3 |          becomes insecure, and "me" finds it hard to say "look at
154 Text, 23|            come back. Everything is fine." ~
155 Text, 30| Once-returner, one more life in the five-sense world. Non-returner, no
156 Text, 20|    important. The whole thing is in flux. So the emptiness is that.
157 Pre     |          lives at Wat Buddha Dhamma Forest Monastery near Sydney Australia,
158 Text, 10|         feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness -- vedana,
159 Text, 17|            any more. But we have to fortify that far more than just
160 Text, 2 |          that this "self" is a very fragile and rather wispy sort of
161 Text, 7 |       extremely difficult to have a free and open viewpoint. This
162 Text, 29|            having seen a glimpse of freedom, called stream-entry, makes
163 Text, 21|          one accepts and bears that fright and goes through it, one
164 Text, 9 |      ownership. We would never feel frustrated, bored. If we ever do, whatever
165 Text, 9 |             If we aren't completely fulfilled, we aren't seeing complete
166 Text, 9 |         truly reality is completely fulfilling. If we aren't completely
167 Text, 2 |              we have to first fully gave it in hand. ~We are constantly
168 Pre     |            Sister Khema was born in Germany, educated in Scotland and
169 Text, 2 |          being insecure, of its not getting what it needs for survival?
170 Text, 28|            one's own heart and mind gives an understanding which makes
171 Text, 11|             is a feeling" and "I am giving this feeling a name" which
172 Text, 29|           instance of having seen a glimpse of freedom, called stream-entry,
173 Text, 24|           home. You go home, and by golly, it has. The jewel is gone.
174 Text, 7 |           we cling to, even how the government should run the country,
175 Text, 11|             this is one whole, is a gradual one. But if meditation has
176 Text, 15|            Interested in becoming a graduate. Interested in becoming
177 Text, 3 |            lose a little bit of its grandeur. It might be made a bit
178 Text, 13|            and on. But because I am grasping at them, and trying to hold
179 Text, 29|          mentioned. But through the greater understanding such a person
180 Text, 11|                     Clinging is the greatest possessiveness and attachment
181 Text, 29|             they do not manifest in gross ways, but do remain in subtle
182 Text, 19|            there are their insides, guts and their bones and blood
183 Text, 2 |           to first fully gave it in hand. ~We are constantly trying
184 Text, 3 |          smaller by someone. And it happens to all of us. Somebody is
185 Text, 6 |                                     Happiness, too, may be an identification. "
186 Text, 14|         think, we are bound, we are hemmed in. ~
187         | him
188 Text, 27|            before. The most drastic hindrance that one loses is the idea
189 Text, 1 |            of the Buddha's teaching hinges on this concept. And in
190 Text, 8 |             learn anything new! But hopefully, we are the fourth kind.
191 Text, 7 |          clinging to motor cars and houses, it may not even be clinging
192 Text, 30|             world. Non-returner, no human life necessary, and arahat,
193 Text, 2 |            are attached to. "I am a husband, I am a wife, I am a mother,
194 Text, 6 |             same goes for all other identifications. Not a very peaceful state
195 Text, 6 |              we have got to keep on identifying. When this identification
196 Text, 20|             nobody there. It is all imagination. At first that feels very
197 Text, 22|             I'll give you a simile: Imagine you own a very valuable
198 Text, 31|          the experience is of great impact and makes a marked change
199 Text, 2 |             self called "me," it is impossible to know what is meant by "
200 Text, 3 |           me." Praise and blame are included. Praise reaffirms "me."
201 Text, 16|             back together. And that includes the mind and the body which
202 Text, 3 |             is threatened. Fame and infamy -- same thing. Loss and
203 Text, 12|            happening, then we get a inkling that this isn't really me,
204 Text, 19|         people, and there are their insides, guts and their bones and
205 Text, 29|      happening anyway. So the first instance of having seen a glimpse
206 Text, 21|             my security, will be my insurance for a happy life -- once
207 Text, 26|       speaks and still looks to all intents and purposes like anybody
208 Text, 28|             no longer has any great interest, and certainly no belief,
209 Text, 28|            before). And then a very interesting thing is lost: skeptical
210 Pre     |            1982 she established the International Buddhist Women's Centre
211 Text, 25|             this body. After proper investigation, the frightening aspect
212 Text, 12|            last? And have we really invited them? ~
213 Text, 13|            who is called I or me or John, Claire, then who is having
214 Text, 18|            I like to compare with a kaleidoscope that children play with.
215 Text, 6 |         unhappy." Because we are so keen on survival, we have got
216 Text, 6 |            survival, we have got to keep on identifying. When this
217 Text, 10|     suspicion. Anything we cling to keeps us bound to it. If I cling
218 Pre     |                      Preface~Sister Khema was born in Germany, educated
219 Text, 8 |         listeners to four different kinds of clay vessels. The first
220 Text, 11|           that is the first step in knowing oneself a little clearer.
221 Text, 17|           states which it has never known before. To realize that
222 Pre     |          was established in 1978 on land purchased and donated by
223 Text, 23|             not always at home, and lately there has been a rash of
224         | later
225 Text, 8 |           so full of views he can't learn anything new! But hopefully,
226         | least
227 Text, 28|         there is no skeptical doubt left because one has seen exactly
228 Text, 29|              the greed and the hate lessen. They are not as strong
229 Text, 14|    achievement; it is always one of letting go. The more we let go,
230 Text, 4 |               Now the blame that is levied at us is not the problem.
231 Text, 27|          there may be only one more life-time. If the insight is weak,
232 Text, 27|          weak, it can be seven more life-times. Having seen Nibbana for
233 Text, 5 |             we feel as if we are in limbo. This is the reason why
234 Text, 8 |            understanding. The third listener he compared to a vessel
235 Text, 8 |                Lord Buddha compared listeners to four different kinds
236 Text, 15|              it is a dream world we live in. The only reality we
237 Text, 6 |            a very peaceful state of living and what is it due to? Only
238 Text, 24|           more you bar the windows, lock the doors, get everything
239 Text, 22|             holiday. So you buy new locks for the doors to your house
240 Text, 8 |                                     Lord Buddha compared listeners
241 Text, 25|           the frightening aspect of losing this thing that seemed so
242 Text, 23|         waves are warm and it's all lovely. The first day you really
243 Text, 16|            thing as biting into the mango to know its taste. ~
244 Text, 29|            anymore, and they do not manifest in gross ways, but do remain
245 Text, 2 |            I am a son." Now, in the manner of speech, we have to use "
246 Text, 31|            great impact and makes a marked change in our lives.~
247 Text, 23|          beach, and it's wonderful. Marvelous. The palm trees are swaying
248 Text, 2 |          impossible to know what is meant by "there is no self there."
249 Text, 17|            back together again is a meditative experience. It takes practice,
250 Text, 15|            in becoming an excellent meditator. Interested in becoming
251 Text, 17|         through concentration. Most meditators have experienced some stage
252 Text, 10|             at feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness --
253 Text, 29|             fact, they are not even mentioned. But through the greater
254 Text, 10|            viññana. We look at this mind-and-body, nama-rupa, and we don't
255 Text, 19|              emptiness" is so often misunderstood because when one only thinks
256 Pre     |            Wat Buddha Dhamma Forest Monastery near Sydney Australia, which
257 Text, 24|            going to stay away for a month. I need this holiday as
258 Text, 7 |           it may not be clinging to motor cars and houses, it may
259 Text, 10|         door. There is no way I can move. I am stuck. Not until I
260 Text, 14|      clinging to the results of the movement. As long as we cling to
261 Text, 14|             the possibility of just moving without clinging to the
262 Text, 10|         look at this mind-and-body, nama-rupa, and we don't even doubt
263 Text, 5 |          people, is, so we believe, needed for our survival. "Self"
264 Text, 23|           rash of burglaries in the neighborhood. And on the third day you'
265         | nobody
266 Text, 30|        desire and hate only go with non-returners, and complete conceit of
267 Text, 11|            clearer. And then we can note "this is a feeling" and "
268 Text, 13|             Because of clinging the notion of "me" arises and then
269 Text, 22|             been working hard for a number of years and you think you
270 Pre     |           In 1979 she ordained as a Nun in Sri Lanka, and in 1982
271 Text, 12|      mind-consciousness stay on one object? And how long do thoughts
272 Text, 16|             They may try, but their objections make no sense because you
273 Text, 22|          what to do with the jewel? Obviously you cannot take it with
274 Text, 2 |          age, a sex, an ability, an occupation. "I am a lawyer, I am a
275 Text, 7 |           as they really are. To be open-minded. And it is only an open
276 Text, 10|            I let go will I have the opportunity to get out. Any identification,
277 Pre     |         donated by her. In 1979 she ordained as a Nun in Sri Lanka, and
278         | ourselves
279         | over
280 Text, 9 |           lack of companionship, of ownership. We would never feel frustrated,
281 Text, 23|           wonderful. Marvelous. The palm trees are swaying in the
282 Text, 6 |         longer a mother. So fear is paramount. The same goes for all other
283 Text, 15| impermanence of it all. Each moment passes, but we cling, trying to
284 Text, 17|          practice, perseverance and patience. And when the mind is unperturbed
285 Text, 15|       stopped from being, we cannot pay attention to what there
286 Text, 6 |         identifications. Not a very peaceful state of living and what
287 Text, 17|         equanimity, evenmindedness, peacefulness arise. ~
288 Text, 16|             you experience it, it's perfectly clear. What one experiences
289 Text, 28|          rituals. They may still be performed because they are traditional
290 Text, 20|             anything which makes it permanent, devoid of anything which
291 Text, 17|      experience. It takes practice, perseverance and patience. And when the
292 Text, 17|        sense that it no longer gets perturbed by everyday events. And
293 Text, 18|             and you get a different picture. The whole thing looks quite
294 Text, 18|          kaleidoscope that children play with. A slight touch and
295 Text, 17|             beginning stage. To the point where the mind is truly
296 Text, 10|             Any identification, any possession that is clung to, is what
297 Text, 11|            Clinging is the greatest possessiveness and attachment we have.
298 Text, 10|             to a table-leg, I can't possibly get out the door. There
299 Text, 8 |    completely full. Water cannot be poured in for it's full to the
300 Text, 25|           this thing that seemed so precious turns out to be the only
301 Pre     |                                     Preface~Sister Khema was born in
302 Text, 11|               We can't do that. The process of taking the "me" apart,
303 Text, 13|     problems. The khandhas are just processes. They are phenomena, and
304 Text, 25|           still in this body. After proper investigation, the frightening
305 Text, 22|             You tell them about the proposed holiday and ask them to
306 Text, 31|           delusion of me. I want to protect this jewel which is me.
307 Pre     |         established in 1978 on land purchased and donated by her. In 1979
308 Text, 26|            looks to all intents and purposes like anybody else, but that
309 Text, 3 |           So we are constantly in a quandary, and in constant fear. The
310 Text, 15|            We cannot even say it as quickly as they are doing it. ~
311 Pre     |       different parts of the world. Rains Retreat is spent in Sri
312 Text, 23|             lately there has been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood.
313         | rather
314 Text, 25|            enjoy yourself while you're still in this body. After
315 Text, 10|           to, is what stops us from reaching transcendental reality.
316 Text, 4 |         problem. The problem is our reaction. The problem is that we
317 Text, 3 |          blame are included. Praise reaffirms "me." Blame threatens "me."
318 Text, 9 |            do, whatever we think is real, is not. What is truly reality
319 Text, 5 |           are in limbo. This is the reason why it is difficult to stop
320 Text, 4 |             The ego has a hard time reasserting itself. So what we usually
321 Text, 26|             any longer, there is no rebirth. That is full enlightenment. ~
322 Text, 21|          That person that I've been regarding with so much concern, that
323 Text, 27|            the right view has to be reinforced again and again and experienced
324 Text, 27|        again and again through that reinforcement. ~
325 Text, 29|      manifest in gross ways, but do remain in subtle ways. ~
326 Text, 8 |            out. These people cannot remember. Cannot put two and two
327 Text, 2 |             people who enable us to retain that "self" -- what a tragedy! ~
328 Pre     |           parts of the world. Rains Retreat is spent in Sri Lanka.  ~
329 Text, 21|       matter of fact, it's just the reverse. If one accepts and bears
330 Text, 14|            If we really want to get rid of suffering, completely
331 Text, 28|             certainly no belief, in rites and rituals. They may still
332 Text, 28|             no belief, in rites and rituals. They may still be performed
333 Text, 7 |           how the government should run the country, all of that
334 Text, 8 |          you pour water into it, it runs right out. In other words,
335 Text, 10|     consciousness -- vedana, sañña, sankhara, and viññana. We look at
336 Text, 10|            consciousness -- vedana, sañña, sankhara, and viññana.
337 Text, 13|             to hold on to them, and saying: "it's me, it's me feeling,
338 Text, 19|             of it as a concept, one says "what do you mean by empty?"
339 Pre     |             in Germany, educated in Scotland and China, and later became
340 Text, 22|            take it with you on your seaside holiday. So you buy new
341 Text, 16|            There is nothing that is secure. Nothing to hold on to,
342         | seemed
343 Text, 8 |            water into it, the water seeps out. These people cannot
344 Text, 3 |                                 The self-identification becomes insecure, and "me"
345 Text, 30|          arahat, fully enlightened. Sensual desire and hate only go
346 Text, 27|             person we call "I" is a separate entity. The wrong view of
347 Text, 27|          insight is weak, it can be seven more life-times. Having
348 Text, 2 |             certain name, an age, a sex, an ability, an occupation. "
349 Text, 24|           the doors, get everything shipshape, and take off for the beach.
350 Text, 11|        benefit and success, it must show that first of all there
351 Text, 2 |        reaffirm self. Which already shows that this "self" is a very
352 Text, 22|                     I'll give you a simile: Imagine you own a very
353 Pre     |                             Preface~Sister Khema was born in Germany,
354 Text, 24|       around all the time. Then you sit and consider the matter
355 Text, 13|             If there weren't anyone sitting inside me -- as we think
356 Text, 2 |         survival? If it were such a solid entity as we believe it
357         | someone
358 Text, 2 |             I am a daughter, I am a son." Now, in the manner of
359 Text, 2 |            fragile and rather wispy sort of affair, because if it
360 Text, 26|           acts, still thinks, still speaks and still looks to all intents
361 Pre     |            Centre near Colombo. She spends most of her time teaching
362 Pre     |             world. Rains Retreat is spent in Sri Lanka.  ~
363 Text, 23|        swaying in the wind, and the spot you've chosen on the beach
364 Text, 16|         hold on to, nothing that is stable. The whole universe is constantly
365 Text, 10|          starts doubting until they start seeing. And for that seeing
366 Text, 10|           consciousness. And no one starts doubting until they start
367 Text, 11|          act. Now that is the first step in knowing oneself a little
368 Text, 15|             from being. When we are stopped from being, we cannot pay
369 Text, 27|             has thereby entered the stream. That person cannot be deterred
370 Text, 27|                is called sotapanna. Stream-enterer. It means a person who has
371 Text, 29|          glimpse of freedom, called stream-entry, makes changes within us.
372 Text, 10|             no way I can move. I am stuck. Not until I let go will
373 Text, 2 |            am an accountant, I am a student." And we identify with the
374 Text, 19|           and everything is full of stuff -- and the mind is not empty
375 Text, 29|        gross ways, but do remain in subtle ways. ~
376 Text, 11|      meditation has any benefit and success, it must show that first
377 Text, 9 |             we think reality is, it surely is not, because if it were,
378 Text, 10|             we must look at it with suspicion. Anything we cling to keeps
379 Text, 23|       Marvelous. The palm trees are swaying in the wind, and the spot
380 Pre     |        Dhamma Forest Monastery near Sydney Australia, which was established
381 Text, 10|        bound to it. If I cling to a table-leg, I can't possibly get out
382 Text, 17|           meditative experience. It takes practice, perseverance and
383         | taking
384 Text, 16|          into the mango to know its taste. ~
385 Text, 28|        oneself that what the Buddha taught was actually so. Until that
386 Text, 8 |           other words, whatever you teach that person is useless.
387 Text    |                                     Text~
388         | than
389 Text, 27|          ourselves with -- at least theoretically -- is called sotapanna.
390         | thereby
391         | those
392 Text, 31|       reality. Even if seen for one thought-moment, the experience is of great
393 Text, 3 |        Praise reaffirms "me." Blame threatens "me." So we like the praise
394 Text, 22|           should you fall upon hard times, it will look after you.
395 Text, 24|         state of complete collapse. Total desperation. Depressed.
396 Text, 18|        children play with. A slight touch and you get a different
397 Text, 27|                             In this tradition, three stages of enlightenment
398 Text, 28|          performed because they are traditional or that are customary, but
399 Text, 2 |        retain that "self" -- what a tragedy! ~
400 Text, 23|      wonderful. Marvelous. The palm trees are swaying in the wind,
401 Text, 11|           whatever we believe to be true. Now it is not possible
402 Text, 16|             say it is not. They may try, but their objections make
403 Text, 25|             that seemed so precious turns out to be the only relief
404 Text, 3 |           to all of us. Somebody is undoubtedly going to blame us for something
405 Text, 1 |           this teaching Buddhism is unique. No one, no other spiritual
406 Pre     |           China, and later became a United States citizen. She now
407         | unless
408 Text, 17|      patience. And when the mind is unperturbed and still, equanimity, evenmindedness,
409 Text, 19| impermanence, through the aspect of unsatisfactoriness, and through the aspect
410         | upon
411 Text, 29|           us. It certainly does not uproot greed and hate -- in fact,
412 Text, 8 |            you teach that person is useless. The second clay vessel
413 Text, 21|           one comes to complete and utter relief and release. ~
414 Text, 10|    formations, and consciousness -- vedana, sañña, sankhara, and viññana.
415 Text, 10|        vedana, sañña, sankhara, and viññana. We look at this mind-and-body,
416 Text, 23|          people, but they do go and visit their children. They are
417 Text, 23|           and you go back home. You walk in and open the safe. Everything
418 Text, 13|            it's me feeling, it's me wanting,." then problems arise. ~
419 Text, 23|            and clean. The waves are warm and it's all lovely. The
420 Pre     |           citizen. She now lives at Wat Buddha Dhamma Forest Monastery
421 Text, 23|        beach is nice and clean. The waves are warm and it's all lovely.
422 Text, 27|        life-time. If the insight is weak, it can be seven more life-times.
423 Text, 23|            trees are swaying in the wind, and the spot you've chosen
424 Text, 2 |             very fragile and rather wispy sort of affair, because
425         | within
426 Pre     |          the International Buddhist Women's Centre near Colombo. She
427 Text, 23|             second day you begin to wonder; the neighbors are very
428 Text, 19|       emptiness. Empty of what? The word "emptiness" is so often
429 Text, 1 |             about it. Much has been written about no-self, but in order
430 Text, 24|                            The next year, the same thing. Again you
431 Text, 22|        working hard for a number of years and you think you deserve
432         | Yet