Essay

 1    2|        according to paññã, in a detached way, giving the necessary
 2    2|    keeps them in a balanced and detached frame of mind in all kinds
 3    2|      vipassanã meditation to be detached from, not distracted by,
 4    2|         the mind equanimous and detached while it is engaged in the
 5    2|    minds will be able to remain detached and calm and perfectly equanimous --
 6    2|      with some part of the mind detached and with the sensations (
 7    4|     becoming progressively more detached, one gradually penetrates
 8    4|        enters the first ]hãna: 'Detached from sensual objects, o
 9    4|       sensual objects, o monks, detached from unwholesome states
10    4|        concentrated mind is the detached mind. While this is obvious
11    4|        the wrong way. He is not detached. He is in fact very much
12    4|        much attached. He may be detached from sense-objects for the
13    4|       it as morally wrong to be detached. One should not, they say,
14    4|    should not, they say, become detached and aloof from life, but
15    4|         those who are genuinely detached. If the crusader for, say,
16    4|       is it that we have to get detached from? In a sense, of course,
17    4|        quite simple. It is just detached watching. Watching one's
18    4| previously repressed. But being detached, one is not trapped by these
19    4|       that by becoming calm and detached we have, so to speak, 'accepted
20    4|    temper by will-power, but by detached mindfulness he can gradually
21    4|     even be quite fun. By being detached we can observe ourselves