Seattle Insight Meditation Society

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Reflection and Practice What is your relationship to concentration from a meditative perspective? How do you cultivate it in daily meditation practice? What is the right amount and quality of effort? Are states of concentration the end goal, or are they a means to an end? What is the real purpose of concentration?   This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alan Smith.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer LJ Yang.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer John Stott.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alyson Williams.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Sheri Cohen.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alan Smith.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer LJ Yang.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer John Stott.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Sheri Cohen.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alan Smith.

Knowledge of the Ending of the Taints / Asavakkhaya-ñana — integration and dedication of merit

Contemporary conditions and genuine release: Liberation / Vimutti → Knowledge of the Ending of the Taints / Asavakkhaya-ñana

Dispassion / Viraga — the fading of the spell

Seeing Things as They Are / Yathäbhutananadassana → Disenchantment / Nibbida → Dispassion / Viraga

Concentration / Samadhi – the gathered mind

Tranquility / Passaddhi, Happiness / Sukha, Concentration / Samadhi

Spiritual bypassing, fetters, and inward stability: Tranquility / Passaddhi → Happiness / Sukha → Concentration / Samadhi

Rapture / Piti — joy returning to the body

Faith / Saddha → Gladness / Pamojja → Rapture / Piti

Opening Teaching: The gradual path (TDO); spiritual bypassing as “skipping stations” Morning Sit: Suffering / Dukkha — suffering as doorway

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer LJ Yang.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer John Stott.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alan Smith.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Nikhil Natarajan.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer LJ Yang.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Alyson Williams.

This recording was edited and prepared for publication by volunteer Jim Matthews.

This recording includes an introduction and lightly guided meditation. Discussion with Joseph Goldstein begins shortly after the 41-minute mark.