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Simply This
Moment!
A COLLECTION OF TALKS ON BUDDHIST PRACTICE
BY
AJAHN BRAHM
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The edited talks contained in this book, unless otherwise stated, were delivered to the monks at
Bodhinyana Monastery, Serpentine, West Australia.
© Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso.
All rights reserved.
Bodhinyana Buddhist Monastery
216 Kingsbury Drive
Serpentine WA 6125, Australia
Tel: 61-8-9525 2420
Fax 61-8-9525 3420
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CONTENTS
Page
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Ways and Means into Jh ƴ nas
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2
Why I Tell Silly Jokes
20
3
Detoxifying the Mind
35
4
Looking for the Sweet Chilli
48
5
Detachment
66
6
The Opening of the Lotus
84
7
Dhamma Practice
99
8
Human Rights in Buddhism
114
9
Jh ƴ na Meditation
133
10
Conditioned Reality
148
11
Equanimity
163
12
Reflections that are Conducive to Liberation
176
13
The Outflowings of the Mind
190
14
Starving the Tiger to Death
200
15
The Law of Conditionality
216
16
Breaking the Barrier
231
17
I Know You M ra
248
18
Between the Observer and the Observed
264
19
Perfect Stillness
280
20
The Ending of Everything
298
The Glossary
317
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1 WAYS AND MEANS INTO
14 th July 1996
The Buddha says in the , that happiness which is apart from
sensuality and pleasure, apart from unwholesome , should be pursued, that it
should be developed, that it should be cultivate, that it should not be feared. (see MN
66.20 & 21)
I want to take the opportunity this evening to talk to you about the process of
meditation leading up to . Now, just over a fortnight into the Rains Retreat, is
the right time for such a talk. So much external activity has disappeared and the mind
and body should have settled down. The mind should now be inclining towards quiet
and peaceful states of mind. So now is the right time to talk about how one should
deal with this mind in order to lead it into very useful deep states of peace and bliss.
Many of you have heard my talks on the subject before, so you may hear much that is
repeated. But because these talks are not pre-planned there will be information that
you have not heard and that will be helpful to you. Anything that helps you to settle
the mind, let go of the hindrances, and let go of the world of the five senses will be
useful to you. Anything that helps you gain these ‘ ’, these
extraordinary conditions, these superior human states which are worthy of the ,
will be very useful to you.
The Roads to Success
I spoke in my last talk about the need for sense-restraint and it goes without saying
that sense-restraint gives one the groundwork, the foundation, for taking this mind
into a deeper, fuller restraint of the senses, a fuller letting go of the many, many places
where the mind dwells. We need to go into a deeper place inside the mind, a place of
great peace and bliss, a very profound place which gives you great insights into the
nature of the mind. You can then see what the mind is capable of and how it feels to
be in those states. You see what those states are and how they come about.
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