How helpful. Language is still our greatest barrier. Thank you for the Dhamma

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These talks are extremely helpful ajahn thankyou very much. May all beings be happy well and peaceful.

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Thank you for a very informative and useful talk on Anapanasati.

I’d say beyond these videos being extremely helpful, the community of commenters here is as well! Everyone in our community has such wonderful advice and I love being able to read/hear from such intelligent individuals. Makes me feel like I am on the right path with good people. Thank you all ❤ Namo Buddhaya, peace to ALL, EVERYWHERE

Thank you. I"m surprised to see so many bridges between the Thai Forest Tradition and the Soto Zen school :) Perhaps a lesson about zazen and meditation in the Theravada tradition?

This is extremely helpful and confirms a few things I've learned the hard way. The translation of "concentration" got me to narrow my focus for a long time, until I started seeing a pattern where that would put me to sleep. Dullness of mind is the collapse of the periphery part of awareness and narrowing focus is purposely collapsing the periphery. I started just relaxing into the breath and prioritizing calm in the breath. It felt better and was clearly "correct." It has led to far deeper samadhi and ironically, far easier concentration. Stability is a good way to put it: the mind doesn't flit from thing to thing. And what surprised me is how naturally it calms down. You don't have to "do" much if you're just gentle and tune into it calming itself. I still have a long way to go, but I feel renewed confidence that I'm on the right track after listening to you Ajahn! My journey is without a teacher so it's helpful to have these kinds of signposts along the path.

Thank you Ajahn. I will return to this. It answers a few questions I’ve head! Sean.

Regarding the nimitta: from what I understand of the Vissudhimagga and the Pa-Auk instructors that teach that method, you aren't supposed to switch to the nimitta as your object until it is refined and switching your attention happens naturally. In the early stages of the nimitta appearing it will jump around or morph or do many other such things, and that means you stay with the breath until it calms down and becomes clearer. Of course, I'm not an instructor and I'm just repeating what I've understood the way I've understood it. It's better to ask someone in that tradition.

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu. Thank you, Bhante. I'm glad to hear that you think "concentration" is a misleading translation for samadhi. It does seem to point a new meditator in the direction of straining and stressing to acquire or become, when the natural progression toward Nibbana is a gradual and increasingly pervasive letting go. So it would seem to be much more useful to regard samadhi as a calming of the mind, allowing thoughts to float away as they floated in, instead of compulsively sending the mind here and there after them.

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Thank you and Much Love from the Philippines.

I am a big fan of Webu Sayadaw and his collection of discourses titled, The Way To Ultimate Calm. Anapana for me is the bedrock of my practice. Focus On The Spot

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Awsome advice and very helpfull. Thank you.

Excellent.

Dear sir, on the further steps down the Anapanassati method, i.e. step 5th to step 16th. There are many confusing translations and interpretations it's hard to know how to actually practice the whole Anapanassati to its fulfillment so as to complete the Four Satipatthana and the Seven Factors of Awakening.

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Rather than concentration or concentrated, I feel the term 'collected' or 'collectedness' better expresses the unified and settled quality one is looking for-a sense of 'gathering in'. A suggestion for your consideration. Thank you Bhante.

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Can doing anapanasati meditation be used as a Samatha meditation?

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What MN sutra is the relay coach race?

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I'd be curious about your thoughts on the Pa-Auk method of paying attention to the idea of the breath from the very beginning.

the buddha didn't teaching what this monk is teaching. parimukhaṁ does not refer to anything physical. anapanasati is not samatha.

this monk should stick to his history lectures.

there is no such thing as mindfulness "of" breathing.

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