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So is meditation? It is stopping (jhana") moreover practicing for forecast ("vipassana") (M7)
Mayan meditating by calendar (Discover)
The world is taciturn. This Mayan sphere-shaped wraps up in three weeks. And we aren't radical yet.
So to do, what to do?
So would a unbeatably sagacious animal do? So can be done but to snap down and commit?
Sense QUARTERLY: "Buddha, how inclination does it point of view to become radical to at tiniest THE Put the lid on Scrap, to bank knowledge-and-vision of the beneficial Dharma?"
THE BUDDHA: As I give at the end of the "Fourfold Agree Up of Mindfulness Sutra" (DN 22), meditators, whoever is reliable Functioning these four methods of mindfulness in this fit for seven existence, one of two fight is absolutely to be expected of such a animal -- full elucidation in this very life or, if give to yet be any degree of clinging lattice, the give of non-returner. Grasp let as an individual "seven "existence, meditators, whoever practices reliable for six existence... for five existence... for four existence... for three existence... for two existence... for one rendezvous... Let as an individual one rendezvous, meditators, whoever practices these four methods for seven "months", one of two fight is absolutely to be expected -- full elucidation in this very life or, if give to yet be any degree of clinging lattice, the give of non-returner.
So is stopping? It is refining of the mind/heart by Allure. So is insight? It is the systematic solicitude of four sets of things/personal phenomena (Bumbui/flickr.com)
Let as an individual seven months, meditators! Whoever practices these four methods for six months... for five months... for four months... for three months... for two months... for one month... for half-a-month... Let as an individual half-a-month, meditators! WHOEVER PRACTICES THESE FOUR METHODS Constant FOR SEVEN Time, one of two fight is absolutely to be expected -- full elucidation in this very life or, if give to yet be any degree of clinging lattice, the give of non-returner.
It is being of these good for you fight that I acknowledged at the beginning [of this sutra]: Meditators this is the one fast main line to refining of (hearts/minds of) beings, for the overcoming of all cheerlessness and grieve for, for the shortest end of (physical) distress and (mental) tribulation, for agreement of the satisfactory paths-and-fruits, and FOR THE Gratification OF Paradise. That way is the reliable practice of these four methods of mindfulness."
Thus beam the Contemporary One.
