While you are thus currently concentrating, you might feel hot in a part of your body. As you’ve done in the case of aching do. Make effort to be aware. Awareness must not cease even for an instant.
BN: Yes. And this may be problematic. You know the precepts were taught and are applied individual to individual. But about society? And government? We will need to understand the precepts from a societal and organizational perspective also. When you’re, within an institution, company, government, for example , the way you relate to other people is vital. Does the institution relate in line with the precepts that are ethical? Society cannot be harmonious with no ethics. Governments cannot simply control others; corporations cannot just maximize profits. So we will need to apply the precepts to this particular context dhamma of the larger society.
MZC: Achaan Chah talks about liberation depending on the recognition of the radical separateness of consciousness, the”one who understands and the five skandas” (form, feeling, perception, volition, consciousness). I question this. How can we separate the person what is known and who understands? Awareness is, based on Achan Cha, separated by the meditator from the object and can focus on the awareness.
Because of meditation, the meditator will acquire insights that will lead him to experience vipassana delhi the real fruition of development. Either the method of meditation or the meditator is at fault if the meditator does not realize these insights .
Do not try tostop the force or head anything. Surrender all controller, all effort vipassana meditation . Silent meditation iswithout trying to change anything, a chance to confront and witness everything that is arising.
MZC: Achaan Chah talks about liberation based on the recognition of the radical separateness of awareness, the”one who understands and the five skandas” (form, feeling, perception, volition, consciousness). This is questioned by me. How can we separate the one what is known and who knows? The meditator, according to Achan Cha, divides the object and awareness and can focus on the awareness.
But wait! Wait a minute! Maybe is a clue here. There is a way to happiness that is real but it’s not the happiness which you could imagine with the business of your choice as a chocolate ice cream cone on a hot summer day.