Reply To: Revealing Nirodha Samāpatti – Delson Armstrong

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cubibobi
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After Relax, it is “Re-smile” — intentionally putting on a smile before returning to the object of meditation (metta) after a distraction. The Bhante did say that he put the smiling step in there himself since he found it helpful.

A very popular talk from the Bhante is this one:

What is a Jhana? Commentaries vs Suttas – Meaning?

At around 27:35, he said how easy it was to get to the 1st jhana.

At around 22:00 he talked about smiling.

From about 1:00, he talked about how one moves from jhana to jhana and then to nibbana (by seeing “dependent origination”).

Personally, at one point I listened to Bhante a lot although I did not practice this, at least not as the main practice. I must say it did bring a sense of calm fairly quickly, but then I directed that calm mind to contemplating anicca, dukkha, anatta, although near the end of the talk the Bhante said that one cannot see nibbana via seeing anicca, dukkha, anatta.

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