【LETTING GO OF CRAVINGS WITH 6Rs】

The talk were briefly recorded as follows:

 

What is craving? How to recognize craving when it arises. Nobody seems to be able to answer.

 

How to suppose to let craving go, this is important. This is what the 4 noble truth about.

 

There are 5 aggregates: body, feeling, perception, formation and consciousness.

 

When a pleasant feeling arises, the “perception” will says I like it or painful feeling arises “perception” says I don’t like that.

 

What is craving, I like it or I don’t like it. how to recognize craving when it arises.

 

Every time you have a thought or feeling or sensation, the brain expand and expansion causes arises.

 

How to let go of craving, by letting go of tension and tightness.

 

The mind will go very alert and pure.The mind will be pure once you get rid of craving.

 

Why do hindrance arises?

Because in the past you have broken a precept.

They are incredibly important.

Tell a Lie and the mind will say that, and then you need to purify your mind when you practices.

 

The hindrance arises because there are craving inside. Because your mind feel guilty when you break a precept. And it always comes back.

 

So.. what do we do when hindrances arises. We recognize it, we release the distraction by not keeping attention on it. There are many meditation that tells to note it. Right effort is to release them out. Now release and relax the tension and let go of the tightness. That is half of the right effort, the other half is to bring out something wholesome.

 

Anyway, when I teach loving kindness, I teach you to smile....

 

Because when you smile it improves your mindfulness. You have a tendency of uplifting mind and joy. And joy is a good thing. When you have joy in the mind, the mind is very light and alert, and easy to recognize and thus help your mindfulness.

 

The next thing after telling you to smile is to return to the object of meditation.

 

The last part is to stay with the object of meditation for as long as you can.

 

A lot of people don’t want to recognize and when hindrance arises, you should push it away.

 

Actually when hindrance arises, it is your teacher that showing you have an attachment, so the way you let go of hindrance is to recognizing the mind and to release the distraction.

 

If you are continuing noted the hindrance you are feeding the distraction.

 

It is a thought, but you keep the attention on it and it will keep coming back.

 

When feeling of pain comes out during meditation. Put your attention on the painful part and see it’s real nature. It will be there even more. So don’t keep your attention on the hindrance and relax the thought of the hindrance.. smile and make your mind light, improve your mind.

 

The more you smile the more your progress in the meditation. If you are not progressing, you will say why. And most of the time you are not smiling enough. After you smile, you bring the very alert mind and back to your object. this is a big thing about Jana.

 

There are times you need to laugh when you have hindrance, fear, anxiety and sadness.

 

What does laughter do, it takes your mind from sadness. And when you laugh you will changes your perspective. As soon as you laugh, you go away from sadness. And sadness is not even mine. Letting of of fear, anxiety whatever.

 

Have fun. When you attend a class that you really like, you will get good grade. So.. when you have fun, your meditation will progress faster.

 

Buddha taught of letting go of unwholesome state, he taught us about happy life. If you continuing thinking about suffering, you will suffer. The inclination of your mind. Thinking about unhappy mind and it will comes up.

 

So.. why don’t you have mind that says, I’m going to be happy, even the Buddha said there are suffering, we also have a way of recognizing, release, relax, return and repeat the object of meditation.

 

The word Jana is an interesting thing. I was always told that Jana practice only developing deep consciousness. The definition of Jana is a bit different, Jana is level when you stay with object longer, relax. The Experience of being in Jana is wholesome.

 

Getting into Jana and lead you to more joy and uplifting, after you are there for a while, you will get into the second Jana, the noble silent Jana. When you get to the second Jana, the tranquility last longer, and stay with Spiritual friend for a longer period of time.

 

one of the reason that I teach loving kindness and the progress is faster in meditation. I do teach mindfulness. To teach mindful breathing will get into Jana will takes about 4 to weeks. But loving kindness will be faster.

 

You start to understand more and more clear about what the Buddha taught. You will have equanimity. For most people that I teaches the retreat, they get to the 4th Jana. You don’t feel the body but instead feel like flying. When you get to the 4th Jana, it is really special, loving kindness is really special, start to experience the deeper of loving kindness, and the changes into compassion. Feeling of expansion in all direction, the infinite space.

 

When you goes deeper, you will stay for a longer period of time, as you get deeper, the feeling of compassion changes to feeling of joy. The ultimate feeling of meditation is joy. This kind of joy is awakening.p. It is happy feeling but not excitement, you see the Buddha with eye half open, the artist is trying to show you the joy of awaken.

 

So, what happen is you gonna settle with the object of joy, you will see very fast image of picture of black spot, there are easily a hundred thousand of arising. You will see individual rising and pass away, birth death, birth death. So the Buddha taught rebirth. When you see individual rise and pass away, you will see a few thing that is interesting, you will see impermanence, happening before you eye very fast. And you will see no controller, no self. You see right in front of you and nobody can taught you out of it, it is so real, not philosophy. You will see up and close. Make you a lot more confidence in the Buddha teaching.

 

When you get deeper into meditation, you get more into the joy, you feel strong, balance of equanimity. Your mind is watching mind. This is real interesting because this is where you learn practice balancing. Just like walking on tight rope. More energy or less, need to learn to adjust. You will feel very nice and you see impermanent nature.

 

As you get into a deeper meditation, this state is called middle perception or non perception, now you start watching mind. You will be able to sit in this state for a longer time. What happen when you go through this understanding. If you sit a bit longer and your mind is exceptionally strong, there will be no craving and there is a lot of relief. This is the thing that will happen.

 

When the mind get to a stage that is really pure. You don’t know you are in that state, the feeling of perception, consciousness. When you comes out, you feel a relief. And you will be able to see the link of dependent origin. You will change your entire life. You have experience the nibanna.

 

Most people says it is impossible to get to.you will know how to let go of craving and get to a place that you really let go and change the way you see the world.

 

The 6Rs ....are:

 

- You Recognize,

 

- You Release,

 

- You Relax,

 

- You Re-smile

 

- You Return

 

- You Repeat

 

Every time you use 6Rs, you experience mundane nibanna.

 

Most People Practising one pointed concentration.

 

Stay with that until it gets away.. concentrate on the object.

 

They let go of craving.

 

If you bring back the craving and you are not purifying your mind.

 

If you stop the hindrance from arising, then you are holding on to the craving.

 

And hindrance will comes back even stronger.

 

He understand the breathing long and the breathing out long,

 

You understand what the breath is doing while it is doing.

 

The next part of the instruction is to train, on the in breadth that you experience the whole body.

 

In breath, you tranquilize the body formation,

First look at the word “tranquilize”; this word has 4 different meaning depends.

 

So, on the in breath.. relax, on the out breath.. relax..

Use the breath as a reminder of letting go of the craving.

 

when you relax, you watch your mind, there is no distraction, no tightness, very alert and pure. That is almost what is lacking in most of the meditation.

 

If you have the relax stuff and it is going to be changes.

 

What is the definition about mindfulness? Mindfulness is remembering to observe how mind move from one thing to the other, how does that occur?

 

It is observing what happen first, we don’t care about why, how does the process happen?

 

How mind attention movement, you start recognizing the craving and you will start letting go, You will see the dependent origin works.

 

The truth is all impersonal, everything impersonal, but we have this strong craving that this is me, I’m in control, this is my way, my idea, my opinion etc...

 

You put that extra step of “relax” in, and you will change a lot..

 

So.., when you letting go of the suffering.. the right way is there are sensational suffering and you should let go of it instead of focusing on the suffering.

 

To relax is to smile.... 😀