Here is a 7-min recorded audio-only Dhamma Talk, recorded at Brahmavihara monastery, Malacca, Malaysia - downloadable 5MB .mp3 (Tip: tap and hold to “Download link”, or right click to “Save Link As…“).

Topics:

  • tips for integrating mindfulness into everyday life, analogy of ending a fast carefully, stay in the present moment, but also the present context, don’t draw upon concepts outside the present situation, the Kalakarama sutta, AN 4.24


Sutta Reference:

“...a Tathāgata does not conceive of a visible thing as apart from sight; 
he does not conceive of an unseen; 
he does not conceive of a ’thing-worth-seeing’;
he does not conceive about a seer.

“He does not conceive of an audible thing as apart from hearing; 
he does not conceive of an unheard; 
he does not conceive of a ’thing-worth-hearing’; 
he does not conceive about a hearer.

“He does not conceive of a thing to be sensed as apart from sensation;
he does not conceive of an unsensed;
he does not conceive of a ’thing-worth-sensing’; 
he does not conceive about one who senses.

“He does not conceive of a cognizable thing as apart from cognition;
he does not conceive of an uncognized; 
he does not conceive of a ’thing-worth-cognizing;’
he does not conceive about one who cognizes."

Iti kho, bhikkhave, tathāgato daṭṭhā daṭṭhabbaṁ, diṭṭhaṁ na maññati, 
adiṭṭhaṁ na maññati, 
daṭṭhabbaṁ na maññati, 
daṭṭhāraṁ na maññati; 

mutvā motabbaṁ, 
mutaṁ na maññati, 
amutaṁ na maññati, 
motabbaṁ na maññati, 
motāraṁ na maññati; 

viññatvā viññātabbaṁ, 
viññātaṁ na maññati, 
aviññātaṁ na maññati, 
viññātabbaṁ na maññati, 
viññātāraṁ na maññati.

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