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Understanding Life Now Nina van Gorkom, Sarah Procter Abbott 2022 2 Published in January 2022 by: Zolag www.zolag.co.uk ISBN 9781897633403 Copyright Nina van Gorkom, Sarah Procter Abbott This work is licensed under the: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Contents Editor’s Foreward xix Preface xxi I Zoom Jottings 1 1 August 2020 3 1.1 Zoom jottings 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Zoom jottings 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Best Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Zoom jottings 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Taking Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4 Zoom jottings 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.5 Zoom jottings 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A¯savas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.6 Zoom jottings 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 What is Vinaya? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.7 Zoom jottings 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Truths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.8 Zoom jottings 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Understanding has to Develop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.9 Zoom jottings 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 What is Practice?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.10 Zoom jottings 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The Meaning of Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 i ii CONTENTS 1.11 Zoom jottings 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Can Anyone Practice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.12 Zoom jottings 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Can Anyone do Anything? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.13 Zoom jottings 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Is there any Short-cut? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.14 Zoom jottings 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Why Study P¯ali? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1.15 Zoom jottings 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4 Right Understandings and 4 Right Efforts . . . . . . . 23 1.16 Zoom jottings 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 What is there Now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 1.17 Zoom jottings 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Enlightened to What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1.18 Zoom jottings 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Depending on Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2 September 2020 31 2.1 Zoom jottings 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Just do Your Best! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.2 Zoom jottings 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Virtue and Abandoning (Pah¯ana) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.3 Zoom jottings 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Once in Nowhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.4 Zoom jottings 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Empty World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 2.5 Zoom jottings 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Letting go of Desire for Understanding . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.6 Zoom jottings 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Samm¯a San.kappa (Right Thinking). . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3 October 2020 41 3.1 Zoom jottings 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The World of Nimitta (Signs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.2 Zoom jottings 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Just Once in Sam.s¯ara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.3 Zoom jottings 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 CONTENTS iii The Dear Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3.4 Zoom jottings 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Considering the True Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 3.5 Zoom jottings 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 The Proof of Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.6 Zoom jottings 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Wrong Practice and Rituals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3.7 Zoom jottings 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Study the Truth Respectfully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3.8 Zoom jottings 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 3.9 Zoom jottings 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 What is Now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3.10 Zoom jottings 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Chief of Experiencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.11 Zoom jottings 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Dh¯atu (Element) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4 November 2020 57 4.1 Zoom jottings 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The Value of Patience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.2 Zoom jottings 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Anatt¯a & Sun˜n˜¯ata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.3 Zoom jottings 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Where is the World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4.4 Zoom jottings 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The Raft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4.5 Zoom jottings 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 The Magic Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.6 Zoom jottings 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Why Bother? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.7 Zoom jottings 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 The Bhikkhu’s Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.8 Zoom jottings 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Giving to a Bhikkhu or a Beggar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.9 Zoom jottings 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Hearing Again and Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 iv CONTENTS 4.10 Zoom jottings 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Preparation for Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.11 Zoom jottings 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 All Gone! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 4.12 Zoom jottings 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Once in Sam.s¯ara! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5 December 2020 77 5.1 Zoom jottings 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Nutriment (A¯h¯ara) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 6 January 2021 81 6.1 Zoom jottings 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 S¯ıla (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 7 February 2021 85 7.1 Zoom jottings 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 S¯ıla (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 7.2 Zoom jottings 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 A¯n¯ap¯anasati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 7.3 Zoom jottings 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Kusala(wholesome)orAkusala(unwholesome)Cittasnow? 88 8 March 2021 91 8.1 Zoom jottings 53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Ummagga, the “popping up” of Pan˜n˜¯a . . . . . . . . . . 91 8.2 Zoom jottings 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Bhava (existing) and Bh¯ava (nature) . . . . . . . . . . . 93 8.3 Zoom jottings 55 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Groups of Ru¯pas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 9 April 2021 99 9.1 Zoom jottings 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Sacca P¯aram¯ı (the perfection of truthfulness) . . . . . . 99 9.2 Zoom jottings 57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Meditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 9.3 Zoom jottings 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Dreaming about how “I can do!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 CONTENTS v 9.4 Zoom jottings 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Seeing in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 9.5 Zoom jottings 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Loss of a Dear Sister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 9.6 Zoom jottings 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Ordaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 9.7 Zoom jottings 62 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 The Worldly Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 9.8 Zoom jottings 63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 II Meetings on line 113 10 April 2020 115 10.1 Meeting on line, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Whatever is conditioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 10.2 Meeting on line, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Pan˜n˜¯a verifies the truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 10.3 Meeting on line, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 10.4 Meeting on line II, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Consider the present moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 10.5 Meeting on line, II, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 What is knowing Abhidhamma? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 10.6 Meeting on line, II, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Everything arises by conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 10.7 Meeting on line, II, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 What are accumulations? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 10.8 Meeting on line, III, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Thinking of “stories” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 10.9 Meeting on line III, 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 We cannot hurry up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 10.10Meeting on line III, 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Desire is all around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 10.11Meeting on line III, 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 One reality at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 vi CONTENTS 11 May 2020 133 11.1 Meeting on line, III, 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 The four foundations of mindfulness . . . . . . . . . . . 133 11.2 Meeting on line III, 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Taking refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 11.3 Meeting on line IV, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Dhamma is now. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 11.4 Meeting on line, IV, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Intoxicants and latent tendencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 11.5 Meeting on line, IV, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Perversity of citta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 11.6 Meeting on line V, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Where are you now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 11.7 Meeting on line V, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 The importance of understanding citta . . . . . . . . . . 146 11.8 Meeting on line, V,3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 No one makes it (reality) arise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 11.9 Meeting on line, VI, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Thinking about concepts and wrong view . . . . . . . . 150 11.10Meeting on line, VI, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Sacca n˜¯ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 11.11Meeting on line VI, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The second noble Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 11.12Meeting on line, VI, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Following the rules in the Vinaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 11.13Meeting on line, VII, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Understanding one characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 11.14Meeting on line VII, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 11.15Meeting on line, VII, 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 The order of the suttas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 12 June 2020 167 12.1 Meeting on line IX, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Intention to kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 12.2 Meeting on line IX, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Being a vegetarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 CONTENTS vii 12.3 Meeting on line IX, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 What is life at this moment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 12.4 Meeting on line, 10, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Nimitta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 12.5 Meeting on line X, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Truthfulness (sacca) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 12.6 Meeting on line 10, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Everything depends on conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 12.7 Meeting on line, XI, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Conventional truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 13 July 2020 181 13.1 Meeting on line XI, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Unprompted and prompted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 13.2 Meeting on line XI, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Meanings of nimitta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 III Saturday discussions 187 14 July 2020 189 14.1 Saturday Discussion, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 What is the meaning of sun˜n˜¯ata? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 14.2 Saturday discussion, II, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Living for what? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 14.3 Saturday discussion, II, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Even trying to understand is lobha . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 14.4 Saturday discussion II, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Life is just: going to die each moment . . . . . . . . . . 192 14.5 Saturday discussion, III, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 The truth is covered up, every day . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 14.6 Saturday discussion, III, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Shall we just talk about what appears now? . . . . . . . 194 14.7 Saturday discussion III, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 The perfection of truthfulness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 14.8 Saturday discussion, IV, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Where is meditation?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 viii CONTENTS 14.9 Saturday discussion, IV, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Understanding is so precious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 15 August 2020 201 15.1 Saturday discussion, V, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Confidence that there is no one now . . . . . . . . . . . 201 15.2 Saturday Discussion V, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Study carefully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 15.3 Saturday discussion V,4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Understand whatever appears now, naturally . . . . . . 204 15.4 Saturday discussion, V, 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 A long way to “let go” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 15.5 Saturday discussion VI, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 The parin˜n˜¯as . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 15.6 Saturday discussion VI, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Sacca, truthfulness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 15.7 Saturday discussion VI, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Understanding illuminates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 15.8 Saturday discussion VI, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Awareness of just one reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 15.9 Saturday discussion VI, 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 There is no one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 15.10Saturday discussion, VII, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Be truthful to the truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 15.11Saturday discussion, VII, 3, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Doubt about what appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Direct awareness of what? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 15.12Saturday discussion VII, 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Clinging to the idea of “something” . . . . . . . . . . . 218 15.13Saturday discussion, VIII, 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Understanding arises suddenly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 15.14Saturday discussion VIII, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Citta is pandara or clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 15.15Saturday discussion, VIII, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 We cannot make anything arise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 15.16Saturday discussion VIII, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 What is the mind? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

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