Ven Sir
Yes, thank you for your translations. They fit with my practice too.
Ive heard good stories about Ven Tejaniya. Could you tell me where he is
located or if he travels to teach?
Im glad you included ekodibhava, the sutta term that takes the place of
Buddhaghosas ekaggata. An interesting book I partly read recently was
Richard Shankmans Samadhi in which he studied Jhaana in the suttas, then
Visuddhimagga and lastly as taught by 12 current meditation teachers. I had
time to read the first section only. In the first section he noticed jhaana
seemed to involve more awareness of the body and an enlivening experience,
not a withdrawl and closing off [except from unwholesome action]. He decided
to translate ekodibhava as you have.
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Subject: [Pali] Not Concentration
Dear friends,
In the past, I was told that samadhi means concentration, and samatha means
concentration too. (I did think that it was odd, but I knew nuts then.)
Closely related is ekaggata, which I was told means one-pointedness.
That's about 15 years ago, when I started to practice meditation. I
practiced hard thenhard enough with enough of wrong ideas to end up being
uptight, groggy and oftentimes both. It took a nervous disorder during a
meditation retreat to seriously doubt the way I was practicing.
I'm fortunate that I later met Sayadaw U Tejaniya who helped me immensely to
get on the right path'right' as in moving out of suffering, rather than
into more suffering as I had been experiencing earlier.
With this liberating practice, I found that some of my past understanding of
the Buddha's teachings seem to be grossly wrong. With some knowledge of
Pali, guided by Venerable Aggacitta, and some phenomenological research,
I've decided on these English translations of some Pali words:
samadhi composure
samatha settling
ekodibhava unified
ekagga collected
ekaggata collectedness
These meanings of the Pali words agrees with the right path for me. I invite
you to consider them in the light of your own practice. Bear in mind though
that right meditation involves other factors, such as . These roughly covers
only one aspect of it.
I'm not against the use of "concentration" in spiritual or meditation
practice. It's just a word. My understanding of it didn't work for me. I've
just checked a dictionary and found the meaning of it that I had: complete
attention; intense mental effort. Synonyms of it are absorption,
engrossment, immersion. Yes, that's it. Looking at it from my present point
of view, I'm thinking: No wonder I ended up groggy and uptight.
peace
Kumâra Bhikkhu
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