Thai Forest Dhamma

in the tradition of Lungphu Mun Bhuridatto

and his western disciples

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Dhamma talk given byAjahn Martin
TitleConditioning: Am I a robot?
Date4 Oct 2015
Languageen
LocationWat Pa Baan Taad
AudienceMeditators
Content / Description

Pain investigation: only enduring/fighting the path is not the way, but being interested/investigating the pain is; Talking: cutting down on chatting/talking, we talk mostly out of boredom or to boost the ego; Conditioning: people are robots, conditioned beings, but in the practice we try to uncondition ourseleves, asking oneself “am I a robot?” is the first step out, a robot cannot do this; Shame/fear of wrong doing: we need it to act as a human being; Fun: “definition of fun: change”, heating oneself up and then cooling down, the more extreme the change is, the better.