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Anapanasati Retreat 2003 Notes - Introduction to 7th and 8th Instructions - Mind

by Viveka

... that
helps us be more present rather than tending to seek something from outside ourselves.
This begins in access concentration when hindrances are calming.
So when we’re aware of mental processes we may be aware of a lot of vedana and consequent turbulent
emotion
OR the whole thing might be very calm and seem very still even silent, contained in mindfulness. This
process is parallel to the work of the body tetrad where the whole body calms.
When we hit this stillness there are two options.
1) to take the path of Mara, backing out and rebuilding our familiar sense of
ourselves
2) or to relax into that newfound space and silence (Ayya Khema, Who is Myself,
p. 66)

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