Category: Bhikkhu’s Notebook

Bhikkhu Ninoslav Ñāṇamoli

Peripheral Awareness

by Ajahn Nyanamoli Thero Mindfulness done correctly is when the mind is anchored in something. That something must be a thing that is not directly attended to, but instead, has…
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Dhamma talks given by Ven. N. Nyanamoli Thera

The Audio Dhamma talks given by Nyanamoli Bhikkhu are now available on https://nyanamolibhikkhu.wordpress.com/ For the Dhamma texts please click on the following link for more information, https://pathpress.wordpress.com/nyanamoli/ Bellow are the…
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Notes on Meditation

by Ven. Ninoslav Ñāṇamoli   1. Mindfulness of breathing, bhikkhus, developed and repeatedly practised, is of great fruit, of great benefit; mindfulness of breathing, bhikkhus, developed and repeatedly practised, perfects…
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Appearance and Existence

by Ven. Ninoslav Ñāṇamoli For a puthujjana the world exists. He can perceive things in that world, see them appear and disappear, he can see them changing. A puthujjana can…
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Not Perceiving the Feeling [Notes on MN 43]

Friend, feeling and perception and consciousness-these things are associated, not disassociated. It is not possible to separate them and by separating them point out the difference [between them]. What one…
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Determining Determinations

1. Feeling, perception and consciousness are always there together.1 It is impossible to have them arising independently and on their own; when there is one, the other two are present as…
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Resistance and Designation (Notes on DN 15)

  Nāmarūpapaccayā phasso’ti iti kho panetaṃ vuttaṃ, tadānanda, imināpetaṃ pariyāyena veditabbaṃ, yathā nāmarūpapaccayā phasso. Yehi, Ānanda, ākārehi yehi liṅgehi yehi nimittehi yehi uddesehi nāmakā-yassa paññatti hoti, tesu ākāresu tesu liṅgesu…
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The Infinity of The Mind (Notes on AN 1.51)

  Pabhassaramidaṃ, bhikkhave, cittaṃ. Tañca kho āgantukehi upakkilesehi upakkiliṭṭham. Taṃ assutavā   puthujjano yathābhūtaṃ nappajānāti. Tasmā 'assutavato puthujjanassa cittabhāvanā natthī'ti vadāmī''ti. Bright, monks, is the mind. It is superimposed by…
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