“Every time you come out of samādhi, you should develop your investigation.”

“Every time you come out of samādhi, you should develop your investigation.”

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Monk: You mentioned that the upekkhā from samādhi is very important for contemplation, but if we haven’t got to that level yet, so is it still important to do some contemplation when one sits and walks to help one to prepare?

Than Ajahn: Yes, you can start from the preliminary stage here, but to get the real result you need the appaṇā stage, to enable your wisdom to really work.
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Monk: So when pain arises, does this preparation help the mind to be ready to investigate?

Than Ajahn: If you don’t have appaṇā, your mind will become very weak. You will only be able to investigate just a few minutes and then it gives up.You cannot go through the whole process. But if you have appaṇā, you will have the strength to go through it.
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Monk: Does the preliminary investigation help to develop samādhi as well?

Than Ajahn: Yes. Every time you come out of samādhi, you should develop your investigation. If you don’t know how to investigate, then you should just develop your mindfulness to prevent your mind from thinking aimlessly. You cannot get rid of some of the kilesas which are too strong. Kilesas have different strengths. For some kilesas, you can use the present state of mind to get rid of, but some (of the kilesas) are stronger than you and you need to develop meditation to get rid of it.

“Australian Monks from Sydney, Feb 19, 2015”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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