'... As long as you haven't probed
deeply into the mind, you don't really know anything. ...'
~ Upasika Kee Nanayon
“Clear insight doesn't come from thinking and speculating. It comes from investigating the mind while it's gathered into an adequate level of calm and stability. You look deeply into every aspect of the mind when it's neutral and calm, free from thought-formations or likes and dislikes for its preoccupations. You have to work at maintaining this state and at the same time probe deeply into it, because superficial knowledge isn't true knowledge. As long as you haven't probed deeply into the mind, you don't really know anything.
The mind is simply calm on an external level, and your reading of the aspects of the wanderings of the mind under the influence of defilement, craving, and attachment isn't yet clear.” ~ Upasika Kee Nanayon
(Inspired by an FB post by John Kimbrough)
About Upasika Kee Nanayon:
Upasika Kee Nanayon, who wrote under the pen name, K. Khao-suan-luang, was one of the foremost woman teachers of Dhamma in modern Thailand. Born in 1901, she started a practice center for women in 1945 on a hill in the province of Rajburi, to the west of Bangkok, where she lived until her death in 1979.
Known for the simplicity of her way of life, and for the direct, uncompromising style of her teaching, she had a way with words evident not only in her talks, which attracted listeners from all over Thailand, but also in her poetry, which was widely published.
Download and read Upasika Kee Nanayon's books here ..
www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/kee/#dynamic
Audio Book: talks can be downloaded
as MP3 files here ...
www.audiodhammatalks.org/upasika-kee-nanayon-2/
21st October, 2022
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