Day Five: 26 November 2005

The Ganges, Jamuna and Sarasvati are sila, samadhi and panna. When these streams converge nirvana manifests.

19.03

Pain, endurance. No bad or good sensation, just sensation. All over the body from head to toe. Observe them, watch them rise and fall. Realise that all is impermenant, and see all sensations with equanimity, with calm and with objectivity. Without craving, without aversion. Without sowing seeds that will grow. Uproot all defilements so that they will no longer shoot when enticed. Try, try, try.

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The Discourse Summaries--talks from a ten-day course in Vipassana Meditation, S.N. Goenka

"Wherever there is attachment, there is bound to be misery, and the greater the attachment, the greater the misery.

"Any moment in which one does not generate a new sakhara, one of the old ones will arise on the surface of the mind, and along with it a sensation will start within the body. If one remains equanimous, it passes away and another old reaction arises in its place. One continues to remain equanimous to physical sensations and the old sakhara continue to arise and pass away, one after another. If out of ignorance one reacts to sensations, then one multiplies the sankhara, multiplies one's misery. But if one develops wisdom and does not react to sensations, then one after another the sankhara are eradicated, misery is eradicated. ""