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Letter No 49

Posted on September 4, 2010 at 12:59 AM

Letter No 49

 

19/2/86

 

Most Honoured and Respected Sir,

 

 

         Thank you very much indeed form the last 2 letters. In the first letter it says " You will have to see that both concentration and insight are balanced . I am not quite sure what the word "concentration " connotes - would it stand for Samatha Bavana or Sati? or may be both?

 

         

         I realize too well that my sati is deficient. I shall do my best to rectify this weakness.

 

(1) I have contacted friends who will send  me the Digha Nikaya . After I have read the 2nd Sutta I shall write back if some of my experiences tally.

 

 

(2) I shall also endeavour to keep apart certain days devoted only to meditation and the Dhamma.

 

(3) I shall follow closely instructions of turning my attention to Nama -Rupa (as manifested to me in Ana-pana) immediately after a session of meditation.

 

 

         Now I have had another experience extremly difficult to describe.I meditated for about 1 1/2 hours and had reached a good state of Samadhi. The next thing I realized was that I had got out of Samadhi, but not before I had experienced an extraordinary level of Peace and Rest, never before experienced. I had been transformed into the quality of Peace and completly unconscious of myself - It was a subtle and immaterial experience. All the other experiences I have had so far

( of dissolving and disappearing into a mist etc,) seemed gross and material in comparision. I was not sure if I was asleep when I experienced this, (but I never fall asleep)

 

 

         Time did not seem to come into this experience (In earlier experiences I had always known roughly how long the experience lasted) Now time did not seem to function.

 

 

         The Peace was of the quality of that found in sleep - Perhaps that was why I thought I had been asleep.

 

 

         All other experiences I could describe clearly - but this was of a new order. Completely intangible to both senses and mind - Was I awake or asleep when it occurred and what was it?

 

 

 

With my thanks for every thing and my thanks for the wonderful interpretation by the kind Rev. ............

 

 

With all my grattitude

 

Your humble and obedient pupil

 

...................

 

 


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