4 excerpts, 11:48 total duration
1. “This morning I had my brightest, deepest, most still meditation ever. As I sensed the hour coming to an end, I counted my breaths down to 100, knowing you would ring the bell during that time. When I got to zero, no bell. So I decided to hold my breath until I heard the bell. Luckily, you rang it right then. What did the Buddha teach regarding synchronicities?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Time] // [Concentration] [Psychic powers]
Sutta: AN 4.77: Inconceivable Matters.
14. “In one meditation, I had the sure knowledge for a few moments that all the versions of me throughout life until the present were and are fabrications, that there is no time but the present and nothing but experience through the six sense bases and what the mind makes of it. Then a big wave of fear came into the mind, “I’m going nuts, coming unglued, unhinged, unmoored!” I swam back to safety. Was I going nuts? Or if this was experiential insight, why so scary? What allows insight to be stabilized and integrated?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Insight meditation] [Time] [Not-self] [Fear] // [Self-identity view] [Habits] [Gradual Teaching] [Spiritual friendship] [Characteristics of existence]
Sutta: The Buddha is a kalyāṇa-mitta for the world. [Buddha]
5. Discussion of the concept of eternity in SN 22.96. [Impermanence] [Time]
7. “One of the descriptions of Dhamma is ‘here and now.’ Have you had an equivalent insight into now-ness? (Refers to the previous story about here-ness.)” Answered by Ajahn Amaro. [Dhamma] [Ajahn Amaro] [Insight meditation] [Time] // [Impermanence] [Not-self] [Conventions]
Reference: The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra.