Discover it from inside

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To speak most correctly, we cannot really learn from scriptures, from techniques or from those various teachings if we are to be truly successful. To successful reap any benefits for real, we must learn in the thing itself, namely the actual prison. Study the actual dukkha in itself, that prison itself.

So, we would better look for and find this prison, which is what are we going to talk about. At this point, we are confronted by two choices: are you going to learn from outside or are you going to learn from inside? The distinction is crucial. The Buddha said that we must study from inside.

The external learning is from books, ceremonies, practices and things like that. Everything that we must learn, the Tathagata has explained in terms of the body which is still alive. That means a living body, with a living mind, not a dead one. That's where real learning takes place, so learn there. Learn from that inside, which means learn within yourself while you are still alive, before you die.

External studies - learning from books and all those different ceremonies and rituals hasn't really accomplished anything of value. So let us study inside. Please remember these words "learn inside".

Training in samadhi and vipassana (concentration and insight) that is, developing mindfulness with breathing (anapanasati-bhavana) as we have been doing here, is this learning inside. to do this inner study takes a fairly good amount of patience and endurance, but not too much.

Actually, in comparison, with some of the things other people are practising, such as high level sports, gymnastics, and acrobatics, the latter things are more difficult than training in samadhi and vipassana. Yet peole have enough endurance and perseverance to be able to do such things.

just have moderate endurance and we will be able to train with samadhi and vipassana, through mindfulness with breathing. Some people cannot take it and have already ran away. We have had enough endurance to get this far and if we continue a bit more, then we will be able to do it and we will receive proper benefits.

So, please apply to yourself to this inner study and do so with sufficient patience and endurance.

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