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- Ajahn_Sao_Kantasīlo abstract "Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera (1861–1941) was a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravadin Buddhism. He was a highly revered member of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, the order to which the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, belongs. Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera was one of his most well-known students.After his cremation, his bone fragments were distributed to people around the Thai provinces. According to his followers, they transformed into crystal-like relics (Pali: Sarira-Dhatu) in various hues.Ajaan Sao's Teaching - transcribed from a talk by Phra Ajaan Phut Thaniyo:In our day and age, the practice of going into the forest to meditate and follow the asceticdhutanga practices began with Phra Ajaan Sao Kantasilo, the teacher of Phra Ajaan Mun and, byextension, Phra Ajaan Singh and Phra Ajaan Lee. Phra Ajaan Sao was inclined to be, not a preacher or a speaker, but a doer. When he taught his students, he said very little. Andthose who studied directly under him are now elders who speak very little, who rarely preach,having picked up the habit from their teacher. Thus, as Phra Ajaan Sao was not a preacher,I would like to tell a little of the way in which he taught meditation.How did Phra Ajaan Sao teach? If it so happened that someone came to him, saying\"Ajaan, sir, I want to practice meditation. How should I go about it?\" he would answer,\"Meditate on the word 'Buddho.'\"If the person asked, \"What does 'Buddho' mean?\" Ajaan Sao would answer, \"Don't ask.\"\"What will happen after I've meditated on 'Buddho'?\"\"Don't ask. Your only duty is simply to repeat the word 'Buddho' over and over in your mind.\"That's how he taught: no long, drawn-out explanations.Now, if the student was sincere in putting the Ajaan's instructions into practice and waspersistent in practicing the repetition, if his mind then became calm and bright fromentering into concentration, he would come and ask Ajaan Sao: \"When meditating on'Buddho' my state of mind becomes such-and-such. What should I do now?\" If it wasright, Ajaan Sao would say, \"Keep on meditating.\" If not, he would say, \"You have to dosuch-and-such. What you're doing isn't right.\"For example, once when I was his attendant novice, a senior monk of the Mahanikaya sectcame and placed himself under his direction as a beginning student in meditation. AjaanSao taught him to meditate on \"Buddho.\" Now, when the monk settled down on \"Buddho,\"his mind became calm and, once it was calm, bright. And then he stopped repeating\"Buddho.\" At this point, his mind was simply blank. Afterwards, he sent his attention out,following the brightness, and a number of visions began to arise: spirits of the dead,hungry ghosts, divine beings, people, animal, mountains, forest... Sometimes it seemedas if he, or rather, his mind, left his body and went wandering through the forest andwilderness, seeing the various things mentioned above. Afterwards, he went and toldAjaan Sao, \"When I meditated down to the point were the mind became calm and bright,it then went out, following the bright light. Visions of ghosts, divine beings, people, andanimals appeared. Sometimes it seemed as if I went out following the visions.\"As soon as Ajaan Sao heard this, he said, \"This isn't right. For the mind to go knowing andseeing outside isn't right. You have to make it know inside.\"Phra Ajaan Sao answered, \"When the mind is in a bright state like that, when it hasforgotten or abandoned its repetition and is simply sitting empty and still, look for thebreath. If the sensation of the breath appears in your awareness, focus on the breath asyour object and then simply keep track of it, following it inward until the mind becomeseven calmer and brighter.\"And so the monk followed the Ajaan's instructions until finally the mind settled down inthreshold concentration (upacara Samadhi), following which the breath became more andmore refined, ultimately to the point where it disappeared. His sensation of having a bodyalso disappeared, leaving just the state in which the mind was sitting absolutely still, astate of awareness itself standing out clear, with no sense of going forward or back, nosense of where the mind was, because at that moment there was just the mind, all on itsown. At this point, the monk came again to ask, \"After my mind has become calm and bright, and I fix my attention on the breath and follow the breath inward until it reaches astate of being absolutely quiet and still - so still that nothing is left, the breath doesn'tappear, the sense of having a body vanishes, only the mind stands out, brilliant and still:When it's like this, is it right or wrong?\"\"Whether it's right or wrong,\"the Ajaan answered, \"take that as your standard. Make aneffort to be able to do this as often as possible, and only when you're skilled at it shouldyou come and see me again.\"So the monk followed the Ajaan's instructions and later was able to make his mind still tothe point that there was no sense of having a body and the breath disappeared more andmore often. He became more and more skilled, and his mind became more and more firm.Eventually, after he had been making his mind still very frequently - because as a rule,there's the principle that virtue develops concentration, concentration developsdiscernment, discernment develops the mind - when his concentration became powerfuland strong, it gave rise to abhinna - heightened knowledge and true insight. Knowledgeof what? Knowledge of the true nature of the mind, that is, knowing the states of themind as they occur in the present. Or so he said.After he had left this level of concentration and came to see Ajaan Sao, he was told, \"Thislevel of concentration is fixed penetration (appana samadhi). You can rest assured that inthis level of concentration there is no insight or knowledge of anything at all. There's onlythe brightness and the stillness. If the mind is forever in that state, it will be stucksimply on that level of stillness. So once you've made the mind still like this, watch forthe interval where it begins to stir out of its concentration. As soon as the mind has asense that it's beginning to take up an object - no matter what object may appear first - focus on the act of taking up an object. That's what you should examine.\"The monk followed the Ajaan's instructions and afterwards he was able to make fairprogress in the level of his mind.This is one instance of how Phra Ajaan Sao taught his pupils - teaching just a little at atime, giving only the very heart of the practice, almost as if he would say, \"Do this, andthis, and this,\" with no explanations at all. Sometimes I would wonder about his way of teaching. That is, I would compare it with books I had read or with the Dhamma-talks Iheard given by other teachers. For example, Phra Ajaan Singh wrote a small handbook forthe practice of meditation, entitled, \"Taking the Triple Refuge and the Techniques ofMeditation\", and in it he said that in practicing meditation you must, before all else, sitwith your body straight and establish mindfulness directly in front of you. That's how heput it, but not how Ajaan Sao would put it. Still, the principles they taught were one andthe same, the only difference being that Ajaan Sao was not a preacher, and so didn'tmake use of a lot of rhetoric.As he explained to me: \"When we make up our mind to repeat 'Buddho,' the act ofmaking up the mind is in itself the act of establishing mindfulness. When we keep thinking'Buddho' and are not willing to let the mind slip away from 'Buddho,' our mindfulnessand alertness are already healthy and strong, always watching over the mind to keep itwith 'Buddho.' As soon as our attention slips away, so that we forget to think 'Buddho'and go thinking of something else, it's a sign that there's a lapse in our mindfulness.But if we can keep our mindfulness under control and can think 'Buddho, Buddho'continuously, with no gaps, our mindfulness is already strong, so there's no need togo 'establishing mindfulness anywhere. To think of an object so that is coupled withthe mind is, in and of itself, the act of getting mindfulness established.\" That washow he explained it to me.This was one instance of how I saw and heard Phra Ajaan Sao teaching meditation, andshould be enough to serve us all as food for thought.".
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