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 Spaciousness
Parent topic: Meditation/Results
15 excerpts, 1:02:23 total duration
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The Whole of the Path: The Fruits of Spiritual Friendship, Session 3 – Jun. 22, 2013

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8. “I appreciate your emphasis on clarity, stability, and spaciousness. How does concentration relate to these?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Clear comprehension] [One pointedness] [Spaciousness] [Concentration] // [Pāli] [Thai] [Etymology] [Tranquility] [Happiness] [Rapture] [Conditionality]

Suttas: AN 10.3: Virtuous Behaivor; AN 6.10 Mahānāma [Virtue]

Quote: “The way my mind worked before was, ‘Boy, when I get my concentration together, I’m going to be happy...’” [Ajahn Pasanno]

Quote: “The happy mind is easily concentrated.” [Hindrances] [Relinquishment] [Knowledge and vision]

Death and Dying, Session 2 – May. 9, 2014

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12. Comment: In Western culture, we’re not given enough space to be with death. [Culture/West] [Spaciousness] [Grief] [Death]

Story: Hospice workers took the body of my father-in-law away too quickly. [Health care]

Story: When my husband died, we kept and washed the body. [Ceremony/ritual]

Response by Debbie Stamp.

Jhāna: A Practical Approach, Session 4 – Oct. 10, 2015

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2. “Could we say that it [unification] is expansive?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [One pointedness] [Spaciousness] [Jhāna] // [Right Concentration]