What policy do you have for Vipassana students or assistant teachers writing books on Vipassana or pure Dhamma? I discourage it. Unfortunately I have seen translations of Buddha’s words by the so- called competent pundits, and they are totally different from what Buddha actually wanted to say. We know that it is different because we are practising. We cannot expect that somebody who does not know the technique properly would understand the theory properly. Someone might write something which is against what we are teaching here. If I don’t contradict it, then after one or two hundred years, or five hundred years, people may think, Oh, Guruji has accepted this, it was written in his lifetime by his own student or by his assistant teacher. Certainly, this is correct. And people will be misled by that.There is no time for me to check articles or books by my students. It is totally impossible. One of my students wrote my biography, then one of my family members brought that book to me and pointed out, Look, such and such is written there, and this is wrong. Such and such is written on another page. I said, All right, put a mark there and keep the book here, I will look at it. That was perhaps four or five years ago, and I still have not had time to look at those two pages. So understand, if something wrong is written in a book and I don’t contradict it, then it will be considered authentic.Don’t be over-enthusiastic to write books and all that. Become perfect in meditation and teach meditation to others. Later on, when you become perfect in pariyatti also, yes, write. Or after my death, then you will be free to write anything. In my daily sitting of one hour, I devote at least thirty minutes to Anapana. Is it all right? Nothing wrong. Anapana is just a tool to help you to practise Vipassana properly. Whenever you find your mind is very agitated, make use of Anapana. Maybe thirty or forty minutes, maybe for the whole hour you carry on with Anapana, and the next sitting will be much better. So Anapana is to stabilise your mind, to make it quiet and more sensitive to feel the sensations - SNG @ vridhamma.org/uploadedfiles/BenefitofMany.pdf
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:15:43 +0000
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