Why 'Focusing' Meditations are Wrong _ by Ajahn Nyanamoli Thero

Yacine Haffar51min

Unknown Speaker

00:10

Good to better. So what did you say? So we're going to talk about aspects of meditation. That I think probably most people think about what they think when they think meditation they'll be thinking about. So let's say focusing on something.

Unknown Speaker

00:46

Yeah, it's probably something every, we all done. Yeah. In the beginning, yeah. When you start practicing, I know.

Speaker 1

00:54

Because that's the first thing you come across the idea of meditation is the idea of focusing concentration in terms of focusing, focusing, focusing, and then expecting the results come automatically out of you just doing this method of focusing. So what kind of folks in need?

Speaker 2

01:15

So I guess, first of all, the idea was focusing, focusing your attention on this sort of triangle here, around your nose, that you're where breathing is happening. So you're basically just sort of focusing on the process of breathing. And doing it as a kind of observing air passing over this area. And then it was like, and then the idea was smaller and smaller, you get the area becomes smaller and smaller and smaller until until you've focusing on focusing on just to pinpoint the

Speaker 1

02:07

area. And what were you thinking? Like, while you were doing the focusing practice? That I should be doing? What am I doing? Well, no, no, when when you were doing the folks in practice? Yeah. Your thoughts in terms of what were you thinking that you were focusing on?

Speaker 2

02:26

Okay, well, that was the thing I was spending most of the time wondering what that what it was that was supposed to be focusing on? And what I was doing and whether I was doing it, right. And that was all kind of superfluous to the meditation. Sure, further meditation was okay, what are you focusing on here? So the idea, I guess, was what was being encouraged? was a kind of, I would say, like an objective, sideways view, I'm sure that there that happens to be passing this area here. I will be breathing. But as if

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