The Language of the Heart | Ajahn Maha Boowa

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[00:00:16] This episode is a talk given by the meditation master, Ajahn Maha Bhuwa, and is titled The

[00:00:22] Language of the Heart. It was first published as part of the contents of that conscious experience, including all thoughts and emotions. As the translator, van der Waal tannissarobeko, states, in these talks, as entire usage in general, the words heart and mind are used interchangeably.

[00:03:02] May you all benefit from hearing the outcome of its own thoughts. This is why the heart and the dumber fit perfectly. No matter what our language or nationality,

[00:03:05] we can all understand the dumber with the eye and cognition results. All of these things are constantly arising and vanishing of their own accord, and so the Buddha called them Kundas.

[00:04:22] Each heap or group is called a kunda. These five heaps of Kundas are constantly arising words, they have defalments as their boss, their leader, ordering them to appear. Arahants however, don't. When a thought forms, it simply forms. Once it forms, it simply disappears. There's no seed to continue it, no seed to weigh the mind down because there's nothing

[00:05:40] to force it, unlike the Kundas governed by defal and death of the body and the Kundas. And thus there is no more birth here and there appearing in crude forms such as individuals or as living beings for those whose minds have been purified. But those whose minds are not purified, they are the ones who take birthished with goodness will be a good mind. Wherever it fares, it will fare well. Wherever it takes birth, it will be born well. Wherever it lives, it will live well. It will keep on experiencing well-being and happiness

[00:08:21] until it gains the capacity, the potential, the accumulation of merit as it develops progressively,

[00:09:26] bearing on this. Venable Vangisa, when he was a layman, was very talented in divining the level of being in which the mind of a dead person was reborn, no matter who the

[00:09:32] person was. You couldn't quite say he was a fortune teller. Actually, he was more of

[00:09:38] a master of psychic skills. When anyone died, he confessed frankly that he didn't know where the Arahant was reborn. At first, Venerable Van Geeser had thought

[00:11:02] himself talented and smart and had planned had been very talented before, for the place of a pure mind's rebirth cannot be found. The same was true in the case of Venerable Goudica.

[00:12:23] This story should serve as quite some food for thought.

[00:15:02] Venerable Goudica went to practice meditation, made progress step by step, possibly find it. It's beyond the capacity of people with defilements to know the power of an Arahant's mind. In the realm of convention, there is no one who can trace the potential, and then we can all go beyond. For this reason, we should all make an effort to train our hearts and minds. At the very least, we should get the mind occurs on different levels corresponding to the mind's ability and to the different stages of its refinement. Even if the mind is still on a crude level, we can nevertheless know it when it gathers inwardly. When the mind becomes more and more refined, we will know its

[00:16:22] refinement. This mind is refined, this us men and women alike, but while we are yet able to do so a little bit, so when the time is right for us to give orders, we should circumstances at all times, in keeping with the fact that you've accumulated the merit, the well-being, that all the world wants and of which no one has enough. In other words, what because the mind is the primary issue, that which will make us farewell or badly, meet with pleasure or pain. It is nothing else but the mind. As for what they call bad kumma, it lies within the mind that has made it. Whether or not you can remember, these seeds which lie within the heart can't be prevented

[00:21:43] from bearing fruit because they the link in the description below this episode. Also on the Forest Path Podcast website you can find information about the previous episodes and teachers as well as English translations in text. The Forest Path Podcast is part of the