SUTTA EXPLORATION: Solitude Necessary to Understand One's Mind | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha reads out and comments on a short sutta from Anguttara Nikāya/Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Book of Sixes #68.In this teaching, the Buddha points out the necessity of solitude in order to be able to understand one's own mind. We have to find delight in solitude, rather than searching for happiness exclusively through socialising and hanging out with others. Once we can be happy with ourselves in seclusion, we will be able to comprehend the characteristics of our mind. Once we understand our own mind, we can purify right view, develop samādhi, and aboandon all fetters.Of course, 'delight in solitude' includes seclusion from mobile phones and all other gedgets, computers and screens - really alone with only one's own body and mind. Once we get into it, it actually can be really delightful.www.dhammagiri.org.auwww.facebook.com/dhammagiri-forest-hermitagewww.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJwwww.tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive