1 00:00:00,031 --> 00:00:05,596 Are there any particular books by Mahasi Sayadaw you would recommend? 2 00:00:06,477 --> 00:00:12,362 I was considering buying Progress of Insight, a treatise on Satipatthana meditation. 3 00:00:14,243 --> 00:00:16,586 Progress of Insight is not one I'd recommend. 4 00:00:17,346 --> 00:00:22,391 My teacher even forbids people to read it. 5 00:00:22,411 --> 00:00:29,056 Not forbids, but recommends people not to read it until you've done some intensive meditation. 6 00:00:29,076 --> 00:00:29,717 So it doesn't mean 7 00:00:31,368 --> 00:00:41,665 You should have actually done a foundation course like a month or something in intensive meditation under a teacher before you start to read the Progressive Insight. 8 00:00:43,508 --> 00:00:45,852 It can actually hinder your progress. 9 00:00:46,553 --> 00:00:53,224 It's thought to be able to hinder your progress if you read it. 10 00:00:53,812 --> 00:00:56,695 So Mahasi Sayadaw, in the beginning, he thought that would probably be the case. 11 00:00:56,775 --> 00:01:01,740 But when he gets to the end of it, he says something like, well, it might be useful for beginners as well. 12 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,522 And so I'm in agreement with that. 13 00:01:03,542 --> 00:01:04,543 It could be useful. 14 00:01:04,583 --> 00:01:06,665 But it's certainly not the one I would recommend. 15 00:01:06,725 --> 00:01:11,269 I had that printed up, and I used to give it out. 16 00:01:11,409 --> 00:01:12,590 You don't need to buy it, by the way. 17 00:01:12,610 --> 00:01:13,912 You can download it from the internet. 18 00:01:15,593 --> 00:01:22,300 Just Google Progressive Insight Mahasi, and you can just print it out. 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:24,621 I shouldn't have said that. 20 00:01:27,525 --> 00:01:28,106 Copyright. 21 00:01:29,367 --> 00:01:31,210 No, it is free. 22 00:01:31,931 --> 00:01:35,475 It's more like we're not supposed to encourage people to read this one. 23 00:01:36,176 --> 00:01:36,797 Oh, no. 24 00:01:40,782 --> 00:01:45,248 So I would print it up and give it to people when they finish the advanced course with us. 25 00:01:45,308 --> 00:01:51,055 I think after they finish the advanced course or when they started to do some sort of teacher training. 26 00:01:51,811 --> 00:01:56,097 When they first started that, we would have them read the Progressive Insight. 27 00:01:56,117 --> 00:01:59,603 It's kind of recommended or required reading at that point. 28 00:02:01,766 --> 00:02:08,656 But, you know, everyone thinks they're advanced or everyone starts to feel like they're in an advanced level and goes out and reads it anyway. 29 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,445 What I would recommend, the ones I would... Oh, anything by Mahasi Sayadaw, really. 30 00:02:14,465 --> 00:02:20,434 He's just so brilliant and clear and articulate and well-translated. 31 00:02:20,971 --> 00:02:23,295 It was just so much good out there. 32 00:02:23,355 --> 00:02:26,921 Every time I pick up one of his books, I can never finish it, because I just want to go and meditate. 33 00:02:26,961 --> 00:02:42,766 I'm very particular in my own reading, and Mahasi Syed is one of the only things that I personally feel the need to read more and more. 34 00:02:43,568 --> 00:02:47,434 I would recommend his discourse on... 35 00:02:49,439 --> 00:02:51,441 Bill, can you turn off the video? 36 00:02:52,082 --> 00:02:53,524 I'm getting an echo from you. 37 00:02:53,544 --> 00:02:55,706 Okay, better now. 38 00:02:56,427 --> 00:03:02,674 The discourse on dependent origination, the Salekha Sutta. 39 00:03:04,857 --> 00:03:10,644 I have one friend who highly recommends the Salekha Sutta to everyone. 40 00:03:11,805 --> 00:03:14,248 Yeah, it's very good. 41 00:03:15,207 --> 00:03:16,788 And it's available free online. 42 00:03:17,149 --> 00:03:20,732 I think both of those are on aimwell.org. 43 00:03:22,133 --> 00:03:26,337 Have you ever gone to meet Biko Pesela, Owen, Paul? 44 00:03:26,357 --> 00:03:26,597 No. 45 00:03:28,179 --> 00:03:28,759 He's somewhere. 46 00:03:28,779 --> 00:03:33,984 I should look him up and see if he's still alive. 47 00:03:35,285 --> 00:03:36,646 He doesn't like me particularly. 48 00:03:37,227 --> 00:03:38,408 No, he has problems with me. 49 00:03:38,468 --> 00:03:43,172 Not doesn't like me, but he's taken issue with some of the things I've done. 50 00:03:46,156 --> 00:03:50,581 That apparently is Pesala, P-E-S-A-L-A. 51 00:03:50,641 --> 00:03:54,005 He's on aimwell.org is his website. 52 00:03:54,866 --> 00:04:04,376 And he got kind of upset at me for this copyright issue, and he said, you know, you should take down what you said, and you should respect people's copyrights and stuff. 53 00:04:04,436 --> 00:04:05,557 And I basically said no. 54 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:09,241 But we've kind of been like that. 55 00:04:10,683 --> 00:04:13,446 Apparently he has that kind of relationship with people. 56 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:18,719 I shouldn't say things like that. 57 00:04:18,739 --> 00:04:25,527 But yeah, go to aimwell.org, go to static.sirimongolo.org, front slash Mahasi. 58 00:04:26,909 --> 00:04:28,431 I've put a bunch of stuff up there. 59 00:04:28,531 --> 00:04:38,263 Or even go to the, well, that's a better place, but a lot of those were just taken from mahasi.org.mm or something like that, the Myanmar Mahasi site. 60 00:04:38,684 --> 00:04:41,307 There's so many good e-books of Mahasi stuff. 61 00:04:41,327 --> 00:04:42,348 You don't need to buy anything. 62 00:04:42,889 --> 00:04:44,631 Just go and download it all and print it up. 63 00:04:45,472 --> 00:04:49,256 Worst case, print it out. 64 00:04:49,276 --> 00:04:50,578 Put it on your e-book reader. 65 00:04:50,638 --> 00:04:51,279 Everyone has these. 66 00:04:51,419 --> 00:04:52,680 Put it on your tablet, right? 67 00:04:57,266 --> 00:04:58,447 Put it on your iPad. 68 00:04:58,467 --> 00:05:01,751 I think I've got about 40 Mahasi books. 69 00:05:02,031 --> 00:05:03,293 I'm trying to work my way through. 70 00:05:04,834 --> 00:05:07,597 On an e-book reader or iPad or something? 71 00:05:08,178 --> 00:05:08,458 Yeah. 72 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:15,006 I'm on the Brahma-Vihara discourse. 73 00:05:15,830 --> 00:05:16,531 That's a big one. 74 00:05:19,013 --> 00:05:19,813 Yeah, there's so much. 75 00:05:20,474 --> 00:05:24,798 For sure, you can learn everything you need to know about Buddhism, I think, by reading his stuff. 76 00:05:25,378 --> 00:05:27,420 Well, of course, besides reading the Tapitaka. 77 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,821 You have to read the Tapitaka as well. 78 00:05:29,521 --> 00:05:34,906 But you don't need to go anywhere else, in my opinion, except Mahasi Sayadaw's stuff. 79 00:05:34,966 --> 00:05:37,128 If you've read everything by him, you're sad. 80 00:05:39,870 --> 00:05:40,471 I don't know. 81 00:05:40,491 --> 00:05:41,431 Maybe that's going too far. 82 00:05:42,753 --> 00:05:45,735 But certainly, indispensable.