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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalyanamithra" data-source="post: 4506258" data-attributes="member: 99586">Pinwath mithura, That's true.Better to say actual practice of samata vipassana;For some people -> samata follows vipassana (samata pubbangama vipassana); for some others it's the other way around; for the rest both samata and vipassana grows together.What important is practicing Dhamma - i.e. following the Noble Eightfold Path;which is not just sila; or just samadhi; or just panna...It is a path which has all sila, samadhi and panna..But the aim is something else... it is vimukti (liberation)... [from what? from the suffering, the samsara....]quick note: Supreme Buddha has not advocated the way vipassna is practiced by many today. That's because of the way Indriya Dharma develops in people..Only the Supreme Buddha can see how it happens in others..(recall that Supreme Buddha has even fortell that Ven. Ananda would attain the Arahanthood that very life...)What important to us is practicing Dhamma..And to make sure we are not mislead by various distortions - we nead an armory (අවි ගබඩාව)...What is that? (It's a similie used by the Supreme Buddha - mentioned in Nagarupama Sutta )It's our knowledge in Dhamma...We do not know in which order Indriya Dhamma will develop in us...So we should try to have every skill developed: shraddha (confidence), sila (virtue), suta (knowledge of Dhamma), viriya (endeavor), samadi (concentration), panna (wosdom)...How can we do it?Try to come to the Path...How, by examining our life (the world) through Dhamma...For that we need to know Dhamma (at least to some extent...)That's why we should discuss Dhamma as discoursed by the Supreme Buddha in his discourses.. not the way it's interpreted in later books (ofcourse, there's no problem with books that agree with the Discourses... )Theruwan saranai!</blockquote>

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