Momentum Vitae est meditatio


BENVENUTI, il mio progetto sul web nasce con l'intento di conservare e condividere

gli insegnamenti di Anapanasati e Vipassana al fine di affrancarsi dalla sofferenza esistenziale

con la guida di un insegnante autorizzato. Questo secondo la dottrina del Buddismo Theravada,

nella tradizione birmana di Sayagyi U Ba Khin, in memoria del suo allievo John Earl Coleman.

Tali insegnamenti sono preservati e perpetuati per il beneficio delle future generazioni,

per questo sono conservati con l’indicazione protettiva della perfezione, verità e devozione.

Tutte le nostre azioni sono dirette nello spirito del Damma.


WELCOME, my web project was born with the intention of preserving and sharing

the teachings of Anapanasati and Vipassana, in order to be free from existential suffering

with the guidance of a licensed teacher. This according to the doctrine of Theravada Buddhism,

in the Burmese tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, in memory of his student John Earl Coleman.

Such teachings are preserved and perpetuated for the benefit of future generations,

for this reason they are preserved with the protective indication of perfection, truth and devotion.

All our actions are directed in the spirit of the Dhamma.


Pratica e Lettere
Cè dispiacere
di John Coleman (& J.Krishnamurti)

Quando c'è dispiacere non c'è amore. Quando stai soffrendo, implicato nella tua propria sofferenza, come può esserci amore? ... Cos'è il dispiacere? ... E' dispiacere da autocommiserazione? ... Per favore investighiamo. Non stiamo dicendo che è o non è ... E' dispiacere portato dalla solitudine, sentirsi disperati, soli, isolati? Possiamo guardare al dispiacere com'è adesso dentro di noi, e rimanerci, tenerlo e non andare via da lui? Il dispiacere non è diverso da uno che soffre. La persona che soffre vuole scappare via, fuggire, fare tutto un genere di cose. Ma guardarlo come guardiamo un bambino, un bel bambino, tenerlo, senza scappare mai da lui .. allora vedrete da voi stessi, se veramente guardate in profondità, che c'è una fine al dispiacere. E quando c'è una fine al dispiacere, c'è passione, non lussuria, non stimolazione sensoriale, ma passione.
© 2024 

Tutti i diritti riservati | Traduzione di Mario Amati

Please let's think
by John Coleman

Please reflect on these words of Krishnamurti regarding the subject of sorrow. It may be that all the sorrow you have felt recently is your blessing, freeing you from sorrow. This, of course, if you are able to concentrate on the obvious displeasure and not divert your attention to the meaning of escaping from displeasure and trying in vain to find peace and happiness. Trying to find peace will only result in more sorrow. Being silently aware of the sorrow that is there, without any desire, hope or attempt to change it, will bring you peace.

Unlike other teachers, my students teach me. We are one. What they teach is that we are in the same hole together. So my job is to hold up a mirror into which we can look together and get out of the hole we have dug ourselves.
© 2024 

Tutti i diritti riservati | Traduzione di Mario Amati

Reached the stadium
by John Coleman

Once this stage is reached, terror and joy are abandoned, there is neutrality and indifference towards all formations. Due to the absence of impediments the mind appears pure but this absence is only temporary. It should be remembered that these knowledges are still within the area of the conditioned and as such are subject to Annica, Dukkha and Anatta. For those who pass rapidly through these stages the understanding becomes clear in retrospect.

It would be fine if these states of equanimity could be repeated or maintained, particularly in those teachings where clarity of understanding is important in communicating with students. For meditators who have reached the stage of Equanimity of Formations the worldly knowledge is complete and very little remains to be done in acquiring knowledge in the worldly field.

Some meditators find that they are unable to move beyond this knowledge of equanimity due to powerful aspirations made in the past, such as becoming a Buddha, a disciple or assistant of the Buddha. Such people continue towards attaining the perfection of wisdom. The realization of Nibbana is postponed to another date.

Equanimity towards the Formations carries us through the mundane to the gate of the supramundane where those who have not made the aspiration above, and aspire to Nibbana in this very life, proceed towards the supramundane. These aspirants to Nibbana move towards the next stage.

10. Anuloma

The knowledge that should accelerate the attempt to reach Nibbana. Compliant knowledge. This knowledge stabilizes what has already been obtained and born of itself. The aspiration to Nibbana remains dominant. One seeks the door of the supramundane path from where hindrances such as lust, hatred, concepts, views, jealousy, ignorance are defeated and the aspiration towards Nibbana is fulfilled.

The aspiration for Nibbana remains primary. It should be remembered that this knowledge is still within the area of the conditioned and as such is subject to Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta.
© 2024 

Tutti i diritti riservati | Traduzione di Mario Amati

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