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Dukkha Patipada: Using Challenges in Meditation for Insight | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Often we're not experiencing rapture and bliss in our meditation, but lots of challenges, painful memories, fears, and pain. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with us.
Only a person with a mind already very pure from advanced practice in previous lives will be able to sit down and quickly attain bliss and samādhi. Due to the weakness of their defilements, these individulas (like e.g. Venerable Sāriputta) develop sukha paṭipadā (easy/happy practice).
For most of us (and actually even for the second chief disciple, Venerable Mahāmoggallāna!), practice involves quite a bit of dukkha…
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