Contentment, Full Body Awareness, Knowing Right Measure when Eating, Wakefulness | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Dec 8, 2025 · 47m

Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about steps in the Buddha's 'Gradual Training' that lead on from fully established virtue to the develpment of samādhi.

Sense Restraint / Indriya-saṃvara

Contentment / Santuṭṭhi

Maintaining full awareness of all bodily movements / Sampajāna-kārī

Wakefulness / Jāgariyam-anuyutta

Knowing the right measure when eating food / Bhojanasmiṃ Mattaññutā

These steps form the necessary foundation for the next stage in the gradual training: Abandoning the five hindrances to develop samādhi in solitude.

If we struggle to unify our mind in samādhi, we should give more attention to…