The TWIM Retreat Series -Day Three MN111 One by One As They Occur

This video was taken of the first night at the Joshua Tree (Joshua Tree, CA) retreat during March of 2011. Here Bhante Vimalaramsi gives the meditation instructions and everything that the students will need to know for their 2 week retreat. This is the first of a series of DVDs covering the teachings given during the Joshua Tree retreats. Bhante Vimalaramsi is a Buddhist Monk with 35 years experience studying with all of the major Asian Meditation Masters in Asia. After many many months of retreats and meditation he was told he was ready to teach. However, Bhante wasn’t satisfied and got a copy of the Buddhist Suttas (The Majjhima Nikaya) and went to a cave in Thailand started all over again only practicing what was written in the Buddha’s words. He was amazed at what he found when you followed those instructions exactly. What he found was the existence of the eight “Tranquil Aware Jhanas” or levels of insight which arise when you the practice with the “Relax Step” left in… He thought he had been practicing what the Buddha taught but this was something different and went to the very end of the practice as the Buddha described it over 2500 years ago. This video is the first in a series where Bhante goes back and re-interprets the Buddhist Suttas based on his own practice.