Sumangala Freedom Through Jhana Talks
These are the most recent talks on this subject. As of December, 2019, There are more than 600 Dhamma talks on this and other teachings of the Buddha in my audio and video archives:
Sumangala – Freedom Through Jhana
Introduction
This poem is from the Theragatha. The Theragatha preserves 264 poems of elder monks and is the eighth section in the Khuddaka Nikāya. The Khuddaka Nikāya is a collection of short texts in (mostly) verse. The Khuddaka Nikāya is the last Nikaya (collection) of the Sutta Piṭaka, the second book of the Pāli Canon.
In this poem, The awakened monk Sumangala concisely describes the quality of an awakened mind through Right Meditation practiced as part of the Eightfold Path. [1,2,3]
Sumangala – Freedom Through Jhana
Theragatha 1:43
Freedom, Freedom!
I am completely free
From three crooked things.
Sickles, shovels, and plows.
Even if they were right here,
I would still be free of them.
(Affirming to himself)
Do Jhana, Sumangala,
Always mindful, Sumangala,
Do Jhana.
End Of Poem
