Years of Meditation Yet Still Jealous? Why Meditative Concentration Is Not Liberation
Venerable Thich Chan Quang points out that meditative concentration and attainment of the noble stages are two different paths. Meditative concentration belongs to the purity of the mind, while attainment requires breaking through the ten fetters, most fundamentally selfishness.
Have you ever met someone who is very skilled at sitting in meditation, able to enter deep states of absorption, or even possessing intuitive knowledge about others, yet when they return to daily life, they act selfishly, pettily, and with jealousy? I have wondered about this myself. How can a person possess such insight yet lack altruism to such a degree?
AI-assisted translation from the Vietnamese original.
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