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Lesson 3.8.9 Pahānasuttaṃ - Forsaking rāga, paṭighā and avijjā
Every meditator’s perspective—based on felt and endured experience of mental unrest, fidgety agitation and disturbance of mental calm during meditation practise—is to understand and realize the cause and root of it. Along with the determination to maintain and persist with the practise, one develops a strong resolve to overcome these interruptions in one’s meditation. In the short, but crucial, Pahānasutta the Buddha explains the essential interrelation and reciprocal connection between the three kinds of vedanā, what S.N Goenka calls ‘sleeping volcanos’!