REMOVING WHAT BLOCKS SPIRITUAL PROGRESS (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)

Sutta Meditation Series

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 February 2023 for the uposatha, so that we could practise together. This is one of the most beneficial suttas to help us be in the right mind state to continuously learn and penetrate the Buddha's true teachings, but one we find most difficult to listen to and put into practise.

The format for the session:

1. Broad overview of the Anumāna Sutta (MN 15), including some references to other suttas
2. Simple explanation of how to do this sutta meditation
3. Meditate together on each quality that makes us "difficult to instruct" (duvaco) in order to purify the mind and remove any blocks
4. Sharing the merit and blessings

Reference was made to two previous Dhamma sessions:

• "Why we struggle to understand Dhamma" - https://bit.ly/3DFSQdN (audio) or https://bit.ly/3lgP5oP (video)
• "The Story of Radha Thera (Dhp 76) - https://bit.ly/3ld2PBc (audio) or https://bit.ly/3YeQxXK (video)

**Slides summarising — (1) The 16 qualities that make us difficult to instruct (duvaco) (2) The sutta meditation instructions to purify the mind (3) The 16 qualities that make us easy to instruct (suvaco) from the Anumāna Sutta (MN 15), have been posted to our Telegram channel (https://t.me/suttameditationseries/664)

The video of this talk has been published to the Sutta Meditation YouTube channel - https://bit.ly/40zENAt

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

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