Meditation posture and understanding suffering:

"Regarding meditation posture, people say 'I'll meditate,' 'I'll go meditate in the evening,' 'Tomorrow is Uposatha, I'll meditate,' 'I'll go to the pavilion,' 'I'll go meditate in the forest.' Don't they say this?

The monk hears 'will meditate,' not 'person will sit.' Do you hear 'person will sit'? Consider how accurate the name is - 'meditation.' #Person_sitting_is_not_mentioned. Is it there? Consider.

Is what's sitting now a person or supporting air element? Air element, right? Aren't there 15-20 year olds who just died? Don't they have arms and legs? Can they sit? They have arms and legs but can't sit. Isn't this worth considering?

#Because_there's_no_mind-produced_air_element. Isn't this worth examining? Sitting is supporting air element, standing is supporting air element, walking is moving air element. Doesn't the Buddha teach this? #Is_it_person_or_air_element? Man or woman, or air element? Arms and legs, or air element? Consider.

Though having arms and legs, can corpses sit? Without mind-produced air element, they can't sit. Is this hearsay or direct experience? Consider this. When first sitting, isn't it comfortable? When just starting to sit. Isn't this worth studying?

Being comfortable, when classified as feeling, isn't it taught as pleasant feeling? #Pleasant_feeling. As sitting continues, doesn't it become stiff? Painful? Aching? Throbbing? Dizzy? Sometimes tight? Sometimes itchy? Stiffness, pain, aches, numbness, heat, cold, itching, tingling - #the_aggregates_show_this. Is this pleasant or suffering? Is it a person experiencing suffering or feeling? #It's_feeling, understand?

Earlier it was pleasant feeling. When slightly comfortable, wasn't it pleasant feeling? When pleasant feeling ends, isn't it replaced by unpleasant feeling? Isn't this worth examining?

So meditation sitting - we imagine person, but #what_we_find_is_feeling. Isn't this worth considering? Isn't it worth examining how this feeling is? Stiffness, pain, aches, numbness, heat, cold, itching, tingling.

#We_must_speak_of_it_this_way. When truly examining, is it stiffness or change? Aching or change? #Things_are_called_changing_because_they're_different.

Is it pain or change? Hurting or change? Heat or change? Cold or change? Dizziness or change? Itching or change? #Besides_the_changing_nature_and_knowing_nature_what_else_is_there?

When there's change, is it good or bad? Isn't it taught to look for Dhamma in oneself when it's lost? Do we find human happiness or suffering? Celestial happiness or suffering? Brahma happiness or suffering?

We imagine human, celestial, brahma happiness, but #what_we_find_is_suffering. Isn't this worth considering? This is worth examining carefully, understand? Study this thoroughly..."

Sadhu! Together let us keep the Dharma wheel rolling.