Re: Hindrances increase after strong concentration?
Alex123 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 7:58 amHello all,developing samādhi well gives you power, higher quality in whatever the focus of your attention is, more force (both physical and mental), quicker reflexes. Mind is swifter, sharper.
I have read somewhere that there is a tendency to over-react after one was in deep state of concentration.
Is there a reason for that?
How to avoid it?
Thanks.
sati is the ability to remember and apply Dharma.
It's two different kinds of training. Samādhi you train the mind to focus quickly, strongly, and be undistractible.
Sati means you train the mind to always remember ("mindful of") to act and see in accordance with Dharma.
If someone with strong samādhi has defilements flare up quickly and powerfully, it's not samādhi that's the problem, it's lack of development in sati (remembering to see Dharma as Dharma with right view and apply it to every moment).
Someone with strong samādhi, can also abandon a defilement with astounding quickness when they have lapses in sati but overall strong pañña (the sampajāno in "sati and sampajāno" is discernment/wisdom).
Someone with strong samādhi and weak pañña, those are the dangerous ones.
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