Bhante Vimalaramsi

Or the tradition I trained in, the Mahasi lineage, really emphasizes mindfulness.

While you see a modern lineage like the Twim lineage of Bhante Vimalaramsi really doing the same thing but using heartfulness as its main note.

So here we'll begin to explore in this training the way that different notes can be strummed or emphasized and how that changes the wisdom chord that we're playing or practicing.

Finally, in the first training, we'll cover the forest chord, also a really nice one in terms of Getting the body involved, seeing an embodied lineage that also touches on awareness as one of its notes.

And, um, we had this torrential rainfall at, uh, Dhammasuka.

So Dhammasuka is the meditation center where they teach Twin, and it's what, it's what Bhante, uh, Vimalaramsi founded, um, as the epicenter for Twin.

And, uh, Dhammasuka has two levels.

There's, uh, a top level, which is on top of the hill where the main center is, and that has the retreat, uh, cabins, uh, the dining hall, and the meditation hall, and so on.

So if you ask anyone at Dhammasuka, "Where is Delson?" He's in Nirodha usually, watching TV.

But, uh, um, so this was, uh, the night of somewhere around June 7th, I think.

Uh, and the next day, we were gonna have a memorial for Bhante Vimalaramsi, because it, it had been now I think two or three years since he's passed.

In any case, uh, we was just having rain that whole night, and it was a usual night, and I was, you know, getting ready to go to bed, went to sleep, and I got up around 2:40 or 2:50 in the night.