The gradual training | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025

One way of looking at the training is called the gradual training, which is a gradual refinement of wholesome happiness and freedom.

If meditation is your only method, then the result can be limited and meditation becomes difficult. Developing our mind is an integrated whole, focusing both on virtue, meditation and wisdom. It is the calm of meditation that can abandon craving. And when insights are developed, we understand and we can abandon delusion − we can see the truth.

One way of looking at the training is called the gradual training, which is a gradual refinement of wholesome happiness and freedom. It starts with the arising of an enlightened being which can teach right view, then we adjust our lives with right intentions and simplicity, we develop virtue conduct, we restrain our senses and develop contentment and mindfulness. And then, when the foundation is strong, then we can do our meditation, get into deep meditation and develop wisdom about our own nature.

This teaching was given at Venabu 2025.

  • Publisert: 2025-05-21

    We had more than 50 registered for the Venabu retreat in the spring of 2025, and since spring came early and Venabu was free of snow, there was also the opportunity for a trip and practice out in nature. You can also find the teaching here.

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About the Author: Venerable Canda

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Venerable Canda first encountered the Dhamma in India in 1996 and spent over a decade in Asia training in the Goenka vipassana tradition, later ordaining in Myanmar in 2006. Inspired by Ajahn Brahm’s teachings, she moved to Australia in 2012, received full bhikkhuni ordination in 2014, and began teaching. In 2016 she returned to England to establish the Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project, which now runs Anukampa Grove Bhikkhuni Monastery near Oxford.

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