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Practices    (Patipatti)
Conclusions

            Right practice will lead to right result. Right practice depends on wisdom and previous accumulations (having formerly done good practice in previous lives).
            The important thing in this practice is to change the wrong view that rupa and nama are "us," self. If the yogi cannot change this wrong view he cannot reach the first yana - and without the first yana he cannot develop the 16 yanas and reach true nibbana. When the right result occurs, you know by yourself - it is like tasting sugar; you don't need a teacher to tell you what it tastes like.
            This age is an age of strong tanha and weak wisdom. This is because this age is an age of materialism, consumerism and technology abound to satisfy every craving and ever divert our minds. The beginner who expects to see dhamma very quickly will fail. This is because kilesa has great power; it has accumulated in us for a long time. The one who would get rid of kilesa in citta, that one has to study the right way to eliminate kilesa and has to understand the practice through studying the relevant statements of the Lord Buddha. Without correct theory (pariyatti) and right practice that will end suffering, one cannot reach nibbana.
            Aachan Naeb said that practicing Vipassana successfully is very difficult - more difficult even than walking on a tight rope. If the yogi falls off, he must continually get back up and try again. This is earnestness (atapi), directed toward helping sati-sampajanna to stay in the present moment. This maintaining of the Middle Way (no like or dislike) requires a great deal of careful balance. It is difficult, but it is not impossible - if the yogi sincerely wants to end suffering.
            
           Few are they of mortal men
Who have reached the further shore;
But the crowd of other folk
On this side fare up and down.
When dhamma rightly is revealed,
Who by dhamma fare along,
They shall reach the shore and pass
The realm of death so hard to cross.
Giving up the state of darkness
Let the wise pursue the light.
Giving up home for the homeless,
In solitude where joys are rare,
Let him long for bliss unbounded
Leaving lusts and owning naught
From the passions of the heart.
 
           They who in the limbs of wisdom
Rightly make the mind to grow,
Glad to have surrendered clinging,
Glad to be from grasping free,
Canker-cured they, all resplendent
In the world are quenched utterly.
 
(Dhammapada, 85-9; Gradual Sayings,117)