พระอาจารย์อธิบายว่าลำดับนี้เริ่มจากการเห็นทุกข์โทษภัยอย่างลึกซึ้งจนเกิดความเบื่อหน่ายอันเป็นกุศล ซึ่งต้องอาศัยครูบาอาจารย์ชี้ให้เห็น และชี้ให้เห็นความต่างระหว่างความสุขจากกุศลกับความสุขแบบตื่นเต้นชั่วครั้งชั่วคราว (คำอธิบายบางส่วนถอดความไม่ได้เนื่องจากคุณภาพเสียงต้นฉบับ)The teacher explains that this sequence begins with deeply seeing the danger in suffering, giving rise to a wholesome weariness — something that ordinarily requires a teacher's guidance to see — and distinguishes wholesome happiness from fleeting, thrilling happiness. (Portions of the explanation could not be transcribed due to the poor quality of the original audio.)
One student asked the teacher to explain the following sequence: once weariness arises, attachment loosens; once it loosens, we're freed from what we clung to, and become liberated; the mind becomes pure and wholesome, if only briefly; once pure, it becomes still; once still, it ceases; once it ceases, a sphere arises, taking form as a body — arranged in this order, described in technical language as: disenchantment (nibbida), dispassion (viraga), liberation (vimutti), (), peace (santi), and Nibbana.
Seeing the True Danger of Suffering Gives Rise to a Wholesome Weariness
The teacher explained that this sequence begins with seeing the danger inherent in suffering — danger that has occurred to various people in the past, that is occurring now, and that may occur in the future. Reflecting deeply on this gives rise to a feeling of weariness that is itself wholesome, arising together with wholesome consciousness. Seeing this kind of danger clearly, under ordinary circumstances, requires the guidance of a teacher or a good who carries a large proportion of wholesomeness within them, pointing out that danger for us — the sole exception being the Buddha himself, who needed no one to point it out to him.
Wholesome Happiness Differs From Fleeting, Thrilling Happiness
The teacher further pointed out that a genuinely wholesome feeling differs from the fleeting, thrilling kind of . Happiness born of wholesomeness is free of underlying problems and comes together with and understanding, making it a basis for lasting happiness — unlike happiness that doesn't arise from purity, which is instead an excited, thrilling feeling that swings constantly between joy and sorrow.
*(Note: the original audio for this session was heavily distorted in many places, making parts of the explanation impossible to transcribe reliably. Only the portions that could be clearly made out are presented here.)*