For the morning session of the ‘Nirodha/Cessation’ daylong, Tahn Pamutto describes Nirodha, which is the Third Noble Truth. He also explains how to work with the awkward translation we use and what other perspectives might help in investigating this important concept. Nirodha has two main uses – the cessation of things, and then more specifically the cessation of craving. The morning session mainly looks at the first use as a way of training the mind to see what is not present. (https://youtu.be/NrMmwNL-yiA?si=28jZGBSOUUS921_a)
Tahn Pamutto then leads a guided meditation looking at Nirodha as the absence of progressively more subtle layers of suffering we abandon as we develop our practice. (https://youtu.be/C_G5JCnG-SE?si=rr_A5n1HezUwbnVA)
In the afternoon session of the Nirodha daylong, Tahn Pamutto talks about the slippery and insubstantial nature of craving. How do we work for the cessation of something that can’t be seen? One possible strategy involves using all the wholesome states the Buddha points out to anchor our development of realization. Since these states can’t coexist with unwholesome ones we can automatically know what states have ceased when we experience them. (https://youtu.be/w_oVZ8aXQos?si=f_lw4jMc4UrEpJbc)