Ajahn Chah

Here we take up the thinking to investigate it.

It's not that we're aimlessly thinking or imagining a way.

It's something that arises from a peaceful mind.

This is called awareness within calm and calm within awareness.

If it's simply ordinary thinking and imagining, the mind won't be peaceful.

It will be disturbed.

But I'm not talking about ordinary thinking.

This is a feeling that arises from a peaceful mind.

It's called contemplation.

Wisdom is born right here.

So there can be right samadhi and wrong samadhi.

Wrong Samadhi is when the mind enters calm and there's no awareness at all.

One could sit for two hours or even all day, but the mind doesn't know where it's been or what's happened.

It doesn't know anything.

There is calm, but that's all.

It's like a well-sharpened knife which we don't bother to put to any use.

This is the deluded type of calm because there is not much self-awareness.

The meditator may think that they have reached the ultimate already.

so they don't bother looking for anything else.

Samadhi can be an enemy at this level.