"Can we catch this train?" asked Bhante, "The answer is Yes but only with Mindfulness or Sati. Only with Sati, can we then catch up with this train of thoughts. But we must catch it and we have to be strong to hold on this train because if we are weak, then we will be swerved by it. Here, samadhi come in as samadhi gives us the stability to hold on to our thought.
Interesting simile and very informative. That is always the case when Bhante Jinnadatta share with us his interpretation of the Buddha Dhamma - only that Bhante speaks in Hokkien/Mandarin which I had a problem understanding some of what he said.
Our mind is conditioned, our thoughts are linked with one another - hence we have a train of thoughts. When a object touches the sense-door and contact arises. But due to ignorance, this contact will lead to the arisen of vedana or feeling and so forth. Worry, lamentation, complaint and bias developed in our mind.
We refused to note the sense objects as it is but we "calculated and compare" the object with our background ideas. Hence here lies the conditioned mind.
Only by mindfully watching the mind can we then see the real nature of things.
Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
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