Endurance, Practice And Starving The Mental Distortions

This recording was made at the Brunswick Heads, NSW meditation group on November 24, 2025. This Dharma talk focuses on the meaning of three Thai words: Otton -meaning endurance, Patipat- meaning practice, and Toraman- literally meaning torture.

The speaker provides a personal story of returning to a monastery where he was a monk in the late 1970s to realise that one way to release mental distortions was to starve or torture them.