How to Reach Samadhi and Ecstasy

To reach ecstasy, we have to learn about what prevents it. Anger is a conditioning factor. It causes suffering and then we want others to suffer because we're mad. When I'm angry, I'm going to make sure that everyone else suffers too because I'm unhappy. In that state, samadhi is impossible. And so is wisdom. We cannot see the reality when we are conditioned by anger. The same is true of all these other qualities that we all have in abundance. Ride, envy, jealousy, fear, lust, gluttony, avarice. That word shila needs tendency, habit, custom way of living or acting,. shape, usage, virtue or practice