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by daveboi
Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:56 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Can buddhists use brainwave entrainment to meditate?
Replies: 1
Views: 761

Can buddhists use brainwave entrainment to meditate?

Do we get the same result if we go into meditative state using brainwave entrainment rather than breath meditation?
by daveboi
Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:07 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Should I take the Refuge?
Replies: 9
Views: 3644

Re: Should I take the Refuge?

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. Due to my being brought up in a christian family, I may have misunderstood the third percept. I have understood it to mean sex before marriage. Is that what it means? As for taking the refuge, I have misunderstood it to be once in a life time event, same as...
by daveboi
Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:57 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Should I take the Refuge?
Replies: 9
Views: 3644

Should I take the Refuge?

Hi, I am new here. I know I would have problem living up to the third percept on sexual morality. I really wanted to follow Buddha but this problem have been obstructing me in taking the three refuges. A Buddhist friend of mine told me to go ahead taking the refuge, saying I may start to change afte...