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- Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:03 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Dorm Room?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2658
Re: Dorm Room?
It is pretty important to do meditation in a relatively undistracting environment. I first started meditation in my dorm at college, but we had individual bedrooms. I can imagine it being v. hard if you have to share. Like the others above offered, try to start a meditation club, and your college wi...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:45 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ordination in Thailand
- Replies: 86
- Views: 213806
Re: Ordination in Thailand
This relevant to Thailand forest monks... http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/january-15-2010/forest-monks/5472/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Powerful multinational interests are murdering the monastics and often illegally destroying the forests in Thailand...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:20 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: 4 factors in the first jhana or 5?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6257
Re: 4 factors in the first jhana or 5?
A couple of more points too... The 1 month - 2 month timetable seems pretty common. Shankman in his Buddhist Geeks interview said that he was able to attain absorption after 5 weeks on retreat. Personal experience here, I didn't achieve stable jhana, but after a bit more than a month of dedicated me...
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:03 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: 4 factors in the first jhana or 5?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6257
Re: 4 factors in the first jhana or 5?
The jhanas have both 4 and 5 factors actually. In the original suttas they were described as having 4, but in the Abhidamma as 5. Why is this? Leigh Brasington hypothesizes in an interview in the book Samadhi with Richard Shankman. I'll copy the relevant statements under fair use. "The definiti...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:20 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Thoughts occuring in Jhana?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5059
Re: Thoughts occuring in Jhana?
Hi, There are atleast two schools on what the jhana factors mean in practice, one stemming from the suttas and the other from the Visuddhimagga. Ajahn Brahm is coming from a Visuddhimagga perspective which emphasizes single absorption with the object above anything else. The sutta jhanas can be unde...