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by asker
Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:13 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How to give unconditional love? Especially when I am stuck in my room praying & meditating every day?
Replies: 13
Views: 417

How to give unconditional love? Especially when I am stuck in my room praying & meditating every day?

How to give unconditional love? Especially when I am stuck in my room praying & meditating every day? I don’t work because I have been suffering from negative emotional energetic attacks to my heart and emotions for too many years now. Nowadays, I am trying to pray and meditate in order to heal ...
by asker
Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:50 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Please recommend good threads or good ebooks regarding Meditations on the 4 Immeasurables
Replies: 9
Views: 1036

Please recommend good threads or good ebooks regarding Meditations on the 4 Immeasurables

Please recommend good threads or good ebooks regarding Meditations on the 4 Immeasurables.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmavihara

loving-kindness or benevolence (maitrī/mettā)
compassion (karuṇā)
empathetic joy (muditā)
equanimity (upekṣā/upekkhā)
by asker
Sat Dec 11, 2021 6:50 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Can Thai Monks study in Japanese Universities while undergoing 10 Vaasas in 10 years to become Ajarns?
Replies: 4
Views: 354

Can Thai Monks study in Japanese Universities while undergoing 10 Vaasas in 10 years to become Ajarns?

Can Thai Monks study in Japanese Universities while undergoing 10 Vaasas in 10 years to become Ajarns?
by asker
Tue Dec 07, 2021 7:39 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Any good threads on Concentrated Awareness on everyday activities when you are not sitting up to meditate?
Replies: 10
Views: 1380

Re: Any good threads on Concentrated Awareness on everyday activities when you are not sitting up to meditate?

Are there any good ebooks to read regarding Concentrated Awareness or Concentrated Mindfulness.

The 84 pages thread is awfully long.
by asker
Sat Dec 04, 2021 7:56 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Any good threads on Concentrated Awareness on everyday activities when you are not sitting up to meditate?
Replies: 10
Views: 1380

I have been reading & studying Recommended Theravada Readings & I wanna know how to keep Concentration Awareness reading

I have been reading & studying Recommended Theravada Readings & I wanna know how to keep Concentration Awareness while reading..

There are other activities of course which I need guidance on Concentrated Awareness on besides reading.

Thank You 🙏
by asker
Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:06 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Any good threads on Concentrated Awareness on everyday activities when you are not sitting up to meditate?
Replies: 10
Views: 1380

Any good threads on Concentrated Awareness on everyday activities when you are not sitting up to meditate?

Any good threads on Concentrated Awareness on everyday activities when you are not sitting up to meditate?
by asker
Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:17 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Mindfulness in daily life: 'Best practices'
Replies: 24
Views: 19846

Re: Mindfulness in daily life: 'Best practices'

Meditators are often just given the instructions "be mindful in daily life." But, as we all know, the vagueness of these instructions make being mindful in daily life sound deceptively easy. After five minutes, a number of obvious questions will arise in someone who is earnestly trying to...
by asker
Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:22 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Mindful Reading
Replies: 11
Views: 5181

Re: Mindful Reading

One of my other most unaware most mindless activities is reading. I am searching for more threads talking about mindful reading but alas this is the only existing thread about mindful reading. Gonna research more articles about mindful reading techniques and practice them and share my results here. ...
by asker
Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:21 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Types of Open Eye Meditation in Buddhism
Replies: 10
Views: 2467

Types of Open Eye Meditation in Buddhism

What are the different types of open eye meditation in Buddhism?

Or do Buddhists only do closed eye meditations?
by asker
Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:06 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Non-Sitting Meditation
Replies: 2
Views: 1067

Re: Non-Sitting Meditation

One of my most unaware unmindful “automatic” activities is eating. As I was a draftee soldier before for a few years we were trained to eat quickly, shovel our foods into our mouths as quickly as possible, chew quickly and swallow quickly, all eating actions done in the most mindless most unaware “a...
by asker
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Non-Sitting Meditation
Replies: 2
Views: 1067

Non-Sitting Meditation

As I am now experiencing most terrible problems to my back areas, I am now practicing non-sitting meditation. In effect, I try to meditate when lying down, when reading surfing the net, when typing on my iPhone, when eating and drinking, when talking, when urinating and defecating, etc. https://www....
by asker
Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:16 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: How to Combine Loving-Kindness Meditation with Concentration Meditation?
Replies: 10
Views: 2580

Re: How to Combine Loving-Kindness Meditation with Concentration Meditation?

Loving-kindness meditation is a Samatha practice. You concentrate on loving-kindness. This is to suppress your anger generally. There is nothing specific called concentration meditation. In Samatha (concentration) meditation, you chose a meditation object from the 40 objects. https://en.wikipedia.o...
by asker
Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Looking to Meet & Learn from Foreign Meditators in Thailand
Replies: 9
Views: 3061

Re: Looking to Meet & Learn from Foreign Meditators in Thailand

I will be asking about the difficulties and hardships of serious meditation cultivations in Thailand and other SEA countries and more importantly how people resolve these difficulties and hardships.
by asker
Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:59 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: How to Combine Loving-Kindness Meditation with Concentration Meditation?
Replies: 10
Views: 2580

How to Combine Loving-Kindness Meditation with Concentration Meditation?

How to Combine Loving-Kindness Meditation with Concentration Meditation?

I am trying to evoke the feelings of loving-kindness while going into deep theta delta mode but not really achieving much success.
by asker
Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:52 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Looking to Meet & Learn from Foreign Meditators in Thailand
Replies: 9
Views: 3061

Re: Looking to Meet & Learn from Foreign Meditators in Thailand

Hello please let me express my sincere gratitude for all the replies especially invitations from certain posters for me to contact them.. I will contact certain posters via PM soon once I have sorted out my questions in a concise understandable manner.. One of the things which I need to clarify is i...