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- 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 ...
- 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)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmavihara
loving-kindness or benevolence (maitrī/mettā)
compassion (karuṇā)
empathetic joy (muditā)
equanimity (upekṣā/upekkhā)
- 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?
- 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.
The 84 pages thread is awfully long.
- 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
There are other activities of course which I need guidance on Concentrated Awareness on besides reading.
Thank You
- 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?
- 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...
- 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. ...
- 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?
Or do Buddhists only do closed eye meditations?
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
I am trying to evoke the feelings of loving-kindness while going into deep theta delta mode but not really achieving much success.
- 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...