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- Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:19 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Vipassana only after jhana?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2885
Re: Vipassana only after jhana?
Ben already gave a great quote from Bhikkhu Bodhi's "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma". However, I think that in actual practice it's more useful to use any kind of samadhi that one is able to achieve for the development of insight. As Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw said: Jhana-samadhi is indeed ...
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:37 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Bhante Rahula - Yoga for Meditation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1775
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:19 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Request for pic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2059
Re: Request for pic
I don't have a copy of the book at hand but if I remember correctly it was this statue: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Gandhara_Buddha_%28tnm%29.jpeg/364px-Gandhara_Buddha_%28tnm%29.jpeg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Gandhara_Buddha_%28tnm%29.jpeg"...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:32 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Vipassana
- Replies: 73
- Views: 23289
Re: Vipassana
Hej Brizzy,
maybe you'll find this article interesting:
From Vipassana Hater to Vipassana Lover
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maybe you'll find this article interesting:
From Vipassana Hater to Vipassana Lover
http://theravadin.wordpress.com/2009/02 ... ana-lover/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: looking for ajhan brahm video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2822
Re: looking for ajhan brahm video
There were some audio files on meditation (even whole 9-day-retreats) on bswa.org but unfortunately the site seems to be down at the moment: Due to a technical emergency we've had to take the old BSWA site down without prior notice. We hope you can be patient with us as we continue to roll out our f...
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:40 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Do you know "Yoniso ca manasikāraṃ" mean?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3060
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Forest dwelling, are the monks concern with wild animals?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5439
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Many lifetimes of paramita development needed to be aryan?
- Replies: 591
- Views: 117271
Re: Dharma Wheel -- Mahayana forum
How did all those noble ones in the early days of the Buddhasasana, such as those featured in the Pali Canon, manage to spend "many. many lifetimes" prior practicing the perfections, when the Dhamma had been lost prior to the arrival of the most recent Buddha? Are the Pāramīs only found i...
- Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Vipassana or Anapanasati?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7414
Re: Vipassana or Anapanasati?
"A yogi can practice both insight meditation and concentration meditation (vipassanã and samatha bhavanã) well within ãnãpãnasati bhavanã (mindfulness of the in-breath and the out-breath)..." http://nissaranawanaya.wordpress.com/how-to-meditate/" onclick="window.open(this.href);...
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:13 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Fox News: Tiger Woods Must Become Christian To Be Forgiven
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2195
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:00 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Vinaya Pitaka
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10893
Re: Vinaya Pitaka
If I haven't remembered wrong the bhikkhu was complaining that the Patimokkha now had 150 rules.. Interesting since now it contains 227.. Does anyone know where this passage is from? Hej Chula, it's from AN 3:83. Bhikkhu Bodhi's note on the 150-rules-passage: "This is said with reference to th...
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:37 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Taking the plunge
- Replies: 65
- Views: 21793
Re: Taking the plunge
Sādhu, sādhu, sādhu!
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:51 pm
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7525
Re: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?
Hej Retro, Are you able to comment perhaps, in that context, on the following passage from the Satipatthana Sutta... the most definitive sutta on the subject of sati , mindfulness? Unfortunately, I'm not. Anyway, I would say that these unwholesome states of mind are unmindful moments of conciousness...
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:22 pm
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7525
Re: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?
I have only read the first two chapters of "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma" yet and I found it very helpful in my practice. The most helpful for me was to learn what is meant by sati . When the Buddha was talking about mindfulness, he didn't meant simple attention, but a beautiful ce...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Desire for Enlightenment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4625
Re: Desire for Enlightenment
"'This body comes into being through craving. And yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said. And in reference to what was it said? There is the case, sister, where a monk hears, 'The monk named such-and-such, they say, through the ending of the fermenta...