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- Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:37 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings from Seattle!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3301
Re: Greetings from Seattle!
Welcome Rusty. If you are interested, there are some good resources in the Seattle area. The Seattle Insight Meditation Society is very active and offers a wide range of classes, talks, sittings and retreats. There is also a Thai temple in Woodinville, Wat Atammayatarama, which runs a monthly retrea...
- Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thai Ajahns
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2695
Re: Thai Ajahns
I can't say anything about the status of the Forest Tradition within Thailand, but the lineage has some excellent teachers in the West. Ajahn Thanissaro and Ajahn Sucitto are two prominent teachers from whom I have learned a lot. There are also countless other less famous, younger monks who practice...
- Wed May 28, 2014 5:27 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Almsfood in Western countries
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3726
Re: Almsfood in Western countries
The monks at the Pacific Hermitage outside Portland Oregon live off food collected during alms round five days a week.
- Wed May 28, 2014 4:22 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: To Make a Killing on Wall Street, Start Meditating
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2321
Re: To Make a Killing on Wall Street, Start Meditating
From the article: “Meditation used to have this reputation as a hippie thing for people who speak in a particularly soft tone of voice,” Michaelson says. Not so. “Samurai practiced meditation to become more effective killers,” he says. So too did kamikaze pilots. “It’s value neutral,” Michaelson say...
- Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:39 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Visiting Wat Padhammachart in La Puente, CA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3019
Re: Visiting Wat Padhammachart in La Puente, CA
Hi Hiker,
I can't help with Wat Padhammachart, but I thought I'd mention that Metta Forest Monastery is a great resource and is about 1:40 by car from La Puente.
I can't help with Wat Padhammachart, but I thought I'd mention that Metta Forest Monastery is a great resource and is about 1:40 by car from La Puente.
- Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Foggy mind
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2860
Re: Foggy mind
What happens if you try not to focus on the pleasure, but on the more neutral physical sensations of breathing? The pleasure is still there in the background, but you direct your attention away from it -- kind of like being in a crowded room with many conversations going on, and forcing yourself to ...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: London area Viharas
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1209
London area Viharas
I am going to be visiting London this week, and if time and jetlag permit, I'd like to make a trip out to one of the Thai Forest monasteries. My plan would be to offer dana, share in the meal, and meditate for a few hours before returning to London on the train. Does anyone have any thoughts on whet...
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:09 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Any advice on a Monastery?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3917
Re: Any advice on a Monastery?
You might consider:
http://www.bhavanasociety.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They are in W. Virginia, so it is probably driving distance for you.
Good luck!
http://www.bhavanasociety.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They are in W. Virginia, so it is probably driving distance for you.
Good luck!
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:27 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Meditation: Can't live with it! Can't live without it!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6264
Re: Meditation: Can't live with it! Can't live without it!
Ron, I suggest you explore the breath meditation method taught by Ajahn Geoff (Thanissaro Bikkhu). You can find his writings at AccessToInsight and recordings of his talks at DhammaTalks.org. He teaches that it is easier to stick with meditation practice if we find a way to make it interesting, for ...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:02 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Rarely mentioned criteria of the 1st jhana
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7658
Re: Rarely mentioned criteria of the 1st jhana
RobertK wrote: Impossible to experience bodily feeling in jhana. How do you interpret the bathman simile? "There is the case where a monk — quite withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful qualities — enters and remains in the first jhana: rapture and pleasure born from withdrawal, ac...
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:25 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: disturbing experience at a Goenka ten day retreat
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9081
Re: disturbing experience at a Goenka ten day retreat
Guess who wrote this: Sometimes, a "light" can appear in the mind at a very early stage of the meditation. However, for all except accomplished meditators, one will find that such "brazen intruders" are highly unstable. If one focuses one's attention on them, one will not get any...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: disturbing experience at a Goenka ten day retreat
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9081
Re: disturbing experience at a Goenka ten day retreat
During the "introductory" ten-day course, the emphasis is to develop a modicum of samadhi (khanika or moment-to-moment samadhi) to assist in the practice of vipassana (vedananupassana) with the primary objective of getting established in vipassana. This is not to discount that many people...
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: disturbing experience at a Goenka ten day retreat
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9081
Re: disturbing experience at a Goenka ten day retreat
Some advice from Ajahn Lee on dealing with the odd things that arise in meditation: Once you've learned to put your breath in order, it's as if you have everyone in your home in order. The incidentals of breath meditation are like people outside your home -- in other words, guests. Once the people i...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:43 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Question about sensations
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7910
Re: Question about sensations
Here is a nice piece by Ven. Bodhi on the ways the word "sankhara" functions in the canon. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/bps-essay_43.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is it my imagination, or does Goenka use the word in a somewhat idiosyncrat...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Your favourite contemporary teachers
- Replies: 89
- Views: 44290
Re: Your favourite contemporary teachers
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ajahn Succito. I've never met him, but I've found a lot of useful perspective in his writing and dhamma talks. He strikes me as having deep, empathetic insight into individual and interpersonal psychology and a talent for connecting those insights with the concepts...