Search found 10 matches
- Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:21 am
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Vipassana and Qi energy?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 15092
Re: Vipassana and Qi energy?
The mind is more important than the body. The main goal of the meditation practice is to train and purify the mind. If that is not achieved, the mind will continue to do what it does best: produce suffering, ignorance, pain, distress. They are both equally important . A blocked body will never unlo...
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:47 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ordination, lay practitioners extended stay in Thailand
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1123
Ordination, lay practitioners extended stay in Thailand
Hi everyone, I need some advice please. What are my options for an extended stay in a Thai monastery, I have read of some people who wre able to stay in certain monasteries for over a year and others have become instructors of Vipassana meditation to foreigners. What are the requirements for this? A...
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 10:49 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Long-term lay practitioner life in Thai meditation centre
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1988
Long-term lay practitioner life in Thai meditation centre
I was wondering what is the process involved in staying in a Thai monastery without undertaking full ordination. When I attended a Vipassana retreat in Chom Tong I came across several foreign teachers that lived in the centre (many months at the time and then returned to their countries of origin an...
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 1:28 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Buddhist temple in need of help
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2067
Buddhist temple in need of help
A friend of mine has asked me if I could organise donations for the Sri Lankan temple he is currently staying at as a healer helping some of the old monks whose health is in very poor shape. I thought Dhamma Wheel would be the appropriate place to ask. The name of the temple is Siri Sumanarayama and...
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:52 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How common is stream entry?
- Replies: 527
- Views: 132089
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:48 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: John Peacock: Will the Real Buddha Please Stand Up?
- Replies: 168
- Views: 56468
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:32 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How common is stream entry?
- Replies: 527
- Views: 132089
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is samsara getting better?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9643
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:55 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Question on laity and stream-enterers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3980
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:18 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is samsara getting better?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9643