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- Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:11 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Sad i want to attain jhanas but i have mental illnesses. Anyone else who have mental illness and practice meditation?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9647
Re: Sad i want to attain jhanas but i have mental illnesses. Anyone else who have mental illness and practice meditation
If you haven't already, it may be helpful to look into types of diet and exercise that may ease some of your suffering. Specifically, make sure you're getting enough vitamin d (sun or supplement, best to test with bloodwork as some people have genetic polymorphisms that make it harder for them to ab...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:18 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Favorite Metta technique
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7384
Re: Favorite Metta technique
This technique works very well for me in sitting meditation: 1. Contemplate impermanence (bodily sensations and thoughts arising and fading away) 2. Contemplate no self (there is no single part of me that is me) 3. Consider that I am here in this moment exactly as I am because I am conditioned by ev...
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:20 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Thanissaro Bhikkhus Talks...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2366
Re: Thanissaro Bhikkhus Talks...
I just listened to this talk last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZRNXB7Loc
It effected me very deeply. I hope it helps.
sean
It effected me very deeply. I hope it helps.
sean
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:45 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: My opinion on common attachment to meditation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3399
Re: Common attachment to meditation
"Lighten up Francis" You came to a meditation forum and declared meditation is attachement with nothing to back it up. Expect some freindly ribbing. This reminds me of a story my teacher likes to tell about one of her students in an advanced meditation class announcing to her that he was j...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:34 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: My opinion on common attachment to meditation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3399
Re: Common attachment to meditation
Look guys it's the enlightenment fairy!!! All you have to do is think good thoughts and the work is done. I feel so silly with all this work on sila and mental cultivation. All hail the enlightenment fairy.
yeah, I know...wrong speach. I'm having one of those nights
yeah, I know...wrong speach. I'm having one of those nights
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddadassa Bikkhu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3076
Re: Buddadassa Bikkhu
My teacher was a student of his. From her stories, it sounds like he was quite a character. He used to always use the term Nibbana in everyday situations to drive home the point that it simply means "extinguish": "Nibbana that fire", he would say.
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 3:31 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Are metta jhanas mentioned in the suttas?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5547
Re: Are metta jhanas mentioned in the suttas?
Thanks for those links Bodom. Here is another Sutta that talks about metta in realation to Jhana's and as a vehicle leading all the way to full liberation.
Metta Sutta:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
Metta Sutta:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
- Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:58 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Selling medicine marijuana, is it violate the 5th precept
- Replies: 115
- Views: 33057
Re: Selling medicine marijuana, is it violate the 5th precept
I had a friend with Rheumatoid Arthritis that hated getting high but she ingested MJ (had a prescription) because it was the only effective relief she could find. RA is extremely painful. Providing someone in this kind of need with medicine that helps them is compassionate!
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: He trains himself...relinquishment
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5393
Re: He trains himself...relinquishment
I think Thanissaro Bhikkhu's point is that you can experience Rapture before you have mastered the prior steps. Assuming some sort of Bodily calming is a prerequisite for rapture (and I'm not sure this is true) then isn't it possible that partial calming could produce a lower level of rapture? I ima...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Less Chatty Metta Bhavana?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8500
Re: Less Chatty Metta Bhavana?
I love the idea of Metta but my mind just seems to revolt at the idea of chanting those mantras over and over. I spent about a year with it being my primary form of practice but it never felt comfortable. Something that really works for me, especially in walking meditaion (these steps are additive, ...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4892
Re: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
I don't personally know of any "beliefs" (such as rebirth) in buddhism or elsewhere that will help much but there are many practices in Buddhism that can lead to more calm in your life: Do any of these regularly: 1. Reciting Suttas 2. Chanting 3. Being mindful: here's two methods for maint...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Anapana meditation in Vipassana
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6462
Re: Anapana meditation in Vipassana
The difference I've been able to generalize from most teachers has to do with the way you deal with the wandering mind. Vipassana techniques gererally involve noting or labelling or sometimes even staying with the new mind object. Samatha techniques generally pay less attention to secondary objects ...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddha nature
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13149
Re: Buddha nature
if you're talking to me, no
I was refering to my use of the term "just sit", which I've heard used quite often by zen practitioners.
I was refering to my use of the term "just sit", which I've heard used quite often by zen practitioners.
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddha nature
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13149
Re: Buddha nature
Here's one you might recognize from Zen: Why don't you just sit? Get a good Vipassanna book or a teacher, sit down and see what you see. If you see buddha nature...great. What does that feel like. Is it permanent? or changing?....you get the idea.
May you be well
sean
May you be well
sean
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:05 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: How to gain Samadhi - answer to the Buddha's questions
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7807
Re: How to gain Samadhi - answer to the Buddha's questions
→ Right mindfulness [of body/feeling/mind/the Dhamma (including the 4NT)] -- Anapanasatti [1) Start with mindfulness of breathing until no detectable in/out breath at the nostrils -- no bodily fabrication: 繫意鼻頭, 觉知一切身行(入息、出息; experience the bodily fabrications - in and out breathing), 觉知一切身行休息[expe...