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- Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Contemplative March 2018
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3075
Re: Contemplative March 2018
I will parttake as well.
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:18 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the conventional self?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4908
Re: What is the conventional self?
When you look inward, when you contemplate reality, there is no self or entity to be found. What you see is various conditioned phenomenon arising and ceasing. Concepts are useful in that they are required for communication. We cannot communicate without these constructs. but that is their only purp...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:36 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Hitting on girls
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2749
Re: Hitting on girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjPyrulUl4M . Hope this helps. Be well.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:01 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: The karma of thoughts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 929
Re: The karma of thoughts
With a highly untrained mind as most of us have, we give rise to useless unskillful thought all the time. from my experience following after the thought or pushing it away is only a cause for suffering. It is easy to get caught up it the content of thoughts because that is where we live most of the ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:17 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is Depression Caused by Karma?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8480
Re: Is Depression Caused by Karma?
I had coarse depression in the past. It is through intensive vipassana that I learned to let go and just observe. Aversion that is a major fuel for depression. You get something you don't like, whether it is a negative thought or an insult or whatever and you get angry. Depression is a kind of anger...
- Sat Jun 14, 2014 2:34 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Question on meditation techniques
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1763
Re: Question on meditation techniques
Hey, this may be helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgWBDwUtIM
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: brick walls for training?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1727
Re: brick walls for training?
Why not just do standard walking meditation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IFvablc6EI. Half the time you will be trying to balance on the stick which isn't the point of walking meditation. Also standard walking meditation doesn't require special conditions, like a balancing stick for example.
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:54 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Anger, enraged
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5087
Re: Anger, enraged
Hey, this may be of help to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8aXvl1XXc .
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:33 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is Depression Caused by Karma?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8480
Re: Is Depression Caused by Karma?
I think the best way to deal with depression is to learn about it. Drugs only cover it up. Observe the depression when it arises instead of pushing it away, or following after it like "Oh..this depression is so bad I wish it was not here". Look at what you have been pushing away. Learn abo...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Anger, enraged
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5087
Re: Anger, enraged
As it is right now it seems you are better off being away from them. You have been dependent on them for so long they think they own your life and try to control it as much as possible. It is like this with my mother as well. It is fine, it is the result of clinging on both ends. What you can do is ...
Re: Lust
The most important thing is our reaction ihrjordan. The initial lust arises and ceases quicky, but then there is all the thinking about and identifying with the lust, the physical reactions resulting from the lust and the disliking of the reactions, wanting them to go away. It is important to be awa...
Re: Lust
Hey, ihrjordan, just observe the thoughts and feelings when they arise. don't make it a problem. They are there because you have cultivated them in the past. When the lust arises allow it to and let it pass away. Don,t push it away or follow after it, just note it like anything else. They are just t...
- Sat May 24, 2014 1:24 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Eradicating sex drive
- Replies: 98
- Views: 33859
Re: Eradicating sex drive
Hey, how about instead of identifying with the desire and pushing it away or chasing after some "relief", you just observe it mindfully? When the desire arises, just allow it to come up and observe it, get to know the desire and see it for what is it. You can do this through vipassana/insi...
- Fri May 23, 2014 9:53 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Porn addict and painful and hard cleaning
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14894
Re: Porn addict and painful and hard cleaning
Hey wolf1, have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Lg9P-VekA Forcing yourself to dislike porn isn't going to work. Just be mindful of the feelings that arise while you watch it (the pornography). When the feelings arise don't push them away, observe them closely and objectively. the po...