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by Myotai
Mon Apr 02, 2018 5:51 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Quick question re Mahasi Method
Replies: 5
Views: 3670

Re: Quick question re Mahasi Method

Thanks....I'll read a little further :)
by Myotai
Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:42 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Quick question re Mahasi Method
Replies: 5
Views: 3670

Quick question re Mahasi Method

....when noting say a noise (birds tweeting outside for instance) at what point do we returning to the abdomen and leave the sound. Its tricky as some sounds don’t wane…they’re sort of ‘there’ – so how do we not notice them anymore and return? <terrible grammar>!
by Myotai
Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:14 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca
Replies: 17
Views: 5452

Re: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca

Might I ask what method you are using? And do you have the support of a sangha?
Mahasi method

Apologies for delay - started in a new post and have had little time to do much but settle in really!
by Myotai
Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:39 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Can you help me work through this?
Replies: 5
Views: 1954

Re: Can you help me work through this?

Hi Myotai, Sorry to hear things don't seem to be going so well.... Thanks for such a kind and considered reply to my post. I think it warrants a reply to your point re not knowing what my practice is. Mainly Mahasi style, sometimes a more Zazen approach (Shikantaza). I sit daily, early morning 5am ...
by Myotai
Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:28 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Can you help me work through this?
Replies: 5
Views: 1954

Re: Can you help me work through this?

binocular wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:16 pm
Myotai wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:44 pmWhat did I do to warrant such a shift?
Unquestioning faith in a particular doctrine (esp. one that teaches fire-and-brimstone, now-or-never, all-or nothing) can result in such feelings of gloom and failure.
....I think youre right there! :(
by Myotai
Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:23 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca
Replies: 17
Views: 5452

Re: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca

....thanks Paul. Wilderness pretty much summed it up...
by Myotai
Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:45 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca
Replies: 17
Views: 5452

Re: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca

Thanks.....

I should have articulated things better....

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by Myotai
Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:44 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Can you help me work through this?
Replies: 5
Views: 1954

Can you help me work through this?

Hi everyone, Been a while since I posted. I wonder if you can help me working through a bit of a quandary please? I love the Dhamma….I love the Dharma too < joking >. But its true, I love all forms of Dhamma and can see the benefits in all traditions and schools. However, after some intensive practi...
by Myotai
Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:40 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca
Replies: 17
Views: 5452

Negative feelings after meditating on Anicca

Hi, Has anyone experienced a negative outcome after meditating on Impermanence? I have been experiencing a palpable dread and sense of futility as a result. I guess the realisation is there, but now it seems to have sapped some of the enjoyment and pleasure I would normally have experienced from the...
by Myotai
Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:05 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread
Replies: 2423
Views: 595396

Re: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread

If Buddha cannot help you, I cannot. :shrug: If I am to give cappuccino benefit of the doubt, I would say that his or her emptiness is the Venerable Nāgārjuna's emptiness, which is neither void nor substance, nor any combination of the two, nor something else. Basically any 'stance' at all regardin...
by Myotai
Fri Oct 06, 2017 8:58 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread
Replies: 2423
Views: 595396

Re: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread

As previously explained, I think "not-self" is ambiguous and confusing, since it allows for the possibility of a self "outside" the aggregates. I think "no-self" ( absence of self ) is what the suttas describe - for example "sabbe dhamma anatta", pattica-samu...
by Myotai
Wed Sep 27, 2017 4:00 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Server migration Sept 22
Replies: 99
Views: 64124

Re: Server migration Sept 22

I am missing the Robe colours! :/
by Myotai
Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:58 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread
Replies: 2423
Views: 595396

Re: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread

As previously explained, I think "not-self" is ambiguous and confusing, since it allows for the possibility of a self "outside" the aggregates. I think "no-self" ( absence of self ) is what the suttas describe - for example "sabbe dhamma anatta", pattica-samu...
by Myotai
Fri Sep 22, 2017 9:13 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread
Replies: 2423
Views: 595396

Re: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread

Nirvana is an everlasting state. I don't have a view either way on this, and I think the suttas are rather ambiguous. But I don't see the relevance of this point, we are discussing whether no-self is the correct conclusion to draw from the teachings, not whether Nibbana is eternal. Hey Spiny, Sorry...