Zom, Pilgrim, Idealism doesn't fill bellies. If a teacher starves, he can no longer teach. :namaste: Kim This/isnt/about/idealism. The/Buddha/said/that/Dhamma/is/to/be/given/as/a/gift, NOT/bought/and/sold/like/a/commodity. It/was/given/freely/to/humanity/by/the/Buddha so/he/has/the/right/to/expect/...

1) It provides a wholesome pleasure that helps one to abandon sensual desires which is necessary to do in order to become an arahant: "Even though a disciple of the noble ones has clearly seen as it actually is with right discernment that sensuality is of much stress, much despair, & great...

the buddha and his disciples and so on and so on never charged so much as a single masaka so...

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:
Please read Practical Insight Meditation, where all of the basic exercises are explained in full.

Im going too read it this week thanks.

The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation has a copy up. I'm assuming they got permission, but who knows. Well, they are giving it away... how cool are these guys? at first i thought "CORPORATE?" and saw mostly pure land stuff at a temple i went too, but then i noticed they ...

With this topic in mind, which, if any, teachers teach the Anapanasati Sutta in such a way that the vipassana jhanas are attained and not the commentarial jhanas? It’s when the mind is tranquil. It’s not ordinary mental proliferation. You sit with a calm mind and then the initial thought comes. For...

If you're not sitting, then the abdominal movements won't be your primary object. If you are meditating full-time, and not working or just relaxing at home, then your primary object will be either walking meditation (lifting, moving, dropping), or the movements of the limbs while doing daily activi...

another question, if my primary object is rising and falling of the abdomen (i do it simply as breathing) is it okay if i just am mindful of it all day long and then note other satipatthanas as they arise? or do i have to think "rising, falling" all day long as well? Even though you may t...

... Paying attention to the primary and secondary objects builds the mindfulness and concentration to be able to start to discern how phenomena arise and cease... :anjali: Mike mahasi says that when sitting and breathing we contemplate rise and fall of the abdomen, this is "arising and vanishi...

tiltbillings wrote:And as has been pointed out more than once in various discussions of jhana, the "sutta jhanas" looks to be pretty much identical with the vipasssana jhanas, a way of looking at things that has come out of the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition.

Sweet. Good too know

Hi Alan, in the commentaries it says one should contemplate the arising and falling of the body by way of it's dissolution and other things. mahasi says one should see it's literal rise and fall as in the abdomen rising and falling in breathing, the feet rising and falling when walking, and so on. ...

Greetings Alan, vipassana jhanas are closer to what the buddha was talking about? If the commentaries hadn't taken such liberties to redefine jhana, there would be no need for them to be labelled "vipassana jhanas"... they would just be "jhanas". Terms like "vipassana jhana...

the noting and what not is straight out of the satipatthana sutta. "when walking he understands 'i am walking'. " sounds like noting too me. i don't see much at all that is not directly from the suttas as far as his practice instructions are concerned. they seem to be right in line with th...

is it in there? is it possible that, considering the almost uniform ignoring of the whole body similes about jhana by the commentaries, the vipassana jhanas are closer to what the buddha was talking about? it makes sense, he talks about people gaining insight while in jhana frequently but the commen...

one thing i am not clear on is the difference in the mahasi method of the bodily formation from the commentary version. in the commentaries it says one should contemplate the arising and falling of the body by way of it's dissolution and other things. mahasi says one should see it's literal rise and...