meditation is not measurable Success of meditation has imo two components: 1. The quantity (= time) of practice 2. The quality of practice, what you exactly do with your mind success = quantity * quality Well, at least you can measure the quantity. I agree that time is measurable....I think that th...

David2 wrote:

chownah wrote:Could it be that the important things in life are not measurable?
chownah

Is doing your daily meditation not important?

meditation is not measurable
chownah

We didn't understood eachother. My main language isn't english. I mean't, when i exhale, i will come to a point where i seemingly automatically inhale, but when i reverse this phenomena with inhale=exhale it doesn't happen. Maybe i need to wait longer to fill my lungs or do you think i'm tensed? I ...

Actually the point is "Did the Buddha teach that only he could initiate a lineage of monks?" But I am interested in knowing what is the significance of the term Vinaya as applied to a lineage or to monks or nuns...do you have a reference for that? But everyone....please does anyone know &q...

Cilla, Either go to the center or don't go....its up to you....either wear a singlet or don't wear a singlet...its up to you.....it seems that no one is restricting your behavior except you.......does this recent turn of the conversation have anything to do with Buddhism?.....please remind me how it...

Breathing is a special activity in that it can run in automatic mode or the automatic mode can be easily over-ruled by out intentions. I think that this is one of the reasons why breath mediatation is such a good tool for learning about intention. I think you will agree that when you are sleeping or...

Cilla, It seems that you have stayed off topic.....the topic here is about the attractiveness of teachers I guess....or at least something to do with teachers and their gender and how this impacts students I guess......you are not even mentioning teachers at all now..... You talk about going to the ...

tiltbillings wrote:

chownah wrote:Did the Buddha teach that only he could initiate a lineage of monks?
chownah

All the Buddhist Vinaya lineages would claim the that their lineages flow from the Buddha.

Thanks for the information....it doesn't seem to address my question though.
chownah

Could it be that the important things in life are not measurable?
chownah

Would it be preferrable to have an eternal state of nothingness, a permanent ceasing of thing-ness: no world, no body, no self, no pleasure, no love, no joy, no insight, no knowledge, no family, no friends, no music, no literature, no seeing, no hearing, no thinking, no greed, no hatred, no delusio...

DarwidHalim, You wrote: "Let's use example between eyes consciousness and a car. Without a car as an object, can we have eyes consciousness?" When I read this I starting laughing and then started crying.....I started laughing because if a car is an object for eye consciousness then the car...

DarwidHalim, Which one comes first, Father or Son?.....I am glad that you have lost interest already because now you will not get so excited when I tell you the answer!!!! :tongue: The answer is that neither of them comes first......if a male baby is born the at the moment of birth both the father a...

Did the Buddha teach that only he could initiate a lineage of monks?
chownah

Please give me the meaning of this without the explanation of the ancient Commentary. After killing his mother, father, and two kṣatriya kings, And destroying a country, along with its treasurer, Ungrieving goes the brāhmaṇa. It can mean anything for a bad a$$ dude who is unrepentent all the way to...

I think that this: "Where neither water nor yet earth Nor fire nor air gain a foothold, There gleam no stars, no sun sheds light, There shines no moon, yet there no darkness reigns. When a sage, a brahman, has come to know this For himself through his own wisdom, Then he is freed from form and ...