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- Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is wisdom?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6314
Re: What is wisdom?
Paññā: 'understanding, knowledge, understanding, insight', comprises a very wide field. The specific Buddhist knowledge or understanding, however, as part of the Noble 8-fold path magga to deliverance, is insight vipassanā Would one not then expect samma vipassana to be part of the eight fold path?
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Controlling the breath?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2073
Re: Controlling the breath?
I'm about to start going to the Samtha Trust classes in London next week. Interesting they teach a method with counting but I can just about see how after the next few stages it fits in with the first stage of the Anapanasati Sutta. Funny they use counting to know that the breath is long or short. I...
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Lacking Samvega/motivation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 31150
Re: Lacking Samvega/motivation
Good blog post over on Tricycle by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on samvega and pasada:
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- Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: The Dhamma Wheel Meditation Challenge
- Replies: 433
- Views: 153659
Re: The Dhamma Wheel Meditation Challenge
I would be happy to join you. I have a Goenka retreat coming up on the 5th of next month and would love to have increased my sitting so I'm a bit more comfortable for it than previous times!
Alexander
Alexander
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:23 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1603
Hello
Hellooo
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Whilst I feel I'm familiar with a fair few people here thought I might drop a comment here or there so signed up...
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Long time lurker, first time poster.
Whilst I feel I'm familiar with a fair few people here thought I might drop a comment here or there so signed up...
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