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by rowyourboat
Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:39 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: enjoying nature
Replies: 22
Views: 6288

Re: enjoying nature

By seeing the drawbacks of pleasant sensation (sukha vedana) we eventually let go of the mind's tendency to give rise to craving for pleasant sensation. Craving is the cause of suffering and ignorance about the true nature (no pun intended) of pleasant sensations give rise to craving- so we must und...
by rowyourboat
Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:20 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: The Cart Simile
Replies: 10
Views: 4561

Re: The Cart Simile

"Now I am frail, Ananda, old, aged, far gone in years. This is my eightieth year, and my life is spent. Even as an old cart, Ananda, is held together with much difficulty, so the body of the Tathagata is kept going only with supports. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.ht...
by rowyourboat
Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:45 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Compassion Vs real Practice
Replies: 11
Views: 4438

Re: Compassion Vs real Practice

Keep your precepts. Have metta in your mindfulness, which you try to maintain all the time. Rub away your defilements, develop your wholesome qualities. Then watch impermanence when your metta and mindfulness is established! There's your samatha and vipassana -all you need for enlightenment. Practic...
by rowyourboat
Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:18 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: How to see deeply into one's own mind?
Replies: 30
Views: 9269

Re: How to see deeply into one's own mind?

[Ajita:] "Everywhere flow the streams.[defilements]What is the obstruction for the streams, tell me the restricting of them, by what are they cut off?" [The Lord:] "Whatever streams are in the world, it is mindfulness that obstructs them and restricts them, and by wisdom they are cut ...
by rowyourboat
Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:01 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: How to see deeply into one's own mind?
Replies: 30
Views: 9269

Re: How to see deeply into one's own mind?

Hi Whynotme There is a practice called mindfulness of the mind (cittanupassana). What it does is to make you more aware of what is going on in your mind by increasing the sensitivity of your mindfulness of the mind. You would typically focus anywhere inbetween the top of your head to around the leve...
by rowyourboat
Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:51 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: Thought suppression by Samatha
Replies: 40
Views: 10927

Re: Thought suppression by Samatha

Hi Matheesha, Just remember this is a path of mistakes, sometimes we reach dead ends, other times wrong use of things (I tend to go with the latter). I like your responce to Daverupa, it is certainly a praise worthy and simle version of what has been suggested. But just to note there that is the se...
by rowyourboat
Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:48 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: The place of dana and caga in the path & its development
Replies: 20
Views: 10622

Re: The place of dana in the path & its development

Hi Starter, Is giving good? Yes, would be the answer. Developing basic goodness is a big part of the path. Otherwise subtle defilements creep in. Also if you had a heart of metta you would give, without thinking twice, and that is a good thing. It is an outward manifestation of metta, showing that m...
by rowyourboat
Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:56 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: Thought suppression by Samatha
Replies: 40
Views: 10927

Re: Thought suppression by Samatha

@reflection: thanks for that suggestion. I will play around with this a bit. @daverupa: it could be that I need to balance my faculties as samadhi has become unwieldy. Alternatively development of samadhi with and without vitakka (but not in jhana) is mentioned in some suttas may have something to d...
by rowyourboat
Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:17 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: "disenchantment" or "revulsion"?
Replies: 56
Views: 13488

Re: "disenchantment" or "revulsion"?

Revulsion from Mahasi Sayadaw's classic vipassana manual 'Progress of Insight' 8. Knowledge of Disgust (Nibbida)   Seeing thus the misery in conditioned things (formations), his mind finds no delight in those miserable things but is entirely disgusted with them. At times, his mind becomes, as it wer...
by rowyourboat
Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:17 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Wholesome development of personality
Replies: 8
Views: 4228

Re: Wholesome development of personality

The 10 requires a development of mundane right view (-karma, rebirth) , so might be challenging, but nevertheless helpful. Here is another list I find useful -from the karaniyamatta sutta: The discourse gets divided into two parts. The first detailing the standard of moral conduct required by one wh...
by rowyourboat
Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:04 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Need help with complacency
Replies: 12
Views: 2089

Re: Need help with complacency

Hi Jackson

If you haven't achieved stream entry yet, you should be scared. :D

With metta

Matheesha
by rowyourboat
Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:55 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Wholesome development of personality
Replies: 8
Views: 4228

Re: Wholesome development of personality

Hi Rowyourboat. Where did you get the list from? What about the noble eightfold path itself, or the ten-wholesome-actions? we do need to develop the wholesome aspects of the personality before we can get rid of the person :) Hi Cittasanto, I think something like this list (with gratitude, contentme...
by rowyourboat
Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:40 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: Thought suppression by Samatha
Replies: 40
Views: 10927

Re: Thought suppression by Samatha

Me too, i forgot very fastly the past and dont think about future, my boss dont like it, he want me to anticipate the future, but i have not yet developped that iddhi :? ... I dont know how i could explain that i'ts not easy to get this king of iddhi... :shrug: DAWN, I think it takes a lot of focus...
by rowyourboat
Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:38 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: Thought suppression by Samatha
Replies: 40
Views: 10927

Re: Thought suppression by Samatha

Greetings Matheesha, In your situation I would restrict the amount of time on samatha and spend more time on vipassana. I am not convinced that maintaining intense samatha is ideal outside of the seclusion of retreat. kind regards, Ben Thanks Ben. I have stopped doing Samatha actually and trying to...
by rowyourboat
Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:33 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: Thought suppression by Samatha
Replies: 40
Views: 10927

Re: Thought suppression by Samatha

In my experience, samatha results in more intentional thought-formation; thoughts aren't suppressed in a general way, they simply don't arise as randomly. It's like bullet-time in the mind, not vacuous like an infant's mind. Thanks Daverupa. I wonder if I am also overreacting to a few moments that ...