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by purple planet
Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:13 pm
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: Abhidhamma Resources
Replies: 85
Views: 186270

Re: Abhidhamma Resources

Hi all

is there somewhere online i can read the Abhidhamma in english - the same way i read the suttas on access on insight website ? i mean is there the original text - because the links you give if i understand are books about it but not the text itself - right ?
by purple planet
Tue Dec 25, 2012 8:30 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Noticing touch
Replies: 7
Views: 2191

Noticing touch

I started to note touch instead of breathing what do you think ? and it started to take over my labeling and i label breathing as touch and lots of stuff as touch and also walking meditation - is it good to note mainly touch ? another mini question - one of my problems from the start was how to labe...
by purple planet
Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:44 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Israel's first prime minister and buddhism
Replies: 2
Views: 1010

Israel's first prime minister and buddhism

Israel's first prime minister david ben gurion and buddhism - here is a talk of him with ven Nyanaponika Thera http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3141/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; i didnt read it actually only a few small parts of it - i think i should stop wasting time and medit...
by purple planet
Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:55 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: walking meditation - dry eyes
Replies: 3
Views: 1200

Re: walking meditation - dry eyes

Thanks i will try
by purple planet
Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:24 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: walking meditation - dry eyes
Replies: 3
Views: 1200

walking meditation - dry eyes

When i do walking meditation my eyes get fry i guess its cause i cant blink - and solutions ?
as you advance do you blink - maybe im to "controlling" to blink ?
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:31 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

Hi mike i like your answers - especailly in different more clearer threads :lol: i try to avoid looking at the internet so this thread is a problem for me - so i will stop comenting on this post i think it just strengthens my OCD by wanting to check it so much i think i partly understand but not in ...
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:09 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

but if i will note that thinking it will go away
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:53 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

Mike i also have "intention" and "want " events here and there but it might be just my imagination What im thinking all along this thread is that you think just like me : I think the communication problem I am having with you and PP is your equating of "knowing" with &q...
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:07 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

a random person doing the same exercises with no knowledge of the suttas or dhamma whatsoever but only of mindfulness techniques wouldn't "know" any of this stuff. actually this part is quite clear to me - for instance impermanence - i now am back to the start but when i was really mindfu...
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:02 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

sorry i cant copy paste - its pages 26 to 28 - a small part of what he says : " also notice this reflection if they occur , but he should not dwell on them" it is said to be aware of everything just not to think about the "reflections" about reality but just to "note" t...
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:21 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

first thanks So to make it clearer - as i read in a mahasi pdf book "practical vipassana exercises" he says not to think about anything and you will undertand automaticly - i think you agree on this But is this true also when i have the small thoughts that are directed to the practice like...
by purple planet
Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:42 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: the place of cognition in satipatthana?
Replies: 25
Views: 5471

Re: the place of cognition in satipatthana?

mikenz66 - do you mean that the teachers teach or not teach to "think" about what we notice i just started to read the pdf book you linked but can you give a more specific part of the links you gave where it says that you should think im just at the start of the book and it says : There ar...
by purple planet
Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:04 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Why the criticisms?
Replies: 45
Views: 13650

Re: Why the criticisms?

I am pretty sure its yuttadhammo but im not sure where i saw it - he has a website http://ask.sirimangalo.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; to ask him questions put in the search "labeling" ect and you can find his answers- he also have lots of youtube videos im...
by purple planet
Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:50 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Why the criticisms?
Replies: 45
Views: 13650

Re: Why the criticisms?

agree... Also remember noting itself is not mindfulness, but a tool to help aid in mindfulness billymac you are right (i think) - i just want to add i read somewhere a monk said that if you label you have mindfulness at that moment - that once you label something you cannot be unmindful at that time
by purple planet
Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:09 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: shooing flies
Replies: 5
Views: 1455

Re: shooing flies

I know there is nothing wrong - i just would like to add this as something to deal with - Scratching unlike pain is a great way to learn equanimity , a great way not to react to not develop an aversion (or attachment to the relaxed skin) So i wonder that maybe not shooing flies can be another way to...