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- Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:21 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: What do you sit on during meditation?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 14049
Re: What do you sit on during meditation?
My armchair.
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:14 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: jhana vs silent illumination or other zen methods
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6932
Re: jhana vs silent illumination or other zen methods
[quote="/johnny\"] from my understanding, once you get into the higher jhanas you may start having insight into reality. [/quote] Where does that understanding come from? According to Shankman, the Visuddhimaga suggests that a "bare-insight worker" can experience insight without ...
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:01 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Best meditation for my circumstance? Maybe someone can help?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4720
Re: Best meditation for my circumstance? Maybe someone can help?
I found "Full Catastrophe Living" by Kabat -Zinn very useful - he uses Buddhist meditation techniques to help people live with the kind of conditions you suffer from. Cured me of a chronic sinus headache, and helps me deal with tinnitus. I'm also a lot more upbeat. I also admire the writin...
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Very subtle breath
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2405
Re: Very subtle breath
*One* doesn't, *you* might! Relax... let it go...catmoon wrote:Sometimes, great relaxation plus intense concentration on a non-breath object, like a nimitta, can result in a startling event. After a number of minutes one snaps alert thinking "OMG I'm not breathing!"...
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:47 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Books to recommend on single pointed meditation?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3738
Re: Books to recommend on single pointed meditation?
Have you tried focusing on the breath?
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:48 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
- Replies: 240
- Views: 45650
Re: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
I still have yet to come across proof that beings such as Buddhas and Bodhisattvas actually exist. Isn't it presumptuous to assume that human beings are really powerful enough to attain the highest state of being possible... that so-called "enlightenment" or bodhi? How do you know we aren...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:39 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen has No Morals
- Replies: 132
- Views: 30993
Re: Zen has No Morals
What about the 3 pure precepts and the 10 grave precepts? Including four good ones for forum use:
Refrain from untruthful speech
Refrain from speaking of others' errors and faults
Refrain from elevating yourself and blaming others
Do not give vent to anger
Refrain from untruthful speech
Refrain from speaking of others' errors and faults
Refrain from elevating yourself and blaming others
Do not give vent to anger
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:23 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Need help with a problem I am having learning Buddhism.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2721
Re: Need help with a problem I am having learning Buddhism.
I am curious if part of the path of Buddhism is to ultimately remove all emotions that one may have towards objects that bring happiness, replacing it completely with the happiness of love and compassion. Or can one live with both as long as they have the insight to not exaggerate feelings towards ...