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by Seeker of Wisdom
Fri May 02, 2014 4:42 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: settled mind to one pointedness
Replies: 16
Views: 5064

Re: settled mind to one pointedness

Hi all, I have been practicing mindfulness of breathing for some time now and am able to sit in the "settled mind" state with almost no distractive thoughts (I am still perfecting it right now). THe problem is that mind althought settled naturally in itself, isnt able to onepointedly focu...
by Seeker of Wisdom
Fri May 02, 2014 4:37 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Best place for meditation in Australia
Replies: 4
Views: 1500

Best place for meditation in Australia

Hi all: I am in Singapore now, but in a few more years, I should have saved enough money to go on a one year meditation retreat. I absolutely love Australia, and I would like to do the one year retreat there. Does anyone know of any places in Australia that you think is most suitable for meditation ...
by Seeker of Wisdom
Fri May 02, 2014 4:32 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: settled mind to one pointedness
Replies: 16
Views: 5064

Re: settled mind to one pointedness

Hi all, I have been practicing mindfulness of breathing for some time now and am able to sit in the "settled mind" state with almost no distractive thoughts (I am still perfecting it right now). THe problem is that mind althought settled naturally in itself, isnt able to onepointedly focu...
by Seeker of Wisdom
Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:45 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: My thoughts on engaged Buddhism
Replies: 42
Views: 14012

Re: My thoughts on engaged Buddhism

In Boulder, CO, Buddhists from various Sanghas prepare dinner and feed the homeless at a local (Christian) church once a month. This started after some of the Christian churches involved in relief activities asked, "Where are the Buddhists?" Lama Surya Das has taught that His students sho...
by Seeker of Wisdom
Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:52 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Correct meditation/mindfulness
Replies: 9
Views: 3404

Re: Correct meditation/mindfulness

In my personal experience I have found that the advice to 'focus on the breath' is somewhat misleading - more a wrong choice of words. Focus implies concentration, and concentration implies control. In anapanasati it is sufficient to simply observe the ebb and flow of the breath, neither focussing ...
by Seeker of Wisdom
Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:40 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: My thoughts on engaged Buddhism
Replies: 42
Views: 14012

My thoughts on engaged Buddhism

Below are some of my thoughts on engaged Buddhism. But before I begin, I have to confess that I have not read much about it. My understanding of engaged Buddhism comes from the little I have read and my involvement with a Taiwanese Buddhist organization called Tzu Chi. If my writing has offended the...
by Seeker of Wisdom
Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:08 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Education
Replies: 2
Views: 1378

Education

We rely on tweaking and engineering of institutions, rules, laws, and regulations to change the world. Yet, as long as human nature is as it is now, then greed, desire, pride, ambitious, and those other negative mental factors of ego will cause people to find a way around those well meaning rules, a...

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