Search found 7 matches
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...