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by puthujjana
Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:19 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Vipassana only after jhana?
Replies: 10
Views: 2881

Re: Vipassana only after jhana?

Ben already gave a great quote from Bhikkhu Bodhi's "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma". However, I think that in actual practice it's more useful to use any kind of samadhi that one is able to achieve for the development of insight. As Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw said: Jhana-samadhi is indeed ...
by puthujjana
Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:37 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Bhante Rahula - Yoga for Meditation
Replies: 2
Views: 1773

Bhante Rahula - Yoga for Meditation

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by puthujjana
Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:19 am
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Request for pic
Replies: 2
Views: 2055

Re: Request for pic

I don't have a copy of the book at hand but if I remember correctly it was this statue: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Gandhara_Buddha_%28tnm%29.jpeg/364px-Gandhara_Buddha_%28tnm%29.jpeg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Gandhara_Buddha_%28tnm%29.jpeg"...
by puthujjana
Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:32 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Vipassana
Replies: 73
Views: 23123

Re: Vipassana

Hej Brizzy,

maybe you'll find this article interesting:

From Vipassana Hater to Vipassana Lover
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by puthujjana
Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:15 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: looking for ajhan brahm video
Replies: 9
Views: 2819

Re: looking for ajhan brahm video

There were some audio files on meditation (even whole 9-day-retreats) on bswa.org but unfortunately the site seems to be down at the moment: Due to a technical emergency we've had to take the old BSWA site down without prior notice. We hope you can be patient with us as we continue to roll out our f...
by puthujjana
Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:40 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Do you know "Yoniso ca manasikāraṃ" mean?
Replies: 6
Views: 3046

Re: Do you know "Yoniso ca manasikāraṃ" mean?

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by puthujjana
Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:15 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Forest dwelling, are the monks concern with wild animals?
Replies: 18
Views: 5410

Re: Forest dwelling, are the monks concern with wild animals?

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by puthujjana
Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:14 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Many lifetimes of paramita development needed to be aryan?
Replies: 591
Views: 117000

Re: Dharma Wheel -- Mahayana forum

How did all those noble ones in the early days of the Buddhasasana, such as those featured in the Pali Canon, manage to spend "many. many lifetimes" prior practicing the perfections, when the Dhamma had been lost prior to the arrival of the most recent Buddha? Are the Pāramīs only found i...
by puthujjana
Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:25 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Vipassana or Anapanasati?
Replies: 16
Views: 7392

Re: Vipassana or Anapanasati?

"A yogi can practice both insight meditation and concentration meditation (vipassanã and samatha bhavanã) well within ãnãpãnasati bhavanã (mindfulness of the in-breath and the out-breath)..." http://nissaranawanaya.wordpress.com/how-to-meditate/" onclick="window.open(this.href);...
by puthujjana
Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:13 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Fox News: Tiger Woods Must Become Christian To Be Forgiven
Replies: 7
Views: 2190

Fox News: Tiger Woods Must Become Christian To Be Forgiven

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by puthujjana
Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:00 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Vinaya Pitaka
Replies: 21
Views: 10881

Re: Vinaya Pitaka

If I haven't remembered wrong the bhikkhu was complaining that the Patimokkha now had 150 rules.. Interesting since now it contains 227.. Does anyone know where this passage is from? Hej Chula, it's from AN 3:83. Bhikkhu Bodhi's note on the 150-rules-passage: "This is said with reference to th...
by puthujjana
Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:37 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Taking the plunge
Replies: 65
Views: 21627

Re: Taking the plunge

Sādhu, sādhu, sādhu!

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by puthujjana
Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:51 pm
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?
Replies: 28
Views: 7512

Re: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?

Hej Retro, Are you able to comment perhaps, in that context, on the following passage from the Satipatthana Sutta... the most definitive sutta on the subject of sati , mindfulness? Unfortunately, I'm not. Anyway, I would say that these unwholesome states of mind are unmindful moments of conciousness...
by puthujjana
Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:22 pm
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?
Replies: 28
Views: 7512

Re: What role does Abhidhamma play in your practice?

I have only read the first two chapters of "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma" yet and I found it very helpful in my practice. The most helpful for me was to learn what is meant by sati . When the Buddha was talking about mindfulness, he didn't meant simple attention, but a beautiful ce...
by puthujjana
Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:03 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Desire for Enlightenment
Replies: 17
Views: 4619

Re: Desire for Enlightenment

"'This body comes into being through craving. And yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said. And in reference to what was it said? There is the case, sister, where a monk hears, 'The monk named such-and-such, they say, through the ending of the fermenta...