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- Sun Jun 11, 2017 2:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Reading just the Tipitaka
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1434
Reading just the Tipitaka
Is it alright to read just the Tipitaka? I feel I have already read a lot, it's not often that I encounter something new and inspiring. I never read the Tipitaka, maybe that will be it? Or would I be missing out? What do you think?
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Fear of becoming a boring person
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7494
Re: Fear of becoming a boring person
"Living in the world and practicing meditation, you will seem to others like a gong that has not been struck and is not producing any sound. They will consider you useless, mad, defeated; but actually, just the opposite is true." "People outside may call us mad to live in the forest ...
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Sitting length
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1919
Re: Sitting length
This is a tricky question because you can't be lax and obey your mind's every whim but you also can't be too strict. I question the necessity of timing the meditation altogether, to be honest. I mean, it can serve a purpose when you are a beginner, but later on it can be disruptive. If you're keenly...
- Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: What to do when remembering things during meditation?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1931
What to do when remembering things during meditation?
I'm a very agitated person, one of those perpetually 'busy' ones. While in meditation my mind mostly doesn't stop, and I frequently remember things I have to do. But then I don't know what I should do with the meditation, should I a) stop meditating briefly to write it down; b) continue but keeping ...
- Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: What exactly did the Buddha tell Patacara?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1608
What exactly did the Buddha tell Patacara?
What did he tell her when she came to see him after the deaths of her family, husband and children??
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:00 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Pressure in my head, dizziness while meditating
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1823
Pressure in my head, dizziness while meditating
Sometimes when I'm meditating, if I try real hard to be at peace (which is wrong, I know), I feel this pressure round my forehead and also dizziness sometimes. Now, what is it? It feels like something is going out, like tension maybe? Or is it just because I was forcing meditation a lot? Thanks in a...
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:22 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: No intention = no kamma?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3879
No intention = no kamma?
I was reading a book by Ajahn Brahm, and he mentioned this guy who pushed his friend into the water as a child; his friend drowned. It got me thinking if he is to be blamed for his friend's death or not. He had no intention of doing it, but pushing him into the water was not a very nice thing to do,...