I recently started Metta practice next to my Satipatthana practice. 10 min. after every sitting, so that's 20 min. a day. But I believe it starts with loving yourself before extending it to others, I got my hands full with that at the moment, really hard for me to say: May I be happy etc. and really...

Dhammapada VIII.

103. Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself.


I still got alot of reading to do, but this is one of my favorites so far and up to now.

30 to 45 minutes in the morning and the same in the evening, I try to keep them 12 hours apart.

Thanks everybody for the replies and the effort, i appreciate it.... :namaste: I'll just keep going the way I was going, try not to cling to the experience, but merely observe it and see how it will unfold. Also I'm going see if it will present itself (without me trying to force it), and if it's a m...

Greetings everybody, A while ago I was contemplating the first five bodyparts in my Satipatthana practice, when I came to the fingernails and started visualizing the nails on my hands, after some time I had some sort of flash of insight, it's hard to put into words but it's best described as seeing ...

All, I have a question to all. I am buddhist and i believed one buddhist must do personal cultivation. That is important. To follow the 5 precepts and 8 noble truths. I am a man who is not well vserse in suttra at all but i like reading Buddha simple short quotes and great monks quotes, i will try ...

Thank you, Manapa, for the quick reply and link.

Thanks everybody!

[Please start from two posts up] The flexible interpretation of the satipatthana contemplations in actual practice can be illustrated by taking a cross section, as it were, through the direct path of satipatthana. Such a sectional view would resemble a twelve-petalled flower (see Fig 15.2 below), w...

First of all: Great forum! My name is Danny I'm from the Netherlands. I have been interested in buddhism for a long time now, but only started practicing it seriously about six or seven months ago, I don't have guidens as in a teacher, or a Sangha, but will go for a retreat very soon. I'm still look...