Got your point! May be I'll start focusing on the precepts or reading more sutras and have an eye in my daily activities. You know, the most difficult thing is to practice in your daily life. You may "enjoy" the whole session of meditation and aware of your mind when it drifts away, howeve...

Lately, I am doing 1 hour of Goenka's vipassana and 1 hour of anapanasati in the afternoon. Should I stop working on anapanasati? Better suggestions?

Well, you wouldn't like to have renal problems, would you?

Thank you for your answer. But I am still very concerned about how to revert the unfavorable things from happening if the indications of my dreams are NOT good? The more I practice, the more dreams appear (but at the same time, it's true what you said, my mind is much calmer during meditation than b...

Hello! I haven't been practicing meditation for 1 hour daily for a couple of months and since I am having daily meditation, I begin to have dreams that indicate future happenings. They may not be exactly the SAME but they are signs that correspond EXACTLY or almost exactly for what is going to happe...

It's very hard to find a live teacher here in South America. There are many teachers that teach meditation, but not the Buddhist meditation like anapanasati. I was told that when working on anapanasati, you focus on the breathing touching the upper lip and that's the place called "mental object...

Hello! I am new in this anapanasatti meditation. Can any body tell me if the mental object is unstable, how can I overcome this? I 've tried to focus and I have passed the stages of torpor (although sometimes it might appears), I know the mental object is there, I can figure it but this is not stabl...

So the way to overcome this kind of envy: "Now suppose the thought were to occur to him, 'I am in love with this woman, my mind ensnared with fierce desire, fierce passion. When I see her standing with another man, chatting, joking, & laughing, then sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, &...

So, one problem here is the conceptualization about how jealousy builds and builds; that you see each occasion as "the same jealousy" is one of the reasons it can start to build up in your mind, but mindfully notice that each occasion of jealousy is just this occasion - the increased fury...

When you look at it, you will see that this jealousy comes out due to causes and condition. Because it comes from causes and condition, it is just like a mountain eruption. When the condition and cause is match, the mountain will just explode. I looked at it, but was defeated by this monster. I try...

What is mudita-bhavana then? Is it similar to metta=bhavana? I fin jealousy arises owing to not rejoicing the achievements of other people and it generally turn into fury. Especially it is hard to control when a circumstance is presented. Sometimes, you can reason to yourself and you might calm down...

Is there any meditation technique to overcome jealousy??

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Here's a beautiful picture of Guanyin!