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- Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:50 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: I give books
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4545
Re: I give books
Hi, I also give books, so if you are interested, send me an MP. Unexpected Freedom Ajahn Munindo Rude Awakenings Part 1 and 2 Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott Seeing the way Volum 2 Monks and Nuns from Theravada Forest Sangha Bodhinyana Ajahn Chah and in French Le livre tibetain de la vie et de la mort ...
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Meditating with noise
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5199
Re: Meditating with noise
I live in a boarding school, surrounded by excited teenagers, running up and down and shouting all day long so I know what you mean by meditating with noise and don't be afraid of that, the mind can get used to everything. At the beginning I meditated ON the sound, seeing that it is just what it is ...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:23 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Yoga and Buddhism
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9625
Re: Yoga and Buddhism
If you want to read something about it from a monk, let's read this :
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Bhante Rahula is a Theravadan monk and also yoga teacher.
http://bhanterahula.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... ix_07.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Bhante Rahula is a Theravadan monk and also yoga teacher.
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:58 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Yoga and Buddhism
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9625
Re: Yoga and Buddhism
Well, Ashtanga is a really good workout to strenghen your body and is said to be a meditation in movement...I still pratice it because I like the way it feels to be concentrated only on your posture and on your noisy breath DURING the session, so it's a kind of meditation in a way, but just after th...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:34 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Yoga and Buddhism
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9625
Re: Yoga and Buddhism
I practice yoga since a long time, before practising meditation and I just can say that it has guided me to meditation and Buddhism. I practice both everyday, meditation straight after yoga, just after waking up each morning. I practice Hatha, Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga, so it's quite challenging and...
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:27 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Thinking about ordination in UK and Broken Buddha
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3709
Re: Thinking about ordination in UK and Broken Buddha
Thank you all for your answers, I know that all this is very personnal, I was just asking for opinions, no more, then of course I will try by myself the monasteries which seems the most suitable for me.
Really nice to see that there are monks reallly good yoga practionner.
Really nice to see that there are monks reallly good yoga practionner.
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:05 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Thinking about ordination in UK and Broken Buddha
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3709
Thinking about ordination in UK and Broken Buddha
Hello everybody, First of all, I must confess that I am french, so sorry by advance for all my mistakes and then what a wonderful forum with a lot of informations! So I am 25 years old and thinking about ordination since a couple of years, I just discover the "Broken Bouddha", this famous ...