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- Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Visualization
- Replies: 8
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Re: Visualization
Thank you all for your responses - there is plenty of me to think about there. Basically the visualization is just a shorthand way of getting centered and focusing on meditating rather than the million and one other things that I have to do in my immediate environment. I don't continue imagining tha...
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:01 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Visualization
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1623
Re: Visualization
Hi Ben :-) Many thanks for your reply - that sounds like good advice. So basically no use of imagination is considered skillful in Theravada? I had assumed that since meditations on the body parts (which includes internal organs) necessarily use the imaginative faculty, there might have been some me...
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:56 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 5
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Hello
I'm a fairly new Buddhist and practicing solo due to physical disability but came here in the hope it will serve as a virtual sangha. Namaste and metta to all of you
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Visualization
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1623
Visualization
Hi, I'm new here and joined to ask one specific question, though I intend to be around for a long while if you'll have me :) My question concerns visualization in Buddhism. I have been a Buddhist for just a couple of years and practice alone due to both my geographical location and a physical disabi...