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by Bookman
Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:28 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Visualization
Replies: 8
Views: 1623

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...
by Bookman
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...
by Bookman
Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:56 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello
Replies: 5
Views: 1521

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 :-)
by Bookman
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...