Can meditation help me when I'm sick?

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Re: Can meditation help me when I'm sick?

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Hi Annabel,
take a look at this Buddhist meditation. It is a visualization type of meditation, especially effective for illness.

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is that a theravadin Meditation?
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head for illness in the suttas are the Factors of Awakening as a reflection.
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Re: Can meditation help me when I'm sick?

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Greetings Manapa,
Manapa wrote:is that a theravadin Meditation?
No.

But at the same time, that's not to say it's of no value - this isn't a Theravada keyboard, nor a Theravadin coffee on this table... but they work.

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Re: Can meditation help me when I'm sick?

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retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Manapa,
Manapa wrote:is that a theravadin Meditation?
No.

But at the same time, that's not to say it's of no value - this isn't a Theravada keyboard, nor a Theravadin coffee on this table... but they work.

:coffee:

Metta,
Retro. :)

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Re: Can meditation help me when I'm sick?

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Manapa wrote:The only thing I can think of off the top of my head for illness in the suttas are the Factors of Awakening as a reflection.
I forgot to mention the Paritta Suttas — the Bojjhanga Sutta is used for healing.
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where is it from though?

I have heard of this similar types of meditation for generating heat, and healing from Tibet but not specifically anything from Theravada.
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Manapa,
Manapa wrote:is that a theravadin Meditation?
No.

But at the same time, that's not to say it's of no value - this isn't a Theravada keyboard, nor a Theravadin coffee on this table... but they work.

:coffee:

Metta,
Retro. :)
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Re: Can meditation help me when I'm sick?

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Thought this might be of interest:



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