I am using the book Mindfulness in Plain English for the procedures. It states that it is Vipassana, and seems to be a combination of samatha and vipassana. Unfortunately there is no place where the instructions are clearly summarized. It seems to skip around, talking about one aspect for a page or two, then another aspect for a while, then back to the first, then on to a third. But I've tried to keep it simple for now, as I described in my first post.PeterB wrote:This ( with full instruction ) is actually standard advice in several of the approaches to Theravadin Vipassana.
("she" ). All I'm after with my meditation at this point is to develop right mindfulness and right concentration as part of following the noble eightfold path. It is actually helping me with some of the other parts as well, though!jscuperstar wrote:lojong seems to be interested in deeper samatha states where as octathlon has never stated that this is what he is after.
Thanks to everyone for the comments.