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- Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:59 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Posture
- Replies: 17
- Views: 182
Re: Posture
Just find a posture where you're comfortable but not so comfortable that you fall asleep.
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:55 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Frames of Reference
- Replies: 5
- Views: 164
Frames of Reference
Why are the four satipaṭṭhānas referred to as frames of reference?
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:57 am
- Forum: Dhammaduta (Dhamma propagation)
- Topic: Beyond Mindfulness: In Search of Wisdom in a Secular Age
- Replies: 16
- Views: 284
Re: Beyond Mindfulness: In Search of Wisdom in a Secular Age
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This is my favourite line in the book;
This is my favourite line in the book;
Thank you for explaining what minfulness isn't...to suggest that mindfulness just involves nonjudgmental awareness proves to be nonsensical under basic scrutiny.
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:13 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Can You Be Attached To Having a Clean Kitchen?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 217
Re: Can You Be Attached To Having a Clean Kitchen?
If it's an attachment then it will lead suffering and will need to be let go of at some stage
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:33 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Why does Classical Theravada become your favorite choice, rather than all the other paths?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5547
Re: Why does Classical Theravada become your favorite choice, rather than all the other paths?
It feels like the closest to what The Buddha taught
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Anapanasati and vipassana
- Replies: 6
- Views: 162
Re: Anapanasati and vipassana
Notice anything that pulls you away from the breath and bring your attention back to the breath. Investigation of the five aggregates is an advanced practice which requires a deep state of meditation, something you're unlikely to be able to achieve when you're starting out.
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:38 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Living in the present.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 331
Re: Living in the present.
Important things happen in the present. Stay present so you're aware when they arise so you can study them and understand how they cause suffering.
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: First precept
- Replies: 11
- Views: 232
Re: First precept
Most food is covered in micro-organisms. For example an apple is not sterile.
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:02 am
- Forum: Suggestion box
- Topic: Mentally ill
- Replies: 9
- Views: 620
Re: Mentally ill
Yes people who don't have a mental illness and don't consider themselves to be mentally ill are actually mentally ill. The mental illness of ignorance.Samana_Johann wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:34 am Aside of an Arahat all are considered to be mental ill.
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:03 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Question about guarding the six sense-doors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1070
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The result of the abandoning the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feelings and the abandoning the underlying tendency to aversion for unpleasant feelings and the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings is true knowledge. Well if lust for example a...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:48 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Question about guarding the six sense-doors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1070
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How does non-judging awareness develop wisdom? Without wisdom you can't progress very far.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 10:23 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When someone's words hurt you.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2137
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:00 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When someone's words hurt you.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2137
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 12:21 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When someone's words hurt you.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2137
Re: When someone's words hurt you.
How can words harm a bag of water?
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:53 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Meditation, silence and mental health
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4079
Re: Meditation, silence and mental health
Only speak if it is useful