Dhamma Wheel

... Great practice! Bringing to mind another person's skeletal structure, I find it helpful to stroke my teeth with my tongue so that I could know both my skeletal structure along with those in sight. I would often see people as skeletons especially sat on the bus. Sometimes their bones, having no ...

Greetings, Blogger won't let the picture be embedded in this post, but this link has a picture I took in the Shrine Room at FWBO HQ in Bethnal Green, London. It's interesting how the facial features on Buddha rupas often in time come to reflect the facial features of the locals. http://2.bp.blogspo...

I don't really understand what you are trying to say? If there is pleasant feeling then there occurs love with conditions leading to craving and attachment and their inevitable outcome: suffering. Let's have a look at the Karaniya Metta Sutta (link below). The Pali term for feeling is vedena . The ...

one_awakening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:37 amIs it?

From where are you quoting this from?

The question is why Sankhara is not Anatta? Why Dhamma is not Anicca and Dukkha? This is an excellent line of questioning. They should indeed be applied and understood as a single unit. Initially the approach for many is cumbersome stumbling into separate understandings of each. I've seen whole pap...

The question is why Sankhara is not Anatta? Why Dhamma is not Anicca and Dukkha? This is an excellent line of questioning. They should indeed be applied and understood as a single unit. Initially the approach for many is cumbersome stumbling into separate understandings of each. I've seen whole pap...

sunnat wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 12:17 am Is it possible to turn the tv off and give it away to someone, or throw it away?

Yes, throw that thing!

Sherab wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:57 amA

Thanks. I think I know that one!

Yeah, I'm struggling with the idea that actively being aware that "I am seated" ("I am seated, I am seated...") is not mindfulness done properly. He says that this active effort is not necessary. From the video: All you need to do is just keep a corner of your eye on the fact that you already know ...

See, it's that exclusivity that troubles me. What's the rationale for that statement? Because the reality is that you can't have it all. It's simply impossible to attain the highest fruit while still owning big house, beautiful wife, happy kids, etc. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and that'...

Why Buddha did not say that the world is round? Because it has nothing to do with ending suffering. I'm not so sure. As a child my initial assumption was that the earth appeared flat. The school environment quickly ploughed over that view with various texts books illustrating the earth as spherical...

Hi there, I am looking for a nice audio recording of a guided Metta Bhavana meditation. I'm looking for something really suitable for beginers. Nice clean audio I would even consider something with some very lite music or something in the background.. I really like the way they teach Metta Bhavana ...

And I don't understand how and why remembering should substitute the "governing principle". Governance is certainly the role of mindfulness. Mindfulness remembers to maintain wholesome mental states and remembers to prevent unwholesome mental states. "Remembering" or "governance" are the same thing...

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Do you experience the world from somewhere within your body, as opposed to experiencing your body as part of the world? For me, this throws up some interesting questions on the location of mind and its incredible ability to create a functional space between fo...

2600htz wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:37 pm Right Jhana has vipassana and samatha at the same time.

Yes, they are one-and-the-same. It is very difficult trying to convince a conditioned mind that this is the case.