Over time, the relationship towards the world changes and that reflects in your meditation. The answer to your question depends on your mental states related to the arising of those thoughts. Which I don't think we can guess. In any case, something that may be helpful is: http://dhammawheel.com/view...

Of course fresh fruit, greens and vegetables are important for everybody, not necessarily vegetarian. A short advice for a vegetarian is to eat more of a variety of seeds (cereals, nuts, pulses). Some of what I call shortly seeds are: wheat, barley, oats, corn, quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, walnuts, ...

I think it's a feature of concentration that may have happened to me during meditation few times for few seconds at a time. Got 2 ways about it: 1. Just still the mind. That's pretty easy and straightforward, and with a certain degree of stillness, it will happen to anybody. 2. Use seeing as a medit...

What is the issue here? The issue here is conceptualization. The present moment is simple, easy and right in front of our very noses. Just be aware of whatever is happening. The issue is that instead of following the present moment, we follow thoughts we fabricate about the present moment (or the p...

Perhaps, his condition will not improve because he has done nothing to rectify the weakness. In order to do that, he will have to go here and there and consult doctors and other people and take some actions. Is his running around wrong ?? While he is running around, he should take the running aroun...

Can this object be a sensation ?? Yes, it can, and certain meditation methods put a lot of emphasis on sensations. Can these be considered meditation ?? Let,s say, during walk, he keeps changing his focus to bodily sensation from legs to arms to the back and so on. Is this still meditation ?? This ...

To my knowledge, vinaya rules were created on a step by step basis, to deal with practical matters arising in the early sangha.

So do you have a different opinion on what a women's erogenous zones are than what is inferred from the vinaya ?

I keep the sound as a reminder for me to keep my attention on the breath. So your meditation object is the breath and not the sound ? I'm thinking that if I would try this, maybe I'd have the music for the first part of the meditation, followed by silence. Because I'm thinking after some time you d...

We don't need a reason to like one or the other because our liking of pleasure and dislike of pain is automatic, pre-reasoning if you will.

Our liking of pleasure is also pleasure. Our dislike of pain is also pain.

Personally, I think that cultivating a certain type of family relationships may be more useful than others. Also, Buddhism doesn't feel that rubbing certain bodily parts together can be used to build a quality relationship. Hmm there is a problem with this. It doesn't provide any reason why incest i...

The point of the thread was to figure ou whatt about pleasure made it so appealing and what about pain made it 'bad' as we know that we chase and avoid these two...but why? That may just be feeling and intention co-arising and co-ceasing together, or habit as was said above. And since you mentioned...

what i actually meant was, to them it feels like joy (we all suffer from delusion, but for some it is more obvious) so to them, they feel a sense of joy, i think with a heightened awareness you can detect the suffering even in perceived joy. Do you not agree with this? for me in cases like this it ...

As far as the question of feeling or thought is concerned, I would put it this way. It is somewhat like 7th sense or a sensation that pervades all over you. There are no words contained in it. Yes, that is one of the many possible experiences that people have, with practicing meditation or even pra...

I'm not following you exactly ...

It's either joy or discomfort, probably not both at the same time, and probably you can't notice both at the same time.

When you notice joy, you are moved about the joy, when you notice discomfort, you are moved about the discomfort.

This is ageism It's not ageism, it's wise profiling :P If we are going to make an educated guess we might aswell use the information available. Actually, I am unable to judge if it's wise, but my point is that we should not avoid a piece of information, because there is something wrong with it.