What meditation method do you practice?

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What meditation method do you practice?

Simple Anapanasati
3
21%
Metta-Bhavana
1
7%
Jhana Focus (Ajahn Brahm and others)
0
No votes
Mahasi-Tradition
2
14%
Goenka-Tradition
0
No votes
Pa-Auk-Tradition
0
No votes
Bhikkhu-Analayos Satipatthana Method
1
7%
Silent Illumination, Shikantaza or Bare Awareness
1
7%
Buddha did not teach methods.
0
No votes
Other (Which?)
6
43%
 
Total votes: 14

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Quantum Foam
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What meditation method do you practice?

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What type or method of meditation do you mainly practice? :buddha1:
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Re: What meditation method do you practice?

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Greetings,
AN 4.126 wrote:"Monks, there are these four types of individuals to be found existing in the world. Which four?

"There is the case where an individual keeps pervading the first direction — as well as the second direction, the third, & the fourth — with an awareness imbued with good will. Thus he keeps pervading above, below, & all around, everywhere & in every respect the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness imbued with good will: abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will. He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the devas of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill people.

"Again, there is the case where an individual keeps pervading the first direction — as well as the second direction, the third, & the fourth — with an awareness imbued with compassion... appreciation... equanimity. Thus he keeps pervading above, below, & all around, everywhere & in every respect the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness imbued with equanimity: abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will. He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the devas of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill people.

"These are four types of individuals to be found existing in the world."
Metta,
Paul. :)
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Re: What meditation method do you practice?

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I practice Satipathana as per Sutta instructions. So I voted other.
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Re: What meditation method do you practice?

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SarathW wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 3:21 am I practice Satipathana as per Sutta instructions.
So u must be enlightened :shock: :
"Now, if anyone would develop these four frames of reference in this way for seven years, one of two fruits can be expected for him: either gnosis right here & now, or — if there be any remnant of clinging/sustenance — non-return.

"Let alone seven years. If anyone would develop these four frames of reference in this way for six years... five... four... three... two years... one year... seven months... six months... five... four... three... two months... one month... half a month, one of two fruits can be expected for him: either gnosis right here & now, or — if there be any remnant of clinging/sustenance — non-return.

"Let alone half a month. If anyone would develop these four frames of reference in this way for seven days, one of two fruits can be expected for him: either gnosis right here & now, or — if there be any remnant of clinging/sustenance — non-return.

"'This is the direct path for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow & lamentation, for the disappearance of pain & distress, for the attainment of the right method, & for the realization of Unbinding — in other words, the four frames of reference.' Thus was it said, and in reference to this was it said."

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