Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
I can't find any recommendation on this when looking through Practical Insight Meditation, and I may be looking too closely, in that it may not matter, but I wanted to know if anyone knows for sure? Please and thank you.
Assume all of my words on dhamma could be incorrect. Seek an arahant for truth.
"If we base ourselves on the Pali Nikayas, then we should be compelled to conclude that Buddhism is realistic. There is no explicit denial anywhere of the external world. Nor is there any positive evidence to show that the world is mind-made or simply a projection of subjective thoughts. That Buddhism recognizes the extra-mental existence of matter and the external world is clearly suggested by the texts. Throughout the discourses it is the language of realism that one encounters.
-Y. Karunadasa
"If we base ourselves on the Pali Nikayas, then we should be compelled to conclude that Buddhism is realistic. There is no explicit denial anywhere of the external world. Nor is there any positive evidence to show that the world is mind-made or simply a projection of subjective thoughts. That Buddhism recognizes the extra-mental existence of matter and the external world is clearly suggested by the texts. Throughout the discourses it is the language of realism that one encounters.
-Y. Karunadasa
Re: Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
Isnt that one can choose to observe rising and falling of the abdomen with open eyes !
No bashing No gossiping
Re: Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
I don't follow you.
Assume all of my words on dhamma could be incorrect. Seek an arahant for truth.
"If we base ourselves on the Pali Nikayas, then we should be compelled to conclude that Buddhism is realistic. There is no explicit denial anywhere of the external world. Nor is there any positive evidence to show that the world is mind-made or simply a projection of subjective thoughts. That Buddhism recognizes the extra-mental existence of matter and the external world is clearly suggested by the texts. Throughout the discourses it is the language of realism that one encounters.
-Y. Karunadasa
"If we base ourselves on the Pali Nikayas, then we should be compelled to conclude that Buddhism is realistic. There is no explicit denial anywhere of the external world. Nor is there any positive evidence to show that the world is mind-made or simply a projection of subjective thoughts. That Buddhism recognizes the extra-mental existence of matter and the external world is clearly suggested by the texts. Throughout the discourses it is the language of realism that one encounters.
-Y. Karunadasa
Re: Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
Previously i did practiced abdomen method with eyes opened .
No bashing No gossiping
Re: Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
If there doesn't arise eye consciousness you can keep eyes open but if eye consciosuness arises then what's the object of insight? A visual object of insight seems to be strange.
Cleared. αδόξαστος.
Re: Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
The only difference between open and closed eyes is that when you close your eyes theirs more ability to concentrate.
Take care of mindfulness and mindfulness will take care of you.
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Re: Per Mahasi Sayadaw insight meditation, is it acceptable to do sitting meditation with eyes open?
Yes. Find a white wall. Sit in front of it.
Very difficult to maintain concentration when your eye senses are continually grasping at things in your environment.