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Posts tagged with "meditation"
Sep. 17 |
Question: What are Buddhist meditative practices for? Can they be for relaxation and the sharpening of mindfulness for work and play?
Answer: They are for training, to attain enlightenment, which leads to liberation from the cycle of birth and death....
Jun. 3 | The KonMari Method is a technique to organise material stuff at home. Its first step is to heap especially clothes in one giant pile – to realise how much ‘more than enough’ one has. This creates motivation to declutter and to sort what...
May. 16 |
Featured in the middle of season 1 of ‘Possessed’, are some dialogues that a fictitious ‘monk’ has. Try to spot the Dharma mistakes… The senior monk asks a few young child monks who returned to the Korean monastery if they...
Jan. 1 | What to be dissolved
is not the self,
but the sense of self,
by realising it is not there
in the first place.
– Shilashanti
Suzuki Roshi… had a very helpful way of describing the relief that comes from getting over yourself. He used the expression...
Jul. 11 | In the case of words that the Tathagata
knows to be unfactual, untrue, unbeneficial,
unendearing and disagreeable to others,
he does not say them.
– Sakyamuni Buddha
(Abhaya Sutta)
[Citta was the model Buddhist layman whose learning and behaviour the...
Feb. 24 |
若人欲拿金碧峰,
除非铁鍊锁虛空,
虛空若能锁得住,
再來拿我金碧峰。
– 金碧峰禅师
If one desires to seize Jin Bifeng,
unless able to use metal chains to lock empty space,
[and] if empty space is able to be locked...
Jun. 26 | 虽则身心,无杀盗淫…
若大妄语,即三摩地,
不得清净,成爱见魔,
失如来种。
Although thus with bodies and minds
without killing, stealing [and] sexual (mis)conduct…
if [beings are with] great false speech,
immediately,...
Aug. 14 | Question: I realised that I tend to hold my breath when I practise meditation on mindfulness of breathing (Anapanasati meditation, as a kind a Samatha or calm-abiding meditation). But when I breathe, I would be controlling my breathing, while holding...
Aug. 4 | Although there are many Dharma doors,
each more appropriate for some,
there are also some Dharma doors,
the most appropriate for most.
– Stonepeace | Get Books
When Buddha Sakyamuni was alive, during his many travels, a group of devotees sought...
Dec. 28 | When your mind is not clear…
you may well take a thief
to be your own child.
– The Buddha (Surangama Sutra)
When you practice meditation in stillness and enter samadhi, the essence of your mind merges with the Bodhisattvas of the ten directions...
Aug. 16 | Life doesn’t stay in place,
even for just a moment.
– Gampopa
Gampopa said, “When you first begin to practice, you must be like a deer locked in a pen, or a prisoner in jail, urgently seeking a way out of samsara. In the intermediate...
Aug. 10 | Your life’s happiness
is directly proportional
to mindfulness of life itself.
While unmindfulness prolongs suffering,
Right Mindfulness lessens suffering,
and approaches True Happiness.
– Stonepeace
When we speak of the cultivation of Right...
May. 31 | If one does not
even resolve to stay awake,
how can one resolve to fully awaken?
– Stonepeace
Drowsiness is a common recurring problem for many meditators (and chanting practitioners, as chanting is a meditative practice too). If we fail to counter...
May. 2 | The only good about suffering
is that it reminds us
that it is good to rise above it.
– Stonepeace
A recurring problem for many beginner meditators (and those who practise chanting, which is essentially a meditative practice too) is that of physical...
Apr. 18 | Question: Is it alright for Buddhists to practise a ‘third eye meditation’ technique that I came across? There is no reference to the Buddha’s teachings though.
Answer: Here are thoughts to share on this, using mindfulness of Amituofo...