In Buddhism, meditation serves to calm and control the mind and is essential to break the cycle of suffering and attain Enlightenment. Follow these steps…more »In Buddhism, meditation serves to calm and control the mind and is essential to break the cycle of suffering and attain Enlightenment. Follow these steps for mindfulness of breathing meditation, one of the two simplest meditations.
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Actually, this is one of the most inaccurate representations of Buddhist meditation I’ve come across. If one of my students sat like the person in the video, all they’d get is pain from improper posture and incorrect breathing. Attend a genuine Buddhist meditation class and see for yourself perhaps before putting something like this up next time.
May be you should learn about the 121 consciousness in Abhidhamma and meditate base on Satipatana sutta
yep. perfect example of your book knowledge.
hearsay and book knowledge. look who’s talking lol. that was exactly what the other person was pointing out to you lol.
btw, to hit back or ridicule someone is not unwholesome if it does the other person good even though it may bring hurt or harm to any party. this was in 1 of the suttas
aloozer
The intention is very important. In eightfold path – The second path is “right thought or right intention”
aloozer
You have to realise the truth not to base on heresay or book knowledge.
Tp point out someone mistake out of goodwill is one thing. That’s regarded as wholesome kamma
To hit back at someone or tell someone off and ridicule someone is regarded as unwholesome kamma
Buddhism is profound. Like the Buddha said. it’s easy for a 3 year old to understand but it’s hard for a 80 year old to practice
really? and how about the person doing the judgement on someone else saying that you’re simplistic? in other words, yourself. lol. people have perception of you, you have perception of someone. it doesn’t make you any different. you have to let go.
lol. you’ve got to get over just by doing what someone tells you, to go further into investigation of your own.
If you keep the 5 precepts, that’s the protection. Even gods and human will guide us and help us to see the way. The evil ones are not able to harm us.
My first dhamma teacher made us recite the 5 precepts for 1 year. I thought she was a little crazy. After learning meditation with various teachers for many years, I started to realise the advantage of it. It’s better than power of god.
Buddha said that even good thing like dhamma we have to let it go after crossing over.
Keep it simple and you’ll arrive. Sorry to say that people who see the fault in others like the other person did, will never arrive
perhaps. but only, perhaps. like what the other person said, your understanding of dhamma(dharma) may be a bit simplistic, but keep going. i can see that you’re devoted to it.
It’s important to keep the 5 precepts so that we have peace of mind. When our mind is peaceful, our mind can concentrate well and will not wander off.
There’s a lot of benefits of keeping the 5 precepts. Try it and you’ll know what I mean.
I see, about the 5 precepts. But is adhering to the 5 precepts the reason for progressive meditation? Is it the reason why in meditation, that our minds wander off?
aloozer
There’s nothing wrong with that breathing. Meditation is hard to master. You need proper guidance and many yaers to master.
One has to keep 5 precepts when practising meditation so that the mind does not wander off:
1) Abstain from Killing Living Beings
2) Abstain from Stealing
3) Abstain from Sexual Misconduct
4) Abstain from Lying
5) Absatin from Intoxicating Drinks and drugs
so i think that a better way would be to find a competent teacher who is able to offer proper guidance when it comes to buddhist meditation. furthermore, we can’t simple read off words off a book or an online instruction when it comes to getting the correct posture for meditation. which reinforces why i mentioned about the need for a person him/herself to offer instruction.
i’ve read enough books on buddhism. the 4 Noble Truths, the 3 Characteristics of Existence, Satipatthana Sutta, Anapanasati Sutta, the 3 main traditions(theravada, mahayana, vajrayana of which Tibetan buddhism is a part of) etc. those are the stuff that i’ve read, but my initial question pertains to meditation guidance. as far as i understand it, meditation is supposed to be simple. the technique is simple, there should be nothing to be contrived and just let be. but i do still need instruction.
@aloozer in all the texts that I have taken instruction from it invariably instructs one to refrain from influencing ones breath. It’s only natural to sometimes come to the meditation with the breath at a higher than resting position.
I always find that my breath finds its own settling after a while, and I do not bother it.
i don’t want to cast negative views about this clip, but I suggest that you watch many more, and even buy a small book on Buddhism. they are invaluable in offering guidance
i find that when i’m in the initial stage of my meditation, my inhalation is slow and broken up into divisions like 1 in..2 in..3 in.. then exhale but the exhalation is just 1 fast forceful exhalation. is anything wrong here?
Meditate base on Satipatana Sutta and Anapanasati Sutta. Buddha gave all the instructions clearly in these suttas
Read Tipitaka (3 baskets). It’s also known as Pali Canon. It’s the original teaching of the Buddha.
I’m pretty sure that the Buddha didn’t have a music track playing in the background when he was meditating. The same should apply to you. Do without any sounds in the background such as music as this can be distracting. In fact use ear plugs to keep your sounds only to the ones your own body makes.
Anyone seen this healing?
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Its fine to do, however Christianity and Buddhism cannot be mixed. Christianity believes too many things that are not based on actual evidence. According to the Buddha, that causes dukkha (suffering).
I agree with you aside from 2 points. 1) I don’t think the Dharma teaching is a religion 2) I don’t care who tries to hog “God” to themself, because he simply doesn’t exist.
Richard Dawkins is a famous atheist. Also, you using the term god is pointless. The Buddha said that there is no God, but if there is one, there is no way of knowing. Stop trying to plug supernatural nonsense into the Dharma like people have done for over 2,000 years now. Their adding to it has done no justice. Plain and simple, we need to be able to observe the things which we cite as truth. Not make them up because they make us feel comfortable.
I explain God to reductionists as that whole which is greater than the sum of us parts, including all & everything. Call that pantheism, if you want.
Who the hell is Richard Dawkins?
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