What you should know about the right sitting posture for meditation…
In this series Tan Ajahn Jayasaro, a British monk in the Theravadan Forest Tradition of Thailand who trained with Ajahn Chah and is the former abbot of the International Forest Monastery Wat Pa Nanachat, gives information on meditation in general and Buddhist meditation in particular for people with or without meditation experience.
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Ajahn Chah - Bio 36 - Arriving at Pah Pong Forest
Arriving at Pah Pong Forest, getting ready to establish Wat Nong Pah Pong, a quite peculiar event happens. Ajahn Chah never made a great deal out of these stories…
What you should know about the right sitting posture for meditation…
Meditation is life! How dealing with pain in your meditation will help you to relate to discomfort and unpleasantness that you experience in your daily life in a different way…
Impermanence as a basic characteristic of everything that exists and how meditation is shifting the focus from contents to process. Are human beings valuable or worthless…?
Are we addicted to thinking? How thinking resembles smoking cigarettes and how the mind can put down thinking…
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Buddhist Meditation (11) Meditation Experiences
What happens when the mind becomes calmer and how to take your practice still further… Are we practicing samatha or vipassana?
Daily meditation and continuity as a crucial matter to practice. Is there a failure in meditation? What is the best place and time to meditate? How to make missing meditation like missing breakfast and how meditation is similar to a doctor’s work…
Beneficial effects of meditation go all the way from health benefits to insight into the way the mind works. Thus, practice leads us out of the mind’s agitations and obsessions, contributing to real understanding, clarity, happiness and freedom from attachments.
Metta, or loving-kindness, as a meditation object and as a quality of the heart, that can be developed.
Drowsiness is one of the most common obstacles in meditation. Where it comes from and what you can do about it…
When you begin to meditate, you might be surprised to realize how agitated the mind is. Here’s what to do about it…
Three factors of meditation: Sati – mindfulness or remembering, Sampajanna – alertness or wakefulness and appropriate effort.
Sila, or right conduct, as the foundation of meditation practice.
Bhavana, the pali term for cultivation, refers to the development of wholesome mental states and of wisdom. Dealing with Difficulties when beginning to meditate...
In this series Tan Ajahn Jayasaro, gives an introduction to Buddhist meditation, being part of a path leading to profound happiness, inner peace and liberation from suffering.
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