Questions tagged [practice]
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Buddhism and addiction treatment
I have a lot of experience with addiction, both personal and professionally.
In my job, I am in contact with many drug and alcohol addiction treatment workers. And I've been thinking about recommending integrating buddhist ideas and, perhaps more…
Mr. Concept
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Living in the moment without indulging in it
I find it difficult to live in the moment or go with the flow as i am reminded of the sense doors and hence am guarded in the present to not to be totally involved in the moment and I miss the flow or to experience the moment as it is. I am trying…
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"I fear the man of one book" - What is your attitude towards this thought?
A while ago I heard said phrase being interpreted as a warning toward people who only have knowledge from a single source (a single book, the oneself's perspective, a single author, a single teacher, etc.).
Buddhism touches a lot of topic today…
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questions about my practice
I have been practicing insight meditation daily now for over 6 years. I have learnt the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition. I focus on my abdomen rising and falling and notice when my attention goes to something else which seems to be mostly thoughts and then…
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intellectualism or anti-intellectualism and Buddhism
From my perspective, the Buddha's Teaching is reductive and subtractive. It's experiential and fundamental for knowing how to die well. It's good for transcending the ego by dissolving into all to find freedom from suffering.
The object is not to…
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How to get back to practice after "falling" from it?
How to get back to practice after failing ? i always try and fail try and fail
meditating for some years- had and have a teacher - did retreats - but i never manage to keep meditating for more than a few days - tried going all in - tried only…
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A question on MN 39 Mahā- Assapura Sutta
The Buddha in this sutta describes the gradual training of a Bhikkhu step by step. I have a difficulty understanding some of the steps in precise detail because of the statement at the end of most of the steps pescribed: 'Bhikkhus I inform you, I…
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Playing with sensations/heat
I am a Vipassana meditator and in the last 2-3 years am noticing that someone is playing with my aura/heat and sensations all the time. I have no idea where to get help. It is coming in the way of my meditation practice. I know it is a person who is…
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How do I cultivate Samatha and Vipassana according to the Suttas?
According to the Suttas, how do I practice Vipassana and how do practice samatha? Are these practices differentiated or not?
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Becoming attained-to-view as opposed to one liberated-by-faith and vice versa
How did the practice of one in-training (sekha) differ so that he became one attained-to-view as opposed to one liberated-by-faith and vice versa?
In MN 70 the Buddha describes them like so:
And what person is attained to view? It’s a person who…
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kamma wise why cant i do a steady practice
I have ups and downs in my practice (time doing formal mediation - time being mindful in daily life - doing good stuff avoiding bad stuff etc)
and also ups and downs in completely mundane issues as well being lazy not doing anything for days to…
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What's the shortest path to eradicate Mana (self-view)?
Having come across someones attraction to the answer, it might be a good question into your community here: So how does the shortest path to liberation looks like? How to abound the five aggregates for a no more take on?
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Māgha Pūjā, traditional celebrating and todays
Not only as a reminder today, on Māgha Pūjā, it is possible of interest to know more about "Buddhist" secound large Pūjā and it would be interesting to get known different traditional customs (of course not that what is found on wiki, which has…
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