Timeline for Skillful Buddhist Meditation Teachers
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| Dec 28, 2014 at 19:49 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | at @user535875 : maybe you didn't understand me. It is not that me or you know that, but the question was from the perspective of a newbie: what someone should tell a newbie , and what the newbie should consider. And I find it rude to tell a newbie either, "look that the teacher conforms with the suttas" or "but the teacher need not mention the suttas explicitely" or... or... or... and in fact never rely to the question and the abilities of the newbie - but insist on criteria which only an experienced one can check out. But I think I step out of this, don't expect progress here. | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 16:51 | comment | added | Lowbrow | @Gottfried Helms Just because a teacher doesn't mention the suttas much doesn't mean they haven't studied them. It doesn't mean they aren't following them. I hope all is well and you get your medicine :) | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 0:38 | comment | added | Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena | Need not quote the Suttas extensively. What they say should be consistent with the Sutta. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 22:51 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | @user535875: after the remark "Some teachers won't say much about the suttas" how should one interpret Suminda's criterion: "Teaching should be traced backed to the Suttas" ... and so on... When I try to remember how I felt as a "newbie": that was just left on my own, if you understand what I mean. Twenty doctors, everyone critizising the other one, and I'm dying before getting medicine - and whom of all of them can I trust... and I should decide who is the correct one , this was really rude and its still the same today... | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | Lowbrow | @Gottfried Helms Some teachers won't say much about the suttas. They rarely talk about the Dhamma. Instead, these teachers will guide you to focus on your experience. They know that one's own direct experience is the best teacher of Dhamma. Just to make it clear, this approach is in harmony with the Pali Suttas | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 17:04 | comment | added | Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena | By learning a bit about them. At least the above 2 are a must. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 12:25 | comment | added | Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena | You can check Anapanasati Sutta and Maha Sathipatana Sutta and some other selected Suttas. But this is one of least important of the items. What you should see is what your are taught a way to experience what is been taught. By practice you experience is what is been taught is in fact in line with reality. The key is way and method to experience and empirical verification. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 11:17 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | I don't know... when I think I should have observed all this when I began to contact with the buddhism (sangha and literature) I could not have done a single step forward. How should I have discerned that a teaching conforms to the suttas or not before knowing them? A single example only: actually I've overcome my scepticism against misleading because of completely "external" reasons, for instance because I could read about Thich Nhat Hanh and his peaceful practice in the Vietnam war - and that met my (already relatively matured) own pacifism. After that I could proceed and check him. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 9:58 | history | edited | Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2014 at 7:28 | history | answered | Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena | CC BY-SA 3.0 |