Questions tagged [meditation-breath]
Questions concerning meditation which focuses on the breath. This could be advice around certain aspects of this practice or questions around relevant texts such as the Anapanasati Sutta,
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Dreamery and random narratives during breath meditation?
Pretty much what the title says, but expand on it a little -
During breath meditation (also during vipassana, but mostly breath) I frequently see random narratives. Sometimes it is random bits from TV/...
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Mind frame rate vs craving
I have some hunch that when rising from the deep meditative states / jhanas, the mind becomes so slow that the world is perceived in frames. Is this true? My guess is that the speed of human brain ...
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Building discipline & willpower from scratch
I have been smoking for about 5 years now. I never really 'started' one day, but it just made my day to day life more enjoyable, and it did so consistently, so I never had a reason to stop. Recently, ...
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Does consciousness, or wakefulness, have any relationship to space or time?
In my years of meditation practice, I have both experienced time contracting (appearing to pass at great speed) or dilating and seeming to come to a near standstill.
I begin my meditation practice by ...
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Normal Deep Breathing vs Buddhism Basic Meditation
What is the difference between normal deep breathing that recommended by all western Doctors vs Buddhism Basic Meditation ?
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Help finding “Breath Energy” as described by Thanissaro Bhikku
I plan on calling the Metta forest monastery with this question shortly but have not had the opportunity yet to do so.
In “With Each and every breath” and in many of Thanissaro’s guided meditations he ...
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Timeframe of meditation's relaxing effect
I'd like to meditate on the breath to calm myself and diminish stress. Yet, when I meditate on the breath, I typically feel more stressed afterwards.
How long should I practice this technique before ...
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Detachment in breathing meditation
I read this answer, and it made me wonder something deeply; the answer seemed to imply strenuous or volitional attention was inferior to watching the mind for breath meditation, and that merely ...
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May one learn how to breathe from the diaphragm (Buddha Belly Breathing) holistically throughout all of their activities and if so how exactly?
Peace, Divine Love, and Blessings to All. I recently began to research meditative/breathing for the Solar Plexus. I was instructed that the "normal breathing" done in the west is not the ...
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How to realise "anatta" of "Nama-rupa"
By noticing my abdomen while breathing , I can feel up and down movement of it . Also I can keep a mental notes as "up" and "down". When it is up there is "rupa of up" and "Nama of up mental note " ...
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When I focus on my breath, it becomes shallow
Sometimes when I'm meditating, I'll have really "good" breaths - the breath will be deep, very satisfying and relaxing. My diaphragm and chest really expand and it feels like my whole lung fills with ...
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Why I find it difficult to breathe when meditating, a lack of oxygen in my head? And how to overcome it?
I just get started three days ago. When meditating, I felt hard to breathe and even the lack of oxygen to the brain. I felt my bell and chess were stiff and this intervene me in getting enough oxygen. ...
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Mindfulness improves academic performance?
I have just started a PhD in Mathematics. Can serious mindfulness practice (i.e. vipassana meditation at least 2 hours a day) help improve academic performance? If so, can you attach any reliable ...
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Anapanasati: Mindful Breathing Concentration Point
I have been practicing mindfulness of breathing for some time. But I am having doubt regarding my practice. When I focus on a single point on nostril and keep attention there, and note natural ...
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Major differences between breath meditation and body scan meditation?
I have done several Vipassana retreats in the past. Some questions came up to me several times without being able to answer them.
What are the major differences between mindfulness of the body (e.g. ...
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Hard to breathe during meditation
I started with a new goal: meditate for a month daily and it reminds me of my experiences during group meditations in the past. After relaxing the body, it gets very hard to breathe, my chest feels ...
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pranayama unsettles my meditation practice
I sit for a daily meditation, it will be deep most days. I have been advised to add pranayama(alternate nostril) to my practice and when i add that to my routine. It disturbs my sleep and as well my ...
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Is it considered "normal" / "possible" / "bad" / "wrong" the use of Mala Beads for counting breaths while meditating?
I sometimes use my Mala Bead during meditation, I find it quite "concentrating" to turn one bead for each breath.
As I read online, when I reach the center bead, I reverse the rotation and start ...
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Body Scan Versus Feeling Breath Overall
Upon reading this post, I realized I always focused on the tip of the nose rather than the whole body, which may be less effective (for me). I was reminded of my Buddhist college teacher who said that ...
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Sati-Sampajañña and a quiet mind
Is it the case that a quiet mind can best execute Sati-Sampajañña because there are no interfering thoughts disturbing it?
If the answer is yes, should the main concern in day-to-day life be to ...
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Idea of the Breath
I heard a few times the notion that in meditation one must focus on the sensations of breathing (which seems to make sense to me) but not the idea of the breath. What would be the 'idea' of the breath?...
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How to differentiate between natural vs artificial breathing pattern during meditation?
When we do a simple observation of breath (in & out) during meditation, how to know if its natural flow I am observing or forced one?
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Observing the breath vs Pranayama
Is it better to just watch the breath as it unfolds or sometimes we need to control it to slow it down ,calming down and noticing it in the same time ?.
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In the Anapanasati Sutta, what is the difference between mind and mental processes?
The book Breath by Breath by Larry Rosenberg splits the Anapanasati Sutta into 4 tetrads. The wildmind website does a similar thing. In the second tetrad there is a verse that is rendered
He trains ...
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Simplest version of anapanasati
Anapanasati is usually described as "mindfulness of breathing" but I've seen a member of this site describing it as "mindfulness with breathing".
Sati or mindfulness (as seen in the parable of the ...
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How to stay mindful of the gap in the breath
When I breathe there's a certain time gap after the out breath and before the in breath. I find myself being dull or distracted at that time because there's no breath to notice.
Do I notice the lack ...
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To reach 1st jhana, do we have to let go, or do we have to put some effort?
Recently, I've been reading a lot about the different methods and perspectives for reaching the jhanas.
For a long time, the only method I've been using is to "let go" everything, and to use the ...
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Mental Release from Breath Versus Metta
I asked a friend who is a meditator about my practice of compassion, and he suggested I do breathing meditation because it helps liberate the mind from overthinking, as well as relaxes the person. ...
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Meditation - how to breathe naturally?
Just starting with meditation, I can't get the breathing right.
As soon as I concentrate on breathing (as there is not much else to concentrate on), I unvolunteraly assume concious control over when ...
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How does one calm one's bodily fabrications?
I personally start looking at the speed of the breath and then it slows down. In the Tripitaka are there recommended methods to accomplish this? What do different teachers and commentaries say about ...
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Anapanasati and Metta
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Hi all, i have been practicing Metta and self-compassion meditation for a while but have just switched (back) to following the first couple of exercises in the Anapanasati Sutta (...
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Hard not to control my breathing
For the record I'm new to meditation.
I'm trying to observe my breathing without controlling it. That was the guidance from someone I met at a buddhist meeting.
Though sometimes I just ralize that I ...
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What is the best of Jhanas and breathing meditation?
I have heard two ways off approaching mindfulness of breathing:
Breath in a inhale-pause-exhale-pause pattern, focusing on the
sensations of the breath at the nostrils and the silences at the
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What does "nose breath" mean?
What does the following mean?
You should not try to find the point where the moving air strokes the nostrils, but keep your focus at the nose breath.
This comes from the followingpage that was ...
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Holding my breath
I don't breath appropriately.
Most of the time i hold my breath its like I'm tensed.
When i was a child i started doing this when i was near people but today (40 years old) i hold my breath all the ...
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Beginner Buddhist Breathing?
Buddhists, I am told, value the practice of paying attention to breathing. I think I'm going to give it a try while I go about my day ... it can't hurt. What are the benefits? Are there beginner ...
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In breathing mindfulness ,why only long and short breaths are taken into consideration?
I have just started practicing breathing mindfulness.
At several places following is said for the breathing mindfulness:
While breathing in long, he knows “I am breathing in long”, or, while
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Annoyed by nasal congestion and hyper-salivation during meditation?
I just attended a 10-day Vipassana retreat and during the whole retreat I was constantly annoyed by nasal congestion and hyper-salivation. For many years I've had a sort of chronic nasal congestion, ...
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Lack of Grasping of the Object of Meditation
I asked a question previously about the object of meditation being faint. Perhaps I'd like to reformulate my question more specifically as I still encounter these kinds of problems, and I will provide ...
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How can I direct attention on an breath without consciously breathing?
In every guided meditation or in the books I've read on meditation, I've been told to observe and hold sustained awareness towards the the 'meditation object', that is my breathing. When I do that, ...
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Non-attachment as object of meditation
Is there text (e.g. suttas, and/or articles by modern authors) which describes "non-attachment" as an object of meditation? Specifically, how is "non-attachment" an "object&...
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How to breathe into your stomach and not get light headed during meditation?
During conventional Buddhist sitting meditation I have a problem whereby because I am thinking about my breathing my breath is quite short (I can't seem to change that) and just a few minutes in, just ...
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What other suttas instruct how to do Anapanasati, apart from the Anapanasati Sutta?
Anapanasati is mainly covered in the Anapanasati Sutta.
Some of these instructions (perhaps additional instructions) are also written elsewhere: for example in the Anapana Samuthiya, Girimananda ...
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What are the Ānāpānasati Kammaṭṭhāna as Taught By Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero
I am curious to know how Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero teachers Ānāpānasati. Does he follow the 16 stage instructions or perhaps something similar to the 8 step method1 or combination of both or ...
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Why does my mind feel slow to think nearly half day after my meditation?
I would like to know if I should expect any problems after I have done my meditation in the morning for a half hour? For the whole morning afterwards, my mind felt very slow to think of anything. Is ...
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How can you see suffering in the breath?
In his book Breath by Breath, Larry Rosenberg says that being mindful of the breath, as in the Anapanasati Sutta, is a complete practice and can lead to complete liberation. Following on from that I ...
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Anapanasati Buddhist meditation
So I thought I really need to ask this question about Buddhist meditation specifically, Anapanasati. Basically I sit cross legged and count breaths for 15 minutes as advised on the Internet for ...
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The object of meditation
I have been focused on the breath in meditation and I am interested in Vipassana, but I am confused about the object of meditation.
I have read that you focus on the breath and as thoughts arise, you ...
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More self control - Beginners
Most of the time we are under control of our mind and old habits.If a beginner wants to break the old habits and get more control of it.From where do they should start ?
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Ways to strengthen the perception of the breath
I would like to hear all the ways to strengthen the feeling of the breath so i will know when it enters the body and when it leaves it
i tried to put a hand on the stomach and feel the air go out ...
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