Questions tagged [meditation-hindrances]
Questions regarding difficulties arising from meditation practice. These can be traditional hindrances such as sloth and torpor, doubt etc.. but the difficulties could fall outside of these categories,
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Where to go after Meditation apps
I’ve gone through quite a few periods of meditation everyday, but usually something happens and I tend to off the rails stop for a long period to bad effects.
I started learning with Headspace and ...
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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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Is there anything like mahamudra without guru yoga
I am attracted to the idea of meditating upon the mind as a path to liberation, as I understand is emphasized in mahamudra. However, I dislike the idea of guru yoga, or meditating in reverence or ...
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How to be meditative and involved at work?
At work, I try to be mindful, deliberate, and calm. I found with the help of meditation and being mindful makes me less distracted and less stressed at my work or whatever I do. But I also feel being ...
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Questions about reacting to bodily sensations
I'm currently reading The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation and it says to observe sensations in the body without reacting.
What would be an example of a reaction that one might have? When I feel ...
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What is Wholesome Meditation?
Apologies, this question has been brewing for some time after observing so many expressions of suffering from maybe not so much as misinformation, but more misdirection.
Are there any scriptures ...
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Which of the five hindrance does 'comparison' fall in?
Which of the five hindrances does 'comparison' come under? I mean when the mind starts chattering, "he is better than me, he succeeded where I failed, he got this and I got nothing, he got better ...
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How to deal with exhaustion?
So, I meditate every for more than half an hour during the evenings and also five minutes session every one or two hours during my work so I keep myself calm all the time(not every day but I am trying ...
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How can I overcome the breathing trouble while meditating and increase concentration?
At certain point of meditation,I feel like I can't breathe properly as in the beginning of meditation(lose of oxygen) and thus I stop meditating and try to get oxygen into my brain.
I do no know why ...
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How to tackle cold? [closed]
Simple question -- how to tackle cold feeling during winter through meditation other than clothes or anything?
Asking for specific meditation details with insight for tackling cold without any ...
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Looking for help for Practise / Method to overcome distubring external sounds
Can anyone recommend a practice to overcome disturbing sounds. Many times when I meditate or turn inwards I am disturbed by a neighbors loud barking dogs or other loud sounds.
I've tried doing ...
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Overcoming sensual craving for food
I've become interested in Buddhism a couple of months ago, and I try to meditate daily, which had very positive effects on my anxiety and overall feeling so far.
I am prone to feeling overwhelming ...
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Doubts and Meditation
I am usually filled with common doubts (not necessarily doubts towards the dharma). My mind keeps forming thoughts that say: "Maybe things are like this! Maybe things are like that!" without much ...
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Sensory Pleasure as a Hindrance on the Path
I recall reading, though I do not remember where, that jains and buddhists refrain from masturbation because it could cancel/hinder their spiritual progress. I somewhat wonder:
Does engaging in ...
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Scattered mind while doing Body Scanning in Vipassana
I have been practicing Vipassana under the tradition of S.N Goenka for the last 2 and half year. When I scan my body and observe different sensations, I find that my mind is not clear and It's not ...
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Is meditating when tired a waste of time?
I like to meditate sometimes just before bed. Invariably I end up drifting off into dream type states and ending the mediating early. Is it a waste of time to meditate when tired or conversely are ...
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Feeling Tilted During Meditation
Can anyone enlighten me as why I feels like my body is tilted around 30 degrees to the right during meditation?
This happens around 10-15 minutes after I've started.
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Managing sloth and torpor in meditation?
Recently sloth and torpor has been a huge hindrance in meditation; my biggest hindrance as it happens. I've managed to reduce the bulk of it but I find that it's still hanging around in some sessions. ...
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Is there a 'dead zone' in meditation effort?
Is there a 'dead zone' in meditation and the effort applied? So to explain
Going from no meditation at all to meditating even a bit (10 mins every few days) - benefits felt quickly
Going up to ...
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Best meditation techniques (mindfulness,vipassana,yoga,zazen,TM,etc) to beat behavioral addictions (food,sex,porn,gambling,internet,videogames,etc)?
For a layman who wants to overcome behavioral addictions (i.e. any "addiction that involves a compulsion to engage in a rewarding non-drug-related behavior – sometimes called a natural reward", such ...
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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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Formal Meditation Laziness
I have the intuition, from what I've heard within Buddhism, that formal meditation is rarely ever "wrong", and provides benefit if even slight form is held.
Nevertheless, I am struggling to create a ...
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How to concentrate to suppress hindrances? [duplicate]
I heard one needs concentration to abandon the hindrances -- however to have strong concentration, you need to have [already] abandoned hindrances, so that nothing can stop your focus. Which one is it?...
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Need help understanding the meaning of this
I am reading A Critical Analysis Of The Jhanas
In the book we were going over wise considration and how it will help you eliminate the hindrances. But i am having trouble understand what this is ...
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Can't meditate anymore
I used to meditate daily, about 2 or 3 years ago I stopped.
A week ago I decided to start meditating again. I sat down closed my eyes... and suddenly I am halfway through cleaning my dishes.
So I ...
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My short story with anxiety problems - could meditation be the cause?
My background is that my father was/is an alcoholic and I had pretty rough childhood. I recently turned 33. I always was pretty self aware. I have a good job. I’m easy going open person, have a bunch ...
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What is The eighth jhana and how can i practice it?
I am new to meditation. If i understand correctly there are two types of meditations, Two forms of meditation eight jhanas and vipassana (insight).
One thing that capture me and made me want to start ...
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Discomfort during vipassana meditation
I have only started meditating for only 2-3 weeks. But now I cannot seem to meditate properly. Whenever I sit for meditation, there are several problems, like increased salivation, feeling of being ...
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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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What is the logic behind visualization meditation
I have practiced meditation for the better part of a decade now. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, but that's immaterial. I've experienced and practiced many kinds of meditation (energy, dream, ...
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During meditation how do I focus
What is the best way to focus?
And also how can I stop passing judgment on myself during? Its really difficult.
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Retaining courage during mediation
Everyone in this little community is awesome, and the people contributing have helped me in the path tremendously. Thank you.
My question is this, how can a person remain calm and courageous during ...
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Why is mentally reproducing music so hard to control? How can it be counteracted?
I started decreasing the amount of music I listened to before and especially after I started meditating so that I had to cope less with replaying music passages and enjoy a clearer and more silent ...
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Why mind is all set to achieve something unknown during meditation?
Sitting in front of the rising sun, observing atmosphere and self. Mostly all of come to me in a very unexpected way. Yes, it is easy to achieve what he and a few of holy them have achieved. Is it not ...
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Reasons against practicing insight meditation as a main (sitting) practice for medical or other recondite-subject majoring students?
("Recondite-subject majoring" is meant to mean the more challenging subjects, such as electrical engineering or a doctorate based major.)
If a student who has one hour to meditate, every day, and one ...
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Should I consider multitasking while listening to audiobooks? Is it a danger to mindfulness?
One of the several advertised benefits of listening to audiobooks is that it is an ideal activity to accompany those many chores, such as washing the dishes, doing the laundry, running outside etc., ...
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How to develop Chanda?
How to develop Chanda?
Anything you have to add on this subject is welcomed and appreciated.
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Is it counter productive to accumulate a lot of ideas while meditating?
I'm not particularly into Buddhist style meditation but wasn't sure where else to ask. I tend to accumulate a lot of random ideas that filter in and after my session I jot them down - is this counter ...
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Mindfullness or Self Consciousness (Introvert's Struggle)
I am trying to achieve consciousness and that is my target to achieve it,...
I am struck in Strange State .. as Bruce lee said, in Enter The Dragon:
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What would you say about being overly optimistic or overly pessimistic about the ways of approaching the path?
As everyone is entitled to their own opinion to a question of this nature, let me first say this. Now I recognize that they’re both forms of conceit. If we learn the proper use of conceit: the ...
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Tiredness and Meditation
I decided to meditate continuously, no matter what occurs within meditation. I will attempt to do as best I can.
However, the only circumstance when I feel like meditation would be difficult would be ...
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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 to find motivation to overcome a hindrance in the moment of truth?
I am trying for a long time to find motivation to practice meditation - i think i found a good general motivation finally after watching a dhamma talk
but it still doesn't fully solve my problem : ...
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Which Hindrances are counteracted or enhance by the 37 and Jhana Factors?
If you take Jhana factors or the 37 Factors, many of them counteract one of the Hindrances. So if these factors (and perhaps other factors mentioned in the Tripitaka) are grouped with the hindrance ...
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Head oscillations, magnetic force movement, dizzy head after Vipassana
I did my first Vipassana course in Feb 2016. 10 Days.
As a first timer, it went pretty well till the 7th Day.
1) On 5th, 6th and 7th day i was suffering from my head thrown back, or front, or ...
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Faintness of Object of Meditation
I started meditating recently formally, after a while of non-formal meditation, and I'm realizing that the objects I meditate on, either the breath or an image, are extremely faint. In the case of the ...
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Is attachment to the word "Meditation" a problem?
I like to Meditate, I like to read about Meditation, I like to think about Meditation; but the word ...
"MEDITATION.. MEDITATION.."
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How can I avoid ...
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What are we supposed to do while meditating?
Yes I have meditated and I have searched the Internet this question before landing here, what I describe below is a mixture of what I have read of what one should do during meditation and what ...
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Is it dangerous to focus on ticks from childhood during meditation?
At the panditarama vipassana retreat they ask us to focus and observe on the object that pops up our attention, such as a pain or thought.
I started having ticks that I had on my childhood, such as ...
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Is the path of enlightenment consists 7 levels?
In this question The Seven Factors of Enlightenment shown, Tranquility, Concentration, Equanimity, Investigation of dhammas, Effort and Rapture as specific phases in the path of enlightenment (also in ...
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