Questions tagged [meditation-insight]
The practice of mindful investigation into the nature of reality and how things really are with the ultimate goal of the end of suffering.
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Can equanimity overcome physical pain?
I saw this scientific article -- Learning to Accept Discomfort Could Help You Thrive -- on overcoming pain, discomfort and negative emotions. There is one part in the article which seems incredible:
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Meditation focus points and their ill effects
During meditation in past, it was observed that if focus is maintained on nostrils, tip of nose and center of forehead(between eyebrows) then it causes cold and cough within 2-3 days of such practice.
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Heart, mind, brain domination
What is effect of heart on mind in reality?
Is it the effect due to coziness felt across the walls of heart (similar to the one felt by a child sitting in the parent's lap) leading to the change in ...
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How to begin to practice vipassana meditation?
I've been practicing meditation and studying buddhism for years, and I've always been curious about vipassana, but I never knew how should I practice it, on what should I focus, etc.
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How to identify a non-returner?
Will they experience dukkha? Do they have thoughts which lead to form sankhara? What are the things they experience due to ignorance? Would they have mindfulness on five perceptions? Explain, when ...
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When practicing Mahasi-style meditation, should we label rising and falling, or just distractions? The instructions seem contradictory
In Mahasi Sayadaw's meditation instructions, he says "you will
find the abdomen rising when you breathe in, and falling when you breathe out. The rising
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Meditations on Paṭiccasamuppāda
While meditating on Dependent Origination, I have come to understand certain things that I hesitatingly put forth here:
Though the links in the chain of Dependent Origination are cyclical in nature, ...
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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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What causes the arising of fear that the sense of "me" will be threatened by the fruition of my practice?
When practicing meditation (samatha and vipassana) intensely it feels like the sense of self is disintegrating and breaking apart. What causes that?
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Origin of the concept of «Oneness» in (Zen-) Buddhism
I know that Zen-Buddhism knows a form of practise to achieve full harmony between the individual, his/her action and the animate or inanimate environment, often translated as «Oneness».
Does anybody ...
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Does Vipassana arise from Samatha/Anapanasati meditation? or is it another trap of monkey mind?
I'm novice to meditation and Buddhism. Apologies if this is silly question
I've been practicing antipasti meditation for few months. While I watch/understand my breath, when a thought arise I use 6 ...
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Mahasi Sayadaw / Yuttadhammo noting question
When I'm sitting, I have a lot of trouble making it through all the touching points.
One issue I'm thinking that I might be having is that maybe the progression of objects is incorrect: I do rising-...
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King Siddharta, his wife Jasodhara, and other buddhas
What happened to king Siddhartha after he left the palace after renouncing the duty of King?How many days queen Jasodhara remained in the palace with his son?A king is not so weak minded so that he he ...
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How could the Buddha know that he had attained enlightenment when he didn't know what it was?
Having learned and gained complete mastery from the two most famous teachers of his time, he decided to apply extreme austerities for some six years. With these skills acquired, driving a powerful ...
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Intensifying sensations in Vipassana
When I sit for Vipassana and observe the sensations, they intensify. The sensations get stronger and stronger the more I observe them. After a limit these sensations break my will power to sit and ...
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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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Ultimate Reality
Conditioned reality, the psycho-physical interdependence, only exist
because we experience it. This is how I interpreted Yuttadhammo's
videos on Ultimate Reality. Is this a correct interpretation ...
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meditation - How obvious should the touch of the breath be?
When I try to feel the sensations of the breath at the nostrils/upper lip during anapana, it's so faint that after a certain point, I think I may be imagining the touch of the breath.
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Attaining a calm mind
During the last 5 months I made observation regarding my inner mind process. The inner chatter which most people know during their day disappeared completely in my mind.
I practiced mindfullnes during ...
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What does Anusaya Kilesa means? How to remove them completely?
(2000 years old Buddhist cave near my village)
Anusaya kilesa is lying dormant karmic influence after attaining Nirvana. I am putting various views as under;
SN goenka told in his speech that it ...
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Purpose of cessation or Nirvana!
What is the purpose or cause of cessation or extinction or Nirvana. Did Buddha ever talk about it?
For example, see how SN 23.1 ends:
“But sir, what is the purpose of extinguishment?”
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What is the method for "Coupling of the Serenity and Insight Powers" referred to in the Path of Discrimination?
Visuddhimagga (English translation by Bhikkhu Nanamoli) XXII.46 quotes from the Path of Discrimination (Patisambidhamagga) as follows:-
"Coupling of the Powers'. At the time of developing the eight ...
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Explanation of the six temperaments
Greedy, hating, deluded, faithful, intelligent, speculative
I know they may seem self exploratory on the surface, but I'm looking for an understanding to more properly determine how one is to know ...
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Meditation Experiences as a beginner
So I notice that I have what I consider to be intense meditation experiences as a beginner. I still consider myself as a beginner because I am not following any guidelines or books or yoga practices. ...
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How many pieces of paper are there?
I read the following article about the fullness of emptiness and this statement stuck out to me:
...when we look at a sheet of paper, the sheet of paper is part of our
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Are there any scientifically validated practices for Buddhists?
We know there are already hundreds of studies with promising results. State of enlightenment is already documented and can be measured.
So I am asking whether exists some resources or even a ...
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Can I attain Vipassana without doing the body scan?
I returned from Goenka's Vipassana retreat. The technique of being aware of sensations with equanimity was very helpful and led me into deeper states of meditation.
But his technique includes ...
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How do I practise Vipassana and Samatha through Anapanasati?
After reading the answers to this question I understand that keeping the object of meditation same, Samatha leads to calm and tranquility of mind and Vipassana leads to insight into nature of reality....
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Duty of Student
I have list of Question can any one suggest answer of these question from me from Buddhist tradition.
what is duty of student?
what are elements that useful for student from Destruction?
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What to do when music gets played in the mind
I get the idea of recognizing mind states .Knowing their existence separates them from self but sometimes .I get this addictive Music like a recording in my mind that constantly restarts diverting my ...
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Meditation, sleep paralysis, spinal vibration
I have meditated off and on since childhood, before I knew what it was, and since my 30s I have been interested in the spiritual concepts of Buddhism. I had an experience in 2010 wherein I awoke from ...
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Conscious death and afterlife meditation
Lets keep the rebirth concepts aside for a moment.
Is there a way we can die consciously? (i.e.) Being aware of our death.
And can we still meditate after death without a human body?
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Ten fetters in saṃsāra during meditation
How are the 10 fetters being destroyed?
Can the chain of fetters be seen during vipassana meditation?
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Infinite loops of Rebirths
I have a question.
A man should attain enlightenment to liberate himself from cycle of rebirths and every other aspects.
What if a MAN don't even care to try out to attain enlightenment. Will he be ...
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How to meditate before going to bed and after waking up?
I read on some online page that the time before going to bed and immediately after waking up is benificial to meditation. I searched over internet but there aren't any specific instructions about any ...
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What does Buddhism teach about the start and end of world?
I always wonder how all this started... How did we arrive here? What are we doing in this place?
So are there teachings in Buddhism that are clear on this point?
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Prayer vs Meditation
When we have a powerful practice called Meditation, why prayer?
Does the prayer deals with the worldly things, because everyone pray to god like I want a car or I wanna be rich. Is that only deals ...
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When a man life becomes complete
Everyone was on a run for their life doing something they don't like. Also there may be no sense of satisfaction in their life. So I am thinking, what makes a man's life complete?
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How does Enlightenment feel like
Finally everyone who meditate comes to a single point "Enlightenment". So anybody have any idea about how the enlightenment feels like. How it helps a man. How their mind works and reacts to the ...
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Does meditation lead to incarnation?
Continuous meditation will calm the mind, when eyes open there is a difference felt, this difference means the soul has change, is this change an incarnation ?
Similarly when hungry, thoughts are ...
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Thinking during Vipassana meditation
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
From what I read, the purpose of Vipassana meditation is to get insight, and wisdom about one self, in order to achieve a better life and eventually nibanna.
The ...
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Does this statement by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu conflict with traditional mettā meditation?
I'm a beginner and I'm studying (and trying to practice) both meditation on breathing and mettā meditation, and in the book Anapanasati by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, which i'm following with some initial ...
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Illusion of continuity
I read an article that included the following -
"Through careful, mindful observation of this process of sensation overlaid with cognitive evaluation, it’s possible to tease apart the raw sense data ...
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Should I decrease the amount of time I practice concentration meditation?
I have been following buddhist practices for little over three years now, and samadhi - or concentration, as you prefer - meditation was obviously part of my practice. As I was often taught from some ...
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what happens to the mind during meditation?
l experienced stopping of thoughts comes to the mind at a point and starts again.During that time my breathing has completely stopped.it is like mind has stopped for a moment.could that be possible?
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No insight happening
I'm not sure why but insight practice isnt feeling very insightful to me. I've been practicing for over half a decade every day and I'm not having any profound insight into reality as I have read ...
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Did Buddha told anything about if we can travel to the end of the cosmos?
Did the Buddha tell us anything about reaching the end of the cosmos or time-travel through the means of experiencing all the Jhanas in meditation?
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Which Sutta does Sakkra asks 14 Questions from the Buddha?
In Maha Buddhavamsa The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas by Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw, page 949 to 980, there is a series of question between the Buddha and Sakkra. This seems very relevant to the ...
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How can we include meditation in our daily activities or day to day life?
Given that if a person is extremely busy & unable to give full time to meditation but wants to penetrate mind to eradicate past live impressions, how can he/she do so?
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Can Buddhism help me find my passion?
I have been trying to find my passion for last many years, to be honest I do not even know how should I try to find my passion.
Though I have been practicing meditation for last couple of years (not ...
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