Questions tagged [meditation-recommendation]
Questions asking for recommendations for a particular type of meditation perhaps to remedy a particular difficulty or to enable the practitioner to deepen his or her practice
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Meditation to simulate Near-death Experience
Namaste, Namo Buddhaya.
I'm here in my personal pursuit to understand death and soul from various perspectives.
A few days back I was reading texts on life, death, and reincarnation and got to know ...
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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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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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Where should the eye be oriented during Vipassana (Anapanasati)?
Here is a general meditation technique of Anapanasati where one concentrates on the breath.
My question is during this meditation where should the eye turned.
Should they look up, or straight normally ...
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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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Which meditation is less likely to have negative effects or be practiced wrong?
I've heard a meditation teacher mention that samatha is less likely to be done wrong while using a visual object. I've also read about how mindfulness meditation may sometimes lead to negative effects ...
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Semi-consistent Long Sessions Versus Regular Short Sessions
I've noticed it's really difficult for me to be consistent, even with short meditation. I'm thus hesitating between:
10 min sessions every day
40 min sessions every 2 or 3 days
Which of these seems ...
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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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Guidance in practical aspects of buddhism and meditation
I read a course entitled ' Meditation without exertion' which was purportedly based on Tibetan teachings and methods. It discussed methods of developing concentration and imagination leading to ...
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I'm looking for an outline of the practices going from beginner to jhana or streamentry
I'm looking for something similar to this little book, The
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Meditation (10~20 pages) from Ajahn Brahm.
Or something like this -- Meditation:
What is taught and practised in Pa-Auk.
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Proper meditation at hard times ( to be kind, open mind and enjoy hard times )
I understand that i act harmfully by my words also when i struggle at hard situation. (male 37 years old)
For example today forced my mother ( elderly) to do some work which i thought it could be ...
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How many different techniques of meditation did Buddha teach?
I was just wondering how many different types of meditation techniques did Buddha teach?
I know the below
Anapana,
Vipassana,
Charnal Ground,
Metta Bhavana,
I am looking for a list of ...
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Samatha while studying
I heard about the practice of concentration. But I work 13 hours per day doing coding. How can I meditate while studying, thinking really deep?
I can focus on one static object, but not reading (...
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Meditating When Demotivated
I had meditated for some time for 30 min once or twice daily. Now, I am suffering from what seems to be anhedonia, a difficulty in feeling pleasure and being motivated. It makes it incredibly ...
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Do Different Meditations Support One Another?
I have tried meditating on compassion, just as I've tried meditating on the breath. Currently, these days, I find it hard to meditate on compassion.
My question is: Would practising meditation of any ...
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How to disambiguate between various meditation practices?
From what I understand, different schools of Buddhism teach different subsets of meditation techniques, or different variations of the same techniques. However, many meditation resources don't specify ...
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Subjectivity Along the Buddhist Path
I noticed that when I meditate on breathing, which I've done about as long as the four immeasurables, I tend to nevertheless hear sounds such as a television or sounds outside my house. When I ...
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Splitting Up Meditation Time
I'm wondering simply whether there is a difference between two thirty minute sits daily and an hour long sit daily? Which is more advantageous?
Thank you
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Continuity With Meditation Practice
I have been practising compassion meditation somewhat consistently. I usually try to do so in the morning and in the evening. Somehow, I've come to view these two moments as 'ideal' in terms of ...
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How to let go of the will to let go or reach a certain state?
I find that the biggest block in my practice is the will to reach a good state. There's constantly an expectation from the experience to be good. I found that only by letting this go you can truly ...
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Disclosing Spiritual Experiences
I've read that the Dalai Lama tends not to disclose his own spiritual experiences.
Is it bad to disclose meditative or spiritual experiences as visions and such? Is there a difference between monks ...
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Im making no progress on meditation
Kay so I have pretty strong OCD which manifests as just this constant stress. Under therapists advice ive been meditating for several hours a day for a month. I've made basically no progress. I also ...
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questions on my meditation practice?
My goal with meditating was related to improving my concentration for academic reasons. At first I came across a method of meditating where I count out my breadth and avoid thinking of idle thoughts.
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Possibility of Unsuitable Technique
Upon (re)-reading this answer, I conjectured perhaps there are techniques unsuitable for some.
It does seem to be the case with the breath for me, in my experience, despite the popularity and near ...
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Is Constant Meditation Hindering my Creativity?
I recently became more consistent with focused breathing meditation. I feel that since I practice, I tend to fall into such breath-focused meditation while walking, on public transport, etc. Yet, this ...
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Confusion Over Intense Experience During Meditation
Today, I sat for a 30-minute meditation session, and towards the end of the 30- minutes (since I heard the timer bell ring a few minutes after the start of the experience), I started to feel an ...
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Getting out of a rut when your sick and dying
What are the teachings and books that are good for inspiring the sick and soon to be dying? If your brain is getting eaten away, what are the best practices for that? Anyone know of any Doctors who ...
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Did the Buddha prescribe other meditations besides breath meditation? (for concentration, jhana) [duplicate]
After reading Ajahn Brahm, Leigh Brasington, and Ayya Khema's books on meditation, I have not been able to reach the jhanas through breath meditation.
If I stay with the breath long enough to reach "...
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Ānāpānasati (mindfulness of breathing) -- concentrate on nose, or on whole body?
I am meditating for the last three months, about 30 mins a day (or a little longer than that). I followed Ajahn Brahm's "Basic Method of Meditation" to bring the mind to be in the present relatively ...
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Tibetan Buddhism:Recieving inititation in India/Tibet
I recently read an introductory book on Tibetan Buddhism and intrigued by Tantra & Kalachakra practice. I have been practicing meditation for the last 2-3 years but not under the guidance of a ...
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I am confused with my life. In most of the time I fill that, My husband don't love me don't care of myself
I am suffering from mind disturb. I am living alone one city for job purpose and my husband living with his family also for his job. All time he prefer his family more than me. If I told very small ...
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How Lord Buddha's Way Make Me Out Of This Depression!
I don't know If I should ask this here or not. But I am depressed enough and not able to find a way to get out of this situation to live life happily as I used to do before.
In my office I met a ...
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I had peace initially while meditating and then lost it?
I set up a routine to do my meditation where i just watch my thoughts. After some days i found a peace after meditating which continued through out my day. I enjoyed the calmness inside me. Following ...
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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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Most efficient (timewise) meditation techniques to experience joy and bliss?
If meditation techniques were ranked by how quickly they can instill and develop the feelings of joy and bliss within oneself, which ones would be ranked at the top and why?
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What to do with gathered saliva while Meditating
While meditating today I found that the gathered saliva was bothering me a lot. I do not know why it just came up today. It was distracting and took me away from my concentration a few times . I ...
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Setting foot in two different boats
First some introduction:
I am in my ending teen years and like a normal teen would aspire for success, I aspire for it too. But there is a catch... I don't want to get too lost into material world, ...
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Suitability of Meditation Types
I return to this site after a long absence due to various causes.
My current question is whether some meditations are more suited to certain contexts than others, for example:
Would mindfulness of ...
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Getting confused by various methods
I have been practicing meditation for quite a long time now and sadly I haven't entered any jhana(which I want to enter).
I think the reason for me not progressing is because I switch between methods ...
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Which is the easiest of the four paths for a novice lay practitioner?
In the Yuganaddha Sutta (AN 4.170), there is described the four paths stated below. Insight refers to vipassana and tranquility refers to samatha.
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Meditation in stressful environments
My significant other is an extremely busy person who constantly lives life on the road and rarely has moments to himself. He's an incredibly stressed out person and because of this I've recommended ...
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Seeking guidance on avoiding meditation distractions and sluggishness
Do any of you readers , know of a very simple, dependable starting point for an old meditator , who sits everyday, but I do not have contact with any meditation teacher, who I am connected with. I sit,...
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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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Calming the mind
I am usually a calm person but lately my anxiety is off the roof. A little bit of background. I am a 28 year old female about to end my enlistment in the army and have put my resume out there. But I ...
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Meditation technique to reduce/control pain/sorrow/loss
So I have been doing different meditation techniques to control/reduce different poisons(Klesha) of mind. Such as I do
Asuaba(Perception of Unattractiveness) for Lust
Perception of Loving Kindness (...
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Advice on leading sitting group
I've been practicing for about a half dozen years now, have been fortunate to go on several retreats and have a consistent practice. Where I'm currently living I really don't have access to a sitting ...
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What meditation is best to learn to "control" your mind?
I want to learn to in a sense control my mind. By this i mean focus on the thoughts and mindsets that are beneficial. And not focus on the harmful, negative thoughts. I always believe that we are who ...
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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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Which place is good for vipassana meditation?
Please recommend good place for Vipassana meditation for in 2017.
Including
Availability of visa
it does not matter short 7-14 days or long (in months) Vipassana meditation course
If it is remote ...
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Meditation or practicing technique has benefits of prenatal elaboration?
I had heard in the yoga class there's something like prenatal elaboration and it's benefits. Then if a pregnant woman will practice meditation or techniques so baby will born wise, calm, intelligent, ...
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