Questions tagged [samadhi]
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What kind of samadhi is the Ven.Sariputta talking about here?
This seems to be a very baffling Sutta passage where he describes a seemingly contradictory state where one is in a special Samadhi beyond neither perception nor non perception but is still percipient....
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Can concentration and wisdom be developed exclusively from each other?
Can you develop Samadhi (concentration) and Pañña (wisdom) exclusively from one another (according to the suttas)?
I am under the impression that a meditator cannot develop one without developing the ...
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Is there a point practicing mantra if I can get to samadhi with pure anapana/breath meditation?
Been meditating for some years, been doing most anapana & also a bit of Goenka-vipassana. Have had certain experiences, samadhi states and jhana (although I'm still far from being able to ...
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Is there a comprehensive list of types of Samadhi?
Is there a comprehensive list of different types of Samadhi (in Pali, Sanskrit, English and/or otherwise) related to Buddhism?
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Thinking vs Talking in mind
Sometimes, I caught me on talking in mind. Sometimes my tongue moves according to it. Sometimes I talk to myself. This feels very fast and hard to control.
There also intuition like thinking. For a ...
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Trying to find causes of everything
Is trying to find causes of everything not a good practise? Isn't having rational mind a good thing?
I know that the Lord Buddha advised us to not to think about beginning of life. Because it make us ...
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Does speed of body movements affect the calmness of mind?
Does speed of body movements affects the mind? Do we have to slow down our actions to have a better sati? It feels it does affects. But are there any sutta about this? How that works?
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Always analysing deeds: sati and samadhi
In daily Life, I always trying to focus on single good thought so no space for bad. When I did something, I tend to analyse it wether it is good or bad. It is deep most of the time because I am trying ...
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When one enters and remains in cessation of perception and feeling during death where in 31 planes of existence will he go to?
The question is complete, no additional explanation of the question is needed. I just need the suttas.
For reference:
“And further, with the complete transcending of the dimension of the
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What is the meaning of “knowledge and vision” in the context of the heartwood sutta?
I am aware of a similar question here:
What is knowledge and vision?
However, I would like a deeper understanding of what precisely is meant by “knowledge and vision” in the heartwood sutta and why is ...
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Is samadhi the same as samatha? Is there khanika samatha?
I read the following on the internet:
Notice there's a wide spectrum on the Samatha/Vipassana scale, but
even on the extreme spectrum of Vipassana, the "dry-insight", there's
still element ...
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What are stories on awakening while practicing teaching the Dhamma?
Teaching the Dhamma (Dhammadesana), having heard the good, is one of the higher meritorious deeds, practiced by instructed, not regarded as useless question & answer ways, as from outsider often ...
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The unity of samadhi and prajna
Does any extant tradition claim that the unity of samadhi and prajna^ is actual from the beginning of the bodhisatva path, so that it is available to the neophyte - just with less power of something ...
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Why we need Samadhi to attain enlightement?
Why we need Samadhi to attain enlightement ?
Do people with better samadhi can think more than the people with less within short amount of time ?
experiment of people with low IQ, and high IQ, put ...
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Why work on one thing at a time?
Why work on one thing at a time according to the buddhism ? Did Lord Buddha advise us to do that ?
Are there any deep desires in multi-tasking ? (Like wanting to gain more in short amount of time)
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How are the three marks of existence experienced through Samadhi meditation?
Could dry vipassana & pure one-pointed samadhi type meditations just be different approaches to the same enlightenment?
If one attains the fourth jhana with one pointed concentration does one ...
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What is the basis?
I was reading this comment which included ...
I guess I'm perhaps not entirely aware of what the basic problem which affects me is. I feel that in many ways, I'm either backwards or not fully ...
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Is the samadhi of Yoga the samadhi of Buddhism?
I was wondering if the samadhi of Patanjali Yoga meant the same thing as the samadhi of Buddhism?
A Buddhist friend told me that no, and that Buddhism had higher states after the nirvikalpa samadhi ...
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Is Near death experience in enlightenment true?
I have been meditating intensively according to the Advaita tradition where self inquiry is practiced till realizing that I and effort are just feelings and that the watcher of even identity is the ...
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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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Should I judge the efficacy of Samadhi based on the ethical qualities of the meditator?
As far as I understand, one of the main purposes of the eight factor of the Path (samma samadhi) is to clean the mind from impurities.
I've read a lot of discussions where one meditator states that ...
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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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Missing Dhyana/Jhana Sutras?
Are there parallel texts between Pali Canon Jhana Suttas, and Mahayana equivalent? Dhyana Sutras? I now that the theme is picked up again in Tiantai texts, but I'm thinking of between the Pali canon ...
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Is Samadhi mentioned in Jhana Suttas?
Do the Pali texts on jhana actually mention Samadhi and/or One-Pointedness by name in the jhana descriptions or is this mention apocryphal?
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Sutta jhana vs. Visuddhimagga jhana
In the paper "Multiple Buddhist Modernisms: Jhāna in Convert Theravāda", Natalie Quli compares what the following teachers have taught about jhana: Ayya Khema, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Pa-...
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Threefold division of noble eightfold path
Right view is the first step in noble eight-fold path as mentioned in many answers here.
Right view
Right resolve
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
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About the compatibility between meditation methods, guides, trainings and teachers, and other questions regarding Samadhi
Being acquainted with Buddhism (although in a pretty shallow and intellectual fashion) since a few years now, I've just realized that I had almost no experience in meditation at all. It was only ...
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Mahāsamādhi in Buddhism?
Wikipedia defines Mahāsamādhi as follows:
Mahāsamādhi (the great and final samādhi) is the act of consciously
and intentionally leaving one's body. A realized yogi (male) or
yogini (female) who ...
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Samatha Meditation
This summer I got the chance to spend 20 days at Pa-Auk Tawya forest meditation center in Myanamar and I did Anapana-Sati for 20 days. Now I'm back at my university but when I look back I see than ...
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Any living teachers claim to be able to attain vajrasamadhi?
Are there any living teachers who claim to be able to attain vajrasamadhi? Apologies if looking for a guru questions are off-topic here. Is there any way to verify if they have done so, according to ...
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A concentrated monk discerns things as they actually are?
Samadhi Sutta
(Concentration)
[Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.]
“Develop concentration, monks. A concentrated monk discerns things as they actually are present...
Is this an accurate ...
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What are the catalysts in eightfold path which speed up our endeavor?
I want to know how one can speed up his spiritual practices (8 fold path). For- Example, How one can improve his samādhi or prajñā quickly? And what are the things or acts which helps one to improve ...
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Best way to develop different meditation practices (simultaneously or not)
I got introduced to Buddhist meditation through the practice of meta and the cultivation of the four bramaviharas. It was going well but I decided I needed the ability to separate my ego and my will. ...
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Concentration as a Trait
I have a simple question. Concentration occurs in the context of samatha meditation, but does the regular practice of samatha generate a trait-like concentration in daily life?
In other words, is ...
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After samadhi what?
Last year I experienced samadhi, full state of awareness. Mind's
thoughts stopped for days and I can't describe with feelings and words
the complete experience.
It was like the wheels of my mind ...
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Does Samadhi realm of desire require single-pointed focus?
I read there are 3 realms of samadhi: realm of desire, realm of form and realm of no form.
If I read correctly, Samadhi is one-pointed focus. But if I achieve samadhi by, let's say, the desire to win ...
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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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Am I approaching samadhi properly?
The problem: I've encountered some confusion about the differences between samadhi and vipassana, as would seem to be a frequent problem amongst beginners. This confusion was only worsened by my ...
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Does Zen have an unusual view of samadhi?
There was a book titled Zen in the Art of Archery:
Zen in the Art of Archery is a short book by German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his experiences studying Kyūdō, a ...
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How should somebody who has developed samadhi verify that rebirth occurs after death?
I am trying to understand how somebody following the dhamma is supposed to verify what the Buddha said about rebirth. In the past I've been told that once somebody has developed samadhi/calmed the ...
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Is the Ocean Samadhi a metaphor or an actual meditation?
In Huayen related documents I see the phrase "ocean samadhi" a lot. (also ocean mirror samadhi, ocea seal samadhi) Here is one source:
Huayan teaching features a range of holographic samadhi ...
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What are the 10 Samadhis of the Avatamsaka Sutra?
I'm referring to the chapter in the Avatamsaka. Here is one summary:
The Great Samadhi of Universal Light
The Great Samadhi of Wondrous Light
The Great Samadhi of Sequentially Going throughout all ...
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Is appana samadhi the same as magga/phala?
In this video by Sayadaw U Nandasiri, if I am understanding him correctly, he equates appana samadhi and magga/phala enlightenment. Is this correct? I had understood momentary, access, and absorption ...
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Automatic body scanning? What is happening here?
This has happened to me a few times on Goenka retreats.
When I have been practicing mindfulness of breath and body scanning for a while, near day 7 or so my attention will be moving quite quickly, ...
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What is the difference between samadhi and samatha?
I am in the habit of getting the concepts samatha and samadhi mixed up. To me they seem like related or even similar concepts. Is that correct? My understanding is that samatha seems like the process ...
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Introduction to Samadhi meditation
Can anyone give me a brief introduction into practicing samadhi meditation? I could start saying i understand the common principles of meditation. I had practiced a peacefull breath based meditation ...
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How does the Bhavanga State relate to the Jhanas?
When we sit down and practice samadhi we would naturally want to enter absorbtion.But what if by practicing samatha we manage to calm and refine all the five senses,to the point where all five senses ...
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What did the Buddha mean when he spoke about samma samadhi?
What did the Buddha mean when he spoke about samma samadhi?
Did he mean access concentration (upacara samadhi) or full absorption (appana samadhi) or momentary concentration (khanika samadhi)?
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discursive meditation
Dear Venerable and friends,
Instead of anapanasati, some of us like to meditate on a subject; like contemplation. For instance; inevitability of death & uncertainty of the time of death and ...
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Proper way to give metta
Is it necessary to only feel subtle sensations while giving metta or is it only required to be equanimous while giving metta.
I have sometimes felt painful sensations that cannot be 'shaken away' ...
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