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No insight happening
IMHO, you should stop this nonsense. Sitting and waiting for insight is not going to work.
Insight meditation is not meant to be waiting. Instead, it is meant to be examination of the elements of ...
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Can Buddhism help me find my passion?
The "passion" you talk about sounds like a craving for something which you haven't defined. Your question seems to be asking, "I crave something (I crave something to feel passionate about), but I don'...
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Why do i look sad, while doing things consciously?
It is difficult to be around non-meditative people when you are meditative. Dhammapada 302 states:
Suffering/difficulty comes from association with unequals.
When they say: "You are looking sad", ...
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Retaining courage during mediation
The fear is instinctual (due to the ego fading/dissolving/melting somewhat). This instinctual fear can only be endured with composure & with the full acknowledgment it will pass. After the mind ...
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Why is focusing on the breath more difficult than focusing on Mantras, and how important is it before vipassana?
When reciting a mantra you have vitakka and vicāra which helps you get close to the 1st Jhana. But this is also accumulation of Fabrications (more particularly Verbal Fabrications) which should be ...
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No insight happening
Wellcome to the club.
This a common problem for many of us.
I suggest you start reading Sutta directly.
Also, remember it is gradual training.
You have some insight already, otherwise, you won't be ...
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How can we include meditation in our daily activities or day to day life?
It simply comes down to two words… sati sampajanna. Sati is mindfulness.
The Pali word for alertness is sampajañña. It doesn’t mean being choicelessly aware of the present, or comprehending the ...
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Did Buddha told anything about if we can travel to the end of the cosmos?
We know of no sutra directly bearing on the subject of time travel, although space travel to the akasha deva loka ("space world of shining ones") is frequently met with in both directions, Sakka to ...
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Why do i look sad, while doing things consciously?
I think you have some ideas collapsed.
I don't want to laugh anymore
If this is actually a goal, I'd like to suggest that you may have wandered off from your true intention.
Mindfulness during ...
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Illusion of continuity
What they mean, is that our experience is assembled from hints presented by the sense organs. The eyes, ears catch glimpses of what's going on, esp. as we move around - and then build a theory from ...
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Thinking during Vipassana meditation
All in all, the boundaries between thinking and not thinking are more conventional than real. The brain is a machine that is always at work doing its thing, whether we create narratives like "I'm ...
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How could the Buddha know that he had attained enlightenment when he didn't know what it was?
In the third watch of the night He had the knowledge of the exhaustion of cankers, knowing that He had eradicated all defilements and made an end of ill.
The Three Supreme Knowledges of Lord Buddha
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How could the Buddha know that he had attained enlightenment when he didn't know what it was?
This is a great question. In Buddha's time, there were many other ascetics claimed that they have attained Nibbana. However, the definition of Nibbana was varied.
Buddha realised that the elimination ...
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What causes the arising of fear that the sense of "me" will be threatened by the fruition of my practice?
The Pali suttas teach self-identity is born from craving. For example:
The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion &
delight, relishing now here & now there — i.e., ...
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Retaining courage during mediation
Because the "I" still interferes with those meditative states. Do not hold on to self-identity and your meditation would go much smoother:
Bhikkhus, how do you conceive it: is form ...
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Unfriendly and unapproachable faces - Metta Practices
Loving Kindness, I would think.
You are asking, really, what should we do when confronted with an unpleasant person (who is unpleasant in any way, including appearance). We cannot NOT be human, and ...
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should i consider this as a hindrance in my practice
In my opinion, you have not lost your brahmacharya because your action was not intentional because your mind was in partial sleep. In Buddhism, for sin or transgression to occur, it seems there must ...
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Why do i look sad, while doing things consciously?
I have started doing things consciously, i don't want to laugh anymore, i just want to maintain that inner peace felt in doing things meditatively. But people have started asking that "i am looking ...
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No insight happening
Generally if you are not progressing, you are not practicing insight as you are supposed to. If you listen to and follow the instruction properly then you will make progress. If not you are not ...
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what happens to the mind during meditation?
This experience is called Asanna in Buddhist meditation. (see no 22 in the link)
Please make sure you practice this meditation in conjunction with Vipassana meditation.It also advisable to practice ...
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Does this statement by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu conflict with traditional mettā meditation?
I suggest this book you are studying might be too complex for a beginner, even though the section on metta is reasonable. The book 'Unveiling the Secrets of Life: a Manual for Serious Beginners' might ...
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Thinking during Vipassana meditation
I believe that it is natural. However, when you feel like you are losing your focus, try to get it back by focusing on the strongest feeling of breath. That means, when you breathe you can feel your ...
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Does meditation lead to incarnation?
Meditation leads to the clarity and tranquility of the mind, and such mind is fundamental and instrumental for discerning truths from non-truths.
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