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How to prolong post meditation emotions, feelings and thoughts?
If you feel that post-meditation pleasantness slipping away, and desire to prolong it, that is an excellent moment for conscious choice. Choose one of the following:
Go back into meditation for a ...
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How to prolong post meditation emotions, feelings and thoughts?
Well this is the crux of things, isn't it? If meditation was a solution to our negative tendencies, the Buddha would have never left his original teachers.
What the Buddha discovered, and what sets ...
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How to prolong post meditation emotions, feelings and thoughts?
That's why it's advisable to add the Vipassana part even if one does mostly Samatha:
“He trains thus: ‘I shall breathe in contemplating impermanence’; he trains thus: ‘I shall breathe out ...
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Does Abhidhamma explain how Attention Shift happens
Abhidhamma is the object of AdhipannaSikkha which are meditated as 8 knowledge, 8 Vijja (see DN10 SubhaSutta and Abhi. commentary), so it's impossible to explain Abhidhamma to new or medium ...
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Does Abhidhamma explain how Attention Shift happens
In abhidhamma style: what determines what kind of moment of consciousness will arise, i.e. what the content of the next moment of consciousness will be.
There are two kind of attention shift. ...
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Is repeating words in mind necessary to some meditations in Theravada? Why or why not?
I use mental verbalizations of the in-&-out breathing as to cut off [replacing] distracting thoughts should there be any.
He should develop...mindfulness of in-&-out breathing so as to cut ...
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Feelings while meditating
I have felt similar. I suggest the reading below. I have found this site to be a great help to me. The link below is a text version of an audio also available on the site as part of the Basic ...
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