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what is this state i am undergoing?
It sounds like "equanimity", which is a normal result of meditation.
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What is a Buddhist approach to reducing envy?
The Pali scriptures say the antidote for envy is to practise 'mudita', which is to be happy for the happiness & success of others. The phrase for the practise/recollection of mudita is: "may all ...
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Flickering light during meditation
It's just an apparition of the mind and nothing particularly important. Things like this will arise from time to time. Like Max said in the comment, the mind subconsciously tries to entertain itself....
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Is respect a form of ego?
If you read Pali suttas, you will see how Buddha says times and again, that people's opinion about a person is in large degree a reflection of person's virtue.
Basically, human ethics and Buddha-...
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Is shame and remorse unskillful?
The other answer on this site was fine in its essence, spirit, purpose & intent.
There is the unwholesome 'remorse' or 'guilt' (kukkucca), which is a hindrance; and there is the wholesome 'sense ...
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What is Savitakkasavicārasutta about?
The Savitakkasavicārasutta is about the four jhanas as the path to the unconditioned (Nibbana).
The translation of 'avitakkavicāramatto' as 'without placing the mind, but just keeping it connected' ...
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Are multiverses real according to Buddhism
It is possible that our “dream world” could be a window to our “mind plane”. Our past memories of even past lives could live within us in the “näma thalaya” or the “mind plane”. It is not storage in ...
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Are multiverses real according to Buddhism
31 Planes of existence coming together is one universe. There are infinite similar universes according to the Abhidhamma. This may be similar to multiverse but unlike in Sci Fi there are no duplicates ...
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Stop influence on mind
Related to Andrei Volkov's answer, I don't think we need to tie supra-mundane phenomena (chakras, etc) into our explanation of why this happens.
However, in a Buddhist sense, this is very relevant ...
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Is respect a form of ego?
Paying respect or veneration is an act of acknowledging greatness in a person. It has nothing to do with ego. But it can lead to ego if the recipient isn't mindful. On the other hand, if one's actions ...
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Unwholesome thoughts at the time of death
the key word is 'habitually looked' meaning one develops a strong habit. these stain the mind almost as though taking possession or control of it. prior to that is the unskillful perception arising ...
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Unwholesome thoughts at the time of death
Pa Auk Sayadaw's quoted statement does not appear to align with what is in the Pali suttas.
If we read the Pali suttas, which are supposed to be the teachings of the Lord Buddha, we will not read the ...
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Does hell exist in Buddhism?
Yes, according to Buddhism, hell exists. Individuals who have accumulated bad karma may be reborn in hell, the animal realm, as ghosts, or even in the human world but with great difficulties. Hell is ...
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Propelling the continuity of mindfulness
As meditators, our job is to be aware or knowing as much as we can through out our daily life. And like it or not, we can't live our lives without fabricating. Right now, as you read this, your ...
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Unwholesome thoughts at the time of death
Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw explains here that clinging leads to suffering, and in this case, this includes clinging to family members, clinging to their beauty, clinging to the beauty of possessions etc.
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Flickering light during meditation
Of that which is experienced during meditation, the Buddha says:
MN64:10-12.1: Furthermore, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, a mendicant enters and remains in the ...
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Is respect a form of ego?
What a "fart" (just to call the story by it "low-light")... things do not "exist" but arise by causes and decay. When there are still cause, it arises, dependent on the quality of the cause it might ...
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Multiverse in Buddhism?
Refer the DN 27. Aggaññasutta which describes how life on earth came to be. (Starting from 3. Candimasūriyādipātubhāva).
In DN 1. Brahmajalasutta there is a mention about higher planes of ...
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Multiverse in Buddhism?
One of Guatama Buddhas appellations is 'Teacher of the Devas'. I quote from that Access To Insight article (which is the Therevada perspective, & refers to the Pali canon):
The Buddha has ...
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Why living beings like / dislike things in the world?
If you look the chain of events that lead to one another in the Dependent Origination, you may conclude that just after 'contact' (the encounter between the senses, sense stimuli, and consciousness) ...
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Why living beings like / dislike things in the world?
Buddhism teaches about the five aggregates. One of the aggregates is feeling (vedana). Another aggregate is mental formations (sankhara). Due to a pleasant or unpleasant feeling sensations (vedana), ...
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Is respect a form of ego?
I think that conformism, e.g. ...
Behaving like other people
Behaving as other people want you to
Also reacting to other people's expectations
... is a existent phenomenon.
This can be beneficial, ...
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Stop influence on mind
Not a Buddhist answer, but I think in psychology this is called "mirroring" and happens when we subconsciously try to "fit in" - i.e. when we feel insecure because we come from different background, ...
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How to get rid of thoughts of grandiosness?
Satipattana meditation is what you should practice. If you are feeling proud, simply note it until it goes away. Ex: Proud... proud... proud... or expecting... expecting... expecting... or thinking... ...
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