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Is there any benefit in abstaining from listening songs?
If you stop listening to songs, eventualy the odds of fragments of song poping in the mind would shrink, but is that realy what you are looking for ?
A better way to approach this would be to let go ...
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Mindfulness when playing chess
In contrast to the other answers, it is my perception that mindfulness and deep intellectual thinking complement each other.
Sports are not about defeating the other team but rather raising your ...
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Are we Mindful in Jhana?
Yes, you are missing the experience of jhana! All kidding aside (though to be fair, once you enter jhana, this will make a lot more sense), it's actually pretty simple. Jhana is absorption. Vitaka ...
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Is there any benefit in abstaining from listening songs?
It's very important to know WHY you want to stop listening to music. If it is just by blindly following precepts, the motivation won't take you that far. However, if you realise that sense-restraint ...
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Did the Buddha ever delve on the dangers of one's own spirtual achievements feeding the ego?
There is one good example of the Buddha delving on the dangers of one's own spirtual achievements feeding the ego. It is that of the erudite monk called Potila. Buddha dismissed him with just one ...
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How can watching be non-doing?
MN1 The Root of All Things addresses watching for the untrained ordinary person as:
They perceive the seen as the seen. But then they identify with the seen … Why is that? Because they haven’t ...
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What is difference between dhamma in Dhammanupassana and dhamma in Sampajana?
According to MahasatipatthanaSutta Pali's context, 21 meditations are meditated in four postures, iriyāpatha-pabba, for more proficiency, and the most proficient meditations are the 21 meditations in ...
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Why is the problem with the personal pronouns 'I, me and mine'?
Begin with these 3 characteristics which are true of all things:
impermanence (also called change): nothing ever stays in one state or eternally the same. Use things like flowing rivers and growing ...
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Is there any benefit in abstaining from listening songs?
Yes, listening to music is called entertainment or sense gratification.
You need to understand the purpose of listening to music. Is it helping to grow spiritually?
Music will create emotions in mind, ...
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Is mindfulness for quick enlightenment being exaggerated in the Sutta MN10?
No exaggeration or translation problem here. A quick mundane analogy, say there's a complex quantum mechanics problem that needs to be solved, it'd be equally valid to say it could take seven years, ...
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Is mindfulness for quick enlightenment being exaggerated in the Sutta MN10?
Is it exaggeration, translation problem or understanding problem or
it's true?
The translation is fine, but the reader must know the environment and situation of that sutta, before read it. If the ...
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Did the Buddha ever delve on the dangers of one's own spirtual achievements feeding the ego?
Certainly. The Buddha included 'conceit' as the 8th of 10 fetters to be broken for full enlightenment.
Some quotes:
There are these ten fetters. Which ten? Five lower fetters & five higher ...
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Did the Buddha ever delve on the dangers of one's own spirtual achievements feeding the ego?
I believe this is the context of Sotapätti. A person who is a Sotäpatti stream winner doesn't have sakkäyaditti (illusion of a souls). Thus, having ego is like feeding your own meditation practice ...
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Is there any benefit in abstaining from listening songs?
Only a personal experience, but for the substantial period that music was not a part of this life a few things happened. The mind was more clear and focused. Meditation came easier and deeper. There ...
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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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How to create awareness of the present moment
I can only share some insights as a fellow practitioner, please let me know if I have gotten anything wrong. I think you are letting your desire to be on top of things, events and relationships in ...
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How to create awareness of the present moment
There's no magic way to become aware. Awareness is something we practice intentionally, because we decided to.
Why are we not aware to begin with? Because we are naive. We think our mind is honest, we ...
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How to create awareness of the present moment
So my real question is how can I create the awareness of the present moment totally and let go of the delusion that is keeping me from seeing things just as how they really are.
You're on the right ...
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Mindfulness when playing chess
The vast majority of the ordinary human thoughts are repetitive. Most of the humans don't even have their own thoughts(even that would be don't beneficial) but they have the thoughts that come from ...
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Choice-less awareness vs directed
Choiceless awareness is the awareness without "you"-the ego-self- involved(without your preferences, your life history, beliefs). You're fine with all of the options and you're in a total acceptence ...
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Is there any benefit in abstaining from listening songs?
Is there any reason to keep on nourishing of what is just of short pleasure, does not lead to liberation?
Is there any reason to nourish something being an obstacle on the path? Having told by the ...
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Is there any benefit in abstaining from listening songs?
Going forth (i.e., becoming a monk)
They avoid dancing, singing, music, and seeing shows --MN27
For a lay person this may sound like quite the burden. However, it's not. Music is by its nature ...
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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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How to get rid of thoughts of grandiosness?
from my own experience with mindfulness meditation over past 10 months (and a slightly longer interest in zen buddhism and Jungian psychology), I can understand what is your struggle.
Accepting and ...
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