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Sleep - What about it?
What are the proper relax / Sleep practices for a practitioner of meditation methods?
If you do Metta meditation before sleeping you are better off, as one benefit of Metta is you sleep well. ((Aṭṭha)...
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What is the Buddhist Perspective on Lucid Dreaming?
Lucid dream is a place where you can do more work, more Buddhist practice. For example, if you are afraid of fights you can pick a fight with anyone, man or monster. It's a safe place to try things ...
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Sleep - What about it?
Monks, eleven advantages are to be expected from the release (deliverance) of heart by familiarizing oneself with thoughts of loving-kindness (metta), by the cultivation of loving-kindness, by ...
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Buddhism and Astral Projection
If you mean by this definition:
Astral projection (or astral travel), is a term used in esotericism to
describe an intentional out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the
existence of a soul called ...
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Can an ordained person keep a late sleep schedule?
Yes, such a person can appropriately hold monastic vows in the Geluk tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. There are sleeping restrictions in the Vinaya, but not regarding the time or length of sleep. ...
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Benefits of sleeping in a sitting posture
The practice of sleeping in a sitting posture can be explained as one of the 13 Dhutanga.
Sitter's Practice (nesajjik'anga) — living in the three postures of walking, standing and sitting and ...
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Meditating as sleep aid
This is my experience/opinion, it's unreferenced and it may be wrong.
There's a form of meditation called awareness of the body or awareness of the breath. Maybe that form (or something like it) can ...
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Meditating as sleep aid
Yes Meditation can help you sleep...
There is a meditation called "Meththa" also known as the "Loving kindness Meditation". This Meditation is very helpful to the daily life as ...
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Meditation Into A Dream State
Before I became Buddhist I did a lot of random "spiritual" practices, including "astral travel". The later is when you try to retain "waking" consciousness as you fall asleep.
I only had mixed ...
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Meditate mindfully instead of sleeping
Often around 2:00 p.m. after eating, my body falls tired.
Might be a good idea to investigate and tackle the root cause to your tiredness first. Is it because you don't get enough sleep at night? or ...
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Can I save my meditation practice or should I abandon it?
From within the practice of meditation, it can be hard to tell whether "it's working" or not. I've been a meditator for more than 30 years and my experience is that it is mostly a very slow ...
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Meditation Into A Dream State
When you are in deep sleep your Bhavanga consciousness is active and at this stage you are not mindful. If you are in a dream state there is some metal activity hence there can be some mindfulness and ...
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What is the Buddhist Perspective on Lucid Dreaming?
Tibetan Dream Yoga is the original form of lucid dreaming documented for at least 1,000 years.
Just like our Westernized understanding of lucid dreams, the initial aim is to awaken the consciousness ...
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What is the Buddhist Perspective on Lucid Dreaming?
When you sleep, your mind is in somewhat of an uncontrolled state. I understand this to be the reason why monks sleep so few hours. The importance of lucid dreaming to your practice will likely depend ...
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Meditation and being aware in your sleep while dreaming
I just attended a meditation retreat with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche where he discussed sleep meditation. First, meditation while in lucid dreams is absolutely possible. For this first pursue normal ...
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Meditating as sleep aid
Definitely it can help you sleep. Since you are talking about sleep here, I thought I would just mention the possibilities for meditation in your sleep - not only for your sleep. You can also practice ...
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What is the best meditation practice to fall asleep?
Maintain extraordinarily sharp attentiveness to your body as you fall asleep. Your day-time meditation practice will have to be regular and consistent, without a daytime practice dreamtime practice ...
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Has a teacher referred to sleep as a form of 'lazy nirvana'?
Sleep is not really Nibbana because Nibbana is defined as the "uprooting" & "destruction" of the mental defilments, as follows:
To whatever extent there are phenomena conditioned or ...
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Has a teacher referred to sleep as a form of 'lazy nirvana'?
I've heard Jack Kornfield make this reference in one or more audiobooks. Might have been in "A Wise Heart" or "The Roots of Buddhist Psychology". Not sure exactly where though. He speaks of hard ...
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Is meditating when tired a waste of time?
Sariputta discusses this in DN33.
Here is the problem:
Eight grounds for laziness. Firstly, a mendicant has some work to do. They think: ‘I have some work to do. But while doing it my body will ...
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Meditate mindfully instead of sleeping
Meditation may result in you needing to sleep less, but it's not going to replace sleep. To give you an example, at sesshin, we'll meditate for 10-15 hours a day. By about the third day, not only am ...
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Meditate mindfully instead of sleeping
Venerable Mahāmoggallāna struggled with drowsiness and the Buddha provided a list of suggestions laid out in AN7.61:
AN7.61:1.3: Now at that time, in the land of the Magadhans near Kallavāḷamutta ...
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Can I save my meditation practice or should I abandon it?
I'm no expert, but I've been meditating consistently for several years & have been on retreat etc. so I have some experience of what you have gone through.
I strongly recommend finding a ...
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Drowsiness / Sloth & Torpor
Sloth & torpor is one of five hindances to concentration therefore it appears to imply being a psychological hindrance, particularly when some (partial) samadhi & tranquility has been ...
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Drowsiness / Sloth & Torpor
Does drowsiness as a defilement only refer to a psychological state of mind? I know that emotions manifest also as physical phenomena, but how do I distinguish between physical exhaustion and ...
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