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What is zen sickness?
I would be worried. Happened to me and many other intensive meditators. "Meditation sickness" occurs to those meditators embedded in an ideology or worldview that values silence and stilling thought ...
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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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Buddhism and terminal illness
An adverse diagnosis can certainly be seen as the ripening of past karma. But it's not a cause to beat yourself up: we have all done countless good and bad acts during innumerable past lives, ...
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What does buddhism say about bodybuilding (and weights training)?
Since you ask, "What buddhism says", one quote which might be relevant is from the Puttamansa Sutta (SN 12.63), which I think recommends what's the appropriate attitude to have towards food:
How, O ...
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How do experienced Buddhists preserve their equanimity and well-being in unfavourable circumstances?
Would you consider suicide as a solution?
A big NO...., suicide is not a solution, it creates more problems.
Which tools given in Dhamma do you think would be useful if one had to survive
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A Buddhist guide to overcome self sabotage
Here is what I found from the internet
I found that quote here on the internet (and nowhere else) but I don't really trust it -- it's someone's description, summary, interpretation, explanation of ...
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A Buddhist guide to overcome self sabotage
Does self-sabotaging instincts come from the ego?
In a way, yes. Like all beings, we want what is best for ourselves. We want to be happy but we have a deluded understanding of happiness, one that is ...
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A Buddhist guide to overcome self sabotage
While 'ego' is a core teaching of Buddhism, Buddhism points out ego is caused by underlying defilements or cravings, namely, greed, hatred & delusion. Therefore, self-sabotage would be from some ...
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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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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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What is zen sickness?
I think it's basically impossible to know. According to this page, Hakuin, described it as such:
my heart fire began to rise upward against the natural course, parching my lungs of their essential ...
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What is sleep paralysis in Buddhism view?
The reality you see is created by your mind. It's like a robot vacuum that builds a map of the room based on what it encounters. If you stand in its way it will think there's a wall there. It doesn't ...
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Meditate mindfully instead of sleeping
It can be difficult to meditate if there is tiredness.
This said, it appears not necessary to sleep at 2pm.
Therefore, you can consider:
meditating instead of sleeping
eating less for lunch.
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Meditate mindfully instead of sleeping
In my opinion and personal experience is what the body need is relaxation. So keep the body still and meditating is as good as sleeping.
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How do experienced Buddhists preserve their equanimity and well-being in unfavourable circumstances?
There are numerous stories in Tibetan Buddhism about Lamas getting imprisoned for years or decades by the Chinese and how they not only endured the hardships but became spiritual guides for other ...
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Buddhism and terminal illness
What we experience now is not purely a result of past karma. It's both past and present actions combined. So this means that we can control our current karma to an extent depending on how we behave in ...
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What is zen sickness?
Zen sickness can be quite serious and if not remedied, can cause serious damage. It’s a sort of strained nervous system and it can happen by focusing on too much enlightenment based practices, mainly ...
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What is zen sickness?
The are few borderlines between mystical (enlightenment) and psychotic experiences.
Read 'Psychotic and Mystical States of Being: Connections and Distinctions', the scholarly paper by Caroline Brett,...
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As per buddism, how is it possible to leave behind my obsession with drugs?
The fifth precept explains about this subject.
If an individual is addicted to alcohol, it does not yield any positive results.
It leads to an unstable mind, giving up on goals, wasting time, ...
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Am I condemned for an extramarital affair?
You have done something that that completely rails against the eightfold path, which was designed to end greed, ignorance, aversion, delusion. An affair waters all of these roots, however, you ...
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Physical Exercise as a Monk?
If your spiritual life suffers from your weak body, wouldn't you do physical exercises? Yoga is the best practice to have a strong and healthy body. Strong physical body is a key element for achieving ...
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