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G C replied to the topic Frustration due to involuntary lip tensing in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
I have spent some time trying your suggestion and I was starting to make progress by examining exactly what is going on with the tensing rather than being bothered by it, but unfortunately I have been starting to get tensing in the same area at other parts of the day which has really been bothering me. This happened a few months ago as well and…[Read more]
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G C started the topic Loving-kindness and concentration in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi everyone! First let me thank you all again for being so awesome and answering all my questions! 😀 I have a couple of questions about loving-kindness meditation.
First, what specifically makes loving-kindness a concentration practice? I ask because when I practice it, there are a few things going: there are visualizations of various…[Read more]
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G C started the topic Frustration due to involuntary lip tensing in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi everyone! A while back I wrote about problems I was having with my lip muscles tensing involuntarily and making it hard to find breath sensations. For a while this problem abated due to a combination of the tensing going away and following the good advice I was given here to just keep searching for breath sensations whenever I lost them.…[Read more]
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G C started the topic Blending insight and loving-kindness practices in the forum Meditation 8 years, 5 months ago
Hi everyone! I have heard that the ultimate goal of loving-kindness is not just to develop loving-kindness towards all beings but to develop it towards all of one’s conscious experience. Furthermore, loving-kindness and insight meditation, as I understand them, both share in common the process of bringing one’s attention to various things in…[Read more]
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G C replied to the topic How well does loving-kindness train concentration compared to breath? in the forum Meditation 8 years, 8 months ago
Thank you very much! 😀
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G C started the topic How well does loving-kindness train concentration compared to breath? in the forum Meditation 8 years, 8 months ago
If I decide to spend some or all of my practice time on loving-kindness meditation, does this come at the expense of not training my concentration as well as I would if I focused on the breath? I mean, if I understand correctly, TMI says that the breath is a better focus than loving-kindness (*) because it does not need to be actively generated,…[Read more]
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G C replied to the topic Problems meditating on the breath around the nose and mouth in the forum Meditation 8 years, 9 months ago
Thank you very much for your helpful reply! 😃
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G C started the topic Problems meditating on the breath around the nose and mouth in the forum Meditation 8 years, 9 months ago
When I meditate on the breath at various points around the nose and mouth, as TMI recommends, I find that the muscles around my lip move involuntarily. This experience is both frustrating — because it feels like I have to constantly chase the feeling of my breath to its new location — and uncomfortable. Do the wise denizens of this place have…[Read more]
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G C started the topic How to exercise peripheral awareness? in the forum Meditation 8 years, 10 months ago
There have been a lot of posts on the distinction between peripheral awareness and attention, but the thing that I have had trouble gleaming from them is how to apply this in my practice. That is, what exactly should I be doing to exercise my peripheral awareness as well as my attention?
Thanks! 🙂
