Dharma Treasure Community | G C | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/bitslayer/activity/ Activity feed for G C. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5d600672527b749148d06dd2959d43b1 G C replied to the topic Frustration due to involuntary lip tensing in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/frustration-due-to-involuntary-lip-tensing/#post-1839 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:27:14 +0000 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]

]]> 0eaf92bcfdb327534e1043962a8ed33c G C started the topic Loving-kindness and concentration in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/loving-kindness-and-concentration Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:34:08 +0000 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]

]]> 7b75ca78ff18ba498683cdbbf6268795 G C started the topic Frustration due to involuntary lip tensing in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/frustration-due-to-involuntary-lip-tensing Tue, 21 Feb 2017 05:54:05 +0000 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]

]]> aa3db4537fdbbbc61f24857deb784df5 G C started the topic Blending insight and loving-kindness practices in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/blending-insight-and-loving-kindness-practices Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:09:27 +0000 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]

]]> e98d82b8e94c7af6f5cd33dca409a3ac G C replied to the topic How well does loving-kindness train concentration compared to breath? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-well-does-loving-kindness-train-concentration-compared-to-breath/#post-1642 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:10:52 +0000 Thank you very much! 😀

]]> 7a9f621902dde367ba6456f9a3ff4b31 G C started the topic How well does loving-kindness train concentration compared to breath? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-well-does-loving-kindness-train-concentration-compared-to-breath Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:37:25 +0000 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]

]]> c644b2087f63dee37db84884c896b51e G C replied to the topic Problems meditating on the breath around the nose and mouth in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/problems-meditating-on-the-breath-around-the-nose-and-mouth/#post-1541 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:14:33 +0000 Thank you very much for your helpful reply! 😃

]]> a45e4c477d5e7a1b45202b1bf0ff7f4a G C started the topic Problems meditating on the breath around the nose and mouth in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/problems-meditating-on-the-breath-around-the-nose-and-mouth Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:45:52 +0000 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]

]]> e8c7e4b38b99cf6ebda431bacf9fe028 G C started the topic How to exercise peripheral awareness? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-to-exercise-peripheral-awareness Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:10:47 +0000 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! 🙂

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