Dharma Treasure Community | Bob M | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/bobm/activity/ Activity feed for Bob M. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8aeedd04ac260c8cb910fa9839aa6a0b Bob M started the topic Fasting and meditation in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/fasting-and-meditation Sat, 06 May 2017 04:38:39 +0000 I am looking to restart a meditation practice, which after 6-7 years of daily practice somehow fell apart over the recent 7-8 months, mainly due to great distraction caused by recent political turmoil.

At the same time, I recently conducted a 10-day water-only fast, motivated mainly by curiosity about potential long term health benefits (cancer…[Read more]

]]> 5340c0a1358be63acaf9066a051a19e3 Bob M replied to the topic Questions about the gradual four step transition in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/questions-about-the-gradual-four-step-transition/#post-1439 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:48:52 +0000 @michael – you are correct, I was referring to the four “Steps” in my post, above, not Stages. sorry, new to all the terminology this discipline.

I would add that another day or two of doing this is continues to reap rapid benefits. Although I have been meditating for 6-7 years, I am quite new to culadasa’s techniques, and so have been using the…[Read more]

]]> 423ea8d8047ec8a077fe35d7bc159c47 Bob M replied to the topic Questions from Stage One. Peripheral awareness vs Attention. in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/questions-from-stage-one-peripheral-awareness-vs-attention/page/2/#post-1438 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:30:56 +0000 perhaps part of reconciling the various ideas put forward by posters in this thread is to recognise that a working definition of “conscious” and “subconscious” is a bit tricky. We may each having rather different understandings how how we use these terms. (Though I suspect we can all more easily agree what is “unconscious” 😉 )

One of the…[Read more]

]]> e56803c393b7d0e4589b42bbdc1cf71f Bob M replied to the topic Questions about the gradual four step transition in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/questions-about-the-gradual-four-step-transition/#post-1432 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:40:54 +0000 one technique I have recently been using is this:

At the end of a sit, where in the final 10-20 minutes I usually have achieved some fairly stable degree of focused attention on the breath at the nose or upper lip, and after my timer signals the end of a session, I then tag on a few minutes of stepping backwards and forwards through the four…[Read more]

]]> 8d945da60d2197fd5be57c454549ccb4 Bob M replied to the topic Questions from Stage One. Peripheral awareness vs Attention. in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/questions-from-stage-one-peripheral-awareness-vs-attention/#post-1427 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:42:34 +0000 Hello All. New here, first post, would like to throw out a few thoughts of Peripheral Awareness vs Attention, and ask if the more experienced meditators/teachers here could comment on what parts of my conception seem valid or useful, what parts are maybe not so much.

Despite a few years of meditation experience, like others i initially had some…[Read more]

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