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olov started the topic Some Koans in the forum Meditation 8 years ago
Why don’t you emrace the rainbow? Why do you think it has to be that complicated? What if you already know? What if your teacher doesn’t know the answer himself? What if he still believes there is a question to be answered?
You know, I don’t know.
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olov replied to the topic Cessation events and a unified mind ; Review cycles and progress after 1st path in the forum Meditation 8 years, 12 months ago
Blaz: I did not know about those recordings. They seem great! Thanks!
Nick: Thank you for your thorough answer. It’s definitely helpful!
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olov replied to the topic Cessation events and a unified mind ; Review cycles and progress after 1st path in the forum Meditation 9 years ago
Thanks for your reply Blake!
I have now taken up Samatha practice again, working with TMI. My initial goal was to do what you point out Culadasa recommends, and aim for stage 7 before doing insight practice. At the moment I’m considering bringing back some vipassana though.
I think the reason I wrote this post was that I felt I was getting close…[Read more]
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olov replied to the topic The mind illuminated as ebook? For non-americans in the forum Meditation 9 years, 1 month ago
I tried the US site and it doesn’t even show up as available as a kindle verion. At the Canadian site the option is available but clicking on it gives: “Kindle titles are available for US customers on Amazon.com.”. (I’m guessing this might be different depending on where you are).
BUT, it got up to me that I have a very close relative living in…[Read more]
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olov started the topic Cessation events and a unified mind ; Review cycles and progress after 1st path in the forum Meditation 9 years, 1 month ago
In my practice, I have gone from alternating between samatha and dry insight á la Mahasi (inspired by Daniel Ingram and Kenneth Folk) to only doing dry insight. Here’s two reasons I stopped samatha practice: 1. I felt like it was getting harder to concentrate as I started experiencing what I thought of as “vibrations” more and more intensely -…[Read more]
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olov started the topic Cessation events and a unified mind ; Review cycles and progress after 1st path in the forum Meditation 9 years, 1 month ago
In my practice, I have gone from alternating between samatha and dry insight á la Mahasi (inspired by Daniel Ingram and Kenneth Folk) to only doing dry insight. Here’s two reasons I stopped samatha practice: 1. I felt like it was getting harder to concentrate as I started experiencing what I thought of as “vibrations” more and more intensely -…[Read more]
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olov started the topic The mind illuminated as ebook? For non-americans in the forum Meditation 9 years, 1 month ago
I received the book a couple of days ago – and it’s fantastic! There’s so much useful information in there. Several times I’ve wished there was a search function in the book 🙂 That’s why I’m trying to get hold of the ebook version. I tried Barnes and Nobles and Bookshout, but I couldn’t purchase it from where I am (Sweden). And I couldn’t find it…[Read more]
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