How to meditate correctly

[Gerard]

On 21/04/2017 at 9:11 AM, steve said:

I would also propose that not everyone who practices Vipassana over a long period of time experiences Complete Enlightenment.

 

There are factors of karma involved and there are many paths for many different creatures. 

 

And no doubt Vipassana...

 

Indeed Steve. I never said what I posted initially as the ultimate and exclusive method. Thants the beauty of our path: many methods and many beings (human in this case).

 

Because of karmic reasons I'll continue posting in relation to the Theravada Tradition.

 

1. Right Concentration.

 

http://www.buddhanet.net/wingsae.htm

 

2. Awareness of the Body. U Ba Khin's method (Burma). 

 

https://host.pariyatti.org/treasures/The_Ancient_Roots_of_the_U_Ba_Khin_Vipassana_Meditation.pdf

 

3. 32 Body Parts.

 

http://32parts.com/

 

As always, thank you Lord Buddha

 

Happy practice to all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fa Xin]

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Edited May 26, 2017 by Fa Xin
Didn't want to sidetrack

[Marblehead]

6 hours ago, Fa Xin said:

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Yes, that is what I experience during meditation.

 

[cold]

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not

..    (which is dualism of course)

or heaven forbid

... (a menage a trois?)

[thelerner]

Is there a wrong way to meditate..?  I dunno.  My meditation is less comfortable then it was a decade ago.  I strive not to fall into the trance state I once did easily.  Instead I cling to empty awareness.  Which is also nice, deeply peaceful at times, but not the sleeplike state of deeper trance.  My senses are still on.  Not clingy but on. 

 

Much of that is influenced by Adyavaita's writings and a few others.  Or as my old Aikido sensei would say, the Nothing that is Something.  Not the nothing that is nothing.   

[Fa Xin]

I would say the wrong way to meditate is trying to force something - whatever it may be (forcing stillness, visualizations, energy, whatever it may be). 

 

Expecting things to happen (kinda falls under forcing)

[beingnature]

Listening inward while listenig outward (in all directions), watching in inward while watching outward (in all directions) feeling inward while feeling outward (in all directions) ,together with a feeling of trust in everything.