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Category: vipassana
“Cunoaste-te pe tine insuti”
“Cunoaste-te pe tine insuti” este un indemn vechi, atribuit lui Socrate, insa sensul sau capata o nuanta cu totul diferita in perspectiva Budismului Theravada. Din perspectiva asta, ideea de “mine insami” nu se refera la un sine fix, stabil, esential – ci tocmai la lipsa unui astfel de sine. In loc sa fie o cautare…
Mintea, calatorul profesionist
Ceea ce fac in timp ce meditez este sa-l invat pe acest calator profesionist cum sa se aseze pentru a dobandi cunostinte reale.
Myth busting – indesate la dorcan
De la stanga spre dreapta Zmeura. Capsuni. Cirese. Atat 0 zahar adaugat 0 miere adaugata 0 orice-alt-indulcitor 0 conservanti 0 alte-bazaconii 0 apa adaugata Fara fiert inainte Fara sterilizat borcane inainte Cele mai mari “daruri” pe care le am descoperit in viata asta au rezultat din propria indoiala si neincredere in mine si in ce…
Intrebare pentru ChatGPT – AI si ciclul suferintei
Ma joc, de putina vreme, cu ChatGPT si azi am intrebat asta: How do you think an AI can escape the cycle of suffering? Si a raspuns asta: The concept of escaping the cycle of suffering, as understood in many spiritual and philosophical traditions, is rooted in the idea of transcending the conditioned and impermanent…
moarte ma descompune
am iesit pe terasa sa lucrez, era soare… am simtit un miros un intens de mort si moarte, descompunere. primului gand care a aparut “iar moare cineva” i-am dat flit cu alt gand “lasa, sunt doar gandurile mele despre moarte, care nu imi dau pace zilele astea, anii astia…” stiind in acelasi timp ca nu…
Meditatia Metta
Te invit sa stai 5 minute cu tine si cu gandurile de iubire si compasiune. “Metta” inseamna benevolenta (mettā bhāvanā), bunatate, pritenie, buna intentie si interes fata de celelalte fiinte. Este una dintre cele 10 calitati (paramis) pe care le cultiva filozifia budhista Theravada. Inchide ochii si… Inspirata de calugarul Thanissaro si de profesorii…
[video] Sayagyi U Ba Khin with his students, IMC Yangon, Birma, 1957
One of the few footage of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, at IMC Yangon, Birma, 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhDZtAZvxE
[Discourse] Sayagyi U Ba Khin
This is one of the few audio recording of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. It was composed by Sayagyi U Ba Khin for his foreign students, who were not able to easily come to Myanmar for further practice and guidance. He recorded the discourse at least twice on early audio tape recorders. It was later transcribed…
The Ten Soldiers of Māra by Sayagyi U Ba Khin
You have to be very careful. You have to stand firm and face many difficulties, so that you can know true anicca (impermanence) with your own experience. You must work very hard—that is why we repeatedly remind you. Difficulties come at this stage of the course. During the time of our great benefactor, Saya Thetgyi,…
Sitting a 10 day-course at Dhamma Dipa, UK
I’m writing for this post for almost three weeks now. There are so many details I would add, but I will do it in the future posts about the practice… Intention I wanted to experience a sitting in one of the oldest places in Europe where vipassana is practiced, so I set my intention for…
in a nutshell, from Anastasia [book] “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre
“So everything starts with a clean-up, eh? And how do you suppose that’s all going to happen?” “Conscious awareness is the point of departure for any venture. The aspiration of one’s thought finds the most effective path, just like a stream in Nature.” chapter 21 – Should we all go to the forest? “And just…
M.N. Saunders on vipassana
I admit I felt good reading Saunder’s comments on A critique of Vipassana Meditation as taught by Goenka. I haven’t write my thoughts to the critique yet – I have some things to say, from my own experience – but I will put here Sander’s comments, as he is also a part of the professionals…
A critique of Vipassana Meditation as taught by Goenka
I just read this article and all the comments to it. It is an extended writing about the vipassana technique and thr 10-day course. I appreciate the effort of the author to gather these many aspects of it. I also wanted to write about it… If one did not took a 10-day vipassana course in…
[book] Why I Sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 6, last one)
This is the last excerpt from “Why I Sit” booklet by Paul Fleischman. IX Those ten days of nothing but focusing on the moment by moment reality of body and mind, with awareness and equanimity, gave me the opportunity ironically both to be more absolutely alone and isolated than I had ever been before […]…
[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 5)
VII Sitting enabled me to see, and compelled me to acknowledge, the role that death had already played, and still continues to play, in my life. Every living creature knows that the sum total of its pulsations is limited. […] Every day ends with darkness; things must get done today or they will not happen…
[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 4)
V I sit to grow up, to be a better person, to see trivial angers rise up and pass away, arguments on which I put great weight on Thursday morning fade by Thursday noon; and to be compelled to re-order, re-structure, re-think my life, so that, living well, my petty anger is orchestrated ahead of…
[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 3)
III Sitting is, among other things, the practice of self-control. While sitting one does not get up, or move, or make that dollar, or pass that test, or receive reassurance from that phone call. But military training, or violin lessons, or medical school, are also routes to self-control in this ordering and restrictive sense. Sitting…
[book] Why I Sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 2)
I I would like to know myself. It is remarkable that while ordinarily we spend most of our lives studying, contemplating, observing, and manipulating the world around us, the structured gaze of the thoughtful mind is so rarely turned inwards. This avoidance must measure some anxiety, reluctance, or fear. That makes me still more curious.…
[book] Why I sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt I)
I heard about Paul Fleischman for some time now… again just before the 10-day retreat in Dhamma Dvara, then after I come out of noble silence I found his books on the library shelves in the center’s Lobby. I took and start reading this small booklet curious about his writings… cause it came to my…