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Lal,
In terms of formal sessions ” training ” your answer to Sybe07’s implies two types of practice::
– Vipassana and Satipattana bhavana as per Pure Dhamma, both related to Sybe07’s “directing of mind” mostly …is this right?Thanks
The incessant suffering happens not because of Anicca in & of itself but because of our “Anatta ways”* of dealing with Anicca.
- satisfaction based upon greed, tanha and clinging can’t cope with Anicca’s inherent volatility. Imo…
Yesss…to let go of… So many things. Besides, Sutta Piṭaka it’s my preferred one.
Thank you !
Hi Donna
…moreover you’re funny.The problem isn’t that you ate vanilla cookies the problem is how many you ate and how.
Or does one has to eat I.e. “garlic cookies” to prove what? Had you eaten 2 or 3 cookies with the right mindset then such wouldn’t have triggered bad kamma… If with the right mindset… imo.@Lal,
Greed is the least of my worries.
Anger : yes, there are still some issues at subconscious level.
As for dasa akusala i’ll have to check point by point.
My “mantra” : i’m aware of its limitations, it’s but a complement to Tilakhanna bhavana…but it helps in to step back from the body, too…Thanks again.
Yes you got really close to what i’m looking for, mostly with “the belief that I am the body and I need to keep it beautiful…. As I say that, I’m reminded that the body w/o the mind is an inert thing and what I am is more like what is going on…”.
I created a “mantra” (kind of) that i keep repeating : whatever “I” am, this body is but a transient expression of such “I”.
However when i recite it i’m aware of what the Buddha said on the self, non-self, etc. Meaning that whatever is there and/or not there, the body is but a transient expression of it.Thank you.I glimpse the connection, but for now i’m more concerned with the fears related to what can happen during our actual bhava.
Mostly the ones related to physical/body integrity and/or the ones triggered by ego clingings. Of course both are connected…Hi,
You said “Instability is a part of life in this universe that’s not within anyone’s control and this is the nature of this world.”
I’m not at the height of helping you (perhaps Lal) so what follows it’s just a little comment to your post : my actual insight is that the less anatta one becomes, the better one deals with/manages anicca (which understands the “instability”) and the less one gets into dukkha.Your quest is so touching.
Metta
Lal said “is forcibly suppressing defiled thoughts, speech, and actions (that is the “apana” or removal part of “anapana” or “ana” + “apana”).”
…maybe we have been saying similar just with different language…To forcibly suppress a defiled thought means that the thought popped-up, means that you “saw” it in your mind and this is what i wanted to mean by acceptance.
Of course i read the “Bhāvanā (Meditation)” , first thing i read when i discovered this site. As for living dhamma sections, i’ll check no doubt.
Thanks
Lal,
Can you always see a negative thought coming ? Anticipate its coming ? I don’t think so.
“if you accept an angry thought, how do you replace it by a positive attitude?”There are 2 phases to consider. Phase 1: I accept it but don’t stick to it; and i accept it because i know that by repressing it by simplet willpower, it will come back stronger.
However the acceptance/ observation it’s a quite brief process…so brief that there is no time for the anger to become greater.It’s a matter of secs immediatly followed (phase 2) by the integration of a positive attitude.The best way for me to learn better is to ask you :how do you apply satipatanna in your life moment to moment ? Since you wake up til you go to bed?
Thank you !
Metta
P.S. – the popping up of the thought is what is accepted/observed.
“There is nothing she can do.”
Johnny, see the suttas for lay people as Dighajanu (Vyagghapajja) Sutta. Me I couldn’t find any interdiction on relationships for lay people.
Lay people can “live their life ” as much as they avoid debauchery, as much as honesty chairs the relationship process.
Moreover, the suffering will be proportional to the individual’s degree of greed and propensity to attachment.
Obviously all the above applies only to lay people that “don’t intend” to attain the highest Nibanna.
Hi
I don’t repress the thought, i accept it/observe while being subliminally aware of it’s intrinsic wrongness and i replace it by a positive attitude.
However sometimes the simple fact of accepting/observing without elaborating it’s enough to dissipate eventual negative feelings.
One doesn’t always have to know what to do.
Sometimes it’s enough to know what not to do.
