[Jaro]

Thank you for your reply Tobias,

I am glad to hear that your post is still valid and that you have made considerable progress. Your caring for your family is honourable and deserves respect.

I have been doing 45 minutes of formal meditation on the tilakkhana almost every day since the beginning of February and have also done metta meditation a few times. Before I discovered puredhamma, I was essentially doing breath mediation, for which I now feel really foolish.

[Jaro]

Hello Tobias,

by now your post is already 5 years old and I am curious whether you have kept up your practice. May I ask you what progress you have made in this time? Do you have a plan on which day you do which form of meditation? Or do you do several forms in the same session? What does a typical day look like for you?

[Jaro]

Are we talking about scientific facts/evidence or mentions in the Suttas? For example, ōpapātika (instantaneous) births. Although I personally definitely do not rule it out, I am not aware of any scientific procedure that could ever test ōpapātika. But if the Buddha reports it, I trust him and can accept it.

[Jaro]

Then I suppose

“NOT to take a firm stand on things that the Buddha called diṭṭhi and say, “I know this to be true, and only this to be true,” and to cling to them.”

already counts as eliminating, doesn’t it?

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