Reply To: How to cope with loneliness

Hi Wta, I recommend you listen to the discourses from the following Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrCtt8wuHbOz67iBmmtrI2rGfj-uoYfQ Beginning from the first discourse right at the bottom #105 (currently). Because you have read…

Reply To: Experience with Anapanasati + My Esoteric Background

…of energy into the hadya-vatthu, located two digits to the right of your sternum. *Adi Da describes his meditation technique, a little different from Mr. Gardner’s, in this chapter. https://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/KneeofListening/book/chapter19.html…

Vipaka Sapa from Dhamma Loka

…A vipaka sapa(sukha) vedana that even an Arahant experiences. Here Venerable Abhaya explains it (it is in Sinhala which I cannot understand): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsX4eBw_8z4&t=3501s “Thus, “seeing” event is a neutral vēdanā,…

Reply To: Arupa jhanas and sense inputs

Btw, to enter Jhanas I simply follow my breath as described by Leigh Brasington http://www.leighb.com/jhana3.htm As long as I don’t expect anything at all – it works….

Reply To: A method for jhana

To start, the method I recommend is to follow your breath in the way it’s described here: https://www.lionsroar.com/entering-the-jhanas/ – It works for me and others. Kasinas work for me as…

Best Course on Abhidhamma (Anatomy of Mind) by Bhante Rahula & Caranapali

…youtube channel Abhidhamma – Anatomy of the Mind Abhidhamma Course Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl3LPAoOk3_u6_sL7zt1mLeICJFQTP6Qp or you can visit their website http://dhamma.mx/abdhidhammatthasangaha-english/ Thanks to all, hope all of you benefit from this course….

Reply To: Sotapanna information from the Sutta-pitaka

…that the 7 lives that a saththakathuparama has left doesn’t really refer to bava. This deshana is specifically answering a question about this specific topic in the Janavasabha Sutta. https://www.waharaka.com/listen/CD076-32…