Reply To: How to cope with loneliness

…trying to fix the “bugs” in new software. The following is a comment from Johnny. Hi wta, This is the desana I was referring to. Story begins at 53:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZI2UU5jznY&list=PLGrCtt8wuHbOz67iBmmtrI2rGfj-uoYfQ&index=48&t=0s…

Reply To: How to cope with loneliness

…it’s happy in your place, what does it mean? You suffering is because you trying to keep things to your own satisfaction but world is Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk8UenDhipg…

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

…most of our “sense pleasures” or “kāma assāda” are created by our minds. A sense contact comes and goes away relatively quickly; but we keep thinking about it, sometimes for…

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…