Our Lovely Earth

2008-11-29T11:23:00.000+07:00

2008-11-28T19:37:00.000+07:00

How deep Your Sila in daily life ?

2008-10-20T15:52:00.006+07:00

Sila from the Pali Language means:
- Morality
- Moral practice
- Moral conduct
- Code of morality
- Buddhist ethics
- A precept
- Rule of morality.

Q: What are the five precepts in brief ?
A:
1. Not to kill.
2. Not to steal.
3. Not to engage in sexual intercourse.
4. Not to speak lies.
5. Not to take intoxicants.

For special day like the Uposatha day, have also Uposatha Sila.
Q: What are the eight precepts of Uposatha in brief ?
A:
1. Not to kill.
2. Not to steal.
3. Not to engage in sexual intercourse.
4. Not to speak lies.
5. Not to take intoxicants.
6. Not to eat food between noon and the following dawn.
7. Not to sing, dance or watch entertainments, and not to use ornaments, cosmetics or perfumes.
8. Not to sit or lie on a large or high seat or bed.

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Articles Meditation in your practice

2008-10-07T15:30:00.006+07:00

The key is to experiment with different forms of meditation and trust your intuition

to tell you which ones are best suited for you at this particular point on

your journey up the mountain

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Articles Awareness

2008-10-07T14:02:00.010+07:00

Do you tend to be more aware of internal or

external sensations? Do you pay more attention

to thoughts and fantasies than to your

moment-to-moment sensory experiences?

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My Spiritual Journey 2

2008-10-06T17:37:00.007+07:00

Past one year i still meditation and get my inner spirit guide me good, until now.....part 1.

Gone with the wind, my point is you should take from the bad experienced and always on your head thinking the positive one, clear your mind from negative one.
From the meditation i got benefit : my health quickly recovery, sensitive awareness etc.
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My Spiritual Journey, Why am i like this

2008-09-29T23:07:00.001+07:00

Dear Forum,

Before i am not like this, i usually get my meditation as routine.
Until someday i get my throat chakra work strongly, and i can heard a sound with man voice in 2 years ago.
The sound intimidated me to do this and like this. Finally i asked my friend who know and understand about the spirit, he told me that spirit follow obey from his master ( Middle East ) want make my mind incorrect. It' was happend until half year.
Past one year i still meditation and get my inner spirit guide me good, until now.

May be one of you have the same experience with me, can share with me
by mail: free.man4u65@gmail.com
or My Webpage

thanks for share with you.
by: semangat viriya

Awareness on point between the breaths?

2008-09-27T21:25:00.004+07:00

Topic

Hi allI once heard Thanissaro Bhikkhu say that one may find that awareness of the in and out breaths gives away to awareness of the point between them. And I realized when I heard that that my awareness of that point is quite strong and clear. Now that I've been working with that, it's kind of taking over and the breath is almost becoming secondary! I don't think this is "proper" meditation, but if it has the mind settling down on it, maybe it is......it is a kind of tight bud of energy, sometimes radiant, sometimes it expands and fills the whole mind. And it's very easy accesible, even during the day, so I'm not talking about any kind of deep attainment. I'm surprised that I've never read about this before. Scanned through the topics but didn't see anything. Can anyone give me feedback about whether this could fall in with a proper meditation object? The fact that I've never read about it suggests it is just psycho-wankery on my part...

Thanks!metta,phil

My contribution as below :

hi phil,You're right awareness can get by practicing routinely, by day, by month, by the years.The more you practice meditation, the more be awareness.Different people are different awareness.Many kind of meditation you can follow as you like, suitable by you.The point is concentrate in our mind.You can feel your breath up and down from faster until calm. you can chose by your self. Feel your body and around you, warm , cool, hot, you can feel.don't ever stop meditate even 1 day, it would be your habit.You would be love and enjoying by meditation everyday, every time, everywhere.Thanks for sharing with philby: Semangat Email : free.man4u65@gmail.comMyBlog : http://ourlovelyearth88.blogspot.com/

How to meditate for beginner

2008-09-27T21:06:00.006+07:00

http://www.wikihow.com/Discussion:Meditate-for-Beginners

To begin meditating you just need an easy, basic meditation program to introduce you to the benefits of meditation.
You need an alert mind to make the most of meditation so you need to be free of alcohol or non prescribed drugs for at least 24 hours.
Wait 2 hours after a full meal or an hour after a snack or a caffeine drink before meditating.
If you smoke it is best to wait for roughly thirty minutes before meditating.
You need to make sure you have some peace and quiet around you when you first begin learning to meditate. This is critical to your success.
Make sure all phones are turned off/disconnected or turned to silent.
A scented candle, a bouquet of flowers or something else pleasing to you can be great little touches to enhance your first meditation. This can make coming out of meditation a beautiful thing!
Dim your lights or turn them off if you are going to use candles, you don't wake to come out of your meditation session into bright light.
Use a straight backed chair to sit upright or use some cushions/pillows to support your back and head.
Finally remove your shoes and loosen any tight clothing so you are comfortable.
You need to try and keep focused whilst meditating, if thought's enter your mind don't worry about them or focus on them, just let them float out of your mind again.
Never expect too much. Many people get disheartened with meditation because they expect immediate results. Meditation is a marathon not a sprint, always remember that.
Practice and persevere and you will gain the benefits of meditation.
Try to always leave three to four hours between meditation sessions.

Author : Michaelmark, Krystls

my contribution as below :

chose your private room, more better and quite dark. Focusing in one point, will get or increase your ability in meditation. Make meditation as your habit, you can get benefite like awareness, improve and more strongger with your health. Try it on your own.
by semangat email: free.man4u65@gmail.com

Anapana Sati Meditation on Breathing

2008-09-24T16:27:00.001+07:00

The Eight StepsTo help practitioners in developing this meditation, the commentators and meditation masters have indicated eight graduated steps in the practice. These eight steps will first be enumerated, and then they will be explained in relation to the actual meditative process.The eight steps are named: counting (ganana); following (anubandhana); contact (phusana); fixing (thapana); observing (sallakkhana); turning away (vivattana), purification (parisuddhi); and retrospection (patipassana). These eight cover the whole course of meditative development up to the attainment of arahantship.(i) CountingWhen the meditator sits down for meditation, he fixes his attention at the tip of his nose and consciously attends to the sequence of in-and-out breathing. He notes the breath as it enters, and notes the breath as it leaves, touching against the tip of the nose or the upper lip. At this time he begins to count these movements.There are a few methods of counting. The easiest is explained thus: The first breath felt is counted as "one, one"; the second as "two, two"; the third as "three, three"; the fourth as "four, four"; the fifth as "five, five" and so on up to the tenth breath which is counted as "ten, ten." Then he returns to "one, one" and continues again up to "ten, ten." This is repeated over and over from one to ten.The mere counting is not itself meditation, but the counting has become an essential aid to meditation. A person who has not practiced meditation before, finding it difficult to understand the nature of his mind, may think he is meditating while his mind runs helter skelter. Counting is an easy method to control the wandering mind.(ii) FollowingThis work of contemplating the breath at the area around the nostrils, without following it inside and outside the body, is illustrated by the commentaries with the similes of the gatekeeper and the saw.When a person meditates earnestly in this manner, seeing the entire process, a joyous thrill pervades his mind. And since the mind does not wander about, the whole body becomes calm and composed, cool and comfortable.more detail see http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/ariyadhamma/bl115.htmlHave a nice try to meditate follow your style.

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The Path to Peace and Freedom for the Mind

2008-09-22T16:06:00.003+07:00

All of the Buddha's teachings and their practice can be summed up in a mere eight factors

I. Right View: seeing in line with the truth.

II. Right Resolve: thinking in ways that will lead to well-being.

III. Right Speech: speaking in line with the truth.

IV. Right Action: being correct and upright in one's activities.

V. Right Livelihood: maintaining oneself in ways that are honest and proper.

VI. Right Effort: exerting oneself in line with all that is good.

VII. Right Mindfulness: always being mindful of the person or topic that forms one's point of reference.

VIII. Right Concentration: keeping the mind correctly centered in line with the principles of the truth, not letting it fall into the ways of Wrong Concentration.

May each and every one of you meet with progress and happiness.

more detail see the source : Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo

Basic Breath Meditation

2008-09-22T15:56:00.007+07:00

Here The instruction for Basic Breath Meditation

The technique I'll be teaching is breath meditation. It's a good topic no matter what your religious background. As my teacher once said, the breath doesn't belong to Buddhism or Christianity or anyone at all. It's common property that anyone can meditate on. At the same time, of all the meditation topics there are, it's probably the most beneficial to the body, for when we're dealing with the breath, we're dealing not only with the air coming in and out of the lungs, but also with all the feelings of energy that course throughout the body with each breath. If you can learn to become sensitive to these feelings, and let them flow smoothly and unobstructed, you can help the body function more easily, and give the mind a handle for dealing with pain.

So let's all meditate for a few minutes. Sit comfortably erect, in a balanced position. You don't have to be ramrod straight like a soldier. Just try not to lean forward or back, to the left or the right. Close your eyes and say to yourself, 'May I be truly happy and free from suffering.' This may sound like a strange, even selfish, way to start meditating, but there are good reasons for it. One, if you can't wish for your own happiness, there is no way that you can honestly wish for the happiness of others. Some people need to remind themselves constantly that they deserve happiness — we all deserve it, but if we don't believe it, we will constantly find ways to punish ourselves, and we will end up punishing others in subtle or blatant ways as well.

Two, it's important to reflect on what true happiness is and where it can be found. A moment's reflection will show that you can't find it in the past or the future. The past is gone and your memory of it is undependable. The future is a blank uncertainty. So the only place we can really find happiness is in the present. But even here you have to know where to look. If you try to base your happiness on things that change — sights, sounds, sensations in general, people and things outside — you're setting yourself up for disappointment, like building your house on a cliff where there have been repeated landslides in the past. So true happiness has to be sought within. Meditation is thus like a treasure hunt: to find what has solid and unchanging worth in the mind, something that even death cannot touch.

To find this treasure we need tools. The first tool is to do what we're doing right now: to develop good will for ourselves. The second is to spread that good will to other living beings. Tell yourself: 'All living beings, no matter who they are, no matter what they have done to you in the past — may they all find true happiness too.' If you don't cultivate this thought, and instead carry grudges into your meditation, that's all you'll be able to see when you look inside.

Only when you have cleared the mind in this way, and set outside matters aside, are you ready to focus on the breath. Bring your attention to the sensation of breathing. Breathe in long and out long for a couple of times, focusing on any spot in the body where the breathing is easy to notice, and your mind feels comfortable focusing. This could be at the nose, at the chest, at the abdomen, or any spot at all. Stay with that spot, noticing how it feels as you breathe in and out. Don't force the breath, or bear down too heavily with your focus. Let the breath flow naturally, and simply keep track of how it feels. Savor it, as if it were an exquisite sensation you wanted to prolong. If your mind wanders off, simply bring it back. Don't get discouraged. If it wanders 100 times, bring it back 100 times. Show it that you mean business, and eventually it will listen to you.

If you want, you can experiment with different kinds of breathing. If long breathing feels comfortable, stick with it. If it doesn't, change it to whatever rhythm feels soothing to the body. You can try short breathing, fast breathing, slow breathing, deep breathing, shallow breathing — whatever feels most comfortable to you right now...

Once you have the breath comfortable at your chosen spot, move your attention to notice how the breathing feels in other parts of the body. Start by focusing on the area just below your navel. Breathe in and out, and notice how that area feels. If you don't feel any motion there, just be aware of the fact that there's no motion. If you do feel motion, notice the quality of the motion, to see if the breathing feels uneven there, or if there's any tension or tightness. If there's tension, think of relaxing it. If the breathing feels jagged or uneven, think of smoothing it out... Now move your attention over to the right of that spot — to the lower right-hand corner of the abdomen — and repeat the same process... Then over to the lower left-hand corner of the abdomen... Then up to the navel... right... left... to the solar plexus... right... left... the middle of the chest... right... left... to the base of the throat... right... left... to the middle of the head...[take several minutes for each spot]

If you were meditating at home, you could continue this process through your entire body — over the head, down the back, out the arms & legs to the tips of your finger & toes — but since our time is limited, I'll ask you to return your focus now to any one of the spots we've already covered. Let your attention settle comfortably there, and then let your conscious awareness spread to fill the entire body, from the head down to the toes, so that you're like a spider sitting in the middle of a web: It's sitting in one spot, but it's sensitive to the entire web. Keep your awareness expanded like this — you have to work at this, for its tendency will be to shrink to a single spot — and think of the breath coming in & out your entire body, through every pore. Let your awareness simply stay right there for a while — there's no where else you have to go, nothing else you have to think about... And then gently come out of meditation.

By : Thanissaro Bhikkhu

My Spiritual Journey

2008-09-22T15:28:00.007+07:00

To be human in this world should be good, positive thinking to each other.
I have a bad experience in the 2 last years.
I usually get my meditation everyday, see more detail

Finally i get my inner spirit guide good, until now.
Make meditation as your habit.

Align to Higher Purpose

2008-09-22T13:58:00.003+07:00

Today is a day to align yourself, to have your mind, heart, emotional center and body fully aligned with each other and to your higher purpose in this life. You do not need to know exactly what that higher purpose is. Align yourself to a lifted state and it will be pulled toward you, unfolding before you each step of the way. You do not need clarity of the future. You need only have clarity in this moment, clarity and alignment.

When you are achieving your higher purpose, when you are fulfilling your soul's passion, you will feel very calm and peaceful in your center, very loving in your heart and very clear and quiet in your mind. Your goal is to achieve that state right now in order to create a loving and welcoming environment for your unfolding life.

First, sit quietly and breathe deeply. Then begin by opening your heart. If you like, play a piece of music that always opens your heart, something lifting and elevating, something that helps your heart open like the unfolding petals of a rose on a bright summer day. Your heart should feel tender and vulnerable, open and accepting, ready to give and receive the universal flow of unending love.

Now, focus on your center and picture a deep pool of peace, an unending pool of water, deep and mysterious but utterly still, full of calm, containing all the answers to your questions, so complete and whole that questioning is no longer necessary. A pool of faith and peace, deep and calm, endlessly calm.

Now turn your attention gently to your head. Lift your attention up to the crown of your head and then to the bright golden ball of energy above it, your higher self. Open the crown of your head and allow a channel of bright golden light to flow down from your soul self into your mind.

As it enters your mind, feel your mind clearing. Feel all of the conversation stop. The only sound is the sound of the flowing energy, a sound of silence deep and true.

Then let this energy flow down to your heart, strengthening the love you find there. And then down to the pool of peace, turning the dark and mysterious pool into a sparkling, bright light of peace and love.

And now, let the light fill your body completely. Feel the alignment, as the light flows down from your higher self, through your entire body, to the tips of your toes, then through the soles of your feet and into the earth, grounding you in love and peace.

And now, with the light and love flowing steadily down through you, the same channel of light unifying and aligning you throughout, feel that the flow of light holds your soul's intention for this life. Feel that intention entering every cell of your body, filling it and energizing it toward your true purpose.

Now let your attention travel up your body, from your feet up your legs, to your center now lit with love and light, through your heart open and pulsating with love, through your mind clear and shining, up to your higher self, and now further up, further and further, up into the vast light above, the oneness, the complete and whole oneness that we are. And feel this alignment, as the light travels up and down, from the vast mind of God to your mind, from the oneness of your being up into the great all, up and down, an alignment complete and absolute. You are that and it is you. All is one and all is love. You are wholely aligned with the universal flow of love and light. You are one and complete and whole. You are.

And now, capture this feeling of alignment, this feeling of truth, integrity and oneness, this feeling of love and peace and clarity. Store it away in your memory, your body memory, so that you will always remember what this feels like, to be completely aligned to all that is. Give yourself a physical gesture to recall it, perhaps your hand moving down in a line from your higher self to your center.

And then, as you go through your life, you may use the memory of this feeling to guide you, to light your way. Just look for resonance with this feeling in every choice that you make, every pathway you follow, every step that you take.

Then, when it feels right, when you feel aligned, step forward in faith and in courage, knowing that you walk in truth and love, fully aligned to your soul's deepest intention.

source - carriehart.com

First symbol of DEPENDENT ORIGINATION

2008-09-19T09:32:00.009+07:00

DEPENDENT ORIGINATION

On the Top picture is a symbol of Dependent Origination, represented with the Animal.
1. Pig is symbol of Greedy, always hunger represented Lobha.
2. Snake is symbol of poisonous, can kill and bites anyone, anger represented Dosa.
3. Cock is symbol of vanity, want to show off, created impulse and emotions represented Moha.

They link like a chain, and illustrates the rise and falling of consciousness ( Citta ).
In our real life we found the same like this illustrated, and how far we can facing this ?

say hey

2008-09-17T17:37:00.019+07:00

To our lovely earth

we living in our lovely earth now and forever, until the end of the day.
so take care and get the benefit from the earth, such we can get the energy for healing.

The proses is simple.
Take a meditation, concentrate to our breath inhale and exhale.
After several minute you try feel the different, can feel the rhythm of our breath, outside our body, and around you. This situation we call it by aware.

Try this in your daily life, and practice it.
The more you practice, the more you can aware.