What if

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meditation does not lead to any palpable changes? What are we to do, then?

vinlyn

Live by other Buddhist principles.

Jason

What @vinlyn said. Also, meditation doesn't lead to palpable changes overnight, or on it's own. That's why the noble eightfold path has eight distinct categories, only two of which fall under what we'd call meditation.

vinlyn

Meditation didn't really work for me, but focused thinking (mindfulness) has.

Zero

With a long enough time line, everything changes.

With a short enough time line, everything changes.

music

I thought only meditation led to nibana. Did the Buddha recommend anything else?

MaryAnne

According to the site below- it takes more than meditation; it takes more than the 5 precepts, it takes the entire 8 fold path and all the precepts as well as dawn to dusk meditations... one must have no other distractions, of any sort, at any time, for months or longer to hope to reach Nibbana.

http://www.aimwell.org/Books/Pesala/Nibbana/nibbana.html

However, this is the kind of teaching/site/information that makes me very happy indeed to approach Buddhism (and mindfulness) more as a way of living than as a road to Nibbana/Enlightenment.

TreeLuvr87

Keep meditating. Changes always arrive; they just might not be the changes you're expecting.

fivebells

What changes are you hoping for from your own practice?

upekka

it does

can guarantee for it

continue meditating at least 10 minuits per day
if we do we will increase the time by degrees no doubt about it

because
we enjoy the tranquality more than anything else

that itself a palpable change

and then

we can go for more insightful meditation

have no doubt