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Re: how to develop concentration in my meditation? please suggest.
(Quote) Glad to hear it worked for you! :) If you'd like to read more on this approach to meditation, I really like this chapter from A Still Forest Pool, a collection of Ajahn Chah's teachings. Trad… (View Post)
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Re: how to develop concentration in my meditation? please suggest.
Someone played a cruel trick on meditators when they translated samadhi as "concentration." The English word "concentration" often has a quality of strain or intense effort that c… (View Post)
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Re: How to do Vipassana/Insight Meditation?
The style of meditation most people in the West are now calling vipassana is the style that is usually attributed to Mahasi Sayadaw (a Theravadan Buddhist teacher from Burma). Two of his famous stude… (View Post)5 -
Re: Poems
I just discovered this page with what seems like an endless series of translations of Rilke's "Der Panther", one of my favorite poems of his. I've always been interested in the art of trans… (View Post)
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Re: Poems
Rilke is one of my favorites as well. :) Another poet I like is Jorge Luis Borges. A History of the Night translated by Alastair Reid Through the course of generations men brought the night into bein… (View Post)3