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There were many schools of early Buddhism before Mahayana came around. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on them. Theravada is simply one of these schools. (View Post)
I think nationalism is antithetical to the Buddha's teaching and to human progress as a whole. For whatever instance of benefit that emerged out of nationalist sentiments, nationalism itself is sympt… (View Post)
(Quote) Well, the Buddha never really differentiated different meditations for samatha and vipassana. All he described really was breathing meditation/anapanasati. Both samatha and vipassana are mean… (View Post)
(Quote) This is an important point. The terms "introversion" and "extraversion" originally come from the work of Carl Jung, the famous 20th century Swiss psychologist. I am a huge… (View Post)
When I was doing Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, I would always fall asleep while trying to do the body scan meditation before bed, lol. The CD I used was of Jon Kabat-Zinn, but here is the exac… (View Post)