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I remember a time long ago when I was meditating and my mind was running so vivid and fast that I actually realized I had gotten up and was upstairs doing something. I asked on a forum of meditators … (View Post)
Mindfulness is also coming back when lost in 'thought'. So you drop your tea cup because thinking of something else and it falls to the ground and breaks. So then mindfulness of cup breaking. You cou… (View Post)
They are often practiced together because they support each other in a way. The goal of Samatha is one pointed concentration that will go into the jhanas/dhyanas. This can remove impurities such as m… (View Post)
@mindatrisk There are many stories of monks trying to save beings. For example I read an account of a nun say that the monk where she was practicing spent a lot of his time shepherding animals or ins… (View Post)