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Re: Why do westerners prefer to read books more than practising meditation?
(Quote) this is 'the finger pointing' Sitting and meditating/ walking and meditating/ contemplating on what have read or heard is guarantee for awakening. this is 'looking where the finger pointed at… (View Post)
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Re: Why do westerners prefer to read books more than practising meditation?
(Quote) Ajahn Chah knew (know and see) Buddha's Teaching his pupils could get direct advice from Him instead of reading books and going astray or taking a longer way to see the Truth (View Post)
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Re: Superstition: can't seem to shake it
(Quote) what exactly does '108' mean? pleasure, pain, neither-pleasure-nor-pain feeling (3) eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind (6) (6X3)=18 present, past, future (3) (18X3)=54 internal, external (2) … (View Post)
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Re: Is Modern Western Philosophy and Buddhist Philosophy Really Just Facets of the Same Wisdom
(Quote) this is worldly insight and wisdom Does anyone have any experience of this, or is the consensus that we have to read the Sutra's and that is the only way to develop insight and wisdom. Period… (View Post)
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Re: What objects of meditation bring mindfulness into your everyday life?
(Quote) if the poem or the drawing or the play is a great work there is no doubt that the mindfulness has involved during it's creation List of practices that lead to mindfulness: 1. Sitting 2. Walki… (View Post)
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