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Obstacles To Meditation |
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Desires to five
senses - Images, Smells, Sounds, Body Feelings, Foods & Drinks |
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Angry, Hate Feelings,
Fight with problems, Impacts with negative people |
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Boring & dull
feelings - Staying without courage |
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Swaying of mind and Becoming
worry about past actions ( sins & mistakes) |
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Undoubted things
about Dharma |
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Meditation is
focusing mind to right subject (Focus) which is not help to collect sins or
lust to feelings |
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It can be - breathing;
one colored circular late or flowers; Sentences about Dharma; feeling like
kind; |
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Some solemn monk use
death body, body parts and it's uncanny states as Focus |
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Dayana or
Jhana or Holding can be achieved cause of concentrating mind
for a long time towards focus |
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There have four
Jhana related to material And four related to only non-material
mind |
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To get Jhana we
need to achieved five holdings roots, which are given in below section |
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Before do meditation
we need knowledge about Dharma or good mentor |
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Also you need good
devotion to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha |
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You need silence
place (under the tree, temple, silence room, etc) and calm mind to do meditation |
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Good five precepts
& courage are important factors for concentrating mind long time |
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Meditation methods
can be chosen according to your likeness & skills or according to your character |
Meditation Methods In Theravada Buddhism
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Meditation
Methods
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Samadhi or Concentration |
Continually Thinking |
Understandings |
Brahma Livings |
- Earth ( Soil Plate)
- Water ( Round Pond)
- Fire (Flame of Lamp)
- Air ( Swaying Object)
- Blue colored circle
- Gold colored circle
- Red colored circle
- White colored circle
- Light ( Moon)
- Space ( Hole in Plate)
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- Buddha
- Dharma
- Sangha
- Precepts
- Donations
- Gods
* these meditations are described in our Meditation Room section in
main page.
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- About death
- Internal organ of body
- Death body & it's changing into spoiling
states
- Breathing
- Body movements
- About virtue of Nibbana or enlighten
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- Metta or friendship with all over universe
- Kind to all over universe
- Happiness of other's luxury & gains
- Middle feeling means not even lust &
hate to anyone in universe
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Main Benefits
& Facts
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- Get miracle powers
- Have all Jhana
- Need good teacher
- Want persistence
- Want precepts
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- No need teacher
- Good for lay people
- First Jhana will get within small time
- Collect big merits
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- Remove lust easily
- Have four Jhana
- Need good teacher
- Want persistence
- Want precepts
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- No need teacher
- Good for lay people
- Four Jhana will get within small time
- Collect big merits
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Recommended Characters
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- Wise people
- Mind swaying people
- Angry minded people
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- Devoted people
- Wise people
- Angry minded people
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- Wise people
- Mind swaying people
- Lust minded people
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- Angry minded people
- Wise people
- Devoted people
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Five
Holdings Roots Of Jhana
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Keep mind with Focus - Means mind
should only think about Focus |
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Sustain that keeping
with Focus - Trying to separate other feelings except
Focus |
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Happy - Noble happy
get after remove your negative thoughts |
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Comfortable - Body
become weightless and cool, so it help to further concentrating |
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Concentrating - Finally
mind only absorb Focus, Mind will not swaying |
Four
Miracle Roots (Satara ErrdiPadha)
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There have four
things to practice to attain miracle powers from 4th Jhana in
meditation |
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Like : firstly we
need likeness to meditation and relevant mind power (e.g.. Telepathy,
walking in sky or water, etc) |
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Persistence :
secondly we want middle level persistence to set a goal & achieve
it |
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Focusing Mind : then
we want to focus mind to only that goal or auto-suggestion about goal
in every time |
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Investigation : also
we want to investigate or learn about how it achieve or find it from
good teacher |
Material
Jhana (Rupa Dayana) & Non-Material Jhana (Arupa Dayana)
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All five holdings
roots (listed above section) accomplish with first Dayana |
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By neglecting first
& second roots, second Dayana achieve |
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From Neglecting Happy
third Dayana achieve - means have only Comfortable |
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Fourth Dayana have
only Concentrating mind to Focus, by neglecting Comfortable |
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Fouths Dayana mind
have mind light whit all meditations, now we concentrate mind to this
light, but not focus |
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This fourth Dayana
help to learn and improve super natural actions like walking in space |
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Example : If someone got fourth
Dayana as Focus as gold color, he can create gold things on
meditation |
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After this four Rupa
Dayana we can get Arupa Dayana by thinkg infiniteness of below
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Infinite Space
(akasanañcayatanupaga) - By thinking infinitive-ness space or space round
mind light |
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Infinite
Consciousness
(viññanañcayatanupaga ) - By neglecting mind light then focusing into
own mind |
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Nothingness
(akiñcaññayatanupaga
) - By neglecting even mind |
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Neither-perception-nor-non-perception
(nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva) - By neglecting all identifications |
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Bharkma Living
meditation can be done in two types : Focus to infinitive number of
creatures or |
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Focusing to ownself
then own respected people then develop it to group of creatures -
such as village or country |
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Dayana help to
rebirth in Great Heavens - Or Brahma Loka |
Losing Precepts Help to Losing Dayana - Lord
Buddha......... |