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Meditation on the Breath: or The Mindfulness of Breathing

09 Saturday Sep 2017

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Mindfulness of Breathing

Mindfulness of Breathing

Meditation on the Breath, or The Mindfulness of Breathing is a main stay of Buddhist meditation. It can be used in so many ways. Your mind calms, your body relaxes and you come to know peace in a way that is not usual in the West.

Breath meditation can be used anywhere, while sitting watching the T.V., whilst walking to the shops, even whilst standing in the queue in the shop. Whenever you have a chance to pause and take time out, breath meditation can come to your aid, and calm you down. It really isn’t complicated at all, as the following instructions will show. Just 15 minutes or half an hour a day, when you can grab it, can make an enormous impact on you day-to-day wellbeing. Continue reading →

Starting Out Small – by Ajahn Lee

05 Tuesday Sep 2017

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Meditation

This small booklet contains 13 talks by the Venerable Ajahn Lee on meditation for beginners. It has been translated from Thai by the Venerable Thanissaro Bhikkhu of Dhamma Talks, and to quote his page directly:

Starting Out Small: A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised & expanded September 5, 2016) In this collection of talks Ajaan Lee covers the sorts of questions that occur to people new to meditation—Why meditate? How should I meditate? And why in that particular way?—and in his own style he provided not only straightforward answers to these questions but also vivid analogies.

Earlier in 2016 this book was expanded with two new talks that had never been published before—“Merit” and “On Target”—along with complete translations of the talks “The Art of Letting Go” and “At the Tip of Your Nose.”

With the newest edition, Starting Out Small now includes another section of newly translated Dhamma talks, featuring one of Ajaan Lee’s longest recorded sermons, “Recollection of Virtue.”

This is an excellent guide for the beginning meditator. Ajahn Lee is lucid and to the point. I highly recommend this text. It will be made available in the eLibrary per usual.

It is released under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ license and thus can be distributed so long as it is not sold.

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Starting Out Small: A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators.

May all beings live without fear!

 

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All Roads Lead To Rome

05 Tuesday Sep 2017

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War

War

An interesting and thought-provoking post has been placed on Searching For God about the current political situation and ‘Religious War’. It is a somewhat angry post but he raises some very valid points. Religious war is a very sensitive topic, but the political elite have grabbed it by the reigns and uses the notion for their own ends. This article outlines what those ends are and the pointlessness of the death and destruction the results from it.

I suggest you take a look so long as you do not have any extreme view points.

May ALL beings live in peace.

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Audio Dhamma!

28 Monday Aug 2017

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MicrophoneAudio is coming to *Dhamma!! I have found a source of public domain Theravada lectures that I plan to make available on this site. The ones I have lined up are by the Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, an eminent Buddhist Scholar and Pali expert who is responsible for a mountain of valuable publications.

The audio quality is very poor by todays standards. The only equipment they had back in the early 1980’s was a standard cassette recorder, and it was the master tapes that were used to make copies for distribution, however, once you get used to the 1980’s technology, the lectures are perfectly okay to listen too. After all it is the content that is important, and the series of lectures I will be providing are excellent for the novice Buddhist.

Anyway, I will be working over the next couple of days on how to best present this very valuable material, so until then…

May you all live in Peace.