Meditation

(4/2024)

Meditation and Mindfulness Techniques

When I am fully relaxed nothing bothers me.
Practicing Relaxing Meditation Before Insight Meditation.
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/08/preparing-for-meditation-with.html

This is a form of samatha (tranquility) meditation that will reduce mental turbulence and quiet the mind. This is also good preparation for Insight Meditation (Observing the Mind).
Easy Meditation
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/10/easy-meditation.html

Insight Meditation
Observing the Mind
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/05/observing-mind.html

Practicing Mindfulness in Daily Life
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/07/practicing-mindfulness-in-daily-life.html

How to dig through layers of emotions to reach their root cause.
When you can't find Tranquility
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/09/when-you-cant-find-tranquility.html

A Quick Guide to Producing Bliss with Meditation
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-quick-guide-to-producing-bliss-with.html

Metta Meditation
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/10/metta-meditation.html

How to Disengage your Ego to Ease Suffering
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-disengage-your-ego-to-ease.html

A definition of dukkha (suffering). An explanation of the types of emotions meditation can help with. And some remarks about how to measure progress on the path:
Dukkha and Nirvana
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/07/how-i-define-dukkha-suffering.html

Look for these perceptual shifts to measure progress on the path:
Perceptual Shifts Caused by Meditation Ease Suffering
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/10/perceptual-shifts-caused-by-meditation.html

Do Buddhists believe in a soul?
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/12/do-buddhists-believe-in-soul.html

Stop Making the Story About Yourself
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2024/03/stop-making-story-about-yourself.html

Nirvana - How To
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2024/04/nirvana-how-to.html

Turning Off Stress: The Parasympathetic Nervous System And Spiritual Development
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-parasympathetic-nervous-system-and.html

A System for Spiritual Development: Hacking Your Brain Chemistry Without Drugs
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2018/04/spiritual-living-hacking-your-brain.html

Hacking Your Brain Part II: Turning Off Unpleasant Emotions by Deactivating the Default Mode Network in the Brain
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/10/hacking-your-brain-part-ii.html

Meditation is better than recreational drugs.
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2015/02/joy-during-meditation.html#joy_trip

Awakening

My Views on Gradual Awakening
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-views-on-gradual-awakening.html

Gradual Awakening Part III
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2024/04/gradual-awakening-part-iii.html

How I Would Define of Buddhist Awakening
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-i-would-define-of-awakening.html

External Links

The Buddha taught his followers that samatha and vipassana, tranquility and insight, are two qualities of mind which should both be cultivated.
One Tool Among Many: The Place of Vipassana in Buddhist Practice by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/onetool.html


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