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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.htmlThis 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.htmlInsight Meditation
Observing the Mind
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/05/observing-mind.htmlThe first practice above helps you to let go of emotions, the second helps to quiet mental turbulence, the third helps you to understand how the mind works. Any one of them alone will ease suffering. When all three are cultivated, they form an interlocking self supporting structure that is more than the sum of its parts. Calming emotions helps to quiet the mind, quieting the mind makes it easier to see how it works, understanding the how the mind works helps you to let go of emotions.
Practicing Mindfulness in Daily Life
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2023/07/practicing-mindfulness-in-daily-life.htmlHow 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.htmlA Quick Guide to Producing Bliss with Meditation
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-quick-guide-to-producing-bliss-with.htmlMetta Meditation
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2020/10/metta-meditation.htmlHow 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.htmlGradual Awakening Part III
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2024/04/gradual-awakening-part-iii.htmlHow 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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