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Meditation on Loving kindness -Metta Bhavna
The meditation who wants to practice metta meditation needs to know the types of person to whom he or she should and should not meditate metta on.One type of person whom one should not meditate metta upon is a person of the opposite sex during metta meditation on specific person. however the opposite sex can be included during unspecified metta meditation such as May all living beings.., May all men..May all women..for example.a female mediator should not meditate metta on a specific male person.Similarly a male meditator should not meditate metta on a specific female.If one does so, lust (Raga) can aise and the meditation may be destroyed. A dead…
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BEGINNINGS: THE PALI SUTTAS
Where does one begin? This is obviously the first question. And when the issue at hand is the manifest need to explore and resolve the root-problem of our personal existence, then this question takes on a primacy in terms not only of sequence but of importance. One begins, of course, from where one is, for from where else can one begin? Herein the intelligent person, he who does not shrink from unpleasant truths, will acknowledge the problem. He may describe it in any of a number of ways — anxiety, loneliness, insufficiency, frustration, inconstancy, boredom, uncertainty, bondage, meaninglessness, impermanence, despair — but however it appears it will be seen, if…
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SAMATHA AND VIPASSANA MEDITATION
There are two types of meditation in Buddhism. One is Samatha meditation; the other is Vipassana meditation. Samatha here means concentration. Vipassana here means insight or experiential knowledge of bodily and mental phenomena. Of these two types of mental training, Samatha meditation is practiced to attain a higher concentration of the mind, peaceful and blissful living and the cessation of suffering. Vipassana meditation is practised to attain not only deep concentration of the mind but also liberation from all kinds of mental and physical dukkha or suffering, through realisation of our body-mind processes and their true nature. As I explained to you, Samatha meditation is practised to attain higher concentration…
