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Dipa Ma's mettā (loving-kindness) meditation instruction was a core component to be practiced after each Vipassanā session. It involves five stages, the first of which was the mastery of self-compassion in mind and heart, then continuing to the other stages. The prayer of the first stage, given in English is as follows: Let me be free of enemies
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The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". [11] [12] In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, [12] [13] before which the Greek word theoria was used for ...
Different genres comprise the Early Buddhist texts, including prose "suttas" (Skt: sūtra, discourses), monastic rules (), various forms of verse compositions (such as gāthā and udāna), mixed prose and verse works (geya), and also lists (matika) of monastic rules or doctrinal topics.
The practitioner must fix the mind upon the inhalation and exhalation, without giving consideration to the state of his body or mind, and count mentally his breaths from one up to ten. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One must keep count of every number; if the mind becomes distracted at some point, one must count anew from the starting point until samadhi is ...
March Mindfulness is an annual Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology.From an expansive point of view, the first video game to promote mindfulness was ...
Goleman continues with a survey of eleven [1] types of meditation including Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Sufism, Transcendental Meditation, Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, Indian Tantra and Kundalini Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, the teachings of Gurdjieff as expressed by P. D. Ouspensky, and the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti.
The Contemplation Sūtra is part of a genre of Contemplation Sutras (Chinese: 觀經, Guān jīng) that include other similar texts with visual meditations like Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra. [ 3 ] Also called by the short title Contemplation Sutra (觀經, Guān jīng ), this sutra is one of the three principle Pure Land sutras along with the ...