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It's only as hard as you make it  A toolkit for destroying lust and passion for sensuality  (part 2, for experienced serious meditators only) ⚠️☢☣☠ Warning! Most of this material contains graphic images of corpses and anatomical body parts that most people would find disturbing.  ⚠️Turn away now! ⚠️Last chance! ⚠️☢☣☠ It's only as hard as you make it  A toolkit for destroying lust and passion for sensuality  (part 2, for experienced serious meditators only) *Curated collection of downloadable videos : autopsies, organ surgery, etc. downloadable videos 31asb videos, approx. 5min long   50mb pdf file , contains many pictures of normal people with superimposed 31 body parts onto their regular bodies moving through everyday life. It's written in Thai, so you'll only have an idea of how to practice if you're familiar with Ajahn M...

It's only as hard as you make it A toolkit for destroying lust and passion for sensuality  ⚠️☢☣☠ Warning! Some of this material contains graphic images of anatomical body parts that may be disturbing or some people. Proceed at your own risk. 🔗 audio material 🔗  AN 7.51 so you think  working out at the gym is healthy and harmless? 🔗 MN 13 helpful images : gratification, drawback, escape from 5kg, rūpa, and vedana (much more material to be added over time ) It's only as hard as you make it (part 2, for experienced meditators only... You can't destroy what you don't understand: kāma 💘💃‍ : sensuality, lust, passion.

Re: Favourite Nikaya Edit Delete post Report this post Quote Post   by  frank k  »  Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:38 am IMO, You really want to read as many of the suttas in all the nikayas (with some exceptions in KN) and decide for yourself. EBT (early buddhist teaching) can be found in all of them. Development and lateness of ideas (relative to EBT) happens in strata. But in general, here is the sorted order in terms of highest density of EBT of the 4 major nikayas: 1.    SN‍   2.    AN‍          3.    MN‍ 4.  DN‍ The most EBT among the    KN‍       I have here:    KN‍      Any serious practitioner, you should keep good notes while reading all the suttas and figure out for yourself which suttas are most important and keep a list of them, summaries, and memorize the key ideas from them. For the short important suttas, best to...

In Pali, is there a general rule for how to translate/interpret negations, e.g. (subha, asubha) Edit Delete post Report this post Quote Post   by  frank k  »  Thu Feb 27, 2020 11:33 am In Pali, is there a general rule for how to translate/interpret negations, e.g. (subha, asubha) After all these years, I still have no idea. For example: In English, if we contrast beautiful with non-beautiful, non-beautiful has a broad spectrum from not beautiful at all, all the way to extreme beauty. Similary, if we were to translate subha/asubha as not-ugly, and ugly, then 'ugly' tends to imply, 'more than a little ugly', but not-ugly has a range from not ugly at all, to extremely ugly. atta, anatta nicca, anicca abypada, bypada How do you translate and interpret those? For subha and asubha, the passages definitely seem to be on the extreme end in context. If one only had a neutral attitude to contemplating 31 body parts or corpses, you wouldn't expect to see scores of ...

This is what I have in my notes so far, but I really want to find some concrete evidence, besides AN 10.60, that it ONLY means 31 body parts. Or might it include corpse contemplation as well? Assuming MN 119 represents EBT, then kayagatasati includes 31asb, among several other practices. So kayagata is a broader class of meditation subjects, but what is 'asubha bhavana' meditation? Is it only 31asb?  So the two big questions relevant:  1. What is the EBT position on exactly what meditation practices are included under 'asubha'? Is it only 31 body parts? Or does it also include corpse contemplation? 2. What is the official Theravada position, before Vimt. and Vism.? (they classify asubha as corpse contemplation, and 31 body parts under kayagata). B. Bodhi's footnote for SN 8.4 suggests official Theravada position is 31 body parts + 5 stages of corpse, but he doesn't cite source for that conclusion. The reason the question is important In passages such a...

Re: Vism. doing 31 body parts using vitakka simultaneous with first jhana Edit Delete post Report this post Quote Post   by  frank k  »  Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:56 am mikenz66  wrote:  ↑ Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:13 am ... Since many words have multiple layers of meaning (kaya - body - being an obvious example which has multiple meanings in both Pali and English), this is not necessarily a contradiction. Mike Dhamma, sankhara, kaya: Yes, they can have multiple layers and meaning But there are contexts where it's completely clear that kaya (or rupa)/citta kaya/mano are being used as a dichotomy to distinguish between physical body and mind in a meditation context. Even Abhidhamma uses the same kaya/citta kaya/mano dichotomy when they want to make that distinction (between body and mind)! So it's totally insane when Abhidhamma tries to override a sutta body/mind dichotomy passage with one of their own, when they're using the same means to do so. It's bas...

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyBuddhismMeditati/ Originally it was intended to be named 'Early Buddhism Meditation', but they have a character length limit so it got truncated. 'Meditati' sounds kind of cool. Like Illuminati. sidebar summary of group: Meditation and scripture studies on early Buddhist teachings. Comparison with later Buddhist teachings and non Buddhist meditation techniques, only to clarify and understand meditation from an early Buddhist teaching perspective. In addition to the sidebar information "about community": Purpose of the group: A list and explanation of Abbreviations commonly used:  STED This space is meant to be a resource center for meditators to ask questions relevant to EBT meditation and get answers from experienced practitioners. In a bigger forum like  r/buddhism , you would be inundated by a confusing array of (often contradictory) answers from multiple traditions within Buddhism. Here we are f...