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What are some of the best resources for learning how to meditate? They can be books, but don't need to be.

>> No.19288881

>>19288877
>close eyes
>count breaths

why do you need a book for this

>> No.19288893

>>19288881
I count my (you)s

>> No.19288895

What position to do when you cant sit like that? Fuck no being so unflexible

>> No.19288901

>>19288895
Away from the dining table

>> No.19288997

The Mind Illuminated

>> No.19289686

>>19288877
unified mindfulness - Reworking the basics of various meditation schools combined into a secular mindfulness framework

the mind illuminated - detailed and secular explanation of the buddhist meditation path

happiness beyond thought by Gary Weber - secular approach to the advaita and neo-advaita meditation

>> No.19289691
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19289691

Mahasatipathana sutta in the Digha Nikaya

>> No.19289710

>>19289691
missing the Visuddhimagga, and the vimuttimagga

>> No.19289922

>>19288877
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLvU7ppM4vE&list=PL603BD0B03E12F5A1

this is a very practical and simple method of meditation

https://youtu.be/eoe2jZPV8ac
here's a more complex, philosophical apporach

https://youtu.be/z2y9N3IdEqY
here's a really usefull guided meditation

see all the vids, search some more from those 3 monks or find some other monks and se etheir approach
then choose the one is mor euseful to you

>> No.19289929

>>19288895
position is the less important part, you can meditate in any position, the only problem is themor confortable you are, the fastest you'll fall asleep when you achieve deep states of meditation, but for a begginer how you sit should be the less of your problems

>> No.19291527

>>19289929
I'd even say that the less special your meditation session is the better. No fanfare.

>> No.19291542

>>19288881
how do you focus on counting your breaths? My mind doesn't shut up and doesn't let me focus on anything. I feel more anxious when I try to meditate.

>> No.19291939

>>19291542
Can you count? Count. If your mind wanders off, don't panic. This is natural. Everyone has a wandering mind. External guidance helps you refocus. Aka YouTube guide, podcast, etc. Whatever you can use to get the mind back into counting.

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19292566

>>19289691
that isn't about meditation though

>> No.19292589

>>19289691
>translation by a californian jew
no thanks

>> No.19292595

>>19288877
Just get the waking up app follow that. You can beg and get it free before the ((())) and early life posters start.

>> No.19292876

https://youtu.be/AM2DsPR4iN4

>> No.19292885

>>19288877
>They can be books, but don't need to be.
yes they do, this is /lit/ not /med/

>> No.19292887

This a resource from the Thai forest Buddhists

https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/WithEachAndEveryBreath/Section0001.html

>> No.19292948

>>19291542
>My mind doesn't shut up
That's true for almost everyone. The thoughts come and you let them pass, don't identify with them, don't let them take you on a trip. Just be a cold motherfucker staring from within. Even experienced meditators or "enlightened" people aren't empty of spontaneous thoughts, they just don't get dragged around by them.

>> No.19292951

www.dhamma.org

>> No.19293167

>>19288881
Counting breathes isn't the best. Op look up the anapanasati sutta.

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>>19291542
Yes meditation is mentally painful for me to. Everytime you start thinking be come aware of the thinking and label it, say in your head "thinking thinking" then return to watching your breathes or counting. When it wanders again do the same thing. When you hear a sound say "hearing hearing" and bring it back to the breath. When you have an itch say "itching itching".

Buddhists say if your mind wanders 10 000 times bring it back to focus 10 000 times. You are successfully meditating if your mind wanders and you bring it back, that is like 90% of the practice.

>> No.19293220

>>19292566
>focusing on breathing and doing visualizations isn't meditation
Huh?

>> No.19293753

>>19288877
>aypsite.org
Here you go anon, good luck.

>> No.19293864
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19293864

Are we still starting a Doomer sect if Buddhism in the west? No reincarnation. No old Jewish hippy leaders. No science. No hope. No philosophy. Leave our jobs and neoliberalism and Just meditation in the forest.

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19294377

>>19293864
you're just as adharmic as the jewish hippy false teachers

>> No.19294384

>>19288877
I like to imagine meditation as letting your dog off its leash

>> No.19294417

>>19294377
can someone explain the I hate the antichrist meme

>> No.19294494

>>19294417
It's got nothing to do with Buddhism, whatever it is.

>> No.19294839

>>19291542
meditation isn't on itself an excercise about focusing, focus meditation is called shamata, but you also have vipasana meidtation in which you want to cultivate awarness, so you don't try to fight your thoughts but be aware of them, of the way the move and manifest, a lot of more advances techniques mix both methods
if you get fixed on the focus part you'll just accumulate stress
do this>>19292948>>19293199
with time you'll notcie the quality of your awarness starts to changes
here's some vids you can check out:https://youtu.be/HkgWBDwUtIM