| Main
Obstacles For Meditation (Pancha Nivarana) |
- Desires to five
senses via lustful images, smells, sounds, body feelings, foods &
drinks.
- Angry, hate feelings,
fight with problems, jealousy, impacts with negative people.
- Boring, sleepy & dull
feelings - staying without courage.
- Swaying nature of mind
or thinking
worried experiences about past (i.e. did sins, losses & mistakes).
- Doubted concepts
about dharma, path and fruition in Buddhism.
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| Meditation is
focusing mind to one subject (Focus) which is not helping to collect
defilements in mind, |
| It can be - breathing,
colored circular plate or flowers, sentences about Dharma, feeling
like kindness, |
| Some solemn monks use
death body, internal body parts and it's uncanny states as focus, |
| Dayana or Jhana or Holding can be achieved because of concentrating mind
for a long time towards focus, |
| There have four
Jhana related to material world and another deep four related to non-material world, |
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To attain Jhana we
need to be achieved five holdings roots, which are given in below sections, |
| Before doing meditation
we need some knowledge about Dharma or guidance from good mentor, |
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Also you need good devotion to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and your
spiritual teacher. |
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It is good doing
meditation in front of statue or pictures of Lord Buddha or your
desired god. |
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Good directions for
doing meditation are North or East. Pose must be comfortable for your
body conditions. |
| You need silence
place (under the tree, temple, silence room, etc) and calm mind to doing meditation, |
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Observing five precepts & courage are important factors for
concentrating mind for a long time, |
| Meditation methods
can be chosen according to your likeness & skills or according to your character. |
Meditative Focusing Methods In Theravada Buddhism
(Samatha Bawana)
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Samadhi or Concentration |
Continually Thinking
on Meditative Sentences |
Understandings
on Meditative Sentences |
Soft
Feelings with Meditative Sentences |
- Earth (Clay Plate)
- Water (Round Pond)
- Fire (Flame of Lamp)
- Air (Swaying Object)
- Blue colored circle
- Gold colored circle
- Red colored circle
- White colored circle
- Light (i.e. Moon)
- Space (Hole in Plate) |
- Buddha
- Dharma
- Sangha
- Precepts
- Donations
- Gods |
- About death
- Internal organ of body
- Death body
- Breathing
- Body movements
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About Nibbana
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- Loving kindness
- Clemency
- Happiness or delight
- Equality or indifferent
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Main Benefits
& Facts
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-
Attain
miracle powers
-
Attain all Jhana
- Need good teacher
- Want big persistence
- Want pure precepts |
- No need teacher
- Good for lay people
- Easy concentration
- Collect big merits
- Need keen Knowledge |
- Remove lust easily
- Have four Jhana
- Need good teacher
- Want big persistence
- Want pure precepts |
- No need teacher
- Good for lay people
- Four Jhanas will get
- Easy concentration
- Collect big merits |
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Recommended Characters
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- Wise people
- Mind swaying people
- Angry minded people |
- Devoted people
- Wise people
- Angry minded people |
- Wise people
- Mind swaying people
- Lust minded people |
- Angry minded people
- Wise people
- Devoted people |
Five
Holdings Roots Of Jhana (Samadhi Angha)
| Keep
binding mind with focus - means mind
should only think about focus. |
| Sustain
mind
with focus - trying to separate other feelings except
focus. |
| Happiness -
noble happy
get after remove your negative thoughts. |
| Comfortable
or weightless - body
become weightless and cool, so it help to further concentrating. |
| Concentrating -
finally
mind only absorb focus, mind will not swaying or insane. |
Four
Miracle Roots (Satara ErrdiPadha)
| There have four
facts for attaining miracle powers from 4th Jhana via
meditation, |
| Likeness : firstly we
need likeness to meditation and earn relevant mind power (e.g. Telepathy). |
| Persistence :
secondly we want middle level persistence to set a goal & achieve
it. |
| Binding Mind : then
we want to bind mind into only above goal or auto-suggestion about goal
in every time. |
| Investigation : also
we want to investigate or learn about how it achieve or learn it from
good teacher. |
Material
Jhana (Rupa Dayana) & Non-Material Jhana (Arupa Dayana)
| All five holdings
roots (listed above section) accomplish with first Dayana, |
| By neglecting
above first
& second holding roots, second Dayana can be achieved, |
| From
neglecting happy
third Dayana can be achieved - means this state have only comfortable, |
| Fourth Dayana have
only concentrating mind to focus, by neglecting even comfortable, |
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In fourth Dayana, mentally saint can see light sphere or equal omen
(nimitta) with
any meditation
types, |
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Now we want to
concentrate our mind into this light as new focus, but not previous focus. |
| This fourth Dayana
help to learn and improve super natural powers (ESP) like walking in space, |
| Example : If someone got fourth
Dayana as focus like gold color, he can create gold things on
meditation, |
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After these four Rupa
Dayana, we can attain Arupa Dayana by thinking infiniteness of
below things. |
| Infinite Space
(Akasanañcayatanupaga) - By thinking infinitive space or space round
the mental light, |
| Infinite
Consciousness
(Viññanañcayatanupaga ) - By neglecting mind light then focusing into
own mind, |
| Nothingness
(Akiñcaññayatanupaga
) - By neglecting even mind by considering nullity as focusing omen, |
Neither-Perception-Nor-Non-Perception
(Nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva)
- By neglecting all identifications include void, i.e. via neglecting
feeling, impact of mind, etc... |
Brahma Living
(Loving-kindness,
Clemency, Delight &
Equations) meditations can be done in two types :
- Focusing to infinitive number of beings like as infinitive beings in
universe
- Focusing to oneself then own respected people then gradually spread it
into vast group
of beings. |
| Practicing
Jhana
for a long time is helping to
rebirth your next life in Great Heavens or Brahma Loka. |
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