PRACTICAL MEDITATION GUIDE BY A FOREST MONK by REVEREND BRAHMADEVA FOREST MONK - HTML preview
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- Preface. 卐
- Primary instructions on how to use the book. 卐
- Difficult words and synonyms. 卐
- Chapter 1: Ultimate necessity of meditating? 卐
- Chapter 2: Subject of virtue. 卐
- On commandments virtue:
- The 3 systematics virtue:
- The 5 components virtue:
- The correct livelihood is the 9th virtue:
- The 9 components virtue:
- The 10 components virtue:
- The 13 components virtue:
- On using another person:
- Additional rites:
- 13 high austerities:
- The correct livelihood virtue:
- The sense organs virtue:
- The requisites virtue:
- Protecting celibacy as a lay man:
- 7 copulations:
- Brahmachariya sutta:
- Special notes and answers:
- Chapter 3: Fundamentals of meditations. 卐
- Chapter 4: Awakening dispassion. 卐
- Chapter 5: Roots of sins and what is karma? 卐
- Chapter 6: The 5 dark covers of consciousness. 卐
- Chapter 7: About concentration meditations. 卐
- 10 concentration levels:
- 10 essential facts for the progress:
- 7 inappropriate things for a yogi:
- 10 skills of concentration practice:
- Charming meditative levels:
- Meditative level components:
- Auto concentration:
- Trances and its components:
- On special expressions:
- Power of the 6th level:
- 41 concentration meditations:
- Kayanupassi sutta:
- How to practice meditations:
- Are you really practicing:
- Concentration says:
- The youngster:
- Chapter 8: The Anapanasathi meditation. 卐
- Chapter 9: The 11 Kasina meditations. 卐
- Kasina mechanism in short:
- Fire kasina meditation:
- Light kasina meditation:
- White kasina meditation:
- Earth kasina meditation:
- Water kasina meditation:
- Yellow kasina meditation:
- Red kasina meditation:
- Blue kasina meditation:
- Space kasina meditation:
- Air kasina meditation:
- Consciousness kasina meditation:
- Kasina meditation procedure:
- Starting the Kasina meditation:
- Charming Kasinas:
- Becoming a Siddha:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 10: And 30 other focus meditations. 卐
- The perception of bloatedness:
- The perception of discolouration:
- The perception of festering:
- The perception of the fissured:
- The perception of the gnawed:
- The perception of the dismembered:
- The perception of the cut and the dismembered:
- The perception of the blood-stained:
- The perception of worminess:
- The perception of the bony:
- Recollection of the Buddha:
- Recollection of the Dharma:
- Recollection of the community of Sangha:
- Recollection of virtue:
- Recollection of liberality:
- Recollection of gods:
- Mindfulness of death:
- Mindfulness of body:
- Recollection of peace:
- Loving-kindness meditation:
- Compassion meditation:
- Appreciative joy meditation:
- Equanimity meditation:
- Determining of the elements:
- Perception of the loathsomeness of food:
- Om meditation:
- Sphere of the infinity of space:
- Sphere of the infinite consciousness:
- Sphere of nothingness:
- Sphere of neither perception nor none perception:
- Importance of 4 secondary meditations:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 11: Other Yoga sciences. 卐
- Chapter 12: Concentration meditation mechanism. 卐
- Mechanism of concentration in brief:
- Miscellaneous segment:
- Methods of grasping:
- 9 obstacles for concentration:
- 8 causes of concentration:
- 7 requisites of concentration:
- Types of concentration:
- On Kasinas:
- Attention and concentration:
- Other information:
- 8 Masteries in concentration:
- 4 Apexes:
- Samadhi terminology:
- Concentration meditation packages:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 13: Attaining 4 form meditative levels. 卐
- Chapter 14: Attaining 4 formless trances. 卐
- Chapter 15: About supernatural powers. 卐
- 6 distinctive intelligences:
- 4 Legs of supernatural powers:
- Stopping hunger:
- Sending telepathy messages:
- Healing bleeding wounds:
- Avoiding enemies:
- Changing appearances:
- Possessing others:
- Binding by mind:
- Acquiring of divine ear:
- Acquiring of intelligence of others’ thoughts:
- Acquiring of intelligence of seeing past lives:
- Acquiring of divine eye:
- Dying at will:
- Supernatural power mechanism:
- Miscellaneous segment:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 16: The 15 natures and 8 sciences. 卐
- Chapter 17: About wisdom meditations. 卐
- Chapter 18: The nature of the universe. 卐
- 3 types of truths:
- Religion and nature – more details:
- Consciousness element:
- Contacting of consciousness:
- What is death:
- Karma energy seed:
- Attributes of consciousness:
- Motive attribute:
- Other mechanism:
- Space element:
- Spontaneous being:
- Death-consciousness:
- Formation of universe:
- Analysis of kalpas:
- 3 destructions of an earth:
- 4 types of human worlds:
- God worlds:
- 20 types of Brahma worlds:
- Formation of earth:
- Formation of living beings on earth:
- The evolution process:
- Examination of elements:
- Ultimate truth:
- How the Almighty God concept created:
- Wrongs of theory of evolution:
- Things that scientists cannot prove:
- Weaknesses of modern science:
- Path to enlightenment in brief:
- Analysis of extinction of existence element:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 19: Truths and circles and more. 卐
- Reasons and results:
- A ritual for good-luck:
- Special Note:
- Kalama Sutta:
- Cula-kammavibhanga Sutta:
- Maha Kammavibhanga Sutta:
- Dakkhina Vibhanga Sutta:
- Gihi Sutta:
- Lonaphala Sutta:
- Manapadayi Sutra:
- Nidāna Sutra:
- Aditta Sutra:
- Upanisa Sutra:
- Upajjhatthana Sutra:
- Sumanā Sutra:
- Supina Sutra:
- Saddha Sutra:
- Ittha Sutra:
- Kula Sutra:
- Kosala Sutta:
- Anana Sutta:
- Visākhā Sutta:
- Asankaya Kappa Sutta:
- Maha-mangala Sutta:
- Lohicca Sutta:
- Parts from 3 suttas:
- Brahmajāla Sutta:
- 2# THE ANALYSIS OF VIRTUE:
- 3# SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE PAST (PUBBANTAKAPPIKA):
- 1> Eternalism (Sassatavāda): Views 1–4:
- 2> Partial-Eternalism (Ekaccasassatavāda): Philoso
- 3> Doctrines of the Finitude and Infinity of the W
- 4> Doctrines of Endless Equivocation (Amarāvikkhep
- 5> Doctrines of Fortuitous Origination (Adhiccasam
- 4# SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE (APARANTAKAPPIKA)
- 1> Doctrines of Percipient Immortality (Saññīvāda)
- 2> Doctrines of Non-percipient Immortality (Asaññī
- 3> Doctrines of Neither Percipient Nor Non-Percipi
- 4> Annihilationism (Ucchedavāda): Views 51–57:
- 5> Doctrines of Nirvana Here and Now (Diṭṭhadhamma
- 5# THE ROUND OF CONDITIONS AND EMANCIPATION FROM T
- 2> Conditioned by Contact (Phassapaccayavāra):
- 3> Exposition of the Round (Diṭṭhigatikādhiṭṭhānav
- 4> The Ending of the Round (Vivaṭṭakathādi):
- Maha-sihanada Sutta:
- About practicing gifting:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 20: What are the 4 noble truths? 卐
- Briefly 4 noble truths:
- The correct vision:
- The correct thoughts:
- The correct speeches:
- The correct actions:
- The correct livelihood:
- The correct endeavour:
- The correct sanity:
- The correct concentration:
- Essential facts:
- Poisonous tree & the seed:
- Liberation & wisdom meditations:
- The effect ceases:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 21: Practising wisdom meditations. 卐
- 4 types of wisdom meditations:
- Intelligence of origination and deterioration:
- Great natural law:
- 3 Natures of the universe:
- What is correct sanity:
- The cause and effect circle:
- Similes for understanding:
- Understand Name & Form:
- Internal faculties:
- External faculties:
- About wisdom meditation practitioner:
- Mechanism of practicing wisdom meditations:
- Practicing of Bodily meditations:
- Practicing of Sensations meditations:
- Practicing of Thoughts meditations:
- Practicing of Norms meditations:
- Explained wisdom meditations:
- Difficult things in wisdom meditations:
- 4 supportive causes:
- Full example of a wisdom meditation practice:
- 10 special Intelligences:
- 4 stages of the enlightenment:
- 4 supramundane persons:
- Combined meditation packages:
- Attaining the signless concentration:
- Attaining the dissolution trance:
- Special facts:
- Scenes saw by the divine eye segment:
- Chapter 22: About perception meditations. 卐
- Inability to keep according to the will perception
- Impermanence perception:
- Ill perception – woe perception:
- No soul perception:
- Inauspicious perception:
- Dangers perception:
- Abandonment perception:
- Dispassion perception:
- Cessation perception:
- Not attaching to all worlds perception:
- Hopeless nature of all formations perception:
- Chapter 23: How to heal porn addiction? 卐
- Chapter 24: Who are Seven Rishis? 卐
- Chapter 25: A manual for a life of asceticism. 卐
- A true story:
- Unsecure ascetic life:
- First days of our Bodhisattva:
- Foods of an ascetic:
- Health of an ascetic:
- Preparation of robes:
- Staining robes:
- The residence of an ascetic:
- The medicines:
- Other essential items:
- About meditative life:
- 2 types of asceticism:
- 4 factors of Buddhist Rishihood:
- 7 Essential things for a Rishi:
- Method of becoming a Rishi:
- Method of becoming a Buddhist monk:
- Your knowledge:
- Your intelligence:
- Your connections:
- Your travellings:
- Your safety:
- Your abandonment:
- Electronic devices:
- 4 ascetic requisites:
- 8 ascetic requisites:
- Fearlessness:
- Appropriate wisdom:
- Finding Meridian:
- Avoidance:
- Your mission in brief:
- The danger of wrong asceticism:
- Your teacher:
- The ascetic and a virtuous lay man:
- 10 Bondages:
- 23 tough desires:
- Special advises:
- 2 real stories:
- Advises of Buddha:
- A fake ascetic:
- Ascetic names:
- 9 facts of a fake ascetic:
- 4 extra rites:
- Arahantship:
- Sayings of reverend Arahant monks:
- Part 2 – Sayings of sacred Arahant monks:
- Part 3 – Sayings of holy Arahant monks:
- Part 4 – Sayings of sacred Arahant monks:
- Part 5 – Sayings of holy Arahant monks:
- Sabbasava Sutra:
- Sallekha Sutra:
- Maha Assapura Sutra:
- Anagata-bhayani Sutta:
- Vajjiputta Sutta:
- Sikkha Sutta:
- Yoga Sutta:
- Patisallana Sutta:
- Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta:
- Nimitta Sutta:
- Aparihani Sutta:
- Samaññaphala Sutta:
- The King’s Question:
- Non-action philosophy:
- Purification through Wandering-on philosophy:
- Annihilation philosophy:
- Non-relatedness philosophy:
- Fourfold Restraint philosophy:
- Evasion philosophy:
- First Visible Fruit of the Ascetic Life:
- Second Visible Fruit of the Ascetic Life:
- Higher Fruits of the Ascetic Life:
- The Lesser Section on Virtue:
- The Intermediate Section on Virtue:
- The Great Section on Virtue:
- Sense Restraint:
- Mindfulness & Alertness:
- Contentedness:
- Abandoning the Hindrances:
- The Four Form Trances:
- Insight Knowledge:
- The Mind-made Body:
- Supernatural Powers:
- Clairaudience:
- Mind Reading:
- Recollection of Past Lives:
- Divine Sight:
- The Ending of All Sins:
- Upannata Sutta:
- The Satipatthana Sutta:
- 1> Mindfulness of Breathing:
- 2> The Modes of Deportment:
- 3> The Four Kinds of Clear Comprehension:
- 4> The Reflection on the Repulsiveness of the Body
- 5> The Reflection on the Modes of Materiality (Ele
- 6> Cemetery Contemplation 1:
- 7> Cemetery Contemplation 2:
- 8> Cemetery Contemplation 3:
- 9> Cemetery Contemplation 4:
- 10> Cemetery Contemplation 5:
- 11> Cemetery Contemplation 6:
- 12> Cemetery Contemplation 7:
- 13> Cemetery Contemplation 8:
- 14> Cemetery Contemplation 9:
- 3) THE CONTEMPLATION OF FEELING:
- 4) THE CONTEMPLATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
- 1> The Five Hindrances:
- 2> The Five Aggregates of Clinging:
- 3> The Six Internal and the Six External Sense-bas
- 4> The Seven Factors of Enlightenment:
- 5> The Four Truths:
- 6) ASSURANCE OF ATTAINMENT:
- Life Events of the Buddha:
- Story of King Janaka:
- Chapter 26: Questions & answers by a forest monk.
- Chapter 27: On extra learning. 卐
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