Vipassana Retreat - A Brief History

[ScottHoward v3.1]

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any good online resources on basic 'get started' guide? like how i can get started maybe 30 mins/evening doing some sort of meditation exercises?

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finishing the boat game would give you inner peace, start with that

[fnord_too]

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any good online resources on basic 'get started' guide? like how i can get started maybe 30 mins/evening doing some sort of meditation exercises?

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finishing the boat game would give you inner peace, start with that

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Did LPS ever get resolved?

[Nicholasp27]

nope

[FCBLComish]

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nope

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Question: What do the following games all have in common?

LPS
Miss Pog
Pog Championship of May
Boat Game
Nich's 20K game
Survivor

[CPFB]

Games with no conclusion?

[Nicholasp27]

20k is not my fault; i can't control that speed

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Games with no conclusion?

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The question was rhetorical, it was a signal to Nich to get off his butt and finish some games [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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oh...okay [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Nicholasp27]

boat game is better unfinished
20k i can't control
survivor/miss pog/pog champ are not mine
lps died

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Amplified Meditation or How to Meditate the Easy Way

by amplify

Things to NOT worry about:

Your posture. Sit however you like, it is not necessary to sit in Lotus Posture or Half-Lotus posture or even to sit. Corpse pose is a perfectly acceptable posture (lying flat on your back on the floor, but not in a bed as you will fall alseep in bed with a pillow).

Your mind. What will happen is that your mind will wander. You will think about work, sex, anything. This is supposed to happen.

Now to meditate:

Beginning meditation instruction often begins, "watch your breath." This I think is a bad instruction. There is a lot going on with the breath. Your lungs inflate, your diaphragm moves, your belly moves. You feel air move through the nostrils, down the throat, into the lungs. You interfere with the breath somehow, forcing it to be longer, shorter, deeper, etc.

So the instruction is:
Feel the air move into the nostrils. That's it. Feel how the in breath is cooler than the out breath. Feel the air moving. You may feel it on the outside of the nostrils or the inside, doesn't matter.

If you find yourself absolutely unable to concentrate for two or three consecutive breaths then count the breaths. One on the in breath and two on the out breath, up to ten. Then start again with one. When you can do this several times, try again without the counting.

Again, you mind will wander, that's what minds do. When you catch it, gently, gently move the attention back to the breath. You will feel frustration, "What kind of a mind do I have that cannot focus on the breath for 10 seconds?" Let that go, it doesn't matter. That is the whole point, to gently remind yourself to watch the sensation of the breath at the nostrils.

Why bother? Tune in to my forthcoming article "Amplified Buddhism - The Four Noble Truths" coming to a forum near you, probably El D's.