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• How To Reach Nirvana – Enlightenment
• Intensive Meditation – Daily Notes
• Is Jhana the Ultimate Objective of Our Existence?
• Is the Focus on the Breath Forced or Gentle? (Video)
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• Jhana – by Ajahn Brahm (PDF)
• Journal Entry 28 Feb 2016 – The Guy I Wave To
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• Meditation Journal Entries (Chronological)
• Meditation Questions? Ask Here
• Meditation Retreats in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal
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• Meditation Temples of Thailand – Forest Tradition
• Meditation Tips
  • 60 Beginners Meditation Tips Reviewed
  • Forget About Rules in Your Meditation Practice
  • How Do You Know You Are Focused on the Breath?
• Meditation Topics I Can Help With
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• Some Old Meditation – Experiences Videos
• Sphere (Orb) of Light in My Hotel Room
• Stroke, or Effect of Meditation?
• Thank You!
• The Abhinna (Abhijna) Experiment
• Viwek Asom Vipassana Meditation Center
• What Is Abhinna Really Like? (Abijna, Abhinnanana)
  • Abhinna – Knowing Hearts and Minds
  • Abhinna Experiences – Direct Accounts
  • My Divine Eye Experiences – Abhinna
• What is Enlightenment? Nirvana? Nibbana?
• What is Non-Duality and the State of Vern’s Mind
• What Is the Buddhist Forest Tradition?

Posts by category

• Category: Abhinna
  • Dream – Looking for the Ultimate Unknown with the Wrong Tools
  • Divine Eye Abhinna Experiences | Anybody Have?
  • Protected: Abhinna – Video Clips in the Mind
• Category: Audio
  • Day 5 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Fatness Feeling Video
  • Unlinked Mind (Meditation Journal)
  • What is the Point of Nirvana? 9-27-07
• Category: Benefits
  • How Does Deep Jhana Meditation Change You?
  • What Are Buddhist Pendants and Amulets For?
  • What Is Meditation?
  • Are You On the Right Path in Meditation? (What Helps & Doesn’t)
  • Meditation and ADHD ADD
  • Does Enlightenment (Nirvana) Give You Mastery Over Emotions?
  • Meditation for Beginners
  • Enlightenment, Societal Consciousness
• Category: Bliss
  • Happiness of Another Dimension (Jhana)
• Category: Books
  • Meditation for Beginners Book – Free Sample
  • New Meditation Book Coming Shortly
  • 101 Curious and Bizarre Meditation Experiences
  • David Collett’s Review of Meditation for Beginners Book
  • New Meditation Book Coming Along Well
  • For Under $3 You Can Do This Too
• Category: Coaching
  • 10 Common Problems in Entering Jhana (and help)
  • Common Challenges in Jhana Practice
  • Reaching Jhana Meditation by Different Traditions and My Position
  • What Style of Meditation Do You Teach?
  • Meditation Coaching – What To Expect
  • Meditation Tips for Advanced Students
  • Online 30 min to 2 Hour Meditation Coaching from Thailand 2024
  • Where Should the Tongue Be During Meditation? (seriously!)
• Category: How To Meditate
  • Who Should You Follow in Your Meditation Practice?
  • Mindfulness in Plain English and Intro to Meditation Book
  • A Short Meditation Session – Minute-by-Minute
  • Where Should Your Eyes Look During Meditation?
  • What Happens After Concentration On the Breath is Attained?
• Category: Jhana
  • Jhana Retreats – Where To Find One?
  • The Sutta (Light) Jhanas vs. the Visuddhimagga (Deep) Jhanas
  • Deep Jhana Meditation – the Udemy Course
  • Thailand Deep Jhana Meditation Retreat
  • New Deep Jhana Meditation Retreat in Southern Thailand – December 2024
  • Jhana Is Vast and Empty Space – Jhana Poem 1
  • What Are Kasinas and What Is their Role in Jhana Meditation?
  • Some Common Nimittas (Mind signs leading to Jhana)
  • Deep Jhana – the Book
  • 1 in 1 Million Reach Jhana?
  • Can Jhana Meditation Practice Be Dangerous?
  • Preparing for the Jhanas
  • Understanding the Jhana States
  • Introduction to Jhana Meditation (Index)
  • Origin of Jhana Meditation
  • Techniques for Entering Jhana
  • Benefits of Jhana Meditation
  • What Is Jhana Meditation?
  • The Eight Jhanas (Jhanas 1-4 and 4 Arupa Jhanas)
  • Rob Burbea’s Idea of the Jhanas
  • Jhana Factors – According to Bhante Gunaratana
  • Jhana 1 – Bliss, Overwhelming Joy, Ecstasy
  • ChatGPT on How to Attain Jhana Levels
  • Enlightenment, Jhana Levels | Comments 9-11-07
  • Pre-Jhana Level Experience of Physical Nimitta
• Category: Life
  • Native English Writer, Author, Editor, Proofreader – Vern Lovic
  • Meditation Questions and Answers – Biographical
  • A New Year – Meditation and Life
  • The World is in a Bind | Pain
  • Buddhadasa Bhikku Experimented with Fruitarianism!
  • Baby Died Poem
  • What is the Point to Your Life?
• Category: Meditation for pain
  • Can Meditation Help Relieve Pain? Chronic Pain?
• Category: Meditation ideas
  • Recommended Thailand Meditation Retreats
  • Modern Day Dharma and Direct Knowledge – Is It Still Coming?
  • Buddha – What He Did and Who He Was
  • There Is No Present, Only Past (Thailand Meditation Journal)
  • Is the Voice in Your Head – You?
  • Separation from Society through Meditation
  • Words are not the Thing…
  • The Real Problem with Reaching Nirvana Through Meditation
  • Running Meditation – How Deep Should You Go?
  • You Are Not Ready for the Answer…
  • The Word ‘Seamlessness’ Describes the Underlying Reality
  • Thoughts about Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Category: Meditation journal
  • Meditation at Suan Mokkh Temple and Thoughts on Reality
  • Early Meditation Session
  • The Feeling of Me – Where Am I? (Meditation Journal)
  • My Experience with Meditating
  • Buddhism | The Truth of It
  • Meditation – Numbness – Stillness – Peace (Meditation Journal)
  • Meditation Experiences Timeline
  • Short Dream: I’m in the Way (Thailand Meditation Journal)
  • New Sitting Meditation Position (Meditation Journal)
  • Emotions, Spontaneous Mindfulness (Meditation Journal)
  • Numbness, Missing Body Parts (Meditation Journal)
  • Meditating in Loud, Distracting Environments
  • Reaction, Ego, Emotions Return
  • Comments on No Thought State of Yesterday
  • A Meditation Poem
  • Mind Clutter (Meditation Journal)
  • Changing States of Consciousness While Meditating (Meditation Journal)
  • Meditation Journal Entry 25
  • The Process – Meditation Mystery (Thailand Meditation Journal)
  • What Am I Looking At? (Thailand Meditation Journal)
  • No Mind (Thailand Meditation Journal)
  • Nibbana, Nirvana, or Hypnotic State? 5-23-09
  • Test of Meditation 9-23-07
  • No ‘Me’ to Focus on Breathing 9-3-07
  • No Thoughts, No “Me” 8-30-07
  • Fatness Feeling and No Mind Center 8-25-09
  • No Mind – Perception Shift 4-11-09
  • Frustration While Meditating
  • Mirror Meditation | Looking at Self While Meditating
  • Mountain Climb, Flat Mind, and a Question
  • Journal Entry 2004 – The Ego is a Monstrous Thing
  • Fatness Feeling During Meditation | 1998
  • Disenchantment Wipes Out All Attachment | 1998
  • Meditation and Numbness, No Body, No Self | 1998
  • Meditation Re-Starts Journal Day 1 | 1998
  • Day 4 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Day 6 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Day 8 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Day 11 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Day 10 – Intensive Meditation Experience
  • Day 9 – Intensive Meditation Experience
  • Day 18 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Day 3 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Day 7 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Body Dying Dream
  • Day 2 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • New Articles Section
  • Various Meditation – Outside, Walking, Mirror
  • Is 2014 the Year I Meditate Again?
  • Meditation State – I Am the Noise
  • Mind Shift While Rollerblading – Shifted Consciousness
  • The White Elephant in my Head
  • The World is Illusion
  • Cloudy Head – Uncreative State
  • Still State of Mind
  • Enlightenment Dreams?
  • Layers of Reality 6-21-09
  • Constant Stillness 5-16-09
  • Glowing Head | Strange Dream
  • Mind Stops… Hiccups Too! 4-9-08
  • Layers of Reality 3-16-08
  • Unsettled Feeling 3-7-08
  • 3 Dimensions Turn Into 2 Dimensions 9-2-07
• Category: Mind changes
  • UG Krishnamurti’s Calamity (Enlightenment) Experience – Info/Video
  • Memory is Not Right On
  • Stopping – Starting, A New Observation
• Category: Mind stopped
  • U G Krishnamurti (Quotes and Explanation)
  • What Is It Like When the Mind Stops?
  • Letter to Dr. Josipovic – Re: MRI and Meditation
  • Is Silence Next? (Meditation mind changes)
  • The Silence is Deafening
• Category: Mindfulness
  • My Friend Sent this on the Simplicity of Life…
  • Writing a New Book – Mindfulness
• Category: No thought
  • What Is Thought?
  • What Are We Really?
  • Mindfulness – My First Journal Entry on the Topic
• Category: Non Dual Experiment
  • The Non-Duality State of Mind – What Is It? (Direct Observations)
  • Non-Dual State During Exercise (Meditation Journal Entry)
• Category: odd experiences
  • Odd Dream – Getting in Sync (Meditation Journal)
  • Staring Into Mirrors Meditation
• Category: other sites
  • Awakening from Gary Weber’s Perspective
• Category: Photos
  • Suan Mokkh Buddhist Temple, Chaiya, Thailand
• Category: Questions-Answers
  • Clarification of Often-used Meditation Terms
  • Chanting, Thailand Temples, Monk Teachers (Q & A)
  • Kundalini and Tingling Spine (Necessary in Meditation?)
• Category: Retreats
  • Deep Jhana Meditation Retreat Schedule
  • Custom Meditation Retreat in Thailand?
• Category: Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Thich Nhat Hanh on “What is Nirvana?”
• Category: Tips
  • Meditation Catch-22
  • 16 Essential Meditation Tips for Beginners (#11 and 16 are key)
  • Breathing Meditation Phrases that Help
  • Meditation at Night vs Morning – Which Is Better?
  • Is there a Phrase (Mantra) I should Repeat when Meditating?
  • Watching “Suffering” During Meditation
  • A Quiet Place for Meditation in Thailand
• Category: Uncategorized
  • 10 Powerful Jiddu Krishnamurti Ideas
  • Protected: For Koh Jum Beach Villas
• Category: Video
  • Breath Slowing, and Mind Stopping – Video 3
  • Intense Concentration on the Breath – Video 2
  • Some Basic Meditation Experiences – Video 1
  • Fatness or Expansion of Body – Video 4
  • Suan Mokkh Library of Meditation and Other Buddhist Topics