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• Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hahn Recommends these 15 Practices
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• Happiness of Another Dimension (Jhana 1)
• How Can I Stop Controlling the Breath during Meditation?
• How to Focus on the Breath when You Cannot Feel it? | Meditation Tips
• 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
• Jhana
• Jhana – by Ajahn Brahm (PDF)
• Journal Entry 28 Feb 2016 – The Guy I Wave To
• Krabi Meditation Center Appointments
• Meditation Books for Beginners and Advanced Students
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  • Can Meditation Help Me Build a Successful Business – Video
• Meditation FAQ
• Meditation for Beginners – Secrets for Success
• Meditation for Beginners – Secrets for Success (Peek at Book)
• Meditation Journal Entries (Chronological)
• Meditation Questions? Ask Here
• Meditation Retreats in Thailand
  • Boonkanjanaram Meditation Center
  • Sorn-Thawee Meditation Center
  • Sunnataram Forest Monastery Meditation Retreat
  • Tham Tong Meditation Center
  • Wat Asokaram Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Chom Tong Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Hin Maak Peng Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Kow Tham Internation Meditation Center
  • Wat Mahathat Temple Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Nong Pah Pong Meditation Retreat (Self-guided)
  • Wat Pah Ban That Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Pah Nanachat Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Pah Wana Potiyahn Meditation Retreat
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  • Wat Phra Dhammakaya Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Ram Poeng Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Sai Ngam Temple Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Umong Meditation Retreat
  • Wat Wah Poo Kaew Meditation Retreat
• Meditation Retreats in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal
  • 3 Best Meditation Retreats in Thailand?
  • Wat Nong Pah Pong Buddhist Temple – Warin Chamrap, Thailand
  • Wat Suan Mokkh’s International Dhamma Hermitage Meditation Retreats
• Meditation Temples of Thailand | Forest Tradition
• Meditation Tips
  • 60 Beginners Meditation Tips Reviewed
  • Forget About Rules
  • How Do You Know You Are Focused on the Breath?
• Meditation Topics I Can Help With…
• Meditation, Jhana, Abhinna Experience Overview
• Mindfulness For Beginners Book – By Vern Lovic
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• Recalling Past Lives – Is It Possible? (Abhinna, Abijna, Abhinnanana)
• Some Old Meditation – Experiences Videos
• Sphere (Orb) of Light in My Hotel Room
• Stroke, or Effect of Meditation?
• Thank You!
• The Abhinna (Abhijna) Experiment | 2019
• What Is Abhinna? (Abijna, Abhinnanana)
  • Abhinna Experiences | My Background with the Phenomenon
  • Knowing Hearts and Minds | Abhinna
  • My Divine Eye Experience – Abhinna
• What is Enlightenment? Nirvana? Nibbana?
• What is Jhana Meditation?
• What Is the Buddhist Forest Tradition?
• What is the State of Vern’s Mind?
• Wiwek Asom Vipassana Meditation Center
• Yikes – A ‘Jhana’ Experiment Gone Awry

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: bliss
  • Happiness of Another Dimension
• Category: coaching
  • Thailand Meditation Coach (Coaching Services)
• Category: How To Meditate
  • What Happens After Concentration On the Breath is Attained?
• Category: jhana
  • ChatGPT on How to Attain Jhana Levels
  • Jhana Factors – According to Bhante Gunaratana
• Category: life
  • 2021 A New Year… Meditation and Life
  • The World is in a Bind | Pain
  • Buddhadasa Bhikku Experimented with Fruitarianism!
  • Meditation Questions and Answers – Biographical
  • Baby Died Poem
  • What is the Point to Your Life?
• Category: meditation audio
  • What is the Point of Nirvana? 9-27-07
  • Unlinked Mind 8-20-07
  • Day 5 – Intensive Meditation Practice
  • Fatness Feeling Video 8-21-07
• Category: meditation benefits
  • What Is Meditation?
  • Are You On the Right Path in Meditation? (What Helps, What Doesn’t)
  • Does Enlightenment (Nirvana) Give You Mastery Over Emotions?
  • Abhinna
  • Meditation for Beginners
  • Enlightenment, Societal Consciousness
  • Meditation and ADHD ADD
• Category: meditation book
  • Meditation for Beginners Ebook Updates
  • 101 Curious and Bizarre Meditation Experiences
  • David Collett’s Review of Meditation for Beginners Book
  • Meditation for Beginners – Book is Finished
  • New Meditation Book Coming Along Well
  • New Meditation Book Coming Shortly
  • For Under $3 You Can Do This Too
• Category: meditation for pain
  • Can Meditation Help Relieve Pain? Chronic Pain?
• Category: meditation ideas
  • Buddha – What He Did… Who He Is
  • 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?
  • There Is No Present, Only Past
  • You Are Not Ready for the Answer…
  • The Word ‘Seamlessness’ Describes the Underlying Reality
  • Modern Day Dharma – Direct Knowledge – Is It Still Coming?
  • Thoughts about Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Thailand Meditation Retreats
• Category: meditation journal
  • Mind Clutter 8-19-07
  • 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
  • Meditating in Loud, Distracting Environments 8-28-09
  • Meditation at Suan Mokkh Temple and Thoughts on Reality
  • Meditation Experiences Timeline 4-21-08
  • No Mind – Perception Shift 4-11-09
  • Frustration While Meditating
  • Mirror Meditation | Looking at Self While Meditating
  • Mountain Climb, Flat Mind, and a Question
  • Buddhism | The Truth of It
  • Enlightenment, Jhana Levels | Comments 9-11-07
  • Journal Entry 2004 – The Ego is a Monstrous Thing
  • Meditation – Numbness – Stillness – Peace
  • Fatness Feeling During Meditation | 1998
  • Disenchantment Wipes Out All Attachment | 1998
  • Meditation and Numbness, No Body, No Self | 1998
  • Changing States of Consciousness While Meditating | 1998
  • Emotions, Spontaneous Mindfulness | 1997
  • Numbness, Missing Body Parts | 1998
  • Meditation Journal Entry 25 | 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
  • Pre-Jhana Level Experience of Physical Nimitta
  • The Feeling of “Me”
  • Is 2014 the Year I Meditate Again?
  • Meditation State – I Am the Noise
  • Mind Shift While Rollerblading – Shifted Consciousness
  • A Meditation Poem
  • The Process – Meditation Mystery…
  • The White Elephant in my Head
  • The World is Illusion
  • Cloudy Head – Uncreative State
  • Still State of Mind
  • Enlightenment Dreams?
  • Short Dream: I’m in the Way
  • Layers of Reality 6-21-09
  • What Am I Looking At? 5-31-09
  • 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
  • Reaction, Ego, Emotions Return 9-7-07
  • 3 Dimensions Turn Into 2 Dimensions 9-2-07
  • Comments on No Thought State of Yesterday 8-31-07
  • No Mind 8-23-07
  • My Experience with Meditating
• Category: meditation retreats
  • Custom Meditation Retreat in Thailand? (A Possibility)
• Category: meditation tips
  • Meditation Tips for Advanced Students
  • Where Should the Tongue Be During Meditation? (seriously!)
  • 16 Essential Meditation Tips for Beginners (#11 and 16 are key)
  • Meditation at Night vs Morning – Which Is Better?
  • Is there a Phrase (Mantra) I should Repeat when Meditating?
  • New Sitting Meditation Position | 1998
  • Suan Mokkh Buddhist Temple, Chaiya, Thailand
  • Meditation Catch-22
  • Breathing Meditation Phrases that Help | 1998
  • Watching “Suffering” During Meditation
  • A Quiet Place for Meditation in Thailand
• Category: meditation video
  • Jhana 1 – Bliss, Overwhelming Joy, Ecstasy
  • Fatness or Expansion of Body – Video 4
  • Suan Mokkh Library of Meditation and Other Buddhist Topics
  • Breath Slowing, and Mind Stopping – Video 3
  • Intense Concentration on the Breath – Video 2
  • Some Basic Meditation Experiences – Video 1
• Category: mind changes
  • UG Krishnamurti’s Calamity (Enlightenment) Experience (Info and Video)
  • Memory is Not Right On
  • Stopping – Starting, A New Observation
• Category: mind stopped
  • Letter to Dr. Josipovic – Re: MRI and Meditation
  • Is Silence Next? (Meditation mind changes)
  • The Silence is Deafening
  • What Is It Like When the Mind Stops?
• Category: mindfulness
  • My Friend Sent this on the Simplicity of Life…
  • Writing a New Book – Mindfulness
• Category: no thought
  • What Are We Really?
  • Mindfulness – My First Journal Entry on the Topic
• Category: odd experiences
  • Staring Into Mirrors Meditation
  • Odd Dream – Getting in Sync
• Category: other sites
  • Awakening from Gary Weber’s Perspective
• Category: photos
• Category: Questions-Answers
  • Clarification of Often-used Meditation Terms
  • Kundalini and Tingling Spine (Necessary in Meditation?)
  • Chanting, Thailand Temples, Monk Teachers (Q & A)
• Category: thich nhat hanh
  • Thich Nhat Hanh on “What is Nirvana?”