Some Common Nimittas (Mind signs leading to Jhana)
I realized recently that I’ve never written about the various nimittas that show up when a meditator has full concentration on the breath. My own common nimittas are tingling in my hands…
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Deep Jhana – the Book
I’ve been working on my next book for the last couple of days. It’s a book about Jhana. Not the Buddhist Jhana. Not some other teacher’s idea of Jhana. There will be…
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Mindfulness in Plain English and Intro to Meditation Book
One of the most detailed introductions on How To Meditate is a classic by Henepola Gunaratana, the monk from Sri Lanka who spent years as a Buddhist Monk and teacher. His book…
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Thich Nhat Hanh on “What is Nirvana?”
This is something that I’ve considered for a while. Why I didn’t come straight to Thich Nhat Hanh for his view – I don’t know. I don’t really think about using YouTube…
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Meditation Catch-22
Meditation Catch-22 – Don’t Want the Experiences I was lucky when I began meditating. I didn’t have any illusion about what states I might reach, what levels. I didn’t study any of…
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Can Meditation Help Relieve Pain? Chronic Pain?
This is an email I sent to a reader requesting some information about whether my meditation books would be good to help him with some pain he was having. He didn’t mention…
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Meditation Questions and Answers – Biographical
Meditation Questions and Answers: Vern Lovic A short bio – about my experience with meditation – some of the experiences of Jhana or however you choose to call it… 1). Do you…
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Modern Day Dharma and Direct Knowledge – Is It Still Coming?
Ang Kek, from Malaysia, left a couple of comments on this site tonight and one of them struck me as profoundly important. What Is Dharma? Dharma is defined here as: 1. cosmic order…
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Buddha – What He Did and Who He Was
Some information about Buddha – what he did, who he was. Plus my own experiences. [Some free-thinking on the Buddha, meditation, vipassana, Buddhism, all ‘isms’, and my own personal experiences.] I’m thinking…
