People buy Buddhist pendants/amulets for many reasons – good luck, good health, financial prosperity, protection, love, and many other reasons. Some people believe ardently in the power of Buddhist items and buy…
Native English Speaker – Writer, Author, Editor, Proofreader Greetings! I’m an American native English speaker living in Thailand (Phuket, Krabi, Bangkok, Thailand for the past twenty years as a “digital nomad” writer,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…