free buddhist audio : community : exploring the new fba website The new Free Buddhist Audio website is here, and aside from a sleek new look, it’s packed to the gills with new features! We’ve worked very hard to make FBA 2.0 more interactive and user-friendly, and to provide even more to our community. Here’s a run-down of some of the exciting additions to our service: FBA Members Area Our Community section connects FBA users with each other and provides access to unreleased content with: * Exclusive sneak-peek previews of future audio releases. * Members-only access to unreleased archive recordings. * Create your own FBA profile – Change your personal settings and add a profile picture. * Online chat and messaging – talk live with other members and the Free Buddhist Audio team online. You can set up your own FBA profile, or log in to Free Buddhist Audio’s members section using your Facebook account. Enhanced Search Options Audio talks and text are now divided into intuitive sections for ease of browsing. New Audio Interface Social Connection
Buddhism and the Brain Credit: Flickr user eschipul Over the last few decades many Buddhists and quite a few neuroscientists have examined Buddhism and neuroscience, with both groups reporting overlap. I’m sorry to say I have been privately dismissive. But science isn’t supposed to care about preconceived notions. Despite my doubts, neurology and neuroscience do not appear to profoundly contradict Buddhist thought. Buddhists say pretty much the same thing. When considering a Buddhist contemplating his soul, one is immediately struck by a disconnect between religious teaching and perception. Mr. Although I despaired, I comforted myself by looking at the overlying cortex. The next day Mr. One year later he came back to the office with an odd request. When we consider our language, it seems unified and indivisible. Consider how easily Buddhism accepts what happened to Mr. Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is. How did Buddhism get so much right?
Buddhist Quote - Buddhism Quotes - Famous Buddhist Quotes - Buddhist Quotes and Saying Here is a short write up on Buddhist/Buddhism quotes. Explore more information on Buddhist quotes and sayings. In the following lines, we have mentioned some famous Buddhist quotes and sayings by Buddha … Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. You only lose what you cling to. Fill your mind with compassion.
60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days - StumbleUpon Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to make drastic changes in order to notice an improvement in the quality of your life. At the same time, you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the measurable results that come from taking positive action. All you have to do is take small steps, and take them consistently, for a period of 100 days. Below you’ll find 60 small ways to improve all areas of your life in the next 100 days. Home 1. Day 1: Declutter MagazinesDay 2: Declutter DVD’sDay 3: Declutter booksDay 4: Declutter kitchen appliances 2. If you take it out, put it back.If you open it, close it.If you throw it down, pick it up.If you take it off, hang it up. 3. A burnt light bulb that needs to be changed.A button that’s missing on your favorite shirt.The fact that every time you open your top kitchen cabinet all of the plastic food containers fall out. Happiness 4. 5. 6. How many times do you beat yourself up during the day? 7. Learning/Personal Development 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
www.dharmaoverground.org - Home The Dharma Overground is a resource for the support of hardcore meditation practice. It is a place where everything related to the support of practice may flourish, including where to go on retreats, what techniques may lead to what, an in depth look at the maps of possible states and stages , discussions about how to determine what experience was what, and in general anything that has to do with actually practicing rather than what typically occurs in standard meditation circles. Here you will find a robust and variable community of people with a wide range of experience levels, perspectives and interests, though all loosely bound by the same basic principles of empowering, helpful, engaged dharma and exploration of the possibilities of the mind. In general our basic principles and attitudes favor: There are lots of ways up the mountain, and many interesting skills and insights to develop using many traditions and paths. Finding your way around this site
Buddhist Geeks - Download free podcast episodes by Personal Life Media on iTunes. Misunderstanding Buddhism - Things Most People Believe About Buddhism That Are Not True Buddhists want to get enlightened so they can be blissed out all the time. And they believe in reincarnation, and if something bad happens to you it's because of something you did in a past life. And Buddhists have to be vegetarians. Everybody knows that. Unfortunately, much of what "everybody knows" about Buddhism isn't true. What follows is a kind of Un-FAQ that lists common but mistaken ideas many people in the West have about Buddhism. 1. I've read many diatribes against the Buddhist teaching that nothing exists. However, Buddhism does not teach that nothing exists. The "nothing exists" folklore mostly comes from a misunderstanding of the teaching of anatta and its Mahayana extension, shunyata. Read More: "Dependent Origination" Read More: "Madhyamika" 2. Everyone's heard the joke about what the Buddhist monk said to a hot dog vendor -- "Make me one with everything." Read More:"What Is the Self?" 3. However, there is a Buddhist doctrine of rebirth. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11.
Buddhists Against Reincarnation Mahasi Noting Mahasi Sayadaw began a revolution in insight practice in the mid 1900's in Burma with a technique called "noting" that is based on numerous texts, among them a sutta in the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha called #111 One by One as They Occurred (Annupada Sutta), and #10 The Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). His classic text "Practical Insight Meditation" is available many places and provides key instructions as well as a good basic map of insight territory. It is a very simple technique in its instructions, and but its astounding power to produce direct insights should not be underestimated. It was and is the foundation technique of many of the members of the DhO, though most have used many other techniques as well. The basic instructions are to make a quiet, simple mental note of all sensations that arise, concentrating generally on the breath when sitting and the feet when walking.
Meditation May Protect Your Brain | Miller-McCune Online For thousands of years, Buddhist meditators have claimed that the simple act of sitting down and following their breath while letting go of intrusive thoughts can free one from the entanglements of neurotic suffering. Now, scientists are using cutting-edge scanning technology to watch the meditating mind at work. They are finding that regular meditation has a measurable effect on a variety of brain structures related to attention — an example of what is known as neuroplasticity, where the brain physically changes in response to an intentional exercise. A team of Emory University scientists reported in early September that experienced Zen meditators were much better than control subjects at dropping extraneous thoughts and returning to the breath. The same researchers reported last year that longtime meditators don’t lose gray matter in their brains with age the way most people do, suggesting that meditation may have a neuro-protective effect. Where does all this lead?
Buddha Quotes | Dalai Lama Quotes | Zen Provebs | Lao Tzu Quotes Quotes by Buddha A jug fills drop by drop- Buddha All that we are is the result of what we have thought- Buddha An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea- Buddha Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace- Buddha Every human being is the author of his own health or disease- Buddha He is able who thinks he is able- Buddha What you think you become- Buddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship- Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned- Buddha I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done- BuddhaIt is better to travel well than to arrive- Buddha The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground- Buddha Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment- Buddha The way is not in the sky. Lao Tzu Quotes
Satori in Zen Buddhhism SOURCES Santina, Peter Della, AN INTRODUCTION TO MAJOR TRADITIONS OF BUDDHISM, Chico Dharma Study Group. Eastman, Roger, ed. THE WAYS OF RELIGION. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. "Once a man has come to know Him (the great unborn Atman), he becomes a muni. It should be noted that the aforementioned tradition of wandering monks (parivrajaka) continued from its original roots through to Buddhism and on to Zen. "This article was posted and garnered responses from several readers. Elsewhere the Wanderling has stated he is NOT in agreement with the decision reached that the level of Attainment alluded to by the young man so attested to in the article was just, only, merely, or limited to so-called Intellectual Satori --- the Experience being much more encompassing.
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