The Basics of Meditation Practice | Rulaz #2 | 10.5.21

Dhammarato offers a few simple guidelines to practice "not doing" or chilling out. Rulaz asks good questions about this meditative technique, concluding that it's quite doable and easy to establish in the daily life. 

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0:00 Practice of meditation starts with separation of ingredients

4:50 Problems about "retreating" from the modern western society

7:15 Practice of "not doing"

8:34 Log in the bog: Mind saturated in the bog of society

13:10 Supramundane: being above the bog

17:15 Meditation in intervals

22:10 Kusala vs Akusala: wholesome vs unwholesome

29:45 Paradise. Zone of non-judgement 

31:40 Nurture

36:20 Anapanasati Sutta

38:05 Aha, I see you Mara!

43:00 Attitude of the winner