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RE: When the Buddha was asked "What have you gained from meditation?"
Just sharing part of the great heart of wisdom sutra which I learned from my meditation teacher which is very important in practicing Buddhism. "When the bohisatta avalokitesvara was practicing deeply the perfection of wisdom (prajna-paramita), he investigated and perceived that the five aggregates (skandhas) to be empty (insubstantial) And crossed over all suffering"
YES. I used to recite the heart sutra for hours with a group that i helped teach. Brings back memories. Ill need to do a practice on it. Thank you for you enlightening comment.
👍 does your teachers teach u jhana and vipasana meditation? If u do this two kind of mediation and contemplate on these lines, it will help u understand the heart sutra better 😁
These are very deep. I believe they originated in India. Its been a long while since I have studied them in particular but Vipassana, insight meditation, and Jhana are very deep. If i understand correctly Vipassana is understanding cause and effect of our thinking, kind of like mindfulness, and Jhana is very deep in that it is a mediation of emptiness, or "state of perfect equanimity and awareness ." I believe they are sometimes referred to together as Vipassana Jhana. Sometimes Jhana translates as directly "meditation" no?
I just read some of your other post on meditation. And some of it is already knocking on the doors of Jhana and vipassana meditation. I'll try to share it on your other post when I get home. Now at work so can't steem too much 😁 Anyway I'll be going on a 2 weeks mediation retreat in June in Myanmar and hope to gain more insight on the path to enlightenment 😇
we were talking about that retreat on another thread. Its exciting. I have done at home retreats but nothing so extreme. It is a goal of mine though. Remember to bring back your experiences.
Opps sorry too many threats to read can't keep track of them haha. On the part of Jhana, it is concentration mediation (Samatha). You can enter the 1st stage Jhana from the breath meditation when your mind is claim and quiet, the 2nd stage, 3rd stage and 4th stage Jhana can be achieved by further relaxing and claiming the mind down deeper but when you reach the 4th stage, your mind will want to separate from the body. If you let your mind raise, you will see the state of mind and mater.
Vipassana or Insight Meditation is the silencing of the mind and allowing your mind to raise to Samadi. Once the mind reaches samadi, the mediator should contemplate on the three universal characteristics of existence (Ti-lakkhana) which are impermanent (Anicca), unsatisfactory nature (Dukkha) and Insubstantial (Anatta). After understanding the Ti-Lakkhana then you can form the seed of empty nature (Sunnata) and be on the path of Arahantship. If you are interested you can read the four foundation of mindfulness Sutta (Mahasatipatthana Sutta)
Thank you for this insight. I haven't studied the specifics of Jhana and Vipassana in a while.