Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Aug 1, 2008 3:08 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Sep 1, 2008 1:21 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Oct 1, 2008 3:11 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Nov 1, 2008 2:23 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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jhanananda
Nov 18, 2008 11:52 am
Kimo's questions on the JSG in regard to the out-of-body (OOB) and the erotic, and his living in Hawaii have reminded me of a poem that I wrote some years ago...
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Dec 1, 2008 3:13 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Jan 1, 2009 1:44 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Feb 1, 2009 2:36 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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Mar 1, 2009 1:44 pm
Jeff Brooks has maintained a daily meditation practice for 34 years, has completed 2 three-year retreats, and attended well over 50 meditation retreats....
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jhanananda
Mar 23, 2009 2:48 am
Michael Hawkins recently posted a link to Millican Dalton, who seems to have been a true mendicant. Too bad it is very difficult these days for mendicants to...
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jhanananda
Mar 29, 2009 4:01 am
If your religion does not recognize that the holy life, the righteous life, is the contemplative life, then your religion is a farce. Abraham was a...
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jhanananda
Apr 10, 2009 1:23 pm
If we examine Siddhartha Gotama's prophesy of the future Buddha, we may find evidence that he was predicting the life of Jesus the Nazarene. Siddhartha Gotama...
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jhanananda
Apr 29, 2009 3:20 am
Samadhi is commonly translated as `concentration' in most translations of Buddhist literature; however it is NOT concentration. Concentration is a cognitive...
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jhanananda
May 5, 2009 8:23 pm
While studying creative writing at the University of Arizona, I took many literature classes. One of those classes was on Asian poetry in translation. In...
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jhanananda
Jan 10, 2010 5:08 pm
To understand the place of samadhi within the foundation of Buddhist philosophy we would examine the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali canon, because it is the earliest...
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jhanananda
May 1, 2010 1:57 am
Kriya are automatic bodily movements during meditative absorption, which is known as jhana or samadhi in Ecstatic Buddhism, and ecstasy in Christian mysticism....
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jhanananda
May 9, 2010 8:47 pm
Kundalini, the rising of spiritual energy Kundalini is the Charismatic experience that is the product of leading a contemplative life. In Christian mysticism...
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jhanananda
May 20, 2010 10:51 pm
According to the suttas Vipassana is not a meditation technique, it is a fruit (phala) of the contemplative life. Vipassana means intuitive, revelatory,...
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jhanananda
May 27, 2010 4:13 am
Of those few Theravadan Buddhists who are willing to consider that jhana is even a valued subject, they often place it under the category of Samatha and place...
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jhanananda
Jun 3, 2010 12:30 am
Practice verses Attainment, Magga vs Phala Making a distinction between the practice of leading a contemplative life and where it leads, which is the...
The Transformative Quality of Jhana The difference between a single experience of jhana, and experiencing jhana every day. When one experiences the ecstatic...
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jhanananda
Jun 23, 2010 8:20 pm
The Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit Dialog with Adam Murray linking mystic Christian terms with Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu...
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jhanananda
Jun 30, 2010 8:06 pm
The Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit Dialog with Adam Murray linking mystic Christian terms with Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu...
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jhanananda
Jul 7, 2010 10:48 pm
The Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit.4 Dialog with Adam Murray linking mystic Christian terms with Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu...
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jhanananda
Jul 14, 2010 8:41 pm
The GWV Ecstatic Buddhist video series has received more than 5,000 views the experience of jhana the experience of the fourth jhana, piiti-bliss; void state,...
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jhanananda
Jul 21, 2010 9:42 pm
What is Ecstasy? What is: piiti (bliss), sukha (joy), and jhana (ecstasy); charismatic, charisms? Does joy fade away? What is Bliss? Only a mystic is going to...
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jhanananda
Jul 28, 2010 8:44 pm
Are the physical senses present during jhana? Understanding the Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit to translate and interpret the earliest...
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jhanananda
Aug 4, 2010 11:49 pm
The GWV Ecstatic Buddhist video series has received more than 6,000 views. Last week there were nearly 400 views. This week's video is: The second...
