Please add to the list of Prof. Ian Stevenson, Dr. Jim Tucker, Dr. Raymond Moody, Francis Story and Thomas Shroder one other name: I found Prof. Erlendur Haraldsson’s website this afternoon. Have a look at these three cases from Lebanon:…
Do you have a favorite passage in the Suttapitaka?… Difficult question, there are so many gems. But this one is really special, IMHO. It’s a Zen master’s dream come true in the Pali canon: ‘Tasmātiha te, bāhiya, evaṃ sikkhitabbaṃ –…
How do the 4 jhanas and 4 arupa jhanas relate? You could say that the 4 arupa jhanas are a “modification on the topic” of the fourth jhana or a “variation on the same theme.” They bear its characteristics but…
Some people face these questions: My day-to-day life doesn’t allow me to meditate at all. I have the feeling that I do not progress in my meditation. The retreat was fine, but now all the calmness and serenity is fading…
Found this very nice Chinese film about the story of Bodhidharma: Bodhidharma (11 parts) The legend of Bodhidharma is a wonderful founding story for Zen a la Chan a la Dhyana a la “Jhana Buddhism”. But in the time of…
The following is an email I answered with regard to the last blog entry on the vipassana knowledges. I thought that many people might have the same reservations and would like to share my take on this with you: Well,…
This posting is going to be a bit cryptic…at least for most people. The chart which you see below is a compilation of many observations from the progress of Vipassana meditators on their journey from Samsara to personal experience of…
A Howto: Go to a secluded place Close your eyes, take up a meditation topic and concentrate, for example on breathing in and out. Repeat ONE thought, bringing back the mind and trying to “establish” it on this one topic…
… If you want to search through the Buddhist Pali Canon in English, you can use this Google custom search: search.nibbanam.com This is like a meta search engine: Many of the big online sutta repositories complement each other. Using this…
Tonight I launched a new webpage/service on nibbanam.com. It’s a custom Google search for all Buddhist Pali Canon translations in German – something which I had in mind for a long time. I was using site:palikanon.com quite too often and…