Practice in Daily Life
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Erm how does anyone practice despite their very busy schedule!?
Generally, i have been bringing works home almost everyday.. no time, no energy to practice.. also seldom don't go for dharma talk ..Lest to say meditate.. from not so good to further backsliding
A friend advises me to practice Buddha Recitation in Daily life but anyone knows how to practise this Dharma Door in daily life. I mean how can your mind be in two places - one at mindfulness of Buddha while one is busily doing other things? Especially when feeling stress up while trying to finish the works..
Any advice
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Hi, hope this helps:
(ck is my friend)
Ck: john, how to practise vipassana in daily life?
Thusness: just observe every sensation.
Thusness: until one day u are able to experience "emptiness as form".
Thusness: then it becomes effortless.
Thusness: Truthz u cannot imagine the bliss when one clearly experiences that.
Thusness: but there is no point to over stress anything.
Thusness:
Ck: Thusness just observe every sensation... give me an eg?
Thusness: when u breath, u don't have to care what is the right way of breathing, whether u breath hard or soft, smooth or fine...just experience as much clarity as u can...just that experience...regardless of what it is like.
Thusness: same for all other experiences.
Ck: wot abt sound? hows it?
Thusness: when u hear, just the sound...the totality of the sound. There is no how but just to do away with all abitary thoughts. Hear the sound as clear as u can be.
Ck: then wot abt thots?
Ck: thots r v sticky
Thusness: thoughts seldom arise if the practice is correct. If it arises, then not to chase after its meaning. Not to answer urself what it means, not to dwell in 'what'...then u will resort to just the moment of awareness.
Ck: when i try to be just openly aware, i notice that i jump from sense to sense
Ck: like one moment hearing, then touch, etc
Thusness: that is okie.
Thusness: our nature is so.
Ck: wots the rite way to do it
Thusness: don't think that u should concentrate.
Thusness: ur only duty is to sense with as much clarity as possible.
Ck: and for all the sensations, i dun dwell in the 'what'?
Thusness: ur mind is looking for a way, a method
Thusness: but what that is needed is only the clarity.
Thusness: however because our mind is so molded and affect by our habitual propensities, it becomes difficult what that is direct and simple.
Thusness: just stop asking 'how', 'what', 'why'.
Thusness: and submerge into the moment.
Thusness: and experience.
Thusness: i perfer u to describe.
Thusness: not to ask how, what, why, when, where and who.
Thusness: only this is necessary.
Ck: ok
Thusness: if u practice immediately, u will understand.
Thusness: if u entertain who, what, where, when and how, u create more propensities and dull ur own luminosity.
Ck: i shuffle btw self inquiry, observing sensations n thots, being aware... its ok rite
Thusness: yes
Ck: means start work i'll hv even more propensities...
Thusness: that is when u do not understand what awareness, but it is true to certain extend. -
When I walk to work or go shopping, I usually chant at my heart.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
When I walk to work or go shopping, I usually chant at my heart.
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Hi Isis...
nice leh when u can still think of your progress even though you are tied down with work..
I sometimes got to work ot and juggle part time studies. For me, i just try to restrain my 5 senses. Chant abit in my mind.
I seldom do meditation... Maybe before i go to sleep.
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As what "likeyou" said, chant in your heart whenever you are free to do so. For instance when you are travelling. I've heard a ven. said, he said 佛法是心法，如果ä¸�修心，念佛诵ç»�å–Šç ´å–‰å’™ä¹Ÿæž‰ç„¶. To me, 修心is the most difficult part, chanting is as simple as ABC. Chanting with concentration is another challenge. Our mind is like a wild horse, galloping non stop, must always try to control it. It gallops even when I'm chanting ha ha ha.................
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If you want to practice Buddha recitation, you can use the Ten Recitation Method. Ten Recitation Method is for very busy people. The Ten Recitation Method (from http://www.purelandbuddhism.com/lifetime_goal.pdf) 1. Recite the words “Namo Amitabha� or “Namo Amitabha Buddha� three, five, or more times as you take one breath. Repeat this exercise with each breath for ten breaths. 2. Finish this exercise by reciting the Verse for the Transference of Merit. The most important requirement for practicing this method is to do your recitations both in the morning and in the evening, every day. Face a portrait of Buddha if you have one, and try to face west as you recite. And like what the others mentioned, recite whenever you have time. When you have to use brain to think, you can temporary put down the recitation, after you are done with the thinking work, pick up the recitation again.
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for me is remember to recite 'Amituofo, Amituofo'...., when feeling of Self arises or anytime when feeling bad or when u did something that disturb u. practice until it become automatic. it's also a way of observing the mind...观心。when Self thoughts arises, use the name 'Amituofo' to suppress it per se.
i believe it'll help in the after life, as the name Amituofo is extremely powerful.
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Originally posted by Isis:
Erm how does anyone practice despite their very busy schedule!?
Generally, i have been bringing works home almost everyday.. no time, no energy to practice.. also seldom don't go for dharma talk ..Lest to say meditate.. from not so good to further backsliding
A friend advises me to practice Buddha Recitation in Daily life but anyone knows how to practise this Dharma Door in daily life. I mean how can your mind be in two places - one at mindfulness of Buddha while one is busily doing other things? Especially when feeling stress up while trying to finish the works..
Any advice
hi Isis, don't tell yourself it is difficult or impossible. Just try it out, keep doing it, bring your mind back to Amituofo whenever you remember to... soon it'd become a habit... don't analyse the practice whether it is doable or not, just do it. Like Sinweiy said, it's a very very useful and powerful way to practice.One of the obstacles we have is we block ourselves psychologically by saying we can't before even putting in alot of effort to do the practice. Say 'yes i can do it, i will try to do it....' and go and do it, throw yourself into the task. U may be surprised at the result of such a simple practice.
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How to chant om ma ni..pe me...(i dont know the wording..)
Someone advise plse.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
How to chant om ma ni..pe me...(i dont know the wording..)
Someone advise plse.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Ma-ni Pad- me(i) Hung
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just sharing how i practice personally
morning once wake say the precepts, then meditate for an hour. wake up earlier to do this before going to work.
during the course of the day, use noting as the main practice. must practice until this becomes a habit, so even when rushing will note 'rushing'. and i also in the process of forming the habit of wishing whoever i talk to (or come across) well, just in my mind saying 'may you be well, may you be happy'.
just by the act of maintaining attention to whatever we are doing is a form of practice. so try to get used to reminding myself that there's no special place for practice.
then before sleep meditate again, and end off with sleeping meditation until fall asleep mindfully.
may everyone be mindful and be happy :)
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Originally posted by likeyou:
How to chant om ma ni..pe me...(i dont know the wording..)
Someone advise plse.
Below is the youtube link chanting Om Mani Padme Hum. You may listen and learn from here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4noQ0MD1_8s&a=GxdCwVVULXc08C14OC66ItqaLf4P3Jc0&playnext=1
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My master taught me to chant "OM MANI PEK MEI HOM".
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Hello.. i got a question to ask..
What if when you chant Namo Amituofo silently and one may feel restless after a while and then slowly progress to aversion... Since aversion has arised, shall we just continue to focus on the name of the Buddha?
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Originally posted by geis:
just sharing how i practice personally
morning once wake say the precepts, then meditate for an hour. wake up earlier to do this before going to work.
during the course of the day, use noting as the main practice. must practice until this becomes a habit, so even when rushing will note 'rushing'. and i also in the process of forming the habit of wishing whoever i talk to (or come across) well, just in my mind saying 'may you be well, may you be happy'.
just by the act of maintaining attention to whatever we are doing is a form of practice. so try to get used to reminding myself that there's no special place for practice.
then before sleep meditate again, and end off with sleeping meditation until fall asleep mindfully.
may everyone be mindful and be happy :)
Nice Geis.. sadhu sadhu sadhu -
Originally posted by zero thought:
If you want to practice Buddha recitation, you can use the Ten Recitation Method. Ten Recitation Method is for very busy people.
The Ten Recitation Method
(from http://www.purelandbuddhism.com/lifetime_goal.pdf)1. Recite the words “Namo Amitabha” or “Namo Amitabha Buddha” three, five, or more times as you take one breath. Repeat this exercise with each breath for ten breaths.
2. Finish this exercise by reciting the Verse for the Transference of Merit.
The most important requirement for practicing this method is to do your recitations both in the morning and in the evening, every day. Face a portrait of Buddha if you have one, and try to face west as you recite.
And like what the others mentioned, recite whenever you have time. When you have to use brain to think, you can temporary put down the recitation, after you are done with the thinking work, pick up the recitation again.
Hey ZT, Thanks for the Sharing of the PDF.
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Thanks WeiChin and Dwan.....whenever I walk...the chanting automatically start in my mind....and I am still learning to control my mind and thoughts...very very difficult...also I am very very bad in chinese...that's why I dont know how to read.
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I love the chanting music...very soothing.....and calm especially I am now in the office...just heard from colleagues, saw blur figures flowing across the office.....
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Originally posted by likeyou:
I love the chanting music...very soothing.....and calm especially I am now in the office...just heard from colleagues, saw blur figures flowing across the office.....
Oh oh, really ? If it is me, I will run for my life.
Many years ago, my colleague and I really packed up immediately after someone said seeing strange figure in the office. I ran out of the office with my shoes on but my colleague ran out without wearing her shoes and I had to accompany her to the office to take her shoes. -
No choice, I have to stay till around mid night....:(
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Is insight meditation really enough?
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Originally posted by Beautiful951:
Is insight meditation really enough?
Right view is also important. You have to understand the Buddhist teachings, about anatta, emptiness and dependent origination. Then with the right practice of insight meditation, realization will arise.
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Oh ok I think I can find topics on those you mentioned on the internet. Thanks.
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also since our hearing is sharp in our world, listening to Dharma talks daily when there's time helps our view to be Right and keep our action away from unwholesomeness.
i listened to MCK's talk when got free time. http://new.amtb-aus.org/
just download and listen in ur phone/mp3 player. u don't have to understand the meaning when listening, not so important to try very hard understanding. MCK would say Dharma had no meaning. we are the one that give it meaning. :)
so u just listen. ...anyway MCK would repeat the same thing over and over again. depend on your level of realisation, listening formulate discipline of the mind and later u'll gain concentration and then wisdom eventually.
u can also contemplated on å› æ— æ‰€ä½� 而生其心 in Diamond Sutra, the stanza that cause Hui Neng to be enlightened.. let go in the moment, free the mind from everything, like responsibility, career, material, love ones, family, people that own u money, people that dislike u, self etc all are but impermanent, false and empty.. let the mind free.
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