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u/[deleted] · 10 pointsr/Meditation

I am pretty sure that Buddha absolutely said something exactly like that.

In the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha directly talks about exactly those very things. I don't remember if it is precisely for staying mindful while experiencing sexual urges, but it is about focusing on the phlem, body fluids, urine, feces, etc. to stay mindful (as it is the Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse). I do remember coming across other teachings that mention bodily fluids such as this, but unfortunately at the moment I can't remember the sutras.

What /u/jayebyrde mentioned is directly in line with many teachings in Buddhism. Just off the top of my head, Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw goes into great detail on this exact subject (using the minds ability to focus on phlem, the feces in the body, etc. to direct the mind from this particular desire) in the Manual of Insight. A book in which Sayadaw thoroughly references the direct words and teachings of Buddha in nearly every page he writes.

u/Royed · 5 pointsr/Meditation

I am currently in the middle of reading Manual of Insight by Mahasi Sayadaw, and what you've posted seems directly in line with what I am reading.

u/jty87 · 4 pointsr/Buddhism

This is Mahasi Sayadaw. You might like his noting method.

Here are a few more resources on his approach to meditation.

And here is a comprehensive meditation manual he wrote.

I'm not a Mahasi guy myself, but I thought he sounded kinda like what you're looking for...

u/prettycode · 3 pointsr/Meditation

There's a 2,000 Buddhist map for attaining awakening. And, as I've come to experience first-hand, it's one legitimate model for understanding the progression toward liberation.

See Mahasi Sayadaw, Kenneth Folk, Daniel Ingram, Ron Crouch, and others:

u/Fluffy_ribbit · 2 pointsr/Meditation

There are lots of different methods defending on the school. One of the more straightforward free sources on it is Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. Some people have argued that Mahasi's book is better, but I don't think it's free.

In either case, they only describe a few different methods for one school. Other schools have their own way of doing things. Many of those are secret. What isn't secret is often conveyed in abstruse terms to laymen.

u/CoachAtlus · 2 pointsr/Meditation

I have been reading a recent translation of Mahasi Sayadaw's Manual of Insight lately, which was only recently released. It explains in excruciating detail both the practice and the theory behind his brand of vipassana, including how paying mindful attention to whatever present moment experience is arising develops direct, experiential insight into ultimate reality. However, it's extremely technical, even more so than Daniel Ingram's Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, which also addresses this issue.

> I find it much more profitable for me to just expand my consciousness on the subjects of my life and come to my own realizations and insights.

This exercise may be valuable to you, but it's very different than the method of vipassana. Here, you're simply engaging experience at the conceptual level, at the level of the narratives you've created about yourself and your everyday experiences. Liberating insight is developed by directly seeing the stuff that makes up that high-level conceptualized experience. It's like the difference between watching and enjoying a movie and actually paying attention to the frame-by-frame of the movie, trying to see the pixels that comprise the picture, and ultimately trying to understand that which gives rise to the movie itself.

To see clearly and directly, you work with what you can actually see, right now in your experience, hence the emphasis on the "present moment." You simply observe whatever is actually happening, whether thinking, breathing, pressure sensations, seeing, smelling, or whatever. You pay close attention to whatever arises at the doors of the five senses and the mind's door. You see how each sensation, physical and mental, arises and passes away, one by one, constantly, like an ever-flowing river.

You don't infer that this is occurring or think about it or work it out intellectually. You just watch that process happening. Do that long enough, and what you see begins to sink in at an extremely deep level of the mind, eventually upending your entire world view. That's vipassana.

u/chansik_park · 1 pointr/Buddhism

I suspect that if you haven't already, you'd get a lot of mileage out of a 10-day Vipassana course from dhamma.org.

The ñāṇa-system you reference, imu, comes from the Burmese Vipassana tradition, in particular from Mahasi Sayadaw. A short translated version can be found here. I've also been given to understand that a full translation has recently been published on Amazon. The short version indicates that a brilliant light is involved in the fourth ñāṇa.

The twitching, jerking and blockage, IMO, are defilements of concentration. Also, IME, there is a steady-state pīti/rapture that comes with the dissolution of such defilements; the "will"ed type of pīti/rapture can be distracting from the task of dissolving defilements, IMO.

Finally, I don't know what this vipassana-jhana business is all about, but the Paṭhama Jhāna of the Pāḷi Canon, is when pīti & sukha permeates and pervades, suffuses and fills the body such that there is nothing of the entire body unpervaded, and one is able to remain like that for however long is desired.

u/r3dd3v1l · 0 pointsr/Meditation

Hi,

The method of this one retreat was Mahasi
https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Insight-Mahasi-Sayadaw/dp/1614292779

The method induces stages of insight as with any other Vipassana technique
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/mahasi/progress.html

It leads to Nibbanna(cessation), which happened to me on this and several other methods. It won't make sense unless you experienced it because the mind will try to conceptualize it.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/mahasi/progress.html#ch7

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Vipassana is one method of leading to cessation. As with lying down it does not necessarily lead to passivity. If you’re already passive/sleepy it doesn’t matter what posture you're in.

The tendency to experience fullness is probably because lying down is associated with sleep.

Though the best way to understand any technique is to go to a retreat. To limit meditation to a posture is limiting oneself.

These are the ones that I've done and they have all mentioned lying down as an appropriate form of practice. However, if you find yourself falling asleep you can sit, stand, or walk. The goal is not to fall asleep or do dream yoga.

Mahasi - look up manual of insight with his name.
same with Goenka but this time the mind settled on one object for an hour without wondering. I did not make this happen. It happened on its own.

Goenka - during one retreat as I lay down I continued the practice. the mind was awake, calm, and relaxed. It was was aware as the physical system shutdown and went into a deep sleep as well as went it came back online. Awareness was there the whole time. Awareness is not thinking or identification with anything per say.

U Tejanyia - experience Samadhi during lunch and at work after a retreat.

Shinzen Young - the system was very open and emotional arisings were experienced flowing through the body like electricity.


Again the lying down does not necessarily induce sleepiness. But if awareness is strong one can be very present with the sleepiness and watch how it changes. How it changes into a clear and awake mind. Having goals or how meditation should be is limited and goal-oriented.

I would prefer to be in a meditative state in any posture/condition then limiting it to any one posture. Look up Vipassana and Tibetan (Reginald Ray) practices. The problem is that a lot it is a bit watered down and if not done consistently enough the purification process is not experienced.

There's a lot of good info here too: dharmaoverground.org