Buddhist Meditation

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Explore what Buddhist meditation is (and isn't), sitting meditation techniques, and how meditation fits into the Threefold Training!
Learn more in my meditation article: alanpeto.com/buddhism/learn-m...
And in my daily Buddhist practice article: alanpeto.com/buddhism/daily-b...
(and watch the video: • How To Practice Buddhi... )
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Overview
05:00 Samadhi (Concentration)
07:32 Sitting Meditation
08:52 Medical Disclaimer
09:51 Meditation Mats, Cushions, Chairs, and Locations
14:16 Sitting Positions (Lotus, etc.)
16:15 Preparing the Body for Meditation (Position)
20:24 Focusing on the Breath
25:36 Controlling the Mind
28:39 Ending Meditation
31:40 End Commentary and Questions

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@micaelaosorio3705 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the effort you put into this channel, I recently found you and I've learned a lot thanks to these beautiful videos and explanations. I hope more people stumble upon your work :-). Greetings from Argentina! 🙏

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Micaela! 🙏

@chilldragon4752 2 жыл бұрын

Alan you always create very good videos with great information. Very underrated channel and one of my favorite Buddhist channels. Thank you and keep it up my friend.

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@chilldragon4752 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlanPeto Would you ever consider making a video on books that you recommend?

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

Here you go :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9-Fg5yFlcyvfIU.html (and article: alanpeto.com/buddhism/top-buddhist-books)

@chilldragon4752 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlanPeto Thanks Alan 👍

@sanjaygautam7572 2 жыл бұрын

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@Wren637 2 жыл бұрын

Your channel is amazing with knowledge, you have kickstarted me into becoming a practitioner in Buddhism. Thank you 🙏🏻

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

That's wonderful! Thank you! You might be interested in our free eBook that goes over the basics of Buddhism and some practice tips (alanpeto.gumroad.com/l/Buddhism10Steps)

@Wren637 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlanPeto thank you my kind friend

@jeforiley8236 2 жыл бұрын

Alan - I've just discovered your podcast. What an absolute gem! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it. I highly recommend it to anyone who is new to Buddhism - but actually to any practitioner.

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jef! 🙏

@Traveler1965 2 жыл бұрын

To all those out there worried about the ‘yoga position’ when Yogananda came to the US and also Europe, he realized that he couldn’t expect or teach westerners to sit in the lotus or even semi lotus, that meditation would have to be altered to help as using a chair as Alan said. So don’t get discouraged, we aren’t raise since a baby sitting in the lotus position.

@BlueArcStreaming 2 жыл бұрын

I think people had a lot of time, actually, in ages past..! It's in the nature of thoughts to be fleeting. This can be a little 'focus' in starting out some meditation practice. I may consistently observe thoughts passing away.

@AlanPeto 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comments! It depends. hundreds and thousands of years ago, life could be pretty rough. Working from dusk to dawn (and then some) was the norm for many scraping to get by. Meditating for an hour or more was not practical for someone who was exhausted. This also wasn't something that a monastic would typically teach laypersons as a matter of course either. In fact, not all monastics meditated! Sometimes, it could be only senior monks, for instance. Buddhism has a quite varied practice as it went through the centuries. The modern-day emphasis (at least with Theravada) with meditation came out of Burma and was well suited to a world that was slowly edging to having more 'free time'. However, most Buddhists (specifically lay Buddhists) often did non-"sitting" meditation activities. Chanting is, even to this day, extremely popular and widely practiced. So is devotional practices, etc. In the Ch'an (Zen) tradition, which is essentially the 'meditation' school, it is in Chinese Buddhism intermingled with Pure Land tradition...so both are practiced. Even then, most laypersons often practice the many other parts of Buddhist practice and meditate when they can. We are very lucky in our world to be able to (hopefully) have free time to start a sitting meditation practice, but it should not be the *only* part of Buddhism we practice. A well-rounded practice is like a three-legged stool: meditative concentration, morality/conduct, and wisdom.