Visualization
Meditation / Meditation/Techniques / Visualization
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Death and Dying, Session 1 – May. 9, 2014

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23. “In Vajrayāna you visualize a column of light and going out the top of your head in preparation for death. Is there a related practice in this tradition?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Vajrayāna] [Visualization] [Recollection/Death] [Theravāda] [Death] // [Tranquility] [Mindfulness]

Reference: “Our Real Home” in Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, p. 145.


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 5 – Jan. 10, 2015

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3. “Is mindfulness of the body fabricating a wholesome mental image of the body as opposed to an unwholesome image? But how can we know the body in any way other than vedanā?” Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Mindfulness of body] [Visualization] [Feeling] // [S. N. Goenka] [Mindfulness of breathing] [Postures] [Clear comprehension] [Right Mindfulness] [Calming meditation] [Insight meditation] [Delusion] [Characteristics of existence]

Quote: “The availability of insight is through stepping back from the assumptions that we make, whether it’s around the body or feeling or mind or the sense of self.” [Relinquishment]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 7 – Jan. 14, 2015

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6. Comment: When I go though the list [of the 32 parts], I separate the object from my body and evision my body with it absent. [Visualization] [Unattractiveness]

Response by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Ajahn Chah] [Not-self] [Sensual desire] [Calming meditation] [Sloth and torpor]


Abhayagiri 2015 Winter Retreat, Session 8 – Jan. 15, 2015

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4. “During the meditation, is it appropriate to envision the stomach itself with undigested food?” (The stomach isn’t listed in the 32 parts.) Answered by Ajahn Karuṇadhammo. [Visualization] [Food] [Unattractiveness]


2015 Thanksgiving Monastic Retreat, Session 3 – Nov. 23, 2015

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10. “In addition to being aware of our body, is it acceptable to use visual imagery? For example, seeing oneself standing by the ocean breathing in air created by the waves.” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Visualization] [Mindfulness of breathing]