What is the right meditation posture? What meditation posture was used 2500 years ago?
Should one learn all modern meditation postures and alternate between them?
He does Burmese Style:
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That post was really inspiring, Venerable Sir. If I attain jhana one day, I would also love to meditate 24 hours.
I think, to attain psychic powers, one would probably need to practice the 14 ways of training the mind(as explained in the Visuddhimagga) for 24 hours, so one would have to go through the jhanas and kasinas back and forth constantly. One would also need to skip jhanas and kasinas. I think if someone practice the 14 ways in all bodily postures consistently, it’s possible to attain psychic powers.
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I was reading the Sammohavinodanī today and I came across this:
- Pädc pädam {“with one foot overlapping the other”): the left
foot on the right foot. Accädhäya51 (“overlapping”) = ati-ädhäya,
placed one a little beyond the other. For when the ankle presses on the
ankle and the knee on the knee, [painful] feeling continually arises, the
mind is not one-pointed and the sleeping position is uncomfortable. But
since he does not make them press, when they are thus placed a little
beyond, [painful] feeling does not arise, the mind is one-pointed and the
sleeping position is comfortable. Hence it is said “with one foot
overlapping the other”.
Its hard for me though to visualise what posture this is.
Great find!
I think this is referring to the sleeping posture (the lion posture)
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Ah yes, my bad. The sitting position is a little further on
- Pallankam äbhujitvä <252.7> (“having folded his legs
crosswise”): by fixing himself in the sitting position with the thighs
fully locked
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Do the texts provide any more details about the sitting position?
Are we supposed to sit in a full lotus posture, half lotus, or just a normal cross legged posture?