Bhāvanā (Meditation)

Buddhist meditation is about removing greed, anger, and ignorance (of the world’s true nature) from the mind.

This section is pre-2016; revised on May 25, 2024 (start of the “Meditation – Deeper Aspects” section)

Meditation – Deeper Aspects

oAttaining Nibbāna Requires Understanding Buddha’s Worldview

oVipassanā – Buddhist Meditation

oSakkāya Diṭṭhi – “Seeing the Unfruitful Nature of the World”

oLoka Sutta – Origin and Cessation of the World

oMind Operates Like a Machine According to Nature’s Laws

oAbhidhamma Piṭaka – Deeper Analyses of Concepts

oSaññā Gives Rise to Most of the Vedanā We Experience

oTaṇhā – Result of Saññā Giving Rise to Mind-Made Vedanā

oĀhāra - Food for the Mental Body

oIntroduction – What is Suffering?

oCitta, Mano, Viññāṇa – Nine Stages of Mind Contamination

oIs Ānāpānasati Breath Meditation?

oBuddhist Theory of Matter – Fundamentals

Meditation – Basic Aspects

▪It would be a good idea to read the posts in the following subsection at some point, in order to get an idea about the reasoning behind this approach: “Essential Buddhism.”

o1. Introduction to Buddhist Meditation

o2. The Basics in Meditation

o3. The Second Level

o4. What do all these Different Meditation Techniques Mean?

o5. Ariya Mettā Bhāvanā (Loving Kindness Meditation)

o6. Ānāpānasati Bhāvanā (Introduction)

o7. What is Ānāpāna?

oIs Ānāpānasati Breath Meditation?

o8. The Basic Formal Ānāpānasati Meditation

oPossible Effects in Meditation – Kundalini Awakening

o9. Key to Ānāpānasati – How to Change Habits and Character (Gati)

▪Introduction to Character or Personality (Gati)

▪A Broad View of the “Person” Trying to be a “Better Person”

▪How Character (Gati) Leads to Bhava and Jāti

▪How Habits are Formed and Broken – A Scientific View

oKaraniya Mettā Sutta – Mettā Bhāvanā

o10. Attaining the Sotāpanna Stage via Removing Diṭṭhāsava

o11. Magga Phala and Ariya Jhānā via Cultivation of Saptha Bojjhaṅga

o12. Key Factors to be Considered when “Meditating” for the Sotāpanna Stage

o13. Kammaṭṭhāna (Recitations) for the Sotāpanna Stage

Important Related Posts

oAnussati and Anupassanā – Being Mindful and Removing Defilements

oMyths about Meditation

oA Simple Way to Enhance Merits (Kusala) and Avoid Demerits (Akusala)

oAnicca – The Incessant Distress (“Pīḷana”)

oPañca Indriya and Pañca Bala – Five Faculties and Five Powers

oPossible Outcomes of Meditation – Samādhi, Jhāna, Magga Phala

oWhat is Samādhi? – Three Kinds of Mindfulness

oGetting to Samādhi via Formal Meditation Sessions

oAre you not getting expected results from meditation?

oHow to Attain Samādhi via “Vipassanā Pubbaṅga Samatha” Bhāvanā