How Mindfulness Creates Understanding (The Buddhist TV)
Why Buddhism Stack Exchange recommends it
Buddhism Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when explaining what mindfulness is, how to keep it up, and how it protects and deepens practice.
Recommended by 1 people across 2 different months, 2015 to 2019.
What it is
A 53-minute Dhamma talk by the Theravada monk Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu, originally broadcast on The Buddhist TV channel in Sri Lanka. It explains how mindfulness practice removes our misunderstandings about the nature of reality.
What people said
Recommends user2424 · 2016-01 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “What are the different ways of protecting one's practice?”
Mindfulness will "protect" your practice. Mindfulness is a wholesome mental factor (cetasika) and when it is present, one is not reacting to phenomena, i.e. by running away from unpleasant phenomena and running after pleasant phenomena. Instead one is standing still. One is in the present moment, clearly recognizing that it is our own reactions to phenomena that create suffering. An unwholesome thought or anger is still just a thought and a feeling. Its our own aversion towards these objects, that create our suffering. So by keeping mindfulness at all times, one is protecting ones practice. I would recommend the video "How Mindfulness Creates Understanding (The Buddhist TV)" [this video] by Ven.
Recommends user2424 · 2018-02 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “Should I maintain my mindfulness 24 hours a day?”
Mindfulness will increase with correct, consistent practice. At some point, if continued practice occurs, the sleep cycle will be affected too, in the form of a lighter sleep with less dreaming and more awareness. When balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties, Mindfulness is the only factor that is not balanced meaning one can cultivate as much mindfulness as possible without creating any imbalances in the mind. I would recommend watching the video "How Mindfulness Creates Understanding (The Buddhist TV)" [this video] by Ven. Yuttadhammo.
Cites user143 · 2015-05 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “Methods of Modern Meditation Masters”
Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw [LINK] is a 20th century burmese meditation master. His teachings on Vipassana Meditation, also called Insight Meditation is derived from the so called "New Burmese Method" . The following quote is from the wiki: [LINK] "The vipassanā Movement, also called the Insight Meditation Movement, refers to a number of branches of modern Theravāda Buddhism which stress insight into the three marks of existence as the main means to attain awakening and become a stream-enterer. It finds its origins in modernist influences on the traditions of Burma, Laos, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the innovations and popularizations by Theravāda teachers as Mahasi Sayadaw." The vipassana meditatio
Cites Murathan1 · 2019-04 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “Nature of Aversion”
The nature of aversion is the hidden energy that lives in human's subconscious mind. There are some low-frequency energies, tendencies, desires in each human's subconscious mind that causes aversion, stress, unhappiness, anger, fear, restlessness, boredom and even the desire for sensuality. The root of these emotions, feelings and desires are not seperate from the human history(and pre-human lifes). If you look to the human history you can at least have intellectual understanding of the nature of the human emotions and why they have such negative effect on most of the humans lifes. That's why most of the humans life can be easily described as "unhappy life" and the human civlisation/human cr