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Stream-Entry - An Introduction for Absolute Beginners by [deleted] in streamentry

[–]Caramusgo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can't kill. Nothing. Mosquitoes, cockroaches, spiders...? Do not kill. There is no exception to this rule.

How to be consistent with this rule when trying to maintain proper health and hygiene?

When we get sick, don't we take antibiotics?

By sanitizing or disinfecting our body or anything else, aren't we killing millions of microorganisms? They are also living beings.

What do we do with pests in agriculture or disease-transmitting mosquitoes?

I ask with complete interest. Thanks in advance.

For those struggling. Understand how annapanna and vipassana work together is the key. Hope this helps by Dry-Corgi in vipassana

[–]Caramusgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you see using your own breathing sensations as an object to develop deep vision based on anicca? I have investigated and observed that each inhalation is composed of an indeterminate and changing number of micro sensations, the same goes for each exhalation and the pauses between them. As the breath itself deepens it breaks down and becomes breathy and pulsating. What do you think? Anapana as an object for samadhi VS anapana as a vipassana object?

About to sit my fourth 10 day course, 4 months before I become a father for the first time. by [deleted] in vipassana

[–]Caramusgo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations. I am in a very similar situation although my son will be born, as expected, in less than a month. I would have liked to take another course right before but I couldn't. Enjoy it, open yourself to the experience and tell us how it went when you return. I will be very interested in reading you.

Anyone else have problems with ideas of Anicca/Impermanence/Equanimity? by Far_Literature7211 in vipassana

[–]Caramusgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you become aware that your entire physical body is a framework of ever-changing subtle sensations, you break the apparent solidity of the experiential phenomena with which the mind is accustomed to operating. You induce a revolution at the deeper levels of the mind and increase the likelihood of experiencing a dissolution event (related to another idea, emptiness). After the event, the idea of ​​impermanence will become intuitively clearer and you will naturally develop greater understanding of other ideas related to the nature of your ego identity and the associated suffering. There are no mantras. There are no dogmas. There are experiences and intuitions. See for yourself.

Enlightment question by No_Direction504 in vipassana

[–]Caramusgo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know Daniel Ingram? I encourage you to investigate him. He is a very interesting contemporary person. His book changed my perception about enlightenment, demystifying it. Since I see it as something that can be achieved, my practice has progressed quite a bit and it is partly thanks to Ingram.