last time when i joined a novitiate program i knew one guy.

he seemed ok but after awhile he turned different.

i would theorize he forced meditation on himself and meditated wrongly.

i remember one case where he was in the meditation hall for quite sometime, got out of meditation and saw there was another person still in the meditation hall still meditating.

i can only assume he's kiasu as he went to that lady and tapped her shoulder (breaking her out of her meditation) to tell her that he was going out from the hall and asked her to close the doors when she got out.

D:

agreed. but some people do it on their own after reading from internet.. i don't dare .. even I know a bit of the theory of Kasina..

kasina yes very much so. vipassana 50-50 but rarely see people go bonkers unless they have an unstable mind to start with. on normal circumstances, it is most often than not the guilt/regrets of past actions being played over and over again when one tries to do vipassana. dats why metta to oneself and other living beings is so important. if we cant forgive ourselves, we cant go beyond the threshold of meditation progress.

Which one is more older - Hinduism or Buddhism?

What's the meaning of the chants that you guys repeat on?

what 4 noble truths? .....

i thought we malaysian buddhist actually worship some mixture of taoism and buddhism?

cos most temples got Tua Pek Khong, Goddess of Mercy Guan Yin, Kuan Ti Kong, the Laughing Buddha, the Jade Emperor, Confucious, Sun Wu Kong etc etc, and Sakyamuni Buddha.

and if you go to some temples, there are actually 3 Buddhas instead of 1. the Sakyamuni buddha is the one in the middle. anybody know what the other 2 are?

If you go to Theravada temples, Sakyamuni is in the middle, and the two beside him bowing to him should be Ven. Sariputta (1st chief disciple) and Ven Mahamoganalla (2nd).

Mahayana temple , depends, normally the middle one is Amitabha but the two beside it I not sure...

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Ever heard of "malay buddhist"?. Malay person who practice buddhism?.

of course terrified, imagine a peta who is 12 feet tall like a tree standing naked in front of you. they don dare disturb if you r "pure". what if u're not? hahahaha...

u mean from paritta sutta? yes. dunno if it really works but so far din get disturbed, haha. yakkhas r not to be played with, out recitation of paritta is not enough if generals of the cathumaharajika gods r not on our side. to be worthy, we need to to practice more metta (i think)