As you may know, Buddhism does not worship or acknowledge a God. So in a sense Buddhism could be atheistic. But this is for the atheists who have an aversion to anything spiritual: Did you know that Buddhist practices such as meditation have been scientifically proven to bring greater happiness and peace of mind? I’m not out to get anyone to start practicing it, I was just wondering if you were aware of this. Also, secular Western Psychology is implementing many Buddhist practices such as Mindfulness and meditation, because of their proven benefits.

This link is just one of many sources, but it’s particularly good information seeing that it comes from BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3047291.stm
sisyphus you are thinking about Hinduism.
Sisyphus, all of your information is entirely false. Buddhists do believe in Karma and rebirth.
Sisyphus I’m not sure why you’re lying about Buddhism to make it look bad, but it’s not appreciated.

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In my Journy in Yahoo Answeres I have learned much. Especialy with the algarythom I wrote for a Computr Science project, The results are great. When you are ready to shed the statistically imposable and help bring back the true YA way of being a top contributor with mega points, we follow this path. we will add to this our friends who share this forum for what it was ment to be. Each week for eight weeks I will post a question about The Eightfold Path as it applies to being a true contributor. Hopefully we will grow in numbers and impress shame on the cheaters. Do you want to ?
The Eightfold Path

The Eightfold Path illustrates the moral principles in which all participants should practice. It goes into detail about the basis of all Nirvana teachings: morality, meditation, and wisdom. This is the eightfold path:

1. Right Knowledge
2. Right Thinking
3. Right Speech
4. Right Conduct
5. Right Livelihood
6. Right Effort
7. Right Mindfulness
8. Right Concentration

Following the Noble Eightfold Path helps a person realize that greed and selfishness cause all earthly suffering. With this new understanding, one’s suffering may end. They will no longer feel that to gain points and status is important. But to contribute with all selfish desires aside. Answer true, Post True Thumbs up or down, True voting and person politely.

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I live a really stressful life so i decided to take up meditation - the mindfulness of breathing. I only started a few days ago so im pretty crp at it, but im determined to get good. I have a few questions. If you could shed some light on each of them, id be grateful.

1. How long, on an average scale, would it take to get reasonably proficient at it? ( i have a busy mind and i find it hard to concentrate on bearthing alone. Howeve, i hope that it will pass with practice.)

2. Once you do reach that level, what is the meditation experience like? Do you see things, feel things, or anything?

3. Can you do it more than once a day? I was thinking of doing it once at night and once in the morn, until I get good at it. Then maybe bring it down to one good session a day.

4. DOES IT WORK

Thanks very much to those you give some valuable input.

Happy Christmas!

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Do you think that Christians can also be Zen Buddhists?

As I understand it, most Zen Buddhists do not worship Buddha as a god. The practice of Buddhist meditation is exactly like some of the most spiritual Christians’ description of prayer without words. Breath prayer has been an ancient practice for Christians.

How many passages in the Bible speak of mindfulness, of staying awake and aware? How many tools does modern Christianity as practiced by most protestants in America really given us to be able to do that?

Zen Buddhists, do you think that Christians belief in a God by necessity means that they (we) can’t also practice Zen Buddhism?

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I just finished the book, "Mindfulness in Plain English".

It talks about Vipassana Meditation as the way to "Enlightenment".

The author defines Enlightenment as full, persistent, unbroken, 24×7 "Mindfulness".

He says it is totally doable, for anyone, meaning it does NOT require spiritual or religious or mystical or "new age" mumbo jumbo.

Just practice. A particular practice. The meditation PRACTICE known as Vipassana. As taught by The Buddha 2,500 years ago, and fully refined through today.

And it is hard work, but it is just work. So anyone can do it, and achieve Enlightenment, and radically and dramatically change their life for the better forever.

And all that other stuff is either total BS, or just side-effects of Meditation.

Can anyone and everyone achieve Enlightenment by practicing Vipassana Meditation??

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hi everybody , i asked people how to meditate and i got answers, but i want to know how to wake up from meditation,bcoz i felt giddiness when suddenly woke up from meditation..
and
What are they meaning
1. mindfulness
2.Concentration
3.Emptiness
4.Nirvana

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Authors of books on Buddhism & meditation often mention
"awareness" and "mindfulness." The definitions of the two
are very similar, yet also very different.
Who can explain the difference between them?

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I have a friend, whom I’ve known for 4 and half years. In the beginning of our friendship..we shared a deep spiritual connection. He is Muslim. I, on the other hand do not follow any religious order. I practice mindfulness and meditation and rely solely on my intuition to guide me. However, we both stronly believe in one God..and have high morals and values. The problem came a couple of years ago, when he tried converting me to Islam. It has been a continuous struggle and strain on our relationship..this is the ONLY barrier! Please advise..I don’t want to lose our friendship, but have talked with him about this barrier being one of the main reasons why I don’t follow one particular faith!! He becomes really frustrated and shuts down when I don’t want to hear or watch anything related to Islam..What to do?

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So I’ve been practicing for a month or so now everyday. I can only sit in half lotus posture and I do it for 20 minutes or a little more every day. Now recently I notice that whenever I sit that my mind is very fast paced (I don’t know what word to use). It’s like I have no control of my mind at all in fact. I can’t relate myself to the mind it almost feels like I am not my thoughts. Maybe because I have began to sit before I go to sleep instead of when I wake up. Here are my problems though, I know that whenever a problematic thought arises that you just pay it mindful attention. The problem is whenever a thought arises and I then turn my attention to it instead of my breath temporarily that it dissipates completely. This though feels like it isn’t because of my mindfulness, but because of a pre-conceived notion that makes them go away. I don’t know how to explain it. Also I have a question about how I can apply Vipassana into everyday waking state. Even if I am not sitting how can I be mindful of what I am doing? This is the problem, whenever I turn my attention towards something and notice for example "I am studying", then I lose complete control of studying and lose track. Is that even being mindful or is it something else? It feels like my mind automatically attaches itself to that thought. How can I stop this? Is it even possible to be mindful every waking moment without losing concentration? I had another question, but I can’t remember at the moment. Serious answers please, thanks. Only answer about the topic and nothing else. I would appreciate that.

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Are you experienced meditator?
I have been doing Insight(mindfulness) …And Chanting(aum).
They each have own "feel"….Insight helps reign in internal dialog that might lead to states that are not good.
Tranquility helps calm and I can sleep 7 to 8 hours a night.
Is it necessary to stick to one method?
necessary for what.?…
I like to leave that blank …
expectations, I hear, are not conducive to practice.

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