Alan you always create very good videos with great information. Very underrated channel and one of my favorite Buddhist channels. Thank you and keep it up my friend.
To all those out there worried about the ‘yoga position’ when Yogananda came to the US and also Europe, he realized that he couldn’t expect or teach westerners to sit in the lotus or even semi lotus, that meditation would have to be altered to help as using a chair as Alan said. So don’t get discouraged, we aren’t raise since a baby sitting in the lotus position.
Alan - I've just discovered your podcast. What an absolute gem! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it. I highly recommend it to anyone who is new to Buddhism - but actually to any practitioner.
That's wonderful! Thank you! You might be interested in our free eBook that goes over the basics of Buddhism and some practice tips (alanpeto.gumroad.com/l/Buddhism10Steps)
I think people had a lot of time, actually, in ages past..! It's in the nature of thoughts to be fleeting. This can be a little 'focus' in starting out some meditation practice. I may consistently observe thoughts passing away.
Thanks for your comments! It depends. hundreds and thousands of years ago, life could be pretty rough. Working from dusk to dawn (and then some) was the norm for many scraping to get by. Meditating for an hour or more was not practical for someone who was exhausted. This also wasn't something that a monastic would typically teach laypersons as a matter of course either. In fact, not all monastics meditated! Sometimes, it could be only senior monks, for instance. Buddhism has a quite varied practice as it went through the centuries. The modern-day emphasis (at least with Theravada) with meditation came out of Burma and was well suited to a world that was slowly edging to having more 'free time'. However, most Buddhists (specifically lay Buddhists) often did non-"sitting" meditation activities. Chanting is, even to this day, extremely popular and widely practiced. So is devotional practices, etc. In the Ch'an (Zen) tradition, which is essentially the 'meditation' school, it is in Chinese Buddhism intermingled with Pure Land tradition...so both are practiced. Even then, most laypersons often practice the many other parts of Buddhist practice and meditate when they can. We are very lucky in our world to be able to (hopefully) have free time to start a sitting meditation practice, but it should not be the *only* part of Buddhism we practice. A well-rounded practice is like a three-legged stool: meditative concentration, morality/conduct, and wisdom.
Thanks for the effort you put into this channel, I recently found you and I've learned a lot thanks to these beautiful videos and explanations. I hope more people stumble upon your work :-). Greetings from Argentina! 🙏
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Alan you always create very good videos with great information. Very underrated channel and one of my favorite Buddhist channels. Thank you and keep it up my friend.
Thank you! 🙏
@@AlanPeto Would you ever consider making a video on books that you recommend?
Here you go :) ruclips.net/video/eyUP9T0fKLQ/видео.html
(and article: alanpeto.com/buddhism/top-buddhist-books)
@@AlanPeto Thanks Alan 👍
To all those out there worried about the ‘yoga position’ when Yogananda came to the US and also Europe, he realized that he couldn’t expect or teach westerners to sit in the lotus or even semi lotus, that meditation would have to be altered to help as using a chair as Alan said. So don’t get discouraged, we aren’t raise since a baby sitting in the lotus position.
Alan - I've just discovered your podcast. What an absolute gem! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it. I highly recommend it to anyone who is new to Buddhism - but actually to any practitioner.
Thank you, Jef! 🙏
Your channel is amazing with knowledge, you have kickstarted me into becoming a practitioner in Buddhism. Thank you 🙏🏻
That's wonderful! Thank you! You might be interested in our free eBook that goes over the basics of Buddhism and some practice tips (alanpeto.gumroad.com/l/Buddhism10Steps)
@@AlanPeto thank you my kind friend
I think people had a lot of time, actually, in ages past..!
It's in the nature of thoughts to be fleeting.
This can be a little 'focus' in starting out some meditation practice.
I may consistently observe thoughts passing away.
Thanks for your comments! It depends. hundreds and thousands of years ago, life could be pretty rough. Working from dusk to dawn (and then some) was the norm for many scraping to get by. Meditating for an hour or more was not practical for someone who was exhausted. This also wasn't something that a monastic would typically teach laypersons as a matter of course either. In fact, not all monastics meditated! Sometimes, it could be only senior monks, for instance. Buddhism has a quite varied practice as it went through the centuries. The modern-day emphasis (at least with Theravada) with meditation came out of Burma and was well suited to a world that was slowly edging to having more 'free time'. However, most Buddhists (specifically lay Buddhists) often did non-"sitting" meditation activities. Chanting is, even to this day, extremely popular and widely practiced. So is devotional practices, etc. In the Ch'an (Zen) tradition, which is essentially the 'meditation' school, it is in Chinese Buddhism intermingled with Pure Land tradition...so both are practiced. Even then, most laypersons often practice the many other parts of Buddhist practice and meditate when they can. We are very lucky in our world to be able to (hopefully) have free time to start a sitting meditation practice, but it should not be the *only* part of Buddhism we practice. A well-rounded practice is like a three-legged stool: meditative concentration, morality/conduct, and wisdom.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
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Thanks for the effort you put into this channel, I recently found you and I've learned a lot thanks to these beautiful videos and explanations. I hope more people stumble upon your work :-). Greetings from Argentina! 🙏
Thank you, Micaela! 🙏