Dhammáráma, o. s. – buddhistický klášter – buddhismus – meditace

Apart from meditation we also played drama at New Year´s meditation retreat.

Intensive meditation retreats in summer 2009 meant a hard work, but also good fun to their participants.

Venerable Ottaranyana conducted a metta retreat in 2008 in the Czech Republic.

Texts

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Ayukusala Thera: Buddhist Psychology in the view of educated Westerners and instructed Buddhists

Buddhist psychology has to be a science of mind which also studies the specific Buddhist approaches to mind. Therefore it has to hold good against all the criteria of science, such as empirical validity, methodological reliability of procedures, consistency of theoretical statements, etc. Moreover it has to be useful for practical life–mastery according to the Dhamma in order to be called Buddhist. The themes deemed to belong to Buddhist psychology became very fashionable towards the end of the twentieth century. In popular books we find many opinions about Buddhist psychology and, in particular, a lot of nonsense about the supposedly Buddhist psychotherapy which will be dealt with later on. However, also available are reliable scientific treatments of Buddhist psychology, an overview of which is given by Beatrice Vogt Frýba and Mirko Frýba in their monograph Sîlabbata – Virtuous Performance, the Empirical Basis for the Science of Buddhist Psychology – also published in the Sri Lanka Journal of Buddhist Studies. text in pdf

Dhammáráma, o. s. – buddhistický klášter – buddhismus – meditace

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MEDITATION RETREATS

Easter with Dhamma

Texts

Ayukusala Thera: Buddhist Psychology in the view of educated Westerners and instructed Buddhists