<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=&amp;threadId=5571647</link> <description>Question about Kasina Practice</description> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:33:17 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2014-10-19T01:33:17Z</dc:date> <item> <title>RE: Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5573852</link> <description>Things that burn less hard than a candle flame just take a bit longer, but still can be cool. They just take more patience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try sitting in a dark room with a laptop or computer with a black screen and the image of choice in white on the screen with the monitor&amp;#039;s contrast and brightness adjusted to make it as bright as it can be without washing out the background black and stare at that: might help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used to do this a lot back in the day and found it helpful, though I was mostly looking at things like pentagrams back then.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:34:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5573852</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-26T10:34:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5573426</link> <description>Check out &amp;#034;path of purification&amp;#034; PDF its detailed about the thervadin path and the Jana&amp;#039;s and kasina and whatnot</description> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:33:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5573426</guid> <dc:creator>grant</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-25T17:33:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5573418</link> <description>I think your suppose to do kasina in order starting with earth a cross is not a kasina</description> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:31:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5573418</guid> <dc:creator>grant</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-25T17:31:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5571702</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Brian K.:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;So, I&amp;#039;ve started doing a kasina practice again in my meditation and I have a question or two about developing the image after I close my eyes. First off - in the past I&amp;#039;ve always used a candle for kasina practice. I&amp;#039;m kind of wanting to use a symbol, something that is a little more engaging to me (like a cross or something). I know that I should stare at the image, then after some time, close my eyes and focus on the after-image. Now, when I used a picture of a cross I didn&amp;#039;t get that distinct after-image. With a flame, it&amp;#039;s actually a physical image I can SEE, burned into my retina, not imagine. Understand what I&amp;#039;m saying? So, my question is... am I actually supposed to SEE the image or after sometime should I close my eyes and call the image up, in other words, visualize it, and concentrate on that? Thanks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;With the candle, it effectively is actually burned into your retina&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;en&amp;#x2e;wikipedia&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;wiki&amp;#x2f;Afterimage"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would say, there is not right or wrong way. So I have been doing kasina practice recently, and some instructions I have read just involve starring at it without shutting your eyes. Some instructions say to shut your eyes and try to imagine it. So play around! Everyone is different - the main point is an aid to concentration, and if trying to visualise the image helps you concentrate (and cut down thoughts, if that is your goal), then go ferrit!</description> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:31:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5571702</guid> <dc:creator>sawfoot _</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-21T21:31:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5571677</link> <description>try googling -----&amp;gt; site:www.dharmaoverground.org kasina practice&lt;br /&gt;tons of threads to read up on...perhaps the answer will be found there&lt;br /&gt;I have not done enough kasina practice myself to help you...maybe I should&lt;br /&gt;Good luck,&lt;br /&gt;~D</description> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:44:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5571677</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-21T19:44:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Question about Kasina Practice</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5571646</link> <description>So, I&amp;#039;ve started doing a kasina practice again in my meditation and I have a question or two about developing the image after I close my eyes. First off - in the past I&amp;#039;ve always used a candle for kasina practice. I&amp;#039;m kind of wanting to use a symbol, something that is a little more engaging to me (like a cross or something). I know that I should stare at the image, then after some time, close my eyes and focus on the after-image. Now, when I used a picture of a cross I didn&amp;#039;t get that distinct after-image. With a flame, it&amp;#039;s actually a physical image I can SEE, burned into my retina, not imagine. Understand what I&amp;#039;m saying? So, my question is... am I actually supposed to SEE the image or after sometime should I close my eyes and call the image up, in other words, visualize it, and concentrate on that? Thanks.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:05:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5571646</guid> <dc:creator>Brian K.</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-21T17:05:27Z</dc:date> </item> </channel> </rss> 