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- Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:23 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: indian food
- Replies: 73
- Views: 29891
Re: indian food
I really love Keralan food. If you have a halfway decent Indian grocery nearby it's surprisingly easy to replicate the flavours at home. Unfortunately my better half loathes curry leaves but I've found that lemon balm (melissa) makes a very good substitute. The one thing I didn't really get when we ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:06 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhist parenting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5273
Re: Buddhist parenting
Welcome, Cheryl. As the parent of three adopted children, I can say that it's an amazing thing you are about to do. Challenging, terrifying, wonderful, life-affirming... Pretty much all-encompassing, really. If I could give you one single piece of advice, it would be to let go of all your preconcept...
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:58 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Scientific Evidence for Rebirth
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6921
Re: Scientific Evidence for Rebirth
I hover between skepticism and the experientially reinforced suspicion that individual consciousness arises in all pervading, beginningless and endless mind like a ripple in water, is reabsorbed, rises again. Which, as Huseng says, is unlikely to be provable under laboratory conditions... ...althoug...
- Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:17 am
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: Ole Nydahi and Trungpa rinpoche
- Replies: 81
- Views: 28344
Re: Ole Nydahi and Trungpa rinpoche
Your main concern should be whether the group you choose is going to deliver authentic dharma teachings to you as their main and indeed only priority. I don't know very much about either of these two organizations but it's plain that a good deal of their energies go into maintaining their distinct i...
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:44 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Would you say that mdma experience of all out love is valid?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5601
Re: Would you say that mdma experience of all out love is valid?
If you take a drug experience as a touchstone for spiritual practice, you will always be trying to recreate something artificial. At the very best, it will be like taking the most perfect food and slathering it with MSG. Or staying indoors and watching a sunset on Youtube while the world is glowing ...
Re: Departure
Malcolm was saying things that people didn't want to hear. DW is beginning to manifest the same anger, aggression, cultural and intellectual xenophobia that is afflicting the world outside. Inevitable and understandable, but a bloody shame nevertheless.
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:20 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Why did you choose Buddhism?
- Replies: 98
- Views: 27482
Re: Why did you choose Buddhism?
Not the most interesting story, but it is mine. I think it is an excellent story! :twothumbsup: I remember as a child flicking through a brand new encyclopedia my parents had brought for me (encyclopedias were fashionable back then since there was no interent (and/or Google) and I stumbled across a...
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:56 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: What do you sit on during meditation?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 14025
Re: What do you sit on during meditation?
Outside I sit on a folded towel on whatever rock or log takes my fancy. Indoors I use whatever comes to hand - a rolled-up camping mat at the moment. This is more a result of being broke than hardcore asceticism... Though whenever I've sat on a 'proper' meditation cushion I've found them extremely a...
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:43 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Buddhism without a teacher
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13067
Re: Buddhism without a teacher
You will read the numerous wrong views from devils who can spout some dharma words but have no teacher, no lineage and no realization. Trust and believe that the spiritual friend is the entire path. Hum, isn't it also true - equally as true - that the teacher is not the first person to come along. ...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:30 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Buddhism without a teacher
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13067
Re: Buddhism without a teacher
"find a teacher and you will know". This is true. But teachers come in many, many forms. I practiced for a few years without a teacher and now I've found one. I don't think my teacherless years were spent in the wilderness at all. Every experience was valuable. The books I read informed m...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:52 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Bates method, natural vision improvement -- discard glasses
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3564
Re: Bates method, natural vision improvement -- discard glasses
Floaters aren't imaginary, btw. They are imperfections in the vitreous humour. Quite an interesting phenomenon in themselves. The eyes seem to be one of the last areas of the body to relax. The body scan technique helps. Certainly relaxing the muscles of the face works. In my limited and humble expe...
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:28 pm
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21220
Re: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
Well, it works.monktastic wrote:Should I practice this anyway?
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:10 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Bridge between Heart and Mind
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8668
Re: Bridge between Heart and Mind
You might indeed have a few problems with that on a Buddhist forum.Tanmart22 wrote:and how repeated positive responses strengthen new pathways that create a stronger self.
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:53 am
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21220
Re: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
Out of interest, did you follow ChNNR's last retreat? If so, you received direct introduction. I would suggest downloading the Guruyoga book here: http://www.shangshungstore.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=455 . Then you'd have a complete practice to be getting on with. Having spent quite a bit...
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:34 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Loneliness and Buddhism
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3114
Re: Loneliness and Buddhism
You are not alone: you are deeply connected to everyone and everything. Don't let loving-kindness be contrived and conditioned by circumstance. Just let it flower.
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:53 am
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21220
Re: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
I'd also add: relax. Relax, relax, relax and keep on relaxing. :namaste: Thanks, that's a valuable addition. As I mentioned, I'm happy to relax -- particularly if I know I am not on a completely mistaken path! (And relaxing while doing this on retreat for the past few weeks seems to be doing someth...
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:20 pm
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21220
Re: Thamal gyi shepa vs. baby rigpa vs. rigpa (etc.)
I'd also add: relax. Relax, relax, relax and keep on relaxing.
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:40 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 32939
Re: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
But that is Dzogchen, no? The rest is just dew and cobwebs.username wrote:
We are taught if they have experienced the genuine state then yes but there is no way to put that into words or concepts to debate. Hence personal experience of the knowledge.
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 32939
Re: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
We know there are differences of opinion on ngondro, etc. You are wrong on both counts. Are there differing opinions on rigpa (or whatever the translation du jour is - maybe I've just answered the question...)? We are told rigpa is not a matter of semantic, cognition, concepts etc. but of ineffable...
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:00 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 32939
Re: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
Are there differing opinions on rigpa (or whatever the translation du jour is - maybe I've just answered the question...)?username wrote: We know there are differences of opinion on ngondro, etc. You are wrong on both counts.