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... even though his mindset is very contrary at the moment. But is it okay to try to "make him a buddhist"? he shows no interest so far. ... Hi, Alastair, perhaps you could look at this from a slightly different angle, i.e. what helps us is not "being a Buddhist" but learning the dharma, and we can...

Due to mental relaxation and/or familiarization with non-conceptual states it may happen that instances of past experiences can pop up spontaneously. Just leave them as they are, fading away and don't self-identify. It can happen during meditation, too, and the advice is the same: just observe it, ...

...but it's not recommended. The site search has always been slow and stupid. Better to use a site-specific search on Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever you use:
site:https://www.dharmawheel.net/ sunnyata [or whatever you're looking for]


Kim

... Other posters elsewhere have pointed me to Nāgārjuna, so I'm listening. Having difficulty so far translating language from another time and place in to every day conversational English. It's not just a matter of translating language but of learning new concepts for which we haven't got exact En...

... I didn't want to be this way because not only society but in general it seems harder to date. A guy hitting on a girl faces less risk than me if I were to guess wrong on a guy. It's a lot of little things, sometimes I feel like life would have been better/easier if I wasn't this way and it make...

Found on FB (of course) -

Contributions so far -
Wack Sabbath
Felonious Monk
Fool and the Gang
Public Enema
Poxy Music

Go for it, folks!

Kim

No, not for an instant. It's a good place to work - if "work" is the right word for what I'm doing.

If you could choose to see and interact with ghosts, would you?

Hi, Padmist,
This forum doesn't have an "Early Buddhism" sub-forum as such ("Sutra Studies" might be the closest match) but our sister site, DW Theravada has one. Start here if so inclined: https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewforum.php?f=29


Kim

Generally better to avoid it, IMO, for the reasons you give.
If you want to inspire someone to good deeds, you can usually point to a person other than yourself who is a good role model.


Kim

I was going to suggest metta meditation in response to the OP but I also agree with the two people who have replied already.


Kim

I've played with small quantities of it (it's easy to make) and it's fun.


Kim

Yes, and that leads to this - Climate-related displacement and migration is set to be the greatest challenge of our era. While there is a general consensus that global warming impacts us all, the role it will play in future human migration is often underestimated. Climate change disproportionately i...

And, as with Germany, the Rocky Mountains have vast areas where the trees are ill both from lack of water and from heat, which has allowed massive invasion of beetles -- one reason, besides the temperatures, for the huge fires this year. The Northeast US, especially the mid-Atlantic region, is set ...

Geopolitics did him no favours. The end of the Cold War made his early books strangely irrelevant for quite a while and it took him years to find another topic. I returned to a couple of the early ones recently and decided that they are old enough to be read and enjoyed as historical fiction. :think...

Las Vegas and other downstream users have been frantically buying up lands at the headwaters of the Colorado River in order to control their water rights, with harmful effects on mountain ecosystems. Given the record heats across the southwest lately, and the fact that there are few if any more wat...

Las Vegas has been a water disaster waiting to happen for at least a generation. Climate change will just be another nail in its coffin. Indeed, and some people have seen it coming - ...In his equally powerful sophomore novel, The Water Knife, [Bacigalupi] takes a similar approach to an inorganic s...

Okay. You start... ...by defining what exactly “field of energy” means. :popcorn: ... Definitions aren't so good in this area... Especially the stilted kind of definitions you find in buddhist tradition. Spiritual experience is something organic. Start to define it and put it in boxes, you might tu...

... You know... why all this talk about science? Who cares what "science" says is possible or not. We're spiritual practitioners, not scientists. No reason scientific ideology should limit our view of what can be attained in spiritual practice. If we continue to harbor these ideas, we might be limi...