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- Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:57 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Buddhism and missionary work
- Replies: 4
- Views: 88
Re: Buddhism and missionary work
... 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...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Memory Recall
- Replies: 8
- Views: 827
Re: Memory Recall
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, ...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:10 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Is This A Tribal Site Or A Philosophy Site?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 534
Re: Is This A Tribal Site Or A Philosophy Site?
...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
site:https://www.dharmawheel.net/ sunnyata [or whatever you're looking for]

Kim
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:37 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Is This A Tribal Site Or A Philosophy Site?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 534
Re: Is This A Tribal Site Or A Philosophy Site?
... 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...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:46 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: New here with question on Gay
- Replies: 42
- Views: 831
Re: New here with question on Gay
... 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...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:56 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 72824
Re: Daily Laugh Thread
Found on FB (of course) -
Contributions so far -
Wack Sabbath
Felonious Monk
Fool and the Gang
Public Enema
Poxy Music
Go for it, folks!
Contributions so far -
Wack Sabbath
Felonious Monk
Fool and the Gang
Public Enema
Poxy Music
Go for it, folks!
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:11 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: New here with question on Gay
- Replies: 42
- Views: 831
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:39 pm
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 72824
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 10:42 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Yes or No ...
- Replies: 1035
- Views: 147606
Re: Yes or No ...
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?

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

- Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:41 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Early Buddhism sources, scholars, Buddhologists, experts, books, etc
- Replies: 7
- Views: 309
Re: Early Buddhism sources, scholars, Buddhologists, experts, books, etc
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
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
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 12:05 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Telling someone about your own good deeds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 138
Re: Telling someone about your own good deeds
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
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
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: Grumpy and Irritable
- Replies: 18
- Views: 474
Re: Grumpy and Irritable
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

Kim
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:43 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Walking on liquid
- Replies: 2
- Views: 176
Re: Walking on liquid
I've played with small quantities of it (it's easy to make) and it's fun.
Kim

Kim
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:08 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: 8 months of no rain!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 595
Re: 8 months of no rain!
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...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:45 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: 8 months of no rain!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 595
Re: 8 months of no rain!
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 ...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:31 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: John LeCarre
- Replies: 19
- Views: 714
Re: John LeCarre
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...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:23 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: 8 months of no rain!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 595
Re: 8 months of no rain!
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...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:44 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: 8 months of no rain!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 595
Re: 8 months of no rain!
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...
Re: Field
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...
Re: Field
... 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...