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- Fri Jun 16, 2023 4:21 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Questions on the Benefits of Meditation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2106
Re: Questions on the Benefits of Meditation
Yes, of course, nothing is ever your favour. You create the condition for such. The basic principle is recieie recieve ,or conduct conduct, or blah. Just behave, sounds easy so far.
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5280
- Views: 883204
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5280
- Views: 883204
Re: Music time
denise hearts
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Vegas family claims they saw aliens
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1526
Re: Vegas family claims they saw aliens
newsflash: aliens ran away from the snitches, after attempting to operate mining apparatus. All we wanted was something to eat and drink; we didn't have laser beams.
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Is this sexual misconduct?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3300
Re: Is this sexual misconduct?
The skillful art of de-escalation 101.. ? ! For the purpose of illustrating this point may we consider the passions as a nuisance? We sit in front of this fire, throw water upon it but the fire doesn't go out. We throw paraffin on the fire; the fire is the thirsty man and the paraffin is the salt. B...
- Sat May 27, 2023 3:30 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 848
- Views: 263133
- Fri May 26, 2023 7:45 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5280
- Views: 883204
Re: Music time
let this moment serve to remind us how important or precious others are to us. If we are fooled let it be not too not too late, and if it is, let that pain and difficult become a purpose for what time is left.
- Tue May 23, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5280
- Views: 883204
- Sun May 21, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 848
- Views: 263133
- Sun May 21, 2023 11:24 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: How you make the other happy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3129
Re: How you make the other happy
Teachers and parents are there to show you how to do things for yourselves. When they pass on there is a profound joy thinking 'how well is my beloved student doing now?' and, yes, maybe a bit of an ego trip sneaking in there but even that's a bit better than outsourcing ones own personal power. Any...
- Wed May 17, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Euthanizing pets...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3747
Re: Euthanizing pets...
'Thing' is a keyword here. viewing other living beings as a commodity; surplus to requirement; replaceable etc. The owned belongs in a meritocracy as each being having it's unique utility (not to mention this sometimes involves a level of manufactured consent). The own (er) does not have any specifi...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Things you can control
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1815
Re: Things you can control
Thoughts are by and large in service to our in built security system. I'll use the metaphor of a home alarm system here. You can go switch it off in five minutes or leave it running for hours. Some people cannot discriminate, and if the brain isn't working correctly or at all then everyone and every...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Healthy desire and attachment
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1593
Re: Healthy desire and attachment
The way I see it, if one is attached then one has something to prove, so there's a whole bunch of busywork, drama and stress created trying to protect a viewpoint or an identity or an image. Very generally this casts a wide net over different behaviour and works on many different levels. If I do thi...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:50 am
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Should I save the rabbit or the falcon?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 5224
Re: Should I save the rabbit or the falcon?
This is an interesting wild vs domestic issue, and also a law of the land vs law of the sky issue. When wild meets domestic it isn't necessarily reciprocal (quid pro quo). A vast majority of avian species are 'wild' but owe their existence to people, their generosity and often wastefulness. Pigeons ...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:27 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Enlightenment is on every turn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 423
Re: Enlightenment is on every turn
Samsara has become way too cozy for some people. Walling off and insulating is not conducive for compassion and makes renunciation more difficult. Like animals in a zoo with invisible walls, the zookeepers tighten the screws telling the residents it's for our own good. Wait for a seminal moment in y...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 8:52 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Questions on Meditation
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3637
Re: Questions on Meditation
There's is mindfulness in the sense of having to be responsible, so clearly for some tasks mindfulness has to be there 100%, then there is mindfulness in relation to the four immeasurables including near and far enemies. Furthermore there is mindfulness or rather absentmindedness in a general sense ...
Re: Stillness
Could it be what would happen if the ocean met the drop rather than the drop gravitating towards the ocean? If you view self as a continually fluid entity, or a sequence of infinite moments then that could be -movement-. if we could theoretically see life as a whole extra dimensional phenomenon (eve...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 10:35 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Love
- Replies: 11
- Views: 778
Re: Love
I would argue- well actually I won't but- love similar to hate, wears off (a cooling of passions if you will). I mean you're going to calm down eventually or have a nervous breakdown. Perhaps it's wise to meet people and beings with a calm abiding and equanimity; to work jointly with but not necessa...
Re: Words
yes, when you have no power at all, the merits of samsara are a disservise.
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:06 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Relics of Fo Guang Shan's Master Hsing Yun
- Replies: 2
- Views: 365
Re: Relics of Fo Guang Shan's Master Hsing Yun
Forgot to comment on this last night but was lost for words. It's incredible. Thanks for sharing this.