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by Jesse
Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:56 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Is there a particular barrier between the Dharma and US society/culture?
Replies: 20
Views: 11335

Re: Is there a particular barrier between the Dharma and US society/culture?

The worst barrier is probably the internet. The internet is sucks you in, and consumes the entirety of your attention. If you've noticed the trends with the internet, they keep pushing 'shorter attention span' nonsense. This is why YouTube ads are 5 seconds generally. It's like the opposite of the m...
by Jesse
Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:53 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Formless shamatha + shamatha w/o object
Replies: 9
Views: 9687

Re: Formless shamatha + shamatha w/o object

The formless meditations have objects, they simply become subtler and subtler, and eventually reach a point where the object is so fine you could really question whether there's an actual object at all. Eventually in the Jhanas, you would reach the limits of perception, at that point.. not only is t...
by Jesse
Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:23 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Monastic Advice for Modern Society
Replies: 5
Views: 4214

Re: Monastic Advice for Modern Society

"How can someone who has spent their whole life in a monastery, cloistered away from the real world, offer any advice on how to live in the real world, when they don't have bills to pay, and they don't get stuck in traffic or have a boss that talks down to them, and they don't deal with any of ...
by Jesse
Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:12 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Display of siddhi(s) or miraculous feats precluding one from liberation in this lifetime?
Replies: 10
Views: 4722

Re: Display of siddhi(s) or miraculous feats precluding one from liberation in this lifetime?

I saw the claim being made by an individual online saying that if one demonstrates siddhis for personal reasons that it would almost be a defacto elimination for elightenment in this birth because siddhis carry a very large karmic burden and only a fully freed individual has the merits to offset th...
by Jesse
Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:44 pm
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: What is it that hears the sound?
Replies: 13
Views: 6830

Re: What is it that hears the sound?

A few lines from a poem I wrote last year
I am adamant about reaching my destination
whatever place that may be
for whatever shapes appease these eyes that see
and whatever sounds create ears by which their own voices can be heard
by Jesse
Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:55 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: mostly Raw organic vegan diet for mental health?
Replies: 52
Views: 34401

Re: mostly Raw organic vegan diet for mental health?

Even more than diet, one of the most effective ways to combat mental illness is exercise. During the spring/summer, I generally walk 3-6 times per week, an average of 3 miles a day. It takes about 45-60 minutes. Combining this with mindfulness practice, relaxation methods is helpful. Removing a few ...
by Jesse
Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:40 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Grasping and suppressing
Replies: 18
Views: 10515

Re: Grasping and suppressing

I have this as well. probably the most helpful strategy is to learn to relax your body on command. As soon as you start to 'feel' the thought coming up, place your focus entirely within your body, then relax your body (relax the muscles). It takes some practice, but it helps. Relaxing your body, als...
by Jesse
Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:53 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: [Hungry?] Ghosts (Benign)
Replies: 12
Views: 1181

Re: [Hungry?] Ghosts (Benign)

Is there any credence to the western narrative of ghosts trying to contact living relatives? Particularly, after when they should have left the bardo and taken a new rebirth. I feel silly posting this. I was never a believer in that stuff, but now I'm starting to wonder if I'm in a position where I...
by Jesse
Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:03 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5281
Views: 883627

Re: Music time

by Jesse
Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:40 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Want Drug Policies That Actually Work? Look at Portugal
Replies: 6
Views: 2770

Re: Want Drug Policies That Actually Work? Look at Portugal

Want Drug Policies That Actually Work? Look at Portugal https://novaramedia.com/2021/12/10/want-drug-policies-that-actually-work-look-at-portugal/ Yep. Everyone I know who works in Substance Abuse would agree, minus a few ideological abstinence-only oriented Boomer holdouts. This is beginning to ha...
by Jesse
Thu Dec 09, 2021 5:35 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Why don't Buddhists believe in Buddhist cosmology?
Replies: 140
Views: 56178

Re: Why don't Buddhists believe in Buddhist cosmology?

Because Buddhist cosmology represents what 'scientists' in ancient times believed the universe to look like with their limited knowledge. Buddhist philosophers usually also engaged in whatever form of science their culture had at the time. Religions and science were usually integrated back then. Chr...
by Jesse
Thu Dec 09, 2021 2:45 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office
Replies: 14
Views: 4346

Re: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office

In the event that UFO's turn out to be extraterrestrial, informing the public is honestly a bad idea. If there are species capable of visiting our planet from other solar systems, and also considering some of the claimed maneuvers these craft are capable of, these species could be well in excess of ...
by Jesse
Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:06 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: If there's no self, why does karma matter?
Replies: 27
Views: 1549

Re: If there's no self, why does karma matter?

Without the self/person, why does karma matter? Upon rebirth, how does this karma connect or transfer to that new person? Isn't that unfair? How does it even connect the previous person's karma to the reborn person? Your argument is confused, you begin with "without a self", then proceed ...
by Jesse
Sun Nov 07, 2021 11:32 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

Everything you type on a cell phone keyboard is automatically sent to the keyboard app owners servers, which means before your sms text is encrypted, it's being intercepted and stored in your digital keyboard makers servers. That’s easy to fix though. On iOS you can disable the learning functionali...
by Jesse
Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:56 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

I agree but one could use signal. Yeah, one person could but it's hard to get an entire community to up and cross apps, especially if they're working off a baseline technological literacy. Ideally though yeah. In certain communities signal use is very widespread. If you’re a journalist, investor, p...
by Jesse
Fri Nov 05, 2021 4:52 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Science justification
Replies: 8
Views: 934

Re: Science justification

It's not a either or situation. The problem is that we have serious societal issues preventing many types of progress from happening. From climate change denial, to business interests that control our political system, and who really don't care how many people they kill in the name of profits. In te...
by Jesse
Fri Oct 29, 2021 2:02 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Are Oysters Sentient? (Split from Giving up Masturbation)
Replies: 100
Views: 9125

Re: Are Oysters Sentient? (Split from Giving up Masturbation)

Nature is cruel. The naturalistic world doesn't consider morals, ethics, or any other idea conjured by the human mind. Consideration for the value of others, or having empathy for their condition, and circumstances is something a mind with empathetic, and sympathetic cognition conjures. That is just...
by Jesse
Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:09 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Are Oysters Sentient? (Split from Giving up Masturbation)
Replies: 100
Views: 9125

Re: Are Oysters Sentient? (Split from Giving up Masturbation)

It is my humble opinion that both Oysters, and plants are sentient. There is plenty of evidence to that effect, and the more evidence that is produced, the more it aligns that all life forms are sentient. The question we should be asking, imo: are other sentient lifeforms; no matter how different; d...
by Jesse
Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:30 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

The law is written by those who claim power, by whatever means they can, lawful or not. No, that is really not the case. But it is cynicism like yours that contributes to the decline of democracy, rather that strengthens and reinforces it. And that is exactly what people like Trump want to see. The...

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