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- Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:32 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32257
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Like how flat screen televisions were supposed to be more energy efficient. They were much more efficient at similar screen sizes. But replacing a 29 inch Trinitron with a 52 inch LCD panel didn't save a thing.
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:01 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32257
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Fusion is the long term solution? How long? In all of history up to 1940, we added one billion humans to the planet. Since then we have added another 7 billion. If fusion were to kick in in a big way, yielding massive amounts of almost free power, we will make massive amounts of fertilizer, plastic...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:12 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32257
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
You won't see an industrialized country go over 20% of power generated by PV panels. Too unreliable. Back up plants and storage are too expensive. Wind and hydro are better choices but after a certain point even these renewables are not cost effective. For the price of a storage plant you can build ...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:17 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Sad, sob story
- Replies: 94
- Views: 19916
Re: Sad, sob story
The important thing is getting psychological counseling. There is a reason why spiritual practices are contraindicated in treatment of many psychological disorders. Without that you could be dreaming. Based on your previous posts the important thing to look for is the myth of significance. Things li...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:49 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32257
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Kirtu, Having lived off of solar power for years your ideas are fanciful and unrealistic. They would make a great cover for popular mechanics but they are completely unworkable with present technology. Since solar does not have reliable output it can only make up a small part of total power generati...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:03 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32257
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Things are getting very complicated. Solar can only supply about 20% or less of total grid energy. There are these things in the sky called clouds and when they go by energy production almost stops. Backup power generation is needed within minutes. The only things that spin up fast enough are natura...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:45 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Ngondro Challenges
- Replies: 62
- Views: 17686
Re: Ngondro Challenges
All your striving is making me tired. Why not just sit for a few days and look at the sky? Simplify your life. I think that is the secret of practice. There is also something to the advice of Lao Tzu. Become useless. With the blessings of a simple life and uselessness all you need is the company of ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:49 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Military and Buddhism
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6948
Re: Military and Buddhism
Medics in the European theatre on both sides did not carry weapons. They were not allowed. The Geneva Convention was generally respected. Korea was a different story. I knew an old Medic who still remembers it. He carried two 45's and had to use them on many occasions. Today we are a preferred targe...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:49 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8853
Re: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism
Well, we all have our demons, lol
Re: Cartoon
Hell fells very real. Arguably since the mind is 7 times more powerful in the bardo it would feel 7 times more real. Calling this world real is also a fallacy. To a real Buddhist Hell is not a metaphor. Gods are also not metaphors. Meditation does not stop at Shamatha. This is some Western Buddhist ...
- Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:58 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23700
Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
I wish you could edit your posts longer. I should add that I did two cycles a year apart and never felt the need to do it again. I did do a blood test for mercury levels. Though detected they were not worrisome. I took some ground pink coral anyway. Which has been used for millenia to detox heavy me...
- Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:43 am
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23700
Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Black mercury is with calcined copper. They are old medicines only meant to be taken when you can live a yogi lifestyle with no distractions. They are as profound as they are dangerous. To live a normal life and take them would kill you. Simply becoming angry will break the bonds on the mercury floo...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:57 am
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23700
Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Where does Shilajit come from now? It is a completely different colour than it was years ago. Did Nagarjuna leave any of his recipes for mercury medicines? I just read about his alchemical practices last night. Perhaps we should dig up his old recipes for turning iron into gold to support the Dharm...
- Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:37 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23700
Re: Combining Ayurvedic/Tibetan Medicine and Herbs & Supplements
Where does Shilajit come from now? It is a completely different colour than it was years ago. Did Nagarjuna leave any of his recipes for mercury medicines? I just read about his alchemical practices last night. Perhaps we should dig up his old recipes for turning iron into gold to support the Dharma.
- Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:06 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Military and Buddhism
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6948
Re: Military and Buddhism
It really depends on your trade. I was a medic. Never killed anyone and provided paramedical and mediocre clinical care. Being a medic got me a job in a civvie hospital.
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:49 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Infant Ear Infection
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1572
Re: Infant Ear Infection
What antibiotics have they tried?
- Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:03 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6188
Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
I do that.Nangwa wrote:When you watch ghost movies you are always thinking how foolish the characters are for not calling in a chodpa.
- Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:28 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6188
Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
You salivate when you say Tonpa Lame Sangye Rinpoche,...
- Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:22 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Iron Lady
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3350
- Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:02 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6188
Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
At a certain time every morning your backyard looks like a soup kitchen for squirrels and crows because they have figured out your pudga schedule.