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It sounds like a) makes you have a sharper awareness.
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How do you know that? We must have separation between us or we would not know. If you had a dream of typing would that be Swaydam's hands that were typing?
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Is it your hands, swaydam, that typed (my response) or was it Jeffrey's hands that typed?
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Who is it that types these keys on my computer? Who is that @swaydam? (assuming you have heard that before :) )
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I'd love to have everyone over for dinner. Loved your Facebook video of your shrine/practice room @SillyPutty :)
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Jeffrey's awesome deadly fried baked stuff potatoes :) Cook baked potatoes 400 1 hour in oven. Make fork or knife holes. This is optional as it is totally legitimate recipe to explode the potatoes and then scrape them off of the sides of the oven…
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Bowtie tomato herb olive pasta Cook pasta to amount of company Meanwhile cut fresh herbs, cherry tomatoes in half, and black olives sliced in circles** Splash red wine vinegar in the herb/cherry/olive mixture Coat cooked pasta in olive oil Mix past…
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It is hands making a heart seems like.
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I haven't gotten started, @ericcris10sen. I thought of unique chess pieces and also toys for kids, like little monster figures. I'm not sure how hard it will be to learn. I am wondering in my mind what to do for a first try. Maybe a rocket? Eve…
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I think if you stretch every day you would progress, but it's hard to get back to youth. I am getting better running but I still can do only 4/10 of a mile straight jogging (go 1 or 2 miles including walking). I have been going to the gym twice a …
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Certain core aspects of Buddhist views are easily provable by anyone with common sense. Attachment and delusion lead to suffering. That's a fact. The effects of right meditation are a fact. Attachment does not always lead to suffering. So, that's…
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I don't work (yet) because of schizophrenia. Others with my condition can work and I just need to find a place where I can take time off when I am sick. Other things like customer service are hard because I don't process things such as social cues…
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From Progressive Stages of Meditaiton on emptiness. What one finds is that every moment of experience has two aspects. If it did not have these two aspects it could hardly be counted as being a moment of experience at all. What are these two aspec…
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We say "what's on your mind", as well as "he was not acting himself".. Clearly with these two views we are somewhat confused. "A consciousness in Buddhism refers to a moment of awareness. As we think about the four skandhas that have already been …
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The problem is that they are in the house and you view the circle of the house as having a cleanliness and some kind of non-bug 'sanctity' lol not sure what to say. The bug is in contrast to the values you have of a house. Whenever a circle or man…
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You can generate positive feelings for yourself in mindfulness meditation. Just be a friend to yourself through all the arisings. Conditional confidence is related to a situation. Unconditional confidence and friendliness can relate to any situat…
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My cat sits on the zafu, ha
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@nenkohai, you make didgeridoos? Cool. What do you make them out of?
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Chenrezig is Avalokiteshevra or Kuan Yin and is a Bodhisattva.
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Yes I do. Exactly. I think of an 'I' who wants a 'good' body feeling. Instead of thinking what I would like to do I think of a good feeling that I want something I do to give me. So right there is restlessness, aversion, craving. Somewhere in t…
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You can make rice taste awesome with (east) Indian spices.
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grape tomatoes are a good snack to have in the kitchen out and just eat a few whenever in the kitchen. I think the hardest thing I found as a vegetarian was quieting my hunger. Meat really does a good job of stopping hunger. Whole wheat bread wit…
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I found when my mom was in the hospital that meditation helped a lot to ground the vertigo of even considering losing someone. I wanted to do something positive. I will wish the merit of my meditation tomorrow to NB members in need. It's all I ca…
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Didn't the electron slit experiment show that electrons respond to a detector of one of the slits by acting as a particle moreso and the diffraction pattern went away? Why did the detector change the nature of the particle? Also when one particle …
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That would be good at a coffee shop. They could give you 'quantum coffee' and there would be a probability that they wouldn't serve it to you. :p
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Let them be as they are?
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Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness by Khenpo (scholar) Tsultrim Gyamptso (ocean of ethical conduct) Rinpoche (teacher) The difference between the Madhyamaka Svatantrika and the Madhyamaka Prasangika is that the former use arguments to re…
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Yes and sautantrika was a precursor of madyamaka/prasangika I think it was? Emptiness of skhandas are the school called shravaka like the heart sutra says (no form, no perception.... no eye no ear....no suffering and no end of suffering). The craz…
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Yogacara is also based exactly as you have described based on Madyamaka and Nagarjuna as far as I know. I think you meant prasangika which views 'all views as wrong' ** which is my understanding. ** in an oversimplification
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I watched this a month ago. Mooji is an advaita vedanta teacher but actually some Buddhism is very similar. I watched the whole thing and it was very interesting. But it's over an hour so only if you are very interested. http://awareofawareness.…
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I watched this a month ago. Mooji is an advaita vedanta teacher but actually some Buddhism is very similar. I watched the whole thing and it was very interesting. But it's over an hour so only if you are very interested. http://awareofawareness.…
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Einstein said about quantum mechanics: "god doesn't play dice" Of course he had his own peculiar notion about God. Did he find the quantum world meaningless perhaps?
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Anger is a 'no' from the heart to something. It is the distortion of seeing outside situation as an attack or obstacle. So you can see the homeless man and say 'no' to his suffering and give him food. That is how undistorted anger can be compassi…
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Maybe. But how do you know if you have made the wrong target? You at least have to trust that there is a progression and that things will come in their own time. Until they come you inevitably squirm a bit trying to get the mental state how you w…