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Re: What music are you listening to?
I play this as a mashup with Imagine. Piano accompaniment including the little chromatic riff, but the Dylan lyrics and melody. First verse in D, second verse in Db, third verse in C, then segue to the last verse of Imagine.
Steve_B
Re: Sharing practice through non-practice
Thus have I heard...
Expectation is the killer of meditation.
Shoshin1
Re: What music are you listening to?
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Shoshin1
Re: So HUNGRY to NOT CRAVE
@lobster said:
Imagine someone has Nothing to offer. We of course want something. So we give them an impossible task.
... And the funny thing is they are up to the task until we stop taking and start giving
Nothing.
The replies here have made me realize that the impulse behind my post is about what I WANT. Which is similar to how Christmas was a child. 
If I shift into what I might be able give (or at least, shift away from the focus on my Self), the "problem" drifts away.
Re: Sharing practice through non-practice
@Jeroen said:
I came across this teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh…
I really just wanted to talk about the first 20 minutes of this, where he talks about Mother Earth being within us and just relaxing, not-doing while we breathe, and thinking that healing and nourishment come to us on the in-breath and out-breath, that by letting Mother Earth act for us in walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, we can bring healing to our body, our mind, our society and our planet.
I’ve listened to it three times, it seems to be a way within. Wonderful!
🙏
@Jeroen Synchronicity, I watched that same talk (or very similar one) and practised that same method yesterday evening and was planning to do the same today. Maybe the YT algo decided to push that video on all Buddhists yesterday?
I used to call it "active rest" - where I/we are "just resting". I found it very regenerative and good in my situation of monkey mind and monkey emotions where if I try to bring some calm to the system actively, I often (not always) just make it worse.
I think in scientific jargon this would be called accessing the rest&digest nervous system state. Kind of like after having lunch the body wants to snooze a bit or rest after a workout. These are not laziness but the way the body looks to process and get back to balance.
@Person "Battery recharge", yes!
Thanks for sharing.
marcitko