Everything evolves, will come to mean...Nothing is true
~Fred Nietzsche~
@Linc said:
She likes it still but as she has a learning disability, the other kids "get" things easier than she does and she wants to wait for a couple of years and try again.
All that will matter is which of them is still practicing in a year, in 5 years, in 10 years.
My teacher has severe dyslexia and can barely read a word. He has cerebral palsy and used crutches when he started martial arts. Today he’s one of the beat martial artists in the world and holds black belts in multiple arts.
There are 5 ways to become a great martial artist, as he says. You have to do all of them. There are no shortcuts. First is patience. Second is perseverance. Third is to practice hard. Fourth is to practice exactly what you want to perform. Fifth, meditation.
“Learn fast” is conspicuously absent.
For sure. It was a bit disheartening but as a Dad, I had no choice. She took a while to tell me because she didn't want to let me down. She wasn't making friends and gave it a good try for 2 years. I'm very proud that she kept it up as long as she did.
We may go back, who knows?
Quakerism is now for oating and blends nicely with Buddhist seated meditation. You just sit on the pews provided. Very quietly.
https://postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/a-quakers-buddhist-practice/
Good to see you @Jeroen and hello again @lobster ! I have returned from a couple of years of cave dwelling (my house in Wrexham, Wrexham being extraordinarily trendy of late for foot / windbag based reasons). I’ve not practiced all that much in recent times, but have found myself drawn back to my Samatha UK Trust meditation group, as the practice is hugely calming.
I made a new friend in my walking group yesterday, who was both a Quaker and a Buddhist. Interesting. I’ve come across this somewhere in the past. The Quakerism is sufficiently flexible to allow for anyone to be welcome, whether faithful or of no faith.
So one can practice a silent sitting within that from a Christian or Buddhist fusion perspective and also pop off and be a Buddhist elsewhere too. It might be spiritual window-shopping, I don’t know, but I’ll explore more with him as our talks develop.
@Vastmind
We can traumatise or dramatise or otherwise engage. Not everyone can-cans. That is true. So avoidance is a strategy.
Fortunately for those requiring a daily reboot, I have steel toe caps and am always willing to kick anyone, especially myself ...
It is this sense to know which of the 3 jewels to kick back into coherence, that makes for a flexible option ... ever-changing ...
I generally agree with the power and resilience approach as opposed to the victim approach.
Has your trauma made you stronger?
No….its made me way funnier. 🤣🤣🤣😎