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Re: Meditation and mental health
@IdleChater said:
It would be the OP's right to sue your ass off if they take your advice, and they are psychologically injured as a result. The owners of the site could be sued as well.End of the site. End of our community. End of your savings.
I was going to stay out of this because I said my piece already. But that's not correct. Section 230 protects the forum and the site. Not only that, but the OP would bear a significant amount of legal responsibility for deciding to take medical advice from an unverified source online.
But the OP would never sue anybody, because he is a member of our community who shared his thoughts in good faith. More than one person responded that seeing a medical professional was first and foremost. And Tavs certainly wasn't asking about any kind of dosage for anything, so the diabetes comment is false equivalency.
With multiple people reminding Tavs that a doctor was necessary up front, the air was cleared for others to share their thoughts in loving-kindness, which I believe is the point of the forum.
Re: From Seeker to Scholar, and Back Again?
Knowledge come from varying sources. Spoken, written, experience.
Wisdom comes from distilling knowledge and experiences.
We read
We hear/listen
We experience
We distill, question, seek, realize - awaken
Knowledge is passive
Wisdom is active
Knowledge is limited by boundries, personal, societal, cultural...
Wisdom is limitless, posessing no boundries
Knowledge is of things, actions, history....
Wisdom is the undestanding beyond the limits of knowlege.
Observations of a common person
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: Space - the final frontier
Thank you @Jeroen.
I thought the images were stunning, the music tasteful, and the descriptions precise and informative.
Maybe @lobster should give a little look, at least to the first minute of the video. There is an easter-egg! ๐
marcitko
Re: Top 5
Top 5 qualities (no particular order)
Compassion
Empathy
Mercy
Love
Gratitude (Appreciation)
Yes, there are others.
Yes they could be interchangeable with any of the above.
But they make a good starting point, a good base, a good compass.
The "doubling" of the last one was because they are different words for the same quality, just from a slightly different view.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: Meditation and mental health
An awful lot of medical advice being given, by people unqualified for it.
@Tavs: If you're having mental health issues, take them to a doctor and not a forum like this.
Meditation and mental health
Recently I've been getting very depressed and anxious, despite all my years of meditation and more recently, mantras and prayers. When I'm actually doing the practice, I feel much calmer but as soon as something appears which bothers me, I'm back to square one. So I don't know if my practice is actually helping my mind or not.
Tavs
Re: What movies are you watching?
Some of the greatest shots of Mount Everest you will seeโฆ Andrezj Bargiel climbing to the summit, and then skiing down to the snow line, with drone footage piloted by his brother Bartek.
Jeroen
Re: Some troubles with new sila efforts
It seems like most people got 'hooked' by the examples and lost track of the questions.
For me, the most important thing is to build moral courage and integrity.
The examples I gave are, I believe, very good to do in their own right, but even more importantly are, for me, 'training grounds' for moral courage and integrity.
marcitko
Re: Announcenment: genkaku Adam Fisher
The archive of his writings is a wonderful treasure trove of wisdom, humour and sheer good sense..๐
And as a bonus he was such a good writer...those things donโt always go together. I frequently chuckle at his brio and style. He was cool, Adam was. Or to borrow the tongue- in -cheek spelling he often used, he was kewl.๐
Choephal