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Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“Just as trees provide us with oxygen to breathe, for which no one thanks them, people who have become aware of the Truth radiate deep peace, oneness and love without consciously making an effort. Peace is their nature. There is a saying that reads: 'If I have a loaf of bread and give you half, I have half left, but if I give you all my knowledge and love, I still have all my knowledge and all my love left.' And so it goes with sharing Truth.”
— Mooji
Jeroen
Re: From the non-dual book pile…
This channel usually sticks closer to verified science, there is some research offered though regarding a universal consciousness. The speaker is the Columbia psychologist and spirituality researcher Lisa Miller.
person
Re: Space - the final frontier
K2-18b has just been detected by the space web telescope as probably reading molecules of Dimethyl Sulfide readings in its atmosphere, that on earth, are only created through the existence of life. These results are pretty tentative and might take a year for corroboration but are the best scientific evidence yet for the possibility of life existing somewhere other than on earth.
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Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.”
— Mooji
“Your urge to control life controls you.”
— Mooji
“Pay attention to that which sees the mind.”
— Mooji
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
Life is not my business,
life is my breath, my joy and being.
When you believe you are a person,
you feel like life is something you have,
so you try to protect and
control it like a business.
When the Truth is known,
you gladly cease interfering,
knowing and observing
that life takes perfect care of life.
It is a perfect spontaneity.
A formless witness is filled
with unimaginable joy
in this perceiving.
One is timelessly here
as the Unchanging.
~ Mooji
Jeffrey
Re: Letting go of games
@FleaMarket said:
It's so bold they wear their lives on their sleeves like that for the world to see. They play a character in each season but they also play themselves and their relationships with each other and that's such a revealing position to be in. I really envy their ability to just be out there like that for everyone to watch.
Yes, it’s something that you learn with the acting part of playing D&D, that you reveal more of yourself and you play with that. There is also a certain amount of buffoonery involved, you learn to make fun of yourself after a while. Starting out as someone with a rather introverted personality, this can make you more able to express yourself, if you see other people around you do it.
Jeroen
Re: Letting go of games
@person said:
The designers of 5th edition purposefully made it so parties don't have to be balanced and fit the MMORPG template of tank, healer, dps. People don't often want to be pigeon holed like that. Laura Bailey's character Jester in season 2 rarely cast healing spells, it was an ongoing joke that she was a cleric that never healed. Clerics (and other healing classes) have lots of other tools to help a party out in their bags.
It’s true that with Guiding Bolt and Spirit Guardians Clerics can do pretty fair damage, and with spell slots you’re not really penalised for preparing both healing and damage and utility spells. Certainly BG3 shows that to pretty good effect.
But you can kind of see that without an MMORPG threat-style mechanism the whole idea of a tank doesn’t really work. It’s relatively easy for the whole party to maintain similar armour classes and so similar damage avoidance, which means you don’t really get glass cannons in the same way that you did in the old-style D&D, and so there is no need for monsters to focus their attacks.
Of course that does depend on the distribution of magic items in the game, which is something that the Dungeon Master controls. So in a way how important this is, and the need to spend actions on taunts like the Bear’s Goading Roar, is kinda up to him. The other thing that was clear from BG3 was the difference stealth makes for Wizards, hiding and staying unseen has become easier for non-rogues.
Jeroen
Re: The Medical Model of Mental Illness
Hmm overpopulation, climate change and biosphere denuding may catch up with us before the majority of the human population lives permanently in comfort, I suspect.
Jeroen
Re: The Medical Model of Mental Illness
The thing is, there are undeniably traumatic experiences, such as the suicide of a loved one. I don’t think you want to build a society that treats those kind of experiences as something to be learnt from. And every society that takes the stance “learn from it, toughen up” also inevitably has its casualties among the more sensitive people.
At the moment the social pendulum seems to have swung towards acknowledging the sensitive souls and seeing what we need to do to accommodate them. That is a good thing — society coming to terms with the sensitivity of its members. It will take some time and effort to find a good middle way, a position that encompasses both encouraging resiliency and allowing for sensitivity.
Jeroen