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Re: Stages of Samatha
@IdleChater said:
@person said:
Anyway, it always reminded my of the samatha mind training and that with the right effort the elephant can be brought under a greater degree of control by the rider perhaps.
More than that. The Thanka demonstrates that a complete level of control can be achieved.
Absolutely, I think my comment wasn't really clear. There is a big similarity between the psychological thinking here and the traditional mind training metaphor, I can't say if they're 100% the same thing though. And realistically for the vast majority of people greater control is what's achievable rather than complete control.
person
Re: Letting go of games
Emotional trust seems really important when playing with a group. The vulnerability of adding your personality to the performance knowing others may respond in harmful, playful, dismissive, or encouraging ways. I, my self, am quite sensitive to those responses. Maybe less sensitive to the way I respond to others.
Re: Space - the final frontier
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qnW2_YsRAMw
Not sure why its not showing, its Dr. Becky talking about the Euclid space telescope's first images
person
Re: All things Sport(s)
I’m following a bit of the NFL in the US, there is a key match coming up between the Buffalo Bills (a team who have been good for the last few years) and the Miami Dolphins (big spending upstarts in a tough division) tonight. Wondering how it will turn out, it may be a critical make or break moment early in the season.
Jeroen
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.
how
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