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Re: The most irritating person on social media, particularly on Reddit
No, it is not me. Don't use Reddit. BUT irritating and challenging are some of my superpowers. 
For example, on social media (I suggest you change from Reddit to Lemmy) you are more likely to find me... and be challenged in a different Way...
https://join-lemmy.org/
Thanks to @Vastmind for pointing out I am harmless AND I too have no earthly idea what I am talking about. Long may it continue.
Meanwhile, some harmless pointers:
- Zen like meditation is meant to be challenging
- What is so difficult or peculiar about Ewk for you? Have you tried not engaging? [lobster top tip]
- Can you provide an example of how you or indeed anyone is not on some level, 'peculiar'?
meanwhile...
https://forum.treeleaf.org/
lobster
Re: East vs West
I kind of feel like the attitude that one is superior and one is inferior is itself a western attitude.
person
Re: East vs West
There are so many flavours of East… Egyptian, Middle Eastern, Indian, Thai. It’s wondrous that the Earth contains such a richness of human culture.
Jeroen
Re: What is everyone's opinions on SAKYA BUDDHISM?
so far I am really enjoying it.
Sounds OK to me. They are renowned for 'Secret teachings' but then so is the whole of Tantra. My experience is with Kagyu and Ningma.
It does not matter how or where you start. What matters is how you continue on the path.
The esoteric tradition, I also studied Shingon, is in many ways a fire path or quick path. Therefore can get intense...
The best schools of Buddhism ALL teach meditation. If you practice, you improve. You may even become enlightened, which comes as no surprise...
Good luck and keep up the enjoying... 
lobster
Re: What is everyone's opinions on SAKYA BUDDHISM?
Hi I've practiced and studied with a Kagyu tradition. I listen to dharma talks at home and read. It's overseas for me so I haven't gone in person. I've heard that Sakya has good scholarship but I haven't heard from their teachers or readings so I cannot compare to what I am hearing from my own tradition. So I don't have much impression of them but what I do have is good.
Jeffrey
Re: Meditating on ones emotional life
To the degree that we can meditatively allow, all phenomena their own unmolested interaction with all of our sense gates, turns out to be the same degree that life's unavoidable pains can be detached from sufferings causes.
This reminds me of a Red Tara dedication I recite every now and again, but which floats in and out the mind most days, even if not verbally recited ....
"May I clearly perceive all experiences to be insubstantial as the dream fabric of the night and instantly awaken to perceive the pure wisdom displayed in the arising of every phenomenon"
Well it's actually the last part of the dedication...
Shoshin1
Re: Meditating on ones emotional life
It’s interesting… I found the instruction to ‘look inside’ to ultimately produce painful results, so just sitting and looking inside hasn’t been good for me. It’s like attention isn’t wholesome for the energy inside. But to just ‘watch the breath’ has been a lot better, mostly producing calm, although I can only do it for short periods.
Jeroen
Re: Meditating on ones emotional life
Looking outside to avoid what's inside, or looking inside to avoid what's outside, are both causes of our continued suffering. Additionally, inside and outside are really just the limitations of what we have decided is our boundary between self and other.
Mind and body (for me) work better as the states that result in suffering's cause when in disharmony and result in suffering's reduction when met with collegiality.
As a practice....
To the degree that we can meditatively allow, all phenomena their own unmolested interaction with all of our sense gates, turns out to be the same degree that life's unavoidable pains can be detached from sufferings causes.
how
Re: Quotes - discussion
All I know about is some of the reporting I've heard on the subject of science publishing.
There are several issues, the one that I remember now is that of the need to produce positive results. That a study that doesn't find what they were studying has a hard time getting published. Thus the researchers will play with the data to get positive results (I think this is called P hacking), basically they'll paint the target they're aiming for after they see where the data leads. The proposed solution would be to pre register experiments for what you're looking for and for journals to agree to publish regardless of the findings, as null results are just as important to the accumulation of knowledge as positive results.
person
Re: What is everyone's opinions on SAKYA BUDDHISM?
I’m assuming you mean the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism (Sakya). As Tibetan schools go it seems fairly heavy on the Tantric side, not really my cup of tea. But as a starter in Buddhism, any path is good, just stay sensitive to the feeling that this might not be right for you, and if that should come, maybe start exploring other paths.
Jeroen