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Re: Towards mindful anger?
Maybe a cushion on your head?
… as usual I don't know my tit from my elbow, my head from my ass and my emotions from my thoughts …
lobster
Re: Your favourite cakes!
@FleaMarket said:
Now...how's a buddha eat a cake?
Like this...
Shoshin1
Re: Do not convert?
Any thoughts?
Sure … but trying to give them up …
https://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Thinking-Too-Much
lobster
Re: The Five Precepts
For a while -a long while...a few years...- I thought I could bypass the Five Precepts (or decide when and where to apply them) and here Ajahn Jayasaro explains why this does not work very well; it is like slowing down the progress.
"Abstaining from them protects us from future pain and crippling remorse."
Unfortunately, I'm still a genocidal maniac protecting my teresitas against various pests.
Trying my best!
Kotishka
Re: Word Association Game
Love
*This was the song my partner shared with me during our first conversation. And I replied "hey sugar, take a walk on the wild side 
" And she replied "No lol". Good start eh?
Kotishka
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
@Kerome said:
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”― Terence McKenna
Well that was short and sweet....
federica
Re: The energy of a holy place
as a vajrayana heretic it is my 'duty' to venerate the disholy, the unholy can stay in the hell-lands
Examples include:
- the unwanted, they be wantable
- the forgotten, remember them
- the untapped, potential there surely
Hell is not punishment,
it's training.
Shunryu Suzuki
Look for Buddha outside your own mind,
and Buddha becomes the devil.
Dogen
lobster
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Our 'little' 7.5 mo old gersky can now reach goodies on the kitchen counter.
Goodby breakfast. 
Lionduck
Re: Help Needed - offered
I like to shoot myself in the foot, can I join?
Also, I dunno your situation but grocery and necessity delivery options around here have become quite easy since covid and if you have options near you, might be helpful for a temporary period of time. They are also great for urban hermiting.
