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Re: Wim Hof - Feel the Cold and do it Anyway
@marcitko said:
I am enjoying watching "Freeze the Fear". Watching on Youtube since I don't have BBC:Also restarted doing cold showers. Chickened out over the winter this year. Thinking of stocking up on those ice-making moulds for some ice baths.
Our supermarket sells bags of ice in the frozen food section. I might give it a go, by having at least 1 ice bath over the summer. But not in the winter.
For 2 reasons:
1 - Supermarket doesn't stock bags of ice in winter.
2 - Easy tigers - water's cold enough in winter, whatcha think I am, a sucker for punishment?!
federica
Re: Thoughts vs Emotions
@techie said:
Most of us blame discursive thinking for our problems.
But are thoughts the problem, or emotion?
Thoughts by themselves do not seem to cause any trouble. But when emotions are >thrown in, the mind starts to bother us.
So, disregarding emotion ... is that the solution?
When Thoughts & Emotions gang up....This can and often does happen...
Neurons fire up in the brain
Not long before "one goes insane
Emotions wait to be fed
They gobble up what one's just read
The eyes spot more words upon the screen
A sense of self now very keen
The feeding frenzy as just begun
Where thought and emotion becomes one
Opinions form and then are said
Whilst more neurons explode within the head
As finger tips now become the tongue
And words like fist are often swung
Daggers have replaced the eyes
homing in on what they despise
If only one could learn to bite ones tongue
then perhaps one wouldn't get so highly strung
Like emotion's puppet on a string
the self succumbs to anything
A little patience so they say
would no doubt help save the day
So from thoughts & emotions one must take a breather
After all..... one knows for a fact that one really is neither
Thoughts are just movement confined to the brain
But when they connect with emotions… one 'could' go insane
Um energy in motion …who would have thought… 
A lot of thought & emotion has gone into this...so....when I read something that I might strongly disagree with I say to the self....
Shoshin
Re: The Guru Papers discussion
@Kotishka said:
Also, here is the quote."Darwin is a rascal. What is his theory? We kick on your face. [expose your bogus philosophy] That's all. That is our philosophy. The more we kick on Darwin's face, the more advanced in spiritual consciousness. He has killed the whole civilization, rascal."[Srila Prabhupada from a Morning Walk, May 12, 1973, Los Angeles]
It will never cease to amaze me, the illiterate dumb nonsense, forgive my French, that students of the Dharma will defend. I am reminded of when Tsem Rimpoche used to go on Twitter rants denouncing unnamed haters. His followers justified his anger as righteous. It takes all kinds, one supposes.
Re: All things Sport(s)
Speaking of sport....here's our current PM on the election trail! Look out kids....
Bunks
Re: Aligning one’s views
When you call a river by its name shouldn't you include all it empties into? What's a name anyway but a way to divide further?
I shouted at the ocean. It just waved.
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Am I the only one who thinks the word 'bucolic' sounds more like a negative temperamental trait, rather than a description of an idyllic, pleasant pastoral scene?
English, you've broken me!
federica
Re: All things Sport(s)
@Bunks said:
@Jeroen said:
Its odd, but three players on the red sox team are playing well, with batting averages in the .320 range. Everyone else though is awful and playing below .200.The red sox nearly swept the Texas Rangers, so they’ve played a few decent games.
Just watching Red Sox v Astros this morning at home. Red Sox 1-0 bottom of the 1st
Didn’t turn out so well for the sox last night, sad to say. 11-4 loss with Eovaldi giving up five home runs.
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I mean... how fucking bizarre is this??
(He came 15th)
federica
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Hmmmmm....maybe I move in a different crowd.
Bunks