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Re: What movies are you watching?
I don’t get the whole Marvel comic / superhero stuff.
I work in IT and have to listen to grown men discuss the latest Star Wars / Avengers etc films.
I’m polite but I am always tempted to remind them they’re not 9 years old anymore.
Anyways, each to their own…..
Bunks
Re: Funny Stuff
No doubt we have all been there...
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Shoshin1
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
That's good to hear @Bunks...So when are you going to start jolking backwards 
Shoshin1
Re: Choosing to regress into the suffering of attachment
MY WISH FOR ALL OF US: May your good karma produce squirrel-helpers, arriving in the knick of time ...
Dhammika
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Another year older. Another year wiser. And that is your lunch mate!
lobster
Re: Magha Puja Day
Dear Sangha,
Please forgive us (especially me) our dharma misunderstandings and apostasy. So help us Almighty Cod … and Buddha 
lobster
Re: Mantraing
The way I learnt it, The Green Tara empowerment has a faster pace and intensity than other mantras, Green Tara concentrates the mind by some very fast long winded out-breathing. This is a form of hyper ventilation and can indeed produce a light trance.
More extreme hyper ventilation can produce light headiness, hallucinations and immunity to pain.
Mantra can zombify you eg.
- USA USA USA
- ALLAH AKBAH Viva Taliban
- OSHO OSHO achoo
- ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, MARCHING AS TO WAR
hope that is helpful 
lobster
Re: ehh Whatt??? Buddhist Death Metal?
@ShanJieshi2 said:
Why people do this?
Because it's cool. 🤷♀️
Jason
Re: ehh Whatt??? Buddhist Death Metal?
I think there is a place for this sort of thing in the world. I wouldn't listen to it myself and don't really consider it particularly Buddhist in practice. But I would classify it as a skillful means, as a form of outreach to expose people who might not normally be exposed to Buddhist ideas.
Plus Christian death metal is a thing, why should they have all the fun?
person
Re: ehh Whatt??? Buddhist Death Metal?
Oh, it has become an interesting topic...there are more bands singing sutras.
I guess the Gyuto Tibetan way of chanting in guttural tones has attracted the Satan hordes (joke).
I continue with my predilection for harmonious and ear-friendly music.
