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Re: Pure Land

@Alex said:
@Bunks Thanks mate 🙏🏻Are you still practicing with a group ? I seem to remember you sending me a zoom link somewhere back there

No, not anymore. I left. What do they call it? “Creative differences”?

Bunks

Re: Funny Stuff

federica

Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!

I thought I thought
I think I thought
Thought I think
But thought not
To think...
Oh, there's the coffee!!!

Lionduck

Re: Good News? Bad News!

@Mth5000 said:
Good news: Google hasn't taken over the world yet

Bad news: the world is totally out of control

Good news: As a meditator, I knew this all along….
Bad news: it don’t make life any easier

Bunks

Re: How to walk

When there are delectables to be had
our adult deer think a 7 ft fence is little more than a breakfast appetizer while the young ones perfect the limbo shimmy for passage through ridiculously small spaces at a fence's base.

how

Re: Basic Resolutions

Well said @Lionduck

Sufficient unto the day are the efforts (resolves) of the day.

lobster

Re: Funny Stuff

Jeffrey

Re: Finding the path.....

Go to bed @lobster

Bunks

Re: Finding the path.....

@Bunks said:
Good luck @lobster - it's a nice way to join others.....

Indeed.

I got in this time. I think we did about 15-20 minutes of meditation. Then we were asked what we could leave behind … so I immediately left.
Tee hee. Too wikid? Maybe too subtle …

lobster

Re: Finding the path.....

Buddhism does feel to me like a therapy / support group sometimes ...

Metoo

However we of a dharma persuasion are going far deeper. A healthy ego is a useful tool, just as a balanced personality makes life easier. We all start from where we are and find the benefits of involvement as needed.

The role of the sangha is to provide support for awakening. Most of us have other needs to address, including the need for [insert personal requirements] …

The dhamma that we slip from or over shows that focus and balance is still required. How to get it back?

grasping [like finding a precious jewel]
noble silence [observation and listening - rather than monkey chattering]
polishing the stone [and then stoning the heretics … eh wait … think I gones rong agin 🤪]

lobster