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Re: Into Death
Tee Hee!
I am not a nihilist. I have sold and soiled my sole and my fishy soul. Many times.
Enough already. I will be off to the Purelands to kick the Maitreya into existence. No RIP for the wikid... 
lobster
Re: Into Death
@lobster said:
I won't be long for this world
What makes you think that, @lobster ? Average age of dying is 78 or so, many years still to go…
Jeroen
Re: Awareness of Breath
I only managed just over a minute minute of listening. I got as far as the word feministic which I thought was made up?
All words are made up, 😋
Re: The importance of mudra in zazen
The reason I was given for the cosmic mudra is attention based. The teacher can see whether the bowl shape of the hands start to crumble as the student dozes off and the thumbs together are for the student to gauge their attentiveness. The thumbs are supposed to just barely touch. If they press too hard, we can adjust them accordingly. I was shown that we should be able to have a thin piece of rice paper between them with no real friction and the teacher could be able to snatch the paper with ease.
Re: New? Introduce Yourself to NB Members!
It’s a pity because there is a lot of Buddhist knowledge on the site, even though we largely talk about general things at the moment… when there is a Buddhist-related question, there is helpful advice.
But when we try to engage newbies in a conversation, they run away… we iz scary?
Jeroen
Re: What movies are you watching?
I've been watching a surreal Si Fi movie, I think it's called "This is Dystopia" ....Oh bugger! No wait...it turns out I've just been watching the mainstream news. 
Shoshin1