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Hobbies?
jae
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On a much lighter note what are your simple pleasures in life? What do you do to relax and switch off?
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Oh OK.
I used to be help out with Puppy Linux. My efforts to build a time machine have lapsed . . . :bawl:
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What I need is a new hobby . . . be interested what others get up to, may develop a new hobby . . . :clap:
I also do a lot of gun collecting. Really into surplus rifles. Guns built in the 30s and 40s have a wonderful craftsmanship in the wood. I've restored a few.
My daily hobby is pipe smoking. Any new place I visit, I chat up the local tobacconist and get the most popular blend.
@robot a boat, now that is a hobby. Wonderful. Only done a bit of yachting on a sailing dinghy and a Tall Ship . . .
Sweet. She looks like an awesome family cruiser.
All of my family (approx 20 of us) camp together at least once a year, below is a picture of our 'tribe' on 'Shell beach' Herm.
Some Guernsey families stay for the whole of the kids summer holidays while the husbands work all week and join up each weekend, its only 10mins by ferry so very doable, the kids are free to roam, no TV's lots of places to make dens, no cars, only a few quad bikes and a couple of tractors... absolute bliss.
Plus don't you think camping is really grounding? You really don't need much to survive and the community spirit is fantastic we spend most of the Summer there on our boat (camping on water)
Goruck.. had to look that one up, looks intersting!
This is why im planning to renounce at a forest monastery. To live in the wilderness with dhamma, I wouldn't want it any other way.
As for goruck here is a video. A tv station followed a class i was in last june in nyc during a tropical storm.
Goruck is a 12 hour taste of special forces training lead by current or retired special forces members, some of the most humble and amazing people ive ever met.
It basically teaches the importance of teamwork and the more you think about i instead of we, the worse the experience is. It may be hard for some to understand but doing this (5 times now and an attempt at a 24 hour version) has helped my dhamma practice. The amount of times my mind said i was at my limit yet i was able to push beyond that. Its amazing how much this mind really limits us with its faulty perceptions and fears.
It also helped me alter my perceptions on the importance of sangha. I am much less about wanting to be away from people meditating in a cave then i use to be.
I think we all need to take a few steps backwards.
The life you are talking about sounds wonderful I hope the time is short until it happens.
Regarding being in a cave... well what use would your knowlege be there eh?
I'll have a look at the vid later I'm 'meant' to be working (wrong action)
loving kindness to you
Gym every couple of days so that this 59 yr can still do that (and my reg job);
Internet volunteering of my job skills to folks who can't afford the alternative.
New Buddhist to help question my assumptions about my Buddhist conditioning.
Soto Zen meditation where ever I am able.
"In 1621 the writer John Goodyer wrote of the Jerusalem Artichoke, “…in my judgement, which way soever they be drest and eaten they stir up and cause a filthie loathsome stinking winde with the bodie, thereby causing the belly to bee much pained and tormented…. more fit for swine, than men.”
This may be a little harsh but the truth is that they can have quite a dramatic effect, giving them their nick name of 'fartichokes'.The flavour is described as smoky nuts and honey and they have become quite a gourmet dish but they are not to everyone's taste.Before growing them it is as well to try a few meals and see how everyone likes them."
They are very tasty however maybe not a first date menu winner.
I tried growing spuds in old tyres, ever had a go at that? Its really easy to harvest as no digging required just kick the tyres over.
I tried the spuds in tyres but the Birds of Beelzebub (chickens) dug them out for me so I didn't bother again in the back garden.
My partner 'planned' to go fishing on his I bought him a tiny anchor and a VHF radio just in case!
When enchantment maxes out (it levels fast) then I enchant an elite battle suit and crafting suit pieces. Then I make enchanting go back down to zero. So I get more perks and health through further leveling.
My maxed armor maxed enchanted (I think) is just phenomenally powerful. The end boss could barely take 5% of my life. I don't think I used more than 1 or 2 potions,
@Jeffrey, sounds like good tactics.
@Jae, unfiltered all the way for that lung ripping quality!
@jae
My daughter sat in the center storage hatch of our double kayak for many summers until we all got our own legitimate seats. Somewhere I have a photo of my thirteen year old, happily sitting cross legged in a cave that we took storm refuge in, surrounded by native skeletons.
In a few months ( &10 years later) she'll be doing that same pose with my partner at a Goenka retreat....My how time flies.
Maybe that would be a good thread?
I can imagine it being an amazing family experience lucky you
Yup..Just another Buddhist family of big assed opinions.
Peace out Homie