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Dharma Party
lobster
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Cycling through hell realms, ignorance and other unskilful places is no dharma fun . . . unless there are picnics . . .
What do you do for dharma fun? Put your hand down Mr Cushion, you are not allowed to answer . . . 
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Watch my football team play and try and develop equinimity toward the opposition.
Not always easy mind but a good practice nonetheless!
Smoking a pipe daydreaming out on the patio.
Hike, star gaze, soak up sunshine, play with the pets, garden.
From there to here, from here to there, Dharma fun is everywhere.
Wot no siddhi clowning? Too early?
http://the-wanderling.com/siddhis.html
Try to bring dharma fun into everything I do.
I have this great trick. Every time I perceive I'm doing something Un-Dhammic, I swing my left hand up and bring it sharply and forcibly into contact with my left cheek.
To vary this, I occasionally do the same thing with my right hand, against my right cheek.
I look pretty in pink, most days....!
Keeps me awake (small 'a'.....)
I am more gentle with myself @federica. When behaving in an undhammic way I eat a pork pie.
I am due to hit 25 stone next week.
With piccalilli, I trust?
I used to LOVE pork pies with piccalili....!
Shift over, i think I might join you.....
Hang on a mo...Ive got to shift nearly 25 stone...
S'okay... I can weight.....
Converse with the cat, tend the garden and flower beds, play guitar, takes pictures, just be... hold the moment...
I certainly would expect at the very least any Dharma Party would include pin the tail on the Buddha.
or 'tale'....
Fun™ is something you can feel when you want to rather than something to do.
swing my left hand up and bring it sharply and forcibly into contact with my left cheek.
@federica
That's one hell of a lot of ass smacking. That has nothing to do with your new employment does it?
I like to roll around on mats with other people! Nature and camping!
All of this dharma partying is overwhelming my little newbie brain! You people are crazy! Runs to the hills
Barbecued Shoshin now available . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
my talking meditation cushion would concede that point . . .
We haz plan . . . First there is a mountain to run to, then no running, then mountain running . . .
Party on . . . ┏(--)┛┗(--)┓┗(-_-)┛
Hmmmmmmmm........
I sing a lot more than is probably sane, especially love to play along with my uke. But the last time I did karaoke at a very high competition gay bar in Houston (I was seriously like shaking in nerves before I put on my "stage" face), I received an overwhelming applause and had several people tell me I was the best singer of the night.
Makes me feel good that it's not a completely selfish hobby...
Kia Ora,
A Dharma party of one on the cushion with a mind cocktail...Now that's
what "I" call a Dharma party...._:D _
Metta Shoshin
@shoshin
Agreed! but let's make that cocktail
One part samadhi, two parts kensho, shaken..not stirred.
@Bunks also known as jiu jitsu, haha.
That's one hell of a lot of ass smacking. That has nothing to do with your new employment does it?
It's not my ass, silly. Although now you've given me an idea....!
...What 'new employment'? Is this a new boss I know nothing about?
I WISH!!
The challenge with 'fun' is that it's like a seal of approval to habituated preference.
It suits me better to not seize this opportunity to blinker myself to unfolding events.
Otherwise I think there is a risk of always waiting for something to happen - seeking for the 'fun' to stay or return.
Indeed. When not being challenging and open to fun - what fun? :clap: ...
Are we allowed magic mushrooms?
Occasionally I'l play 'juice cubes', scrabble or angry birds on my phone.
Sometimes I'll write a little poem and sneak it my wife's purse. I don't do it often enough that she is expecting it; and the little thought put into it comes back to me as a smile lighting up her face.
Try it guys, particularly if you have a special date coming up ...
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