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Re: Meditating, mindfulness, and writing fiction
Welcome @spiderlily. Hope you find something useful here. The old sports writer, Red Smith, once observed, "Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." Anyone who… (View Post)
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Re: Sentient Beings - How they practice
@mockeymind -- I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Buddhism is the study and practice of what is. If this is correct, then honesty is required. And within that requirement, several questions migh… (View Post)
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Re: Sentient Beings - How they practice
@mockeymind -- If you're happy, I'm happy. :) As Thomas Edison said when 2,000 attempts to make a light bulb failed, "I didn't fail 2,000 times. I discovered 2,000 ways that didn't work." (View Post)
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Re: Feeling of underlying dissatisfaction or restlessness
Unsatisfactoriness -- sometimes called "suffering" because it is so much easier to say -- is the name of the Buddhist game. Don't rule anything out by way of cause: Perhaps it's hormonal as… (View Post)
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Re: ... and now the good thoughts ...
As a matter of practice, I think both "charitable" (sorry @federica) and "uncharitable" thoughts bring with them snares worth attending to. Yes, it's nice to be nice and it has a … (View Post)1