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If you had to create a Mind Diet, what to put in your mind and what to discard, what would that diet consist of and how would you go about sticking to the diet? " 'Guarding the sensory faculties… (View Post)
Oh yeah, one thing I wanted to add about the much less esoteric practice of meditating on impermanence... One of the biggest sources of my depression in my twenties was that my little brother died yo… (View Post)
@lobster Awesome. I struggled with major anxiety and depression between my late teens and twenties. Which is what set me on the Buddhist path in the first place, solely for myself, just to achieve pe… (View Post)
Meditating on impermanence and death probably helped me the most in the beginning because it destroyed a lot of attachment that caused me personal misery. Then meditating on emptiness helped me furth… (View Post)
The beginning of the path is virtuous actions and abandoning nonvirtuous actions. Then we cultivate meditative concentration. Then we use it to gain insight. So, because I said he should abandon nonv… (View Post)