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Great quotes from Chogyam Trungpa
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This guy is a genius. Here's a link to a small image library of some quotes I snapped from "The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness", a compilation of lectures by Chogyam Trungpa over his...
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RE: Jen Pearly's Practice Journal
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Fire Kasina Gone Wild (October 6, 2014, Only 33 Minutes) Last night I intended to try the fire kasina practice for at least an hour; however, I abruptly cut the session short because what happened...
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RE: Jen Pearly's Practice Journal
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Dream Walker: No fear.....but if you are doing it inside/ near flammable stuff...get a fire extinguisher. This made me laugh out loud at my desk . . . but noted. We do have a fire extinquisher, so...
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RE: the dharmaoverground logo
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Hi! i appreciate all the work everyone has done - i had done a couple sketches earlier and hadn't added them. So here are two.
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Thank you all for your constructive comments, really appreciate it! This is a great conversation!! Without going back and replying with quote to everyone just wanted to hit on a couple points....
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RE: Did I almost reach jhana? I got scared...
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This intense bliss has happened to me as well, twice. The first time I was frightened, and then the second time (years later) I was overwhelmed and started to cry. It was too much. I was on retreat...
RE: Mapping Metta practice, first try
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@Pablo: Bhante Sujato talks more in detail about how Metta meditation leads to Jhana and how the factors are experienced. I don't because I have no direct experience with that. I'm just trying to...
Staying down-to-earth
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Forum: Practical Dharma Several members have expressed how their practice intensified after finding this place. One effect of accelerating practice I noticed is that the sense of uplift got be a...
RE: Staying down-to-earth
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Great question. I remember picking up Daniel's book very soon after beginning to practice. In all honesty, I didn't really get fully grounded and start the process of integration for a few years,...
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I tend to think that it's okay to be ungrounded if you can hold down a decent job, or get a degree, etc., and not destroy any intimate relationships. That is pretty much what Uncle Freud said. I...
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As my practise developes further I´m running into this feeling af beeing ungrounded without any breaks. All I want to do is meditate, the more the better and if I cannot do so for any reason I...
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I am not a psychiatrist but this sounds like an obsession or a powerful, recurring compulsion. I can't tell you what a shrink would, but I'd open up to having other priorities in a formal sense....
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What do you mean by "feeling ungrounded without any breaks?"
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Author: Tracy. I'm going to throw in my two cents here and say that maybe it's university that you need a break from, not practice. Part of being "down to earth" is being honest with yourself and...
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Mai88: it sounds like you are already Dark Nighting, as that sort of need to meditate like you need to breathe or go to the bathroom is very classic Dark Night stuff, as is the lack of interest in...
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Daniel, I don't disagree with you at all. I do currently feel a great deal of disappointment and frustration when I am unable to find adequate time for formal meditation, like this morning; the...
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