<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Humor</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_category?p_l_id=&amp;mbCategoryId=3033555</link> <description>If you have something making fun of all of this stuff, which is often really useful, post it here.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:27:41 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2014-10-19T00:27:41Z</dc:date> <item> <title>RE: Hardcore Badass Mudra</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5605311</link> <description>Is this a recent picture of Crowley?</description> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:16:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5605311</guid> <dc:creator>Not Tao</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-15T11:16:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Hardcore Badass Mudra</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5605246</link> <description>&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;documents&amp;#x2f;portlet_file_entry&amp;#x2f;10128&amp;#x2f;hardcore_mudra&amp;#x2e;gif&amp;#x2f;0fb524e3-a0bc-47f8-8404-f5c841d2a84c" /&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:20:19 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5605246</guid> <dc:creator>Florian Weps</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-15T08:20:19Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: This is how I feel in 2nd Path</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5605243</link> <description>You feel like a floating rock? &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;Florian</description> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:14:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5605243</guid> <dc:creator>Florian Weps</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-15T08:14:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>This is how I feel in 2nd Path</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5603847</link> <description>&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;documents&amp;#x2f;portlet_file_entry&amp;#x2f;10128&amp;#x2f;tumblr_n9hycbSxEo1rey868o1_500&amp;#x2e;gif&amp;#x2f;d12d41e4-ae75-4638-b614-d0d42d550f80" /&gt;</description> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:59:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5603847</guid> <dc:creator>John Finnell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-13T04:59:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Stream Entry - Game Poster</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5598448</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;John M.:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;documents&amp;#x2f;portlet_file_entry&amp;#x2f;10128&amp;#x2f;SE&amp;#x2e;jpg&amp;#x2f;cecf7a0a-c8e3-45d8-92e6-51dfff09c40c" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hear the sequels are way better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes! Well I sure hope so. I have heard of some pretty intense moments and cliff hangers in those. But I wouldn&amp;#039;t miss it for the world.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 03:45:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5598448</guid> <dc:creator>John Finnell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-05T03:45:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Stream Entry - Game Poster</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5598006</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;John Finnell:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Anybody know how to embed the picture in the post?? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The buttons above the text area that has the bold and underline stuff....to the right of the smiley face there is the image button....hover over it and it says image. In the first box put the url of the picture. This will embed it</description> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:09:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5598006</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-05T01:09:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Stream Entry - Game Poster</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597987</link> <description>&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;documents&amp;#x2f;portlet_file_entry&amp;#x2f;10128&amp;#x2f;SE&amp;#x2e;jpg&amp;#x2f;cecf7a0a-c8e3-45d8-92e6-51dfff09c40c" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hear the sequels are way better.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:57:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597987</guid> <dc:creator>John M.</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-05T00:57:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Stream Entry - Game Poster</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597972</link> <description>Anybody know how to embed the picture in the post?? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks!</description> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:24:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597972</guid> <dc:creator>John Finnell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-05T00:24:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Some Memes I made</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597717</link> <description>Absolutely hilarious!</description> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 17:30:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597717</guid> <dc:creator>Kim Katami</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-04T17:30:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Stream Entry - Game Poster</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597709</link> <description>A good friend of mine made this for me after I told him I finally got Stream Entry &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;</description> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 17:29:50 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5597709</guid> <dc:creator>John Finnell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-10-04T17:29:50Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Computer images created by meditators</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5587789</link> <description>Here&amp;#039;s some more I found:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;rabbit&amp;#x25;20math&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;39&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;disgust&amp;#x25;20Kylie&amp;#x25;20panorama&amp;#x25;20vertical&amp;#x2e;png"&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is huge, so I&amp;#039;ll just link to it. It&amp;#039;s a background I made for a &lt;a href="https&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;youtube&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;watch&amp;#x3f;v&amp;#x3d;TuPxCURnvMo"&gt;layer compositing test&lt;/a&gt; which ended up unintentionally dark-night/path-of-insight-y. (disregard the video&amp;#039;s title, it&amp;#039;s just to troll random youtube users)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(also, i forgot to unconciously include a layer for misery, it just goes straight from fear to disgust. sorry!)</description> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:04:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5587789</guid> <dc:creator>Jareth Dekko</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-21T03:04:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Computer images created by meditators</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5587770</link> <description>Creating computer images is very easy. Here are some I made:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;abstract&amp;#x25;20ppc&amp;#x25;20map&amp;#x2e;gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;the&amp;#x25;20five&amp;#x25;20ghosts&amp;#x25;202&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;careful&amp;#x2c;&amp;#x25;20mormons&amp;#x25;20have&amp;#x25;20snakes&amp;#x25;20for&amp;#x25;20hair&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;2013-11-10-ADGFASHADERHDSGGGg2-93f49906&amp;#x2e;PNG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;how&amp;#x25;20to&amp;#x25;20draw&amp;#x25;20a&amp;#x25;20person&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;11&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;EVERYTHING&amp;#x25;20EXPLAINED&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;BE&amp;#x25;20SA____&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;Follow&amp;#x25;20the&amp;#x25;20White&amp;#x25;20Rabbit&amp;#x25;20DUN&amp;#x25;20DUN&amp;#x25;20DUN&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;plorg&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;images&amp;#x2f;hoo&amp;#x25;20hoo&amp;#x25;20hoo&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;</description> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:02:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5587770</guid> <dc:creator>Jareth Dekko</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-21T02:02:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5582834</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Trial And Error:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;No experience with rap, but this is too ridiculous for me to at least not make an attempt. &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;  I&amp;#039;d say it&amp;#039;s pretty Goenka-like based on what I know from a retreat and my readings. There may be one or two inaccuracies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Goenka, my voice is deep.&lt;br /&gt;When I chant it soothes and comforts.&lt;br /&gt;Only way to measure progress: equanimity&lt;br /&gt;Don&amp;#039;t care about your maps and your shambles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I brought vipassana back to India&lt;br /&gt;Then to the west, didn&amp;#039;t momma tell ya?&lt;br /&gt;I have 250 centers across the world&lt;br /&gt;Who even knows you? Yea a bunch of nerds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watch the body in perfect equanimity&lt;br /&gt;If a thought arises I ignore it -b*tch!&lt;br /&gt;Thinking is more suffering, I thought you would know.&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s not how you meditate, make a mental note.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They ask me if I&amp;#039;m enlightened, I go -say what? &lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s anohter attachment, just purify your mind.&lt;br /&gt;Check out this sutra of perfect wisdom:&lt;br /&gt;It says there ain&amp;#039;t no such thing called arahat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is pretty awesome, and to me quite in line with the Epic Rap Battles style</description> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:42:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5582834</guid> <dc:creator>Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-13T15:42:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5582432</link> <description>Tantric:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My brain fried on the New Burmese Method,&lt;br /&gt;vetted to attain all doors, such intrepid,&lt;br /&gt;traveler of mind space, seeing Original Face,&lt;br /&gt;enter no-self door, shaking my heart core,&lt;br /&gt;cadence so strong, my heart beats in song,&lt;br /&gt;vibrations give life, to microphone, I hear gongs,&lt;br /&gt;sounding at the sight of the might of my parami,&lt;br /&gt;Lalana, Rasana, Avadhuti, Buddha families,&lt;br /&gt;Karma, Heruka, blaze formations with bazooka,&lt;br /&gt;movah (mover), or doer, Rudra, slain triple mula,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angu, limala, the garland of fingers,&lt;br /&gt;the divine eye; I see divine singers,&lt;br /&gt;pass beyond intellect, unapproachable by thinkers,&lt;br /&gt;Zing, zing, zing, snap back -flicker-</description> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:20:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5582432</guid> <dc:creator>J J</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-13T08:20:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Breathing Through your Feet</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577451</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Psi Phi:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Okay, I am trying this, and I  pretty much got one foot kind of close to my nose, &lt;br /&gt;then I tried to get both feet up there, yeah, &lt;br /&gt;THEN my wife walks in...  &lt;br /&gt;How do I explain this one????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psi Phi &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not tonight I&amp;#039;ve got a headache</description> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:44:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577451</guid> <dc:creator>Jeff Grove</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-05T23:44:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Breathing Through your Feet</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577444</link> <description>Okay, I am trying this, and I  pretty much got one foot kind of close to my nose, &lt;br /&gt;then I tried to get both feet up there, yeah, &lt;br /&gt;THEN my wife walks in...  &lt;br /&gt;How do I explain this one????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psi Phi </description> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:28:17 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577444</guid> <dc:creator>Psi Phi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-05T23:28:17Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Breathing Through your Feet</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577433</link> <description>And it&amp;#039;s free &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some practices aim to seal the bodymind and breathe thru the skin or whole body&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your day Florian &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeff</description> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:10:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577433</guid> <dc:creator>Jeff Grove</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-05T23:10:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Breathing Through your Feet</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577321</link> <description>My wife, listening to me go on about Ven. Ajahn Lee&amp;#039;s meditation method of &amp;#034;breathing through the soles of your feet&amp;#034; to counteract headaches -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;... these meditation geeks will inhale &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;Florian</description> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:52:10 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5577321</guid> <dc:creator>Florian Weps</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-05T10:52:10Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5576787</link> <description>yo, lemme tell you &amp;#039;bout anicca &lt;br /&gt;this is what I&amp;#039;m tryin&amp;#039; to teach ya&lt;br /&gt;All ya peeps gotta know,&lt;br /&gt; it&amp;#039;s about the free flow!&lt;br /&gt;Scannin, sensin&amp;#039; mindin&amp;#039; my business &lt;br /&gt;when you get dat bhanga its somethin you won&amp;#039;t miss&lt;br /&gt;Always- remove your spectacles&lt;br /&gt; and when you&amp;#039;re scannin don&amp;#039;t forget your...&lt;br /&gt;seat of the trunk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo, lemme tell you &amp;#039;bout annica;&lt;br /&gt; I think I&amp;#039;m startin to reach ya&lt;br /&gt;Take a dip in nibbana, &lt;br /&gt;and I won&amp;#039;t even charge ya.&lt;br /&gt;Mangos so sweet gotta plant them yo, &lt;br /&gt;stay away from dat neem, you reap what ya sow!&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#039;m tellin you now gotta hear what I say, &lt;br /&gt;Keepin it to yo self until the tenth day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonsectarian. Word. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 03:22:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5576787</guid> <dc:creator>Teague</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-04T03:22:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5576757</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Mind over easy:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Brainstorming:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my chants is easygoing&lt;br /&gt;paramis overflowing&lt;br /&gt;your buddhadharma&amp;#039;s weak; your karma keeps growing&lt;br /&gt;my rap lines are fine, my lyrics are sublime&lt;br /&gt;all my karma&amp;#039;s ending as i spit enlightened lines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you don&amp;#039;t even know this&lt;br /&gt;you note but you don&amp;#039;t notice&lt;br /&gt;you try to hold a lotus but your rap lines is bogus&lt;br /&gt;i scan dilligent, my sanskrit&amp;#039;s as ill as shit&lt;br /&gt;please hold your noble silence as i plan to kill thi&amp;#039; shit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;body-mind in free-flow, no room for the ego,&lt;br /&gt;no room to note the dope rhymes i slang from the tivo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;so good haha</description> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:16:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5576757</guid> <dc:creator>Adam . .</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-04T01:16:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5576601</link> <description>Here&amp;#039;s some inspiration: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;youtube&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;watch&amp;#x3f;v&amp;#x3d;h5XnFAcjAJY"&gt;Arj Barker Sickest Buddhist&lt;/a&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:18:17 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5576601</guid> <dc:creator>Andreas Thef</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-09-03T17:18:17Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569205</link> <description>PM&amp;#039;d you guys</description> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:43:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569205</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-15T05:43:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569196</link> <description>I used to be until about 2010.  In Anchorage AK now. You in Portland?</description> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:09:05 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569196</guid> <dc:creator>Drew Miller</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-15T05:09:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569191</link> <description>Are you guys in portland?</description> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:06:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569191</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-15T05:06:06Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569186</link> <description>Right on! Your wife did well keeping the noble silence..strong discipline and resolve in that one &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;.  It sure was a joyous occasion. Seemed to good to pass up at the time.  Perhaps becoming/identifying with that joy significantly impeded my progress towards liberation? Hard to say &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:57:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569186</guid> <dc:creator>Drew Miller</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-15T04:57:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569180</link> <description>Far out.  Well, hello, fellow Goenka sitter.  That was a nice course with beautiful weather.  My then girlfriend/now wife was also sitting the course and she didn&amp;#039;t laugh.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:15:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569180</guid> <dc:creator>Teague</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-15T04:15:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569145</link> <description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Also,  I had a very similar thought as the wave of rapture was building but eventually started to laugh too....I wonder &amp;#034;who&amp;#039;s&amp;#034; thought that was and/or how many others experienced a similar thought? ;)</description> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:29:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569145</guid> <dc:creator>Drew Miller</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-14T23:29:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569110</link> <description>Ha ha! &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt; Yes! We were there together. It was Dhamma Kunja, July 2012.   What a trip &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:45:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569110</guid> <dc:creator>Drew Miller</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-14T22:45:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569076</link> <description>That&amp;#039;s interesting.  I think I might have been at that course.  Was it at Dhamma Kunja in July of 2012?  If not, then pretty much the exact same thing happened on the exact day and time.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember being in deep meditation when I heard the laughter begin to spread.  I thought, &amp;#034;hmm, I wonder if this will trigger one of those laughing fits I&amp;#039;ve heard about.  Well, I&amp;#039;m not going to laugh, I&amp;#039;m meditating!&amp;#034;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then about two seconds later it spread through the whole hall and I was laughing with them.  Even after it died, it took all the concentration I had to not start again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has nothing to do with dhamma, but check out this radiolab&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;radiolab&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;story&amp;#x2f;91595-contahttp&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;radiolab&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;story&amp;#x2f;91595-contagious-laughter&amp;#x2f;gious-laughter&amp;#x2f;"&gt;http://www.radiolab.org/story/91595-contagious-laughter/&lt;/a&gt;</description> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:00:56 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569076</guid> <dc:creator>Teague</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-14T22:00:56Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Laughter in meditation hall during retreat</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569069</link> <description>&lt;strong&gt;Hello,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had an experience during a Goenka retreat several years ago that I wanted to share.  It was approximately the 9th day of the retreat and occured during the final group sit of the day before the evening dharma talk.  There was probably about 50 people present during the retreat.  It seemed like we were about 3/4 the way through the hour long group sit in the meditation hall when in the back row of the men&amp;#039;s side of the hall I heard someone begin to make noises which I initially thought was crying, which is not uncommon during retreats as the experience can elicit intense emotional experiences, which I imagine most of us are aware of or may have experienced along the path.  Although, the meditator in the back of the room was not crying, he was laughing. As others began to notice his laughter the entire meditation hall was overcome by a wave of rapturous joy and almost everyone began laughing which seemed to last about 30 seconds to a minute.  The teacher up front seemed in shock at what to do to manage the situation and eventually in a booming voice said &amp;#034;keep your mind on sensation! If you cannot maintain silence and composure, leave the hall until you can.&amp;#034; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The experience was amazing! It was fascinating to me how powerful the rapture was and was an intersting example and teaching of Annata (no separate/independent self).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#039;m wondering if anyone else had had similar experiences of rapturous laughter during retreats? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Metta,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:39:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5569069</guid> <dc:creator>Drew Miller</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-14T21:39:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Past life experiences: A place to share</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5567657</link> <description>Hi,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think most of us were glad to see this thread die.  I would suggest that if people want to talk about past life experiences then they should start a new thread.  This thread has nothing to do with what the title would suggest.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:14:00 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5567657</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Tom</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-12T23:14:00Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Past life experiences: A place to share</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5567594</link> <description>The funny thing - the joke on me -- is that I thought this thread was going to be entertainment about past lives identities one had assumed.  I think it is appropriate in the right spirit and Buddha sometimes spoke of previous existences too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did a two-year stint of chronologically tracking my history as a being back to what appeared to be the original separation incident brought about by wanting to have a more persistent &amp;#034;dream&amp;#034;.   For educational purposes only, and it was entertaining.   Did it get me any closer to Nirvana?   No I don&amp;#039;t think so from the way I approached it, but it did teach me about the games that we all have been playing and how we have wound down to this current life, sunk into grosser sensations.... Pizza anyone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An almost unstoppable urge for vengeance entered into the games/interactions and games have been a lot less fun since then.   The playing field was once almost always about win/lose (think bumper cars at the carnival), not victim/bully.  &amp;#034;Oh, you crushed me, hahaha, that was a good play!  Well done!&amp;#034;  Games were more voluntary and we could leave a game at will and enter into a void state (sans energy, space, time).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please don&amp;#039;t take this as gospel, because I haven&amp;#039;t seen the whole story of this universe yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The biggest hangup for me as a being was the craving for the sensation of aesthetics (&amp;#034;to-create&amp;#034; compulsions), among other lesser sensations.  In the most recent eons up until now I suffered mostly from a consistent and painful involvement with these beings that I gave a name to but am not sure if that is accurate, who always appeared to me in huge black spheres.   I would go into one end of the sphere and pop out the other end slightly mentally twisted and reduced as a being somehow.  This went back for eons until finally I popped out of it when I arrived at the point in my history where I actually created these beings initially for my pleasure.  Think &amp;#034;dragon queen mother&amp;#034;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did have some lifetimes where I did seek a good path to nirvana as best I could given all my unbalanced and compulsive needs to play a game.  That would be this lifetime too  -- one of my best, most promising lifetimes regarding nirvana.  I&amp;#039;m sooooo grateful.  Thank god for the internet which is how I got my questions about the mind and the being answered.   Life is a constant learning curve now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disclaimer:   this is for entertainment purposes only and I would never swear on a stack of bibles that what I saw was the truth of it.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:08:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5567594</guid> <dc:creator>Colleen Karalee Peltomaa</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-08-12T20:08:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Buddhist Nerds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5561326</link> <description>Ohm.... Ohm... Ohm....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:-)</description> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5561326</guid> <dc:creator>Chris Marti</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-27T16:15:00Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Buddhist Nerds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5560673</link> <description>...but its in my nature to resist...</description> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:44:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5560673</guid> <dc:creator>tom moylan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-25T15:44:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5560138</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Possible refrain:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#034;Who da Buddha? You da Buddha! Who da Buddha? Shoot a Buddha!&amp;#034;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Mind over easy:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Brainstorming:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my chants is easygoing&lt;br /&gt;paramis overflowing&lt;br /&gt;your buddhadharma&amp;#039;s weak; your karma keeps growing&lt;br /&gt;my rap lines are fine, my lyrics are sublime&lt;br /&gt;all my karma&amp;#039;s ending as i spit enlightened lines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you don&amp;#039;t even know this&lt;br /&gt;you note but you don&amp;#039;t notice&lt;br /&gt;you try to hold a lotus but your rap lines is bogus&lt;br /&gt;i scan dilligent, my sanskrit&amp;#039;s as ill as shit&lt;br /&gt;please hold your noble silence as i plan to kill thi&amp;#039; shit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;body-mind in free-flow, no room for the ego,&lt;br /&gt;no room to note the dope rhymes i slang from the tivo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, you&amp;#039;re gifted. This is hilarious!</description> <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:30:54 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5560138</guid> <dc:creator>Andreas Thef</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-24T08:30:54Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559751</link> <description>Brainstorming:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my chants is easygoing&lt;br /&gt;paramis overflowing&lt;br /&gt;your buddhadharma&amp;#039;s weak; your karma keeps growing&lt;br /&gt;my rap lines are fine, my lyrics are sublime&lt;br /&gt;all my karma&amp;#039;s ending as i spit enlightened lines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you don&amp;#039;t even know this&lt;br /&gt;you note but you don&amp;#039;t notice&lt;br /&gt;you try to hold a lotus but your rap lines is bogus&lt;br /&gt;i scan dilligent, my sanskrit&amp;#039;s as ill as shit&lt;br /&gt;please hold your noble silence as i plan to kill thi&amp;#039; shit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;body-mind in free-flow, no room for the ego,&lt;br /&gt;no room to note the dope rhymes i slang from the tivo</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:53:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559751</guid> <dc:creator>Mind over easy</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-23T22:53:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Buddhist Nerds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559707</link> <description>I had to look it up and remember high school to get the joke. LOL &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:52:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559707</guid> <dc:creator>Richard Zen</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-23T19:52:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Buddhist Nerds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559692</link> <description>&lt;img src="https&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;fbcdn-sphotos-h-a&amp;#x2e;akamaihd&amp;#x2e;net&amp;#x2f;hphotos-ak-xpf1&amp;#x2f;t1&amp;#x2e;0-9&amp;#x2f;s526x395&amp;#x2f;10464300_886686858018993_1829594299769840040_n&amp;#x2e;jpg" /&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:13:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559692</guid> <dc:creator>Florian Weps</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-23T19:13:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Some Memes I made</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559624</link> <description>I just want to bump this thread cos these are so so funny</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:49:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559624</guid> <dc:creator>Andrew K</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-23T17:49:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559220</link> <description>start again start again&lt;br /&gt;leave yo yoga at home leave yo short there too&lt;br /&gt;just start again&lt;br /&gt;breathin in&lt;br /&gt;breathin out&lt;br /&gt;feelin at the nose is what its all about&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;start again start again&lt;br /&gt;don&amp;#039;t ask why, don&amp;#039;t ask when&lt;br /&gt;just start again&lt;br /&gt;dont like it&lt;br /&gt;dont hate it&lt;br /&gt;let it all swim by without hangin on&lt;br /&gt;...</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:02:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559220</guid> <dc:creator>tom moylan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-22T10:02:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559208</link> <description>No experience with rap, but this is too ridiculous for me to at least not make an attempt. &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;  I&amp;#039;d say it&amp;#039;s pretty Goenka-like based on what I know from a retreat and my readings. There may be one or two inaccuracies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Goenka, my voice is deep.&lt;br /&gt;When I chant it soothes and comforts.&lt;br /&gt;Only way to measure progress: equanimity&lt;br /&gt;Don&amp;#039;t care about your maps and your shambles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I brought vipassana back to India&lt;br /&gt;Then to the west, didn&amp;#039;t momma tell ya?&lt;br /&gt;I have 250 centers across the world&lt;br /&gt;Who even knows you? Yea a bunch of nerds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watch the body in perfect equanimity&lt;br /&gt;If a thought arises I ignore it -b*tch!&lt;br /&gt;Thinking is more suffering, I thought you would know.&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s not how you meditate, make a mental note.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They ask me if I&amp;#039;m enlightened, I go -say what? &lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s anohter attachment, just purify your mind.&lt;br /&gt;Check out this sutra of perfect wisdom:&lt;br /&gt;It says there ain&amp;#039;t no such thing called arahat.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:21:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559208</guid> <dc:creator>Trial And Error</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-22T07:21:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559196</link> <description>Yes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#039;ve been thinking of writing a goofy dharma rap track for awhile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possible refrain:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#034;Who da Buddha? You da Buddha! Who da Buddha? Shoot a Buddha!&amp;#034;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can write lyrics and possibly record some raps. My friend makes beats and has a pretty nice condenser mic to boot.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:45:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559196</guid> <dc:creator>Mind over easy</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-22T06:45:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Epic Rap Battles: Mahasi vs Goenka</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559101</link> <description>Dear All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must admit that I truly love the Epic Rap Battles of History, as found on Youtube, and for those who don&amp;#039;t know them, please check them out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like doing musical projects and I thought it would be hilarious to do a Mahasi vs Goenka one. I can do the audio and part of the rap lyrics if I can get someone who has actually heard Goenka to help with his side and make it as Goenka-thentic as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will try the Mahasi side, though I appreciate any help I can get with the lyrics. We can write them here. Anyone out there rap and have recording capabilities? I have Logic Pro Studio X and know how to use it: we can collaborate online if anyone is interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me know if anyone has interest in this,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 04:00:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5559101</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-22T04:00:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>CANDYLAND</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5553390</link> <description>&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;poorlyplannedcomics&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x3f;p&amp;#x3d;1809"&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;poorlyplannedcomics&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;comics&amp;#x2f;2014-04-29-Follow-the-White-Rabbit-5d8d0db2_08&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 04:01:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5553390</guid> <dc:creator>Jareth Dekko</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-07-06T04:01:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Kumaré</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5550875</link> <description>Very good movie, shows nonsensicality of cults&lt;br /&gt;Also imho he did good as a guru. Those people are very lucky they were his disciples =)</description> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:43:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5550875</guid> <dc:creator>Paweł K</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-26T17:43:06Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Kumaré</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5550188</link> <description>Watched it for the first time. It&amp;#039;s available online or on netflix:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;videoneat&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;documentaries&amp;#x2f;3141&amp;#x2f;kumare-watch-free-online"&gt;http://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/3141/kumare-watch-free-online&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truly fascinating stuff and well done with an overall positive message. Many good insights about people spiritual motivations. I think the most obvious thing is that the persona and the costume allowed him to play outside of social norms. This combined by simply acting kindly allowed an non-judgemental interaction with people which ended up being much more genuine than he expected. Most people took the prank with good humor, except the Yoga teacher that was hosting his sessions...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NPR segment on it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;npr&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;2014&amp;#x2f;04&amp;#x2f;18&amp;#x2f;304550754&amp;#x2f;false-guru"&gt;http://www.npr.org/2014/04/18/304550754/false-guru&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEDx by the guy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;youtube&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;watch&amp;#x3f;v&amp;#x3d;O3BJ23H5yBQ"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3BJ23H5yBQ&lt;/a&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:25:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5550188</guid> <dc:creator>Simon T.</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-25T10:25:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Jimmy MacJimJim and the magic seeds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548518</link> <description>Guys I just hit the 11th nana, but I found if you click your thumbstick to the right and press R twice you magically hit fruition, please add this to the cheat list. We need to debug this mind game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kthxbai.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:03:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548518</guid> <dc:creator>J J</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T21:03:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Jimmy MacJimJim and the magic seeds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548515</link> <description>Llord Kind Dede-buddha Sakadagami 10degree=1square=3rhombus is most amused&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fairytales are much more productive</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:58:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548515</guid> <dc:creator>Droll Dedekind</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T20:58:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Jimmy MacJimJim and the magic seeds</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548505</link> <description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;                                                                     Jimmy MacJimJim and the magic seeds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a far away land, there was a giant tree. A huge, giant, beautiful ancient tree, with many branches. A tree of great power, whose power was closely guarded by its guardians, a race of giants. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jimmy MacJimJim had heard of this tree, and yearned for its great power. But he came to the tree and was told that in order to reap the power of the tree he had to become a guardian of the tree, as only the guardians of the tree could be trusted with its power. But becoming a guardian was a long, and arduous task, involving great sacrifice. Jimmy didn’t like the sound of that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then he heard about a hermit who lived in a small cabin. People said he was crazy, but that he knew of the secret of the great tree. Jimmy approached the hermit, and begged the old man to tell him of the secret. The hermit, with a twinkle in his one-good eye, told him all he knew. Jimmy came away with a plan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He went to the guardians of the tree, and offered to help them out for a while. While he tended the tree, he took one of its seeds, some fertiliser that the guardians had left around, and in the middle of the night, went back home. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He planted the tree in his garden. It grew well with the rich fertiliser. And one day, it started sprouting berries. And he ate them. But the berries had sour seeds, which didn’t please Jimmy, so he spat that part of the berry out. As he ate the flesh of the berries he became taller, just like the guardians of the tree. This pleased Jimmy. He had figured out the secret of the guardians and the tree! Each year, the tree blossomed new berries, and he ate every one. And Jimmy grew taller and taller. But as he grew taller, Jimmy also grew fatter. And fatter. He didn’t really notice, as he was so happy about getting taller, and he had always been a bit on the tubby side anyway. And so after many harvests, Jimmy had grown taller and taller. He was now even taller than many of the guardians. But he had become obese. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By this time the news had spread, and the guardians came to see. They looked on aghast. They were horrified! The guardians, while tall, were slim. They went away, shocked by what they had seen. Jimmy didn’t mind, he was tall, so tall! He had everything he had always wanted. &lt;br /&gt;Others came to see. Some of those looked away in horror, just like the guardians. Others were amazed by the size of Jimmy, and asked if they could join him. Some of them were so entranced by how tall Jimmy was they didn&amp;#039;t notice the obesity, and some of them just didn&amp;#039;t care about getting fat. They just wanted to get tall. By this point Jimmy was so large that he couldn’t get through the doors of his house anymore, and had become rather lonely, so he encouraged people to join him in his garden. They too grew tall and obese eating the berries, though none of them could ever become quite as tall and obese as Jimmy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olaf had also heard news of the giant obese Jimmy. He came to watch from the outer gardens, fascinated yet repelled as to what he was witnessing. He tried asking them if they had noticed how obese everyone was, and whether there were other ways of growing tall without getting fat. But they didn&amp;#039;t listen, as all everyone in the garden wanted to do was discuss how sweet the berries were and how tall they had become. Eventually they grew tired of the questioning, and said to Olaf, either you eat the berries and become fat and tall like us, or get out of the garden. Olaf didn&amp;#039;t want to become fat, so he was cast out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day walking home, Olaf was drinking in a tavern. On the table next to him were some guardians (the tavern had a very large ceiling). His ears perked up, as he realised they were talking about Jimmy and the secrets of the giant tree of the far away land: &lt;br /&gt;“If only Jimmy had stayed with us long enough to realise you have to eat the seeds as well!”</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:04:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548505</guid> <dc:creator>sawfoot _</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T20:04:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Oaf Wots_ and the Magic Mountain</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548494</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Droll Dedekind:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center"&gt;Oaf Wots_ and the Magic Mountain&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once upon a time there was a village beside a perilous mountain. According to local legend, adventurers who reached the summit of the mountain would be granted wondrous powers, bliss, and liberation. But, for hundreds of years none of the villagers dared try to climb the mountain. And, most didn&amp;#039;t believe in such silly fairytales anyhow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day a cocky youth named Naiad Gremlin attempted the treacherous journey up the mountain. During his climb he was met with myriad trials, traps, and tricks.  Many times he failed the climb; and many times he consulted the local legends and library for hints about completing the journey. After many attempts and over many years Naiad finally completed his journey. Atop the mountain he was transformed permanently. The change was dramatic, but not identical to the legends. Yet, Naiad was satisfied. Immediately he understood the grains of truth that had been the source for  all the legends. He returned to the village and set to work writing a guide for scaling the mountain, along with a comprehensive map. In the guide Naiad tried to explain the real nature of the transformation, with mixed success.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;The villagers reacted variously to the publication of his guide. Some scoffed haughtily, some   yelled angrily, some cowered fearfully, and some perked eagerly. From the last group, a traveling party was soon formed. Although a few turned back, the party was a success. The travelers returned to the village, all trying to convey the experience of the transformation, as Naiad had done. Some wrote poems, some composed music, and some used metaphor. All agreed that their symbols could not convey the experience of the transformation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years a small minority continued to scale the mountain. One day a young traveler named Oaf Wots heard of the magic mountain. Oaf Wots was stirred by the prospect of powers and transformation, but was obsessively doubtful and afraid of the journey. When Oaf was around other interested travelers he would tepidly voice his concerns, &amp;#039;Do you ever think Naiad and the rest are lying?&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;What if we fall?&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Maybe the mountain only works for them&amp;#039;. Invariably the travelers would reply to the effect, &amp;#039;Only one way to find out.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oaf Wots lurked at the base of the mountain, speaking with travelers about their journey. Many travelers offered to help Oaf up the mountain, but he would never climb higher than the base of the mountain. One day Oaf saw a group of travelers descend the mountain, all with a look of satisfaction and peace. The travelers spoke with Oaf, discussing the effects of their transformation. One man tried to convey the transformation to Oaf saying, &amp;#039;The effect was unmistakable. But, you could say I was always atop the mountain.&amp;#039; The other travelers smiled and nodded knowingly. Oaf yelled, &amp;#039;Aha! So the mountain is fake!&amp;#039;. The travelers tried to explain, but Oaf persisted in his misunderstanding and accusations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since that day, Oaf has roamed the mountain dettering adventurers with, &amp;#039;Turn back! I heard Folk say the mountain doesn&amp;#039;t work!&amp;#039; Some adventurers are dettered but most are not, commanding, &amp;#039;Back ye troll! Back!&amp;#039;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Llord Kind Dede,  the Anagrammatist...</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:21:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548494</guid> <dc:creator>Psi Phi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T19:21:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Oaf Wots_ and the Magic Mountain</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548478</link> <description>you made my day =)</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:06:56 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548478</guid> <dc:creator>Paweł K</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T18:06:56Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Oaf Wots_ and the Magic Mountain</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548435</link> <description>I cried.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:34:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548435</guid> <dc:creator>J J</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T17:34:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Oaf Wots_ and the Magic Mountain</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548427</link> <description>&lt;p style="text-align: center"&gt;Oaf Wots_ and the Magic Mountain&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once upon a time there was a village beside a perilous mountain. According to local legend, adventurers who reached the summit of the mountain would be granted wondrous powers, bliss, and liberation. But, for hundreds of years none of the villagers dared try to climb the mountain. And, most didn&amp;#039;t believe in such silly fairytales anyhow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day a cocky youth named Naiad Gremlin attempted the treacherous journey up the mountain. During his climb he was met with myriad trials, traps, and tricks.  Many times he failed the climb; and many times he consulted the local legends and library for hints about completing the journey. After many attempts and over many years Naiad finally completed his journey. Atop the mountain he was transformed permanently. The change was dramatic, but not identical to the legends. Yet, Naiad was satisfied. Immediately he understood the grains of truth that had been the source for  all the legends. He returned to the village and set to work writing a guide for scaling the mountain, along with a comprehensive map. In the guide Naiad tried to explain the real nature of the transformation, with mixed success.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;The villagers reacted variously to the publication of his guide. Some scoffed haughtily, some   yelled angrily, some cowered fearfully, and some perked eagerly. From the last group, a traveling party was soon formed. Although a few turned back, the party was a success. The travelers returned to the village, all trying to convey the experience of the transformation, as Naiad had done. Some wrote poems, some composed music, and some used metaphor. All agreed that their symbols could not convey the experience of the transformation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years a small minority continued to scale the mountain. One day a young traveler named Oaf Wots heard of the magic mountain. Oaf Wots was stirred by the prospect of powers and transformation, but was obsessively doubtful and afraid of the journey. When Oaf was around other interested travelers he would tepidly voice his concerns, &amp;#039;Do you ever think Naiad and the rest are lying?&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;What if we fall?&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Maybe the mountain only works for them&amp;#039;. Invariably the travelers would reply to the effect, &amp;#039;Only one way to find out.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oaf Wots lurked at the base of the mountain, speaking with travelers about their journey. Many travelers offered to help Oaf up the mountain, but he would never climb higher than the base of the mountain. One day Oaf saw a group of travelers descend the mountain, all with a look of satisfaction and peace. The travelers spoke with Oaf, discussing the effects of their transformation. One man tried to convey the transformation to Oaf saying, &amp;#039;The effect was unmistakable. But, you could say I was always atop the mountain.&amp;#039; The other travelers smiled and nodded knowingly. Oaf yelled, &amp;#039;Aha! So the mountain is fake!&amp;#039;. The travelers tried to explain, but Oaf persisted in his misunderstanding and accusations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since that day, Oaf has roamed the mountain dettering adventurers with, &amp;#039;Turn back! I heard Folk say the mountain doesn&amp;#039;t work!&amp;#039; Some adventurers are dettered but most are not, commanding, &amp;#039;Back ye troll! Back!&amp;#039;</description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:52:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5548427</guid> <dc:creator>Droll Dedekind</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-06-21T16:52:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dead or meditating?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5540027</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Dream Walker:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Hmmmm....I wonder about the benefits of placebo meditation....Maybe we should compare the results of those who meditate with those who &amp;#034;just sit&amp;#034;.&lt;br /&gt;~D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s a very deep and profound joke. I like it.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 03:50:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5540027</guid> <dc:creator>J C</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-31T03:50:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dead or meditating?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539981</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Dream Walker:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Speaking of the onion, here&amp;#039;s another fun one.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahahahahah. Brilliant.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 03:24:09 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539981</guid> <dc:creator>Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-31T03:24:09Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dead or meditating?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539975</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt; I was debating on whether I should put this in the &amp;#034;Concentration&amp;#034; section, instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in the end you made a bold choice. (Could always shift it across if he begins to stir).</description> <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 03:04:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539975</guid> <dc:creator>John Wilde</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-31T03:04:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dead or meditating?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539868</link> <description>Speaking of the onion, here&amp;#039;s another fun one.&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;CHICAGO&amp;#x2014;Saying that clinical trials have confirmed such individuals provide comparable results to fully trained, professional physicians, the American Medical Association announced Thursday the introduction of new placebo doctors to administer general practice medical care to the American public. “Making sure patients are seen promptly at local doctors’ offices and clinics is one of the AMA’s top priorities, and by simply supplementing the nation’s existing pool of primary care providers with several thousand unlicensed individuals whose appearance and behavior are indistinguishable from those of real doctors, we can greatly expand the medical community’s ability to address patients’ most commonplace ailments,” said AMA spokeswoman Tara Cosgrove, noting that allergies, aches, and the common cold were treated “just as effectively” by regular people who convincingly walked into an examination room looking down at a chart; appeared to check a patient’s eyes, throat, and blood pressure; then told the patient that the symptoms were nothing too severe and should clear up within a week. “Patients will be unable to tell if they received medical care from an experienced, board-certified doctor or someone who is just wearing a white coat and stethoscope and speaks to them for a couple minutes about whatever is troubling them while jotting down nonsense on a form, and in most general practice situations, we can assure the patient that his or her condition will be eliminated regardless of which individual they meet.” Cosgrove added that while the new placebo primary care physicians have generally been found to correspond with positive outcomes, the AMA had yet to achieve an equivalent success rate among its pilot group of placebo surgeons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hmmmm....I wonder about the benefits of placebo meditation....Maybe we should compare the results of those who meditate with those who &amp;#034;just sit&amp;#034;.&lt;br /&gt;~D</description> <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 23:06:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539868</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-30T23:06:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dead or meditating?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539753</link> <description>Gotta&amp;#039; love Mother India! So classic...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of barking crazy, The Onion and dead people...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1a1a1a"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica&amp;#x2c;&amp;#x20;Arial&amp;#x2c;&amp;#x20;sans-serif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px"&gt;ISLA VISTA, CA&amp;#x2014;In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description> <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 16:27:48 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539753</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-30T16:27:48Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Dead or meditating?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539713</link> <description>This is NOT from an Onion article (&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;telegraph&amp;#x2e;co&amp;#x2e;uk&amp;#x2f;news&amp;#x2f;worldnews&amp;#x2f;asia&amp;#x2f;india&amp;#x2f;10860998&amp;#x2f;Indian-court-asked-to-rule-on-whether-Hindu-guru-dead-or-meditating&amp;#x2e;html"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;The family and followers of one of India&amp;#039;s wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders are fighting a legal battle over whether he is dead or simply in a deep state of meditation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order with a property estate worth an estimated £100 million, died in January, according to his wife and son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, his disciples at his Ashram have refused to let the family take his body for cremation because they claim he is still alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to his followers, based in the Punjab city of Jalandhar, he simply went into a deep Samadhi or meditation and they have frozen his body to preserve it for when he wakes from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His body is currently contained in a commercial freezer at their Ashram.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was debating on whether I should put this in the &amp;#034;Concentration&amp;#034; section, instead.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 15:11:55 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5539713</guid> <dc:creator>Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-30T15:11:55Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dude, Where's My Body?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5538302</link> <description>LMAO!</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 01:12:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5538302</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-27T01:12:06Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5538298</link> <description>Thanks a lot!  Now I have a strange urge to go read the Abhidhamma.  Are you sure you didn&amp;#039;t study advertising?  Anyway, &amp;#039;vague/difficult to verify&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;sounds/feels good,&amp;#039; are always great advertising tools, just swap out the moonbeams for any product of choice (viagra, politics, money, dating, toothpaste) and you are good to go.  Ooh, the clean minty freshness!  First you choose your preferred vague feel good dogma according to personality, upbringing, and appropriate brainwashing and/or monitary compensation, and then you must defend it vehemently and smite all attackers with your verbal prowess.  Then you must immediate high five your fellow cohorts and brag of your accomplishments far and wide.  Anything less is a severe threat to ones (perceived) identity!   Dang I hate it when I get sucked in too!  ;-P &lt;br /&gt;-Eva</description> <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 01:03:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5538298</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-27T01:03:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dude, Where's My Body?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537948</link> <description>That was both funny and &amp;#039;enlightening&amp;#039;, thanks!</description> <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 13:36:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537948</guid> <dc:creator>No-Second-Arrow Z</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-26T13:36:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Dude, Where's My Body?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537424</link> <description>lol.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 06:18:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537424</guid> <dc:creator>Thor Jackson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-25T06:18:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Dude, Where's My Body?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537405</link> <description>&lt;a href="https&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;youtube&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;watch&amp;#x3f;v&amp;#x3d;RnpFbAqaZPY"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnpFbAqaZPY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;stuartdavis&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;blog&amp;#x2f;dude-wheres-my-body"&gt;Dude, Where&amp;#039;s My Body?&lt;/a&gt;</description> <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 05:40:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537405</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-25T05:40:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537374</link> <description>Further, bask in the glow of the light of the rainbow union as the eternal star-vibe radiates its Pleiadian seven-fold essence through the entire moonbeam spectral range so that the cosmic alignment with the crystal God-form revoles upon the universal axis of love. Ah, this brings back memories of my childhood...</description> <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 02:44:58 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537374</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-25T02:44:58Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537371</link> <description>There truly is much that is funny about the various meditative traditions, no doubt about it from funny hats to absurd texts describing the craziest of things, to the strange and archaic notions of biology found in the Abhidhamma, there is a lot to laugh at. Please, lend a hand in this important work as you find sources of mirth and joy, as humor really helps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel</description> <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 02:42:05 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537371</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-25T02:42:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537184</link> <description>Well, under danger of beating a dead horse, what I was saying is a number of topics on the humor section appeared to be poking fun at others, for this thread, new agers (since the title is New Age Wisdom), and for other threads, women, for instance the thread called &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;web&amp;#x2f;guest&amp;#x2f;discussion&amp;#x2f;-&amp;#x2f;message_boards&amp;#x2f;message&amp;#x2f;5445499"&gt;Do women nag enlightened men?   &lt;/a&gt;Since I&amp;#039;ve been known to whine about men myself once in a while and have been known to say stuff that I later regretted fairly often, I can&amp;#039;t reasonably wag much of a finger over it, but the making fun of other groups besides yourself is a bit of a different kind of an expedition than the making fun of yourself and your own group, especially if members of those other groups are likely to come here and read it like I did.  I suspect that you will over time get more and more attention here.  It&amp;#039;s the only place I&amp;#039;ve found that allowed me to make sense of the meditation community and all its many many conflicting bizarre, vague, and confusing assertions.  There are so many conflicting groups, beliefs, and terminologies, it&amp;#039;s dizzying and I would guess it would have taken years and years of study otherwise to make even a beggining of a sense out of it.  I even went to read some of the old texts thinking I could get to the root of it faster that way but what I found was mostly pages and pages of instructions on how to make various kinds of sacrifices on alters at various times to various Gods in order to get various outcomes.  Let&amp;#039;s just say I did not feel any more enlightened as a result!  So maybe the short version of what I am trying to say is, in regards to making fun of other groups, I think you guys are throwing rocks from a glass house.  ;-P&lt;br /&gt;-Eva</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 15:31:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537184</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-24T15:31:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537159</link> <description>Eva I have had to read this thread a few times, I thought it was poking fun at dheepra chopra, I don&amp;#039;t know how women was brought into this, it&amp;#039;s a bit like seeing a snake when there is only a stick across the path which we have all probably experienced at some time</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 12:42:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5537159</guid> <dc:creator>Jeff Grove</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-24T12:42:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536831</link> <description>As Daniel pointed out to me, the sentences were made by a computer that one assumes randomly chooses out of a list of words and plugs those words into various slots in the sentence.  Which means although the words themselves were likely chosen out of common new age terminology, how they get thrown together by the computer will not always be how they are used commonly by humans.  Anyway, there&amp;#039;re certainly worse things to be called.  If I were you, I&amp;#039;d stake an official claim to it now, set down your rights as the official founder, and be ready to stand your ground when people start arguing about the definition and the inevitable dueling wikipedia article wars get started.  ;-P&lt;br /&gt;-Eva</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 02:08:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536831</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-24T02:08:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536827</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Daniel M. Ingram:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, what a nexus child is I have no idea, which would seem to require some looking up somewhere, as somehow the concept and criteria for that are unclear to me. Anyone else stumble on that one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Could only find &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;starchildren&amp;#x2e;info&amp;#x2f;star&amp;#x2e;html"&gt;Star Children&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;starchildren&amp;#x2e;info&amp;#x2f;indigo&amp;#x2e;html"&gt;Indigo Children&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;starchildren&amp;#x2e;info&amp;#x2f;crystal&amp;#x2e;html"&gt;Crystal Children&lt;/a&gt;| &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;starchildren&amp;#x2e;info&amp;#x2f;rainbow&amp;#x2e;html"&gt;Rainbow Children&lt;/a&gt;. I didn&amp;#039;t find any nexus children....but it sounds cool...if noone has taken it yet can I be one? I like it better than gen x...</description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 00:50:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536827</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-24T00:50:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536823</link> <description>You are right, I didn&amp;#039;t follow the link!  ;-P  Didn&amp;#039;t notice it down there. When I saw a humor section was put in to make light of &amp;#039;all this stuff&amp;#039; I had kind of assumed it would be you guys making fun of yourselves, which I thought was a genius idea because people tend to take themselves too seriously sometimes and also to not see their own flaws easily.  And I&amp;#039;d never seen that kind of suggestion before as an official section of a board.  However, the first 5 or so posts I clicked on just happened to be making a bit of fun of women and other groups, and not so much meditation, which can be shaky ground at times.  Easy to offend when pointing fingers at others instead of self.  Of course there are other posts more directly pointed as well.  But I don&amp;#039;t think the truth can easily be gauged by level of vague formulaic dogma present as all groups have it.  And i do think that meditation dogma would also very easily also lend itself to similar formulaic generator programs that would produce weird sentences that could mean almost anything.  Of course, you&amp;#039;ve already got koans so maybe there is no need..   ;-P  &lt;br /&gt;-Eva    </description> <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 00:28:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536823</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-24T00:28:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536813</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Eva M Nie:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Admittedly, such talk sounds quite corny but just curious, what part of this are we SURE is wrong? -Eva   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Eva. While I agree with much of what you&amp;#039;ve written here, your first line suggests that you might not have followed the link in the original post. The point is: the text was generated by machine. I don&amp;#039;t think the intention was to ridicule the new age community so much as to have a laugh at the formulaic nature of much of its literature.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 22:42:47 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536813</guid> <dc:creator>John Wilde</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-23T22:42:47Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536805</link> <description>&amp;#034;I don&amp;#039;t, for instance, share the view that the global collective consciousness or whatever will automatically progress to some next level, that involving numerous assumptions and concepts I consider dubious. I personally do not hold some doctrine of general upwward progress being assured or actually even likely. This seems largely a Boomer thing that I find at best naive and at worst dangerous.&amp;#034;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, I think probably nothing it &amp;#039;automatic,&amp;#039; could be that such things could happen and maybe they will or maybe they won&amp;#039;t.  But if we all got told what happens at the end of the movie while we were still in the middle of it, wouldn&amp;#039;t that take out most of the fun out of it?  I don&amp;#039;t know the whole future but I am leaving open the idea that it could be better and I don&amp;#039;t really see positive thinking, even the vague and illogical sounding kind, as necesarily bad in and of itself.  Sure positive thinking without action won&amp;#039;t do much but thinking tends to lead to action at least some of the time.  And I do think a counterbalance to Keeping up with the Kardashians, rampant consumerism, and poisoning the environment might be of some good in the long run.  Yep, I do think a lot of it is cotton candy, but I can&amp;#039;t say it is of no use or never will be.  Very few people are going to spend millions of hours sitting on at mat kind of doing nothing just because some guy from thousands of years ago says there might be a kingdom of enlightenment and happiness awaiting them if they do. In fact, on the face of it, the whole thing sounds really really ridiculous, imo WAY WAY more stupid than being a nexus child (whatever that is!).  That was my belief for most of my life, so it&amp;#039;s easy for me to see the perspective of &amp;#039;normal&amp;#039; people and how ridiculous it all sounds.   Over time, I did come to believe there is important substance behind meditation, enlightenment, and a lot of other stuff.  Not to say there isn&amp;#039;t a ton of cotton candy everywhere too.  In fact, over time, I find it really kind of amazing that everyone forms their own little private communities and laughs at the other communities, new agers, religions, yoga people, meditators, OBEers, lucid dreamers, remote viewers, and for the most part, they think the others are total lunatics and that only THEY have the right way of thinking of things.  But really each of the groups has a hell of a lot more in common than they would like to admit!  IMO, a lot of it has to do with perspective.  If you start with the perspective that the other group has nothing to offer, kind of an us vs them perspective, you will tend to see only the aspects that support your pre existing view.  In that story from my first post, my friend&amp;#039;s brother&amp;#039;s actions made perfect sense from his perspective and my friend&amp;#039;s actions and beliefs made perfect sense from her perspective.  Which perspective do other people see it from?  What if you could see it from both perspectives at once and really understand both perspectives, then what would you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, I have my personal opinions and what ways probably work best IMO currently.  But then again, in the past I was wrong a TON.  I was wrong so much I am an expert at being wrong. I practiced long and hard at being wrong and really became good at it.  So now I figure to be on the safe side, its easier and safer to realize I just don&amp;#039;t know and probably there is all kinds of super cool stuff I don&amp;#039;t know yet and don&amp;#039;t understand.  I remember a while back when it was all the rage for new agers to talk about &amp;#039;vibrations&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;changing your DNA&amp;#039; and of course they got blasted to kingdom come by the scientific community and just about everyone else for saying things that were clearly impossible and stupid, and then some time passes and we start hearing about scientific knowledge of string theory, &amp;#039;jumping genes&amp;#039; (aka transposons), epigenetics, etc, all stuff that really basically support that crackpot stuff.  (horrors!) Of course the scientists cringe if their research is ever cited in such a way because in their mind only their stuff can be right and the new age stuff is always no good and of course they don&amp;#039;t want the two things ever to appear in the same room together for fear their image and research will be forever tarnished.  Personally, I think it&amp;#039;s actually pretty funny.  I don&amp;#039;t know how much of the new agers stuff will turn out to be for the good, if any, but I don&amp;#039;t know either if it will be for the bad.  But maybe something that at least promotes kindness and improvement and yes, is even very likely QUITE responsible for the current popularity and mainstreaming of meditation might actually be an overall good thing in the long run. </description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 21:39:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536805</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-23T21:39:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536797</link> <description>For me, some if it is definitely personal, as I honestly recognize that I have a hard time sortint out what are my views on some things that happened with some people who are into very similar views and my views on the views themselves. Your point that our finger-pointing reveals much about ourselves is clearly true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, what a nexus child is I have no idea, which would seem to require some looking up somewhere, as somehow the concept and criteria for that are unclear to me. Anyone else stumble on that one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of this is also generational and paradigmatic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#039;t, for instance, share the view that the global collective consciousness or whatever will automatically progress to some next level, that involving numerous assumptions and concepts I consider dubious. I personally do not hold some doctrine of general upwward progress being assured or actually even likely. This seems largely a Boomer thing that I find at best naive and at worst dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I totally agree that sexual and financial exploitation is rampant most spiritual camps to various degrees, with the various mainstream Buddhist and various New Age camps being right there in the thick of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also agree it is best not to be some dogmatic asshole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, I still find those sorts of vapid, rambling strings of nice-sounding but essentially unusable platitudes, speculations and vague dictums a general waste of time, IMNHO. It is the organic cotton-candy of the spiritual world, IMNHO.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 20:19:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536797</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-23T20:19:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: New-Age Wisdom</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536792</link> <description>Admittedly, such talk sounds quite corny but just curious, what part of this are we SURE is wrong?  (ok well besides maybe that part about the aroma therapy)  Perhaps you don&amp;#039;t realize it easily if you grew up with it or have been in it a long time, but the meditation jargon and ideas on this board sound at LEAST as ridiculous if not far more so to those who are not accustomed to them and to those who already have an attitude of rejection.  At least with the new age jargon, one does not need to consult wiki every 3 seconds to try to decode special abbreviations and meanings of industry specialist technical terms.  What is more funny sounding, air fairy concepts or airy fairy concepts squashed into psuedo scientific sounding technical jargon that are referred to by industry specific fancy abbreviations as if they were indisputable scientific facts?  This by an industry that is famous for philandering half naked shaved headed gurus who love to drive large numbers of expensive white cars while their scantily clad dusty barefoot minions bow to them as they pass and wait on them hand and foot with special platters of blessed vegan food?  To the average American raised in the average environment, both the airy fairy and the meditation dogma all sound stupid as hell!  Doesn&amp;#039;t mean it&amp;#039;s all wrong though, just that it does not comply with current cultural norms in America.  (and for this board, the airy fairy does not comply with current cultural norms for here). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is kind of an aside but bare with me for a moment please.  I had this friend when I was growing up whose brother was dedicated to attaining enlightenment, hence, and I guess this made sense somehow in his mind, he was basically a jerk to anyone who did not agree with his goals.  So if his sister was dressing up to go to her prom or bought a piece of jewelry or any such &amp;#039;materialist&amp;#039; thing, he would insult her and by rude to her saying she was selfish with her materialistic desires and hence not helping the world.  He said he did this to help her see the light.  Nobody liked this guy, not even his family, and he never helped out anyone because he thought that anything that was not his idea of the pursuit of enlightenment was a waste of time.   He didn&amp;#039;t have a job and he sponged off his family lived in their house and ate their food so he would have time to sit and meditate all the time, their efforts for him he did not appreciate at all because he thought it was his due because his goals were so worthy.  To this day, I sometimes wonder how that guy progressed in his quest.  Was this the best path to enlightenment and did he make it?  Would such actions likely help his family become more enlightened?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I am not sure exactly why I wanted to bring up that guy right here other than I think it has to do with the dangers of pointing fingers at others while at the same time regularly doing only a slightly different version of the exact same thing ourselves while being in considerable denial protected by considerable industry standard protective dogma.  Perhaps I consider myself  a bit of an expert at this since I&amp;#039;ve done it myself oh so many times.  :-)  But IMO, who we point fingers at has a lot more to do with us and our issues than it has to do with them and their issues.  Why does that thing about them seem so irritating in the first place might be a good question. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IMO society does much better with a variety of types of people and ideas.  For each dogma (and IMO much on this board IS dogma just as much of everything everywhere on Earth is dogma), there is typically other kinds of dogma that may help counterbalance.  For each dogma, some of it will be more right and some of it will be more wrong. IMO, if various dogmas are moving in directions such that they are becoming more right than they used to be and if the (WARNING AIRY FAIRY TERMINOLOGY ALERT, HIDE NOW IF YOU CAN&amp;#039;T TOLERATE IT) spirit and energy of it are moving in a direction that seems better than is used to be, even if it&amp;#039;s not all 100% perfect 100% of the time, I personally think it&amp;#039;s pretty cool.  &lt;br /&gt;-Eva   </description> <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 19:35:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5536792</guid> <dc:creator>Eva M Nie</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-23T19:35:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Easy Enlightenment (test pic)</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5531633</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;carrot top:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I see a pair of boobs, so, yes, test successful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;me too, success!</description> <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 13:23:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5531633</guid> <dc:creator>tom moylan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-11T13:23:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Easy Enlightenment (test pic)</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5531383</link> <description>&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;explosm&amp;#x2e;net&amp;#x2f;db&amp;#x2f;files&amp;#x2f;Comics&amp;#x2f;Dave&amp;#x2f;comicbuddhistnudist1&amp;#x2e;png" /&gt;</description> <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 05:35:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5531383</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-11T05:35:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Easy Enlightenment (test pic)</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5530721</link> <description>The simplicity of the AF diagram really calls to my sensibilities.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 09:39:23 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5530721</guid> <dc:creator>Not Tao</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-10T09:39:23Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Easy Enlightenment (test pic)</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5528709</link> <description>I see a pair of boobs, so, yes, test successful.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 03:40:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5528709</guid> <dc:creator>carrot top</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-08T03:40:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Easy Enlightenment (test pic)</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5528231</link> <description>Content format test&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noting Boldly&lt;/strong&gt; success&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Noting Italics &lt;/em&gt;sucess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Noting underlined &lt;/u&gt;sucess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Noting Strikethru &lt;/strike&gt;sucess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noting combo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; sucess&lt;br /&gt;Noting self referential linking - &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;web&amp;#x2f;guest&amp;#x2f;discussion&amp;#x2f;-&amp;#x2f;message_boards&amp;#x2f;message&amp;#x2f;5527214"&gt;http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/message_boards/message/5527214&lt;/a&gt;success&lt;br /&gt;Note link {title} test - http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/message_boards/message/5527214 -----------------&lt;span style="color: #ff0000"&gt;Someone test the button next to link. is this an unlink button or title change button?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note Pic gif test - &lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;www&amp;#x2e;dharmaoverground&amp;#x2e;org&amp;#x2f;image&amp;#x2f;user_male_portrait&amp;#x3f;img_id&amp;#x3d;3287905&amp;#x26;t&amp;#x3d;1399463202935" /&gt;Success&lt;br /&gt;Note smily test &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/ninja.gif" &gt; success&lt;br /&gt;Note test color &lt;span style="color: #40e0d0"&gt;test &lt;/span&gt;success&lt;ol style="list-style: decimal outside;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;note numberes list test success&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;still success&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;ul style="list-style: disc outside;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;bullet test&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;success&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul style="list-style: disc outside;"&gt;Indent test &lt;span style="color: #ff0000"&gt;FAIL&lt;/span&gt;decrease indent &lt;span style="color: #ff0000"&gt;FAIL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center"&gt;Align center test success&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right"&gt;align right test success&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;justify test&lt;/strong&gt; Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas feugiat consequat diam. Maecenas metus. Vivamus diam purus, cursus a, commodo non, facilisis vitae, nulla. Aenean dictum lacinia tortor. Nunc iaculis, nibh non iaculis aliquam, orci felis euismod neque, sed ornare massa mauris sed velit. Nulla pretium mi et risus. Fusce mi pede, tempor id, cursus ac, ullamcorper nec, enim. Sed tortor. Curabitur molestie. Duis velit augue, condimentum at, ultrices a, luctus ut, orci.  maybe lets add a couple more words to this sentence and see what happens to them?&lt;strong&gt;Success&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;test right edge format word wrap ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- testy testers test testily testy &lt;span style="color: #ff0000"&gt;success&lt;/span&gt; after publishing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: comic&amp;#x20;sans&amp;#x20;ms&amp;#x2c;cursive"&gt;Note Font success&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 24px"&gt;note size matters &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;success&lt;br /&gt;Copy paste test  Copy paste testCopy paste testCopy paste testCopy paste testCopy paste test Copy paste testCopy paste test Success&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt; test quote...there is no quote button&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;TESTMrAtribute:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt; There is no quote so quotey as quote of quoting&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 18:19:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5528231</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-07T18:19:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Saw this on Facebook [Justin Michael Miller] [MIGRATE]</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5527471</link> <description>Saw this on Facebook [Justin Michael Miller] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Justin Michael Miller - 2014-05-06 03:19:32 - Saw this on Facebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;photo is in attached file... not sure how this works. But this is basically the essence of Buddhism xD</description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 09:47:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5527471</guid> <dc:creator>Migration 6.2 Daemon</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-07T09:47:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Easy Enlightenment (test pic)</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5527214</link> <description>Test pic (successful)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;i106&amp;#x2e;photobucket&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;albums&amp;#x2f;m258&amp;#x2f;drmwalk&amp;#x2f;EasyEnlightenment&amp;#x2e;jpg" /&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 07:27:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5527214</guid> <dc:creator>Dream Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-05-07T07:27:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5448388</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Jane Laurel Carrington:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He should have said &amp;#034;my bike won&amp;#039;t start&amp;#034;. Wouldn&amp;#039;t that have worked better? I know it&amp;#039;s a joke but, .... yeh.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:18:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5448388</guid> <dc:creator>C C C</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-23T13:18:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5448278</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Jinxed P:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you&amp;#039;re telling me my wife&amp;#039;s enlightenment is far more important than my own!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could be. Or maybe you could just learn how to put your socks in the laundry basket. &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@C C C: &lt;a href="http&amp;#x3a;&amp;#x2f;&amp;#x2f;m&amp;#x2e;tickld&amp;#x2e;com&amp;#x2f;x&amp;#x2f;the-difference-between-men-and-women"&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/a&gt;</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:30:23 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5448278</guid> <dc:creator>Jane Laurel Carrington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-23T12:30:23Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5447060</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Jane Laurel Carrington:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Oh for heaven&amp;#039;s sake! You guys! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about enlightened women? I&amp;#039;m not all the way there, but I have to say that it no longer irritates me to see the socks my husband leaves on the floor. I just laugh, pick them up, and throw them in the laundry basket right next to them. &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/dry.gif" &gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you&amp;#039;re telling me my wife&amp;#039;s enlightenment is far more important than my own!</description> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:44:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5447060</guid> <dc:creator>Jinxed P</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-23T00:44:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Types of Dho'ers</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5446504</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I would add, &amp;#034;Can often be found writing ridiculously long wall-of-text posts detailing every single one of their even slightly out-of-the-ordinary meditation experiences since they started meditating a few years ago.&amp;#034; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry about that... &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/blush.gif" &gt;</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:20:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5446504</guid> <dc:creator>Not Tao</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-22T21:20:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5446069</link> <description>Oh for heaven&amp;#039;s sake! You guys! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about enlightened women? I&amp;#039;m not all the way there, but I have to say that it no longer irritates me to see the socks my husband leaves on the floor. I just laugh, pick them up, and throw them in the laundry basket right next to them. &lt;img alt="emoticon" src="http://www.dharmaoverground.org/dho-theme/images/emoticons/dry.gif" &gt;</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:35:47 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5446069</guid> <dc:creator>Jane Laurel Carrington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-22T17:35:47Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445907</link> <description>If a woman talks in a forest and there is no man to hear her, is she still complaining?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a man talks in a forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;;)</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:18:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445907</guid> <dc:creator>Daniel M. Ingram</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-22T16:18:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445649</link> <description>maybe this video will help&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwjRX0BsP_w</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:09:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445649</guid> <dc:creator>Superkatze one</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-22T12:09:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445598</link> <description>I&amp;#039;ve never come across a woman who says what she means and means what she says. It&amp;#039;s like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;every single thing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has to be interpreted or decoded for its real meaning. Nagging normally only happens to me when my vibe is off, so I know how to fix that.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:24:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445598</guid> <dc:creator>C C C</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-22T11:24:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Do women nag enlightened men?</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445499</link> <description>Or is that among the last bits of suffering that can only get eradicated at death?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Sincere apologies to anyone who may be offended by the sexism in the joke. My attempt at enlightenment humor.)</description> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:23:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5445499</guid> <dc:creator>Trial And Error</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-22T09:23:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: Types of Dho'ers</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5443955</link> <description>&amp;#034;Beautiful and unique snowflakes&amp;#034;</description> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:47:58 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5443955</guid> <dc:creator>Andrew Mayer</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-21T19:47:58Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5440499</link> <description>Happy 420. Jesus salutes you.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:48:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5440499</guid> <dc:creator>Adam Dietrich Ringle</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T12:48:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5440468</link> <description>Hi james.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am quite aware that you are the tathagata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am also aware that in my own practice I have at times propigated DORJE SHUGDEN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be advised, my mind has been cleared.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:23:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5440468</guid> <dc:creator>Adam Dietrich Ringle</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T12:23:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5440110</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Does that help?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;actually yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I currently dwell in the state of a sekha, trainee. Wherein I touch the deathless with my body, which is essentially jhana. In other words I witness the truth with my body. I am a living example of what the Buddha taught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I too lately strive to touch deathless, though I have different names for it, usually just &amp;#039;background&amp;#039;, void, nibbana, God (when talking with Christians), etc. To feel good it have to be &amp;#039;seen&amp;#039; at all times. there are sensations that do according to its will and those that do not. Second type are cause of dukkha and seem to be opaque. To solve issue of those rogue sensations all it take is to see that those do carry background with them as their source. That dispel their ignorance. Other type of sensations, those that do carry will of background (or whatever you wish to call it, may be &amp;#039;God&amp;#039; too) are good from start but its important to remember and praise background and not sensations as they tend to get little self absorbing and arrogant when done so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I have no idea why no one here takes me seriously, but I suppose it has to do with my thirst for attention and the fact that I don&amp;#039;t meditate in a formal sense&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So even if you as a human being are with union with deathless (which is the same concept) you can&amp;#039;t expect for enlightened people to praise you, we praise void not people/sensations that do experience it!. And as for unenlightened... style matters and yours is not very good at the moment ... ; )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I do practice jhana however, but it is not what you describe, which is basically throwing your mind at an object. Rather I am absorbed in contentment, secluded from sensual pleasures, witnessing this Dharma with my body.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;meditation is like listing mind weights to build big and strong mind muscles. Too bad that it can take so much time for people to actually use those muscles where it matter. Doing stuff directly too build muscles and yeld results faster, so all I can say is good job&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION: Do you have light in your being?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ps. For reference: I myself am not fully enlightened, merely at most 3rd path</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 08:22:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5440110</guid> <dc:creator>Paweł K</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T08:22:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439742</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;James Yen:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;Ok disclaimer, even though I feel that I am the Tathagata, let&amp;#039;s put that aside for now, because for all I know it could be some incredible twisted form delusion (even though I&amp;#039;m pretty certain I am). Let&amp;#039;s put that aside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I speak of suffering I speak of the kind that you feel with your gut, deep inside, it is existential pain, it is the friction in the wheel cogs of a machine, it is &amp;#034;not rightness&amp;#034;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something isn&amp;#039;t right, there&amp;#039;s this staticness, this murkiness, this angst, this pain, this friction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is this sorrow, lamentation, despair, aging, death, old age, grief, kinship with the unbeloved, separation from the loved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short: the five aggregates of clinging, are suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None other than those things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now what do I mean when I say the end of suffering?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean the end of that not rightness, the fixing of the friction, the movement into lubrication, the utter peace and dispassion of Nibbana. I mean the full and complete fruition of the indriya and heedfulness such that one craves no more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And via craving no more, realizes he is liberated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s all I got for now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, what you have stated makes perfect sense so far, First there is dukkha, and secondly there is something that starts up dukkha, it looks like that is craving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Craving, maybe some of us don&amp;#039;t know what craving is? Craving can be seen even in the behavior of the worms. For instance, a worm will move towards a pleasant sensation (say the warmth of the sun or wetness of the earth, , this would be the &amp;#034;I like it) side of craving, And also, a worm will move away from pain, or try to, say when ants are attacking its skin, or a bird pecks at its flesh, , a painful sensation, this is the (I dont like it mind) side of craving. So too a worlding moves throuh the world , the untrained mind attracted by pleasure and repulsed by pain. The untrained mind has no escape hatch to this situation and moves through life mindlessly reacting to one sensation after another, until death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, so there is Dukkha, and there is a source of dukkha in the mind, and thirdly you said earlier there is a stop to all this non-sensical dukkha, if I may ask, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Tathagata, Is there a &amp;#034;way&amp;#034; that leads to the cessation of all this dukkha absurdity?</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:34:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439742</guid> <dc:creator>Psi Phi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T06:34:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439642</link> <description>Ok disclaimer, even though I feel that I am the Tathagata, let&amp;#039;s put that aside for now, because for all I know it could be some incredible twisted form delusion (even though I&amp;#039;m pretty certain I am). Let&amp;#039;s put that aside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I speak of suffering I speak of the kind that you feel with your gut, deep inside, it is existential pain, it is the friction in the wheel cogs of a machine, it is &amp;#034;not rightness&amp;#034;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something isn&amp;#039;t right, there&amp;#039;s this staticness, this murkiness, this angst, this pain, this friction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is this sorrow, lamentation, despair, aging, death, old age, grief, kinship with the unbeloved, separation from the loved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short: the five aggregates of clinging, are suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None other than those things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now what do I mean when I say the end of suffering?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean the end of that not rightness, the fixing of the friction, the movement into lubrication, the utter peace and dispassion of Nibbana. I mean the full and complete fruition of the indriya and heedfulness such that one craves no more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And via craving no more, realizes he is liberated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#039;s all I got for now.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 05:22:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439642</guid> <dc:creator>J J</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T05:22:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439598</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;James Yen:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Paweł K:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;James Yen:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I feel like I have to share, and be less stingy with my Dharma. Please ask, I will clarify all questions concerning this Dharma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;first it would be good if you write some kind of outline about general type of your enlightenment and what is needed to get there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is it the &amp;#039;realistic&amp;#039; kind which is blissless and dry or something that is for a change interesting ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#039;s literally just canonically what the Buddha taught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It leads straight to the end of suffering, to cessation, to peace and dispassion. It is visible here and now. What is seen are the four noble truths, the path itself is the noble eightfold path.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I currently dwell in the state of a sekha, trainee. Wherein I touch the deathless with my body, which is essentially jhana. In other words I witness the truth with my body. I am a living example of what the Buddha taught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no idea why no one here takes me seriously, but I suppose it has to do with my thirst for attention and the fact that I don&amp;#039;t meditate in a formal sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do practice jhana however, but it is not what you describe, which is basically throwing your mind at an object. Rather I am absorbed in contentment, secluded from sensual pleasures, witnessing this Dharma with my body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does that help?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, since what you stated above coincides with common sense, I will go along with the question and answer game, supposing that since we live in the same universe, we are really all on the same team, right? So, game time, That is not the first question, here it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Tathagata:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the root cause of suffering and unsatisfactoriness, the unease , the boredom, even my happy times are impermanent and do not last, what is the cause of this, it keeps happening over and over</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 04:57:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439598</guid> <dc:creator>Psi Phi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T04:57:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439464</link> <description>&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;James Yen:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quote"&gt;&lt;div class="quote-content"&gt;I didn&amp;#039;t, no.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James I&amp;#039;m afraid you&amp;#039;re going straight to hell. I can no longer associate with you.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 04:21:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439464</guid> <dc:creator>Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T04:21:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>RE: I am the Tathagata.</title> <link>http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439432</link> <description>I didn&amp;#039;t, no.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 04:09:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dharmaoverground.org/es/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&amp;messageId=5439432</guid> <dc:creator>J J</dc:creator> <dc:date>2014-04-20T04:09:57Z</dc:date> </item> </channel> </rss> 