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RE: Staying down-to-earth
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Thank you all for your comments! nathan28: Your post really helps due to the fact that I really am exaggerating with the things I love. I have always been this way and sometimes I find it very...
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But the focus is entirely on relaxation and subtle bodyawareness, so I end up getting into insight territory quite often. I guess it can´t be helped...I will have to think seriously about going to...
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I can't speak for Daniel here, but I would just share that if you get too caught up with the descriptions of the map, or hold them too tightly (as I did) it will be hard to correlate the territory...
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Exactly. I'd like to echo what Vince just said - and thanks, Vince. I would suggest, as I've learned from my own very modest experience, that it's better not to jump to any conclusions. Have...
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In my experience retreat really intensifies the side-effects and makes a lot of the details listed far more noticeable. But in the meantime it's not practical to worry about which vipassana jhana...
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Author: woman_alone In keeping with Florian's original thoughts, I'm also going through that period of "ungroundedness". It seems that now, whenever my mind is not pre-occupied with other things,...
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Thanks again everybody! I think it´s a really good idea not to take the maps literally and of coure just keep practising. I would really love to go on a retreat but since I´m a 20-year-old student...
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Forum: Dharma Overground Discussion Forum I wonder what DhO (Dharma Overground) members think about the abortion issue and what their views are on the same. More generally, how does one apply...
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Author: thorjackson hello vishal 1) I feel that these days humans don't have any rights, or what rights they do have can be dismissed at the whim of the government. so what chance does a foetus...
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Maybe it seems like I am dodging the issue but I don't think Buddhist principles can be used in this way. As I see it, the Buddhas teachings have the purpose of ending suffering – this is what he...
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Thanks to those members who responded to my post! I found thor's response to be a tad cynical [] - thor, please don't take it any other way - and CheleK's response to be along lines that I felt...
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CheleK remarked that "<em>...but the purpose of the precepts is to guide a person in their worldly activities so as to leave the mind in a state conducive to developing concentration.</em>" I think...
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Forgive me for trying to embed HTML tags in my previous post. I thought it would work but clearly I was wrong. Come to think of it, the posts on the forum would have looked (aesthetically speaking)...
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Author: josh0 I've seen a number of discussions like this and they usually end up being no different than they would be if you substituted 'Christian' for 'Buddhist'. Some people believe that...
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Hi Vishal Your queries do not 'sound too metaphysical or out-of-the-blue'. They seem quite reasonable. In another thread (Some thoughts on Daniel’s Essay about Arahats) haquan presented an analogy...
training in morality-overcoming hatred
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Forum: Dharma Overground Discussion Forum just to share with you something that came into my mind.if its difficult to get rid of hatred towards somebody-try to see if this person has any virtue'...
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Just a few of my insights regarding hatred: The opposite of love is not hatred, but indifference. Hatred is a perverted form of love, attachment to the object of hate with a passionate wish to...
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Likewise, I have found that formal metta/brahmavihara practice is a tremendous boon. Not only does it improve my own mood--i tend to be an aversive type--which improves my conduct generally, it is...
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Idefinitely agree that love and hatred both are addicting,atracting-when the object of hate dissapears there is grief insted of release-"whoom will we hate now"kind of feeling
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for me it took much longer to get into metta-wishing good everybody then to learn vipassana.and now i do better and the benefits are great
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