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- Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:42 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Minimalist living
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8120
Re: Minimalist living
I relate with this guy a lot. Yes, he allows himself a few luxuries -the projector, a nice apartment- but by American standards he's a regular Diogenes. I don't think the fact that there are people living with less and not by choice makes his lifestyle any less admirable.
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:34 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Porn Free for 90 Days
- Replies: 326
- Views: 72791
Re: Porn Free for 90 Days
I'm starting to experience some of the symptoms he's talking about... the desensitization, even some mild ED. I don't have any specific goals, I'm just going to go porn free for as long as I can and see where it leads. Day 2.
- Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: kalamas sutta
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3815
Re: kalamas sutta
A few months I reread that sutta for the first time in years. I read the commentary on ATI afterwards. I was kind of taken aback that it was needed. My guess is that maybe many people have only seen quotes from the kalama sutta and have not read the whole sutta. That is the only way I can see peopl...
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:06 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Atheism is an Unskillful False Dhamma
- Replies: 407
- Views: 55630
Re: Atheism is an Unskillful False Dhamma
The gravest danger of this "one life only" view is that it encourages the pursuit of selfish pleasures at any cost, and provides no incentive to abstain from unwholesome deeds, nor to cultivate wholesome ones. This is a fallacy. The incentive to cultivate wholesome deeds is kamma, the fru...
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:59 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Atheism is an Unskillful False Dhamma
- Replies: 407
- Views: 55630
Re: Atheism is an Unskillful False Dhamma
Those monks who no longer believed in rebirth would not state this in public because it was wrong to upset another by questioning their beliefs. Then they are promoting dogma, which is equally wrong and harmful. Questioning things is how we arrive at direct insight. A disciple of the Buddha named M...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:04 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Almost silent thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7034
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:41 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Not 'man bashing' but legitimate protest.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 21633
Re: Not 'man bashing' but legitimate protest.
Not even close. Also if being opposed to the blatant misandry in this and the other thread implies little understanding, i'm not sure what ideology you espouse but it certainly isn't Buddhist.rowboat wrote:The discourse here is at the level one would expect to find within military culture.
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:09 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Almost silent thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7034
- Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:02 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 527118
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:48 am
- Forum: Dhammic Stories
- Topic: Ten Bulls
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1776
Ten Bulls
Preface by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps The enlightenment for which Zen aims, for which Zen exists, comes of itself. As consciousness, one moment it does not exist, the next it does. But physical man walks in the element of time even as he walks in mud, dragging his feet and his true nature. So eve...
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Up to Sixty - Non Buddhist Quotes (formerly fifty)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6186
Re: Up to Fifty - Non Buddhist Quotes (formerly fourty)
Oscar Wilde 1. “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” 2. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 3. “I am not young enough to know everything.” 4. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:07 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Xibipììo and the amazing tribe of the Pirahã
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2247
Re: Xibipììo and the amazing tribe of the Pirahã
I think I'm going to have to pick up his book, thanks for sharing
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:34 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Up to Sixty - Non Buddhist Quotes (formerly fifty)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6186
Re: Up to Fourty - Non Buddhist Quotes (formerly thirty)
Some quotes in images I found recently: album
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:10 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Up to Sixty - Non Buddhist Quotes (formerly fifty)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6186
Re: Thirty Non Buddhist Quotes (formerly twenty)
1. Man without virtue is the worst of all animals. -Plato 2. Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. 3. Violence Does in Truth Recoil Upon the Violent AND THE SCHEMER FALLS INTO THE PIT WHICH HE DIGS FOR ANOTHER. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4. Be kind. Remem...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:11 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Where were you on 9-11?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4077
Re: Where were you on 9-11?
I was 11, in math class. It was still early morning. The teacher turned on the news on the radio, though it was more a mass of confusion than news at that point. it was being reported that up 50,000 could be dead and they weren't sure if it was a missile strike or a plane. and of course i remember c...