Starting to feel better
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Starting to feel better
I've been prescribed a higher dose on my anti depressants and am now starting to feel much better. I almost feel like a human being again, and very importantly I now have more of a drive to meditate. Hopefully after getting into a good routine of meditation and Buddhist practice, THEN I may think about come down on my meds again.
"The original heart/mind shines like pure, clear water with the sweetest taste. But if the heart is pure, is our practice over? No, we must not cling even to this purity. We must go beyond all duality, all concepts, all bad, all good, all pure, all impure. We must go beyond self and nonself, beyond birth and death. When we see with the eye of wisdom, we know that the true Buddha is timeless, unborn, unrelated to any body, any history, any image. Buddha is the ground of all being, the realization of the truth of the unmoving mind.” Ajahn Chah
Re: Starting to feel better
That's awesome Greg! So happy for you!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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Excellent!
Also continue to follow your doctor's advice/Rx.
Also continue to follow your doctor's advice/Rx.
Re: Starting to feel better
Wonderful! This is good news.
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Great news Greg!
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Good News!
be sure to follow your doctors advise & consult him fully before trying to change the dose!
Have you asked him about any possible referrals to mindfulness based approaches?
be sure to follow your doctors advise & consult him fully before trying to change the dose!
Have you asked him about any possible referrals to mindfulness based approaches?
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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I am happy to hear this!
Re: Starting to feel better
Glad to hear this!
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Re: Starting to feel better
Very good
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Excellent new Greg! All the best on your noble endeavor!
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Re: Starting to feel better
That is good news, Greg!
Wishing you all the very best.
with metta,
Ben
Wishing you all the very best.
with metta,
Ben
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Thanks for the compassionate replies.
"The original heart/mind shines like pure, clear water with the sweetest taste. But if the heart is pure, is our practice over? No, we must not cling even to this purity. We must go beyond all duality, all concepts, all bad, all good, all pure, all impure. We must go beyond self and nonself, beyond birth and death. When we see with the eye of wisdom, we know that the true Buddha is timeless, unborn, unrelated to any body, any history, any image. Buddha is the ground of all being, the realization of the truth of the unmoving mind.” Ajahn Chah
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great news man
Take care of mindfulness and mindfulness will take care of you.
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Good news. What difference do the medicines make if you would describe it?
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I'm glad to hear you are feeling better, greg. Hope things continue to improve for you.
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