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What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
I'm usually working on translating suttas from access to insight for a french website : http://www.tipitaka.fr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
sometimes, I meditate as well
and oops I almost forgot: I'm still not a buddhist
sometimes, I meditate as well
and oops I almost forgot: I'm still not a buddhist
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Hi, Fede,Fede wrote:(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
I don't know about 'how' - that's your choice - but the 'why', for 80% of adults and 95% of teenagers, is that Saturday evening is one of only two that are not followed by by work or school.
But it doesn't affect me much either. I gave up weekly overindulgence years ago.
I have a different problem with the quiz, Annapurna: without a 'sit and read' option, my response would be grossly inaccurate.
Kim
Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Oh, just choose the closest, Kim... (At first I wrote "closet".... I love those typos!)
I can only offer 10 options, I learned.
Perhaps choose "hobby" ?
I can only offer 10 options, I learned.
Perhaps choose "hobby" ?
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Your options missed a big one for me..."spend time with family".
As fede said, it's pretty much like other nights, except that we don't have the normal weekday prep for the next work/school day.
We'll prepare and eat dinner, spend some time doing stuff with the kids; we (wife and I) may let them do something on their own while we watch a TV show or something, put kids to bed, I'll usually sit for 20-30 minutes, maybe post up on a forum or research something, maybe work on stuff for a startup business, then settle in for the night.
Yeah, we're boring people.
Fortunately we do make plans to do other things here and there...family camping, I backpack with friends, travel, etc.
As fede said, it's pretty much like other nights, except that we don't have the normal weekday prep for the next work/school day.
We'll prepare and eat dinner, spend some time doing stuff with the kids; we (wife and I) may let them do something on their own while we watch a TV show or something, put kids to bed, I'll usually sit for 20-30 minutes, maybe post up on a forum or research something, maybe work on stuff for a startup business, then settle in for the night.
Yeah, we're boring people.
Fortunately we do make plans to do other things here and there...family camping, I backpack with friends, travel, etc.
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
#10 is an oxymoron...it (enlightenment) happens only once...so we're told...
Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Rayfield, this board offers 10 options maximum....perhaps simply choose 'hobby'? Your family is your hobby, right? Sort of.
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
I was feeling humorous when I wrote that, dear Venerable...appicchato wrote:#10 is an oxymoron...it (enlightenment) happens only once...so we're told...
Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Exactly! Its the weekend baby! Time to party! Well maybe not so much anymore nowadays, the fifth precept an all. But I do very much still enjoy my weekends.Kim O'Hara wrote:Hi, Fede,Fede wrote:(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
I don't know about 'how' - that's your choice - but the 'why', for 80% of adults and 95% of teenagers, is that Saturday evening is one of only two that are not followed by by work or school.
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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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Ah. I'm in the 20% of adults then.... I work 7 days a week.....Kim O'Hara wrote:Hi, Fede,Fede wrote:(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
I don't know about 'how' - that's your choice - but the 'why', for 80% of adults and 95% of teenagers, is that Saturday evening is one of only two that are not followed by by work or school.
my ostensible two days off (Wednesday and Thursday) I work in a restaurant in the evenings....
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Greetings,
Thus, it may involve Mario Kart on the Wii.
Metta,
Retro.
Yep, same here.RayfieldNeel wrote:Your options missed a big one for me..."spend time with family".
As fede said, it's pretty much like other nights, except that we don't have the normal weekday prep for the next work/school day.
Thus, it may involve Mario Kart on the Wii.
Metta,
Retro.
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
I did choose that, and no criticism to you was intended.
Annapurna wrote:Rayfield, this board offers 10 options maximum....perhaps simply choose 'hobby'? Your family is your hobby, right? Sort of.
Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
Hi Anna
Another notable exception was "spending time reading and contributing to Dhamma Wheel"
My usual saturday night involves:
- cook for family
- eat with family
- relaxing in front of the tv with family
- meditation
- spending some time on DW with my far-flung dhamma friends
- sleep
kind regards
Ben
Another notable exception was "spending time reading and contributing to Dhamma Wheel"
My usual saturday night involves:
- cook for family
- eat with family
- relaxing in front of the tv with family
- meditation
- spending some time on DW with my far-flung dhamma friends
- sleep
kind regards
Ben
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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e: [email protected]..
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Re: What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?
It's Saturday?...