What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?

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What does a Buddhist do on a saturday eveenuing?

Study the dhamma
13
20%
Practice
6
9%
Meditate
13
20%
watch TV and fall asleep
9
14%
party
1
2%
cook&eat
8
12%
go out in town
1
2%
work
6
9%
hobby
6
9%
get enlightened over and over again
2
3%
 
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What does a Buddhist do on a Saturday evening?

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You have 10 options, you can cast 4 votes, and you can revote, and the poll will run 'endlessly'.

If your favorite in/activity wasn't mentioned, please simply choose what comes closest, like "hobby" and explain. Thank you.

Have fun!

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(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?! :D


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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 :quote: buddhist :quote:
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Fede wrote:(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
Hi, Fede,
I don't know about 'how' - that's your choice :smile: - 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. :toast:
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.
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Oh, just choose the closest, Kim... :smile: (At first I wrote "closet".... :rofl: I love those typos!)

I can only offer 10 options, I learned.

Perhaps choose "hobby" ? :coffee:
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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.
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#10 is an oxymoron...it (enlightenment) happens only once...so we're told...
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Rayfield, this board offers 10 options maximum....perhaps simply choose 'hobby'? Your family is your hobby, right? Sort of. :group:
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appicchato wrote:#10 is an oxymoron...it (enlightenment) happens only once...so we're told...
I was feeling humorous when I wrote that, dear Venerable... :D
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Kim O'Hara wrote:
Fede wrote:(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
Hi, Fede,
I don't know about 'how' - that's your choice :smile: - 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. :toast:
Exactly! Its the weekend baby! Time to party! :toast: Well maybe not so much anymore nowadays, the fifth precept an all. But I do very much still enjoy my weekends.

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Kim O'Hara wrote:
Fede wrote:(How - and why - would my Saturday evening differ from any other evening....?)
Hi, Fede,
I don't know about 'how' - that's your choice :smile: - 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.
Ah. I'm in the 20% of adults then.... I work 7 days a week.....

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?! :D


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Greetings,
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.
Yep, same here.

Thus, it may involve Mario Kart on the Wii. :tongue:

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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. :group:
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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

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It's Saturday?... :smile:
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