The way I understand is, sati is remembering the teachings and being mindful of them. Discernment is a function of wisdom, of knowing what to do when you remember the teachings, so you can choose a wholesome response. So sati makes discernment possible.

Now I live the first time in my life celibate since 32 days. That seemed really impossible (!!) for me, before that moment I watched the video. ... I am not kidding: I never felt so good like in these days. In this month I was thinking a lot about my past. I had a lot of bad experiences in relation...

Hair can be something people become especially attached to and identify with (speaking from experience here!). I believe that's why it's shaved off in Buddhism, to lose your distinguishing marks and source of attachment. There's not anything spiritual about it as far as I'm aware.

The only truly safe place you can find is wherever you are.

The power of Buddhism is projected through the Buddha, dhamma and sangha.

Welcome Jack!

The Goenka retreat centre near Jaipur is a lovely place. Very basic but peaceful and beautiful atmosphere.

There are currently companies that offer 'health scans' where you can pre-emptively check for indicators of health problems even though you aren't experiencing ill health. Very often these reveal some benign or unnoticeable anomaly, like a non-malignant tumour or elevated readings of some physical p...

His answer was to start it in whatever place you can understand. I'd say start at whatever link you notice or suffer from the most and then look at its connection to the one before or after it. Again, whichever is most noticeable. The point is to understand causality so it really doesn't matter whi...

For many people, myself included, the meditation came first. It was offered without any insistence that virtue and sense restraint were necessary. They weren't even mentioned. Only later did a search for more clarity and even more enjoyable mental states lead to a consideration of restraint, as a m...

Maybe we are dealing with two different frames of reference. Sure, and in the psychological framework sociopathy and the other 'dark triad' personality disorders are seen as beyond hope for moral functioning. This lady seems to have found a buddhism-like frame to help her behave in a (more) moral w...

One thing which really fascinates me (in a negative way) is how presumptuous the many worlds schools is in completely ignoring consciousness. ... I give it to Carroll and other proponents of many worlds that their theory is neat and elegant in terms of its formalism, but at best it must be very inc...

Fixed the link. It's the same author. Some relevant quotes from this second article: He knew I didn’t take things like this personally. That’s one of the perks of being married to a sociopath: I don’t get jealous. He knew that if he were to tell me he liked her, I would listen and relate without rea...

I'm being a bit flippant, I don't really think this person is enlightened. But I do think her rational, non-emotional approach to behaviour and decision making is very close to what the Buddha advised, and along the same reasons for it (to achieve better results). Here's a selection of quotes I foun...

Hello i have recently looked some videos of some clayrovoidants, one is from Deseret Tavares, she says that an earthquake 8.0 Will come to California in the San Andres fault in the following 1-3 months of 2024 I predict that there will be even more days during that time span when earthquakes will n...

What are some practices centered around the 12 links of dependant origination that you have found helpful? How might one practice using, or in accordance with these 12? What I've found useful is to focus in on two links for a period of time (on and off the cushion) that are noticeably causing me su...