It often happens that there is no perfectly good solution to our problems. You only have two choices in dealing with termites - you kill them (or get someone else to kill them for you, which is equally bad kamma), or you let them keep eating your house. Letting them eat your house until it falls dow...

I would sit and then I would try to not think anything, then watch the breath in and out, there is no problem with some other thoughts coming and disturbing, but instead I would feel restless, uneasy and feel like waking up and think something. Am I doing something wrong? Notice that it's just as i...

Lots of good answers here already so I will just suggest that, of the four Brahmaviharas, karuna is the one which is least able to be practised in solitude. It needs to be expressed in action, far more than the other three.


Kim

DooDoot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:10 am

santa100 wrote:hence even more patients will flood the hospitals, and the miserable viscious cycle repeats all over again.

Unproven. Non-lockdown countries have not experienced the above.

Italy and Spain experienced it in the early days of the pandemic. England followed.


Kim

Symbolism of ancient Egyptian rite reveals karma underpinning this after death rite: https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/forum/f21n11p481_the-weighing-of-the-heart.htm It's probably more accurate to say that both the notion of kamma and the weighing of the heart are instances of a universal religi...

... But according to the original science, the constant face touching, improper wearing, loose fitting, added safety confidence from wearer, masks are more likely to increase the spread. Science works by a process of constant improvement, keeping what proves to be correct, improving what turns out ...

Thanks for your work here, SDC, and all the best for whatever comes next.


Kim

... Masks are ineffective at stopping the spread. ... Believe what you like, thepea, but I think it's sensible to believe the best recent science. (And I do stress recent . The pandemic is only a few months old and we've been learning fast, so anything more than a few weeks old may have been supers...

Its just another corona-virus the world must learn to live with. No it isn't. It's a particular coronavirus and in many ways quite a weird one. Obvious comparisons are with SARS and MERS, and this is what they look like: How deadly is it? The number of fatalities from the new coronavirus has overwh...

Here's a good news round-up from around the world - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-14/coronavirus-update-covid19-who-warning-tedros-us-vaccine-testing/12451120 One section says - WHO warns crisis may get 'worse and worse and worse' The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the C...

Could you give the link please? I already posted the video. Nobel prize winning scientist Prof Michael Levitt: lockdown is a “huge mistake” https://youtu.be/bl-sZdfLcEk A link is here: Nobel prize-winning scientist says Australia 'panicked' when it went into lockdown and made a 'huge mistake' - as ...

Most of us are trying to avoid that sort of thing here. What's this thread about? Nobel Prize recipient has said Australia is in a very bad position due to developing no herd immunity; yet created massive economic & social costs; as well of medical cost of people unable to receive medical treatment...

I see it happening here in regional Australia - not all people or all the time but most people most of the time. This is a community with no active cases (as far as we know) but bombarded with media from the big cities where there still are active cases and (currently) an outbreak in Melbourne leadi...

Greetings simsapa, The teaching on the 5 aggregates separates form (rūpa) & consciousness (viññāṇa). So what is the Buddhist view of the relationship between mind & body? What is the difference between viññāṇa and mind? How should we regard the evidence that there is a strong connection between wha...

Good question, simsapa! Some of us had a long discussion on a related question a few weeks ago and the conclusion was that the doctrines just don't make any sense unless there is a "mind" of some kind which is (somewhat) independent of the physical brain. That's about as far as we got, however. As f...