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by User1249x
Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:27 am
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: People you have on your ignore list should not trigger notifications
Replies: 35
Views: 8618

Re: People you have on your ignore list should not trigger notifications

It's obviously a flaw that a user having opted to ignore another is to be notified of their activity.
by User1249x
Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:07 am
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: Can we call out the suspected trolls?
Replies: 1
Views: 1851

Can we call out the suspected trolls?

I have a hard time beliving that anyone is spending this much time on a board without getting payed.
by User1249x
Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:10 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
Replies: 135
Views: 21223

Re: covid vaccine: yea or nay?

Another thought experiment showing the absurdity of forced vaccinations is that say i off into the forest for 20 years and not exposed to pathogens. Is anyone actually "forcing" you to take the vaccine? This argument looks like a :strawman: to me. And even if you could isolate yourself fo...
by User1249x
Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:48 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Frank Yang is DONE!
Replies: 147
Views: 19447

Re: Frank Yang is DONE!

I've followed Frank for more than 10 years. I was quite glad when he started speaking about real breakthroughs but the excitement was shortlived as his language went from ambiguous to crystalized kin to Daniel Ingram's method of expression. I've no interest in listening to him until he familiarizes...
by User1249x
Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:32 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Buddhism and Science. Are they compatible?
Replies: 70
Views: 8376

Re: Buddhism and Science. Are they compatible?

Compatible in what sense? You certainly don't have to reject any scientific facts as i see it but science is also theoretical and there are many wrong popular ideas & ideas that few people fully understand as they are only for those with eyes to see. Also science can be very good at removing wro...
by User1249x
Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:21 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Frank Yang is DONE!
Replies: 147
Views: 19447

Re: Frank Yang is DONE!

cappuccino wrote: Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:14 am You are always done from the time you begin.


At least that's how it seems.


However, progress is from continuing…


You start again, every day.
Another day another struggle
by User1249x
Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:06 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
Replies: 135
Views: 21223

Re: covid vaccine: yea or nay?

It's not that i don't believe in vaccines in general, i think we need to analyse. I also encourage ppl to believe in kamma more so than newly developed pharmaceutical products. If i was 70 year old i wouldn't take this even. Another thought experiment showing the absurdity of forced vaccinations is ...
by User1249x
Tue Jan 05, 2021 4:30 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
Replies: 135
Views: 21223

Re: covid vaccine: yea or nay?

I voted no with conditions. I have a health disorder which puts me in the risk group for serious adverse effects and i am not thrilled about a 1:10000 proposition let alone worse odds. I think the argument that 'we vaccinate you because you have no right to endanger the public' is flawed because peo...
by User1249x
Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:50 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Frank Yang is DONE!
Replies: 147
Views: 19447

Re: Frank Yang is DONE!

I've followed Frank for more than 10 years. I was quite glad when he started speaking about real breakthroughs but the excitement was shortlived as his language went from ambiguous to crystalized kin to Daniel Ingram's method of expression. I've no interest in listening to him until he familiarizes ...
by User1249x
Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:44 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: what u think of tantra?
Replies: 47
Views: 15538

Re: what u think of tantra?

i think it is very dangerous and leads people to a bad place, ie a question might arise for some people; 'if tantra is not sex and is a tool for enlightenment then why can not children who can get enlightened (7+) practice tantra which is a tool for enlightenment?'. I think this is also why some of ...
by User1249x
Fri Dec 11, 2020 2:50 am
Forum: Dhammic Stories
Topic: We are all mentally ill
Replies: 16
Views: 9547

Re: We are all mentally ill

yes and we don't even see the full extent of it
by User1249x
Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:20 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What causes the arising of another perception in jhāna?
Replies: 23
Views: 3334

Re: What causes the arising of another perception in jhāna?

One can say; it's kamma coming into play; or 'it's the result kamma to be experienced as pleasant or as unpleasant or as neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant feeling that is coming into play according to prior development'. This eventuality we called kamma one can speak of in many ways, as new kamma, as ...
by User1249x
Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: interrogation on aggregates
Replies: 1
Views: 4777

interrogation on aggregates

The aggregate of consciousness is consciousness. Four aggregates are not consciousness. 1. Three aggregates are volitional activities. Two aggregates are not volitional activities [...]. 2. Three aggregates are associated with consciousness [...]. The aggregate of form is not associated with consci...
by User1249x
Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:01 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Is the world just a projection of the mind?
Replies: 410
Views: 52416

Re: Is the world just a projection of the mind?

From "Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought", by Ven. K. Ñāṇananda: "'The world, the world,' O Lord, they call it. In what sense, O Lord, is there a world or a concept of a world? Wherever, Samiddhi, there is the eye, the visible forms, the visual consciousness and the things...
by User1249x
Sat Dec 05, 2020 3:04 am
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: How many of you really tried to attain jhana?
Replies: 231
Views: 142314

Re: How many of you really tried to attain jhana?

i've had sort of dream nimitta as well. id dream that i do anapanasati and all field of perception goes white for a while, the white is all encompassing and persists until i wake up. It's what id expect white kasina to be like irl so i assume that the dream was like a visualization of my expectation...