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by dhammamachi
Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:37 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: awareness all day
Replies: 23
Views: 3899

Re: awareness all day

I consider being mindful of your activities to be the basic foundation of the Path. In the past, my spiritual journey was quite wobbly. I would practice intensively for several months and then "forget" the Path for some time. There are several reasons for my abandonment, but all of them ca...
by dhammamachi
Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:15 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Drugs: A tool, useful for good and bad?
Replies: 47
Views: 12066

Re: Drugs: A tool, useful for good and bad?

I agree with acinteyyo. Even though drugs (medicinal or recreative) may cause a change of mind that you experience as an improvement, the effects are only temporal. As a matter of fact, you can consider them to cause you pain and not improvement. You will crave for its effects (improvement of state ...