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- Wed May 25, 2016 9:55 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: How do you spend your time? What kind of work do you do?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7408
Re: How do you spend your time? What kind of work do you do?
What kind of work do you do?: I work at a tech startup in healthcare leading a software development team and running a pilot of it. I trained and practised as a doctor but that wasn't the life for me. This is my last go to try something fairly conventional... How do you spend your time outside of wo...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Mentally Stopping One's Heart Beat
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2744
Re: Mentally Stopping One's Heart Beat
Rather than stopping, slowing down the heart rate is interesting. I find that just as I can manipulate the breath to cause a calming down of the body, feelings and mind likewise I can turn my attention and concentration to my heart rate and blood flow throughout my body to do the same. The breath is...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:46 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Urine use
- Replies: 57
- Views: 23296
Re: Urine use
The reason other animals get nutrition from our waste products is that they have different bodies which are able to metabolise our waste products. The only reason I would ever drink my own urine would be in a state of extreme dehydration away from a water source. The only thing my body would take ba...
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:48 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Fourth Tetrad Anapanasati Sutta
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2081
Re: Fourth Tetrad Anapanasati Sutta
I was hoping that different members could relate their technique to this specific tetrad to increase my understanding of the range of methods out there.
- Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:24 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Fourth Tetrad Anapanasati Sutta
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2081
Fourth Tetrad Anapanasati Sutta
I'm not particularly clear on how breath meditation is related to the fourth tetrad of the Anapanasati Sutta.
I wonder if other members who practise breath meditation, could relate their technique to this part of the text.
I wonder if other members who practise breath meditation, could relate their technique to this part of the text.
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 3:33 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Book For Newcomers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1333
Book For Newcomers
I was wondering if someone could recommend an introductory book to Therevada Buddhism. Something for the more scientific, secular types. Not too academic but not too pop psychology. Nothing too far out there either, don't want to alienate anyone before they get started! Also not too based in meditat...
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:32 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
- Replies: 83
- Views: 18612
Re: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
Ah ok I see where you're coming from. But even if we only look at recreational drugs there are some that block receptors such as ketamine which blocks the NMDA receptor. However, as you say the end point of many drugs leads to an increase in bodily function. The enzyme which caffeine blocks usually ...
- Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:20 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
- Replies: 83
- Views: 18612
Re: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
I also gave pro-caffeine arguments about how caffeine functions as an adenosine antagonist, so that this only prevents this substance from inducing sleep, which makes caffeine more as a molecule that blocks a bodily function, therefore not much of a drug. However, there are other molecules that are...
- Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:30 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Christmas time, suffering and wine
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3679
Re: Christmas time, suffering and wine
Sounds like you're getting a bit stressed out by this, understandably. Living in a part of the world where the material aspect of it is so much in our face can be a trial. Alternatively we could turn that to our advantage. Perhaps we could use this experience as a useful method for investigating our...
- Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:10 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
- Replies: 83
- Views: 18612
Re: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
Well there's no getting away from the fact that caffeine is a drug with mental and physical effects including tolerance and addiction. Different people are affected to different degrees. I once had a very learned doctor colleague tell me that caffeine has been shown to be one of the most addictive d...
- Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:13 am
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: My Vipassana Experience & Questions
- Replies: 28
- Views: 28403
Re: My Vipassana Experience & Questions
2. How do I tell the difference between real sensations and imagined ones? If these sensations are imaginary, then are they covering up sensation "as it is" and replacing it with "how I want them to be"? Goenka warns against this numerous times. If these sensations are imaginary...
- Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:52 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Disenchantment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2115
Re: Disenchantment
It does worry me somewhat if I am honest, I have lost a lot of my old intrests, which is definitely a good thing, but I am still in a relationship – trying to balance between being a good Buddhist and still trying to help my to-be wife live the life she loves, which includes me taking part in thing...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: SN Goenka Meditation Instructions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8147
Re: SN Goenka Meditation Instructions
I understand the reason for moving the awareness systematically to parts of the body.. Is there a recommended order and list of parts? or anything and any order will do? I am unable to find the details about this instruction yet. It is taught top of the head to tips of the toes and back the other w...
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Controlling the breath?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2073
Re: Controlling the breath?
Hi Upasaka Sumana,
How are you getting on with the Samatha Trust. I've been attending meetings of a group for the past month and have found them beneficial. The teacher contact from reporting has been especially useful.
Alexander
How are you getting on with the Samatha Trust. I've been attending meetings of a group for the past month and have found them beneficial. The teacher contact from reporting has been especially useful.
Alexander
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:40 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Mindfulness in Prisons
- Replies: 0
- Views: 709
Mindfulness in Prisons
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/19/britains-most-dangerous-prisoners-to-get-meditation-lessons" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Interesting article. I suppose the first thing that comes to mind is the film Dhamma Brothers, although I've never investigated any outc...