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For me, it’s my habit of closing down potentially profound, developmental questions with flippant responses.

It really serves me well.

How old was he Shaf? Was he even 60? I remember him starting a log one the occasion of his 50th. That seems two minutes ago

Literally just logged back on here to try and find one of his training logs…

Feel surprisingly sad for a bloke I’ve never actually met. Tough one for his family

motherjuggs&speed wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 3:14 pm What changes now in Britain?

We get a bank holiday the day after my wedding anniversary. So what changes is I order the third bottle of wine and have a couple of old fashioned’s to round off my evening sound in the knowledge I don’t have to get up in the morning

Merlin by Robert Nye. It’s both obscene and obscure. I read it as a young teenager (it was in my dads library) and pre redtube I found the descriptions of nuns finger blasting themselves massively arousing. Dunno if it’s declining t levels but this time around I’ve been more struck by the authors kn...

Happy new year. 2021 is ace here. This year everyone is just drinking Swedish wine and British rum in their homes.

Conspiracy theories here? Jesus mate, avoid twitter if this place is sending you over the edge.

Reconsider though, MIGGA

That’ll do me. The more I can distance myself from the heady mix of fucktards and inbreds that have taken hold of our fair isle the better

3.70

A true American apparently.

Born and live in the uk so website’s fulla shit

How about informing people of the risks, listing suitable control measures and letting people choose how they live accordingly? We don't explain how drunk driving works and then let people make their own decisions. I like that riposte and will probably use it as my own.... however, abstaining from ...

How about informing people of the risks, listing suitable control measures and letting people choose how they live accordingly? Then mandate Specific controls (distancing or ppe) in shared spaces so you don’t get compromised by other folks behaviour? Some bizarre inconsistencies in our approach over...

Thank you!

Go on.... awfl? Angry white female lesbian?

Rant was probably the most mental of them all. He was great. I thought he posted some good stuff. I liked his ability to flog an idea to death too. Like dutifully logging his 90 min daily Bikram yoga sessions for a year or something. And for some reason I continued to click on his log when I knew a...

Can I live with you?

yeah I periodically had/have this experience. My wife tends to nip it in the bud now as usually I start hard, rapid breathing, (not quite hyperventilation but proper fearful breathing) and she wakes me up. She once copped for a headlock doing this but I came round pretty quickly, and traded the head...

You see, many Buddhist folk would tell you to experience your anger, rather than doing something about it. Let it be there, experience it and eventually understand that it is simply some process in the body. Some of my patients tell me about being able to separate themselves from pain. The pain is ...

So that is insight; you break shit down into its component parts until you realise they’re not permanent, not satisfactory and not you. Concentration; you focus on an object to the exclusion of other things - artificially solidifying whatever the thing is and bringing a temporary peace of mind. A cr...

As you ‘progress’ you also notice the sensations on an increasingly granular level, until you are aware almost constantly of an at times irritating buzzing quality to all physical sensations. I would speculate that thought is similar but I’d be lying if I said I experienced this regularly. So from t...

Going onto insights; the hardest but most effective approach I can vouch for personally as a non monastic amateur is to note sensations - including thoughts - as they come and go. For about 2 years I did this for an hour each day then reminded myself in informal practice times during the day. What i...

Whenever I see "stages" in a meditation manual I call bullshit. There are no stages and you can't set goals of meditation. Sit down, shut up and follow the breath. Some days it's bliss, and some days the head is full of stupid thoughts. What matters is not how you feel during meditation, ...

Anyone got any recommended resources on grief in the family? Like, how to be useful if your sister's child dies, or your daughter's husband dies, or that kind of thing? Uh, asking for a friend. Dunno if they are examples you plucked from fresh air but had a bit of experience of both circumstances a...

sure no problem. Rather than my amateurish description though I'll point towards some solid resources, starting here: https://www.dharmaoverground.org/dharma-wiki/-/wiki/Main/FrontPage#section-FrontPage-The+Maps+of+Meditation That site's like the IGX of dharma practice. Worth wasting a few hours on!...

That may work. I think this would come under the bracket of morality training in a Buddhist context. You can reflect on life lessons on a gross level and see how actions and thoughts generate certain effects. You could couple this with a classic Therevadan meditation; concentrate on the breath at ei...

Who's watching this? I'm not a huge football fan but I like the big tournaments. List your predictions here. Had picked out Spain to win it but they may have fucked it up for themselves this week. Out of the rest, I have a particular fondness for Iceland who wont win it but do look good for a nation...