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- Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:42 am
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: dealing with anger and guilt
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4514
Re: dealing with anger and guilt
Why not bring anger onto the path? If you feel you are getting angry, unleash that anger fully on your own delusions. Speak, out loud, to your own ego and rebuff it with it's own anger, especially if it's in the context of an argument. This way, you transform the unskillful anger into skillful wrath...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:39 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Daily Practice Commitments
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3589
Re: Daily Practice Commitments
I think a good point is the idea of the "four exhilarations". These are eating, sleeping, meditation, and taking care of the body. Like, no matter what, I eat everyday. This is a true statement for nearly all people :) People may not take care of their body everyday, but everyone's got to ...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:39 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: quitting smoking - looking for inspiration
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2364
Re: quitting smoking - looking for inspiration
Congrats on the quitting, it's something you won't regret. Some of the main things I used that got me through the first weeks of quitting were to identify when a craving was coming and realizing that it would pass. Breathing through the craving really helps give space to the impulse to smoke. The se...
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Collection of stories about ordinary practitioners
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2070
Re: Collection of stories about ordinary practitioners
I actually stumbled upon this book a few days ago and it has really inspired me. http://www.buddhanet.net/cmdsg/go1-1.htm#Chapter%20One It's an account of a regular guy who becomes a Theravadin monk, basically on a whim. His experiences and challenges are so mundane (and he is so candid) that I real...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:53 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Offering The First Portion Of Every Meal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1125
Offering The First Portion Of Every Meal
Hello, been a lurker here for a while but this is my first posting. I've been wondering how others perform the offerings of the first portion of every meal to the three jewels. Is there a specific procedure that most follow? Also, when eating out, would you bring back the first portion and place it ...