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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
Re: Favourite Sports
I don't really do martial arts anymore, but I do like to workout with the Bas Rutten thai boxing workout (it's basically cardio-kickboxing, but a little more realistically oriented); I don't know if that counts as still doing martial arts or not (like, in my mind no, but also if I was still doing m...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 553
Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
"It is better to do one’s own dharma, even though imperfectly, than to do another’s dharma, even though perfectly. By doing one’s innate duties, a person does not incur sin." At a minimum our own dharma, at least wrt Buddhist teaching, means to cultivate love and kindness to all beings an...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Counting breaths while meditation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1931
Re: Counting breaths while meditation
Alan Wallace teaches many different variations of counting breaths. They are featured prominently his book the Attention Revolution, and his other books and recorded teachings of course. If I recall correctly, in a teaching I was listening to in the last year, Alan says that one could take the meth...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
Re: Favourite Sports
The activity I have probably given the most time to over the course of my life is skateboarding. Next would be ice hockey. Next snowboarding. If I had grown up near the ocean, I probably would have surfed. These days, I probably ride my bicycle more than anything else. If you can see the theme... I...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
Re: Favourite Sports
I ticked "other", as I so often do. :tongue: I play an Olympic sport (at far below Olympic level, of course) which holds regular national and state level competitions (which I could maybe qualify for if I worked really hard, but I won't) and gets almost exactly zero coverage on mass media...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:48 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Poll: Summer or Winter Olympics?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 106
Poll: Summer or Winter Olympics?
Which do you prefer: Summer Olympics or Winter Olympics (or both equally or both but more one one side)?
I like both but more Summer Olympics.
I like both but more Summer Olympics.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:34 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 634
Favourite Sports
I'll bet people are more into sports than is realized. Which of the following are you interested in or participate in? My other is triathlon/duathlons. Under martial arts I like and do /have done judo, karate (a form of Hawai'ian Kempo I learned as a kid), taijiquan, ju-jitsu, boxing and I like Muay...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: How to be consistent? How to just do it??
- Replies: 4
- Views: 192
Re: How to be consistent? How to just do it??
I know Zen Buddhism has the power to be life changing. The words in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (great book) hit me at my core. I know this path can open the door to acceptance in my day to day life. However my main issue is lack of discipline. I love reading “about” Zen Buddhism, but making the time...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:47 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Is Nyingma much more spread than Sarma (in Europe)?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 577
Re: Is Nyingma much more spread than Sarma (in Europe)?
I would like to point out that HHDL and HH Kyabgon Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche have both given the Kalachakra empowerment and initial teachings several times in Europe (for clarification HHDL more than once and HH 41st Sakya Trizen at least once). Other lamas, including at least one Nyingma lama I...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Confused about teachings of Mahayana.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 444
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1319
Re: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
Scott - this is Queequeg Since the official recognition of Buddhism in the 6th c. until the post WWII Constitution, Buddhism had a legal status as part of the state. Much of the history of Japanese Buddhism has been about recognition of various lineages by the state and the tension between state and...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Do you get rid of suffering for good with Dzogchen ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 428
Re: Do you get rid of suffering for good with Dzogchen ?
This is not really a Dzogchen question per se. I have a question. In the Dzogchen model, at what point or stage does suffering totally disappears ... When one attains Buddhahood However you radically restrict the scope of suffering: ... or greatly reduce with no possibility of regression even if one...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3262
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
BUDDHISM AND ANARCHISM – REFLECTIONS ON THE ECO-ANARCHISM OF GARY SNYDER , Brian Morris, 2020-11-10 Again, not a recommendation or even a comment as I have not read completely through the article, but a possible discussion point. There is no simple or direct relationship, as I have long emphasized,...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3262
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Navigating Extinction: Zen Buddhism and Eco-Anarchism , Kevin J. Holohan I'm not recommending this article, I haven't read through it yet, but am posting it as a possible discussion point. Abstract What can esoteric knowledge and spiritual practices from the East teach us about the deep psychologic...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Asia/Pacific
- Topic: HH Drikung Kyabgon Eight Places Pilgrimage
- Replies: 0
- Views: 231
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: North America (USA & Canada)
- Topic: Vajrakilaya Empowerment And Teachings, Walden, NY June 25 - July 4 2024
- Replies: 0
- Views: 148
Vajrakilaya Empowerment And Teachings, Walden, NY June 25 - July 4 2024
Vajrakilaya Empowerment And Teachings Program At Tsechen Kunchab Ling , Walden, NY, June 25- July 4 2024 Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen is delighted to announce that His Holiness the Sakya Trichen has consented to bestow a ten-day series of very important Dharma teachings, including the Vajrakilaya empowe...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: 84000.co Siṃha’s Questions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 340
84000.co Siṃha’s Questions
Siṃha’s Questions , Siṃhaparipṛcchā, སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ། , seng ges zhus pa 1.1 Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was dwelling in Rājagṛha on Vulture Peak, together with a great saṅgha of 1,250 monks and a great saṅgha of bodhisattvas.8 1.2 Knowing ...