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- Mon Jan 27, 2014 5:05 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Why do you think being present is so important?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1471
Why do you think being present is so important?
I've found that to truly heal my emotional ails, I have to give myself my undivided attention, instead of other people who won't return it. Why do we crave so much to be recognized? To be loved, even?
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:20 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: How to remain still in deep meditative states
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2972
How to remain still in deep meditative states
Clearing my head isn't the biggest struggle for me during meditation, staying still is! My legs jump up at every little noise or discomfort. The deeper I go, the more my nerve endings resist... it's like they're screaming, "No! Don't transcend sensory reality." Hehe. Help?
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:07 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Anatta experience ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2700
Re: Anatta experience ?
When I first experience anatta about a year ago, I thought I was having a derealization episode. How did you have yours?
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:00 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Too much karma?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2111
Re: Too much karma?
Oh! As for dealing with depression, look into DBT and radical acceptance.
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:55 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Too much karma?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2111
Re: Too much karma?
Dearest Emma, Let me first say: my heart goes out to you. Although I am only 15, I too have experienced the suffering that comes from having a dysfunctional family, financial struggles, depression, anxiety, feeling unloved and unwanted, not feeling beautiful, and wanting to just give up. While we ma...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Locality of nibbanna
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7216
Re: Locality of nibbanna
takso, will you tell me more about the inward force i.e. Awakening?
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 9:03 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: BASIS FOR KARMA / REBIRTH
- Replies: 197
- Views: 27598
Re: BASIS FOR KARMA / REBIRTH
Will someone define awareness for me? Is one in a coma aware?
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:59 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: Dealing with anger
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4837
Re: Dealing with anger
Remember this: the other person is you. I love the Buddha's quote, "holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned," because it exemplifies this perfectly. During this time of struggle is the perfect time to p...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 6:48 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Struggling with the Concept of No/Non-Self/Emptiness
- Replies: 95
- Views: 14866
Re: Struggling with the Concept of No/Non-Self/Emptiness
This was a troubling concept for me as well when I first came across it. No need to fear, however, for it simply means that everything is void of a single constituent property. So your "self" is really a collection of the five skandhas, which others have mentioned. Through quantum physics,...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 4:53 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Reintroducing Myself, Have Been Away a Long Time
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1256
Re: Reintroducing Myself, Have Been Away a Long Time
Warm greetings, dear one!
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Locality of nibbanna
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7216
Re: Locality of nibbanna
Might we all be in nirvana already and we just don't know?
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 6:41 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Locality of nibbanna
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7216
Re: Locality of nibbanna
According to BuddhaNet (idk if this is a reliable source or not): "It is a dimension transcending time and space and thus is difficult to talk about or even think about. Words and thoughts being only suited to describe the time-space dimension. But because Nirvana is beyond time, there is no mo...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 6:38 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Locality of nibbanna
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7216
Re: Locality of nibbanna
Oh. I did not know this. Tell me more!
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:44 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Locality of nibbanna
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7216
Locality of nibbanna
Nirvana, I assume, transcends time and space, so in that sense, can one who attains it still accurately be called a 'human' being, one who dwells in this Earth? Or in this universe, for that matter, where nothing is permanent?
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:37 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How to love, accept yourself if you can't?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3671
Re: How to love, accept yourself if you can't?
And how can I do that? By exploring the feeling deeply. Can you remember feeling loved as a child? Was your self-esteem always so low? If not, what caused the shift? You have to go deeply inside of yourself and allow everything to be remembered. It is often painful and difficult, but can be done. M...
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:48 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Advice for the young layperson
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3189
Advice for the young layperson
Perhaps one day I will become a nun, but for now I am living in the secular world filled with the plagues of passion and ignorance. I have set my heart completely on liberating myself and all others from suffering... can any of you link me articles on how others have done this or provide your own in...
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:39 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: On marriage/relationships
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2813
Re: On marriage/relationships
I have, can I do this without becoming a nun?avisitor wrote: Have you dedicated your life to finding liberation and serving others??
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:06 pm
- Forum: Dharma Stories
- Topic: Pay no attention
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3511
Re: Pay no attention
I think we can certainly learn from others faults (because really, they are ours!), but we should not condemn those imperfections in others, instead we should perfect them in ourselves.
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:02 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: On marriage/relationships
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2813
On marriage/relationships
"Love" (as many in samsara understand it- coming only from others) brings suffering. What should be done? With this knowledge, should I pursue relationships but not attach myself to their outcomes? Or should I avoid them altogether?
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 1:09 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Law of attraction?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5669
Re: Law of attraction?
Karma is the closest you're gonna get, tbh, so just stick with that.