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GlyNAC (Glycine and N-Acetylcysteine - Has increased mouse and rat lifespans by as much as 24%, and can help reduce cognitive impairment in the elderly, and people with brain damage. https://blogs.bcm.edu/2022/03/08/fom-the-labs-glynac-supplementation-extends-life-span-in-mice/ https://www.mdpi.com...

Within the next 50 years or so, research into life extension will very likely pay off (it already is, if you can afford it), between chemistry, genetic treatments, and various other methods life can already be extended by more than a decade in some cases. There have been several discoveries in the p...

Rebirth and karma are not cultural ideas. Without them Buddhism makes no sense. Sure you aren’t a secular humanist? They are perceived as cultural religious ideas. Even by many Buddhists. So what? Without them Buddhism makes no sense. In that case, Buddhism itself is just a cultural religious idea....

Having those cultural/religious ideas limits the audience that's willing to read, engage, and practice. Stripping those out and working it all into something made for modern western minds would vastly increase the audience for it, and simultaneously increase the amount of people who even reach stag...

Buddhism is a intermediary conceptual framework that is used as common reference while beings undergo training, and are learning to free themselves from the need for conceptual frameworks. Over the shore and the raft becomes a heavy hindrance. If you can achieve the same thing without religion, it'...

Having those cultural/religious ideas limits the audience that's willing to read, engage, and practice. Stripping those out and working it all into something made for modern western minds would vastly increase the audience for it, and simultaneously increase the amount of people who even reach stage...

Agree with the second statement. Disagree with one and three. The first results in Sam Harris' bullshit. The latter, Stephen Batchelor's bullshit. I haven't read Sam Harris, or Stephen Batchelor but if what they created was shit -- then they simply didn't understand the dharma well enough to do wha...

The only innovation Buddhism needs is a Dharma entirely stripped from it's Buddhist/Religious packaging. Keeping the essence of the teachings but without any cultural ideas added in would be pretty difficult, but I think it can be done. Fundamentally it would be a modern philosophy, psychology with...

The only innovation Buddhism needs is a Dharma entirely stripped from it's Buddhist/Religious packaging. A few teachers have done this to a lesser extent, but to wholly remove it from it's past traditions would probably keep the dharma alive for alot longer. Keeping the essence of the teachings but...

The only innovation Buddhism needs is a Dharma entirely stripped from it's Buddhist/Religious packaging. A few teachers have done this to a lesser extent, but to wholly remove it from it's past traditions would probably keep the dharma alive for alot longer. Keeping the essence of the teachings but...

The only innovation Buddhism needs is a Dharma entirely stripped from it's Buddhist/Religious packaging. A few teachers have done this to a lesser extent, but to wholly remove it from it's past traditions would probably keep the dharma alive for alot longer. Keeping the essence of the teachings but ...

Meditation, the Jhanas/Samadhi all create conditions that are conductive to spontaneous awakening, or direct transmission as it may be. Desire is suppressed. Clinging and Aversion are suppressed. Single pointed concentration is obtained. The mind becomes clear, lucid, and calm. A high degree of mind...

Anyway, I have a low view of how self-esteem is usually practiced, by trying to positively list off qualities, etc. IME it is better to have self-compassion than self esteem, as that is based on a more universal set of ideas - for instance the notion that all being deserve happiness and it's causes...

It's actually an interesting topic. Pride Vs Self Esteem. Humility vs Arrogance. Everyone thinks that developing qualities like Humility, Kindness, Generosity is a good thing. Once you start learning about emptiness, and meditating on it, you might find that we become just as attached to these quali...

Joy is omniscient peace the brilliant light of the sun penetrating all things with it's radiance trees, flowers, and grassy fields dance in the wind and inside my heart sways with the tree's, and the fields, and the flowers all smiling back upon each other in the warm light of rapture all perception...

I think any separation is fundamentally conceptual. To begin with; the cultural understanding we humans tend to have, which is that we are separate from the rest of the universe is false. Humans tend to view themselves as some third party entity which exists apart from the rest of the universe, our ...

Does Buddhist no-self teaching mean that human beings are not their bodies and minds? If we are not those what are we? :rolleye: We are a persistent idea. The basic Buddhist view is, there is a body, there is a mind. The body is made up of other things, the mind is also made up of other things, the...

Kim O'Hara wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:07 pm

What's a "Butterfly Plant" to you? Do you have a botanical name for it?
To us it's a Bauhinia, and I've never known it to be special in any way.


Kim

https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/butterfly-bush/

Buddleja davidi

The one's we have grow white flowers.