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They're the ones who sounded in the wrong, and you just tried to do the right thing. Whatever you do now, i.e. no take the bin, is irrelevant. Youre not someone's personal bin carrier
 
Why is rural beef and angst so much more interesting than the city equivilant. I genuinely hate the yoga teacher.
 
If someone in the city complains about neighbours it's yada yada yada. Someone in the Cotswolds I pull up a chair.
 
BigMoaner said:
lovely video on Heidegger. the best unaware (seemingly so anyway) buddhist i have read.

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i'm not using heidegger to prop up buddhism, neither need each other for that, but to me that video is the near-precise articulation of the spiritual, if spiritual is a thing at all, or if words can even someway point to "the way". "that which is before thought." amazing philosopher who probably takes a life time to even partially grasp. but that video expresses something fundemental to me in all my spiritual practices that i have ever done, all the teachers i have heard prattle on. what is all this in the face of nothing?
 
BigMoaner said:
i'm not using heidegger to prop up buddhism, neither need each other for that, but to me that video is the articulation of the spiritual, if spiritual is a thing at all, or if words can even someway point to "the way". "that which is before thought." amazing philosopher who probably takes a life time to even partially grasp. but that video expresses something fundemental to me in all my spiritual practices that i have ever done, all the teachers i have heard prattle on. what is all this in the face of nothing?
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To do is to be.
To be is to do.

Do. Be. Do. Be. Do.
 
boggles my mind that he thought all that stuff and still wouldn't apologies to teh jewish colleagues. amazing work, utter cunt.
 
I can't find oak meditation in play store - is it an iPhone app?

I have headspace but it's pretty much unusable in its free form. Is it worth paying for anyone?
 
heinous seamus said:
I can't find oak meditation in play store - is it an iPhone app?

I have headspace but it's pretty much unusable in its free form. Is it worth paying for anyone?
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Yeah, I think Oak is iPhone only, which is a shame.

Brainaddict is right about Insight Timer - its free stuff is extensive, but quality control and too much choice are both problems.
 
When I've used 'Insight Timer' - I've literally just used the timing app on it.

I'm lucky to have free access to Headspace through work. Err - I think it.s improved now that you don't just have to listen to Andy Puddicome .. who I came to find slightly irritating after a while..but have a choice of 'voices'... :hmm:

I think Headspace can be quite effective if you've the discipline to use it!
 
bit obessed with this dylan minor (masterpiece) work. To me it contains so much dharma, so much Zen. He expresses so much of my own practice, whether it's the "true" message of his song (a kind of liberating nihilism) is another matter. But it's definitely one that rings home for me. Love the anger in his snarl. All his songs have a certain anger, even the beutiful ones. He said he signed off all his songs "good luck".

 
BigMoaner said:
bit obessed with this dylan minor (masterpiece) work. To me it contains so much dharma, so much Zen. He expresses so much of my own practice, whether it's the "true" message of his song (a kind of liberating nihilism) is another matter. But it's definitely one that rings home for me. Love the anger in his snarl. All his songs have a certain anger, even the beutiful ones. He said he signed off all his songs "good luck".

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Great song from a great album. Found it in the library when I was 16. :thumbs:
 
somethoughts. i try to include the body as much as the mind in my practice. "the observer" taking in what is happenign down there too. below my neck, and that "body" just another appearance in conciousness. It's another object of conciousness like a memory or a thought is. You can learn so much about "where you find yourself" (stress on the word "find"). The hair grows itself, the eyes move by themselves, the lungs extract and blow out, the finger nails move so slightly, the throat goes dry, the brain gives thoughts, the nervous systems gives or takes feelings. Just sit and watch it all. The "self" appears as a thing like all those other things, the hair growing, the teeth grinding, etc, appear. The trees are growing, the sun is doing its thing, the cars go by." Trace back then, try and find the cause, try to find the mover, the thing that is causing the overall happening. I can't, hit the void, out of it comes everythign, even my "self", in one almighty "Absoloute" or "Real" that cannot be described ever by anyone! Then back to the reality of someone face timing on the 432! :(
 
readign with great joy and often awkward pain the Faithful Buddhist by Tom Pepper. The radical leftist/althusserian/zizek writer who grapples with buddhisms relationship to ideology. The Faithful Buddhist eBook : Pepper, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Books

taken from his writings from teh spectucular Speculative Non Buddhism blog that really was essential for "western buddhism" in all its mainly pathetic iterations: Non-Buddhism

well worth a read if you want buddhism to be more than sitting in a stupified atomised state.
 
BigMoaner said:
lovely video on Heidegger. the best unaware (seemingly so anyway) buddhist i have read.

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I've read a lot of buddhist philosophy over the years, from alan watts to the koyoto school. and i still think ol Mart's line "we don't come to thought, thought comes to us" still is probably the greatest buddhist insight i've ever seen. it's all there in that sentance, for me. one of the profoundest things i have ever, ever seen written down. that one sentance can provide almost a life time of contemplation and meditation. i remember it at least once or twice a day.

the video is worth a watch. he fleshes out (my understanding anyway) of Zen, completley accidently I suspect. Heidegger and Buddhsim work so well together. he is influencing non dual spirituality without the practitioners knowing it in the main. "Being there". beautiful. beautiful mind. shame he was a nazi for a few years :(
 
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