Hotdog!
Mostly racoon from what I'm led to believe.
hyacin
joined 2 years ago
Bhavatu Sabba Mangalam
The three sweetest words in the Pali language 🤣
Help, help, I'm being repressed!
She said, she was, a chick.
I don't know how many times I can tell you people this.
I thought it might be interpreted as mean spirited
ngl, it is, a touch, but, I mean, seriously, "no it's ok because capitalism and don't tell people or they'll kill themselves" lol, um, wut? lol ... there is no other way to respond to that.
I’ll bring it back just for you!
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Oh easy - "It's FREE! YES, THAT'S RIGHT, FREE! 10 days of peace and quiet, food and a bed, and you get to learn an amazing, albeit difficult, meditation technique!"
At least for the Goenka retreats - which means someone is already generally inclined toward meditation.
Straight up Vipassana I generally try to sell as 'mindfulness', as it is basically what all the trendy secular 'mindfulness' practices people are pushing is, and a lot of people not yet inclined toward meditation are often turned off by any hint of 'spirituality' or anything remotely religious/Buddhist. I've tried to start more than a couple people on a pure 'mindfulness' version developed by a doctor who worked at the treatment centre I went to when I stopped drinking. He describes it roughly as -
'I studied x of the most popular meditation techniques in the world, and boiled them down to their common elements. So if, for example, one said you had to put your left hand over your right, and another said you had to put your right hand over your left, then obviously it was actually immaterial to the results, so I tossed it out.'
What he ended up with, was basically Vipassana lol, though he doesn't say that, and it's not exact. I guess it's really closer to Anapana which you do for the first couple days at the Goenka retreat too. Either way, I take that angle, and if anyone comes back after having done that for some time wanting to go deeper, I know exactly where to send them 😀
lol why'd you delete? that was on point. I hit upvote and 'poof' it was gone. :-(
It's Zen adjacent, so it seems suitable to share (only found the post because it made it's way to my 'top' feed) - https://www.dhamma.org/en/index
My closest centre is about an hour north, and it's free so how could I not at least try it the first time? I think I went 6 or 7 years in a row after that, only missing last year due to a somewhat prolonged death in the family.
The teachings and practices Goenka ji imparts have change my life and thinking in ways I couldn't have imagined possible before my first retreat.
Congrats!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Genuinely happy and excited for you! I'm 44 and still haven't, and I believe my mother was in her late 30s when she did via equivalency stuff so 21 ain't bad at all (especially with completely understandable and valid hurdles en route)!! 😊
Past tense, again? I can't keep track, is there another ceasefire?
WOW! We struggle with those every year. It doesn't harm the plant?
suicide'ed