This Stop-The-Ashby-High-Rise stuff is out of control...

some_kind_of_ben · 28 days

i can't help but think of these people as rich whiners who want to live basically in the heart of a city at suburban density levels. grow up, and stop being so selfish.

iCookBaconShirtless · 1 month

i've seriously never heard anyone in houston mention it, 100% of discussion i've seen has been things like this where people are surprised, or proud etc.

IsleCook · 1 month

so Texas is moving too fast in stem cell treatments now? weird.

danlev · 1 month

https://twitter.com/#!/dkvelasquez/status/184895108171309057

cohesion · 1 month

hmm, it's hard to out into words for me. consciousness seems like a higher more complicated object. attention is sharp and in the moment. consciousness definitely comes and goes, and in my experience is usually gone actually. attention seems more related to senses directly.

probably actual Buddhist texts would be better than my terrible rambling, but I don't know which ones are particularly good.

cohesion · 1 month

attention and consciousness i think can be easily differentiated in meditation, but reading that the areas for consciousness and the visual parts of the brain aren't directly connected was interesting (in macaques anyway, probably also humans?)

cohesion · 1 month

one of those things that become experientially obvious with meditation.

niko2000slp · 1 month

We do a new moon ceremony that is referred to as confession sometimes, but it's not like catholic confession at all. It's just a restatement of the vows, and saying the atonement gatha ("all my ancient twisted karma..."). (There is also a long part thanking the ancestors that transmitted the dharma, but that's not really confession related, I guess :)

There is no private one on one aspect of this ceremony.

miamihappy · 1 month

i've never heard anyone say that being overweight itself is a hindrance, but the causes of that might point to hindrances someone has. These are so numerous I don't even know where to start. I don't think many western buddhists would initiate that conversation, but meditation alone could probably help bring some of those causes in the open.

One of the precepts that we use in Zen is variously, don't use intoxicants, wikipedia lists it as "Proceed clearly – Do not cloud the mind" etc. A good way to think of it is not trying to always augment the situation. In my personal experience with overeating this is the most relevant to me, but I think people's reasons for overeating are probably very diverse. For me, I often overeat to modify my reality. For example, I'm enjoying one thing, wouldn't it be better to have a little snack with this?

skkid11 · 1 month

I go to a soto zen temple also, and it is almost exactly like this. on the main day though (Saturday) we only have one 30 minute meditation, and no kinhin for people that might not be used to that much.

dreamrabbit · 2 months

agree, thank you for posting this. the parts about an encompassing awareness of the entire body are helpful.

StramenNoodles · 2 months

I am not the original thread poster, so I can't be sure what they are referring to, but I will try to answer more directly. Any group of people will split off and have different views on things. Of course there are lots of types of buddhism, and people who are newer might be more willing to think this one is the best or that one. In personal practice I haven't seen much of this actually. The sangha I attend regularly has people talk from other traditions, and it's not an issue, but with more conservative groups it might be.

Here is a good discussion of a buddhist story related.

Buddhism is like a technology, there is a goal, and instructions. But maybe more than one instruction set can get you to the same place. :)

StramenNoodles · 2 months

agree to some extent, but hopefully if you are lucky enough to have a zen community it's not all inscrutable stories all the time. :) there is a lot of practical advice also, and for me, zen is very helpful since i am very prone to attaching to goals. zen does a good job of reminding me that these goals are also just thoughts.

philmarreddit · 3 months

at about 4 minutes they start using the percussive thing for the beat here: http://media.sfzc.org/mp3/2007/2007-01-30-cc-tuesday-service.mp3 the one in the audio is probably wood though, not sure about the one in the photo.

also the bell sound is the bowl instrument.

gomer11 · 4 months

Believing this or not is up to you. Don't think of it as something you have to accept or not, that you can like or dislike. When you sit, does doubt hinder you? See if it does. Don't worry about a proscription for doubt, that's nothing. Is there doubt or not? The hindrances don't say you shouldn't doubt, just that it's a possible problem.

gomer11 · 4 months

I've had that word "doubt" in the hindrances be explained to me as "corrosive doubt", as opposed to giving up and not verifying things yourself. (this is sloth, by the way.)

Corrosive doubt, I think, is the very specific mental state, self-doubt, doubt that enlightenment exists, etc. If it's something you can verify, you should, but if you start to think that you aren't good enough, or you don't have what it takes, this I think is the hindrance of doubt.

In the book Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, the author describes this sort of doubt as a farmer trying to dig a well, and after digging for a few feet gives up and moves. Over, and over this happens, soon his whole farm is covered with shallow holes. If only he had dug for a while in any place he would have reached the water by now.

sojazu · 4 months

mdacc has a large data center very close also. they did seismic testing, everything seemed ok. :)

LiudvikasT · 6 months

Or else. ;)

LiudvikasT · 6 months

purchased, thanks for the rec. :)

thenaturalmind · 6 months

why?

WalledGardener · 6 months

do you actually feel that there is no i, or are you letting that concept get in the way of your actions?

cohesion · 6 months

most of my experience is with zen. i would say that it is extremely non-supernatural. nirvana is not a supernatural thing, it's just a neurocognitive change that can happen as a result of a process that you can do. the evidence of this, and everything, is only in your sensate reality.

doogmeist1 · 6 months

this photo has fuel tanks, and missiles, right? :)

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