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Damn, what a piece of shit.

Just don't move during the session. Shifting around makes the practice worthless. From what I know, each hour there is a short break...so that would be the time to do it.

Well, I've been San Antonio, Texas. I found it to be one of the greatest places. The girls there were exceptionally nice. Been to a few others places too, and didn't find them to be too unusual. Lived in New Jersey. Visited Wyoming. North Carolina. I admit you may be right, though. I plan on taking ...

I agree. The rest of the world seems to think that America is full of the die hard fanatical Christians. Or full of gun toting cowboys. Or full of rude assholes. I just don't see these things much at all, living here.

Attachments are only gotten rid of by cutting them off...by strict discipline, and then surrender. This technique does that perfectly. I consider anyone who defames something so great, as very unconscious. Buddhist trappings have nothing to do with this technique, so I don't know why that shit is be...

You both know nothing of me. America truly isn't as bad as keenobserver is observing. Everywhere I go people are pretty nice. Except for places like high school, of course. And if I'm trying to get pussy, I'll probably start to rant like keenobserver. That seems to be what his entire sob story revol...

Clarity of mind is hard to develop. Vipassana is a good technique for it. Enough said.

Kelly, If you really believed that, you wouldn't have responded. Is that true? No. Are you saying unchanging egolessness/sanity/perfect wisdom is logically possible, but difficult? I said it's impossible. It requires all one's being in the sense that every single thought, feeling, action, intention,...

Before going maybe you should practice sitting still cross legged for an hour per day.

The pain is just another thing to crack down.

Good luck.

Kelly,

What is your point?

You should quote things correctly.

Tomas, could you please edit your post so it doesn't include my full name? Thanks.

Kelly, keenobserver wrote: With Americans hated as they are and in constant anxiety about explosions and death eventually commonplace here, with fears of chemical and nuke poisioning appearing in the morning paper, why bother to care at all anymore, why bother, each is under pressure enough, we have...

Nat, You don't seem to be getting it. As Nick said, thinking *is* an action. If you've got the time and inclination to go serve soup, there's nothing wrong with that. But a much better action involves thinking about the false ideas that cause poverty and homelessness. When one understands these, one...

Kelly, It is usually a good litmus test for seemingly plausible statements. If they don't crack under any pressure, then they're strong. I like that type of statement. That says nothing about the truth of the statement. Let's say a person has an intellectual understanding of Truth, and a very small ...

I wasn't able to make it due to other commitments. I still plan on going sometime.

I wasn't suggesting that no one think. As I said - "thinking is useless without action, in this case". And as you've added, action is aimless without thinking. I didn't say, "Thinking is useless. Action is all that's needed." We can't accomplish much without having both a plan an...

Dave, Isn't it better to focus on whether particular actions, decisions or statements are wise or foolish, rather than focusing on the person? Focusing on the person seems like it will lead directly into ego issues - it then becomes about who is wiser, rather than finding a wise course of action. I ...

I disagree. Thinking obviously doesn't solve our worldly problems. Working at solving them does. The gripe was about homeless people...so you see that there are a bunch of homeless people and you go home and think about it. Does that cause the homeless people to suddenly pick themselves up off the s...

So? Give it time. It's hard to relate to anyone in this life...even within families people fight and are confused about where eachother are coming from. So consider entirely different cultures clashing together - of course it's not going to work so well. But the gaps are bridged every day. I don't s...

I'm not aware of any hypocrisy.

What I would want is less Americans trying to destroy their own country for no good reason. They take what they have for granted.

Thinking is useless without action, in this case, Nat.

Dave, Maybe my thinking on this is simplistic, but it seems to me that the opposite of wisdom is foolishness, and it wise to seek after wisdom, and foolish to seek folly, pretty much by definition. I agree with this...but what does a person find regarding wisdom when they gain enough wisdom to compr...

Kelly, If a beginner at tennis says he is a master compared to others at playing tennis, and then says he has yet to learn anything about tennis, he really can't say he's a master at tennis, at all. Yet that's what Solomon has done. That he doesn't admit this makes his statements about wisdom fall f...

Kevin, This is really a matter of personal choice. If one believes that wisdom is in fact more important than man, then wisdom takes precedence. This is what I see: "Why do you keep yourself alive, Philosopher, if you value truth above all else?" "To spread wisdom." "Why do ...