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it's been a while, eh? i hope you are all well. life has changed for me so thoroughly and dramatically that it's hard to recognize the "me" that was here so frequently those few years ago. mostly, i'm just saying hello and that i'm alive. i wonder..... once... a few years ago... i got a...

namaste all, so yeah... that. sometimes they hit me right in the feels, ya know? i'm scrolling through my old feed looking for some obscure comment and FB is awful for this. there's no way to do it efficiently so i'm just randomly stopping the scroll to check the progress and i see a happy...

namaste friends :) it's been a while since i've had a chance to make a post so thank you for taking the time to read it. one of the things which is advocated in a Buddhist praxis is a daily mediation and reflection period, usually more than one if it can be managed. my own situation has lent...

Namaste all, we've talked about this subject here previously yet life has a funny way about it... a friend of mine was on a bridge railing and was being talked down when she slipped off and suffered catastrophic brain damage. her family terminated life support a few days ago. i'm sad...

Namaste everyone, i hope you and those you love are well. i found out this evening that my oldest child has throat cancer. i don't know what stage it's in however it has been, apparently, several years since the initial diagnosis and he's simply not told anyone until a few months ago. i...

Namaste everyone, hope you are well. how's your meditation practice going? i've been inconsistent in my formal praxis however i've been making decent progress with general mindfulness and being present in the moment. i've finally gotten a place where i can set up my cushion and a small alter...

it's been a while hasn't it? missed my conversations here over these intervening years. i hope life has been as fulfilling for my friends as they would have liked. metta, ~j

Namaste all, it was a long time ago that i joined this forum. my life was so much different that it's hard to recognize now. i've been absent from here for awhile and honestly i've felt my time here had run it's course some time ago. i've learned a lot about other world views, other people...

hey there folks... so in about 45 days or so (perhaps 46-48) i shall be moving. where, i don't know. how, i have no idea. when i'll be back on, who can say? just wanted to let you know...why... i'm not sure. metta, ~v

or are there just an incredible amount of people on this forum that never post and have birthdays today?!:confused:

Thunder.... Thundercats HO!!!!! ‪Cartoon Network Trailer For New Thundercats‬‏ - YouTube i'm pretty excited about the new series! anyone else a fan?

namaste all, anyone else a fan of the Ghost in the Shell series? i've been watching Stand Alone Complex the past few weeks and i'm really enjoying it quite a bit. it's been 7 or so years since i last watched it and i'm picking up very subtle aspects of the story that i failed to appreciate...

just interesting to myself, probably, but i was just looking at my usercp and noticed my join date. today, July 10, 2003. i have little recollection of what was going on in my life then... hmm... working at a technology company... two years into my first home... a stray hound dog and two...

It has recently come to my attention that a certain group of uninformed amateur film critics have been spreading misinformation about Star Trek containing numerous "plot holes and contradictions", which they deem "nits". This article is intended to demonstrate that such accusations are...

Photopic Sky Survey for those that enjoy gazing upward.

generally speaking most people that i speak with have no idea what the term Karma actually means in a Buddhist context. it can be difficult to figure it out as there are several traditions which share a common linguistic base (Sanskrit) which use different lexicons for the same vocabulary and...

Namaste all, i'd like to talk about Nibbana/Nirvana and some of the misunderstandings regarding this fundamental idea to the Buddhadharma. by and large non-Buddhists obtain an idea of Nibbana which is somewhat akin to their understanding of a postmortem afterlife state like the fairly orthodox...

Namaste all, for your edification: The record of the life and teachings of Wu-MingAs told by Master Tung-Wang Abbott of Han-hsin monastery in the Thirteenth year of the Earth Dragon period (898)
My dear friend, the most reverend master Tung-Wang, Old and ill, I lay here knowing that...

i hate pancakes. it seems i've always hated them....and i can't eat enough of them... my grandmothers bent figure, nightgown hanging from her gaunt body preparing silver dollar pancakes at the stove, cigarette close at hand...near the glass of whiskey.... neither of us able to look at each...

U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz you can take it and compare your results to the phone survey. i found it interesting that atheists/agnostics scored highest on the quiz.