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Hope this full moon festival finds you well!

We get two π days each year: 3.14 on March 14 and 22/7 on July 22! :) I got a cherry pie and a pumpkin pie to celebrate.

May it be a prosperous year for all!

I wrote this pdf for Western Left Hand Path folks to explain the purpose and action of the rupa and arupa Jhanas. The pdf was too large to attach, so I put it in a zip file. I'm always up for a good heated debate! :D

Some see worship as harmful. I can see noble silence or things like the metta chant, but what about when it comes to those who want to worship and those who find worship harmful?

95 was a good run. I learned a lot from his books. Thich Nhat Hanh was one of the good ones! https://www.lionsroar.com/thich-nhat-hanh-zen-teacher-who-popularized-mindfulness-in-the-west-dead-at-95/

Clearing up misconceptions of anatta, nibbana, etc. From the Water Snake simile "And how is a monk a noble one with banner lowered, burden placed down, unfettered? There is the case where a monk's conceit 'I am' is abandoned, its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the...

Hope you have a wonderful birthday, Brian. :)

I hope you have an excellent day and another great year! :D

Proto Indo-European extended root: *bhleg- Meaning: to shine or burn Old English roots: blaec: black (from the char of the burn) blac: white, blanche (from the shine or flash of the burn) My question: Do you focus mainly on the flash, the char, or the actual burning process, and why?

With a quantum microscope. :) They found a way around the disruptive observational effect in quantum functions. source An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely...

Enjoy your day. :)

It couldn't tell if I was male or female. It's pretty easy. BBC - Science & Nature - What Sex Is Your Brain?

....and wishing you many more in the future! :D

Happy Birthday and Happy New Year! :D

My mind is stuck in politics mode! I can't focus on studying Plato or anything else. Any suggestions on how I can get unstuck? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for making this most awesome forum available! Enjoy your 40th Birthday!

Wishing you all the best! :D

Did you make it through the nasty storms and power outages alright?

This is my attempt to understand Western Philosophy, which often sounds like some sort of weird acid trip to me. I'm gonna try, however, even if I have to loosen my own grasp of reality. :p I'm going to start with Substance Theory and The Theory of Forms. I'm prolly gonna start sounding as...