Thinking about a beautiful rainbow I saw the other day that reached from one end of the city to other. It was an awe inspiring sight to behold. You cannot beat the wonders of nature for sheer beauty.
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I'm not a fan of winter usually but since I started being ill, I've enjoyed cooler weather and rain. It helps me sleep. I hope by next summer I'll have this all figured out with all my doctors.
Do you guys prefer winter or summer where you are?
Do you guys prefer winter or summer where you are?
I'd be quite happy with just three seasons: Spring, Summer and Fall! Winter can spend its time somewhere else.....
Summer for sure. Winter is dark and depressing. Get up in the dark, dark when you get home from work. Then there is the frost, ice and snow. Plus Christmas is a depressing time of year. Hate it.
I prefer the long days of summer over the short harsh days of winter for sure. Spring and fall are beautiful but, if I had to pick, I would choose summer. It is the most fun time of year for me. The only thing I like about winter, I think, is that my allergies disappear.
Good point. The holiday season is depressing for me as well. I always want to hurry up and get to the next year. Hopefully no snow in my area. Texas doesn't handle it well unfortunately.
The southern half of Australia is described as "Temperate Sub-Tropical".
Temperate my foot!
Summer can get up to 45C, even on the coast, and up to 50C inland.
Winter can get down to -5C on the coast, even more inland.
Most of Australia doesn't get snow. We just get cold, biting winds and frosts.
Even the cattle get frosty.
Spring we get rain, hail, and this year, we have been getting tornados.
So far Autumn has been civilised...
I think my brain is a little bit broken...
I mentioned above that I was re-reading Dune.
However, whenever I come across the term "Kwisatz Haderach", my brain automatically adds "give a dog a bone", i.e. from "Knick-knack, paddywhack, give a dog a bone".
Next point is -- how many of you have I now infected with this brain worm?
I mentioned above that I was re-reading Dune.
However, whenever I come across the term "Kwisatz Haderach", my brain automatically adds "give a dog a bone", i.e. from "Knick-knack, paddywhack, give a dog a bone".
Next point is -- how many of you have I now infected with this brain worm?
I am having a break on the online Vipassana course I am taking at yogilab.com
Lot of errands that I need to adress etc.
I have been deep into this course the latest week. Still only on day 4 in the course.
That's how I decided to do this journey.
Stay until I get it deeper. The first days was like 10-11 meditation hrs/day to get through the material.
Then I realized, I have to keep my yoga practice & sleep more during this, as this goes deep in both body & mind.
This is a journey, nothing you master in 10 days.
Check up his course if you’re interested. His files in the course are on youtube and elsewhere too.
Vipassana courses in general are free, and he have made it that way too.
I am glad I don't need to go to a physical retreat to learn these techniques to deepen my practice.
Never felt drawn to it as I am no Buddhist. I got the impression that those retreats are too much colored of buddhism. I haven’t been to any, so I can be wrong. It’s just hearsay’s that I base that on.
But generally Buddhists are way to clingy in their 'compassion' to me, instead of going inward themselves in their meditation and do their own inner work. In general, in my experience, definitely not everyone.
I finally get how buddism have emerged.
Couldn’t comprehend it when I studied Religion at university in youth.
Vipassana is a powerful technique of meditation, that brings lots to surface. Some of it I’ve learned in yoga traditions, not all.
Now errands and stuff, before I intensify into Vipassana again.
I wanted a new iMac. But it seems much more probably a purchase of Mac Mini Pro and a new Apple screen might come close after tomorrow, yay 😁
#meditation #yoga #vipassana #buddha #awareness #consciousness
Lot of errands that I need to adress etc.
I have been deep into this course the latest week. Still only on day 4 in the course.
That's how I decided to do this journey.
Stay until I get it deeper. The first days was like 10-11 meditation hrs/day to get through the material.
Then I realized, I have to keep my yoga practice & sleep more during this, as this goes deep in both body & mind.
This is a journey, nothing you master in 10 days.
Check up his course if you’re interested. His files in the course are on youtube and elsewhere too.
Vipassana courses in general are free, and he have made it that way too.
I am glad I don't need to go to a physical retreat to learn these techniques to deepen my practice.
Never felt drawn to it as I am no Buddhist. I got the impression that those retreats are too much colored of buddhism. I haven’t been to any, so I can be wrong. It’s just hearsay’s that I base that on.
But generally Buddhists are way to clingy in their 'compassion' to me, instead of going inward themselves in their meditation and do their own inner work. In general, in my experience, definitely not everyone.
I finally get how buddism have emerged.
Couldn’t comprehend it when I studied Religion at university in youth.
Vipassana is a powerful technique of meditation, that brings lots to surface. Some of it I’ve learned in yoga traditions, not all.
Now errands and stuff, before I intensify into Vipassana again.
I wanted a new iMac. But it seems much more probably a purchase of Mac Mini Pro and a new Apple screen might come close after tomorrow, yay 😁
#meditation #yoga #vipassana #buddha #awareness #consciousness
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Anyone use blue light filtering glasses? Was thinking of getting a pair. I don't wear prescription glasses but was curious to see if they work as they claim?
I also meditate, and do yoga (mainly for stretching) and I agree with you. I noticed that many retreats and sometimes even random studios are colored in Buddhism. Nothing wrong with it, but I am Catholic and we already have several meditative practices with religious/spiritual background (Eucharistic Adoration, the Rosary, the chotki, Lectio Divina, etc.), although lately they're getting lost in the noise of more "modern" stuff.
I had to look it up.
Found a related article: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/do-blue-light-blocking-glasses-actually-work/
I have even come to the conclusion that if I see a Buddha figure around anywhere, it’s a pretty sure sign that no meditation of value is going on in that place 😂
A meditation teacher I learned some things from a few yrs back, told us that he had taken some students to Bhutan on a tripp. There were Buddha figures totally everywhere around, but he never saw anyone meditate there, excepts himself and his students of course.
I had come to the same conclusions some time before that, he just confirmed it very strongly 😁
I have a Christian background. Have had some close connection within the church at times, especially after the death's of my father & brother. Where I was privileged to meet the top of the hierarchy in the church for long talks.
I found wonderful and really brilliant people that I provided me with beautifully support for some years. Very grateful for that. Though practicing the rituals of christianity on regular basis is not very meaningful to me. I did't came across any meditation of value either. More contemplation.
The Catholic church might have kept that better, then the Protestants then.
Over time I've seen how the meditation circle are growing on impact around me however.
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All this bashing and gnashing about notches ... 🤦♀️ I'm going to nosh on nachos in my niche, natch.
Ninotchka
The Notcherall
Dr. No(tch)
The Hunchback of Notchre Dame
Alone again, notcherally.
The Notcherall
Dr. No(tch)
The Hunchback of Notchre Dame
Alone again, notcherally.
Work is on my mind. Just never enough hours in the day, days in the week. Another day in the office where I sit and tell people how to do things they really should know how to do! Then I spend the rest of the day squeezing in my work plus a new area of responsibility I’ve been given. Yay!
This is so much my life - I don't supervise people - but never enough time to finish work. In other news went to the Red Cross museum today with one of my groups (of course masked up and with vaccination codes). Very well designed but also very sad....loads of cards (behind glass) of WW1 POWs, a wall of children's photos who were separated/orphaned during the Rwanda genocide. Recommended if one is in Geneva though.
I completely understand! I run an “experienced” team of 14, many who have done the job for many years yet will happily sit there doing nothing unless prodded like cattle! It really is like looking after 14 children! Some of my repeated phrases include “I sent you an email” “we discussed this yesterday “ “no, we’ve not done that for the last few weeks”….
Remember I showed you last time is one of my favourites. Anyway it’s 9:30 pm here so better get back to it……I completely understand! I run an “experienced” team of 14, many who have done the job for many years yet will happily sit there doing nothing unless prodded like cattle! It really is like looking after 14 children! Some of my repeated phrases include “I sent you an email” “we discussed this yesterday “ “no, we’ve not done that for the last few weeks”….
A small YouTube channel that I subscribe to - around 4k subscribers - went quiet a few months ago and the host has just posted an update announcing that he’s been diagnosed with ALS at the age of just 34. It’s a powerful video, and one that I think deserves a wider audience, so I’m going to post it here.