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Comment on About by Lakshmi Loves To Shop

Lakshmi Loves To Shop — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:36:30 +0000

Namaste…thank you so much for visiting and following my blog It was so sweet of you…I love your blog too ~ Lakshmi x

Comment on Get Your Head Around This by kwdickinson

kwdickinson — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:02:10 +0000

..hahaha.. brilliant. :O)

Comment on Get Your Head Around This by gelbfuessler

gelbfuessler — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:14:01 +0000

A search for “Bill Hicks veganism” brought me here.

Comment on Vipassana Meditation Retreat : The Aftermath by Mark Lindsay

Mark Lindsay — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:06:20 +0000

Hi All,
I sat my first course in 1973 and have been doing it, more or less, ever since. Sayagyi U Ba Khin did authorise other teachers and I have been privileged to sample 5 other teachers’ slant on the process. My favourite, John Coleman died a few months ago.
On the original Goenka courses, you were allowed to talk, and being part of the hippy era, all sorts of nefarious activities took place. In India, the atmosphere is very mellow and people have to be coerced into taking it more seriously – as a result, Goenka’s courses have become more and more rigid. It’s a fine balance, and without Goenka being there to monitor the situation, (there are now hundreds of centres worldwide, and he is very old), the management take it upon themselves to administer the rules how they see them.
Anyway, rigid or not, I would recommend vipassana to anyone. It’s changed my life completely from the rebellious, angry young man I was. I am no way enlightened, and sometimes feel I should know more than I do after 40 years of meditation, but then when I see people in crisis, or myself in crisis, and how most of the world hasn’t a clue what life’s about, I realise I do.
Don’t be put off by Dhamma Dipa’s rigidity. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water!

Comment on The Icepo Hunter by Fun In ‘Frisco | the Yoga Bum

Fun In ‘Frisco | the Yoga Bum — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:00:58 +0000

[...] did it all; Alcatraz, Pier 39, cable cars, Alamo Square (the one in all the movies). We even went icepo hunting in the San Francsico Public Library, an excursion which I’ve already blogged about elsewhere, in [...]

Comment on The Icepo Hunter by kwdickinson

kwdickinson — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:04:40 +0000

I’m not nuts, my mother had me tested.

Comment on The Icepo Hunter by rakka

rakka — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:33:00 +0000

you nut! XD

Comment on The Icepo Hunter by kwdickinson

kwdickinson — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:06:34 +0000

Reblogged this on the Yoga Bum.

Comment on IcePo Triptych by The Icepo Hunter « My Brand New Life

The Icepo Hunter « My Brand New Life — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:06:09 +0000

[...] some of you may remember, in May I got involved in the icepo project, a worldwide effort to release captive icepos back into the [...]

Comment on Vipassana Meditation Retreat : The Aftermath by kwdickinson

kwdickinson — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:33:59 +0000

Hi Carl. Thanks for commenting.

I agree with what you say, a more up to date set of teachings would be good. But also I’ve found Dhamma Dipa aren’t the only ones guilty of this. A few other places have tape and video of the guru which they use a lot, getting the ‘authentic’ teachings, but losing some of the tradition along the way. These things are meant to be handed down verbally, and learnt, and I worry that using these recordings might mean the essence of the teaching is not being passed on properly to the next generation (in the way it has been for thousands of years).

But I also agree that the work done by those involved to try and pass this information on is incredible, and I join you in your admiration of their efforts.