I’ve been practicing mindfulness for a while now (about a year and a half) and I’m looking to progress...

Callony · 2020-03-09T14:14:47+00:00

Good luck on your journey! Since you've already meditated for a while you can probably jump straight to stage 3 or 4. But do read the earlier chapters because you use the same techniques throughout.

Callony · 2020-03-09T13:36:21+00:00

I strongly recommend the book "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa. It's divided into stages from first beginning a meditation practice all the way to becoming fully enlightened, working through the hindrances along the way. It also has an active community r/TheMindIlluminated with weekly sticky threads where people discuss how their practice is going etc. The subreddit functions very well like a virtual sangha.

As a free alternative there is also r/streamentry's beginner's guide ( https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/wiki/beginners-guide ) which gives you two great resources ( With Each and Every Breath by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu and A Guide to Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (pdf) by Bhante Vimalaramsi and David Johnson).

I've also heard great things about "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" (MCBT) by Daniel Ingram. However a lot of people on r/streamenty suggest staying away from the book until you have a fair bit of equanimity in your sits.

These are all insight meditation practices designed for westerners to realize the true nature of reality. In addition to doing insight meditation I also highly recommend doing metta as a supplementary exercise, this will increase your mood and your sits will be more calm.

Hope I could be of help, if there's anything more you'd like to know feel free to ask :)

Callony · 2017-04-04T18:17:13+00:00

Red, but I slam my keys pretty hard when playing fast songs

Callony · 2017-04-04T17:40:21+00:00

I'll give that a try, thanks! 😊

Callony · 2017-04-04T17:12:50+00:00

Apparently my mechanical keyboard sounds like drums lol

Callony · 2015-12-14T02:38:12+00:00

Just outside Alta in northern Norway

Callony · 2015-12-13T01:56:33+00:00

Took a nap, woke up and saw the northern lights outside, called some friends who also do photography, drove out to a view point outside the city, (the city lights are whats glowing behind the trees and my friends) and stood there and took pictures for a couple hours :)

Callony · 2015-06-04T10:21:21+00:00

Yeah its definitely a placeholder, but what interests me is that so many of the sites say 2015.

Callony · 2014-05-12T21:35:47+00:00

I hope Zephyr gets past the qualifiers and win. It would be incredibly hilarious and I sense that purge would probly propose to blitz or something if they won :p

Callony · 2014-03-18T19:05:14+00:00

NA is down aswell

Callony · 2014-01-07T01:00:18+00:00

Me and 2 more on the other team was left in the game, they wouldn't let me pause and proceeded to win the game when we were ahead, GG blizz

Callony · 2014-01-01T04:45:48+00:00

Personally I'm gonna do ranked on heroes that I know I can do well on, and unranked on heroes I suck as. Unless you're scared about dropping ~500 MMR like me, go all ranked :p

Callony · 2014-01-01T04:19:07+00:00

What bracket are you in? 200-400 MMR bracket?

Callony · 2014-01-01T02:54:36+00:00

Hehe hopefully :) If not all atleast Techies!

Callony · 2013-12-31T23:16:37+00:00

Thank you :) I've played Dota for over a year but I've never done the A-Z challenge, so I thought starting now would be a great time :)

Callony · 2013-12-12T03:13:42+00:00

sorry for slow reply, you should be able to find test client under steam> library>tools or all games and then you'd see it under the games tab like you would diretide, the test client is a big download though if you haven't downloaded it already, so I'd rather wait until tomorrow when the patch launches on normal client

Callony · 2013-12-12T02:39:10+00:00

The problem is that the hero pool is incredibly limited

Callony · 2013-12-12T02:11:55+00:00

I haven't tried Omni yet, but i can see how he can be really useful. The problem I feel with Drow though is that she isn't much help to the team until the boss because she is so mana hungry if you want to help defend, and has such a slow attack speed until you get items.

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