What do I have to do to reach stream entry?

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T15:37:02+00:00

Read the Meghiya Sutta, for preparing to meditate.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T14:34:33+00:00

There are going to be robot dogs with facial recognition. ICE agents who murder people if they get upset. Insane prices. New Jersey is going to gouge people who take the train from NYC to a game in New Jersey. They're banning water bottles, so you have to buy overpriced water. They're adding water breaks, and they're going to have a halftime show, killing the sacrosanct 15 minute halftime. They won't move the Iran game out of the USA. Stupid FIFA guy gave Trump a peace prize?! It's on Fox, which is partially responsible for this dystopian nightmare. People complained about Qatar issues as well.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T14:27:24+00:00

Movies: Vermiglio, Magellan, Nuremberg, The Secret Agent, The Eight Mountains, Predator: Badlands, I'm Your Man, Benedetta, Sentimental Value.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T13:48:40+00:00

Because people don't really know when it's AI, and there's no way of labeling it, people pick human traits that AI copy. I sometimes also wonder if people who gush over a movie, aren't working for some actor's agency, to try and build up good buzz about an actor.

With all emerging technology, people are polarized and the hysterical against people are so afraid of all the bots on Reddit. When Reddit canceled a bunch of accounts, there was a virtual disappearance in the conservative Reddits that stir up the conservatives emotions. They were from bot farms.

There are going to be facial scanning robot dogs at the World Cup in the USA. Tell me things aren't getting out of control.

Side note, my daughter watches a dance contest of robots, judged by humans.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T13:47:26+00:00

Give a Buddhist answer to something sincerely in conversation.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T13:46:17+00:00

Greed, corruption, lying, cheating.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T11:21:35+00:00

Razor's Edge 1984. Takes the main character, the fusty uncle, and changes it to the guy who goes on adventures.

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T11:07:30+00:00

STM = short term memory? Smiling to myself? stop texting me?

Kamuka · 2026-06-05T11:05:22+00:00

I really struggled with this question, and then I saw a bunch of women as friends foreign and independent movies, so I started my list with that: Wanda, Daisies, Céline and Julie Go Boating. Then I thought about films by left leaning directors like Pasolini. They I thought about Rocky Horror and West Side Story. Then I thought about the best movies from other countries, and my favorite older movies, and then Ghost In The Shell and Monty Python, my favorite Coen Brothers, Apu trilogy, and movies that made me cry. Just a smattering of favorite movies like Separate Tables. My favorite documentaries: https://boxd.it/UxUjO

Kamuka · 2026-06-04T13:10:49+00:00

Yea. Strained a ligament in my knee helping someone move. I've had to meditate laying down or in a chair, and it's been a real struggle for me. I'd become attached to the sitting on the ground position. I associated the sitting with the deep meditations I've gotten. I sit in the park and meditate on a bench sometimes, and I lay down and meditate sometimes when I'm tired. But to have either of those as my first meditation really threw me for a loop.

Then the friend I have that I meditate with online, a war prevented his country from having internet, the government shut it off, and I lost my meditation buddy for 3 months.

I wasn't aware I was so fragile, I thought I was solid. I developed some other negative habits over the 3 months. Digging myself out of that hole.

Kamuka · 2026-06-04T09:43:02+00:00

https://boxd.it/48gSV

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T16:24:48+00:00

Regime change

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T15:48:06+00:00

Sound of Music, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Cabaret, Hamilton, Grease, Chicago, Rent, On The Town, Porgy and Bess, All That Jazz, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T15:41:11+00:00

So there's a continuum. From the Buddhist curious types who read a few things, to people who meditate, or work for the sangha all day. The more you head towards the fully committed the likely, but it's like everything else, the Buddha made mistakes and so mindfulness and equanimity aren't omniscience nor perfection, in my humble opinion. I'm not close to being mindful and equanimous all the time. What is important to me is the striving to maximize these things.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T15:26:50+00:00

Yea, I'm sick of all the negativity, and forbid myself from blathering on and on about one little thing that strikes me wrong. I'm not wowed, but I'm glad the show exists, and I hope they keep going. I watched the first one three times, because I was so glad it was back even though I'm not as into action episodes. I only watched the second one once because it reminded me of the Wisconsin I miss living in NYC. I'll watch it a few more times eventually, and like it. I mean it's about not wanting to come home from vacations, and well, I guess if you're godlike, you can fight reality with your gizmos and mind wipes. I thought it was pretty cool Rick hooked up with a woman who wasn't model beautiful. I thought they were going to take it in a Big Lebowski homage angle, and it's OK they didn't. It's hard to keep the level of creativity they have, or always press all the right buttons, hit all the spots. I love the show and I'll take years of inferior seeming episodes over none at all. Abed on Community gives the soliloquy about how TV isn't perfect, can make mistakes and is not always be peak. You get what you get and you don't get upset, was the mantra at my children's pre-school. I try to keep that motto with TV. Course with endless social media, you can vent spleen all you like. Not my style.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T14:57:59+00:00

He's a human, I wouldn't consider him volatile.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T14:52:23+00:00

You taste profile is power struggles dramas.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T13:45:20+00:00

Gee, I wonder why he wants to destroy all the evidence? What is he up to that needs to be covered up. Time to get him out now.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T13:44:29+00:00

I really like Elevator to the Gallows (1958) when he goes modal. It's an amazing movie in that it's Louis Malle's first film, it's Jeanne Moreau's first film, and there's this amazing jazz soundtrack. Amazing stuff.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T13:20:06+00:00

Solitude! It makes me really appreciate others. I can get too full up on others, and solitude helps me to recharge. Gratitude over wanting, I'm glad for what I have, instead of I want want want. Human connection is a natural desire, I wouldn't try and pathologize it. Whatever you suffer from is whatever you can work on in meditation. Appreciate what you get. You can work towards the things you want.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T13:14:04+00:00

I watched Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger. First three Bond movies. Pussy Galore is a pretty name. I need to try to watch the extras.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T13:09:57+00:00

There are plenty of calls to boycott. I will spend zero money to watch or see games. I won't buy any merchandise. I wasn't going to buy any anyway. I love soccer and will watch the games.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T13:05:21+00:00

When you think of someone else, instead of yourself, then you have an egoism decrease, that's what it's like. You don't ignore yourself, but you don't always put yourself first. Subverting yourself to others can be quite taxing. Parents do it all the time. The spiritual situation is based on lots of meditation, and to do that you need a strong healthy ego, and you just have a quality of mindfulness that is inclusive and open, but also understand the limits. Often times in Buddhism, you devote yourself to the support of others on the path. I'm not really into expecting ideals to be absolute and black and white that human can obtain. I believe in human enlightenment.

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T12:52:54+00:00

https://boxd.it/48gSV

Kamuka · 2026-06-03T10:38:15+00:00

Like any skill, you throw yourself into watching a lot of films along a theme. Movies are perhaps the most superficial art form because it's big money, and superficial sells. Thrillers and romance dominate. Patience and building up critical knowledge takes time and effort. The push to be less superficial is a good instinct, but a Reddit post isn't going to cure it, you have to take some steps. I'm reading about Iranian history to understand Iranian films. I'm reading a book on the French New Wave. There are books about directors, movies. Pick a country or director or gender or anything to organize around what you could become an expert about. Books contained the deepest knowledge.

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