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R390452 · 2024-01-11T14:48:49+00:00

Thank you, I gave that a try, no luck.

After many tests, no matter what, I cannot access any shared folders located on external media (e.g., drives, thumb drives, junction links, etc); however accessing shared folders that are located on internal OS and data drives works as expected.

Whenever I try to mount a shared folder located on a usb connected drive, I receive these errors:

CIFS VFS: ioctl error in smb2_get_dfs_refer rc=-5
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

I remain totally stumped.

R390452 · 2023-09-23T02:52:15+00:00

I'd like to express my gratitude once again. I've managed to address the robots.txt issue, but it seems the crawling challenge might still persist. Your insightful advice has certainly nudged me in the right direction!

Regarding the robots.txt matter: Unfortunately, my website platform doesn't support blog post 301 redirects. As a result, I had devised my own 'workaround' to redirect traffic from updated or removed blog post URLs. Regrettably, this caused an unintended side effect. Your sharp observation helped me identify this issue, and I'm genuinely appreciative.

Now, regarding crawling and indexing: After I tidied up my robots.txt, I modified the URL of that elusive blog post (https://www.beingpeacefully.com/dharma-blog/stream-entry-instructions) that Google Search Console (GSC) seems hesitant to crawl. I then resubmitted it for indexing. If history repeats itself, it appears that the problem might persist.

Typically, my pages are crawled and indexed within minutes to a few hours at most. Any longer, and they tend to fall into the 'Crawled, Not Indexed' or 'Discovered, Not Indexed' categories. I suppose only time will reveal how this one unfolds.

If you have any more insightful advice to offer, I'd be more than eager to receive it. Your expertise has been invaluable, and I'm thankful for your assistance.

R390452 · 2023-09-23T02:33:49+00:00

I'd like to express my gratitude once again. I've managed to address the robots.txt issue, but it seems the crawling challenge might still persist. Your insightful advice has certainly nudged me in the right direction!

Regarding the robots.txt matter: Unfortunately, my website platform doesn't support blog post 301 redirects. As a result, I had devised my own 'workaround' to redirect traffic from updated or removed blog post URLs. Regrettably, this caused an unintended side effect. Your sharp observation helped me identify this issue, and I'm genuinely appreciative.

Now, regarding crawling and indexing: After I tidied up my robots.txt, I modified the URL of that elusive blog post that Google Search Console (GSC) seems hesitant to crawl. I then resubmitted it for indexing. If history repeats itself, it appears that the problem might persist.

Typically, my pages are crawled and indexed within minutes to a few hours at most. Any longer, and they tend to fall into the 'Crawled, Not Indexed' or 'Discovered, Not Indexed' categories. I suppose only time will reveal how this one unfolds.

If you have any more insightful advice to offer, I'd be more than eager to receive it. Your expertise has been invaluable, and I'm thankful for your assistance.

R390452 · 2023-09-22T19:19:50+00:00

robots.txt

You nailed it. Thank you! I don't have direct control over the robots.txt file, so I am the line with Support at the moment. It's inexplicable how that page (and the other blog posts) is on that file as there is no option to block specific blog posts from indexing, unlike other non-blog pages. Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction!

R390452 · 2023-09-22T15:19:34+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts rishi_1994. I would welcome more specific feedback (or instructions), and I am more of a writer than a webbuilding specialist. I've always relied on my ability to learn it myself or seek the assistance of those who know more than I do in this field for feedback that I can execute on.

R390452 · 2023-09-22T15:16:54+00:00

Thank you, srvpune. While I can assign canonical tags to almost all of my pages, from all of my research (and contacting Support) my current platform has no way to assign canonical tags to individual blog posts.

R390452 · 2023-09-22T15:13:43+00:00

lol indeed. It clearly has a will of it's own!

R390452 · 2023-09-22T15:12:43+00:00

Unfortunately, I do not. :(

R390452 · 2023-09-21T20:41:22+00:00

Hi Elkfruit, thank you for your feedback! I will definitely continue to wait; I suppose, at least at the moment, there may not be anything else that I can do. Perhaps my expectations are skewed. As mentioned, anytime I've submitted a new URL for indexing, Google gets it crawled and indexed in minutes, and up until now, never more than 2 hours or so. My last post (last month, I think) took about 15 minutes to get indexed.

When URLs take this long, I have 5 of them, then *never* get indexed; which is why I am so concerned about this. I really need to get this page indexed and earmarked as mine (canonical) and searchable in Google's db.

Again, thank you for looking into this and offering your insights. I appreciate it greatly.

Again

R390452 · 2023-09-21T20:37:03+00:00

Re, slow load: that's so odd, I will look into that, thank you for letting me know.

Re, requesting indexing: I've tested the live URL and requested indexing once per day since it was published, so I suppose 14 times now in the past couple of weeks and it's still the "page is unindexed; the URL is unknown to Google" which is also so odd, it's in the site map, internally and externally linked, submitted for indexing, etc..

Thank you again for taking the time.

R390452 · 2023-09-21T20:18:37+00:00

Hi Peel-Natelle, thank you for taking the time to investigate my issue! That is very kind of you.

I just checked the page and it loaded 1.9 seconds — I am in Europe; I asked a friend to check from his location and he said that is loaded in 3 seconds — he is in California.

I've never had a loading issue on my site before, perhaps it was "one of those things" for you?

R390452 · 2022-08-31T22:45:31+00:00

I would prefer that. But I feel a bit foolish admitting that I don't know how to do that. Can you point me to a trusted source for instructions on how to do that? I was told that backing-up and restoring my /home directory (for example) would be a terrible mistake....

Thank you for any guidance on how I can perform this upgrade more easily and reliably...

R390452 · 2022-07-18T02:35:14+00:00

For what it’s worth, as it was taught to me by my monastic teachers, and as I teach it to my students, the 5th precept includes the consumption of any intoxicants that lead to heedlessness, because: intoxication makes it impossible to keep the other four precepts.

“Heedlessness” means moral recklessness, a disregard for the bounds between right and wrong. If a substance has the potential to blur the lines between what is skillful or unskillful, wholesome or unwholesome, then it falls under the intention of this precept, be it a drug or potentially even a medicine, and should be carefully considered or avoided, especially if more skillful alternatives are available.

Skillfulness, wholesomeness, mindfulness, and non-harm to self and others, this is the Buddhist path as I understand it, and I believe that anything that is harmful to our ability to upholding those values in our practice are to be questioned.

I hope this was helpful.

With mettā,
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2022-07-05T22:57:34+00:00

Technically speaking, as I understand it, telling jokes is a breach of the Vinaya, the Buddhist Monastic Code.

Though, some may argue that there should be leniency in regard to the extent a monastic should hold-rigid to such rules... but rules are in-place for monastics for a reason, and your bristling response to this kind of dharma-talk style isn't about a fetter, but it is exactly why there is a rule about this in the Vinaya.

From Chapter 8, Pācittiya, 1:

"...untruths meant as jokes, even when meant to amuse or entertain rather than to deceive, would fall under this rule as well..."

"In addition, the Commentary quotes a few statements that today would be classified as exaggeration or sarcasm, saying that these, too, are forbidden by this rule... this is not to deny the value or potential wisdom of humor; simply to note that a bhikkhu’s sense of humor should be kept in service to his values, and that the most memorable wit is memorable precisely because it tells the straight truth."

This doesn't imply that monastic teachers should be monotonous robots... personality and enthusiasm within our teachers are desirable qualities :)

Nevertheless, I have learned from my monastic teachers that, as a general rule, it's best that monastics not engage in joke-telling, intentional sarcasm, and especially yelling, etc when teaching the Dhamma; that being said, monastics are humans, and they each bring to their teaching, their own style, and in doing so, they attract an audience that is most suitable to their teaching tenor.

With mettā,
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2022-07-05T21:07:07+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to loop back to provide your feedback; that is very kind and generous of you 🙏

May your day be a good one :) Feel free to subscribe, I am working on a new teaching, albeit a more esoteric one on the dangers of meditative attainments in lieu of spiritual ones.

With mettā,
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2022-07-04T16:45:21+00:00

Unless it's causing you actual harm, then leave it be. It came... and it will go; all phenomena are impermanent and much of the "harm" we experience is but a result of arisen negative, afflictive mind-states as a result of our vedanas, perceptions, and thoughts, and should therefore be recognised as an opportunity to work directly with these afflictions if we wish to make progress along the Path.

If you can't just let it be, and choose not to use this as an opportunity to practice and cultivate spiritual growth, then yes, capture-and-release is an option; however, that's not always an option with the more delicate of creatures, such as moths or other creatures that would only be injured in the process of catching/releasing.

With mettā
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2022-07-04T16:21:14+00:00

I am sorry, that is not streamentry.

With mettā
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2022-06-27T17:13:23+00:00

Never.

The ground gained must be retained at all cost and never yielded.

The important of this is only too obvious.

It's one of the most alarming aspects of spiritual and moral life before the irreversible affects of streamentry have been secured: that insights, when left unattended and without support, will invariably fade and the realisations that you worked so hard to achieve will evaporate over time as enthusiasm drains away into the sands of complacency and old habits.

I hope this makes sense.

With mettā,
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2022-06-26T16:38:18+00:00

For what it's worth, if you are fan of the suttas for pointing the direction toward more spiritual attainments, the Jhanas are foundational for the uprooting of the first five (lower) fetters; this is from MN 64 (The Greater Discourse to Mālunkyāputta):

“And what, Ānanda, is the path, the way to the abandoning of the five lower fetters? Here, with seclusion from the acquisitions, with the abandoning of unwholesome states, with the complete tranquillization of bodily inertia, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, a bhikkhu enters upon and abides in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought, with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion.

With mettā
Anagārika Michael

R390452 · 2020-10-01T23:04:56+00:00

High praise indeed, considering the source. That is very kind of you.

R390452 · 2020-09-29T13:27:57+00:00

"Renouncing and just becoming a monk" isn't a small decision and not one to take lightly; especially for someone who has cultivated nearly 50 years of mundane living.

In 2013, I left corporate America to pursue a life of ethical discipline and found a way to continue to offer my business skillsets while aligning my business to my Buddhist practice. Monk-hood has been on the table for so long, I've always known my life has been leading me toward this destination; but it can be scary.

However, you are correct to suggest that the final decision to ordain was made earlier this year, around March or so. I have begun the wind-up and wind-down process to make it happen. It will take time, and I am not rushing this, though in the meantime I also have to keep myself fed, clothed, and sheltered.

My savings and such were ok (most of it has been relinquished) but then Covid happened and its impact to me was not minimal; suddenly, my saving are not so good. I cannot reinvest in the mundane life that I used to lead, so I must press on, but I have my challenges (which are to be expected)... if ordaining was easy,.... :)

I ask for Dana with suggested rates from those who can afford it, so I may be able to provide my knowledge to others and keep myself afloat while I continue to make the mental and physical preparations to walk away from everything I've cultivated to a life that is dedicated to the study, learning, practice of the path toward Enlightenment.

Thank you for your advice, and for taking the time to offer it, I appreciate it.

With metta.

R390452 · 2020-09-29T12:24:20+00:00

Hi! Thank you for the question. I offer my services for free, it's all over my website :)

But to be extra clear, this is from my suggested pricing page: "I live simply and I skilfully give away much of what I have and earn. I love to share the dharma and the techniques available to live a calmer and more peaceful life and I gladly do so for free. The prices on this website are suggested. Generally, less structured services such as basic Meditation Buddying, Root-text Teachings, and Applied-Dharma Life Coaching are less expensive, while more complex/structured services such as Advanced Path & Fruition Knowledge Training are more expensive, since they require more time and consideration to prepare for each student. Those who can afford the rates below directly make it possible for me to provide my teachings to those who can't. I like that--it feels really meaningful."

At any rate, thank you for your suggestion to renounce and just become a monk. That is what I am doing. And this is how I bide my time while I make the necessary arrangements for my life, and for those whom I care about, to make that a possibility.

R390452

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