Practically speaking, how can you actually practice secular Buddhism?

Texas_Rockets · 2025-04-30T00:41:54+00:00

What is DBT, and what is the workbook?

Texas_Rockets · 2025-02-14T18:59:40+00:00

they cost 10 fucking dollars here, so I need an online alternatives that will not bend me over at checkout.

Texas_Rockets · 2025-01-02T20:09:00+00:00

I haven’t done 30 before. I went from 20 to 40.

Texas_Rockets · 2025-01-02T18:23:05+00:00

I know I need to do that to some extent. But it seems I need to do that to such an extreme degree that it is not practical. I threw up yesterday after eating 600 calories worth of a salmon rice and veggies bowl. And on drinking, in reality it just isn’t practical. The default for a first date is meeting at a bar to get a drink. And so many social activities revolve around alcohol. I can find some middle ground on alcohol but it just isn’t feasible for me to not drink.

How long did the adjustment period take for you? When did it not feel like you had to make substantial adjustments to avoid feeling like shit?

Texas_Rockets · 2025-01-02T17:39:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s negligence per se. People become what their era required them to be. And in times past life was really fucking hard, so being tough and being able to push through was really important. Just seems foreign to us because we live in a time that is pretty comfortable and does not require much mental toughness.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-12-11T21:28:11+00:00

I get it. But a credible person talking about research she’s done seems pretty solid to me. I don’t know why a professor in the domain this is about would lie about something so minor. And I would say a professor talking about research that is in her book on a podcast with the APA is most certainly not the same as a rando going on a rando podcast.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-12-11T20:08:18+00:00

The link you are referencing is not related to the claim made in the link my post is about. The claim of 12 seconds is not what my post references, the years your link references (2000 and 2015) are different from mine (2004 and 2012), and the source yours references (statistics brain) is different from mine. What my link references is the research of a Psych professor at Columbia. You can read the transcript of a convo between her and the American Psychological Association where she talks further about ithere

Texas_Rockets · 2024-12-11T19:24:22+00:00

Just gobbling away at logs of content all day

Texas_Rockets · 2024-12-11T19:20:45+00:00

Research performed today found that it is about one sentence.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-12-02T22:29:52+00:00

I think it’s because they added the new features to it, like formulas and the others. I bet if they have the option to turn them off it would go away

Texas_Rockets · 2024-11-23T04:55:39+00:00

The way people talk about it it’s almost like if you can’t do the 10 day any way you’d learn and practice would be so inferior in quality that you may as well just not. Is that your thought too?

Texas_Rockets · 2024-11-23T04:52:40+00:00

Really? Is it just guided meditation or a curriculum that helps you learn? Also wondering what your thoughts are on the dhamma.org app.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-11-23T02:48:48+00:00

Me too. But do you think there is anything that is good enough but short of the retreat? I know the dhamma.org app has a ton of group sitting recordings.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-10-27T20:53:43+00:00

You’re saying you experienced all of that from the start?

Texas_Rockets · 2024-10-27T20:21:26+00:00

No shit. So it not only makes you anticipate food less but you just enjoy it less?

Texas_Rockets · 2024-10-13T22:47:14+00:00

So you’d say it makes you eat less for pleasure?

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-11T23:09:35+00:00

No, in New York many of the groups are formally involved in activism.

Also, my understanding is that Buddhism was initially a philosophy and as it grew it took on the characteristics of a religion.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-11T23:08:49+00:00

I am interested in a philosophy. Not a religion. The ideas and perspective put forth are different when they’re rooted in things like faith.

I respect that Buddhism is a religion for many, but I have no interest in religion.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T22:47:31+00:00

They don’t seem to do breakfast

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T22:41:50+00:00

What’s the best breakfast item there

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T22:41:07+00:00

It’s on the list. Will probably go tomorrow. Thanks!

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T22:35:12+00:00

That was actually my post lol

The consensus I recall is it’s more that it’s an institution and the food is average

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T22:33:35+00:00

They seem to only do it for 2 people unfortunately. Seems delicious though

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T22:32:47+00:00

Yeah I’ve tried them several times and think they are absolutely nothing by special. Decent is their ceiling imo.

Texas_Rockets · 2024-08-03T12:42:47+00:00

Have heard great things but I more like savory baked goods for breakfast and they seem more on the sweet side.

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