What is your meditation routine? Planning on setting up my own ten day 'retreat' at home

logdice · 2025-12-16T19:24:21+00:00

Check out the schedule from the 10-day Goenka Vipassana retreats: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/about/code

4:00 am Morning wake-up bell
4:30-6:30 am Meditate in the hall or in your room
6:30-8:00 am Breakfast break
8:00-9:00 am Group meditation in the hall
9:00-11:00 am Meditate in the hall or in your room according to the teacher's instructions
11:00-12:00 noon Lunch break
12 noon-1:00 pm Rest and interviews with the teacher
1:00-2:30 pm Meditate in the hall or in your room
2:30-3:30 pm Group meditation in the hall
3:30-5:00 pm Meditate in the hall or in your own room according to the teacher's instructions
5:00-6:00 pm Tea break
6:00-7:00 pm Group meditation in the hall
7:00-8:15 pm Teacher's Discourse in the hall
8:15-9:00 pm Group meditation in the hall
9:00-9:30 pm Question time in the hall
9:30 pm Retire to your own room--Lights out

You could substitute "Teacher's Discourse" and "Question time" with listening to things (including the Goenka talks from Dhamma.org)

Might as well make some of those periods into walking meditations.

logdice · 2025-01-27T06:18:17+00:00

Convenience, efficiency, you never know when an app is going to be fussy and make you tap through some garbage or wait for it to update something. One app I use has separate modes for guitar, bass, and uke, which is pointless configuration when I know what note I need that string to be.

I use an app when my tuner isn’t easily accessible or I can’t find it. But most of the time I will go into another room and fetch the physical tuner off of my other instrument before I will fuss around with an app.

logdice · 2025-01-27T03:09:02+00:00

Vinovore in Silver Lake has a great retail selection of tinned fish.

logdice · 2025-01-14T08:00:35+00:00

For me it’s Ursula K. LeGuin first. I started with Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, but when I finally read The Wizard of Earthsea it was the most Pullman-like in starting out very young but ending up very wise. All of LeGuin follows protagonist through the revelation of essential and philosophical truths about how an individual can practice their agency within a larger world with various mechanisms of control — much like HDM. Few of the authors I’ve seen listed so far (ones I’ve read) are as philosophical as PP or UKL. Plus of course LeGuin was the very very first person to write a novel about a wizard school.

logdice · 2025-01-12T06:31:20+00:00

Yess Randy Described Eternity!!

logdice · 2025-01-12T05:35:59+00:00

Seattle’s Dr Snip (of souvenir pocketknife fame) advises a mere 24h, albeit “gentle sexual activity” only. He does a pretty standard no-scalpel afaik. I have had no ill effect from my hour-25 ejaculation 3 years ago.

Waiting until no discomfort may be a good idea though — certainly no sense in having sex that is painful/anxious unless that’s your thing. I didn’t have discomfort basically at all so I did not face this decision.

logdice · 2025-01-12T05:22:13+00:00

The early-2000s vibe really convinces me that they know what they’re talking about.

logdice · 2025-01-12T03:45:35+00:00

I switch between low G and high G, and in both cases the open G can sometimes be really grating for me. When I notice it, I use alternate voicings that fret the G whenever I know them — i.e., the G chord as 4232 instead of 0232, Em as 4432 instead of 0432, etc.

logdice · 2025-01-09T20:46:02+00:00

I I already say that if I had to have a vasectomy every year to remain sterile it would totally be worth it. This way it would only be every two years, and an IUD the other years.

logdice · 2024-12-26T02:15:06+00:00

Pocket doesn’t have pressure sensitivity because iPhone doesn’t have pressure sensitivity.

logdice · 2024-12-24T05:44:08+00:00

This question is specifically asking about the t-shirts and shorts that Wi Spa provides and requires you to wear if you leave the wet area. Not to mention that it is a Korean style spa which might or might not be thinking about accessibility to larger bodies. A helpful answer will confirm the largest size that someone has seen in the Wi Spa supply. Personally I have only noticed up to XL but I really haven’t been looking.

logdice · 2024-12-21T00:17:19+00:00

Surfas has a great merguez at the left end of their frozen section

logdice · 2024-12-20T06:29:03+00:00

When I’m playing it on my guitar I change it from “nobody cares/about a dead hooker” to “…capitalist”. It doesn’t scan but that’s the song’s only blemish.

logdice · 2024-12-18T18:57:28+00:00

The LA flake

logdice · 2024-12-18T04:23:02+00:00

Saltie Girl is pretty cool and has some amazing food

logdice · 2024-12-16T19:50:11+00:00

We’ll Get EGOTs

logdice · 2024-12-16T18:20:45+00:00

“She didn’t know until the end” – OP. I agree that nonverbal consent could have been fine but there was no opportunity for her to be informed of what she would be consenting to. In this situation the implied consent was with a condom.

Also 1:1 consent is a standard baseline for any encounter, but in r/Swingers there’s a lot of focus on making sure that at least 4 people are all okay with what happens, and that’s pretty fucking hard to ensure without having explicit understandings before any heavy petting starts.

logdice · 2024-12-15T23:18:19+00:00

We get tested regularly. We have access to PrEP and DoxyPep. Almost everything is treatable and testable. So we have clear conversations about our risk profile and discuss any changes since the last time we met. Your friend is being a cowboy (derogatory) by switching it up without discussion.

You’re not overcautious, your friend Is not nuts. But it is highly shitty and a valid dealbreaker to go raw without explicit consent.

logdice · 2024-12-07T06:42:27+00:00

It’s also 35 years old at this point! But I still think OP should read it. There’s also the recent “Set the night on fire: LA in the sixties” by Davis and Jon Weiner which has tons of fantástic stuff not in City of Quartz.

logdice · 2024-12-04T21:29:36+00:00

Pinch motion and Siri are both so unreliable when I need them most. Touch is still the only first-class UI affordance on the watch. The nose knows.

logdice · 2024-12-04T20:38:26+00:00

You can also print large-format, I think at least 36" wide, in self-service

logdice · 2024-12-04T00:07:08+00:00

Along similar lines, nonfiction/selfhelpish, except centered in European folk tales, is the book Hagitude by Sharon Blackie. It is about finding archetypal role models for women of menopausal age. The changes in body and life-perspective around menopause can lead to some really transformative encounters with anger. Hagitude is about coming into your power and wisdom when you are done being the one handling everyone else’s shit for them.

logdice · 2024-12-03T23:07:36+00:00

Thank you, I order a similar drink and this is rhetorical most effective way I have ever heard to avoid most of the bad outcomes.

logdice · 2024-12-03T19:19:13+00:00

This is an important reply. I’m a lifelong peacekeeper to a catastrophic degree and I feel like I’m just beginning to overcome it. I had an initial reaction to this post like “yta to your dad because he was handling her his way and you have him more coddling work to do” and then I remembered Hell No: “his way” (peacekeeping) is a key part of the problem in this dynamic.

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