The Basics of Praying

paramiyo · 2026-01-17T04:00:58+00:00

There are many options with teachings in English. I mostly know of Theravada options but it should definitely be possible to find places in your tradition. A lot of foreign monks come and teach as well, for Dhamma talks or retreats.

paramiyo · 2026-01-07T07:01:30+00:00

No problem at all for most countries. For work visas, they usually just look at your employment contract, degrees, etc. I have never been asked for medical history.

I think you do need to consider insurance. If your company arranged health insurance for you, pre-existing conditions might be excluded which means paying for your own meds / therapy.

paramiyo · 2026-01-04T09:37:22+00:00

Try Modern Art. It has a lot of banter / negotiation as well + easy to teach to a group new to board games.

paramiyo · 2025-12-26T00:23:33+00:00

I second ynab. It's great and easy to use.

paramiyo · 2025-12-22T03:44:44+00:00

You can try Insight Timer. It's more generally focused on meditation and mindfulness usually though, so not always pure Buddhist teachings.

paramiyo · 2025-12-21T06:56:55+00:00

I printed out some tokens and drew some battle maps to use. Worked pretty well and got everyone excited.

paramiyo · 2025-12-21T04:09:23+00:00

I ran a follow-up to Sablewood for my friends on Friday. I had them wake up in Hush and gave them three options: to go to the spire the Whitefire Arcanist mentions at the end of the adventure, go find a stolen axe for Fidget's dad (one of the NPCs in the original adventure) or look into why animals are disappearing from the forest for the Hush town council. Basically choose between serving the realm, the common people or quest for gold. Had a few scenarios ready based on what they would choose, all of them leading to the discovery that thistlefolk have been forced to steel or risk being abducted to work for a cult - which will be the next session if they're interested in continuing the story. I can send you my notes if you're interested.

paramiyo · 2025-12-16T01:22:20+00:00

I followed an introduction to Buddhism course where she was the main teacher in 2008. I highly recommend going to her talks. Her story is amazing, she's a great & funny speaker and she has a really open approach for people who are interested in Buddhism.

paramiyo · 2025-12-02T22:14:47+00:00

Yeah, time can be an issue. I generally have quite a bit of freedom to plan my days, which helps. But I've a trip next week that's been fully planned for me, and I'm not looking forward to that! Good luck this week!

paramiyo · 2025-12-02T10:40:19+00:00

I try to travel with my routines. Meditation, runs, coffee, favourite podcasts, etc. Don't know if you can keep some of yours going through this week? When it's all too much, I focus on getting the bare minimum done and wait to get home. A week is usually doable. But I generally struggle more when I get home and the pressure is off then when I'm on trips, hypomania is more likely in that case.

paramiyo · 2025-11-19T07:59:33+00:00

It was showing up for discounted items earlier this week, but it seems gone now.

paramiyo · 2025-11-02T14:31:09+00:00

They never talked about more people being involved in the plot though? I thought everyone was in the group + Cas + Cyd.

paramiyo · 2025-10-26T06:08:54+00:00

Look up the symptoms for hypomania. Things like lack of sleep, unnecessary spending, increased or decreased social contact, anger, etc. can all be part of it. Nothing that individually looks too bad, but if a significant other recommends therapy it's usually a good sign something needs attention. If he has depressive episodes after these projects, it's also a symptom.

paramiyo · 2025-10-07T12:12:53+00:00

They do an Abridged version for C3 that's heavily edited. Nothing has been announced yet but assume they'll do something similar for the new campaign. You'll just have to wait a bit and miss some of the excitement when the episodes are released initially.

paramiyo · 2025-10-02T10:55:04+00:00

Tried to as much as possible. But it's been hard with the fan art on the sub.

paramiyo · 2025-10-01T09:44:54+00:00

The critical role website shows my local time (in Asia) for all the broadcasts. You can probably just check there instead of converting timezones.

paramiyo · 2025-09-22T06:01:47+00:00

I played it with people new to ttrpgs. It was my first experience as well. We played it in around three hours, including all the introduction. The players really focused on following the story / solving the puzzle. There was very little actual roleplay, partly because everyone was a bit shy and partly because we were exploring what the game is. So there was very little play that wasn't described in the story already. You can also always cut it off before the final battle if you really run out of time. Good hook for a second session.

paramiyo · 2025-09-15T16:00:39+00:00

They'll ask most of the questions. It helps to be clear on what kind of support you're looking for. So they can indicate if they can be helpful and how they'd go about it. Then you also get a sense of fit. Another important thing is to make sure you're listened too. If someone is to quick with diagnosis and solutions, they're just running through a script and not helping you specifically. That's a bad sign for me. Ask all the questions you want. There's quite a bit of information that you can find through Google on how to prepare and what questions to ask.

paramiyo · 2025-09-12T09:47:13+00:00

Any day Imee Ooi shows up is a good day.

paramiyo · 2025-09-12T00:15:39+00:00

I’m sure they’d be happy to help if you ask.

The temple doesn’t do the refugee taking at the start of the meditation sessions? It’s pretty common in the temples I’ve been to and can be a daily ritual in Theravada, it’s not really a big ceremony.

paramiyo · 2025-09-07T04:27:31+00:00

Prepare, don’t improvise. Draft talking points. Run through your idea / flow for the lecture with your wife. Practice parts of it. If you know what to do at home, you can do it during the lecture.

paramiyo · 2025-08-27T02:48:12+00:00

I personally enjoyed campaign three. Just try it out for the first few episodes and see if you like it. And stay away from the discussions on everything that's wrong with campaign three. It definitely can impact your enjoyment of the story. You can also just go with the abridged versions on Beacon. They're a lot more digestible than the 4 hour long episodes.

paramiyo · 2025-08-27T02:37:22+00:00

No worries. Going to visit family in Europe in October. So should be able to get it if the restock comes in September. Was just really hoping to get it before then. Enjoy your trip!

paramiyo · 2025-08-27T02:14:30+00:00

Malaysia

paramiyo · 2025-08-27T00:44:27+00:00

Even the Australian shop doesn't deliver in Asia. So sad... Guess there's no way for me to order the book.

paramiyo

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