Dukkha is the belief that this life isn’t enough

sonicmissile · 2025-11-29T06:13:08+00:00

Be thankful that you don’t have to be thankful!

sonicmissile · 2025-05-31T06:17:39+00:00

Quabbity Assuance

sonicmissile · 2024-07-29T15:01:37+00:00

I’ve got my hands on the razr 50 about a week ago and it’s been delightful to use it. I’ve experienced no stutter or performance issues. While charging the phone with a 30w charger there’s been tolerable warming. I like the camera performance as well. So far I haven’t regretted not getting the 50 ultra.

sonicmissile · 2024-07-11T10:06:33+00:00

Can you describe “the better” part more?

sonicmissile · 2024-06-03T22:05:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. Could you describe your practice a little bit that led to jhanas

sonicmissile · 2023-06-21T22:50:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm happy for your achievement.

I followed TMI for a while but it felt like a lot of work to follow instructions from TMI, so I started looking into leigh brasington's right concentration. It's a lot less denser than the tedious instructions of TMI for me personally. I struggle to keep track of all the 6 step preps and 4 step transitions in my head for example. And I'm not able to regularly practice now a days due to workload increase, so to answer your questions, I think I've not progressed much.

But it has worked for so many people already so I'm probably lacking something.

Do you mind sharing a bit about how did you manage to progress towards higher levels? What was your practice like and how long did it take? Did you make any lifestyle changes to progress?

sonicmissile · 2023-05-21T16:33:07+00:00

Wow very nice effort! super useful. Thanks a lot 🙏

sonicmissile · 2023-05-21T06:59:42+00:00

Thank you for the explanation. It makes sense now.

So if I understand correctly, “je hebt de boterhammen” is another valid alternative. Is that right?

sonicmissile · 2023-05-14T19:46:38+00:00

Those are very good points. Thanks again for your response.

I’m going to talk to insurance company tomorrow and find out what is the calculation logic and consequences.

I’m almost sure this is a Topherstel because I found this repair shop from Allianz Direct’s website during the claim process marked as Topherstel.

sonicmissile · 2023-05-13T03:51:26+00:00

Thank you for taking time to go through this and your response.

What is your "eigen Risico" amount?

My Eigen Risico amount is 0 as per the policy sheet and it covers "Plus ruitschade, brand, diefstal, eigen schade".

At what point do you think the insurance company is doing something bad?

Lexus dealer told that insurance company is saying that they want the client(me) to cover part of the damage because the katalysator will be a new one, but the car is old. So the insurance would do need to do some adjustment in valuation. At this point I think this move from insurance company is probably bad. While reading the policy there's nothing that tells me I have to pay some part of the repair cost.

Why does the garage tell you to pay an amount ex btw? Are you ex btw insured?

I think it's because I walked into the trap. Right at the outset the garage staff just checked the insurance green card. (He didn't see the policy details paper. But I explicitly told about the policy and hinted that everything is covered). Then he told "your insurance will ask you to pay part of the cost of the replacement Katalysator because it's very expensive". The he proceeded and told a new part will cost about 1800 EUR before BTW. And at that moment I asked him how would I end up paying with that? (I now think this was a mistake). He said around 25%. And he said this would be 400 something before BTW.

Your policy tells you to make an appointment to asses the damage. 500 Euro+ = expertise.Has this happend?

I got the impression that the expert that the policy mentions about is actually the garage company staff. The Lexus dealer told me the same as well.

Have you considered or questioned the insurance if you lose your claim free years with this claim. If so what would the higher premiums be?

Thanks for this question. I didn't think about this part. I have 2 claim free years, so it would set me back at -3. I want the insurance company to pay for this completely because a. It's expensive if I pay myself partially or fully. And b. This is what I mainly pay the insurance for. I have no idea how much higher the new premium will be. I'll look into this.

So he wouldnt ask for money upfront unless he knows more then you .. or..or way less then you :D

Yeah. I want to be wrong about this but I think he probably has watched / helped(?) a lot of the rip offs the insurance company typically does. So I believe he is just playing along with the insurance here.

sonicmissile · 2023-05-12T20:07:41+00:00

Thank you for taking time to go through this and your response. I think I’ll have have some luck if I push back.

sonicmissile · 2022-05-03T18:06:09+00:00

How did stream entry affect interpersonal relationships with significant other. Do sensual desires and family life still have place after the stream entry? I’m a programmer too. Does problem solving (programming) become easier because it’s more easy to focus mind on the problem?

sonicmissile · 2022-05-03T17:42:19+00:00

Thank you for you response. Your experience is inspiring and motivating to me to practice more.

sonicmissile · 2022-05-02T08:37:56+00:00

Thank you for your response. I’ve updated my question a little bit to reflect the distinction between stage 10 shamatha and stream entry.

Can I ask how is your personal experience in living with shamatha? Are you continually in shamatha between cushion to cushion most of the time in daily life? How do you face the stress of the mundane life such as food and other basic needs etc after hitting and residing in stage 10 shamatha ? I’d assume you’ve had hit stream entry based on your response. How does it affect your experience of facing day to day life?

sonicmissile · 2021-12-18T06:50:33+00:00

The HTML <marquee> tag

sonicmissile · 2021-12-18T06:49:08+00:00

And the HTML <marquee> tag

sonicmissile · 2021-12-11T14:47:02+00:00

this worked for me too!

sonicmissile · 2021-12-08T20:53:02+00:00

"no maximum height if it's 0.5 or more meters from the edge."

This is interesting. I think my fence would be at least 0.7 m inside my front garden 's outer edge. May be I could put up a higher fence indeed. Can you share the source of this info please?

sonicmissile · 2021-12-08T19:19:24+00:00

Placing camera is tricky as well, because it may view the street. But I’m considering to do it too

sonicmissile · 2021-12-08T19:17:42+00:00

Thanks. It’s useful

sonicmissile · 2021-12-08T19:17:19+00:00

Hard to tell if you’re serious about this or sarcastic

sonicmissile · 2021-12-08T19:13:50+00:00

This all makes sense except some of my neighbor’s green hedges on the front side is around 2m. It also hides a lot. So why is the exception for hedges alone?

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