I'm not here to express any personal opinions, as I know this isn't appropriate here. I'll just say that the current events in American politics has invoked a lot of negative emotions in me.
I understand that when groups of angered people attempt to take action, even if they have every logical reason to feel that what they're doing is right, if they do it in the spirit of rage or vengeance it still creates bad karma. Whether it's for the people taking action, or the world at large. So, a spiritually minded person might say you should be communally involved with the understanding that while people's thoughts and views may be not ideal, beneath that is still a divine being. "God in drag" as
Hello everyone. I'm writing simply to express my love and fascination with Shiva. I want to write this here because I'd like to connect with others about him. I'm not Indian, I live in America, I wasn't even raised with any kind of religion. However, within the past few years I started practicing meditation and pranayama to manage stress and negativity. I was also gifted a shiva amulet several years back, which I was told had been blessed by a monk to actually connect it to shiva. No way to tell this is true other than when I first picked it up, I felt a very intense energy go through my body.
One night I was meditating and got to a trance like state. I suddenly thought of the amulet, and
I've been trying to work on my biggest hindrance on the Buddhist path, which is anger. Meditation has helped me a lot when it comes to anger over small things that aren't worth being bothered by (people being rude, not getting what I want, getting what I don't want, etc.) I agree that you should treat people with kindness and respect, but also understand that you're not entitled to always get the treatment you want.
However, I find myself getting angry over bigger and more significant problems. Specifically, corruption in government and the suffering it causes to poor and innocent people. This happens in my country and all over the world. Evil people rise to power and they cause violence, i
Hello everyone, with this post I want to share my experiences and allow people to share advice and wisdom with me. I've loved Ram Dass for the past couple years. His teachings have helped me tremendously. Discovering him has been a game changer, but I've had another game changing experience close to a year ago, when I had my first psychedelic experience with psilocybin. I basically had an experience similar to how Ram Dass described taking acid, my sense of individual self completely disappeared. The room I was in broke down and everything turned into little balls of light, and then my body disintegrated into light and mixed in with all the other light. I literally couldn't distinguish me fr
I don't consider myself a buddhist, but spirituality has become an important part of my life for the past few years. Part of my family are Theravada buddhists from Thailand. My grandmother moved to America in Fayetteville, North Carolina to marry and settle down with my grandfather. They met when he was deployed by the army in Bangkok. There was a small community of Thai people in Fayetteville along with some monks who formed a temple. My grandmother was never ordained in any way but was renown as spiritually high regardless. She meditated and prayed daily and was very compassionate. The craziest thing with her was that she had siddhis; specifically, she would know things that were going to
Hello everyone! Been enjoying scrolling through this page and find it to be a great place to ask for advice. I've decided I need to quit weed cold turkey after about 4 years of smoking daily. I've known for at least the past year that I've become addicted to it and that it's been complicating my life. I've tried weening myself off. One time I went two weeks without smoking in hopes that I could start again by smoking only a couple times a week and regain balance in my weed usage, but of course I went right back to using daily. I know I need to just quit and stay firm in my decision. What I need advice for is how to handle the cravings. I know they're coming and that I'll have thoughts about
Hello everyone, I'm new to this page and think it's a great place to share my recent experiences and ask for advice. I'm a 23 year old male and I've been weightlifting seriously for the past 6 months. This question needs quite a bit of context.
Backstory: Sometime in elementary school, getting strong became naturally appealing to me. It just seemed like a fun and meaningful thing to do. However, I was naturally short and scrawny which lead to me getting bullied and emasculated by other students. This especially happened when I'd talk about how I liked working out and kids would say things to the effect of "look at the little guy thinking he can get big and strong." This hurt and discouraged
