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This thread actually brought me back to a discussion I started here about six years ago, called Advice on adding ritual to practice. It is interesting to read it now because I can see how much my practice has changed since then.

At the time, I was looking for ways to add ritual and devotion to what had largely been a philosophical and meditation-oriented Buddhist prac...

I have taken on memorizing the 84 lines of this mantra and could use some help... is my Pronunciation Guide correct? You would think AI was smart enough to sort it out to me but my own study keeps showing errors in it... Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pronunciation and Compound Reading Guide

The conventions below are intended to keep the recitation ste...

I recently noticed some new kinds of links appearing in my YouTube feed, interviews with people like Jordan Peterson and Rollo Tomassi. I innocently thought I would have a look since it mentioned some kind of Red Pill, a reference to ‘The Matrix’. I found the interview indigestible and instead had a look on Wikipedia what it’s all about… I read the pages on “

I came across this very interesting author, poet and activist named Wendell Berry on YouTube, who died on the 31st of August, 2026. He was in favour of agricultural communities and small farms, and against industrial agriculture, which he saw as an outflow of the World War 2 industrial and chemical business. He was a prolific writer, Berry wrote at least twenty-five books (or...

There's a new article in The Atlantic on some of the negative effects meditation has had on people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/meditation-willoughby-britton-downsid...