hI-OOPS-CAPS
-
Posts
788 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Posts posted by hI-OOPS-CAPS
-
-
I think all your questions have answers except the final one about the human race peaking
-
No one needs a mobile. Just everyone gets themselves into the situation where they think they need a phone. And without it, people are all confused. 10 years ago we were doing just fine without everyone having and phone and high speed internet. Infact i wasn't wasting my time here.
.
haha. You're aware of wasting your time but don't do anything about it. people of the future will wonder how we ever coped without a, well if i new future gadgets i'd be psychic. i wonder if it will ever be possible to see into the future
-
-
I'd like to respectively disagree about your characterisation of samatha meditation. Some denominations of Zen believe that samatha can lead to insight itself and therefore the breath is the only object of meditation; no insight meditation is required. Furthermore, certain Theravadan denominations recognise samatha as an important precursor to insight meditation. If one has not cultivated the various stages of samatha (jnanas) although they may manage to remove the grosser aspects of delusion/defilement (klesa) they are not equipped to handle the more subtle ones because they lack a refined absorption. In other words, you may get quicker results from moving straight to insight meditation, but in the long run you might find that you reach an impasse. It is this process, that included samatha, that the Buddha followed although I wouldn't want to say that everyone should follow his exact path and there probably are other means of moving toward the ending of suffering.
Oddly enough, I'd say you get more instant result from samadhi meditation, it's more straight forward. You dont have enough concentration in vipassana and as such dont get the apparent insight or calmness.
Concentration is very important. Before doing vipassana it would be wise to do some preliminary legwork such as counting your breaths to 50 or something like that. It'll help you settle your mind. I find nothing worse than starting vipassana without at least a partly settled mind.
My post might have said meditation is black and white, either concentration or insight. But its like politics, a country isnt either fascist or communist its probably somewhere in the middle.
Buddha had been practicing samadhi meditation as they do in Hinduism for 6 years. When he didnt find the answers he wanted he abandoned that life. When he started out again (with incredibly deep concentration I'd imagine) he found that mindfulness gave him the insight to reach enlightenment.
Do you find you can apply meditation to your daily routine Ben? I couldn't navigate that one when I was doing more samadhi based meditation. I do 1 hour of mindfulness per day. Some days im just too lazy to even think about it however
I took a brief look at dna healing, when I saw 'theta' I can only assume its talking about brainwave entrainment, the lazy mans way to mellowness.
-
I can't imagine many people know about meditation, I always imagined a monk who's always at peace meditating on a mountain top.
Anyway, I went to Thailand to live and work for 1 year and did a 10 day meditation retreat during my time there. There are 2 kinds, concentration and insight. The popular western kind is concentration, you focus on your breath for 5 mins a day and eventually you'll be at peace, or thats how it's advertised. But the type I'll be talking about is Vipassana or insight mainly practiced in south east Asia, leading directly to enlightenment (where suffering is eradicated from your mind). The biggest difference between concentration and insight meditation is insight uproots suffering whereas concentration just ignores the suffering.
When you have mental problems you mightn't know how to deal with them. If you're feeling anxious, rather than deal with it you might just want to sit infront of the television and reach for another bar of chocolate. But if you're ignorant and just accept that then you'll probably get nowhere.
Insight meditation lets us understand the nature of ourselves. My teacher told me, quite a few times, 'anyone can practice, anywhere, anytime.' He means you can bring awareness to the present moment and begin to understand the causes of problems and suffering.
When you familiarise yourself with, for example, anger or laziness or whatever the emotion its influence over you becomes less and less. When you fully understand the emotion you'll realise it exists for a fraction of a second and can never be fluttered by it.
If you're interested in meditation you can check this page out, there are also instructions how to meditate. Although this has nothing to do with religion all the pages about meditation seem to go hand in hand with Buddhism.
http://www.vipassanadhura.com/whatis.htm#a
So if you can resist the typical Facebook browse or crash infront of the t.v for 1 hour then give it a try. (thats 30mins walking then 30mins sitting
) -
I am in Bangkok, and it's about 150 Baht to get a license and all the things that go with (docs cert, visas etc). Bikes are really cheap to use here, tax is 100 Baht a year. Insurance, for the top one is around 1000baht. 1000Baht is about 20£.
I've always been interested in motorbikes but I only know of the big ones, 600s and 1000s etc. Many people ride around on 110cc scooter type bikes, I'd go for something like this. What about bikes which are abit bigger, such as 250 or 400cc, but still look quite scooter-ish. I'm after something not too slow but also that looks part of bangkok (but a tiny bit meatier). Im not bothered about gears or automatics, also, I might plan several 100km road trips.
-
Cool
Hope this helps
-
im sure oil companies whack brain boxes behind alternative energy sources
-
They coulda used some images for the more visual person
. I've heard about the EPR paradox and maybe this experiment seems to be about it or confirm it. It's interesting to see they've used a holographic universe to come up with a solution to the problem. There must be a reason why it hasn't caught on. -
I dreamt I was in a shopping centre and I was singing Sweet Home Alabama. Then all of a sudden I died, then I reappeared again standing some distance from where I died. People were crowded around me. My dream ended there but I was bricking it because I woke up singing that song. I didn't know what was gonna happen!
-
im gonna quit smoking, lose weight, not drink as much and try to get a job. k thx brb bye
-
Its been tested on animals in space I think, I cannot remember well but i read it from BBC's focus magazine. I'd imagine you'd die long before the low tempuratures and high radiation has an effect, mainly due to lack of oxygen and conciousness.
-
Going from 9s to 13s will almost certainly require a setup I would think. Don't take this the wrong way, but by virtue of the fact you referred to the truss rod as "that screw that alters the neck position" I'd suggest you might want to take it to get done professionally, or at the very least look up how to set up a guitar on the internet. I just don't want to see you damage your guitar by being overzealous with the truss rod!
I'm not sure why you're wanting to jump up to such thick strings though, generally you'd only go up to 13s if you're tuning down really low. If you're playing in standard then 10s are more the norm, if you start going too thick in standard you're really going to struggle to bend them. You will get a 'fuller' sound with thick strings, but really their main advantage is when you start tuning low so that you can keep the string tension.
thanks, I posted in here about fret buzzing and have tinkered with the truss rod a bit. I read a quick guide saying something about bends and they recommend light top strings then heavier ones for bottom. Says Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom 10, 13, 17, 30, 42, 52
http://www.guitarstringguide.com/drupal/content/guitar-string-gauges-0
It's just a Squire I've had for about two year and I'm not too bothered about trashing it, more reason to get a new I suppose. But that'll require even more questions
-
what do higher gauge string have over smaller ones? also, if i go from 9s to 13 will i need to move that screw to alter the neck position?
I woulda posted in guitar thread but I cant find it and I'm sure we had one
-
its possible to survive in space without a special suit for around 90secs without any permenant damage
-
-
dunno if its damon, looks more like me
-
At around an hour of cycling or rowing etc nearly all the energy comes from fat stores. This is moderate intensity at most. I think trials is too intense for the energy to be supplied by fat.
-
You are right. The term 'ignition' tends to refer to the timing of the spark though, rather than the combustion its self which is the process you're describing.
The ignition it's self almost always happens before TDC, in some cases as much as 45 degrees before.
if ignition happens before, surely the force produced would counteract the momentum of the engine. i'd of thought the piston has to be over tdc.
when bats exit caves they always go left in the northern hemisphere, and to the right in the southern hemisphere
-
your heart has some brain cells in
-
i row quite often, in a double and a quad occasionally, but a single is my fav
heres me in my single at talkin tarn regatta. ive fancied coastal rowin but theres no clubs around me, anyone done such a thing?
-
not much to the game, pretty easy when you figure out how to get over that first gap.
i dont know why they needed to make amazing graphics, seems identical to cs source. i had minimum settings to run on my laptop smoothly.
-
cant really get an interesting story from the meaning of someones name, as ive just seen by this topic. i like multi tasking males name though.
-
maybe try centripetal acceleration. string would suggest it moves circular. nice copy and paste from physicsforums
Guitar Help And Advice
in Chit Chat
Posted
Thought I'd post a guitar prob in this thread instead of create another.
I had fret buzzing on my squire strat. The shop I bought it from said it's probs my best bet to lower the strings closer to the fretboard. And after playing another guitar, I can see my squire's strings travel a mile before they hit the fretboard!
Maybe my guitar is too cheap, but can squires be adjusted like that?