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  1. Dorothy Dandridge

    How to deal with suicidal thoughts/depression/loneliness?

    I'm a very lonely person. I...was going to kill myself last New Years Eve. I even thought about the means, and just thinking about doing it brought a smile to my face that this will bull**** life would be over. I was talked out of it not by people in real life, but online friends. They actually...
  2. Dorothy Dandridge

    Your experiences during meditation

    Really weird meditation session. I think I cried. Either that or my eyes watered from not blinking, but I've done meditation without blinking plenty of times and this never happened. During one point, I felt strong emotion and warmth build up in the middle of my gut and I was happy for a second...
  3. Dorothy Dandridge

    The monetization of mindfulness

    The New Yorker released a wonderful article on the history of commercializing mindfulness and other Eastern spiritual traditions in the west. The other day I was asked by @LuisDantas what I thought about secularing and reducing Buddhism to its most base form. In my reply I said that while...
  4. Dorothy Dandridge

    Struggling with western Buddhism

    I wish I had an outlet to speak with other Buddhists. I love Buddhism: the sutras, Buddha's words, the poem and sutra patterns, the meditations, the ethics, the 4 noble truths, the eightfold path. It all just fits me. But I struggle with western Buddhists because western Buddhists are often so...
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