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I was watching a science programme last night about what came before the Big bang? Essentially it looks like scientists can't imagine that there was nothing, as "nothing" could not be a cause for "something". So where does that leave consciousness, as per the OP?

The next in my mini series of esoteric medieval German music. This one is sung in Mittelhochdeutsch.

The only way is inward, to inner understanding/gnosis. All higher teachings point the seeker in this direction. The more you search for the truth in the detritus of the conceptual mind, the more you will miss it.

They are also the most open and sympathetic to others who suffer.

"The current state of your mind is the basic foundation of the practice". Fantastic. A brilliant teacher. Really telling it as it is.

Which will be of real help with working out which plants are likely to do well in your planned garden project.

Well I'm not sure if this book has the same quantity or quality of debating MSG, but it's a lot cheaper and covers pretty much all you need to know in order to set yourself up as in internet debating jihadi. So, read it and come back here to kick some some serious butt. You know the infidel deserve it, and it's all because you're *ahem* (cough) compassionate!!! Don't forget to remind them it's for their own good. The juicy review:

Anyone else getting this when they hit yahoo's page? It could be a UK thing. I've tried on computer, laptop and tablet, same result. Can't find server.

Where I live, the Slug is king!

Well, sort of. What I do is remove the leaves, down to the base and chop them into salads. I don't dig up the onion itself, as there is no need. When the small onions sprout on top, then they can also be eaten in salads or planted. What I do at the end of every season, is dig them up and replant them in another spot. This stops them getting too crowded and they grow much better in the following year. I always plant my weakest garlic cloves into pots and treat them like spring onions. They can be harvested in their entirety and eaten when they look about the size of a spring onion. Very tasty with a fresh mild flavour.

Tried to sign in but it was just as odd. Just checked on the tablet and laptop, all the same HTML nasty. I've never heard of Thunderbird. I'll have to check that out.

Just as well, as I've already got Gollum on ignore

Nope, problem's back again. It was okay briefly yesterday afternoon but it's gone funny again...

You need a T-Shirt that says "I'm a Canadian you wimps!"

Oddly enough, the same thought came to my mind as I watched the vid. I do Tai Chi now but I've also done hatha yoga in the past and I don't see anything that wouldn't be covered by either?

Sorted now. Just one of those things.

I don't bother much with root veg, as it's cheap enough to buy and quite a lot of work to look after. I stick with herbs and garlic, it's easy and tasty. Sage, rosemary, thyme and oregano look after themselves once planted. Basil is good indoors in pots in spring but then if you put it outside the leaves change and the flavour becomes more intense. Peas grow in pots with sticks and netting to climb up. I also have tree onions (not many people know about them). All easy to look after and good for adding to food. I'd start with easy stuff in pots and get more adventurous if the mood takes you.

It all comes down to the situation you find yourself in personally, and being realistic about it. I had some good teachers in the early years but none of them could ever be construed as gurus. Now I have a few associates but no physical teacher, so direct experience in and out of meditation is (by default) my actual guide/refuge.

It's the release of stress co-joined with the enjoyment of bodily bliss which delivers a quick-fix relief. This is weighed up against the effect you have noticed, which it's having on your energy/mind. But a quick-fix from what? Well, it's stress, if you look closely. A kind a tightness and tension, combined with a desire for the bliss. A potent mix. Energy work of some kind can deliver results and there are people here who know their stuff around Chinese/Taoist systems, which are akin to martial arts but very different, as they work on the body's internal energy. I'm a beginner at Tai Chi and can't praise it highly enough. So read around and ask these guys. Some of them have years of experience behind them.

One of the finest posts I've read in a long time on this topic. Very clear and gets to the heart of the matter.

There are no easy answers to this problem but at least the OP has seen the suffering in his life which it engenders and wishes to make a change. As such, it's a very good first step. Martial arts are largely about controlling the situation, which he can do in the dojo no doubt, but perhaps this makes the contrast between that control and the way his addiction is controlling him, even more obvious.

You make a good point there. Sex and Porn are not the same thing by a long shot. On reprogramming my TV a few days ago I spotted a phone sex channel. On it was a lady with artificially round silicone-filled breasts + pierced nipples. She had various tattoos and other piercings and was compulsively jiggling up and down like a plastic zombie whilst babbling into a smartphone. All in a effort to get some suckers to call the premium rate phone line which was flashing up on the screen. I thought, is this what it has come down to? Is this the goddess towards which young men nowadays direct their desire and an empowering role model for girls to aspire to? I may have lead a sheltered life but I've never had a partner who ever spat on my c**k, wanted it up the a** or wanted me to j*** on her face. ... I'd be disturbed if she did.

Genau! It's a pain in the tushita to have to do the URL thing and images you upload from your computer look tiny and are likely to be overlooked and ignored, as people may not think to click on them. Well, if there is another way, I'm all for it.

Bump!

Or... When uploading a picture make sure there is no attachment to self. That's a doctrine!