Dharma Treasure Community | Shinkai | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/shinkai/activity/ Activity feed for Shinkai. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2686f3d1041c65a886bab686c6daf457 Shinkai started the topic Wild Geese - Mary Oliver in the forum Inspirational Poems, Writings, Artwork etc. http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/wild-geese-mary-oliver Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:41:16 +0000 How relevant this poem is to the Dharma is open to interpretation, but I think it’s very beautiful anyway, so I thought I’d share 🙂

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about…[Read more]

]]> 2ca25a7c661505ceb197b2e2088c6d94 Shinkai started the topic Generalised Anxiety in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/generalised-anxiety Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:04:02 +0000 Hi Guys,

I’ve been meditating a lot recently and getting more and more concentrated (around stage 4). I have also started to experience a medium-level generalised anxiety that can last for many hours during my day-to-day life. This is completely disconnected from anything I’m worried about (I’m not really worried about anything at the moment),…[Read more]

]]> 73d6900de0280e2a0690185cdc5e83f2 Shinkai replied to the topic Difficulty with Connecting in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/difficulty-with-connecting/#post-2256 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:37:27 +0000 Hi Ana,

thank you very much for the video you suggested! It sounds like it will be very helpful! Thank you as well for your other words of wisdom, I think you really hit the nail on the head 🙂 I’m going to try to incorporate connecting a little bit more into my practice with the attitude you describe ^_^

Warm wishes,

Ollie

]]> 52f8af2857961931c2a111e7f47911cd Shinkai started the topic Difficulty with Connecting in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/difficulty-with-connecting Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:02:16 +0000 Hello Everyone!

I was hoping to get some suggestions for the practice of connecting. I feel like most of the time I’m around stage 3, verging on 4, yet I rarely make use of the practice of connecting suggested during stage 3 (though I know Culadasa does say that it may not be useful at first), and stick to just following, which I enjoy very much,…[Read more]

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