How often do you get drunk?
Posted by: Tarquin Maynard - Portly on 10 May 2004
Count D.
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'So, stop being weak, stop watching your soaps and find an attitude yourself'
Got a drink problem then ?
[This message was edited by FISBEY on Fri 14 May 2004 at 10:30.]
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'So, stop being weak, stop watching your soaps and find an attitude yourself'
Got a drink problem then ?
[This message was edited by FISBEY on Fri 14 May 2004 at 10:30.]
OK thanks, I guess I'm pretty sensitive to some posts.
Incidentally I don't watch too much TV, especially soaps, life itself can be too much of a soap opera sometimes....
And yes I think a lot of us are influenced by the media in general, I guess we're lucky if we can see it for what it is, which is hard sometimes given the recent Mirror pictures for example.....
'Life is difficult' as the Buddhists say...
Have a nice day
Incidentally I don't watch too much TV, especially soaps, life itself can be too much of a soap opera sometimes....
And yes I think a lot of us are influenced by the media in general, I guess we're lucky if we can see it for what it is, which is hard sometimes given the recent Mirror pictures for example.....
'Life is difficult' as the Buddhists say...
Have a nice day
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Originally posted by FISBEY:
OK thanks, I guess I'm pretty sensitive to some posts.
Four and a half weeks and the signs are showing, eh?
Rasher - naff orf! - you're right though.... 
Tom - the honest answer is (for me) that we generate our own bad karma a lot of the time, I know only too well that I'm my own worst enemy sometimes, but am learning to be my own best friend too, hence giving up smoking, not drinking and doing other drugs etc (if other people want to that's fine, having said that that I'm not too happy being around very drunk or very stoned people). I know full well the meaning of the word 'Dukkha', which in simple terms means 'suffering' and its place within the four noble truths, the last of which (the cessation of Dukkha) I'm trying to work on.
I very much try and 'look within', which is where Buddhism and psychotherapy are very similar, psychotherapy being something I do use.
I guess being on this forum is a bit of a paradox for me right now, I do own a Naim system, but am trying to concentrate on the less is more theme these day, I've spent years looking outward and grasping at straws and it didn't really help me a bit, but as I said in an earlier post 'each to their own'.
Very much the road less travelled.
Did I need to write a justification?, I don't know, but I did!
Tom - the honest answer is (for me) that we generate our own bad karma a lot of the time, I know only too well that I'm my own worst enemy sometimes, but am learning to be my own best friend too, hence giving up smoking, not drinking and doing other drugs etc (if other people want to that's fine, having said that that I'm not too happy being around very drunk or very stoned people). I know full well the meaning of the word 'Dukkha', which in simple terms means 'suffering' and its place within the four noble truths, the last of which (the cessation of Dukkha) I'm trying to work on.
I very much try and 'look within', which is where Buddhism and psychotherapy are very similar, psychotherapy being something I do use.
I guess being on this forum is a bit of a paradox for me right now, I do own a Naim system, but am trying to concentrate on the less is more theme these day, I've spent years looking outward and grasping at straws and it didn't really help me a bit, but as I said in an earlier post 'each to their own'.
Very much the road less travelled.
Did I need to write a justification?, I don't know, but I did!