Flock post number two (and more?)

Here is a second post from flock, this one I think I'm going to try to post to multiple blogs.  The previous one is hiding "here" http://jigme-datse-thoughts.blogspot.com/ .  Not sure if I'll use that much at all.  Well step one...  Save post...

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Post on Live Journal

Just wanted to point you to the latest post on LiveJournal. It's available at http://jrasku.livejournal.com/ or the currently latest post at http://jrasku.livejournal.com/14989.html

Jigme Datse

Lots going on...

I haven't posted in a long time. A lot has been going on. Not even sure when I last posted....

It's not been since January. And I'm noticing that for whatever reason I'm getting display problems with some websites, including blogger/blogspot. I don't know why, it seems to be somewhat Mozilla related, but some of the display problems are such that different ones show up on different browsers. This really surprised me when I was looking at http://nelson.shambhala.org/ before it got fixed. I just loose letters for some reason on some of the posts.

Reason I'm posting? Because I have a serious net addiction. And what am I doing about it? I'm on the Internet telling you about it. You know, I'm just becoming aware of how serious it is. Right now the food stuff is pretty out of control, but the net stuff is way deeper, and I can engage for hours a day, the whole time going "I should be doing something else." And just realising just how much "out of my life" I am, when it comes to my computer usage.

I could certainly go on, but I won't. I want to get to bed, and I want to do closing chants and close my shrine before doing that. So I'll drag myself away from my drug of choice right now, and go do something that's very important to me, but never seems to get enough emphasis.

Jigme Datse

Golden Compas Daemon

Here is the Golden Compass daemon that I've created for myself. If you feel like putting down what you think, go for it.



Jigme Datse

Live Journal...

Hello... I've not made a large post here for a while. I have moved back to posting on LiveJournal. I have a paid account. This means that I can do things like polls, or just post regular entries with threaded comments. Just did a couple of posts today. That's unusual for me to post more than once in one day, but I had two things to post about, so there are two posts there. Take a look, or don't depending on how you're feeling. Take care everyone.

Jigme Datse

Update on LiveJournal...

I did an update on LiveJournal, and well, I'm feeling too lazy to type in another update on here saying esentially the same thing (except no, "but why is my clock giving me the time in Moscow" or whatever it was that I said when I went to look at the date, but instead saw Moscow. So the link? http://jrasku.livejournal.com/12108.html or you can go to http://jrasku.livejournal.com/ and see my whole journal.

Jigme Datse

Shambhala Training Level II

I did the Shambhala Training Level II this weekend. It was really good I tried to be vegetarian, but as usual if food is offered to me, I take it. It wasn't even very good. But I ate it, and I was already in a state of having over eaten. This is typical of me and my compulsive overeating. It's not *big*, but it doesn't have to be big all the time for there to be a really negative process. So, I did that. I over ate. I was aware I was overeating. I was aware I was going off my desire to be vegetarian that meal, but I went ahead and did it. I wanted to not do it. Still I did it. My dad knew I didn't want it, but he kept offering it to me. It was pretty rediculous actually.

After we ate, I went to the centre, and then pretty much spent my whole weekend there. I stayed with Margaret and Russ, and that was really nice. They have a really nice house, and they are great people. On Saturday I ate at the Thai restaraunt in Nelson on Victoria and Josephine, and well I realised that maybe I don't want to eat there any more.

Why would I want to not eat somewhere that the food and atmosphere is really good, and I really enjoy it? Is it because there are no vegetarian options? Nope, a great deal of vegetarian options. Portions too large? Not really, they are larger than I would like yes, but that's true just about anywhere I go. The real reason? The bathroom is grungy. It's dirty. If they don't keep the bathroom clean, how am I suposed to be confident that the food is actually prepared by food safe standards? I can't. While I haven't got sick eating there, I'm not sure that I want to continue going there. The bathroom smelled like someone had pissed on the floor, and it hadn't been cleaned up. But I had to go to the bathroom, so I went, and I enjoyed my meal. I may try again some time, but both times that I've gone the bathroom has been discusting. So, well the food is great, but it seems I need to go to the bathroom every time I go there, so well I actually expect to have the same experience next time I'm there.

Ah, what else? I think that's about it. Came home early this morning. Well left Nelson early this morning. Got here about 10:00. It took over 3 hours to get here. Not a huge deal. I enjoyed the trip back. But once I got to Rossland I just wanted to turn around and go back to Nelson. I don't want to live in Rossland. But I don't want to spend 2/3 of my income on housing.

Jigme Datse