And some states while not having banned it outright have made it effectively impossible to carry out. Oregon IIRC had their execution chamber and death row dismantled when their last governor left office. Execution is still on the books though.
I see a lot of people in here using hledger or beancount over ledger. Could somebody explain the differences? Looking to get back into PTA, but am facing some choice paralysis now.
I personally found Goyo very buggy, bordering on unusable, last I tried it.
Vim Pencil is however great. An alternative, if you want more control over how things look, is to customize linebreak, breakindent, breakindentopt, etc. yourself per filetype (by setting them in files like e.g. ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim).
Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR (also Portland, the streets names sharing a lot of character's names), it was only after he placed it in Springfield that he realized Springfield could be anywhere. He apparently makes direct references to local landmarks and establishments, and certain characters are rumored to have been based off of locals.
Plain old concentration meditation with the feeling of breath in the tip of my nose as my object. (this guy calls it "shrinking" : https://fleen.org/fluffy_cloud/shrink/ )
As for the experience. Well, first it gets you high. Then it gets really easy. Then you encounter weird stuff and more weird stuff, vast and deep. And that's as far as I'll go with that line of conversation.
From reading the wiki page I take it to mean hallucinations which one gives greater importance to than they should. Which is sort of similar to what you were describing, I don't think they meant offense.
Some people do have acid flashbacks etc. ... others have described the situation as an “attention pull-up bar,” you try to hold yourself “up” (ie focused), eventually “your arms give” (ie your attention wanders), you “rest” a second (ie acknowledge it), then “pull yourself up” again (ie return to the object of meditation).
I was a lay Tibetan Buddhist for several years, sometimes you do focus on one point, or a statue of a Buddha, or on your breathing... the sort of static/repetitive things where you might trigger the psychedelic effects. You can fast-chant Avalokiteshwara’s mantra[1] and Green Tara’s mantra[2] and Vajrasattva’s short mantra[3], but you would also have more dynamic meditations and longer mantras: Vajrasattva’s full mantra[4] is a whole song; so are the Praises of Tara; a full visualization of Green Tara has multiple colors and seed syllables and signs and stages until you visualize her blossoming out of a Lotus and shining green light through you, blasting all your your darknesses away.
That last one is not so typical, but like tonglen practice, where you breathe in the darkness of the world and breathe out pureness and goodness, is more active and very common.
[1] the familiar Om mani padme hum, which fast-chanted sounds like “hummo-mani-pemde” over and over
[2] there are different skin colors of Tara, Green Tara is invoked with Om Tare tuttare ture svaha and fast chanted it sounds like “zohm-tare-t'tare-ture” repeated.
[3] his short mantra is just his name, Om Vajrasattva hum. There's also a Japanese tradition of some monk dancing down the street sing-chanting an Amitabha mantra like that, Namu Amita butsu, Namu Amita Butsu.
[4] It's known as the 100-syllable mantra, I think? I occasionally look back on my time and say “well was I really a Tibetan Buddhist if I wasn't a monk and didn't keep with it?” and then the Vajrasattva mantra will come back to mind and it's like “Yeah if that's one of the things I have memorized then I definitely count.”
It sounds like the only difference between makyo and what you've experienced is whether you think it's 'real' or not...but I don't have a whole lot of detail to go on here, either. I'm not judging the 'realness', I'm just saying that two similar methods are producing similar results. At least subjectively.
I wanted to share an unexpected experience I had during a yoga class, specifically a class that included pranayama practice, under the guidance of a particular teacher. This wasn’t something I sought out, and it hasn't repeated since, but it left a strong impression.
During the session, I distinctly felt what could be described as the "opening of the third eye." However, the sensation was much more mechanical than subtle, almost as if my forehead was literally opening up. It felt real, but strangely, it wasn’t part of the practice or anything the teacher mentioned. After the session, everything went back to normal; it was just this momentary experience during the practice.
I’ve never come across descriptions of it happening this way in any readings on yoga or meditation. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Not exactly sure whether you meant it but here's the thing: energies rise up with meditation/pranayama. These give you sensations in different parts of the body most notably in your eyebrow/forehead/etc.
Experiences like Hollow, digging, pricking, massaging etc.. I've not just experienced profound sensations, but I live with them. In every session I experience them daily. IN fact, I'm experiencing them right this moment while typing, in my forehead, a deep, hollow like sensation, as if some energies are digging some hole in the forehead. This is not painful or discomforting.
There are many different experiences, and from a mystical perspective, infinite forms of yoga. Your comment seems to suggest that this is a normal sensation, but for me, it felt anything but normal.
What I’m trying to clarify is that while I did feel a very strange sensation, I wasn't necessarily describing the same thing you experience regularly. When I look into descriptions of third eye sensations, they don’t match what I felt, which is why it remains a mystery to me.
The worst part about controls inside the titlebar is things like Firefox and Chromium which implement their own decorations and window design with the tabs ending up in 95% of your draggable titlebar area, so you often end up moving the tab instead of moving the window. I'm not sure who will blink first with the lousy design situation, but the users are paying the price. (Honestly browsers just need to change this...Gnome is most people's default and they've shown themselves to be pretty damned stubborn)
i gave up entirely and went with xmonad. normally window placement is automatic and predictable, but if I really want to resize something, it's Super+Right Drag.
