[AndyPharmc]

I need to reel this crazyness in and I've decided that all I need at the moment is:

1. Daily meditation (with or without a downloaded Guided Meditation on my mp3)

2. Just these books (for me personally, it's not a suggestion)
i. Anguttara Nikaya Anthology: An Anthology of Discourses
ii. The Dhammapada
iii. Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering

3. Attend my local Vihara once a week

4. Buy a back support and stop griping

5. Practice what I preach (to myself)

hello Hornets

a very wise intention & move there. i think the internet may give some poor & unrealistic impressions

for example, myself. the impression may be gained that studying sutta is something i regard as important & do alot but, in fact, nothing could be more futher from the truth. i am just old in age

i first practised meditation in 1989 for one year, in a monastery, quite intensively. although there were many books there, i rarely read a book

i simply learned the basics of practise, i.e., non-judging ('good' & 'bad'); non-craving; non-clinging; sitting; walking; sitting; standing; etc

i first read Pali sutta in 1995. so, because of practising alot, i integrated & remembered what i merely browsed in sutta easily

in my experience, there is no substitute for practise & keeping it simple

best wishes

element