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The Pleasurepain live in Bristol.
www.reverbnation.com/thepleasurepain
The V&A's Shoes exhibition
The V&A's Shoes exhibition, and St John the Baptist (1879-80), by Auguste Rodin.
Midnight burlesque at Månefisken In Oslo, Norway.
From the Royal Institute Website...
Research into the neuroscience of pain and pleasure has only just begun to untangle how they act upon us. What was once thought to be two opposing sensations delivered by distinct networks in the nervous system is in fact much more complex, with pain and pleasure pathways having much in common. In the first part of the talk, Prof Morten L. Kringelbach discusses pleasure and in the second, Prof Irene Tracey looks at pain.
www.yahnyinlondon.com/post/5281591447/pleasure-pain-at-th...
Whatever you experience in life--pain, pleasure, heat, cold, or anything else--is like something happening in a dream. although you might think things are very solid, they are like passing memory. You can experience this open, unfixated quality in sitting meditation; all that arises in your mind--hate, love, and all the rest--is not solid. Although the experience can get extremely vivid, it is just a product of your mind. Nothing solid is really happening.
~from the commentary on the back of lojong slogan card number 2, regard all dharmas as dreams.
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Lojong means "mind-training" in Tibetan. Mind here also means "heart," and refers to the awakening of the heart. The Lojong teachings are a set of fifty-nine pithy slogans that are supported by tonglen, the practice of taking in and sending out. We take in our own and other's suffering, sorrow, pain, craving, aggression, etc. and we send out that which would heal or alleviate our own and other's suffering (sending out joy, pleasure, healing, beauty, etc.). In other words, if it's painful we breathe it in, relating to our own and other's suffering with an open heart, and if it's delightful we send it out to others to share the joy and delight.
From Pema Chödrön's teachings on tonglen and lojong in her book Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living and from her tape series, Noble Heart.
