Hi, I'm new here too. Happy to see the community also! Hopefully it'll grow! I realise the post is a little old but thought I would reply anyway. I am currently halfway between Theravada and Zen. I love the simple teaching of both schools. That awakening is already here but we just have to realise it. Ask yourself the right question or see the right thing and you will awaken right there to some extent and you can keep going and getting different experiences and awakenings. As someone said it's not like you're awakened and now you can levitate and control light but you can start to see the world for what it is, without all of our conditionings and essences colouring everything. You'll see a rose and rather than thinking about all the romance and whatever other things you have picked up which cause a rose to make you feel a certain way, you will see a rose for what it is. The minerals in the ground, the cloud that watered it the river and sun that made the cloud, the animal that died to give it nutrients, the person that cut it back to make it flower more prolifically, the parents of that person....you see where I'm going. This is of course a massive rant and I am always still learning but this is what I see as a large aspect of awakening...if I ever manage that then I'll come back and let you know 🙂 and I would love for anyone else to let me know their opinions as it is obviously something that words and conceptions cannot explain. I somewhat struggle with meditation too but I'm being quite good at keeping a routine and sometimes sneaking one in at lunchtime in work if I can find an empty office somewhere even 10 mins can be amazing. I would really recommend Sam Harris's waking up app purely for the meditation if you can handle how secularised it is but some of the talks on the app really are great and Sam's way of looking at meditation is very interesting even if you disagree with him on it. I think it's really important that we all keep talking to eachother and if you disagree... great. Me hating the taste of tuna shouldn't make you love it any less and unless you try and ram a can down my throat or vice versa then we should all be happy that we can enjoy the dhamma in whatever form works best. Thanks for taking the time to read. With Metta.

So sad, everyone is trying to get on the subscription train. Slowly making it impossible to live your life without technology such as closing in person banks and trying to get rid of cash very slowly. Soon apple and Google will want a subscription for your phone OS and you'll be almost forced to participate just to access your money. It's very slowly happening but I'm hoping good people can keep pushing good free software for everyone's benefit.

Same, not sure what's going on. Just checked and nsfw subs are still on too which I thought was part of what was been taken away from 3rd party apps. Also, first comment on lemmy, used mastodon a while back when Twitter first caught fire but I'm liking it so far. Currently using connect for lemmy which seems good. Missing rif a lot today though. Just opening on impulse.