Maitrī Puns

I hope this is the right place to ask; I’ve been wondering about metta and about how you deal with the conflict between wanting to wish people well, and some people being murderers, rapists, etc.

I can feel ‘loving kindness’ toward most people at this point, and my views on free will have helped (I don’t believe in it), but I have trouble feeling it genuinely toward people who, though intellectually I want for them to be able to rehabilitate and live happily, I feel don’t deserve it, if that makes sense? There’s a gap between what I believe and how I feel that is preventing me from truly practicing metta towards those kinds of people. How do you get over that bump?

*I’m very new to all of this, so please excuse (and correct, if you’re able/willing) any misuse of terms or if I’ve misunderstand concepts, etc.

By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness. (Satchidananda translation).

I enjoy this sutra immensely. It gives an "out" in that by being kind to others who are happy, compassion to those in need, and indifference to those who are wicked, you can attain the ultimate. This is Karma yoga par excellence.

Sutra discussion: How has yoga helped you in not being affected by the misdeeds of others?

Here is a link to side by side translations: http://www.milesneale.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Yoga-Sutras-Verse-Comparison.pdf

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I'm pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.

Maybe you're new to /r/stopdrinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you're like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you've been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.

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Good morning, everyone. What a trip. This week we've taken accountability for who we are and stoked the fires of what we would like to be. We've chosen life and delighted in community. We've thanked six days with six pledges and are about to make it seven. (Or maybe you didn't check in everyday, and that's fine too. You do you, boo-boo.)

As promised, today is a day of rest. And thank goodness, too, because I am knackered.

Thank you so much for offering your perspectives on the week's themes. There is no greater gift than giving someone your attention, your time, your energy, and I hope I've not squandered that generosity.

I'll leave you

I don't know if this is the right sub for this but yeah.

I've been really self-counciouss of myself in terms of physical appearance for the past few years. All my life I've been really into sports, mostly strenght sports and martial arts so I'm actually really fit kinda buff to be honest.

Actually none of this doesn't matter because I feel like shit, and I don't understand myself, yes I know according to the canons I have a "good" bodyshape, but it's useless, I look at the mirror and hate what I see, like really, absolutly hate it. It doesn't matter what friends, girlfriend whoever and whatever tells me, I just can't. And appart of this not making anything good to my menthal it doesn't aloud me to do some things, I just can't go to the beach for example (and if I go I'm wearing at least two layers of clothes), swimming pool (that's just inimaginable), whatever activity implies to take at least your shirt off. Like yo I even struggle with taking off clothes in bedroom with my couple (yes, I'm serious), I really rather to have a shirt on most of the times. It's not like I struggle doing this things, I just can't, I'm too embarrased for it, if I'm not okay with what I see I just can't let anyone else seeing it. And it's not like I'm just not satisfied, I literally don't like a single bit what I see in the mirror.

And don't know I feel so childish with this problem like I'm actually 22M but I swear I just can't.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

At work, I have a workstation.

edit: cheers u/cheer_up_richard

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.