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Lojong. Lojong (Tib.

Lojong

བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Geshe Chekhawa. The practice involves refining and purifying one's motivations and attitudes. The fifty-nine or so slogans that form the root text of the mind training practice are designed as a set of antidotes to undesired mental habits that cause suffering. Mnemonics and memory improvement / Build Your Memory. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.

In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer. Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get as good answers from other, more experienced users as from hackers.

This is a Good Thing; users tend to be just a little bit more tolerant of the kind of failures newbies often have. Still, treating experienced users like hackers in the ways we recommend here will generally be the most effective way to get useful answers out of them, too. Physics Course Survival Strategies. By Donald E.

Physics Course Survival Strategies.

Simanek Students taking their first physics course often come with study habits that have, perhaps, served them adequately for good grades in other courses, but are inadequate and counterproductive in physics. Habits are hard to break, but once one realizes why certain habits don't work, one may be motivated to try a new way. The special challengesof physics. Introductory physics courses have a reputation among students of being more difficult than other introductory science courses.