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Title: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 01:02:34 AM
Today was a sort of awakening. After a long talk with some old friends in group chat i realized how negative my hometown was/is. People can be really nasty for no apparent reason at all. It made me remember why I got away from that crowd.

So i began to reflect- Have i been negative lately?  :thinking

Some may say i have. And so today I will begin a journey to *Zenfulness*

There will be a new Assimilate on Thebore from now on.

:heart
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 17, 2018, 01:04:21 AM
 :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 17, 2018, 01:05:12 AM
lol
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 17, 2018, 01:07:57 AM
How old are you?

If you’re serious, I recommend looking into non-religious/mystical BS mantra meditation.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Kara on August 17, 2018, 01:08:39 AM
A ZEN STORY
by Camden Benares, The Count of Five
Headmaster, Camp Meeker Cabal

A serious young man found the conflicts of mid 20th Century America confusing. He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself the discords that troubled him, but he remained troubled.

One night in a coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, "go to the dilapidated mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast corner, face the corner, and meditate."

He did just as the Zen Master instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He worried whether or not the rest of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on. He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him.

His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting there was. The second replied "Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead."

Hearing this, the man was enlightened.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Atramental on August 17, 2018, 01:30:50 AM
This new pursuit of yours has probably less to do with zen and more to do with mindfulness.

Better late than never I suppose.  :doge
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 01:32:33 AM
lol
Thank you brother V for your support.

How old are you?

If you’re serious, I recommend looking into non-religious/mystical BS mantra meditation.
I've been looking into some meditation practices. I plan on incorporating one in my daily routine.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Atramental on August 17, 2018, 01:34:00 AM
https://youtu.be/EszY1qphHvk

:thinking
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: eleuin on August 17, 2018, 01:40:32 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/oyk4cuT.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 17, 2018, 02:12:59 AM
Assy Plinko: Coming Soon
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 17, 2018, 02:15:47 AM
Worse then peak himu imho
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 17, 2018, 02:24:36 AM
The man whom is too busy to meditate for 30 minutes, should meditate for 1 hour.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: HardcoreRetro on August 17, 2018, 08:02:54 AM
I personally subscribe to

Zen and the Art of Shitposting on the Bore
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mupepe on August 17, 2018, 08:05:58 AM
I usually just watch porn, jerk off or fuck to get to my zen place.  Any other moment is basically just a buildup of slow frustration.  But you do you.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Nintex on August 17, 2018, 08:30:19 AM
So i began to reflect- Have i been negative lately?  :thinking
(https://i.imgur.com/8ubGFLt.gif)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: bork on August 17, 2018, 09:00:37 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Zen_the_Intergalactic_Ninja_Konami.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 17, 2018, 09:38:05 AM
I don’t think you’ve been negative at all. You’re one of the posters I enjoy reading most.

Assimilate, I was about to make a joke about Jack Remington at your expense, but I’m going to let it go and give you a chance since you say you’re trying to better yourself. I give everyone a chance. Sometimes too many chances.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 09:55:05 AM
I usually just watch porn, jerk off or fuck to get to my zen place.  Any other moment is basically just a buildup of slow frustration.  But you do you.
But i find that this creates a vicious cycle rather than give you true peace. I tend to fuck as much as possible when i'm super stressed. Is it nice? Yes because i'm fucking like a bull but then nothing is resolved internally.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Brehvolution on August 17, 2018, 10:04:45 AM
Everything zen? I don't think so
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 17, 2018, 10:09:26 AM
Zen and the Art of Taco Bell Menuhacking
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 17, 2018, 10:12:57 AM
That moment when you realize that maybe the world is shit because you're a shit person  :thinking
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mupepe on August 17, 2018, 10:15:36 AM
I usually just watch porn, jerk off or fuck to get to my zen place.  Any other moment is basically just a buildup of slow frustration.  But you do you.
But i find that this creates a vicious cycle rather than give you true peace. I tend to fuck as much as possible when i'm super stressed. Is it nice? Yes because i'm fucking like a bull but then nothing is resolved internally.
Oh.  I don't think I have anything internally to resolve.  I'm a pretty happy person.  I'm just turned like 95% of the day. 
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 17, 2018, 10:40:20 AM
subscribed
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: nachobro on August 17, 2018, 10:43:46 AM
Good luck my dude, turning over a new leaf isn't easy
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 10:24:30 PM
That moment when you realize that maybe the world is shit because you're a shit person  :thinking
I welcome your insights but let's keep it positive  :doge
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mandark on August 17, 2018, 10:30:42 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 10:32:41 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
This is more about being positive in a world currently filled with nihilism and general negativity than self-actualization.  :-*
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 17, 2018, 10:47:19 PM
Assy, this is pretty good content, continue

Mandark, your post almost made me choke on a vape hit and isn’t very supportive; so while hilarious, I cannot like it.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 17, 2018, 10:51:12 PM
Assy trying to make a face turn and you mark ass marks are buying it

 :hulk
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 17, 2018, 10:54:33 PM
Assy, this is pretty good content, continue

Mandark, your post almost made me choke on a vape hit and isn’t very supportive; so while hilarious, I cannot like it.

:mindblown :ohhh :six:

I -did- just choke on a vape hit. Did you send me your choke via the asstral plane?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 17, 2018, 11:12:22 PM
Maybe, I do aim to please
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on August 17, 2018, 11:13:05 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
dunno but i'm down for some side bets. i give it three weeks tops before he shits out another apoplectic screed about women or gays existing where half the words are spelled wrong
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 17, 2018, 11:16:21 PM
namaste, stalker beaks  :lol
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 11:41:11 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
dunno but i'm down for some side bets. i give it three weeks tops before he shits out another apoplectic screed about women or gays existing where half the words are spelled wrong
S.Beaks, i always cherish our talks but i'd like to clarify a few things real quick

1. I Love women. Totally love women. Maybe too much. This does not mean i must accept certain cultural agendas that are being pushed on society at the present time.
2. Never had anything against gays, ever. I have some close friends that are in fact gay or lesbian.
3. Not sure what i misspell, i'm sure it happens like with everyone, but if this upsets you i will do what i can to make sure i correct the very odd times i misspell or use improper grammar at odd hours of the morning. I would also like to point out i speak and write in 3 different languages, this can have an impact on my writing. But like i said i will try and please you.  Mr Beaks.  :heartbeat
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on August 17, 2018, 11:52:43 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
dunno but i'm down for some side bets. i give it three weeks tops before he shits out another apoplectic screed about women or gays existing where half the words are spelled wrong
S.Beaks, i always cherish our talks but i'd like to clarify a few things real quick

1. I Love women. Totally love women. Maybe too much. This does not mean i must accept certain cultural agendas that are being pushed on society at the present time.
2. Never had anything against gays, ever. I have some close friends that are in fact gay or lesbian.
3. Not sure what i misspell, i'm sure it happens like with everyone, but if this upsets you i will do what i can to make sure i correct the very odd times i misspell or use improper grammar at odd hours of the morning. I would also like to point out i speak and write in 3 different languages, this can have an impact on my writing. But like i said i will try and please you.  Mr Beaks.  :heartbeat

suck my dick you moron
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 17, 2018, 11:58:44 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
dunno but i'm down for some side bets. i give it three weeks tops before he shits out another apoplectic screed about women or gays existing where half the words are spelled wrong
S.Beaks, i always cherish our talks but i'd like to clarify a few things real quick

1. I Love women. Totally love women. Maybe too much. This does not mean i must accept certain cultural agendas that are being pushed on society at the present time.
2. Never had anything against gays, ever. I have some close friends that are in fact gay or lesbian.
3. Not sure what i misspell, i'm sure it happens like with everyone, but if this upsets you i will do what i can to make sure i correct the very odd times i misspell or use improper grammar at odd hours of the morning.

I would also like to point out i speak and write in 3 different languages, this can have an impact on my writing. But like i said i will try and please you.  Mr Beaks.  :heartbeat

I just want to say that there are like 3.5ish jokes I want to crack about this post, but I'm not going to. Good luck, Assy.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 17, 2018, 11:59:10 PM

suck my dick you moron


Well that's not very nice B, you didn't say please. I'll have to decline.


I just want to say that there are like 3.5ish jokes I want to crack about this post, but I'm not going to. Good luck, Assy.
Jokes are ok. Fire away.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on August 18, 2018, 12:01:38 AM
being zen means you don't question the lack of pleasantries in my demands for fellatio, piss slave
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 18, 2018, 12:03:28 AM
being zen means you don't question the lack of pleasantries in my demands for fellatio, piss slave
No no

you lost your chance  :wag
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 18, 2018, 12:05:06 AM
Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 18, 2018, 12:07:30 AM
Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.
Test my zen.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on August 18, 2018, 01:18:51 PM
https://youtu.be/9w_nQrR1_9c
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 18, 2018, 02:42:23 PM
Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.
Test my zen.
Assy and Himu a lot alike in turning a new page and thinking they're suddenly experts.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 18, 2018, 02:46:36 PM
Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.
Test my zen.
Assy and Himu a lot alike in turning a new page and thinking they're suddenly experts.

the yin yang twins
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 18, 2018, 02:47:36 PM
Horse shoe theory!
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: benjipwns on August 18, 2018, 03:49:00 PM
Glad you're coming to terms with things, and soon enough you can finally present yourself as the confident woman you can be.
1. I Love women. Totally love women. Maybe too much.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 18, 2018, 05:57:47 PM
"Detachment is not that you own nothing. It is that nothing owns you"
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 19, 2018, 05:31:06 PM
one the one hand, my like counts are down. on the other, it means all of you are getting healthier mentally, emotionally and spiritually  :rejoice
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: naff on August 19, 2018, 07:34:17 PM
https://twitter.com/ToxicTherapist/status/1028307435478556673

(https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/14/Screen-Shot-2018-08-14-at-11.20.42-AM.png)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 19, 2018, 08:03:21 PM
this is what you like naff? i mean, i won't judge you my dude but

 :donot
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 19, 2018, 10:47:57 PM
This isn't the bad vibes thread :doge
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 20, 2018, 12:48:23 PM
Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.
Test my zen.
Assy and Himu a lot alike in turning a new page and thinking they're suddenly experts.

Underrated comment
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mandark on August 20, 2018, 06:32:21 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
:dice
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 20, 2018, 06:34:11 PM
Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?
:dice
Have i attacked anyone in a not very zen like way? I don't think so. I haven't lashed out or verbally assaulted anyone? I've been pretty zen, and pretty positive overall.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 20, 2018, 06:36:04 PM
You keep using that word dot jaypeg
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 20, 2018, 06:46:48 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFxSwleUAAAilIq.jpg)

(http://www.etonline.com/sites/default/files/images/2017-10/amber_rose_instagram_slutwalk_100117.jpg)

(https://blackkeyblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/amber-rose-slutwalk-1.jpg?w=620)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Toronto-Slutwalk.jpg/400px-Toronto-Slutwalk.jpg)

(https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/59de4ea4140000a623494407.jpeg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: benjipwns on August 20, 2018, 07:15:53 PM
Here To End White Feminism
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 20, 2018, 09:29:25 PM
Note: I have noticed a change in the music of the spheres. Something has made me move into a depression, and it feels like it’s going to be present for some time. Maybe the eve of my good days means the dawn of Assimilate’s really are here. Give him a chance.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 21, 2018, 12:41:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhZo4QjhQI
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 21, 2018, 11:08:38 PM
Any zen tricks to sleeping better or falling asleep faster?

I've been doing time released melatonin that has been working but i still can't stop my mind from racing before bed. Listening to podcasts help a bit, but sometimes if the podcast is good i end up staying up to listen to it. Does waterfall/forest soothing sounds actually work?

It's funny how during the day life is good, but for some reason right before bed the world seems to collapse on you and you sit pondering all your mistakes in life.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 21, 2018, 11:14:06 PM
Do a few shots.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 21, 2018, 11:15:59 PM
Do a few shots.
that doesn't work. smoking pot helps but i heard it's not quality sleep and in the long run it can fuck up your REM cycles.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 21, 2018, 11:19:00 PM
Hmm.

- Cut back on caffeine
- Don't take naps
- Go for a walk
- Have some warm milk
- Read a book for 30 mins and don't look at TV/phone/computer screens
- Find a random benji longpost and attempt to read it

One of these usually does the trick for me.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 21, 2018, 11:20:58 PM
If you need to be distracted put like, TNG or some sitcom you like but have seen 100 times on in the background. Don't watch it but let the lines and commercials wash over you and drown your thoughts out.

Alternatively, see a therapist and work the issues out. :)

For the record, I love falling asleep to those 8 hour long rain/thunderstorm vids on YouTube, but I don't think that would help with a racing mind.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 22, 2018, 05:03:23 AM
"Truth is one. People call it by various names" ---from the Rig Veda
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 22, 2018, 05:38:16 AM
“Stillness, the ruler of movement.”
― Lao Tzu
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: EVOL on August 22, 2018, 07:34:01 AM
Any zen tricks to sleeping better or falling asleep faster?

I've been doing time released melatonin that has been working but i still can't stop my mind from racing before bed. Listening to podcasts help a bit, but sometimes if the podcast is good i end up staying up to listen to it. Does waterfall/forest soothing sounds actually work?

It's funny how during the day life is good, but for some reason right before bed the world seems to collapse on you and you sit pondering all your mistakes in life.

Not really 'zen' but meditation is good.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 22, 2018, 07:53:34 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/xfpCG4e.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 22, 2018, 11:37:01 AM
Speaking of melatonin, I just found out like last year or maybe the year before that it’s not melanin.

For years I didn’t understand how taking skin pigment orally could help you fall asleep.

This is the kind of competence that is leading the Democratic party towards a bright new future.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 23, 2018, 11:44:13 PM
Speaking of melatonin, I just found out like last year or maybe the year before that it’s not melanin.

For years I didn’t understand how taking skin pigment orally could help you fall asleep.

 :mindblown
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 23, 2018, 11:46:38 PM
Since it was brought up in this thread, I've been falling asleep to hours-long thunderstorm sound vids on YouTube every night this week. :aah
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 23, 2018, 11:46:48 PM
I wish thundersnowstorms were a thing. Or more of a thing if they already are.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 23, 2018, 11:50:42 PM
thounderstorms or thounder snow storms? i'm confused.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 23, 2018, 11:50:58 PM
I fall asleep with Forensic Files playing on Netflix. Like 400 episodes! So many bodily fluids! From a rainbow of racial/gender/sexual identities!
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 23, 2018, 11:52:52 PM
(http://www.etonline.com/sites/default/files/images/2017-10/amber_rose_instagram_slutwalk_100117.jpg)

Gotta say I really dig this one. Might be the cameltoe.
people that deny biology is powerful i always ask them to look at some woman with serious hips.... tell me you dont' imagine her popping out your baby
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: hampster on August 24, 2018, 01:07:30 AM
My favorite fall asleep videos are Adam Savage’s One Day Builds on Tested or any Primitive Technology video

If that doesn’t work, you can always hit the hard stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tCUb7M9z54
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: HardcoreRetro on August 24, 2018, 04:31:14 AM
The advice on sleeping I'd get from the psychiatrist was to not use anything with a screen before sleeping. Apparently the light from a screen triggers the same response in your brain as daylight does.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 24, 2018, 09:40:48 AM
Most sleeping problems can be solved by proper sleep hygiene. Stuff like dim the lights about 30 minutes before bed. Leave your bed only for sex and sleep and don't go into it until you're ready for sleep. No screen time 30 minutes before bed. If you get into bed and can't fall asleep within 15 minutes get out of bed and sit somewhere dim doing something relaxing for 15 minutes...etc. Some studies say that 75% of sleep problems can be dealt with this approach. Google it.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Nintex on August 24, 2018, 09:59:06 AM
1. Go to bed

2. Sleep

Waking up is the problem. If I don't set my alarm I can sleep for 10 - 12 hours on end and it's almost impossible to wake me up if I'm asleep.
Stuff that should wake me up, like sirens, thunder, fire alarms simply doesn't.  :doge
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 24, 2018, 11:13:38 AM
The advice on sleeping I'd get from the psychiatrist was to not use anything with a screen before sleeping. Apparently the light from a screen triggers the same response in your brain as daylight does.
That's what the melatonin is for. it helps with kick your brain out of thinkign those lights meant daylight.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 24, 2018, 11:28:38 AM
asmr videos work great for me
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 24, 2018, 11:30:56 AM
ASMR videos are dumb.

(IMO)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 24, 2018, 11:39:28 AM
asmr videos work great for me

Your girlfriend puts you in missionary anything will work for you
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 24, 2018, 11:46:58 AM
k
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mupepe on August 24, 2018, 12:28:18 PM
the iphone setting to change your screen colors after dark works pretty well for me.  That and sex right before bed.  Nothing like falling asleep with her juices still wet on you :drool
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 24, 2018, 02:53:25 PM
the iphone setting to change your screen colors after dark works pretty well for me.  That and sex right before bed.  Nothing like falling asleep with her juices still wet on you :drool

 :dayum

you still feel like that after a year of being with her? I take a shower.


Was walking out of the bank today and this little old lady trips and falls. Eats pavement really hard,  breaks her glasses and busts her nose. At first i reacted slowly, but then there was fucking blood everywhere.

I had to help her up and then ask if she was with anyone. Of course her dumbass adult son and his wife were sitting close by at a coffee shop.  I got blood all over my shirt. I felt bad for her, really bad.

Shit ruined my day, my vibe. Now i'm trying to be zen. I hope she's ok.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mupepe on August 24, 2018, 03:21:37 PM
the iphone setting to change your screen colors after dark works pretty well for me.  That and sex right before bed.  Nothing like falling asleep with her juices still wet on you :drool

 :dayum

you still feel like that after a year of being with her? I take a shower.
Been with her for almost 13 years and I still love it. 
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 24, 2018, 03:35:37 PM
Sounds like you're bitching about having been inconvenienced to have to help another person to me

You performed a small act of heroism, and it ruined your day?

Get some perspective breh.


I'm bothered that she was hurt you morons and the fact that her son is a careless idiot. I could probably say "guys i'm giving everyone here a million dollars" and i'm sure you fucks would find something to bitch about.

Sometimes i used to wonder "could i have followed my then gf to med school" nahhhh definitely not. That was definitely not in the cards for me. I can't imagine dealing with stuff like that on a day to day basis.

Things that are terrible to Assy:

Still enjoying your significant other after multiple years

Helping another person

Facebook

Asia Argento

Stro

ftfy
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on August 24, 2018, 04:04:55 PM
the iphone setting to change your screen colors after dark works pretty well for me.  That and sex right before bed.  Nothing like falling asleep with her juices still wet on you :drool

 :dayum

you still feel like that after a year of being with her? I take a shower.


Was walking out of the bank today and this little old lady trips and falls. Eats pavement really hard,  breaks her glasses and busts her nose. At first i reacted slowly, but then there was fucking blood everywhere.

I had to help her up and then ask if she was with anyone. Of course her dumbass adult son and his wife were sitting close by at a coffee shop.  I got blood all over my shirt. I felt bad for her, really bad.

Shit ruined my day, my vibe. Now i'm trying to be zen. I hope she's ok.

That sucks. :(

I was walking home one day a few years ago and this like 7-year old was pushing his paralyzed dad's wheelchair on the sidewalk, but hit the curb and tipped the dad over. He yelled at the kid something fierce, I walked over and offered a hand up to help him back into the chair and he just stared at me angrily as he did it himself (which took more time than if he let me help him.)

I felt bad for him and worse for the kid, who was literally trying his best.

Felt bad, man.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 24, 2018, 05:08:50 PM
:dayum

you still feel like that after a year of being with her? I take a shower.

lol da fug

 :yeshrug

i like to shower after. shoot me.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 24, 2018, 05:21:35 PM
But what does it being after a year matter? lol

If you are finicky about pussay joose I guess I can understand just was confused about the year part.

Me I have a fetish for that shit, give me da joose.

I think he means that sexual attractual/excitement becomes stale in a long term relationship after a while.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 24, 2018, 05:22:44 PM
But what does it being after a year matter? lol

If you are finicky about pussay joose I guess I can understand just was confused about the year part.

Me I have a fetish for that shit, give me da joose.

I think he means that sexual attractual/excitement becomes stale in a long term relationship after a while.
sorta. that desire to bask in all the dirtiness isn't there and a shower is much more preferred.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 24, 2018, 06:58:10 PM
Lol wut if there’s a shower involved, maybe before. After? Eat or sleep are the only real choices
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 24, 2018, 06:58:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61o34CCmmo
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 26, 2018, 02:09:28 AM
Being Zen is hard as fuck.

It's so much easier not to.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 26, 2018, 03:18:18 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g12vq_J762A
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 26, 2018, 04:00:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3JaeiVt844
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on August 26, 2018, 08:47:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9wUR6AKkXM
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 26, 2018, 01:02:43 PM
Speaking of melatonin, I just found out like last year or maybe the year before that it’s not melanin.

For years I didn’t understand how taking skin pigment orally could help you fall asleep.

This is the kind of competence that is leading the Democratic party towards a bright new future.

On my worst day I’m more competent than you’ll ever be in your life, you waste of carbon.

Quote
In a world where you can be anything: be kind.

Keep trying but failing to not be a sociopath, Jack.  8)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Atramental on August 26, 2018, 01:24:11 PM
Zen is a journey. Not a destination.  :rollsafe
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on August 26, 2018, 03:19:14 PM
Atra > AIDS > Agra

Mr Beaks>Atra>AIDS>Agra  :heart

Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on August 26, 2018, 03:21:14 PM
Speaking of melatonin, I just found out like last year or maybe the year before that it’s not melanin.

For years I didn’t understand how taking skin pigment orally could help you fall asleep.

This is the kind of competence that is leading the Democratic party towards a bright new future.

On my worst day I’m more competent than you’ll ever be in your life, you waste of carbon.

What about on that day you were defending the whole abuela thing? That was pretty not so competent.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 26, 2018, 03:46:10 PM
What about when he came back a couple of days after claiming he's logging out forever and scrambling his password?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 26, 2018, 03:55:34 PM
 :dead
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 26, 2018, 05:00:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YRsyInIY4
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 26, 2018, 05:20:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTBSRodFdw
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: agrajag on August 28, 2018, 09:17:39 AM
ZEN
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 28, 2018, 01:26:20 PM
But more than twice? Yeah, that he has.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Brehvolution on August 28, 2018, 02:37:28 PM
ZEN

I don't think so
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 28, 2018, 03:04:47 PM
I'm more Zen than all y'all bitches!
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 28, 2018, 03:56:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJTbWC-ULc
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 28, 2018, 04:03:29 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyJgNjCDuU
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 29, 2018, 01:49:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQle7JxjcrA
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 30, 2018, 01:52:12 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfYmYbp7C4
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on August 30, 2018, 05:05:22 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54mkP1DJLDs
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 05, 2018, 01:43:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWURLf5UHXk
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 05, 2018, 10:45:40 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9E-I7yBwIc
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 05, 2018, 07:57:51 PM
I like to think of self-will as love turned around. Love is energy, and self-will is that energy focused on oneself. We can learn to free that energy, and when we do, our lives will fill with love – which is what living in heaven means.

In today’s competitive climate, often those who are aggressive about imposing their will on others are labeled “successful.” But the accomplishments of such people are often sadly short-lived, while the damage they do themselves and others can be far-reaching. When self-will is excessive, we end up offending others, feeling offended, and lashing back, and that undoes everything worthwhile we might achieve.

People with little self-will, on the other hand, seldom get upset when life goes against them. They do not try to impose their way on others, or get agitated or depressed or defensive when people hold different views. Being intolerant of other views, Mahatma Gandhi used to say, is a sign that we don’t have enough faith in our own. To get agitated and angry when opposed shows a certain insecurity. If we really believe what we believe, we will not be shaken when someone challenges it.

– Eknath Easwaran, from “Original Goodness: A Commentary on the Beatitudes”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on September 05, 2018, 08:25:43 PM
I like to think of self-will as love turned around. Love is energy, and self-will is that energy focused on oneself. We can learn to free that energy, and when we do, our lives will fill with love – which is what living in heaven means.

In today’s competitive climate, often those who are aggressive about imposing their will on others are labeled “successful.” But the accomplishments of such people are often sadly short-lived, while the damage they do themselves and others can be far-reaching. When self-will is excessive, we end up offending others, feeling offended, and lashing back, and that undoes everything worthwhile we might achieve.

People with little self-will, on the other hand, seldom get upset when life goes against them. They do not try to impose their way on others, or get agitated or depressed or defensive when people hold different views. Being intolerant of other views, Mahatma Gandhi used to say, is a sign that we don’t have enough faith in our own. To get agitated and angry when opposed shows a certain insecurity. If we really believe what we believe, we will not be shaken when someone challenges it.

– Eknath Easwaran, from “Original Goodness: A Commentary on the Beatitudes”

If I do find Anne Heche’s naked butthole tonight, I’m posting it in response to this.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 06, 2018, 01:09:56 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/sjqQs5L.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: hampster on September 06, 2018, 06:16:38 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DWER25z.gif)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 07, 2018, 01:02:45 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/IzXy998.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 07, 2018, 01:02:57 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/bg0jTwj.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 08, 2018, 03:36:53 PM
Questioner: How should we treat others?

Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: BIONIC on September 11, 2018, 02:16:51 AM
Questioner: How should we treat others?

Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.

 :ohhh

:preach
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on September 13, 2018, 04:42:54 PM


Was trying to help an old hometown friend get through a rough patch and had been shootin the shit with her via text for a few months only for her to turn around and start fucking judging me and projecting her fucking misery onto me. Like, wow. Flat out disrespect. Cunt was bringing stuff up from forever go when i would rant to air some frustration out. She turns it around and uses that as a way to put me down and make her miserable ass feel better. She's been blocked.

Man do people need Zen.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Mandark on September 13, 2018, 05:44:51 PM
Cunt was bringing stuff up from forever go when i would rant to air some frustration out.

Given the thread, would've been funnier to say "from lifetimes ago."
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on September 15, 2018, 03:07:21 AM
Zero emails in Gmail.
Zero notes in Google Keep.
Zero videos in YouTube's Watch Later.
Zero bookmarks in Chrome's "Other bookmarks."
Zero phone notifications.

Three browser tabs open (in a single window.)

True zen is the careful caretaking of the digital zen gardens inside all of our phones and computers. 🙏🏻
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on September 15, 2018, 03:17:58 AM
I have over 2,300 unread emails in my primary Gmail folder.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/5NMby7ZZo1jFK/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 15, 2018, 12:14:31 PM
Hey Tasty boi, check out this screen shot I just took for you

(https://image.ibb.co/kJE3we/C91_BC601_674_D_452_E_BE79_9457_F50_F1_ED0.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on September 15, 2018, 12:34:57 PM
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/001/779/hnnnnng.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 20, 2018, 04:01:40 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/icyJT1g.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on September 20, 2018, 01:14:45 PM
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/78869894df0a1c1a4b868068cf1c1ce6/tumblr_pf8j8dXvEM1xz9bq6o2_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on September 21, 2018, 01:53:12 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyPW754sJQ
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 22, 2018, 02:10:21 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/MTbMkOC.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Rufus on September 22, 2018, 04:20:47 AM
That's complete bullshit though. :wtf
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Himu on September 22, 2018, 05:43:10 AM
I went to a zen center for years. I never converted but I almost was going to make my rakusu. Zen Buddhism made me appreciate religion. I went in as an atheist wary of things like “tradition”, ritual, and even organized religion. It taught me that faith wasn’t weak or even necessarily bad. I haven’t meditated in a long time. I’d like to purchase a zafu but given how fucking popular cribbing the religion is these days for hipsters it’ll probably cost like 200 bucks now. Used to be 100. A lot of the pictures here make me miss it, zen. I should visit and say hello. Since I’m black the cacs won’t remember my face. They didn’t even remember me despite having gone for years to dharma talks. But the abbot I view as a mentor and a friend, and one friend left to japan to become a monk. 

I should stop by for meditation some day. Not as a religion but just meditation every now and then. The incense. :lawd That gong. :lawd Bao and ginger tea. :lawd Hour long meditation sits. :gladbron
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Himu on September 22, 2018, 05:52:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTBSRodFdw

Such a pretty rakusu on top of that white.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on September 25, 2018, 11:53:16 PM
I went to a zen center for years. I never converted but I almost was going to make my rakusu. Zen Buddhism made me appreciate religion. I went in as an atheist wary of things like “tradition”, ritual, and even organized religion. It taught me that faith wasn’t weak or even necessarily bad. I haven’t meditated in a long time. I’d like to purchase a zafu but given how fucking popular cribbing the religion is these days for hipsters it’ll probably cost like 200 bucks now. Used to be 100. A lot of the pictures here make me miss it, zen. I should visit and say hello. Since I’m black the cacs won’t remember my face. They didn’t even remember me despite having gone for years to dharma talks. But the abbot I view as a mentor and a friend, and one friend left to japan to become a monk. 

I should stop by for meditation some day. Not as a religion but just meditation every now and then. The incense. :lawd That gong. :lawd Bao and ginger tea. :lawd Hour long meditation sits. :gladbron
I thought about going. The constant sound of negativity going wom wom wom besides my head while being in this place is deafening, it's honestly defeating me. I keep going to bed questioning all my decisions.

This is such a self-hating culture around here where everything is shit, and no one is getting out of this shit, and it's just this shit constantly. I'm not even totally part of it, but I still feel it and it then backfires and makes me think about all my mistakes, and if I'm making the right choices. It's brutal. I need zen just to keep from falling into a pit of darkness.

But man today I'm defeated and I feel like giving up and just quitting all this, packing up my shit and heading back to good ole US of A. I don't care if I start from scratch in something new.

The level of self-hate people have around here is too much.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Himu on September 26, 2018, 12:07:38 AM
Where are you? Haven’t read the thread
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on September 26, 2018, 12:09:06 AM
Where are you? Haven’t read the thread
South America.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: shosta on September 26, 2018, 12:24:56 AM
Your life is really short, dude. Don't waste it in a place you hate.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Assimilate on September 26, 2018, 12:46:32 AM
Your life is really short, dude. Don't waste it in a place you hate.
Problem is I don't know what I want.

One min I think "oh beautiful beaches are so nice, walking outside in shorts and a tank top with beautiful women in bikinis is great" but then the next min I'm like "fuck this it's too hot, too smelly, this place is a mess, I belong in the mountains somewhere"

 :yeshrug
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: shosta on September 26, 2018, 12:48:35 AM
You really can't transfer back to the states?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on September 27, 2018, 04:13:00 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/y7eDcCn.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 05, 2018, 03:39:51 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/7HUBmeJ.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 01, 2018, 08:56:11 PM
https://youtu.be/lQWudtShYP0
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: zomgee on November 05, 2018, 02:39:19 PM
it does feel a little more zen yeah
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Nintex on November 05, 2018, 02:42:49 PM
Hey Tasty boi, check out this screen shot I just took for you

(https://image.ibb.co/kJE3we/C91_BC601_674_D_452_E_BE79_9457_F50_F1_ED0.jpg)
Those are rookie numbers

(https://abload.de/img/fireshotcapture347-in7zimf.png)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on November 05, 2018, 02:44:13 PM
31.6 emails doesn't seem so bad, even if you round it up to 32.

I mean I'd get a mild panic attack if I saw that on my account in the morning or something, but for normies it's probably fine...
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 05, 2018, 05:06:48 PM
Not deleting Apple Mail immediately and installing Spark instead

fucking pleb
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: thisismyusername on November 05, 2018, 05:50:23 PM
Using Tidal.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:13:51 PM
sonos  :yuck
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:17:40 PM
loseless audio on a sonos let alone wireless speaker, thx for the laugh. sorry if you're an idiot
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:23:19 PM
yea on a 3.5" driver, moron

invest in a real speaker system if you're going to be touting streaming lossless audio you self righteous cunt
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:32:07 PM
and yet you're touting streaming flac wirelessly through a stack of 3.5" drivers. you always need to be standing on some sort of pedestal but very cute

Quote
Now go shave yourself, you disgust me.

lol, affected
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:34:53 PM
you have no idea how much play my hair has gotten me :lol
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 05, 2018, 06:36:05 PM
Audiophiles are angry, why are you guys angry?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:36:06 PM
naw can't play your way of this one
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 05, 2018, 06:42:17 PM
You guys, this isn’t very zen  :doge
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 05, 2018, 06:48:56 PM
Kinda like your sonos set up, amirite?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 05, 2018, 06:52:46 PM
naw can't play your way of this one

Out of what?

Out of you wrongly thinking that Sonos re-compresses audio and that it isn't capable of streaming to real speakers? 

1) It doesn't, it uses wi-fi.. so it's up to the service what quality to stream, in the case of Tidal that's FLAC
2) There are multiple Sonos products that are designed for connecting to wired speakers / amps of your choice

And hell, for the bedroom their own wireless speakers aren't bad (and again, they aren't typical "wireless speakers" they are wi-fi recievers w/ speakers on them)

Say more wrong things, and go shave.

:huh

you're frail af
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on November 05, 2018, 06:54:36 PM
Kinda like your sonos set up, amirite?

A kingdom without its ruler is swift to crumble.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on November 05, 2018, 09:58:04 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/404ca10029b5db087e1e70f271cc50b3/tumblr_op8oi2bJuJ1qc5j12o1_540.gif)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on November 05, 2018, 10:57:37 PM
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.imgur.com/QcMIyT3.gif)
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TVC15 on November 05, 2018, 11:24:23 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/kjz7WIf.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: naff on November 06, 2018, 02:18:44 AM
Your Sonos Connect tops out at 16/44.1. And to be fair the hifi tidal touts is 16/44.1. Saying CD quality is lossless will trigger audiophiles like teeepo tho it seems. FLAC is a "lossless" format, doesn't mean the audio contained isn't lossy. Also, who knows what the original recording rates were.

I think the benefits of high res audio beyond CD quality sampling rate and frequency for playback are pretty dubious tho and Sonos Connect seems pretty convenient and dece. I like their interface. HRA is going from one extreme (mp3) to another (24/192). I'm good w the middle ground CD quality, streamable audio and focusing on observable wavelengths. I would bet my life's worth no-one here could tell you the difference between something recorded at 24/48 and 24/192 in a double blind test consistently. 192khz is marketing shite.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 06, 2018, 03:09:44 AM
it's more the way riotus carries himself than being triggered over audiophile shit but to elaborate: it's the fact that he's touting loseless audio over the sonos ecosystem when the sonos drivers are 3.5m in diameter. incidentally, i had owned a sonos play:1 and do believe it to be a benchmark speaker for its size and wireless setup but it has a flat frequency response from low to hi which doesn't really have the dynamic range to bring to life any audio recording with any hint of a soundstage. though the flat curve is actually a good thing for multimedia speakers (can drive anything) and its frequency response is a technological/engineering marvel for a speakers its size. however, i believe sonos themselves said higher bitrates don't benefit their speakers in response to whether a dac would improve the sound, if i remember correctly. though a dac would add "colour" to the sound, and did.

but either way, fuck that racist cunt.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 06, 2018, 10:56:47 AM
think of the connotation of telling a brown man to go shave...
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 06, 2018, 10:59:24 AM
you're clueless on a lot of things, comprehension as well
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Tasty on November 06, 2018, 11:00:41 AM
Yeah lol what even was that insult
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: TEEEPO on November 06, 2018, 11:07:30 AM
i didn't really care until you told me to go shave, which i saw before you edited in the "jk, lolz". i have a history with racist white and women telling me those exact words. doesn't trigger me anymore since i started owning that shit come high school but it's still fucking hilarious you took it there over a fucking sonos speakers.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: thisismyusername on November 06, 2018, 11:19:44 AM
Enough fighting. You two should hate fuck while riotous' Tidal sub plays Madonna.

MadonnaHumpingATableToSignThatStupidPRShit.gif
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: shosta on November 06, 2018, 11:32:12 AM
"Don't worry, Teepo, nobody can tell you're Arab" is not the best way to apologize
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Yeti on November 06, 2018, 02:52:52 PM
This is a cursed thread, the spirit of assimilate lingers
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 06, 2018, 03:05:59 PM
This is a cursed thread, the spirit of assimilate lingers


(https://i.imgur.com/MTbMkOC.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 28, 2019, 07:11:00 AM
"Those who are compulsively attached to the results of action cannot really enjoy what they do; they get downcast when things do not work out and cling more desperately when they do. So the Gita classifies the karma of attachment as pleasant at first, but 'bitter as poison in the end' (18:38)"
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 30, 2019, 01:00:21 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z500MGW-WNw
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 10, 2019, 06:58:31 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvM7AWxk1Ng
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 01, 2019, 02:08:12 AM
"To begin with, Krishna often tells Arjuna to 'renounce the fruits of action' (karma-phala):

         You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work.
         You should never engage in action for the sake of reward,
         nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this
         world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - with-
         out selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For
         yoga is perfect evenness of mind. (2:47-48)


'Fruits,' of course, means the outcome. What Krishna means is to give up attachment to the results of what you do: that is, to give your best to every undertaking without insisting the results workout the way you want, or even what you do is pleasant or unpleasant. 'You have the right to action, but not the fruits of action.': each of us has the obligation to act rightly, but no power to dictate what is to come of what we do."
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 01, 2019, 02:24:44 AM
By detachment I mean that you must not worry whether the desired result follows from your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means correct.

But renunciation of fruit, in no way means indifference to the result.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 01, 2019, 08:17:35 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 24, 2019, 07:40:48 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwSVt8w0cks
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 02, 2019, 05:54:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hs6zpkb9s
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 04, 2019, 05:41:44 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/rhElWc4.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 04, 2019, 05:48:24 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/EGLthXD.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 04, 2019, 10:09:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCq8-XvqU1Q
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 06, 2019, 02:27:42 AM
"When it comes to problems of the mind. I find it is best to take them on as if I were trying to move a heavy boulder.

Rather than try to lift the entire thing at once. Instead you can chip away at it one small piece at a time, maybe even knocking away larger chunks every now and then. In due time you will find that what once seemed such a large insurmountable issue, has now been reduced to that of a small pebble or dust. It may even give you the feeling that it was not much of problem to begin with.

Now setbacks can and will happen along the way, but those pieces you chipped off don't regrow. So you can pick up right where you left off when you are ready to start working at it again "
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 17, 2019, 04:09:54 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/nN7Q7nL.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 20, 2019, 12:57:44 PM
 1. Having few desires

Not extensively seeking objects of desire not yet attained is called having few desires.

Buddha said, “You monks should know that people with many desires seek to gain a lot, and therefore their afflictions are also many. Those with few desires have no seeking and no craving, so they don’t have this problem. You should cultivate having few desires even for this reason alone, to say nothing of the fact that having few desires can produce virtues. People with few desires are free from flattery and deviousness whereby they might seek to curry people’s favor, and they also are not under the compulsion of their senses. Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear. Whatever the situation, there is more than enough—there is never insufficiency. Those who have few desires have nirvana.”

2. Being content

To take what one has got within bounds is called being content.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you want to shed afflictions, you should observe contentment. The state of contentment is the abode of prosperity and happiness, peace and tranquility. Those who are content may sleep on the ground and still consider it comfortable; those who are not content would be dissatisfied even in heaven. Those who are not content are always caught up in sensual desires; they are pitied by those who are content.”

3. Enjoying quietude

Leaving the clamor and staying alone in deserted places is called enjoying quietude.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you wish to seek peace and happiness of quietude and nonstriving, you should leave the clamor and live without clutter in a solitary place. People in quiet places are honored by the gods. Therefore you should leave your own group as well as other groups, stay alone in a deserted place, and think about extirpating the root of suffering. Those who like crowds suffer the vexations of crowds, just as a big tree will suffer withering and breakage when flicks of birds gather on it. Worldly ties and clinging sink you into a multitude of pains, like an old elephant sunk in the mud, unable to get itself out.”

4. Diligence

Diligently cultivating virtues without interruption is called diligence, pure and unalloyed, advancing without regression.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you make diligent efforts, nothing is hard. Therefore you should be diligent. It is like even a small stream being able to pierce rock if it continually flows. If the practitioner’s mind flags and gives up time and time again, that is like drilling for fire but stopping before heat is produced—though you want to get fire, fire can hardly be gotten this way.”

5. Unfailing recollection

This is also called keeping right mindfulness; keeping the teachings without loss is called right mindfulness, and also called unfailing recollection.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you seek a good companion and seek a good protector and helper, nothing compares to unfailing recollection. Those who have unfailing recollection cannot be invaded by the thieving afflictions. Therefore you should concentrate your thoughts and keep mindful. One who loses mindfulness loses virtues. If one’s power of mindfulness is strong, even if one enters among the thieving desires one will not be harmed by them. It is like going to the front lines wearing armor—then one has nothing to fear.”

6. Cultivating meditation concentration

Dwelling on the teaching without distraction is called meditation concentration.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you concentrate the mind, it will be in a state of stability and you will be able to know the characteristics of the phenomena arising and perishing in the world. Therefore you should energetically cultivate and learn the concentrations. If you attain concentration, your mind will not be distracted. Just as a household careful of water builds a dam, so does the practitioner, for the sake of the water of knowledge and wisdom, cultivate meditation concentration well, to prevent them from leaking.”

7. Cultivating wisdom

Developing learning, thinking, and application, the realization is wisdom.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you have wisdom, you will have no greedy attachment. Always examine yourselves and do not allow any heedlessness. Then you will be able to attain liberation from ego and things. Otherwise, you are neither people of the Way nor laypeople—there is no way to refer to you. True wisdom is a secure ship to cross the sea of aging, sickness, and death. It is also a bright lamp in the darkness of ignorance, good medicine for all the ailing, a sharp axe to fell the trees of afflictions. Therefore you should use the wisdom of learning, thinking, and application, and increase it yourself. If anyone has the illumination of wisdom, this is a person with clear eyes, even though it be the mortal eye.”

8. Not engaging in vain talk

Realizing detachment from arbitrary discrimination is called not engaging in vain talk; when one has fully comprehended the character of reality, one will not engage in vain talk.

Buddha said, “O monks, if you indulge in various kinds of vain talk, your mind will be disturbed. Even if you leave society you will still not attain liberation. Therefore you should immediately give up vain talk which disturbs the mind. If you want to attain bliss of tranquility and dispassion, you should extinguish the affliction of vain talk.”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Nintex on April 20, 2019, 12:59:47 PM
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Buddha said, “You monks should know that people with many desires seek to gain a lot, and therefore their afflictions are also many. Those with few desires have no seeking and no craving, so they don’t have this problem. You should cultivate having few desires even for this reason alone, to say nothing of the fact that having few desires can produce virtues. People with few desires are free from flattery and deviousness whereby they might seek to curry people’s favor, and they also are not under the compulsion of their senses. Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear. Whatever the situation, there is more than enough—there is never insufficiency. Those who have few desires have nirvana.”

tfw #clownworld is nirvana  :thinking
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 20, 2019, 05:01:55 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 21, 2019, 06:58:09 AM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 21, 2019, 11:53:24 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on April 22, 2019, 10:16:44 AM
sounds like bullshit to me
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 22, 2019, 05:23:21 PM
In India, this realization has been part of a common spiritual heritage for thousands of years, fed by the personal experience of mystics from most of the world’s major religions. Hinduism and Buddhism, of course, originated there; Islam and Zoroastrianism have contributed to its culture for several centuries. Jewish communities in South India date from before the Christian era; and Christianity arrived in Kerala state, where I was born, long before it reached most of Europe – in fact, according to Church tradition, the Gospel was brought to India by the Apostle Thomas himself in the first century A.D. Indians are used to being surrounded by many paths to God, and I don’t think any people are more catholic in accepting truth in whatever religion they find it.

Against this background, there is a story about a missionary school being inspected by one of the church officials. These inspections could come at any time, and the inspector – who, of course, was usually not Indian – had the privilege of stepping unannounced into any classroom, playing the teacher, and asking whatever question he liked. In this story, an inspector steps in on an English class and says – in English – “Let me ask you three questions: One, what does God know? Two, what can he do? Three, where is he to be found?”

Most of the village children were taken by surprise: after all, it is hard enough to discuss theology in your own language, let alone in somebody else’s. But there was one little fellow at the back who really knew his spiritual heritage. He stood up and said politely, “Sir, may I ask *you* three questions?”

The examiner was a good sport, so he said yes. And the boy asked: “What does God *not* know? What can he not do? Where is he not?”

It is a simple reply, but it says a great deal. To the mystic, it is absurd to say there is no God. He is our life, our very Self; how can we deny him? Only when we think that God is something outside us is it possible to say that God does not exist.

A few years ago I remember a columnist describing his family’s trip to Europe. While they were driving through France, the children kept complaining, “Dad, when are we going to see Europe?” It is much like that with God. If you want to see the Lord, the mystics say, just look around you; what else is there? “Open your eyes,” says Hugh of St. Victor; “the world is full of God.”

The Sufis have a vivid image for this. The Lord, they say, is the Showman, but he is also the show. In Sanskrit he is Mahamayi, the Cosmic Magician, who has cast the illusion of separateness over all the universe. P.T. Barnum may have been proud of the “greatest show on earth,” but the earth itself is only a small part of the vast show that is the Lord’s. So the Hindu scriptures do not talk about God creating the world; they say that he *became* the world. It is not something different from him; it is a form which he has put on.

– Eknath Easwaran, from “The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, vol. 2: Like a Thousand Suns”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on May 23, 2019, 03:18:16 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-IvbAup38
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 27, 2019, 06:47:17 AM
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The Upanishads say pithily, “Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no fear.” The idea that each of us is separate from the rest is the very source of fear. “When there is no other,” the Upanishads ask, “with whom can I be angry? Of whom can I be afraid?”

In South India, where I grew up, two things brought fear to almost every heart: snakes and ghosts. Each village had at least one ghost, and Kerala’s lush climate is as pleasant for snakes as it is for less fearsome creatures. Some of these snakes are harmless, but several are so poisonous that death can come in minutes. A rationalist might laugh at the fear of ghosts, but I would venture to say that no one from South India, however well educated, walks about in the countryside without the fear of snakes somewhere at the back of his mind.

This danger is especially real at dusk, for that is the time when snakes like to come out and enjoy the evening, just like everybody else, and in the fading sunlight it is difficult to see. At such times anyone can be excused if he suddenly jumps and cries out in fear to avoid what turns out to be only a stick or vine or piece of rope lying beside the path.

Shankara, who came from my same state of Kerala in South India, drew on such experiences to illustrate the nature of separateness and fear. When a villager sees a snake where there is only a rope, superimposing his ideas of snakeness on what he actually perceives, his fright is very real. His heart pounds and adrenaline courses through his body just as if a living cobra lay across his path. What causes that fear? Not a snake, Shankara implies, but the idea of it in the mind.

In just the same way, we often impose our fears on an innocent world. The more separate we feel from the rest of life, the more threatening it seems. Ironically, if we act threatened, we may provoke an aggressive response that seems to confirm our fears. All this falls away as meditation deepens. Your eyes clear, and you see that what you had been afraid of was a projection of your own state of mind.

– Eknath Easwaran, from “The Constant Companion”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 27, 2019, 07:52:12 AM
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The mystics are not theorizing when they declare that the supreme goal of life is to become aware of the indivisible unity that is the Divine Ground of existence. They are drawing upon their own personal experience in which they have realized that all life is one.

The source of all sorrow lies in trying to resist our evolution towards this goal by maintaining our own separateness. It does not take much depth of observation, even for ordinary people like us, to discover that the person who does not merge his welfare into that of the family is usually very insecure, and so is the family in which he lives. If, for example, husband and wife try to compete with each other and maintain their separateness, they make themselves miserable, their children miserable, and even their locality miserable. In contrast, if we look at people who are secure, loved, and respected wherever they go, we usually find that they are able to base their action on an awareness that the interests of those around them are more important than their own individual interests. When I forget myself in the joy of those around me, I am fulfilling myself. It is when I try to maintain my separateness that I become more and more insecure, because my innate need, my deep, driving need, is to realize my oneness with all life.

– Eknath Easwaran, from "The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, vol. 1: End of Sorrow"
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on December 30, 2019, 08:59:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UHLMVr4vg
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2019, 09:06:58 PM
holy shit i've never seen teepo mad before and in a goddamn zen thread of all things
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 30, 2019, 09:16:07 PM
Assy may be permabanned but his spirit remains.  :salute
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on December 30, 2019, 09:17:55 PM
 :tocry

unban my boy!  ::)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: shosta on December 30, 2019, 11:31:30 PM
Free Assimilate!
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 01, 2020, 10:11:24 PM
https://youtu.be/jhnKBKZvb_U
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 03, 2020, 01:48:14 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92J-JPChaeI
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 03, 2020, 04:45:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODfwJBDgBs
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on October 05, 2020, 11:34:55 AM
be well filler

https://youtu.be/xK88rB_Yv5A
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 15, 2020, 05:44:53 PM
 :heart
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 17, 2020, 04:41:45 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/BcFomba.jpg) :phil
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 18, 2020, 02:50:13 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 19, 2020, 12:48:19 PM
https://cdn.websites.hibu.com/a394eaa38a6b404182d471f27327aa2a/files/uploaded/The%20Story%20of%20Shiva%20and%20Sati.pdf?fbclid=IwAR369CzC0wn2TaiiA7ipN4aWf0qMsl9tT5Fm8eht-GBy57NzdB6GU1WD6U4
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 19, 2020, 02:25:26 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 20, 2020, 03:30:44 PM
"Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter."
                 


        ------------Ibn Arabi [The Tarjuman Al-Ashwaq – Preface]
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 20, 2020, 08:53:01 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 21, 2020, 11:38:44 PM
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Seneca
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 21, 2020, 11:39:35 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 21, 2020, 11:50:10 PM
Panic exists, but it's like I don't have to listen to it. It's not driving or having much effect at all. It's just background noise and I stay calm.

besides that, I allow for a lot of different possibilities. then just move about as if the most normal reality is true.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 22, 2020, 07:46:56 PM
"It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 23, 2020, 01:54:35 PM
this stuff is real for me, I'd be dead or locked away somewhere otherwise. I can't make it real for anyone else unfortunately.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on October 23, 2020, 05:19:11 PM
https://anchor.fm/thedreamscourse/episodes/Heaven-To-Earth-Buddhist-Saying-eldt9s/a-a3k9eac
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 28, 2020, 10:08:48 AM
The mind does not like to meditate; it wants to wander. When someone is not doing very well in meditation, one explanation is simple: his or her mind is elsewhere. The early stages of meditation are like a primary school for the mind. At first we are simply trying to get the mind to stay on the school grounds until the last bell rings. This is all we can do at first. The mind has been playing truant for years; when we try to concentrate, it simply is not present. All we can do is stand at the doorstep and whistle, trying to call it back in.
Even if all we do in thirty minutes of meditation is to call the mind back thirty times, we have made great progress. We don’t have to wait for the day when the mind is completely still to receive immense benefits from meditation. As the Bhagavad Gita says, even a little of this discipline protects us from great dangers.
– Eknath Easwaran, from "Words to Live By: A Daily Guide to Leading an Exceptional Life"
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 31, 2020, 08:51:02 AM
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zen and misogyny  :heart :pimp
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on October 31, 2020, 07:54:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTeRrLEQZ0
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on November 01, 2020, 10:55:41 AM
https://youtu.be/oOvcDPTH56k
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 02, 2020, 06:20:51 AM
The Taoist way of life for example would suggest that rather than transformation of nature we can seek identification with nature, rather than goals we can seek spontaneity, rather than projecting ourselves onto the world we can accept its flow of energies with humility.

A.S. Kline
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 02, 2020, 06:29:33 AM
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zen and misogyny  :heart :pimp

Post nut clarity
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Trent Dole on November 02, 2020, 06:59:39 AM
Bitches Ain't Shit confirmed for Zen.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Transhuman on November 02, 2020, 08:13:14 AM
At first I thought the Dalai Lama's comments were very sexist for someone so special, but you have to remember he isn't actually a Dalai Lama he's just some random Tibetan kid chosen at random.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 03, 2020, 02:15:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQ2FJBJBRc
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 03, 2020, 03:02:15 AM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: BIONIC on November 03, 2020, 03:09:42 AM
:titus  :dead
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 03, 2020, 09:13:14 AM
Listen to this with some good headphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwaBoX97PbQ
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 08, 2020, 09:11:54 AM
https://youtu.be/dviHFBQIbOc
Title: To: filler-sama
Post by: Tasty on November 08, 2020, 10:25:28 AM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 01:45:09 AM
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As much as you can, keep dunya (worldly life) in your hand--not in your heart. That means when someone insults you, keep it out of your heart so it doesn't make you bitter or defensive. When someone praises you, also keep it out of your heart, so it doesn't make you arrogant and self-deluded. When you face hardship and stress, don't absorb it in your heart, so you don't become hopeless and overwhelmed. Instead keep it in your hands and realize that everything passes. When you're given a gift by God, don't hold it in your heart. Hold it in your hand so that you don't begin to love the gift more than the Giver. And so that when it is taken away you can truly respond with 'inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon': 'indeed we belong to God, and to God we return.'
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on November 09, 2020, 06:47:12 PM
https://twitter.com/AntagoniZt_/status/1324953190396211200
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: naff on November 09, 2020, 08:59:00 PM
lol, letting out your internalized frustration with snide comments :rejoice
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 11, 2020, 01:19:18 AM
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I’m absolutely not a rabbi, but I’ve been thinking a lot about this, actually, and what stealing might mean to gd. and I know this post is probably a joke but like I said. been thinking about it a lot.

So what a lot of people may not know is that the Torah is mostly like. a farming manual. A day-to-day life guide for 6,000 years ago. And so it has instructions for harvesting, of course. But it says specifically that you shouldn’t reap all the way to the edge of your field, and that you should leave that for the poor. It also says that you shouldn’t take the fallen grapes from your vineyard, and to leave that also for the poor. And a lot more little things like that.

So why is it encouraged? Why doesn’t it count as stealing for the poor to take the food you grew?

I think that gd’s definition of stealing would, in this case, punish you if you did take the fallen food from your fields, because you’d be taking it from the mouths and bellies of people who clearly desperately need it. It’s not the poor who are stealing, because they are simply trying to survive. I think gd wants us to remember, in our harvests, in our successes, that we have a duty to give what we can to those who need it, and if we don’t, that’s stealing from our fellow human.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 11, 2020, 05:50:28 PM
https://linguisticparadox.tumblr.com/post/634529886745329664/lianabrooks-aconitvms-orikomi
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on November 12, 2020, 04:13:26 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on November 15, 2020, 10:50:27 AM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 02:28:01 AM
Even when we are not speaking or acting, most of us find that our mind still goes on working – thinking, daydreaming, planning, worrying, eating up precious energy that should be going to the body to maintain health. In a sense, our mind is in overdrive all the time. But in meditation we can learn to shift the mind out of overdrive and down into fourth gear, then to third, to second, and eventually to first. We may even learn how to put our mind into neutral and park it for a while by the side of the road.
When we can do that, a much higher faculty – which the Hindus and Buddhists call prajna, “wisdom” – comes into play. Then we will find that we see deep into the heart of life, with fathomless patience at our disposal. When we have learned to park the mind even for a short period, so much vitality is conserved that every major system in the body gets a fresh lease on life.

– Eknath Easwaran, from "Words to Live By: A Daily Guide to Leading an Exceptional Life"
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 22, 2020, 11:56:31 AM
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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future … This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on November 22, 2020, 12:09:40 PM
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godney has so much wisdom  :heart
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on November 22, 2020, 12:42:11 PM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on December 14, 2020, 08:00:12 PM
https://youtu.be/hdM6XRRUgno
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 29, 2020, 07:01:58 AM
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Title: Re: Zen
Post by: BIONIC on January 05, 2021, 07:47:46 AM
https://youtu.be/QqLJUyq0PKY
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 31, 2021, 05:40:13 PM
Questioner: How should we treat others?

Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
in the ER room through hours of prayer and meditation I came to the understanding that I have to love everyone all of the time. I am not a person who can love some of the people all of the time, or all people some of the time. even if they do or say things I don't agree with.

when I pick and choose who to love and when I should love them or not. I get taken to places I don't want  to be. I don't want to feel ill will towards anybody. I only want good things for everyone and I should include myself in that. I often leave myself out.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on January 31, 2021, 05:43:22 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/6qFlyet.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/xKAQZ1r.jpg)
:lol
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 04, 2021, 09:20:30 PM
I do love you all, I really do. There's just no way around that for me.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Transhuman on February 04, 2021, 09:40:09 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/P1PUPRk.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/OpKre5i.gif)

godney has so much wisdom  :heart

My jumper will outlive my soul
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 04, 2021, 10:28:03 PM
Questioner: How should we treat others?

Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
in the ER room through hours of prayer and meditation I came to the understanding that I have to love everyone all of the time. I am not a person who can love some of the people all of the time, or all people some of the time. even if they do or say things I don't agree with.

when I pick and choose who to love and when I should love them or not. I get taken to places I don't want  to be. I don't want to feel ill will towards anybody. I only want good things for everyone and I should include myself in that. I often leave myself out.

Yes. To try and control and manipulate others will always end badly. The only thing you need to control is yourself, the only place you’ll ever truly be free is your mind. This is why feelings like guilt are useless, it’s self denial and it’s mental. Stop conditioning things, change your mind and be patient with yourself and it will naturally extend to others. Bless.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 01:34:14 AM
that's not what I was up to. all of this did hurt my mother and grandmother. almost killed me too.

when your escape is online and people sabotage that, then where was there left for me to go? some of you still won't own up to how irresponsible you were and your own awful behavior.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 05, 2021, 11:20:56 AM
There is no escaping you. Forgive.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 02:03:55 PM
people tried to get me in the discord, now they know why I didn't accept the offer. if I'm wrong in my thinking, they can let me know any time they want.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 05, 2021, 02:44:26 PM
Forget them. What do you want?
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 04:00:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Jd4DRez.gif)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 05, 2021, 04:19:34 PM
Neo gained peace because he gained knowledge of self. Then he began seeing with his heart and everything was light. Trinity couldn’t go with him but she got a glimpse.

https://youtu.be/e1GmgE7Men0

The world without borders or boundaries he mentions at the end of the first one is your mind babe. Xoxo
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 05:53:31 PM
"The first truth, brothers, is the fact of suffering. All desire happiness, sukha: what is good, pleasant, right, permanent, joyful, harmonious, satisfying, at ease. Yet all find that life brings duhkha, just the opposite: frustration, dissatisfaction, incompleteness, suffering, sorrow. Life is change, and change can never satisfy desire. Therefore everything that changes brings suffering." -- Siddhartha Gautama
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 05, 2021, 06:49:58 PM
So stop being a bitch, now.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 08, 2021, 06:42:43 PM
https://youtu.be/G_eK-R9EDOk
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 09, 2021, 02:02:29 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTaodQfYRQ
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Transhuman on February 09, 2021, 04:50:10 AM
I'm not really sure if I beleive in mindfulness or mediation and all that
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 09, 2021, 08:30:42 PM
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on February 11, 2021, 07:08:52 PM
https://youtu.be/HerpGwbLSM8
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 14, 2021, 12:04:44 AM
https://twitter.com/HLKodo/status/1360769125769912320


(https://i.imgur.com/OKpiFac.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: Transhuman on February 14, 2021, 01:22:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjd4DYwTgW8
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 14, 2021, 01:55:38 PM
“Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature. Indeed, to speak of love is not "preaching," for the simple reason that it means to speak of the ultimate and real need in every human being. That this need has been obscured does not mean that it does not exist. To analyze the nature of love is to discover its general absence today and to criticize the social conditions which are responsible for this absence.”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: BIONIC on February 14, 2021, 02:10:36 PM
:society
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 22, 2021, 04:23:39 PM
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What is Poison?

He replied with a beautiful answer - Anything which is more than our necessity is Poison. It may be Power, Wealth, Hunger, Ego, Greed, Laziness, Love, Ambition, Hate or anything

What is fear.....?

Non acceptance of uncertainty.
If we accept that uncertainty, it becomes adventure...!

What is envy ?

Non acceptance of good in others
If we accept that good, it becomes inspiration...!

What is Anger?

Non acceptance of things which are beyond our control.
If we accept, it becomes tolerance...!

What is hatred?
Non acceptance of person as he is.
If we accept person unconditionally, it becomes love...!
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: BIONIC on February 22, 2021, 06:26:19 PM
https://youtu.be/HEXWRTEbj1I
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 22, 2021, 06:55:19 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/T7vxySG.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on February 23, 2021, 01:43:22 AM
https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553


 :rejoice
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: naff on February 24, 2021, 05:27:44 PM
"shall we site all the historical non-truths perpetuated by science?"

sounds like my mum but bad at spelling  :stahp
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 02, 2021, 01:47:01 PM
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The phrase lokasamgraham used in this verse is a famous one indicating the Lord sent us into the world to contribute to it. Whether we work on a large or a small scale does not matter, as long as we are doing the best within our power to make our parents, our partner, our children, our friends, and even our enemies happier. This means forgetting ourselves and reversing all the selfish inclinations we have followed. This going against what seems to be the grain of our nature is what makes the spiritual life seem so difficult. It is a hard thing to do, but by calling on the Lord, by repeating his Name, it is gradually possible to extinguish our self-will. When we start living for others, we come to life. All our deeper capacities flow into our hands; our security increases and our wisdom grows, as does our creative ability to solve the problems that confront the world.

– Eknath Easwaran, from "The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, vol. 1: End of Sorrow"
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 03, 2021, 06:52:43 PM
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“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.” ~James Baldwin
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: naff on March 03, 2021, 11:20:37 PM
I'm not really sure if I beleive in mindfulness or mediation and all that

lmao, it's like saying you don't believe in running. meditation - you sit and try not to think about anything. the practice of making your mind "blank" and consciously breathing. it's quite effective when you try it. "mindfulness" basically the extension of a lot of meditation techniques. there's no higher power, there's nothing abstract to believe in.

Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 04, 2021, 01:01:22 AM
he said "mediation" if you were mindful you would have noticed  ;)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 05, 2021, 06:26:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7lXFCSd_o0


 ;)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 06, 2021, 03:24:43 PM
https://twitter.com/Shenmue_Dojo/status/1368169708780929029
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on March 06, 2021, 08:01:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/wg5Hf9W.png)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 07, 2021, 12:07:05 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/pUGmDFF.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 08, 2021, 01:41:29 PM
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Against all odds, against all handicaps, against the chamber of horrors we call history, man has continued to dream and to depict its opposite. That is what we have to do. We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art—we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on March 11, 2021, 03:11:10 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/EjvUEkg.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 11, 2021, 03:27:37 PM
https://twitter.com/GitaBot/status/1370104929352888324


 in every creature, arjuna. in every hole :shaq
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on March 12, 2021, 12:24:14 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/VMFaBWI.png)

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 13, 2021, 12:38:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/PrL0uB8.jpg)

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“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 15, 2021, 10:38:43 AM
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   For those who question him on this level of observation play a dangerous game, for no one is more relentlessly logical. If we object that what we call a "person" is not the same from one life to the next, he will ask, "Are you the same from one day to the next?" We think of ourselves as the same individual who went to school in Des Moines many years ago, but what is the basis for such a claim? Our desires, aspirations, and opinions may have all changed; even our bones are not the same.


   Yet, somehow, there is continuity. "I wasn't the same then," we object, "but that wasn't a different person either." The Buddha replies, "That is the relationship between you in this life and 'you' in a past life: you are not the same, but neither are you different. Death is only the temporary end to a temporary phenomenon." To those who grasp this, death loses its fear. It is not the end, only a door into another room.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 15, 2021, 03:46:03 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/lEc06MV.jpg)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 18, 2021, 01:44:46 PM
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Man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 18, 2021, 01:59:59 PM
https://twitter.com/abitofzen/status/1372604200618713090
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 20, 2021, 01:47:34 PM
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on March 30, 2021, 05:25:05 PM
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“When I was very young and in the cave of Trophonius I forgot to laugh. Then, when I got older, when I opened my eyes and saw the real world, I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since. I saw that the meaning of life was to get a livelihood, that the goal of life was to be a High Court judge, that the bright joy of love was to marry a well-off girl, that the blessing of friendship was to help each other out of a financial tight spot, that wisdom was what the majority said it was, that passion was to give a speech, that courage was to risk being fined 10 rix-dollars, that cordiality was to say ‘You’re welcome’ after a meal, and that the fear of God was to go to communion once a year. That’s what I saw. And I laughed.”
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 04, 2021, 12:55:53 PM
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"The Second Truth is the cause of suffering. It is not life that brings sorrow, but the demands we make on life. The cause of dukha is selfish desire: trishna, the thirst to have what one wants and to get one's own way. Thinking life can make them happy by bringing them what they want, people run after the satisfaction of their desires. But they get only unhappiness, because selfishness can only bring sorrow."
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: toku on April 05, 2021, 02:42:48 PM
https://youtu.be/AG7QAEAZYlk
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 06, 2021, 04:52:30 AM
https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553


 :rejoice
(https://i.imgur.com/j1q6Nxw.jpg) ;)
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: BIONIC on April 06, 2021, 05:34:24 AM
https://youtu.be/7_6mpKet-KI
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 10, 2021, 10:20:31 PM
https://twitter.com/NaniLawrence/status/1286187848593375234
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 11, 2021, 05:15:45 PM
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To those who have conquered themselves, the will is a friend. But it is the enemy of those who have not found the Self within them.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on April 12, 2021, 08:40:13 PM
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" If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on May 05, 2021, 05:51:06 AM
https://twitter.com/abitofzen/status/1389877715386437633
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on May 28, 2021, 12:59:40 AM
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In India we have many names for the Lord and for the Divine Mother that remind us of his patience, her forgiveness. One such name is “He who bears with us and forgives us our mistakes.”

This name encourages us, too, to be patient and bear up cheerfully when life hands us something that we would rather not have to deal with. To judge by our responses to life’s ordinary ups and downs, most of us say, “Give me only things I like. Don’t give me anything I dislike; give it to Brian instead.”

Even good people, when they have been struck down by illness or misfortune, sometimes ask, “Why did this happen to me?” This is a most peculiar question. What we should ask is, “Why should this happen to anybody?” Simply asking this question at a deeper level of awareness brings the patience to bear tragedies, releasing the insight and compassion to help others and to grow ourselves.

Pleasant and unpleasant together are the very texture of life. Only when we give our best, whatever comes – good or bad – can we live in freedom.
– Eknath Easwaran
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on May 28, 2021, 02:49:17 AM
 :lol
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on May 30, 2021, 11:09:32 AM
https://twitter.com/abitofzen/status/1399019226682302464
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on May 31, 2021, 07:43:14 PM
in some ways this is the funniest thread on thebore.com  :lol you have to start at the beginning to really get it and also have seen the riotous cut  :rejoice
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on June 01, 2021, 02:25:49 PM
it's partly hilarious because nobody knew how serious I was about all this  :doge
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on June 01, 2021, 02:54:52 PM
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
― Lin Yutang




“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
― Yutang Lin


def gotta read whatever books are out there from dude
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on June 04, 2021, 11:03:37 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-IvbAup38
might be my favorite thing in the thread.


understand I often go over the things I post on the internet and go over it all again and again. I get more out of it each time. it's all to help myself before anybody else. I would hope that others can get something from it too, but it's for myself as well.
Title: Re: Zen
Post by: team filler on June 05, 2021, 11:42:28 AM
https://twitter.com/CheechAintShit/status/1400094772258217987


the girl speaks a whole lot of truth. people should listen to her more, but they won't