lolThank you brother V for your support.
How old are you?I've been looking into some meditation practices. I plan on incorporating one in my daily routine.
If you’re serious, I recommend looking into non-religious/mystical BS mantra meditation.
So i began to reflect- Have i been negative lately? :thinking(https://i.imgur.com/8ubGFLt.gif)
I don’t think you’ve been negative at all. You’re one of the posters I enjoy reading most.
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.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.
That moment when you realize that maybe the world is shit because you're a shit person :thinkingI welcome your insights but let's keep it positive :doge
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. :-*
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.
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 quickIs 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 quickIs 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
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
S.Beaks, i always cherish our talks but i'd like to clarify a few things real quickIs 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
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
Jokes are ok. Fire away.
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.
being zen means you don't question the lack of pleasantries in my demands for fellatio, piss slaveNo no
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.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.Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.Test my zen.
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.
Assy and Himu a lot alike in turning a new page and thinking they're suddenly experts.Nah, brah. They were low. I was probably subconsciously trying to troll you into snapping.Test my zen.
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.Is it possible to short sell someone's journey of self-actualization?:dice
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.
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.
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.
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.
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(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.
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.
asmr videos work great for me
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
Been with her for almost 13 years and I still love it.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.
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.
Things that are terrible to Assy:
Still enjoying your significant other after multiple years
Helping another person
Asia Argento
Stro
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.
:dayum
you still feel like that after a year of being with her? I take a shower.
lol da fug
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.
sorta. that desire to bask in all the dirtiness isn't there and a shower is much more preferred.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.
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.
In a world where you can be anything: be kind.
Atra > AIDS > Agra
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.
ZEN
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”
Questioner: How should we treat others?
Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
Cunt was bringing stuff up from forever go when i would rant to air some frustration out.
I have over 2,300 unread emails in my primary Gmail folder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTBSRodFdw
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 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.
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
Where are you? Haven’t read the threadSouth America.
Your life is really short, dude. Don't waste it in a place you hate.Problem is I don't know what I want.
Hey Tasty boi, check out this screen shot I just took for youThose are rookie numbers
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Now go shave yourself, you disgust me.
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.
Kinda like your sonos set up, amirite?
This is a cursed thread, the spirit of assimilate lingers
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.”
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”
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"
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zen and misogyny :heart :pimp
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.'
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.
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.
Questioner: How should we treat 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.
Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
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godney has so much wisdom :heart
Questioner: How should we treat 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.
Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
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.
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.
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...!
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"
“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
I'm not really sure if I beleive in mindfulness or mediation and all that
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.
“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.”
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.
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
“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.”
"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."
https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553(https://i.imgur.com/j1q6Nxw.jpg) ;)
:rejoice
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.
" 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."
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-IvbAup38might be my favorite thing in the thread.