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Re: My spirit [Re: Jethro Tull]
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I don't think that I can respond to the space-time question very well.  I'm not Einstein, nor Bohr, nor Hawkings, nor Feynman.  I simply do not kno0w enough about it to comment.  So you think I should say:  "I'm a perceptual event?"  Who's doing the perceiving?  Aren't I just Zeus throwing lightening bolts in the electrochemical storm which is in my head?

All the advice is well and good.  Especially this stuff about looking "out."  This is such a novel approach, yet well within my grasp.

But how do I convince myself to make time for this stuff?  Most of the time I just live in the present.  Like right now, I'm thinking about this thread.  But tomorrow, while I'm at work, I'll be lucky if I can remember a bit of what I should do for spiritual advancement.  Then I'll get off work, go home and eat dinner, do somethings, think about action, and then do nothing but post on this board and go to sleep.

I've felt stuck in a cage.  How do I hop out of my rigid routine and into new shoes?  The word 'discipline' tickles the back of my throat.  Part of me feels that I should just do something radical.  Fast.  Trip.  Fuck.  Do something exciting and blood pounding and insane.  'Insane' in the way that breaking the mold is insane.

How do I go from idle thought to action?


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Re: My spirit *DELETED* [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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Re: My spirit [Re: rebus_minus]
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rebus_minus said:
You just do.


Right! There is no path from thought to action, in that there is no set of instructions for how to go from A to B like that. If you want to do something enough or your will is strong enough, then you will just do it.

Changing years of habitual thoughts and actions is not by any means an easy feat. If you really want to change these things, then determination, patience, and kindness will be important allies.

In the words of Emerson: "Watch your thoughts; They become words. Watch your words; They become deeds. Watch your deeds; They become habits. Watch your habits; They become character. Character is everything."


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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youbreakyoubuy said:
If my spirit exists, how would I go about making it stronger?



Free weights or kettlebells.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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Don't try to convince yourself of anything. It's ok to keep on doing exactly what you've been doing. Imagine 10 or 20 years from now, how it will feel when you look back and see that you're doing the same ol' thing. Day in, day out. Month after month. Year after year. The same ol' thing. Really feeling it, over and over... Day in, day out..

OR

You could simply do something else...  anything else at all. And so that you don't find yourself back where you started, it's wise to decide on a destination before you start moving...


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Re: My spirit [Re: Mufungo]
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Mufungo said:
.... it's wise to decide on a destination before you start moving...


Wait....I have to know my destination before I start out on a journey?  Dang-o.

I'd like to be wise.

But what does it mean to be wise?  Isn't the seat of all wisdom compassion?


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Re: My spirit [Re: Icelander]
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Do you think that physical toning goes hand-in-hand with spiritual toning?


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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youbreakyoubuy said:
Mufungo said:
.... it's wise to decide on a destination before you start moving...


Wait....I have to know my destination before I start out on a journey?  Dang-o.

I'd like to be wise.

But what does it mean to be wise?  Isn't the seat of all wisdom compassion?


totally just see where your journey brings you man


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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youbreakyoubuy said:
Wait....I have to know my destination before I start out on a journey?  Dang-o.


If you don't know where you're going, any path will take you there.  :mushroom2:


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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youbreakyoubuy said:
Do you think that physical toning goes hand-in-hand with spiritual toning?


the mind/body/spirit are all one


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Re: My spirit [Re: deCypher]
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Is that supposed to be thought provoking or maddening?

So these Temple of Doom type left side spiritual traditions....could they be said to hold virtues?  Honesty, integrity, fellowship, patience, etc?


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Re: My spirit [Re: psychedelicSLUG]
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Our bodies are our temples?


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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maby encouraging... ofcorse they are... we are our own temple


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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youbreakyoubuy said:
So these Temple of Doom type left side spiritual traditions....could they be said to hold virtues?  Honesty, integrity, fellowship, patience, etc?


The LHP is more about developing your own spirituality and defying tradition in favor of individualistic freedom and self-apotheosis.  If you seek humility, virtue, and the eventual subsumption of your singular consciouness into the all-encompassing One, the RHP would probably be a better bet.


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Re: My spirit [Re: deCypher]
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Sounds more self centered than anything. 
Quote:
apotheosis
One entry found.

Main Entry:
apo·the·o·sis 
Pronunciation:
\ə-ˌpä-thē-ˈō-səs, ˌa-pə-ˈthē-ə-səs\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural apo·the·o·ses  \-ˌsēz\
Etymology:
Late Latin, from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun to deify, from apo- + theos god
Date:
circa 1580
1 : elevation to divine status : deification
2 : the perfect example : quintessence <this is the literary apotheosis of the shaggy dog story — Thomas Sutcliffe>
— apo·the·o·size  \ˌa-pə-ˈthē-ə-ˌsīz, ə-ˈpä-thē-ə-\ transitive verb


myself as the idol of my worship?
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the eventual subsumption of your singular consciouness into the all-encompassing One

has quite a depressing ring to it.

Edited by youbreakyoubuy (06/01/09 01:02 AM)

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Re: My spirit [Re: psychedelicSLUG]
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psychedelicSLUG said:
totally just see where your journey brings you man


Oh, I totally plan on asking lots of questions without expecting many answers.  I just can't help but wonder.
I'm pretty sure that I'll do just as you advise.


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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youbreakyoubuy said:
psychedelicSLUG said:
totally just see where your journey brings you man


Oh, I totally plan on asking lots of questions without expecting many answers.  I just can't help but wonder.
I'm pretty sure that I'll do just as you advise.


remember you can ask many questions for reference purposes... but it is ultimately you who can answer them... based on all data gathered and remembering the fact that you already have all the answers you are looking for :grin:
you are god and god is you... you are everything and everything is you...


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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Yes, the LHP is essentially spiritual egoism.

As far as the depressing nature of the loss of your singular consciousness, I agree.  This is why I do not follow the RHP.


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Re: My spirit [Re: deCypher]
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Do you then follow the LHP?  Or some middle path?  Or do you just walk where your boots tread? :bigolboot:

And also, what is most LHP practitioners' view on death?


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Re: My spirit [Re: youbreakyoubuy]
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go where the wind blows my friend... the wind being a metaphor for life


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