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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: beatnicknick]
#13994971 - 02/20/11 10:49 AM (13 years, 13 days ago) |
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beatnicknick said: you know its kinda funny because at the end of the spiritual pursuit you realize the seemingly dumb people have the right idea 
but yeah i have a way of breaking it down very simply for the lamen, so i've never been called weird or anything.
ignorance can be amazing when you are experiencing it at its best (joy, excitement happiness) but when an ignorant mind veers on its course, it is like a boat that cant control is sail or rudder, only being further consumed by fear and anger. without knowing how to eliminate the causes for these undesirable moments, one will continue the path of the cyclical random uncontrollable existence
some say ignorance is bliss, i say just that statement is bliss
-------------------- "I'm guessing the 'ancient lost drug' of india is psychedelic mushrooms. The correlation between sacred cows (in hinduism) and magic mushrooms growing on cow dung is too strong to ignore, if you ask me."
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Lisa1105]
#13994992 - 02/20/11 10:55 AM (13 years, 13 days ago) |
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Lisa1105 said: Weird. Something I've been called my entire life.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Muufokfok]
#13996867 - 02/20/11 05:42 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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BoxyBrown said:
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beatnicknick said: you know its kinda funny because at the end of the spiritual pursuit you realize the seemingly dumb people have the right idea 
but yeah i have a way of breaking it down very simply for the lamen, so i've never been called weird or anything.
ignorance can be amazing when you are experiencing it at its best (joy, excitement happiness) but when an ignorant mind veers on its course, it is like a boat that cant control is sail or rudder, only being further consumed by fear and anger. without knowing how to eliminate the causes for these undesirable moments, one will continue the path of the cyclical random uncontrollable existence
some say ignorance is bliss, i say just that statement is bliss
I say that bliss is never ignorant, no matter how dumb or intellectual the cause.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: beatnicknick]
#13997456 - 02/20/11 07:31 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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beatnicknick said:
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BoxyBrown said:
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beatnicknick said: you know its kinda funny because at the end of the spiritual pursuit you realize the seemingly dumb people have the right idea 
but yeah i have a way of breaking it down very simply for the lamen, so i've never been called weird or anything.
ignorance can be amazing when you are experiencing it at its best (joy, excitement happiness) but when an ignorant mind veers on its course, it is like a boat that cant control is sail or rudder, only being further consumed by fear and anger. without knowing how to eliminate the causes for these undesirable moments, one will continue the path of the cyclical random uncontrollable existence
some say ignorance is bliss, i say just that statement is bliss
I say that bliss is never ignorant, no matter how dumb or intellectual the cause.
To be ignorant CAN be a strength because it can simplify thought and make life easier to live. It can be bliss in that you are just being. I think that ignorant bliss is broken though when someone encounters an uneasy question or ego check.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Seanfu]
#13998533 - 02/20/11 10:17 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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Seanfu said: To be ignorant CAN be a strength because it can simplify thought and make life easier to live. It can be bliss in that you are just being. I think that ignorant bliss is broken though when someone encounters an uneasy question or ego check.
never,mind
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: auxiliary]
#13998645 - 02/20/11 10:36 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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auxiliary said:
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Seanfu said: To be ignorant CAN be a strength because it can simplify thought and make life easier to live. It can be bliss in that you are just being. I think that ignorant bliss is broken though when someone encounters an uneasy question or ego check.
never,mind
elaborate?
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Seanfu]
#13998843 - 02/20/11 11:18 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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Seanfu said: To be ignorant CAN be a strength because it can simplify thought and make life easier to live. It can be bliss in that you are just being. I think that ignorant bliss is broken though when someone encounters an uneasy question or ego check.
never,mind
elaborate?
Hahahahaha you fuckin detective curious guy. I was going to say ignorance would be bliss only without repercussions, but the definition of ignorance is being unaware of actual conditions, it is not defined as having immunity to these conditions. This being said, Bliss, as the superlative of all things, would be an understanding of all things, including DEATH!!!!!
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: deCypher]
#14000955 - 02/21/11 12:10 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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deCypher said: I don't tell people who aren't into spirituality about my mystical dabblings. What would be the point?
To 'witness,' as the Christians say. I often wear some piece of spiritual jewelry. I used to wear a simple dull grey metal cross with a Star of David in the center. That was when my identity was Jewish Christian. Few people asked me about it. Later, I wore a Celtic encircled cross, and a Jewish secretary asked me why I was wearing a cross at all. I said that I was raised Jewish, but I aspired to be the kind of Jew that Jesus was. When I wore a Kabbalistic Tree around my neck, and I told her it was Kabbalah, her stereotypical Jewish response was, "Those people have a lot of money." An Israeli mother of a student acknowledged the Tree with a smile. I often wear a Tibetan Buddhist bracelet. I used to have a matching ring. My Jewish cardiologist thought the Tibetan script was Hebrew! We all 'construct' reality.
Not only has it been exceedingly rare for anyone to speak with me about spiritual matters over the past 25 or 30 years. When most people visit our home, they ignore the library. I mean, when I've been to homes or offices (like my late analyst's) with a library, I'm extremely interested in looking for books I've never seen. So, spiritual AND intellectual people are so few and far between in my life, that I sometimes just wear an identifying ornament to passively advertise a spiritual message. The practice has been largely ignored. Most people meet their spiritual needs largely by some conventional practice like going to church, synagogue or mosque, and are ethnocentric in that regard. I mean, people very rarely cross these boundaries. I haven't been outspoken about spiritual matters since I was a naive college kid in the early 70s.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14001511 - 02/21/11 01:39 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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Yeah some of my family are a bit weirded out by it i reckon, its natural to fear what you don't understand
My friends all tend to see the changes my mind & body has gone through in a very positive light yet my family seems to only see what they consider negative aspects of it like how my mind haa become a bit emotionally detached from life & general social expectations like striving to get a high paid job, a girlfriend, then make babies with her, then get a mortgage, a family car, be miserable... i think they want me to be 'normal'
I flat out told my mum i'm destined to be a Buddha, get used to it
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Chronic7]
#14001537 - 02/21/11 01:43 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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Story of every Buddha, eh?
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Chronic7]
#14001545 - 02/21/11 01:45 PM (13 years, 12 days ago) |
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The Chronic said: I flat out told my mum i'm destined to be a Buddha, get used to it 
Lol! u either added that after I made my post or I didn't read the whole thing
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Tony]
#14001656 - 02/21/11 02:00 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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Ya'll are making me feel very lucky. After I quit pursuing my career goals, my mom totally accepted it. My dad didn't give a rip either way, he just said, "you're a psychologist whether you pursue it or not. This doesn't really change anything."
The grandfather was the one I wasn't sure about. He funded my college career and still sends money my way. I wrote him a letter describing it to him, and he promptly called my mom and said that he was blown away and that "I am some kid"
My only enemy has been myself. Trying to balance necessity out with contentment.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Kickle] 1
#14001737 - 02/21/11 02:11 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." -J.L. Picard
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#14001746 - 02/21/11 02:12 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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deCypher said: I don't tell people who aren't into spirituality about my mystical dabblings. What would be the point?
I haven't been outspoken about spiritual matters since I was a naive college kid in the early 70s.
I'm quickly becoming less naive but I am still a college kid.
I think before I was just overwhelmed with what I was aware so that I couldn't help but talk about it. Nobody around me was seeing what I was seeing so I felt nervously compelled to point out the trainwrecks all around me.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Kickle]
#14001877 - 02/21/11 02:28 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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Kickle said: Ya'll are making me feel very lucky. After I quit pursuing my career goals, my mom totally accepted it. My dad didn't give a rip either way, he just said, "you're a psychologist whether you pursue it or not. This doesn't really change anything."
The grandfather was the one I wasn't sure about. He funded my college career and still sends money my way. I wrote him a letter describing it to him, and he promptly called my mom and said that he was blown away and that "I am some kid"
My only enemy has been myself. Trying to balance necessity out with contentment.
What goals are you pursuing now?
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14001897 - 02/21/11 02:32 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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Removing clutter from my life.
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14001982 - 02/21/11 02:46 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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its funny, i never speak about spirituality apart from on here, and when someone does ask me about it face to face, i usually go totally silent & physically can't speak!
i dont think im ready to speak about it yet, the shroomery is like my buddha training
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Muufokfok
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Chronic7]
#14002086 - 02/21/11 03:05 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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The Chronic said: its funny, i never speak about spirituality apart from on here, and when someone does ask me about it face to face, i usually go totally silent & physically can't speak!
i dont think im ready to speak about it yet, the shroomery is like my buddha training
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama
although i actually do go to temple ^_^
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14002932 - 02/21/11 05:53 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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When I see people weirded out by it, or wanting to attack it or demean it, I see weakness, deep internal weakness.
And no matter what form that weakness has manifested itself in, I take the opportunity to shake that persons world with that metaphorical shadow of theirs, given it's formed from a perception which often has nothing to do with actuality and more so the way they are internalizing a situation and casting their own personal perceptual lens of judgement upon it. It ain't my issue if they lack objectivity. 
Not the friendliest thing to do, but. I've always been great at doing it. And they never forget and learn, which is the point. I'm a bit of a fan of "weirding" people out. 
It only bothers me, when someone I am deeply connected with does not understand... It hurts....
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Re: do people think you are weird for your pursuit of a spiritual life? [Re: Raven Gnosis]
#14003118 - 02/21/11 06:31 PM (13 years, 11 days ago) |
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Raven Gnosis said: When I see people weirded out by it, or wanting to attack it or demean it, I see weakness, deep internal weakness.
And no matter what form that weakness has manifested itself in, I take the opportunity to shake that persons world with that metaphorical shadow of theirs, given it's formed from a perception which often has nothing to do with actuality and more so the way they are internalizing a situation and casting their own personal perceptual lens of judgement upon it. It ain't my issue if they lack objectivity. 
Not the friendliest thing to do, but. I've always been great at doing it. And they never forget and learn, which is the point. I'm a bit of a fan of "weirding" people out. 
It only bothers me, when someone I am deeply connected with does not understand... It hurts.... 
i wish i could blow peoples mind's away. instead if someone ever asks for advice or im in a deep convo about metaphysics ill throw out a really deep analogy that will make them think.
im just more focused on compassion. i realized while driving home just a bit ago, i love making people happy. i love it and love expands and opens the dna strands, rather than contracting it like fear does.
-------------------- "I'm guessing the 'ancient lost drug' of india is psychedelic mushrooms. The correlation between sacred cows (in hinduism) and magic mushrooms growing on cow dung is too strong to ignore, if you ask me."
  As the ocean waves, the universe "peoples" ~Alan Watts~
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