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giza


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Look to the animal - become like the animal
#14560271 - 06/04/11 02:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Look to the animals, notice how they live their lives, They seem to be the inferior beings yet they are superior to us, IMO.
They don't have the 'wants' of the common human, they don't stress over wealth, nor do they seem to care about their 'looks'.
Become like the animal and you are on your way to enlightenment.
This is what helped me, so I figured I'd share it. Good luck!
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560281 - 06/04/11 02:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Animals also don't experience art, symbolism, or the depths of human emotion. A balance is good, animals have much to teach us.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza] 1
#14560307 - 06/04/11 02:26 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Animals don't share their insights.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: jivJaN]
#14560350 - 06/04/11 02:34 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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op i think of this sometimes. When im out in nature it feels good to just blend wth It
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: jivJaN]
#14560476 - 06/04/11 03:01 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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jivJaN said: Animals don't share their insights.
But do they really need to?
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560496 - 06/04/11 03:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Obviously they don't, seeing as they exist without doing so. That doesn't mean we should abandon language just to be more like the animals, though. Humans have good qualities too.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560526 - 06/04/11 03:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Maybe I should have said that you may be able to gain mental satisfaction by comparing the mind of an animal to your own.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: Sleepwalker]
#14560542 - 06/04/11 03:13 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sleepwalker said: Obviously they don't, seeing as they exist without doing so. That doesn't mean we should abandon language just to be more like the animals, though. Humans have good qualities too.
Yes true, I meant that animals have alot of qualities we could benefit from, didn't mean that we should abandon everything and become completely like the animal.
Should have made it a little more clear, my bad.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560554 - 06/04/11 03:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Animals seem to be 'enlightened'. IMO.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560561 - 06/04/11 03:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I agree. Animals seem to live "in the moment", so to speak. They are constantly killing each other, and yet there are no hard feelings, whereas humans killing each other tends to lead to an endless blood-for-blood struggle.
The very qualities that lead to our unique stature among the animals are also our tragedy.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: Sleepwalker]
#14560579 - 06/04/11 03:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sleepwalker said: I agree. Animals seem to live "in the moment", so to speak. They are constantly killing each other, and yet there are no hard feelings, whereas humans killing each other tends to lead to an endless blood-for-blood struggle.
The very qualities that lead to our unique stature among the animals are also our tragedy.
Yes, they don't seem to be plagued by emotion.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560598 - 06/04/11 03:24 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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To me it seems that humans share nearly all of our emotional states with many other higher mammals, but (and excuse my very non-technical wording here) human emotions tend to get picked up and magnified by our complex thoughts, and it creates a feedback system where it becomes much harder to let emotions drop away. Emotions tend to be carried on too long for our own good by our thinking minds, and in turn our thoughts move in ways that create even more negative emotion...and so on.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560617 - 06/04/11 03:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Now on to the bigger question, is emotion really a necessity.
I'ma post this question in psp forum if you'd like to discuss.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza] 1
#14560628 - 06/04/11 03:30 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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giza said: they don't stress over wealth, nor do they seem to care about their 'looks'.
Bowerbird.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: Sleepwalker]
#14560632 - 06/04/11 03:32 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sleepwalker said: A balance is good, animals have much to teach us.
I agree, we have great qualities but still much more to learn from animals and all of nature.
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Sleepwalker said: To me it seems that humans share nearly all of our emotional states with many other higher mammals, but (and excuse my very non-technical wording here) human emotions tend to get picked up and magnified by our complex thoughts, and it creates a feedback system where it becomes much harder to let emotions drop away. Emotions tend to be carried on too long for our own good by our thinking minds, and in turn our thoughts move in ways that create even more negative emotion...and so on.
I really enjoyed this statement, I would like to think about it a bit longer but I think there is a lot of truth to this. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: giza]
#14560723 - 06/04/11 03:56 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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giza said: Look to the animals, notice how they live their lives, They seem to be the inferior beings yet they are superior to us, IMO.
They don't have the 'wants' of the common human, they don't stress over wealth, nor do they seem to care about their 'looks'.
Become like the animal and you are on your way to enlightenment.
This is what helped me, so I figured I'd share it. Good luck!
Have you spent much time around or observing wild animals behaviors? Animals often engage in behaviors you might find distasteful.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: Icelander]
#14560826 - 06/04/11 04:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I cannot adequately express in words how goddamn sick I am of wearing pants. If I could live more like an animal, without getting expelled from society, believe me, I would.
Enlightenment is the ability to skewer another mammal on a spear, gut and consume it, grinning while you work.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: laserpig]
#14560862 - 06/04/11 04:36 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you were a lion or a grizzly bear would you be ok with killing and eating your offspring?
If so then I applaud you and please carry on.
btw try Burning Man this year. Pants are not required.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: Icelander]
#14560891 - 06/04/11 04:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Obviously I would be, because lions and grizzly bears are already okay with that, so if I were them, I'd be them, therefore I'd be okay with it.
But if you're asking in like a larger moral sense am I "okay with that," the answer is still yes. It makes me slightly squeamish, I won't lie, but that's just the mirror neurons in my brain cringing at how much it would suck to be eaten. But how else is this gonna work, the momma bear starves to death and the cub gets to figure shit out on its own? Not likely. If an adult bear can't find food, what chance does the cub have? Fuck it. Eat the cub. Survive. Have another cub later. DNA abounds, life goes on. It's grizzly, but ... hey, grizzly bears. 
I'll hit up burning man some year when I've got an abundance of cash. Now ain't the time.
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Re: Look to the animal - become like the animal [Re: laserpig]
#14560956 - 06/04/11 05:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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OK then you can begin any time. You are an animal.
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