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The Discipline of Do Easy * 5
    #16078707 - 04/12/12 03:36 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

In Partnership with Doin' Thangs University.



Do easy.


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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: PatrickKn] * 1
    #16078811 - 04/12/12 05:15 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

+1

I forgot how to do easy.  Now I remember.


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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: MorphinTime] * 2
    #16078872 - 04/12/12 06:01 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)



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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: Jessica Swift] * 1
    #16078888 - 04/12/12 06:14 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

It's official then. I shall post one lesson per day. Lessons will cover everything from things that make everyday tasks easier, to videos and music that do easy.


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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: PatrickKn]
    #16078897 - 04/12/12 06:20 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: Jessica Swift] * 1
    #16078902 - 04/12/12 06:25 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

Thich Nhat Hanh's "walking meditation" is doin' easy. The concept of mindful movement reminds me of some of the lessons in that video.



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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: Jessica Swift] * 1
    #16079621 - 04/12/12 10:37 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)



Lesson One - Introduction to the Discipline of Do Easy

This thread is more of a personal regiment for myself, and a collection of resources for such. Feel free to follow along if you'd like. Feel free to add things that do easy as well. Every day there will be laid back music, a video or two, and a (simple) goal for the day. This thread is based off the video I posted in the OP, as well as many other sources. I've known about the video for a couple years now, and go back to it every once in a while when I notice that I am no longer doing easy. It's a subtle reminder to always be mindful of everything around you, and to take the steps necessary to make life less chaotic.

Daily goals will range from simple every day things such as relaxing, to more involved goals such as making art or researching something. Keep in mind these are only goals for myself and I'm not trying to indoctrinate people or anything like that. This is more of a personal blog and collection of stuff I find useful to my own needs, stuff that I think can be useful to everyone.

The video's will be mildly entertaining or informative. They will cover everything from seeing other people do their thing to learning something new everyday. I hope that most of the stuff I post isn't going to be something most people have seen before. There definitely will be moments where you have seen or heard something I've posted though.

Music will be from all genres. At least one song a day. I'll keep the music fresh.

Today's Goal: Clean the kitchen/coffee table, meditate for 30 minutes

As I clean my kitchen today, I will practice everything shown in the Discipline of Do Easy video, including using a strong grip, not tripping over myself and being focused on the task at hand. Afterwards, I will meditate for 30 minutes to a clip of rain noises. I am meditating everyday in order to increase focus and concentration, taking my mind of many things at once for a little bit each day and instead focusing on the simple enough task of meditation.

I will meditate to this sound file in order to give me something to focus on. As time passes, meditating without the use of sounds every time should develop, but for now I will use sound files to keep focus.



Daily Video:

Today's video is about a calligrapher/artist who definitely does easy.



Daily Music:



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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: PatrickKn] * 1
    #16088138 - 04/14/12 06:22 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)



Lesson Two - Grids, Boxes and Squares

We often, almost always, pixelate the world around us to think about it in simpler, more defined ways. This is certainly a necessary evil in some ways, as we can't always (possibly ever) fully think about anything in the fullness that it is. We define everything we are able to using language and images, sounds and even feelings, however these are merely crude copies of the world around us. This isn't to say that it's necessarily a bad thing, however sometimes looking at the world around us in a deeper, more mindful way can make us more aware of the intricacies of things. In order to really do easy, we need to come to the realization that all is one.

Now, that has been said billions of times, and everyone on this planet is subliminally aware that the universe is a whole organism. I can't think of too many people that don't understand this concept of oneness. But what I want to point out is that we don't consciously realize it at all times. While we may realize it when we are thinking about things in a philosophical or spiritual manner, we don't always realize when we are going about our daily business. When we are at work, walking down the street or cooking a meal at home, we look at the people and things around us and without thinking about it, we separate everything into categories. That person does this, this thing does that; we separate a lot of ourselves (but not all of ourselves) from the equation.

Now, thinking about everything around us as a whole organism is a great thought and all, but what use does it have when it comes to our daily meanderings? Well, when we realize that the people around us will react to everything we do in sometimes drastic and sometimes more subtle ways, we can consciously take this in and teach ourselves how to manipulate our own behavior around them to make things easier for ourselves (and for the group as a whole). That too seems obvious, however we mostly take this information in subconsciously, rather than actively and consciously taking in how we effect others. That's not to say that the subconscious isn't powerful (even more powerful than the conscious mind usually), however forcing yourself to look at things more consciously can allow ideas to become unconscious actions faster than simply letting them develop without any real input from yourself.

So indeed, at all times we are doing anything, we should stop for a moment and really ask ourselves, is this the most effective way of doing exactly what I'm doing? Is this the best way to talk to this person, or even this type of person? Will what I'm doing achieve the fastest, clearest, most effective result in whatever my goal is? And when we ask these kind of questions to ourselves in everything we do, we begin to open our thinking to the many ways that can be taken instead to complete a particular task. To the many ways that we can balance between the many tasks that we might be required to do at once. To the many ways that we can ask a person to do something, or to respond to someone asking us of something to achieve the quickest and easiest result.

For example, and I will use an average workplace as my example, it doesn't make sense for someone in a position of authority such as a manager or a supervisor to tell a person what to do as they are obviously doing it. Yet I see it all the time. Someone is preparing a certain dish, or taking the trash out, and as they are doing it, somebody comes along to tell them to do the task that they are in the process of doing. They tell them to do it without even thinking about what they are saying, and rather than getting the objective done faster by telling them to do what they are already doing, instead they get the person caught in a loop where they have to process what has been asked of them, realize they are doing it, and then continuing on. It's almost counter-productive. When people in a position of authority do this kind of thing, I feel like it's a subconscious way of rationalizing their own authority in a matter, a way of showing others that they knew they should have told you to do something ahead of time but either forgot to or didn't have the chance to. And as soon as they see you doing the task at hand, instead of moving on and looking for other stuff that needs to be done, they bring all their focus on to you and out of their mouth is the first thing they thought to themselves. Instead, they should apply that catch on themselves and redistribute those thoughts to other things that need to be done.

Likewise, on the other side of the coin, let's say you are in a customer service position either with a restaurant, call center, cashier at a store, or anything like that. People often let stress get to them when dealing with people and take out their frustration on the next customer. Often, as it's been said millions of times, the first impression is the most important. The customer, or even any random person walking down the street can sense your frustration, and it spreads to them. Most people, rather than understanding the frustration, turn it back around on you. And then the cycle continues. When you start to get stressed, your thoughts start to break down. You make quick irrational decisions that are more like the thoughts an animal would have when running from a predator than when talking with a non-aggressive person behind a counter or a phone. By stressing yourself out, you get caught in a loop that is self perpetuating, and if you don't take a conscious attitude to change whatever is causing the stress (which is often stress's effect on everything around you) you won't get yourself out of it anytime soon.

Now how does this loop back into what I was saying earlier about characterizing and defining everything? Well, to take a conscious look at everything, we do indeed need to apply words to things. We need to pixelate the world around us and make a crude copy of what's going on outside of ourselves. However, we need to do it consciously, and understand where exactly to do it. We need to understand that the world is one organism, however we need to think about that in a crude and pixelate way. That may sound contradictory at first, but it's really about asking ourselves where we are at the moment, and rationalizing which things we need to focus on in words and images.

In order to prevent ourselves from tripping over a rug, we need to think about how to avoid tripping over the rug enough times until it becomes second nature, until we don't have to look at the rug and apply the word 'rug' to it, until we don't have to look at the finer details of the rug and see where it's edges are. We need to focus on the rug as it is in words and pictures, until we no longer need to.

We can realize that the room is all one organism, however the room doesn't actually become one organism until we rationally pixelate it in our minds a thousand times. The first time we trip on a rug, we look at it as a rectangle, a square. The second time, it's a piece of fabric, it bends. The third time, we realize it's not quite connected to the floor. Each time we focus on it consciously, which really only takes a second or two, we learn more about it, it becomes less pixelate through our pixelization. Eventually it becomes one with the room, and perhaps further down the road as we master it completely, it becomes one with yourself, nearly impossible to trip over in the same way that it's nearly impossible to really punch yourself without trying to hard.

Do easy.

Goals for the Day -

- Try to get one piece of art done today. Possibly two. I'm personally working on a song right now and a bunch of collage artwork, I plan on finishing one of them today. If you guys are doing any art that you finish today, feel free to post it here, I will definitely listen/look at it.

- Clean the bathroom and the guest room a little bit.

Video -

This is an Alan Watts video entitled, "Conversation with Myself". I am a huge fan of Alan Watts, and he covers a little bit of what I talked about above in this video. It's definitely worth the watch if you are interested in the subject.  I will have several Alan Watts videos in these posts as time goes by. Alan Watts knows very well how to Do Easy, or at the very least how to talk about Doing Easy.




Music -

Today's song is by an artist called Sky Monkey. He's got some really good stuff on Sound Cloud, I found this song particularly awesome. Really diggin' it. More of a house sound, really chill vibe though.



Extra -


This is doing easy.


Edited by PatrickKn (04/14/12 07:49 AM)


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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: PatrickKn]
    #16088240 - 04/14/12 07:25 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

Nicely done, Patrick! Haven't read and listened to everything yet, but I will.

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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: Jessica Swift] * 2
    #16088341 - 04/14/12 08:18 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

Haha, thanks for checking it out. I think I might keep it up for a while, and if I have enough content after a couple weeks I'll claim doeasy.com, .org and .de and just put up a personal blog there.


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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: PatrickKn]
    #16088418 - 04/14/12 08:47 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

I hope you do keep it up, you've added lots of good stuff already.  5 :mushroom2:s worth, I'd say.  :thumbup:


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Re: The Discipline of Do Easy [Re: MorphinTime] * 1
    #16100959 - 04/17/12 07:21 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)



Lesson Three - Doing

First, let me post up my song I finished a couple hours ago. Took a little longer to finish than expected.



Today's post is about not confusing Doing Easy with doing nothing. I have to remember this myself. And as I've committed to writing about stuff in this nature for a while, I have to come up with something to write about it. The last two days I did not write anything, perhaps because I had nothing to write about, but more so because I didn't try to write anything. For the last 10 minutes I have been sitting here not knowing what to write about, when it occurred to me that I should just start writing about anything, and the ideas will follow.

Now, in the first video I posted, The Discipline of Do Easy, it starts out the video by saying, rather simply, "DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE." I take this to heart, because the video makes it clear from the get go that doing easy is not doing nothing, although doing nothing may be the final discipline of DE. Still, it remains obvious that even if we can do nothing, we can only do so for a short time before everything around us starts to 'push' us and makes it harder to do nothing. So in order to truly do easy, we must balance doing nothing at all and doing what needs to be done in harmony so that at the end of the day we have had the easiest day possible with the highest rate of productivity.

Sometimes it feels, at the moment, easier to do nothing when things have to be done. However often this isn't the case. We have to get what needs to be done before fulfilling the want of doing nothing. Otherwise, we just make doing nothing harder and harder to do as time goes on.

We also can find ways of making things - our art, our performance at particular tasks, the way we carry ourselves in public, etc. - more effective at doing what the particular activities' aims are through practice and repetition, as well as looking at things directly and as they are. Let's say you're painting a picture. For a painter, knowing how the paintbrush strokes is important, and can both be learned through practice and by taking an active effort in finding out exactly what the paintbrush does when certain things are applied. This makes it easier to paint what is in your head. Knowing how to use the tools at your disposal make the job at hand both easier, more effective, more pleasing, etc.

Video -

Today's video shows just that. This guy is a sound engineer that found a way to make sounds that come from regular two sided speakers sound more 3 dimensional. The effect is really cool. People have been using the idea for a while, but he really takes the idea and makes it complete.

Regular speakers are fine for this video, no headphones needed:



Music -

Two songs today.





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