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cez

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Grasping
#18773808 - 08/29/13 04:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is such a hard thing to shake from my mind atm.
I have a lot of good stuff happening in my life right now which I'm thankful for, but I want fucking more...This is causing me to feel anxious/restless even though I'm in a much better position than I have been in my adult life.
I am mindful of the present which helps a lot, but I have difficulty with some things I want that the world has not allowed me to obtain.
I know this is not ideal in terms of my mentality and I do my best to not block thoughts, but let them come and go..But when thoughts in terms of this ideal I'm grasping comes, I seem to go in loops wondering why didn't I get it? What did I do wrong? etc..
I'm not sure if these are spontaneous thoughts after the original thought comes or if I'm steering my mind from thereon.
I believe in patience but I seem to be quite impatient atm
Advice? Perhaps a meditation technique to quell this grasp?
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Re: Grasping [Re: cez]
#18773924 - 08/29/13 04:24 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Smoke more weed. 
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Icelander
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Re: Grasping [Re: cez]
#18773983 - 08/29/13 04:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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cez said: Is such a hard thing to shake from my mind atm.
I have a lot of good stuff happening in my life right now which I'm thankful for, but I want fucking more...This is causing me to feel anxious/restless even though I'm in a much better position than I have been in my adult life.
I am mindful of the present which helps a lot, but I have difficulty with some things I want that the world has not allowed me to obtain.
I know this is not ideal in terms of my mentality and I do my best to not block thoughts, but let them come and go..But when thoughts in terms of this ideal I'm grasping comes, I seem to go in loops wondering why didn't I get it? What did I do wrong? etc..
I'm not sure if these are spontaneous thoughts after the original thought comes or if I'm steering my mind from thereon.
I believe in patience but I seem to be quite impatient atm
Advice? Perhaps a meditation technique to quell this grasp?
"Too much is never enough"
-------------------- "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: Grasping [Re: cez]
#18774013 - 08/29/13 04:46 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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maybe try mentally going over all the things you're thankful for? clean water and food, freedom from external conflicts, etc...? feeling gratitude for what we have i think is a good way to overcome obsessing about getting more. also any kind of hobby or activity that really engages you will likely make you forget about wanting more things
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Re: Grasping [Re: cez]
#18774122 - 08/29/13 05:08 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This Too Shall Pass
In, out Deep, slow Calm, ease Smile, release Present moment, wonderful moment
Down bad vibes

-------------------- "Springs of water welling from the fire" "Life may seem to flee in a moment, but when the mind is freed of the veil of ignorance, and illusion that comes between the mind and the truth, life and death are only opposite sides of the same coin - "water welling from the fire."
"Within us, we carry the world of no-birth and no-death. But we never touch it, because we live only with our notions." -Thich Nhat Hanh instant "Experience always goes beyond ideas"
Edited by Sse (08/29/13 05:11 PM)
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Re: Grasping [Re: Sse]
#18774219 - 08/29/13 05:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The imperative passes-not because I have willed it away, talked myself out of it, or even promised it for later, but just because it passes, like everything else."
"I have desires, but I am not trapped by them."
"I see that my mind is outrageous. Indiscriminate. It thinks everything! But my thoughts are not me." If I renounce any idea of ownership, they are free to leave."
Pay Attention, For Goodness' Sake by Sylvia Boorstein
-------------------- "Springs of water welling from the fire" "Life may seem to flee in a moment, but when the mind is freed of the veil of ignorance, and illusion that comes between the mind and the truth, life and death are only opposite sides of the same coin - "water welling from the fire."
"Within us, we carry the world of no-birth and no-death. But we never touch it, because we live only with our notions." -Thich Nhat Hanh instant "Experience always goes beyond ideas"
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Re: Grasping [Re: Sse]
#18774271 - 08/29/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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"I do need patience whenever the demands of the moment are overwhelming my capacity to handle them easily."
"If I am in a sustained amount of pain in my mind or in my body-too tired, too worried, too sad, too confused-I become frightened and feel impatient for my situation to end. If I remind myself, "This will end. There is nothing I can do. I am uncomfortable, but I can, at least, be kind to myself in my discomfort," I feel better. I relax. My patience is restored. The rope that I thought I was at the end of disappears. It turns out to be imaginary."
Pay Attention, For Goodness' Sake by Sylvia Boornstein
-------------------- "Springs of water welling from the fire" "Life may seem to flee in a moment, but when the mind is freed of the veil of ignorance, and illusion that comes between the mind and the truth, life and death are only opposite sides of the same coin - "water welling from the fire."
"Within us, we carry the world of no-birth and no-death. But we never touch it, because we live only with our notions." -Thich Nhat Hanh instant "Experience always goes beyond ideas"
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cez

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Re: Grasping [Re: Sse]
#18774580 - 08/29/13 07:02 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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greencrush420 said: Smoke more weed. 
I just gave up weed for 30 days. It makes me complacent/hazy/lazy..Seems ideal though right now.
I appreciate all your responses...Even your's Icelander  I know this will pass.
It sickens me right now because this concept is in my dreams too, at least the last two nights...I can't get away from it even when I'm asleep.
I'm gonna melt away on lsd tonight..Not a solution to this problem but can help.
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Re: Grasping [Re: cez]
#18775424 - 08/29/13 10:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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cez said:
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greencrush420 said: Smoke more weed. 
I just gave up weed for 30 days. It makes me complacent/hazy/lazy..Seems ideal though right now.
I appreciate all your responses...Even your's Icelander  I know this will pass.
It sickens me right now because this concept is in my dreams too, at least the last two nights...I can't get away from it even when I'm asleep.
I'm gonna melt away on lsd tonight..Not a solution to this problem but can help.
In my experience, weed doesn't make you lazy unless you already have a problem with laziness for it to exacerbate. Maybe the LSD will help you come to some sort of realization about what it is you really want or help you come to better appreciate what you already have. It might actually be the best thing for you right now. Good luck brother and good vibes your way; I hope you find what you're looking for.
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cez

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Edited by cez (08/29/13 11:14 PM)
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