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Repertoire89
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#18803515 - 09/05/13 02:15 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've reached a point after working for years towards my goals, and taking one setback after another where I just don't care anymore. Used to want to be married, definitely don't want that. Wanted kids too, don't want it. Wanted my career to pick up to satiate my ego, don't want that.
I feel like an animal, the little goals and drive which were drilled into me by society are too much a burden now. Don't want them, don't care. All that being said I'm enjoying my time and still working on 'progressing', but don't feel the same about it.
Anyone have thoughts on what it means to be content? For me right now it equates being tired, and just enjoying what I have without thinking about the future, or the past, or your problems, or my problems.
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Good attitude imo.
-------------------- "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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Sounds like you're figuring it out. I don't know though
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Re: Contentment? [Re: cez]
#18804107 - 09/05/13 04:47 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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i will be content when i can poop freely in public
no, but kinda
contentment comes and goes ime, no stopping the dreams
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Re: Contentment? [Re: Hobozen]
#18804240 - 09/05/13 05:17 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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blankk said: i will be content when i can poop freely in public
Move to India dude, they poop in the streets there
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i was actually thinking that
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Sounds good to me. I find contentment is a free position of satisfaction where I'm neither tied down by concerns or driven forward by desires. It's a progressive thing though, and full contentment is difficult to achieve without some minimum conditions, like not being hungry or dangerously cold.
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Re: Contentment? [Re: DisoRDeR]
#18806272 - 09/06/13 05:48 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Societal personal progressive concerns about success and personal contentment in the now seem to be equal conundrums of life. I think the key to this is to find ways to balance them both at the same time, and not fully committing to one or the other, for dissatisfaction of the unknown would envelope us with a full commitment to a single particular lifestyle.
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Re: Contentment? [Re: DisoRDeR]
#18806480 - 09/06/13 08:09 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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DisoRDeR said: It's a progressive thing though, and full contentment is difficult to achieve without some minimum conditions, like not being hungry or dangerously cold.
The minimum conditions I think would be subjective, the more tired I get the less I care what I do or don't have. Contentment in hunger and without shelter is certainly possible, perhaps not under torture
I'm just too tired to care anymore, which is its own form of contentment
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I can say that with the lessening of energy due to aging I care a lot less about almost everything.
-------------------- "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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there is a lot about contentment in taoism, and it seems like you have reached a point, by literally giving up on your desires/attachments, etc, that a great taoist sage would be proud of. Being content with what you have is excellent. quote from bhagavad gita: ( I know its not taoist, but my tao the ching is not around me at the moment, but this will do) But the man who delights in the self, who feels pure contentment and finds perfect peace in the self- for him there is no need to act
He has nothing to achieve by action nothing to gain by inaction nor does he depend on any person outside himself
without concern for results perform the necessary action surrendering all attachments accomplish life highest good
Hope that helps...
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Repertoire89 said: I've reached a point after working for years towards my goals, and taking one setback after another where I just don't care anymore. Used to want to be married, definitely don't want that. Wanted kids too, don't want it. Wanted my career to pick up to satiate my ego, don't want that.
I feel like an animal, the little goals and drive which were drilled into me by society are too much a burden now. Don't want them, don't care. All that being said I'm enjoying my time and still working on 'progressing', but don't feel the same about it.
Anyone have thoughts on what it means to be content? For me right now it equates being tired, and just enjoying what I have without thinking about the future, or the past, or your problems, or my problems.
I think contentment is a stillness of sorts. And not in the conventional sense of not moving. Because then you get restless. Like if you were to be strapped to a board unable to move anything but your eyes. You'd get really restless and just the ability to scratch your balls would be such a blessing.
But a stillness of desires. Not getting what you want nor getting what you don't want. If desires are still, there is no wanting to begin with.
I dunno how to really find perfect stillness in this way though. It seems like a fairy tale to me. Not to mention that trying to find perfect stillness would only push it away because it would be a desire, confusing the whole issue even more. I've settled for, in the same way as you, focusing on what's right here. Not much else to be done. But that hardly means the fairy tale is true, that desires don't come up, that things that I don't want to happen, don't happen. There's contentment in the mix, sure, but that's not all.
I find contentment is a product of circumstance in many ways although IME there are ways to increase the number of circumstances in which it is present.
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Re: Contentment? [Re: Kickle]
#18809022 - 09/06/13 07:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Those are some interesting points, overall I've felt more content since dropping eastern philosophy. Dropping the whole search for contentment altogether has brought me a lot more peace, its too ironic for words
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Searching for contentment has made it very apparent that peace isn't something I'm likely to experience for an extended amount of time.
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Re: Contentment? [Re: Memories]
#18809259 - 09/06/13 08:33 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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All I've gotten is some of what I call "golden moments".
-------------------- "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: Contentment? [Re: Memories]
#18809371 - 09/06/13 09:00 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Memories said: Searching for contentment has made it very apparent that peace isn't something I'm likely to experience for an extended amount of time.
At your age I couldn't imagine feeling as stress free as I feel now, what a mess. My life isn't much more stable now but just tired of caring, it takes a bit of energy to worry about shit
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Tired... I'm so tired of all this...
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Icelander said:
All I've gotten is some of what I call "golden moments". 
*Yeah, way to give up bros!* (sarcasm)
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Repertoire89 said: I've reached a point after working for years towards my goals, and taking one setback after another where I just don't care anymore. Used to want to be married, definitely don't want that. Wanted kids too, don't want it. Wanted my career to pick up to satiate my ego, don't want that.
I feel like an animal, the little goals and drive which were drilled into me by society are too much a burden now. Don't want them, don't care. All that being said I'm enjoying my time and still working on 'progressing', but don't feel the same about it.
Anyone have thoughts on what it means to be content? For me right now it equates being tired, and just enjoying what I have without thinking about the future, or the past, or your problems, or my problems.
What were you practicing that you failed at?
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