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teknix
𓂀⟁𓅢𓍝𓅃𓊰𓉡 𓁼𓆗⨻



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Re: Contentment? [Re: teknix]
#18810279 - 09/07/13 02:04 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Here's all of his video's (or most of them) for free as well. (As we should expect from an enlightened teacher)
http://www.youtube.com/user/utcoffice/videos?view=0
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Icelander
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Re: Contentment? [Re: teknix]
#18810466 - 09/07/13 04:20 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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All I've gotten is some of what I call "golden moments". 
*Yeah, way to give up bros!* (sarcasm)
How does telling my actual experience in life equate with giving up? Had I given up I would not have had those almost perfect 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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Repertoire89
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Re: Contentment? [Re: teknix]
#18810745 - 09/07/13 08:05 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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What were you practicing that you failed at?
The best teacher on this planet for internal alchemy and awareness:
http://mantakchia.com/
Most of his teachings are free and posted online for everyone.
I haven't failed at anything, the setbacks in my life are entirely financial at this point. Enough to drive someone crazy being that my situation has recently turned up so I'm worse off financially than I was at 18, just keep going in circles in that sense.
I don't need a teacher, if someone's going around proselytizing to people they could learn a lot from me but I don't take students
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MarkostheGnostic
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I've always cultivated contentment. It became a necessary attitude once my highest goals were dashed on the rocks of life. I never consciously wanted prestige, but there were subtle desires for a kind of prestige that were killed when I was rejected from training in a particular school of psychology. I then took to being content with a lifestyle as an over-qualified professional working beneath my potential, but I chose to be the best at where I landed. I did have two months off in the summer for almost 3 decades, and worked only 212 out of 365.25 days per year, so I had time to play even if I wasn't making big bucks. Now, whatever little ambition I had professionally is pretty much gone. I did write a book that I'd really like to publish, but on the other hand, it's kind of like a drawing I had as a kid that I'd take out and add to now and again. It was a machine with a large diamond-like crystal that absorbed energy from the sun. My book ends with the Tibetan Buddhist notion of the Diamond Body that dwells in the solar lotus of the Heart. I'm not gonna make money from this book, I just want to share a story about some interesting things that have happened to me, so it's a matter of self-expression. But then again, there's that self sneaking back in wanting some recognition before I die. That's the opposite of contentment.
Contentment is not equal to being life-weary. It is a genuine appreciation of the things we have, in the relative absence of ambition, or desire for 'more.' I appreciated the yellow Ferrari I saw rip up the boulevard yesterday, leaving Lambourghini of Miami, but I don't secretly wish I owned one. That desire would put me as I am today in hock, or I'd have to be a different me altogether for me to afford it. If I owned it, I wouldn't be the married me, because that car is for transporting strippers, and high-end call girls IMO. No, I have a 10 year old silver Mazda Miata, with only 26,000 miles and my wife has a 7 year old silver Mazda 3, with maybe 18,000 miles, and a status car is not something we think about. Just a concrete example. We're more content than most people we meet.
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
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Repertoire89
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MarkostheGnostic said: I've always cultivated contentment.
then again, there's that self sneaking back in wanting some recognition before I die. That's the opposite of contentment.
Contentment is not equal to being life-weary. It is a genuine appreciation of the things we have, in the relative absence of ambition, or desire for 'more.'
leaving Lambourghini of Miami, but I don't secretly wish I owned one.
Sounds like eastern philosophy, too much stress for me trying to think along certain patterns. Would rather settle with what I have
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MarkostheGnostic
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Settling always seems to have disappointment woven into it, where contentment is a genuine appreciation. But those are just my semantics. My wife is beautiful, but she isn't the image of my perfect female fantasy. Yet I am content to be with her and I don't sneak around trying to find my fantasy. Besides, I might find an appearance of my fantasy, but it is doubtful that she'd have the substance of interior qualities. It is best to eliminate my idiotic desire for a certain appearance and appreciate what I have - someone who is into me as I am into her. There is no "eastern philosophy" about it, just common sense.
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
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Repertoire89
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I was pretty disappointing about a lot of things, and could choose to be so now. Its not worth the effort in caring though, fuck it
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