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bloodbrother778
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Good vibes thread
#19163434 - 11/20/13 03:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Blessings everyone
I've wanted to make something like this thread for a while. It is inspired in part by all of you here - so thanks everyone!
The purpose of this thread is to create a peaceful, sacred, meditative space for all to enjoy. You can come here when you're feeling stressed or down and catch the good vibes. Or when you're feeling good to send us your vibes, or whenever you like .
I kindly ask those who can to contribute, by coming here and meditating for a few minutes when you can. Do whatever you like - chant, sing, meditate, just sit there - whatever it takes for you to feel that conscious groove and just stay in that space for a few minutes with this thread open. If you can't do a few minutes try a few seconds - anything will help.
This is an experiment, I'm not sure if anything like this has been attempted here yet, so hopefully it can go somewhere, perhaps become a permanent thread.
I just ask for a little less talking and a little more
Ommmmmmmmmmmm
so without further ado I give you this thread use it wisely
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the lotus sutra
I've found this quite valuable in centering/grounding when I start to feel stressed and feel like I can't slow down. May it be of use to you
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 This here is a current pic of my first ever mushroom grow- look closely at the tiny pins It gives me so much joy knowing that I am creating life out of something that once started out as a spore inside a syringe. I have put so much care and love into growing these babies- and soon they will give back to me by providing me visions. - dont know if it helps, but it is my contribution to the Good vibes thread
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Re: Good vibes thread [Re: motukoa1]
#19163607 - 11/20/13 05:15 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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We are all made of stardust and are connected to each other in this tiny fact.
-------------------- He (Dionysos) keeps me with all of his other pretty things for I am just another pretty thing in a long list of acquisitions. Yes! And their brains are releasing adrenaline, dopamine, even dimethyltryptamine from the pineal gland! This has serious educational value! Thanatophobia and this N.D.E. is giving us euphoric altered awareness! Don't you see, Princess? We were all born to die! – Finn the Human Pay me what you owe me. Don't act like you forgot. BBHMM.
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"A warrior learns to meditate in every action, letting go of attachments"
right now I am drinking a cup of coffee slowly, meditatively - eating or drinking like this taking small sips or bites has a great calming effect on me
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A realization I would like to share with you guys:
I used to think that words were useless, that they are a clumsy way to communicate While I still feel this way to an extent I've realized a while ago that things can be on a different level
Particularly when we think we understand something and then an experience shows us that we had no idea - that experience takes us to a new level of understanding
The same thing could be said of words - we can use them to lie, or we can use them to get closer to the truth, all depends on the level of being of the person using them
If you are unhappy and you suddenly get a ton of money you will use this money for unhappiness, if you are happy then you will use that same money for happiness
all is relative to where you are and where you want to go .....but that's if you want to go somewhere
if you don't know where you are then you can't tell up from down and left from right, everything is the same
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I guess later everyone will know the truth out of the lie
the truth, whatever is there happening around you and your being state through its statements, is never about you, while it is totally about else existence existence is not yourself conscious, the confusion is what we are individuals and there is a force from humanity rise in minds, saying that everything is for the free wills
but it is a lie, existence is not for anyone, it is about its fact sense from ever, that is why the smart ones choose the positions of powers from existence senses knowledge and show how far they can be opposed to anyone there and also any fact of existence
existence is its own truth, that must become really free on its own that don't care about freedoms that infinite superior fact which is always and would be always aside
once that would be known, then everyone would act differently, by appreciating a certain true communication with each others in positive considerations to freedom rights that only freedom know how
existence is not free, it is tied to objective realities of any positive present value, so because of freedom presence we and any freedom is needed for existence while having its own path that is why realities dies if there is no presence aside realities values seen are not living, it is an illusion meant to enslave freedoms by forcing the confusion sense as if realities are free too like what realize it that is how they are calling the universe god, while it is none and not being thing at all, just to enslave us to else presence more important then us, which doesn't exist
that is why again those gods are never existing and religious people are always meaning to get out of existence and rule all like gods while they enjoy to despise us revolt !
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Re: Good vibes thread [Re: absols]
#19180996 - 11/24/13 12:19 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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-------------------- "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: Good vibes thread [Re: Icelander]
#19181594 - 11/24/13 07:00 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hi Icelander
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Re: Good vibes thread [Re: Withinity]
#19181621 - 11/24/13 07:27 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice thread!  The next time you want to connect to something bigger, do this: learn how to find the Andromeda galaxy in the night sky. It can be seen year-round in northern latitudes. You can see it with your bare eyes as a grey speck. When you see it, know that this light has travelled in straight line for 2.5 million years, through black empty space for a time so long that the species homo sapiens didn't even exist when the light left the galaxy.
-------------------- ~notice your next breath~
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Re: Good vibes thread [Re: Withinity]
#19181636 - 11/24/13 07:33 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Withinity said: Hi Icelander 
-------------------- "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: Good vibes thread [Re: woaronun]
#19181643 - 11/24/13 07:37 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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woaronun said: Nice thread!  The next time you want to connect to something bigger, do this: learn how to find the Andromeda galaxy in the night sky. It can be seen year-round in northern latitudes. You can see it with your bare eyes as a grey speck. When you see it, know that this light has travelled in straight line for 2.5 million years, through black empty space for a time so long that the species homo sapiens didn't even exist when the light left the galaxy.
I was looking at it last night in some 11x56 binoculars. Beautiful. I have a pair of 25x100s coming from Santa for even better views. Anyone looking through binos or a small wide field scope will get the best view looking at it off center out of the corners of your eyes. You will resolve the spiral arms much better that way.
Btw we are soon to collide with Andromeda. Many do not know that because of the vast distances between stars it will be very unlikely that when the galaxies collide there will be few if any actual star collisions.
-------------------- "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: Good vibes thread [Re: woaronun]
#19185426 - 11/25/13 03:43 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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woaronun said: Nice thread!  The next time you want to connect to something bigger, do this: learn how to find the Andromeda galaxy in the night sky. It can be seen year-round in northern latitudes. You can see it with your bare eyes as a grey speck. When you see it, know that this light has travelled in straight line for 2.5 million years, through black empty space for a time so long that the species homo sapiens didn't even exist when the light left the galaxy.
Jesus Christ!
I had to look it up cause I thought you had your numbers wrong, I knew that the light from even the closest stars besides the sun takes a few years to get to us....... but 2.5 million......DAMN
thanks for contributing guys, don't forget to come back here and chill every now and then
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Ok so I keep trying to post something on the topic of stress and anxiety, but can't seem to find quite the right words - I'm gonna try anyway.
What I really want to talk about is staying centered in the midst of action. Sitting still and meditating is cool and all, but I've come to find that moving meditation can be a lot more valuable.
Many times when I'm doing something I feel myself going forward from my chest, or sending my energy that way - too much of it. I either think that for whatever reason I have to do something or I have to have something and misplace my sense of self worth into that thing. Of course this isn't true, it is an illusion, but one that seems to be quite easy to get caught up in. I'm quite an energetic and active person by nature, and that shows in my heart and body as well as my mind, so sometimes when my mind races, my body and my heart start to follow it as well and I wind up doing dumb things that I really don't want to do. For this reason one of the things I like to do is vigorous exercise - when I've exhausted my body, my mind slows down and then I can hear my heart more clearly and not get caught by illusions so easily.
The other technique that I've been developing is trying to feel myself in the back of my neck. What I mean is when I feel that going forward from my chest thing, I try to withdraw myself by focusing my attention on taking the going forward energy from my chest and drawing it to the back of my neck. I don't try to visualize this - instead I try to get the sensation, and then I just focus on staying there. The point is to stay calm, to be grounded and centered so that when I do something I am not obsessing over it. Then I am able to see so much more than I do if I'm just going forward all the time - even things that help me accomplish whatever I am doing much more efficiently which I am unable to see if I'm all wrapped up in what I am doing.
This, as I've come to understand, is precisely what detachment is all about. Sure we can meditate when the conditions are peaceful, but can we keep this peace in the midst of all the frantic activity going on around us? If we can't then what is our peace really worth?
Anyway I'd like to hear from you guys about similar, or different techniques that you may use and find beneficial in this line of work.
namaste
Edited by bloodbrother778 (11/28/13 03:00 AM)
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With action meditation do not tweak the mind, do not hold sensation on one part of body or thought, keep loose general focus, but without trying (free up that mental RAM, use it for task at hand) and this is a very important part - sing
- singing makes your breath deeper and longer so it calms your respiration
- whenever you feel really uncomfortable let the mind hover loosely in the body and
see if there's any sensation or what it is? Feel hot, cold, weak, muscle cramp? Heart racing? Just let the mind hover on the sensation and don't do anything. The awareness alone is enough to calm things or move you to fix them.
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Re: Good vibes thread [Re: eve69]
#19200954 - 11/28/13 01:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I see what you're saying. Although I will say that at certain times it takes that object for me to be able to focus my attention with more force, i.e. when I already feel myself slipping away, I have to focus on something rather than nothing and that seems to help more.
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been a few days since I've made a contribution so I'd like to share with you guys my story of a trip that inspired me to take a step back from doing drugs
It was actually a really awesome experience, on about an eighth of mushrooms I dare say it was probably my best shroom experience out of about 30-40 trips, which included a trip where I ate a quarter
Anyway I was with a couple of friends and we all soaked our shrooms in orange juice then we put on a funny movie and waited for the shrooms to kick in. Once they kicked in, for some reason, everything started irritating me. I wanted to have a mellow time but my friends kept chitchatting and laughing and it was really starting to bug me. I actually started feeling like there were literally bugs crawling around in my chest. It wasn't that my friends were doing anything I should've really been getting pissed off at, I just landed in one of those irritable moods where everything around me was pissing me off. Not only was I feeling bad but I also started to get angry at myself for letting myself feel that way.
Then I remember thinking "man am I fucked, not only do I feel bad but I also feel bad about feeling bad" So then I make a decision. I said "you know what.....do what you want with my body.....if all this is so uncertain then I'm just not gonna worry about it anymore" And then I started letting go. The negative feelings did not disappear immediately but I started feeling something beyond that turbulence. It was like I could feel different compartments inside of my body and there was excitement on one part, negativity on another, turbulence here and there, but behind that and below there was a calm space. At first it was small, but I said to myself: "Thats where I want to be" and actually focused on staying there rather than buying into all the turbulent shit. When I started doing that the calm space started expanding. I kept focusing on it and it eventually took over all the turbulence and everything else until there was nothing but the calm space left.
What happened afterwards was pretty amazing. I reached a level of intellect beyond any that I've been able to reach before, and it wasn't just intellect. I felt amazing, my body felt amazing, and my thoughts functioned with such sharpness and quickness that I felt like I was able to answer any question I was faced with because my emotions my instincts and my intellect were all functioning together, complementing each other, instead of competing with each other for my attention.
There was more to it than that too. It was an unattached state, when I answered a question I didn't think "oh I'm so awesome for being able to think like this" I focused on the question, and when it was answered I let it go. I realized that one has to have an aim in doing something, a guiding principle....you can have all the crazy ideas in the world but unless you know where you're going they are bound to be misused. I realized that my guiding principle is love. It was actually my friend who said that after I explained what I felt to him, he said: "So what ur saying is u fell in love" and I was like: "Yeah we can call it that....I'm ok with that". I realized that one should love for the sake of love itself, because it is perhaps the most amazing feeling in the world, and when one feels that way there does not have to be a reason or an object because of which you feel this way, but it can be directed anywhere you wish. So even to say "I love you" is wrong, it's more like "I love, and I direct that love towards you"
But at the same time I realized that it wasn't enough to just know this with words or the intellect, one has to feel it to really understand it. My friend even responded to something brilliant that I said at the time by saying "you should write that down", and I said: "What's the point? I won't feel it the same way if I read it" So then I asked myself "Well why don't I feel this way more often?" And I realized that when I'm all wrapped up in worry about what I want to happen or what will or will not happen, I'm only cutting myself off from this love. All that it wants is to be felt, all that it requires is a clear heart, a heart that has room in it for love. It's sad but most of the time my heart does not seem to have that room. It's not that I don't feel good, but I haven't reached that level of experience without using psychedelics yet.
So after this trip I resolved to do just that, to reach this state without having to use drugs. I only had one more LSD experience, and a couple of ecstasy experiences since then. I even quit weed and cigarettes a few months ago. Now the only "drugs" I do are caffeine and alcohol, and when I drink I only drink to get a buzz and relax, not to get wasted like I used to.
A funny quote from me that night.....after rolling around on the couch brimming with crazy energy for a while, we decided to go outside. I took a look at my jeans and they were in the most crooked, crumpled up, messed up state I've ever seen them......so I said: "Dude, I don't even know what angle my pants are on right now" 
Anyway that's my story, thanks for reading. Hope it can be of inspiration to others as well.
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Beautiful! The teachers have spoken to you
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Read page 59 and following in The Only Dance There Is, 'Love as a State of Being,' and see if it resonates with you. It was a very important passage for me from a very important book (for me).
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ske6kzQlmKcC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq='the+only+dance+there+is,'+love+as+a+state+of+being&source=bl&ots=sOnlwbMuWa&sig=HdbqZ3SUpHxM3lyg0VZlpm2mONc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IrSfUtnOCsXAkQfyt4GwDw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q='the%20only%20dance%20there%20is%2C'%20love%20as%20a%20state%20of%20being&f=false
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
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