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CosmicJoke
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so i had one of those big trips 1
#22069400 - 08/09/15 08:41 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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and i spontaneously went into om mani padme hum mantra and i was radiating so much luminosity, clear light, good vibes.... and now it's just as easy as breathing and i'm just wondering how long it will be before some stressful event will set off a chain reaction of cranky karma, a blind wheel
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: CosmicJoke]
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: CosmicJoke]
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sounds good !
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Jokeshopbeard
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It wasn't that long ago that the sound of the om came to me during meditation. Since then I have read into the mantra and found it very much resonates with me. To the point that I repeat it daily, and I even went and got it tattooed on my neck (you know I'm a tattoo freak anyway!).
I gotta say, I believe it's brought a lot of positivity into my life. It very much encapsulates what I am striving for in my life.
I know exactly what you mean about the wondering when the cranky time is gonna pull the rug out from under your feet though. In years gone by I would very quickly go towards contemplating that after I had had a very positive experience.
As time goes by though, I find myself no longer wondering when the next stressful situation is gonna come along. Rather, stress is always around me at some varying level - it just seems like it no longer bothers me that much - I can just overlook it and keep following what I believe to be my truest path.
If I really think hard about it, I know that it's gonna come, but I definitely no longer default to that after life has delivered me a nice chunk of good vibes.
Does any of that resonate?
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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CosmicJoke
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Thanks, I had a stressful last month where my landlady's bipolar partner lost her job and they decided to sell the house i was renting instead of me signing another lease. So on top of everything I was frantically looking for a new place to live in an area w/ under 2% vacancies, second only to Brooklyn, NY. It's a seller's market and is fiercely competitive -..... People will put down $500 reservations on craigslist before open houses to reserve their application being considered first based on pictures alone without ever seeing it. Anyways, I ended up 20 blocks further east, paying the same $2k/mo rent, which sucks - no more walking to a hundred restaurants and bars, but I do have this pretty cool extinct volcano outside my door to hike around on and a coffee shop and corner store.
It's done now and it feels so good to let go of all that pent up tension, the entheogens surely helped, I have made peace with it.
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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CosmicJoke
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Jokeshopbeard said: It wasn't that long ago that the sound of the om came to me during meditation. Since then I have read into the mantra and found it very much resonates with me. To the point that I repeat it daily, and I even went and got it tattooed on my neck (you know I'm a tattoo freak anyway!).
I gotta say, I believe it's brought a lot of positivity into my life. It very much encapsulates what I am striving for in my life.
I know exactly what you mean about the wondering when the cranky time is gonna pull the rug out from under your feet though. In years gone by I would very quickly go towards contemplating that after I had had a very positive experience.
As time goes by though, I find myself no longer wondering when the next stressful situation is gonna come along. Rather, stress is always around me at some varying level - it just seems like it no longer bothers me that much - I can just overlook it and keep following what I believe to be my truest path.
If I really think hard about it, I know that it's gonna come, but I definitely no longer default to that after life has delivered me a nice chunk of good vibes.
Does any of that resonate?
Yuh, what I'm striving for too, to live in my heart. It's like biofeedback right now of breath into bliss, and for me it's a matter of resiliency. Something bad is inevitably gonna happen, it's just a matter of whether I identify with my mind or my heart.
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: CosmicJoke]
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CosmicJoke said: It's like biofeedback right now of breath into bliss
I feel ya there man. When I find that space, every breath is near orgasmic. A sensation that starts at the top of my skull, and then spreads through my entire body, starting all over again on the next breath. Sometimes it'll take me entirely unaware in normal life, but I spend most of my daily meditation in that state.
It's wonderful.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
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You can see the mantra repeated here on my neck, in between the happy & sad faces!
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: CosmicJoke] 1
#22069846 - 08/09/15 10:21 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, allow me to provide surrogate bummer karma for you. I thought that after the beautiful canopy of trees that were bulldozed just behind my back yard, exposing all this extra sky and air movement, that it was causing extra water loss in my pool. But my August 2014 quarterly water bill was $139 and this August it was $387!!! It turned out that my 5/8" per day water loss was due to two leaks in the pool (temporarily patched), which was discovered by a leak-repair company for $295. Now, after almost a year of almost no rain in my neighborhood (rain is very local down here), it poured 1.46" today, and it is supposed to rain all week, just as I've put a $1500 downpayment on a pool resurfacing job (between $3300 and $3700, but it could be more depending on any structural problems under the skin).
I am reading the 1958 book Irrational Man (the name of Woody Allen's new film, which I surmise he took from this philosophy book on four existentialist philosophers). The book was written by William Barrett, the former teacher of one of my most influential philosophy teachers whom I reconnected with recently after 40+ years). Anyway, this book, which profiles the existentialisms of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, has reintroduced me to the philosophical treatment of anxiety. I discovered that the anxiety about finding and interviewing several pool companies, selecting the best one among them (freedom & responsibility), and an independent leak repair company first, worrying that the leaks would be repaired properly before the resurfacing, was all worse on my nerves than the actual expenditure of monies or the expenditure of time on this project. After the initial anxieties waned, the rain has brought new anxieties even though it is not MY responsibility to call a rain day or to take some preventative measures. The anxiety is completely irrational and is the source of more suffering than the actual problem. The repair company is responsible for doing the job correctly.
I suspect that the discomfort of many illnesses and ailments are made incalculably worse by anxiety. You hear of dying people whose anxiety has left them, and they report that dying isn't all that bad. You hear final words by Thomas Edison or Tim Leary or Steve Jobs and one cannot help but be intrigued by dying. I'm confident that when I'm dying, I will not be registering regret over how much money I spent to fix a fucking swimming pool.
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MarkostheGnostic said: I suspect that the discomfort of many illnesses and ailments are made incalculably worse by anxiety. You hear of dying people whose anxiety has left them, and they report that dying isn't all that bad. You hear final words by Thomas Edison or Tim Leary or Steve Jobs and one cannot help but be intrigued by dying. I'm confident that when I'm dying, I will not be registering regret over how much money I spent to fix a fucking swimming pool. 
I just looked these up:
Thomas Edison: "It's very beautiful over there." Tim Leary: "Why not." Steve Jobs: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
I kinda look forward to the time when my numbers up. I feel like it's gonna be the next big adventure. Those three quotes very much echo how I think it's gonna feel.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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We can only hope! I was actually thinking of Edison's final words as being "More light!" but your quote will do just fine.
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MarkostheGnostic said: I was actually thinking of Edison's final words as being "More light!" but your quote will do just fine.
Those would be Goethe's last words, which I coincidentally read just today.
But they would have fitted Edison just fine
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: Aldous]
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MarkostheGnostic said: I was actually thinking of Edison's final words as being "More light!" but your quote will do just fine.
Those would be Goethe's last words, which I coincidentally read just today.
But they would have fitted Edison just fine 
"Thanks Aldous!" I always appreciate Synchronicity!
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I'm sorry but you will most certainly get sick or get in a car crash or something. This is why I try not to have any fun anymore. I prefer my rotations on the wheel to be very shallow.
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: mt cleverest]
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You cannot know the details of my inevitable non-existence. But as for yourself, if you are speaking of the Buddhist Wheel of Life, the only freedom you have regards the responsibility you take for your life here and now. I have chosen not to reproduce. That is a virtue for Buddhists, Hindus and Jains perhaps, and some Gnostics, but in Judaism, failing to procreate is the ONLY cause for being reborn again on Earth. The cycle is called gilgul in Orthodox Judaism and is a punishment for refusing to "be fruitful and multiply." - Genesis 1:28
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MarkostheGnostic said:I have chosen not to reproduce. That is a virtue for Buddhists, Hindus and Jains perhaps, and some Gnostics
I did not know this. I guess that is in the strictest sense of following one of these faiths (for lack of a better word)?
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MarkostheGnostic said:I have chosen not to reproduce. That is a virtue for Buddhists, Hindus and Jains perhaps, and some Gnostics
I did not know this. I guess that is in the strictest sense of following one of these faiths (for lack of a better word)?
I am an apostate to the Judaism I was born into. I flunked myself out of Hebrew school in rebellion against my father who ordered me to become a Bar Mitzvah (Son of the Blessings). Since he was emotionally absent and wanted to behave like some Oriental potentate, I basically said "fuck you" to his own commandments. But my father was more a Freemason than anything and my mom was an atheistic cultural Jew. I set out to find salvation on my own, but I didn't have a good role model for fatherhood so I married a non-nurturing female. That 'ice-princess' turned out to be mentally ill and had a tubal ligation without discussing it with me first. By the time I divorced I was 39 and by the time I met someone significant I was 43. It's all good. No regrets. Never even fantasized about fatherhood, it was never a desire. But children like me and I spent almost 30 years counseling adolescents. Just no progeny. It's an "Atman Project," a surrogate for immortality. I don't need that. My DNA can perish. I'm just a temporary prism, a momentary phenomena that attempts to split the light of Being into a unique display of colorful words.
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MarkostheGnostic said: It's an "Atman Project," a surrogate for immortality. I don't need that. My DNA can perish. I'm just a temporary prism, a momentary phenomena that attempts to split the light of Being into a unique display of colorful words. 
My thoughts exactly.
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MarkostheGnostic said: It's an "Atman Project," a surrogate for immortality. I don't need that. My DNA can perish. I'm just a temporary prism, a momentary phenomena that attempts to split the light of Being into a unique display of colorful words. 
My thoughts exactly.
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Re: so i had one of those big trips [Re: CosmicJoke]
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CosmicJoke said: Something bad is inevitably gonna happen, it's just a matter of whether I identify with my mind or my heart.

As natural as it is to see something as bad it can be great to have an outlook where you have no enemies at all, so that any challenging circumstances you may come across can be seen as opportunities to open up into a more expansive integration of life, where not only the 'good' is welcomed and allowed space to exist but life in all its forms.
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