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Lithop
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Do YOU miss IT?
#28315241 - 05/11/23 05:03 AM (8 months, 14 days ago) |
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Talking about old habits yesterday, someone asked me:
"Do you miss it?"
I wanted to say no, because I'm trying to be beyond missing it- I actively make the choice to sidestep particular avenues as soon as it looks like I'm going there 
I wanted to say- missing it is a state of mind, maaaan, you're giving mental real estate to your attatchment but I knew I'd be a liar, because the resistance I pose to NOT missing it sometimes brings a longing on regardless. Even if it's a tiny amount.
So I copped out and said:
"Sometimes." and thought for a while about lived experience.
With that being said, do you MISS it?
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syncro
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: Lithop] 1
#28315443 - 05/11/23 08:55 AM (8 months, 13 days ago) |
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I don't think many around here have quit anything to miss. 
I'm perfectly in control though, me and my psychic knots.
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Lithop
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: syncro]
#28315573 - 05/11/23 10:12 AM (8 months, 13 days ago) |
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syncro said: I don't think many around here have quit anything to miss. 
I'm perfectly in control though, me and my psychic knots.

Haha, I get you but I see a lot of people on here trying to relegate harmful/ non-serving patterns to the past
Trying to paint in broader strokes here, the IT I refer to could be a vice (IT), a person (THEM), a place(THERE), a time(THEN), a feeling(THAT)...
Not about control as much as it's about agency, success rate is never 100% with this shit, IMO. I feel you with the psychic knots, sometimes I imagine my brain looks like that one junk drawer everyone has with some rats-nest of cables going on in there
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Kickle
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: Lithop] 1
#28315615 - 05/11/23 10:51 AM (8 months, 13 days ago) |
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Yes, I miss it
A penchant for relative thinking (past, future) (this, that) seems to speed along the arising of loss and longing.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Buster_Brown
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: Lithop] 2
#28315616 - 05/11/23 10:52 AM (8 months, 13 days ago) |
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This reminds me of Kramer, "Do you ever yearn?"
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Buster_Brown
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But yes, I have pined for tobacco, craved marijuana, and yearned for sex. But do I miss it? That is the question.
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syncro
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: Lithop] 1
#28315653 - 05/11/23 11:22 AM (8 months, 13 days ago) |
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Haha, I get you but I see a lot of people on here trying to relegate harmful/ non-serving patterns to the past
Trying to paint in broader strokes here, the IT I refer to could be a vice (IT), a person (THEM), a place(THERE), a time(THEN), a feeling(THAT)...
Not about control as much as it's about agency, success rate is never 100% with this shit, IMO. I feel you with the psychic knots, sometimes I imagine my brain looks like that one junk drawer everyone has with some rats-nest of cables going on in there 
By psychic knots I mean also those things associated with the body, the three of the three, physical, emotional, mental.
What I miss is the sattva, the pure mind stuff, good meditations, ananda, that sense of freedom. I can get it temporarily but then that can tend more toward letting loose the kinds of pursuits and celebrations of freedom that can be regrettable, and the bodily things, chemicals - I may pursue just to relieve discomfort or anxiety or out of blind compulsion, not very cognizant of how it happens.
I think in sattva it can be seen that those things that we miss are not absent or lost.
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syncro
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: syncro] 1
#28316124 - 05/11/23 05:20 PM (8 months, 13 days ago) |
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I guess we do need that mission after all.
Edited by syncro (05/11/23 05:24 PM)
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BrendanFlock
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: syncro]
#28317860 - 05/12/23 11:42 PM (8 months, 12 days ago) |
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Entropy is a man made device..
Get rid of the wrong doers and you won't miss a thing.
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Buster_Brown
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Quote:
BrendanFlock said:
Get rid of the wrong doers and you won't miss a thing.
So like, making peace with your opponent with a simple or enigmatic "Good luck with that!" can alter reality?
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connectedcosmos
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Anything I don't do anymore I certainly don't miss  
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 54. The true nature of things is to be known personally , through the eyes of clear illumination and not through a sage : what the moon exactly is , is to be known with one's own eyes ; can another make him know it?
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BrendanFlock
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Quote:
Buster_Brown said:
Quote:
BrendanFlock said:
Get rid of the wrong doers and you won't miss a thing.
So like, making peace with your opponent with a simple or enigmatic "Good luck with that!" can alter reality?
If your opponent truly gives up his evil ways..
There is healthy competition though between two good people.
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Buster_Brown
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I didn't know you are a playwright; I'm writing a book in my Journal
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trekko
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Na over it
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FishOilTheKid
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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: trekko]
#28343184 - 06/01/23 02:39 PM (7 months, 23 days ago) |
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I miss tweakin on meth.
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BrendanFlock
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I miss wanting to tweak on Meth..
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Eclipse3130
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Old habits could be good habits, perhaps you use to eat healthy and go to the gym, in that case you should miss it
-------------------- "In The Material World One seeks retirement and grows Old In The Magical World One seeks Enlightenment and grows Wiser In The Miraculous World One seeks nothing and grows Lighter As we all tread the Homeward Path we will explore many Realms And one day... we will all Realize that all experiences are Simply Different ways in which The All-That Is Perceives Itself"
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nooneman


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Re: Do YOU miss IT? [Re: Lithop] 1
#28345708 - 06/03/23 12:18 PM (7 months, 21 days ago) |
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I miss the good parts, not the bad parts, but you can't get one without the other.
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