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palmersc
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Meditation
#5504569 - 04/11/06 05:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I've been sober for about 4 months due to drug court. I thought this would be a good time to start doing other things to broaden my consciousness. My dream recall since I've been clean has been amazing, and I've had many lucid dreams so I'm getting into that. Reading this cool book called Dream Yoga and the Perception of Natural Light. I'm starting to connect with the Buddhist philosophy more than I ever did with Christianity.
Well I've been meditating as well and honestly I get just as high meditating as I do when I smoke bud. I'm wondering am I supposed to channel this energy somehow, or should I just continue getting higher?
Especially after mediating on the comedown of a salvia experience, I can lose most contact with my physical being. Well that's easy to do when you're peaking. This is after peaking, and if I got up and went about my business, effects would be unnoticeable. Salvia seems to be a good meditation aid. So I'm figuring out that being without those "bad" illegal drugs isn't bad at all. Maybe I'll trip here and there, but if someone could maybe guide me a little more with meditation, I'd appreciate it. I know it's not a clear cut thing but I feel like I'm doing it a little wrong. I mean are all those monks just sitting around high as shit all day?
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kaiowas
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Re: Meditation [Re: palmersc]
#5504605 - 04/11/06 05:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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awesome, but don't close yourself off to anything that may happen in the future. what you feel right now is what's right now, the ideas you have a couple of months or years will defiantely change, and if you say you're going on one certain mindset, a conflicting t hought later on might impede your meditation progress. you know when you say you aren't going to do something again, and later on you find out that you didn't agree with that idea, here a conflict arises. the human mind is so fickle anyway
I think that's one of the most important aspects of tripping and expanding consciousness.
the stage your at is pretty fuckin sweet and it will change. since you're sober, channel your energy in manifesting good shit for people around you. take up a craft that brightens up people's day. we are creative creatures and this world could be so much more interesting and fun.
or maybe you can channel your energy into looking at how to better the world in other ways. infinite possibilities ya know!
-------------------- Annnnnnd I had a light saber and my friend was there and I said "you look like an indian" and he said "you look like satan" and he found a stick and a rock and he named the rock ooga booga and he named the stick Stick and we both thought that was pretty funny. We got eaten alive by mosquitos but didn't notice til the next day. I stepped on some glass while wading in the swamp and cut my foot open, didn't bother me til the next day either....yeah it was a good time, ended the night by buying some liquor for minors and drinking nips and going to he diner and eating chicken fingers, and then I went home and went to bed.
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redgreenvines
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Re: Meditation [Re: palmersc]
#5504828 - 04/11/06 06:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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some of those monks are in a state of awareness, very in touch with body and mental phenomena arising and passing away. nothing is excluded. to enable more, selective involvement becomes a path in itself. you may find that interesting.
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palmersc
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kaiowas said: the stage your at is pretty fuckin sweet and it will change. since you're sober, channel your energy in manifesting good shit for people around you. take up a craft that brightens up people's day. we are creative creatures and this world could be so much more interesting and fun.
I agree. I'm in school right now studying a lot of math and physics. I'm just not so sure that this is what is going to bring happiness to myself and others. I know there are a lot of possibilities with the degree I'm attaining, so I'm going to hold out and see what comes of it. I'm good at what I do, so the worst that could come out of it is financial stability. This is where I'm coming into conflict with my new views. I'm playing a game here in society, and the green is what makes this country go around. I'm not really down with that, but I think it takes money to have freedom in this world. So it's hard for me just to up and stop playing the game when there's so much at stake in my parent's eyes. And like you said, views change so I might be talking out my ass today and wish I had that job.
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redgreenvines said: some of those monks are in a state of awareness, very in touch with body and mental phenomena arising and passing away. nothing is excluded. to enable more, selective involvement becomes a path in itself. you may find that interesting.
Man these guys fascinate me. They seem like they have achieved something that is barely comprehensible to me.
"There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment" - Ramana Maharshi
I think they are on to something though and I'll start off just as they did. At the beginning.
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leery11
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Re: Meditation [Re: palmersc]
#5505098 - 04/11/06 07:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I agree.... monks fascinate me and one day perhaps I would like to spend some time at a monastery learning to meditate properly and letting go of any commitments to "reality".
-------------------- I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo! ....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human...... Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!
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