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soulcircus
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HeadTripVertigo
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Re: The soul, the mystic journey, any help on my problem? [Re: soulcircus]
#5608677 - 05/09/06 12:53 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'd start by learning the difference between "where" and "were," "whether" and "weather" etc.
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Edited by HeadTripVertigo (05/09/06 12:54 PM)
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StickyWater
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Re: The soul, the mystic journey, any help on my problem? [Re: HeadTripVertigo]
#5608902 - 05/09/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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to be completely honest, I couldn't really understand what you were talking about, your thoughts were way too scattered and your sentences were poorly structured and written but I'll attempt to help you out...
Who says anything's meant to be? Do you think that the drunk who spends his life not caring, begging for money, and abandons all hope of improvement ever finds this "God" you're speaking of? Sure he may find religion, but will he ever be able to say "I am completely happy with my life"? Nothing is MEANT to be, it's all just a product of our own actions combined with some variables of chance. Assuming some things were just meant to be, then some things simply weren't meant to be as well, therefore if you just give up then clearly it was never meant to be, if you continue trying then perhaps it was meant to be (trying to follow your logic here just to make my point a little clearer).
Look at it this way... What are you achieving by obsessing over this? Stress? Confusion? Anxiety? Stop worrying about what you can't change...
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EternalCowabunga
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Re: The soul, the mystic journey, any help on my problem? [Re: StickyWater]
#5609052 - 05/09/06 02:40 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think I know what you are talking about because I've been having a similiar experience off and on for the last few weeks. You have this knowledge or true belief that everything really boils down to nothing and any kind of spiritual knowledge you would gain from a mystic path would just be another facet of this nothingness. In my personal opinion, I think you should just do what you want to do. I was very lost and confused when I tried to push the ego away and its beliefs, I find myself happier now that I just let things be.
The reason why you have a hard time following a path, and I say this because it is the same reason I have a hard time, is because you know that goals are meaningless. What to do about this, I don't know. Right now i'm living day by day, and hoping that my purpose somehow becomes clear to me. It's important to stay receptive to the messages that life gives you.
I'm trying to find this interview on erowid with a guy who by chance lost his ego and is now enlightened but unlike the Buddhists says there is no point in trying to reach Nirvana because it can't be a goal since nothing changes when you have it. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and can put up a link, that would be great.
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#5609354 - 05/09/06 04:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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krin
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Re: The soul, the mystic journey, any help on my problem? [Re: soulcircus]
#5609454 - 05/09/06 04:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think it's pretty easy,because we actually dont know anything as real truth.
Other than,something exists...the true nature of that something...unknown.
Everything else you say and think are all assumptions.Stabs in the dark.Some might make a little more sense than others,but thats only off probability evaluations...which aren't gauranteed as accurate.
So what can an intelligent person do with this information?
Pretty simple, experience pleasure.
Whatever pleasure you enjoy experiencing.
Love, sensual pleasure, intellectual pleasure,spiritual pleasure. The joy of creating, or helping others. Maybe you even enjoy self destruction and confusion...who knows
Can you choose to stop feelign shitty and start experiencing your pleasure? Free will? Ill never really know the truth,but sounds like a crock of shit to me. Do I choose to choose? To choose to choose to choose to choose?
Haha....ya right..."I" am in "control" am I...In a situation of a billion,zillion,kajillion variables completely integrated,interlocked with one another... Somehow there is a seperate "agent" orchestrating and controlling the physical makeup of my brain...and every other interacting particle,wavelength and what have you that is connected to me.... which is probably the entire universe.
but who knows,haha
you want quick fixes,you want to stop feeling fucked up...well suck it up,maybe youll have to go another few rounds or so before you start feeling good again... Do what you like doing,if that dont work,do soemthing else,if that dont work,keep trying until you're worn out,then get some sleep or give up completely,you might find some enjoyment yet.
as advice Id say to cultivate these traits,they have helped me in my journey:
Patience - have some discipline Humility - stop thinking your the center of the universe Gratitude - appreciate the beauty of this world,that you have anythign at all
Edited by krin (05/09/06 04:45 PM)
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