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How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia?
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Even though I've only lived in a town with a very dense population for a week I feel my stillness slipping. I smile a lot less and can't seem to chill out with out a drug now.

I am surrounded by pissed off people. I was driving yesterday and some random guy freaks out on me calling me an asshole and what not. I just did the wag the finger thing at him (it was fucking classic the people ahead of me saw that I did that to him and laughed at the guy) as I reached for my weapon in my backseat and smiled at him. He left me alone then.

I pull up to taco bell where there is a young black teen, 16ish, at the window the guy looked at me with such fucking loathing and hatred, wtf? Wow.

How do you guys flow, keep yourself smiling, and laugh at the universe in such a high stressed society?


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: theuser]
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Before coming to college I lived in a rather large city (metropolitan city). Unfortunately, I don't think I kept my flow, or kept myself smiling.

Now I live in a smaller city, but its growth is constant and its an on-the-rise city. Luckily, people here are a little bit nicer and a little bit friendlier which makes smiling easier.

But living in the city is slowly killing me. I can feel it. I've been feeling it for about two years now. I hope I can make it to the wilderness/rural areas before all of this gets the better of me.


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: demiu5]
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I'm confused, how does;

Flowing with Eternal Tao and "reached for my weapon in my backseat and smiled at him." go together?

hehe


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: demiu5]
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I thought city life was all that and a bag of chips but now a part of me is yearning for open fields, bushes and lakes.


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"Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is. Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."

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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: Iriebuddha]
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Iriebuddha said:
I'm confused, how does;

Flowing with Eternal Tao and "reached for my weapon in my backseat and smiled at him." go together?

hehe


:rotfl: :shrug: I have to protect myself and my woman in this crazy ass place.


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Edited by theuser (07/14/06 09:09 PM)

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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: theuser]
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Yeah I live in a megasubopolus, it sucks because I think alot of

it has to do with American becoming more populated, and that

economics has taken a hit sense all this terrorist crap has come into

play, to think our economics hasn't taken a hit is delusional I think when issuing a 5 or 10 billion dollar budget to fight some meaningless war, when we could reissues that money on our boundaries, I don't think terrorism has gotten any better now, thx

If you look at Canada, all it citizens get taken care of, its all about their country, its not about vain or pricey causes plaguing that country,

around here I feel constant paranoia almost, I know that uneasiness would subside if the cops where alot more chill, but their not cool at all, In sight of a poopoo gives me the "OH shit, my friends got a warrant and I just got busted DUI" reaction, that gives the constant look over the shoulder routine,

This is part the reason why people aren't chill in crowded areas, we also have alot more crime, ghettos, and bitterness towards certain groups because of history, when comparing our country to like Canada,

Canada seems be more chill for two reasons, more relaxed drug laws, and that its government and its citizens seem to be its first priority

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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: theuser]
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theuser said:
Iriebuddha said:
I'm confused, how does;

Flowing with Eternal Tao and "reached for my weapon in my backseat and smiled at him." go together?

hehe


:rotfl: :shrug: I have to protect myself and my woman in this crazy ass place.


From what, death? :lol:

:grin:


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: dblaney]
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carrying a weapon makes a bold statement.

i think you would be safer without one in my philosophical musings.

walk softly and carry nothing?

you really just have to be the tao in this case.... be an emination of love.....

and maybe this place isn't right for you? I'm generally not fearful around here, nor do I see hateful people, but it's a small college town.

there are fights and the cops are over-active.... though i jaywalked right in front of them, it scared me when i realized what i was doing but nothing happened....

i've also walked through a group of 3 of them while kind of high ...... i dunno if they could tell or not, my eyes were slightly dilated.

nothing happened.

it's really in your perspective you know? While on the one hand there are dangerous territories, if you remove danger from your own stomach, and replace it with peace and drift upward to the heart....

and you just work on being the epitome of chillness, it's likely that you will be rewarded and find a safe environment, so that eventually wherever you go is you dancing and manifesting your inward peace into the outward, and it's like a soft pillow wherever you walk and whoever you see.


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....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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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: leery11]
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noone is allowed to carry weapons in the back seat in my big city

you are coming to awareness in a city from a compromized society.

get rid of smelly gus and the attitude that triggers them and holsters them


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: theuser]
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Escaping to wilderness, or at least to pockets of undevelopped land that still remember the wilderness, is extremely helpful in staying balanced and centred.  It would be nice if this option were open to all of us (I live just up the street from a conservation area in a middling-sized city) but I understand this is relatively hard to accomplish for some.  Just thought I'd toss the suggestion out there, it's amazing how therapeutic even a moment's immersion in the natural world can be, even if it's just a couple dozen feet of the natural world re-conquering an abandoned lot. 

But if that's a no-go, try isolating yourself in a comfortable, quiet environment for a good hour or so of calm contemplation.  Ooo, or do you have any semi-clean bodies of water around you?  That can be mesmerizing in a manner that forces your troubles to wander off from your still mind.  I say 'semi-clean' only because I bet if it's funny-smelling, full of crap and plays host to a wealth of noisy tankers it wouldn't have quite the same effect.  Failing that, you can try closing your eyes under a tree and listening to the wind carve itself up on the branches (in winter) or rustle the leaves.  This one definately requires silence on the part of the rest of the world, though.

'But how do you flow with Tao when some jackass is freaking out on you and the traffic is moving slower than molasses on heroin?  How do I recapture my inner calm then, man?!' you may be asking.  Well, try flowing in accordance with the Tao, my friend.  Ideally that would mean not putting yourself in those sorts of situations to begin with.  Cop-out answer?  Hardly.  :smirk:  :smirk:  :smirk:

Good sense from Leery11 as usual.

"get rid of smelly guns and the attitude that triggers them and holsters them"  -- Redgreenvines  :thumbup:  :thumbup:


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: theuser]
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theuser said:
Even though I've only lived in a town with a very dense population for a week I feel my stillness slipping. I smile a lot less and can't seem to chill out with out a drug now.

I am surrounded by pissed off people. I was driving yesterday and some random guy freaks out on me calling me an asshole and what not. I just did the wag the finger thing at him (it was fucking classic the people ahead of me saw that I did that to him and laughed at the guy) as I reached for my weapon in my backseat and smiled at him. He left me alone then.

I pull up to taco bell where there is a young black teen, 16ish, at the window the guy looked at me with such fucking loathing and hatred, wtf? Wow.

How do you guys flow, keep yourself smiling, and laugh at the universe in such a high stressed society?


Why do you need a gun when a guy is just yelling at you? Are words that hurtful?


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: EquilibriuM]
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I also think attitude brings about the environment, positive attitudes, towards positive environments and vise versa,

as whoever you make the enemy becomes your enemy-capliberty

I've witnessed this occurrence with my own conflictive personality, and others as well,

people who have a "chip on their shoulders", might find themselves in a tight situation, they weren't bargaining for

and it might come about in such a surprising way, to almost suggest the interbreeding of commonality gave forth the common ground, for such synchronized thought processes might bring about similar environments, that also interbreed,

Edited by capliberty (07/15/06 10:19 PM)

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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: capliberty]
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like attracts like, no?


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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: theuser]
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theuser said:
How do you guys flow, keep yourself smiling, and laugh at the universe in such a high stressed society?


Try consulting the I Ching, and also reading books like the Tao Te Ching...

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Re: How to flow with the eternal Tao in suburbia? [Re: MystikMushroom]
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And the writings of Chuang-Tse!

Outer AND inner chapters, it's all good.


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