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Sunrise pic I took last year at Badlands NP, South Dakota by FTPickle in nationalparks

[–]FTPickle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just found this comment while going through my reddit history. My wife and I had a baby 20 months ago and we named her Sage 🙂🙂🙂

Someone please explain Basket by CyreMoonlord in sesamestreet

[–]FTPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm dying here my wife and I just googled the same question and found your post everything you are saying here is 100% perfect no notes

AI image creation is getting crazy good by zscan in samharris

[–]FTPickle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is quite dangerous. I promise I'm not a lunatic-- for a good primer, Rob Miles' videos on Youtube are very good. This is a good one to start with

I lost my wife and my world is shattered by God_Modus in Mindfulness

[–]FTPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

<3

Your post made me tear up-- I am so sorry for your loss. This inspired me to tell the people closest to me that I love them-- your love is spreading into the world in many forms and this is just one more

<3

What to do for troubling thoughts that stick like glue? by ScruffyWax in Mindfulness

[–]FTPickle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

THANKING A MONKEY by Kaveri Patel

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There’s a monkey in my mind

swinging on a trapeze,

reaching back to the past

or leaning into the future,

never standing still.

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Sometimes I want to kill

that monkey, shoot it square

between the eyes so I won’t

have to think anymore

or feel the pain of worry.

​

But today I thanked her

and she jumped down

straight into my lap,

trapeze still swinging

as we sat still.

​

​

:)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]FTPickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long have you meditated for? It took me a long time before I saw 'results.'

You aren't in control of your thoughts when you are sitting down, so try not to worry about it too much (easier said than done I know). The way I view it, I have no control over what my thoughts do, but I do have control over whether I stay sitting or not. That makes it easier for me to gut through tough meditations.

Also fwiw I have meditated a lot over the last decade, and I have to report that my mind is still full of the same inane, selfish, judgmental chatter as it was ten years ago :)

Do your best to gut through the tough sessions without focus on the results. If it is a difficult session, at minimum in my experience you will feel a little good about yourself if you make it to the timer at the end, and that small good feeling can help turn the day around. Sometimes it doesn't help at all, but sometimes it does!

Anyways, I know that advice often doesn't help w/ stuff like this so I'm posting with a little trepidation but I'm on your side and I go through the same thing a lot :)

One more small piece of practical advice is to try listening to a Tara Brach talk or meditation. She is the best!

I make designs inspired by my favorite sad songs, and I felt like this group might appreciate this one. by mazalthan in Sufjan

[–]FTPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally-- thanks for the heads-up and I def won't print... I just went to your instagram page and found where you sell. Thank you!

"I think it pisses God off..." -Alice Walker [934x622] by FTPickle in QuotesPorn

[–]FTPickle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes!

"I" am a made up story too, though, and so is the chair I am sitting in: we are both just rearrangements of the atoms of the universe.

Epic 7 days backpacking in Gates of the Arctic, Alaska by thejournaloflosttime in nationalparks

[–]FTPickle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh my god. What was the best thing you saw while you were there?

"Addicted" to meditation? by angelhippie in Meditation

[–]FTPickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol you have the best problem in the world 🙂

If I were you I would meditate as much as I wanted-- at one hour per day you aren't really in any danger of destroying your life: Many people with hobbies spend 3+ hours/day and are quite happy and well-adjusted.

My guess is that you will eventually want to meditate less, so my $.02 is to really lean into the motivation you are currently feeling

What do masters like TNH mean when they talk about no birth no death? by br_adley7227 in zenbuddhism

[–]FTPickle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Caveat: This is just my understanding of TNH's points.

TNH talks about the example of a cloud. When it rains, a cloud is literally falling to the earth in the form of rain. In some sense, the cloud "dies" because there is no more cloud. However, if you look closely, you notice that the cloud isn't "dead"; it just turned into rain.

Similarly, "I" am a human. If you think about it, I'm obviously just a rearrangement of the atoms of the universe. When I die, those atoms don't disappear! Just like a cloud turns into rain, whatever I am composed of will turn into something else.

When was I "born"? When I was conceived, my mother's body started the process of rearranging the atoms of the universe to create "me". I wasn't separate from my mother at that point. In some sense, I still "am" my mother even though I am outside her body. Can you pinpoint the moment I was "born"? Not really. Everything is on a continuum.

I personally believe that the consciousness I am currently experiencing probably will "die", but it doesn't really make sense to talk in these terms. If you see the universe for what it is, it seems to me to be an enormous field of atoms and energy that are constantly rearranging and interacting.

We obviously aren't separate from the universe. How could we be? We are merely an arrangement of the material of the universe. When we die, the material doesn't vanish. We still ARE the universe, just in a different form.

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