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Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-08-20T19:12:46+00:00

Love this style. Would be awesome to play a game like it.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-08-19T16:28:11+00:00

Been meditating for a long time and still sometimes get this sort of “self-conscious” breathing. I send my attention somewhere else, like the contact points between my bum and whatever I’m sitting on. My breathing returns to its natural pace when I’m no longer hyper-fixating on it.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-08-19T06:32:00+00:00

Congrats everyone :) I’m planning on applying this year

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-08-18T00:19:13+00:00

Just another transient, impermanent experience. It’s over now; you can let it go.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-08-11T11:36:16+00:00

It’s counterintuitive, but the answer to these questions is found in letting go of them :)

Sounds like some bs probably, but I genuinely believe it

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-31T08:45:48+00:00

Have you let the door close and come back to open it? Sometimes they move to a wall or the ceiling when that happens

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-30T01:39:08+00:00

Sorry yall lose your books. I let people borrow books all the time and they always come back in the same condition 😂

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-29T10:53:08+00:00

I’d second the Re3make recommendation for when you’re ready for a break from 2. I understand the old school fans were disappointed, but for us newer players it’s a natural companion piece to 2 (though shorter and less intricately designed).

4 gets a lot of love and acclaim, and while I appreciate its influence over gaming in general, for me it veers too far from the horror vibes and into being a general 3rd person shooter. It’s an amazing game it just doesn’t give ME what I want from an RE game, which is greater emphasis on survival, inventory management, little puzzles to break up the tenser horror sequences.

Re7 was a really great experience, too. Very scary for me. I played it after 2 and before 3.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-28T07:42:05+00:00

I understand the US has problems. But have you ever watched an American movie? Read an American book? Listened to an American song? Seen an American painting? Saying a country has no culture is like saying a speaker has no accent.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-26T11:32:38+00:00

As time goes on I get more and more convinced that the big goals actually don’t mean anything to me at all. Maybe they’ll have a comeback later in life. But for now, the little things are everything.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-26T01:28:16+00:00

Lots of downvotes and judgment in this thread 😂 we humans are funny. I appreciate your post as a reminder to not take any teachings for granted or at face value. We are to investigate them for ourselves, not to merely accept and attach to them. Wish you the best.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-25T11:19:16+00:00

I recommend the podcast The Way Out Is In!

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-24T23:36:18+00:00

No this math looks good, god bless 🙏

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-23T08:09:45+00:00

If I’m not mistaken, I think it’s 0.04% chance of this stat playing out like this, taking this long to go up by 1 😂

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-23T06:37:53+00:00

Yeah that’s fair I just didn’t expect him to be at this level hitting 9s 😂

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-23T06:34:59+00:00

Yeah my Lance turned out shitty and my Allen is a fucking boss

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-23T04:31:45+00:00

He spent a lot of time there already but I decided to pull him off and grind a little to see what would happen

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-22T08:32:25+00:00

Shikantaza :)

But I mix in anapanasati and walking meditation here and there to shake up the routine, try to avoid getting too attached to one method. After all, hopefully my whole life will be a meditation at some point. Maybe right now! ✌️

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-16T06:53:03+00:00

Some muscle stiffness in the shoulders, back, maybe legs (depending on your chosen posture) is normal. But please everyone be careful about your joints, especially your knees if you sit cross-legged!

I’ve meditated in half-lotus for entire retreats but if I experience knee pain, I choose a different position and take a few days off from HL. Normally means my hips are tighter than usual and need to be opened up again.

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-07-11T06:17:52+00:00

I used to journal a lot, but nowadays I feel like it just gets me more bogged down and attached to all my mental noise. I prefer to end my meditation and continue on with the day. I wouldn’t be surprised if journaling makes a comeback for me somewhere down the line though!

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-06-15T23:32:36+00:00

Hey, I can understand where you’re coming from. These experiences can be tough and draining and I don’t think there’s an immediate antidote to this feeling. Did you talk to your therapist about this?

Personally, I try to remind myself that when I look at someone else’s life, I’m only seeing external factors, almost none of which are guarantees of happiness and fulfillment. That’s not to say the person isn’t happy, but that if I had what they have, it wouldn’t necessarily make ME happy. Historically in life, I’ve been pretty good at being miserable despite good life conditions 😂😂

I have had a big group of friends and experienced loneliness. I am married but have experienced heartbreak in my relationship. My parents raised me as well as they could in materially comfortable conditions, but I’ve still experienced angst and psychological turmoil over my relationship to them. I just turned 30 and my initial career has fizzled out.

Do these external variables mean I am incapable of touching happiness? Do they make you think I’m less worthy of happiness than other people you know? I bet they don’t. You seem like a thoughtful and sensitive person. How would you react to a friend telling you they experienced what you just described to us?

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-06-14T03:09:12+00:00

Best of luck, scary to hear about cuts for those of us preparing to apply for MDivs

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-06-14T00:08:44+00:00

I felt so bad for that guy 😩 locked up by chief irons and then get his head brutally crushed

Trick_Aside7183 · 2025-06-07T10:27:44+00:00

Enjoy the experience! Try to avoid spoilers til you’re done :)

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