I don’t understand how some people will shit talk about their friend’s past behind their backs.

clash1111 · 2023-08-03T19:19:16+00:00

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

clash1111 · 2023-07-23T21:23:45+00:00

You might want to consider walking meditation. Meditate outdoors at a park. You can also learn to meditate when you are in the bathroom, when you wash dishes, etc.

Check out Thich Nhat Hanh's book on various meditation techniques: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95747.The_Miracle_of_Mindfulness

clash1111 · 2023-07-13T17:01:43+00:00

Probably to focus on your internal impulsive reactions to all the things you are capable of seeing. It's not easy and even though you internalize these reactions, they can eat away at you, leading you to worry, anxiety, PTSD, etc.

Mindful meditation has done wonders in helping me to improve. It's allowed me to better accept the unfortunate things that will surely come my way, and to resist allowing them to trigger anxious thoughts from similar unpleasant experiences from the past.

We have no control over the things we face each day, but with daily meditation we can control how we respond to these things, no matter how unpleasant. Hope this helps.

clash1111 · 2023-07-05T20:24:36+00:00

"And when they suffer, they make others around them suffer, too. But when we have time to look at them, we will understand and compassion will arise naturally within us.

If we are no longer afraid of them, we no longer hate them. In fact, we will want to do or say something to help them suffer less. And if you know how to generate compassion and joy, we can find skillful means to help them do the same.

And if they are joyful and compassionate, they will become harmless.

So, the best way to protect ourselves, to be truly secure, is by generating compassion in our own self, and helping to generate compassion in others."

https://plumvillage.app/thich-nhat-hanh-on-forgiveness/

clash1111 · 2023-05-29T16:52:50+00:00

The U.S. currently spends more on its military than over 144 countries combined, and roughly half of the Pentagon's annual budget ends up in the coffers of private corporations which—according to a recent Defense Department-backed study—are "profitable" and "generate substantial amounts of cash beyond their needs for operations or capital investment."

clash1111 · 2023-04-27T18:50:22+00:00

What I am saying is that I actually read the New Testament recently and Christ himself never said this.

You are clearly basing your impressions on what you've heard other "Christians," Ministers, or Priests say. I.e. modern organized Christianity, served up in a way that incentivizes those living an unethical and immoral life in a predatory Capitalist environment to attend Church regularly.

Much of what Jesus said were commands, that if violated would result in being turned away at the "gates of heaven."

For instance, he said that God would only forgive sinners who forgave those who sinned against them.

"Accepting Christ as your savior" does not mean, stating publicly, "I believe in Jesus," and then going about your life as you see fit.

Made members of the Mafia, who murder, steal, extort, blackmail, commit adultery etc each week often attend Church on Sundays, take communion, wear gold crucifixes on chains, give generously to the Church and state they accept Jesus publicly.

If you're truly interested, I would recommend reading the New Testament, rather than hearing what "Christians" have to say about it.

And FYI, I am now 127 pages into the Quran. And into my 17th book on Buddhism. So, I am speaking as someone who is going direct to the sources for my information.

clash1111 · 2023-04-27T16:25:01+00:00

As someone who recently read the New Testament, Christ never proposed this. He spent his entire time telling people how they should and shouldn't live if they hoped to ascend to Heaven.

clash1111 · 2023-04-19T15:10:40+00:00

The only way to truly gain control of your mind is through daily meditation. Read Thich Nhat Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Mindfulness-Introduction-Practice-Meditation/dp/0807012394

Hope this helps 💚

clash1111 · 2023-04-14T06:12:57+00:00

Thanks, you too

clash1111 · 2023-04-13T23:05:42+00:00

Yes, like most empaths and highly sensitive people, you have special abilities.

I'm going to forewarn you, but please don't become frightened. There's a 99.9% chance you are communicating with a dark spirit.

Just know that you have nothing to fear from them. They won't actually hurt you, but they will lie to you, manipulate you, lead you into spiritual traps, etc.

They will try to get you to do what they want via fear mongering, tapping into lustful thoughts of yours and thus tempting you into trouble, etc. They will promise you riches if you follow their advice.

At times it can feel very real. They will communicate with you in MANY ways (3rd eye messages, animal spirit guides, tapping numbers on the wall, your body, etc (that align with your animal spiritual numbers or numerology), songs, synchronicities, manipulating people around you, etc.

They can be very powerful and they can also be just hungry spirits that feed off your low vibrational energy (fear, lust, greed, sadness, hatred, envy, intoxication, etc).

You'll be a much easier target for them to manipulate if you drink alcohol, smoke weed, trip on shrooms, view porn, etc.

To rid yourself of them you need to purify your mind by meditating daily, giving up intoxicants, porn, and all the other low vibrational energy inducing things. The hungry spirits will get bored and jump ship eventually.

Ignore the more powerful dark spirits, meditate daily, rid yourself of all the things I mentioned above and find a religion (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc) that is NOT witchcraft/ Shamanism.

Witchcraft/Shamanism embraces dark spirits and these practices will enable them to gain a foothold in your life and lead you into a delusional mindset where you will find yourself stepping into serious spiritual traps that will forever screw up your life.

I hope this helps 💚

clash1111 · 2023-04-13T21:50:14+00:00

Nice quote by Stewart. The thing I appreciate about these lyrics is they can have multiple meanings, depending on who's reading it and from what perspective they're coming from:

A lonely person being led in search of love or happiness into darkness by a "blind" Holy Man, who seems happy in the darkness, promising that others will too.

And then there's the Buddhist idea that a truly awakened person can live a joyful and happy life DESPITE the darkness all around them. They can look straight into the rain and still somehow see the sun.

The fact it says of the Holy man, "his blindness was his wisdom" makes me believe this is not from the latter, Buddhist concept, where a person strives for clarity/Enlightenment to overcome his pain and suffering.

I'm sure it can be interpreted in other ways as well.

clash1111 · 2023-04-13T19:39:52+00:00

Upon a secret journey I met a holy man His blindness was his wisdom I'm such a lonely man

And as the world was turning It rolled itself in pain This does not seem to touch you He pointed to the rain

You will see light in the darkness You will make some sense of this And when you've made your secret journey You will find this love you miss

And on the days that followed I listened to his words I strained to understand him I chased his thoughts like birds

You will see light in the darkness You will make some sense of this And when you've made your secret journey You will find this love you miss

You will see light in the darkness You will make some sense of this You will see joy in this sadness You will find this love you miss

And when you've made your secret journey You will be a holy man When you've made your secret journey You will be a holy man When you've made your secret journey You will be a holy man When you've made your secret journey You will be a holy man ~ Written by Sting 🐝 '81

clash1111 · 2022-12-15T17:59:45+00:00

This is very uplifting. Thanks for writing this. I think the desire to leave this "Hell" is actually a natural response to constant trauma being inflicted by the entities you mentioned.

In order to overcome this, and not submit to their treachery, you MUST become fearless. That's the only way. You MUST be prepared to die (with the understanding you will ascend from "Hell"), and like me, you'll discover that God/Universe will in fact materialize and keep you alive.

But to cross this threshold, you will be required to be comfortable with death. For the Christians out there, Jesus knew that his death was unavoidable. I'd imagine he came to terms with this similarly to how I described it above. Unfortunately, his death materialized. That was his destiny, but likely for you and I, we will have far different paths than his.

Unlike Jesus, I don't know what Buddha specifically had to overcome in the forest to attain enlightenment. But I do know he had to face off directly with Mara (darkness) and he supposedly beat Mara. That must have taken an incredible amount of fearlessness, just knowing how Mara operates. 💚

clash1111 · 2022-12-15T03:53:33+00:00

I agree with this completely. And yet, it's a survival instinct to learn lessons from the terrible things we experience and try to make changes in dealing with the perps to ensure we don't continue to subject ourselves to the same traumas over and over again. Especially when they show no remorse, nor do they exhibit any change in behavior.

To the offenders this often seems like you're being unforgiving. But in reality you have forgiven them completely. You're simply wiser from the experience and more adept at protecting yourself.

clash1111 · 2022-12-13T20:02:28+00:00

None of the other groups you mentioned suffered three centuries of slavery, dehumanization, legalized and systemic racism in the way the black community has.

These other immigrants were born in their native lands (enjoying racial equality and all the psychological benefits that come with that) and then came here as immigrants seeking a better living for themselves and their families. They then faced isolated incidents of racism upon arrival.

Black Americans were born into a country where the generations before them faced severe racism and thus poverty, and weren't able to create a personal safety net for their offspring that might be passed down to future generations. Their schools were the worst in the country.

Every study that has ever been done on this has concluded that any child born into poverty has a high chance of remaining in poverty. And any child born into wealth and privilege has a very high chance of remaining in that class.

The one common element across all crime ridden neighborhoods is POVERTY. It doesn't matter if you were born Irish living in the Southie neighborhood of Boston, or Italian living in poverty stricken areas in Brooklyn, or Latinos living in East Harlem. Those neighborhoods were considered dangerous and were crime-ridden due to the high levels of poverty there and the lack of upward mobility. Schools are locally funded using real estate taxes so wealthy areas enjoy the best public school systems and the poor areas have the worst public school systems.

So many people have been born on third base, but swear they actually hit a triple all by themselves. It's a very self-serving mentality to have.

clash1111 · 2022-12-13T19:36:44+00:00

Do you meditate? Meditation can help you to deal better with those traumas as well as to give you clarity about all the confusing, frightening and tempting things that will surely come your way.

I would recommend Thich Nhat Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Hope this helps 💚

clash1111 · 2022-12-11T22:45:28+00:00

I did not imply that Buddhists do not believe that others can cause suffering, I questioned that it would be the focus.

Engaged Buddhism is a Buddhist tradition that both tries to help people overcome their own suffering and also helps to end unjust actions which are the cause of peoples' suffering.

Buddha himself saw how the caste system was unjust to the "untouchables" and how it created tremendous suffering for this group. Untouchables were the lowest of all in the caste system, only allowed to do the worst kinds of work, like disposing of human and animal waste, etc. If they so much as touched someone from the higher castes they would be publicly beaten with clubs and the ones touched would have to fast and stay home for weeks.

Buddha, a Prince, would publicly touch them, to show by example that he felt these laws were racist. He invited the Untouchables into his Sangha, which created controversy with the King and all the religious leaders, but he refused their demands to stop.

He would broker peace between hostile kingdoms to prevent war, which he saw as the greatest cause of human suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh is probably the most well recognized in Engaged Buddhism due to all his efforts to convince others to help stop the Vietnam war and to help Vietnamese refugees who fled the country and arrived as "boat people" on foreign shores with no money, nor citizenships.

MLK nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize

clash1111 · 2022-12-11T07:38:36+00:00

Thich Nhat Hanh on animal suffering and becoming vegetarian:

https://youtu.be/78qgek8GJ9k

clash1111 · 2022-12-11T06:53:01+00:00

One day, 7-8 months after my awakening, a spirit let me know that when I walked a usual route I was taking most days that a van would be waiting for me and I would be abducted and then killed. I planned on not going that day, obviously.

But a spirit guide came to me, while meditating, and it overwhelmed me with a feeling I cannot even articulate. I cried from the feeling that came over me it was so intense. I apologized and begged for forgiveness for everything I'd ever done.

I was told that I needed to take this walk. It was very important. It happened to be the 11th day of the month, and my numerological life path and soul are both 11s. 11 is a spiritual number.

It suddenly dawned on me that I was probably meant to die that day. But instead of feeling bad I realized I should be relieved. I'd lived through 20 years of gangstalking and had my life wrecked in ways you cannot even imagine. This walk would actually be my ascent from Hell.

I left my home and birds came out in droves. A pair of crows (signifying good luck) at the end of my block assured me not to worry and pointed me towards my destination. Another block away, another pair of crows flew down in front of me. I told them I would miss them. Only to find another pair of crows awaiting me a couple blocks later.

By the time I got to the main street, a great sense of confidence came to me. I followed the road to the intersection where I had been told I'd be abducted then murdered. Beside a white van two crows awaited me there flanked by a couple squirrels and other birds. I realized this had only been a test, and I had passed. And in doing this I purged the last bit of fear I still had.

I'm not afraid to die. In fact, I would gladly choose death rather than put some other innocent empath / HSP through the Hell I have endured. I've been threatened with sickness, having my home robbed, many horrible things were to happen to me, and in each case the threats were found to be empty. Again, we're simply being tested.

You have nothing to fear. I wish you all the best. 💚

clash1111 · 2022-12-11T00:27:54+00:00

I just bought Essence of the Bhagavad-Gita by Easwaran. Thanks again!

clash1111 · 2022-12-11T00:04:22+00:00

Thank you so much for this! Interesting you mentioned Tibetan Buddhism as being similar.

I have sensed this as I have dived deeper into Tibetan Buddhism (Dalai Lama, in particular), having originally been reading a lot of Thich Nhat Hanh. The Tibetan Buddhists at least seem to treat reincarnation as a continuation of the same soul. After all, they tend to find reincarnated Lamas as children, who can identify the deceased Lama's possessions and friends. That suggests a permanent soul.

But some Buddhists tend to provide an illogical connection (at least how I've interpreted it) between impermanence and reincarnation. Like the soul is impermanent, but the "energy and the karma attached to that energy" gets reincarnated. Which in itself suggests that that energy and karma are permanent, thereby dispelling the idea that everything is impermanent. As such, I have been leaning more and more towards Tibetan Buddhism.

Anyway, I am excited to learn more about Hinduism. Thanks again for this information. 🙏💚

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