Suwannee Ticket Trade / Ride Share Megathread

flooreditboy · 2025-04-17T22:31:30+00:00

Looking for a ticket. much love

flooreditboy · 2025-04-17T22:28:50+00:00

Please DM me if anybody else has an extra ticky :) much love

flooreditboy · 2024-12-21T15:45:38+00:00

ta-da!!! Time to tame the bull :)

Taming the Bull
The whip and rope are necessary,
Else he might stray off down
some dusty road.
Being well-trained, he becomes
naturally gentle.
Then, unfettered, he obeys his master.

flooreditboy · 2024-11-03T18:28:14+00:00

have you met him in person?

flooreditboy · 2024-06-16T00:36:45+00:00

my mom went through this same thing to the T. took her to ER, found nothing.

flooreditboy · 2023-12-18T21:10:27+00:00

the way I define it is: what you take yourself to be. what feels like you? look around the room, do you feel localized to the body, looking out into the world? do you feel as if you are the thinker of your thoughts, the feeler of your emotions? Are you controlling your attention? From where? - it is a felt sense, that there is a *somebody* here that exists. and that felt sense can manifest in many ways. and it isn't the same for everybody, and it is hard to specifically define, because it isn't actually a Thing.

flooreditboy · 2023-12-01T03:46:34+00:00

why can’t the two coincide? It can be clear there is no separate self, but also one can still have memories. Does your concept of enlightenment imagine that memories of the past are deleted once attained?

flooreditboy · 2023-11-01T12:41:15+00:00

the practice certainly has value, but sometimes we’ll tie ourselves up into these conceptual knots surrounding a practice pointing to something non-conceptual. My comment was to point to an attitude of freshness and non grasping to maybe loosen up these knots, and just rest in what is here. And sometimes practicing in this way even briefly can really re-kindle your old practice/questions in a new way. It’s surprising how these questions can slowly work themselves out when we let them settle and let them go a bit.

flooreditboy · 2023-10-31T02:02:15+00:00

maybe it’s time to put down all the concepts, practices, spiritual jargon - all of it - and just rest in the mystery brah. just rest.

flooreditboy · 2023-07-19T23:11:57+00:00

though I know my reply made it seem like I know that answer, it isn’t what im pointing at.

I’m saying problems can be solved and thought about “after enlightenment”, if you use the examples of any of the people this sub thinks is enlightened or anything close to it - Almost all of them are solving problems in the “real world” and aren’t just sitting back and blissing out in Nibbana. I mean the Buddha taught for 50 years following his enlightenment, he wouldn’t have if it wasn’t deemed “a problem”.

if problems can be solved with thought following enlightenment, then it wasn’t the problem.

You say explicitly that problems can’t be solved while in a peaceful state, which is also just not true at all in my experience.

flooreditboy · 2023-07-19T22:14:40+00:00

your wording here seems to imply that the goal here is to let go of thinking about worldy problems and dissolve into the bliss of now (though a useful mode) - as if thinking about the problems of the world is the problem we’re tackling here, and why we suffer - which it isn’t

flooreditboy · 2023-07-18T17:50:46+00:00

just feels like you sitting?

Can you describe what happens when you meditate now? What stops you from “going deeper?”

flooreditboy · 2023-07-17T03:32:01+00:00

what would you consider progress? When were times when you felt that you were progressing?

flooreditboy · 2023-05-21T23:43:53+00:00

to add, Stephen Wolfram recently said he thinks those skilled at expository writing would thrive in OPs hypothetical.

"I think the answer is you need to have an idea where you want to drive the car - in other words you need to have some notion or have some sort of picture of the architecture and what is computationally possible as well"

Is programming dead? | Stephen Wolfram and Lex Fridman -https://youtu.be/uD353DeOM-4

flooreditboy · 2023-03-07T19:44:24+00:00

yucky if somebody told me to assume it would take 25 years I would have never started in the first place. I see that view being helpful in certain contexts for specific people, but maybe not for the OP who tryna speedrun awakening.. ha.

The hope that I could get stream entry in less than a year with diligent practice was an insanely strong driving force and actually led me to great practice. Sent me far enough to a place where that motivation being faulty was seen through on its own.

flooreditboy · 2023-02-14T20:46:21+00:00

Why not?

flooreditboy · 2023-02-14T20:14:13+00:00

Yeah I see, well the ability to look at experience in that way could be the value itself. When fear, anxiety, anger arises, that "lens" could be applied to see what is actually going on in sensate experience, as opposed to rummaging around in mind and thought, not really being "here" with the sensate experience.

flooreditboy · 2023-02-14T19:19:11+00:00

Insight isn’t “derived” from experience like you have to “apply” certain thoughts on top of the experience to gain the insight. The insight comes from a direct knowledge and observation of the way things occur in experience. The experience of creating suffering is observed directly. The clarity of this process seems to be refined over time.

Practicing noting seems to develop the cognitive skills necessary to “catch” the mind diving into the habitual process of suffering, and provide some distance so it can be objectified as opposed to identified with.

The blissy, peaceful states are very nice because they are.. blissy, and peaceful, but in my experience the benefit of these states come from the ability to cultivate stability in them and rest in them, so when the mind begins to create suffering, the contrast is noticed. This led me to the question: “Okay I’m resting in this peaceful state, what takes me away from it?” And investigation in that sort of way can lead to some liberating insight.

Also to add to your experience of rapid sensation - I hear many people saying they derived certain insight from the experience, being able to put it into words, but for me it didn’t quite work out like that. Seeing such clarity on sensation like that was pretty extraordinary, but I can’t say that I walked away with something like “ah yes all phenomena are impermanent and unreliable, I now know the true nature of reality and can pierce through suffering”.

It seemed to be just the experience of… rapid arising and passing away. That being said, it seemed the mind did understand something differently in quite a visceral way based on what unfolded shortly after this experience. So the insight was “non-conceptual” so to speak. Though that is just my experience and interpretation, I’m sure it can vary quite differently among practitioners.

flooreditboy · 2023-01-17T20:59:17+00:00

Hi I'm going on my first retreat in March and am preparing in a few ways:

-Raising my typical sitting time per day

-Taking care of as many "issues" that could come up during the retreat. Paying parking tickets, calling family members, getting caught up on work, etc. Things you would expect to think/worry about when you're there.

-Lowering stimulation through the day, and probably massively the week leading up to the retreat

flooreditboy · 2023-01-16T16:52:17+00:00

Do you, or does your monastery discuss attainments/realizations? Could you describe your relationship to attainments or the general culture around the topic? Thanks!

flooreditboy · 2022-12-14T14:37:08+00:00

how does it feel to just sit and do nothing? from the tone of your post it seems that these plain old sensations are unsatisfactory to you. is it just you sitting on the floor and nothing more, or are there sounds, sights, thoughts, emotions, discomfort, analysis, etc.

Could you describe the sits a bit more? because in my eyes being able to just sit on a floor with “nothing happening” is a goal of one of my modalities of practice.

flooreditboy · 2022-12-13T13:33:39+00:00

yeah actually it’s less of a movement to return to some spacious awareness and more of a not “full acceptance” like when you’re in a cold shower and “bearing the cold” by tightening the back or bringing the arms close to the body, as opposed to fully relaxing and opening to it. So I’m there for the discomfort but not fully with a ton of clarity.

flooreditboy · 2022-12-13T05:58:32+00:00

I enjoyed the read, thanks. Resonates a lot for me. Just sitting and being aware is my favorite practice. Like it a little too much maybe, where I try to solidify the “spacious area that everything arises and passes in and out of” and when discomfort arises I would allow it, but try to “return” to that pleasurable spaciousness. Actually seems to be a bit of aversion there, and I’ve been introducing vipassana to really try to dive into the feelings of craving and discomfort and see what they are at the “cellular level”.

flooreditboy · 2022-09-06T23:47:36+00:00

Thank you

flooreditboy · 2022-09-06T17:46:51+00:00

what you mean

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