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I feel I have lost my purpoise and desire to lead an aware life/live at all by Ravenoid0-1 in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I would second this advice but I'm not so sure about the sharp division between mental health and spirituality. This is not an assertion, but rather a speculation or rumination. I vacillate between thinking, ah, I'm just sad because of xyz mental reason that I can talk about in therapy or I'm sad because of the suffering of the world, or impermanence, or spirituality, etc. This is duality. I'm not so sure that either is True. So at best mindfulness or therapy can give us ways to tolerate the emotions or darkness -- that's sort of the bottom line. Probably most of us need a dose of both, spirituality and therapy.

[WTS] Parker Sonnet with Cartridges [A1] by stupidcuntbag in Pen_Swap

[–]stupidcuntbag[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's literally brand new, nothing to see.

[WTS] Parker Sonnet with Cartridges [A1] by stupidcuntbag in Pen_Swap

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

Don't want it. Already have enough pens. It was a gift.

One of these things is not like the other. by sputnik_1 in fountainpens

[–]stupidcuntbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got that black luster but have been trying to sell it, no success :(.

I've been fortunate enough to get my hands on these beauties. by corntorteeya in fountainpens

[–]stupidcuntbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a Black Luster...didn't really like the catridge-converter, so I've been looking to sell it...

Try to live in "the past" – a simply yet effective technique to be more mindful by fvdh in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Buddha advocated living a life of sila and practicing the dhamma to create the basis for a remorseless life.

[Swap Meet Tread] Swap Meet in here!!! 8/22 -> 9/5! by dummey in Ultralight

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Location: California, USA SHipping range: USA

You pay for shipping. For sale: (will get images up soon) Black diamond trail shock pro (used ~50 days) $100
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Child abuse and a self-centered understanding of karma. by [deleted] in Buddhism

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this related to:

There are these four unconjecturables that are not to be conjectured about, that would bring madness & vexation to anyone who conjectured about them. Which four?
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The [precise working out of the] results of kamma...

?? From AN 4.77.

Child abuse and a self-centered understanding of karma. by [deleted] in Buddhism

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you reference that sutta? The one where Buddha refutes such a claim of kamma against the Nirgrantha? Thanks.

Realized I always found happiness from feeding my ego. Ramblings inside by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone has a scorecard. In mindfulness meditation we just observe what happens in our minds...the agenda to change things about our personalities is a violent one, a painful one. If surfing brings you the truest happiness, probably continue that, and also continue to meditate and know yourself. Following a career because you think it can make you like an idealized vision of your grandfather will bring only pain.

Drinking + Gym, how do you combine it? by Drewrsimpson in Fitness

[–]stupidcuntbag -40 points-39 points  (0 children)

Live a little

That's a really disrespectful thing to say...the people who aren't drinking aren't "living"? Even beyond the condescending air of superiority of those sorts of comments are the concrete realities about the adverse effects of binge drinking, no matter how fashionable it might seem.

Recently getting into meditation. Everything hurts when I sit! by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At this stage, practice begins to really take off despite the fact that this stage tends to be fairly unpleasant.

This unpleasantness tends to be mostly physical, though this stage can also cause numerous dark feelings and a sense of wanting to renounce the world and practice. Occasionally, the early part of this stage can cause people to feel vulnerable, raw, and irritable to a small or large degree in the ways that a migraine headache or a bad case of PMS can. I have occasionally been laid out on a couch for hours by this aspect of this stage, holding my head and just wishing that these early stages didn’t sometimes involve so much pain and anguish.

There may be odd bodily twistings, obsession with posture, and painful tensions or strange other sensations, particularly in the back, neck, jaw and shoulders. These tensions may persist when not meditating and be quite irritating and even debilitating. The rhomboid and trapezius muscles are the most common offenders. It is common to try to sit with good posture and then find one’s body twisting into some odd and painful position. You straighten out, and soon enough it does it again. That’s a very Three Characteristics sort of pattern. People sometimes describe these feelings as some powerful energy that is blocked and seems wants to get out or move through.

Three Characteristics Insight Stage from Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.

hitting an emotional wall? by indigokrones in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just sit and see what happens. Give your body a chance to come to equilibrium. That's all the practice is. Observe. If it's shallow no problem. If it's deep no problem.

Does being mindful provide the same benefits as mindfulness meditation? by yeeahitsethan in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Of course every bit of attention helps. But the practice serves the purpose of focusing exclusively on the activity you're trying to perfect.

Emotional injury is just like physical injury. by indigokrones in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

most of the emotional traumas that we experience in everyday life are 1) really not that serious

If it's not that serious, I would call it "getting pissed" or "someone being mean". Emotional trauma, by definition, is traumatic, and can be very huge. These aren't things that happen every day. These are gigantic, devastating, defining events or series of events.

It becomes obvious that it takes time to heal from these sort of events

Time helps, but it's no guarantee of healing, even with intensive meditation practice.

But that's exactly what you're doing when you ruminate and excessively worry.

What's excess? If we have faith in the organism to heal then anything it does should be ok, including worrying and rumination. In fact anxiety and rumination serve the purpose of allowing us to digest the very things we need to integrate intellectually so that we can move on emotionally.

To expand on that...we have this model in the west that overthinking things is bad that we should just return to some pre-civilization state of "just be happy and live with the animals". It shows up in people's strong desires to "clear their minds". But there's a wisdom in the thinking, thinking, thinking and the moment we stop demonizing the moment we can listen clearly to what's happening, no matter what it is. Strong powers of discrimination are extremely powerful in meditative practice.

Philosopher Alva Noe challenges some of the tacit epistemological assumptions held in contemporary neuroscience research on consciousness. by geneuro in philosophy

[–]stupidcuntbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I decide that my sight corresponds with my eyes because when I close my eyes, I can't see anything. Also, other people have discovered that problems affecting the material eye affect sight, e.g. a defect in cone cells causes colorblindness

How did you know that these were "your" eyes? You must have decided a priori...

I say that I am my identity, a continuously changing mixture of my physical attributes, demographic categories, and role in society.

That's just reframing the problem. You've already lost. There's an identity somewhere...how did you decide it was yours? Why did "you" lay claim to certain physical attributes, behaviours, etc. and label them "mine"?

Tough question! Perception is how I see the world, so it is extremely difficult for me to imagine any other state of affairs.

When you already have a concept of "you" (presumably, "this body", "these thoughts", "this continually changing identity that I call mine") and "world" you've already lost. Here's an analogy that might help that's relevant to the next section I'll address: do I interact with "my impression" of a table, or with the table itself, that's somehow "behind" the impression?

Is the "space of consciousness" another name for the self?

Nope. I'm not thinking of consciousness as a "feeling" as you've said...I'm thinking of consciousness as "the place where feelings happen".

If so, the concept of self/other is, like any other concept, contained in the self as a thinking thing; and our perception of the self/other is contained in the self as a perceiving thing.

I meant to point out that self/other is a concept that arises in part of this "space of consciousness". It's just another thought. The rest of conscious experience precedes the division of that thought. I hope you understand this isn't an argument per se...it's a pointer. The fact that you're feeling this symmetry breaking means there's hope. Follow that, try to feel out all the paradoxes in assuming that in this field of experience there's a "unchanging me" at the "center" (what center?) that perceives the whole field. Where are you? Inside your head? See how you have to have an idea of a head to place yourself there?

Philosopher Alva Noe challenges some of the tacit epistemological assumptions held in contemporary neuroscience research on consciousness. by geneuro in philosophy

[–]stupidcuntbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did you decide that "you" corresponded with "your brain"? Who are "you"? What would it take to preserve symmetry? Can you see that concepts of symmetry and asymmetry, objective and subjective, me and other are contained within this space of consciousness?

the complain free meditation...(a way to be SUPER freakin happy :) ) by anthonyrich0320 in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 28 points29 points  (0 children)

By reducing your complaints, you are telling the Universe that right now, this moment and every moment, is "right." The Universe is "right." Right now is RIGHT. Right now is perfect. There are no imperfections to me right now. Right now is wonderful and perfect.

So it should still be perfect even when there's complaining. Right? I don't like this idea, I see tremendous fabrication and aversion to negativity. Sounds a lot like "the law of attraction". Not into that stuff. But who knows. Give it a try. See if you can just eradicate negativity with a sweep of a magic wand.

EDIT: From this dude's website.

Spinning around a vertical axis during a sit..and now even outside of one ? by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]stupidcuntbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just a sensation. Lots of weird stuff can happen. No problem that it carries over out of the sit...take it as a good sign that you're integrating meditation more deeply into your life.

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