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Post by slappy on Jul 28, 2009 4:39:01 GMT -5
I, only on occasion, get personal on here, but I figured this helped me, maybe it will help others as well. Plus sharing and reflecting on it can just set a tone for a conversation about life in general or just random ****, we'll see.
"So this exercise of compassionate abiding, and in this case specifically, abiding with the experience of aversion, consists of breathing in the negative feeling and then relaxing outward. Then you breathe the feeling in and relax outward again and again. You could do this for five minutes or for hours or anytime, on the spot, when aggressive feelings arise. We do this for ourselves and all other people who feel prejudice and disgust and have no way of working with it so it escalates into self-denigration, into jealousy, and violence, and creates endless suffering all over the world."
From the book "Practicing Peace In Times Of War" by Pema Chodron.
So my new mission in life is just to breathe for those oppressed, to breathe for those who cannot speak their troubles, to breathe for those whose breaths have to be taken for granted, because they do not know if their door will get kicked in and their loved one(s) taken away from them or if their government is going to kidnap them for speaking their mind or for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, to breathe for everyone to ease their pain and suffering. I am just going to breathe.
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Post by KeBen Owens on Jul 28, 2009 4:44:01 GMT -5
That's pretty deep, Slappy. I hope that your newfound feelings in your life help you acheive great success and do great things.
-BEN
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Post by joker123 on Jul 28, 2009 4:58:20 GMT -5
Ok, so your reason for living is breathing? Hmm, whatever works for ya man. Good luck
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Post by slappy on Jul 28, 2009 5:01:34 GMT -5
Ok, so your reason for living is breathing? Hmm, whatever works for ya man. Good luck To breathe is to live and if there is a cause behind that breathing, you will do whatever you can to make sure you keep breathing, because you want to keep up that cause. I never realized how simple it all is. Just when I read that, it just struck me like a bag of bricks.
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Post by King Silva on Jul 28, 2009 5:08:09 GMT -5
Well I hope it helps you out.
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Post by lancewiget on Jul 28, 2009 5:24:45 GMT -5
I'm the total opposite. I need a reason. I hate my life, I hate my job, I hate my wife, I hate everyone/thing around me, I can't find reasons to do anything. I just can't stand anything anymore. Life is just sh*t.
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Post by slappy on Jul 28, 2009 5:37:36 GMT -5
I'm the total opposite. I need a reason. I hate my life, I hate my job, I hate my wife, I hate everyone/thing around me, I can't find reasons to do anything. I just can't stand anything anymore. Life is just sh*t. Besides the job and wife thing, spot on for me as well, but I just feel I have to do, that I will do, greater than this. Something, I don't know what, but something. What I aspire to be and what I may be may end up being two totally different things, but I'm going to do my damnedest to live to breathe to actually do what I aspire to do. I guess it's just easier to think of life when you believe in reincarnation. Maybe I'm stuck where I'm at because I did bad in a past life or maybe I was a great ruler who just never experienced life as a "lower" person so I was doomed to this life. I could have been anyone, anywhere and done anything. Maybe I will rise to "greatness" or maybe I'll be stuck right where I'm at. What I want in the next life (not that I'll know I was the person I am now, but anyways) is to look back on history and know I did something. Maybe it's not like Gandhi or Martin Luther King, but just something that I'll be remembered for. That is a second part for wanting to live. I just have to do something with my life to give it meaning and hopefully I'll help others along the way.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 9:32:10 GMT -5
lol, I <3 hippies.
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Post by Wuffles on Jul 28, 2009 10:22:07 GMT -5
stfu. I think it is good for anybody to find a reason for their life no matter what it is. I still unfortunately have yet to find mine, so I keep just moving along learning more about myself each day. I'm sure it will all come to me one day.
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Post by Slay on Jul 28, 2009 10:59:23 GMT -5
Oh word?
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Post by Double J on Jul 28, 2009 11:50:59 GMT -5
I find that cognitive thought and the natural human instinct of "not to die" to be my anti-death.
Oh, and Slurpees.
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Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Jul 28, 2009 13:28:56 GMT -5
I'm glad that you have a positive outlook on life. It does me good that people find a great reason to live instead of complaining about how crappy life is all the time. I just wish people accepted and respected my reason to live like they do yours.
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Post by axelwarjp on Jul 28, 2009 13:32:31 GMT -5
I'm the total opposite. I need a reason. I hate my life, I hate my job, I hate my wife, I hate everyone/thing around me, I can't find reasons to do anything. I just can't stand anything anymore. Life is just sh*t. You always have WFigs
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jul 28, 2009 13:33:23 GMT -5
You're going to get really light headed.
But if it makes you feel better, more power to you.
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Post by Deadshot on Jul 28, 2009 14:49:55 GMT -5
That's like saying "as long as I poke this wall, all is well."
or
"If I just think differently, things will be better."
I guess some people need an imaginary cure for things.
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Post by Lewscher on Jul 28, 2009 15:28:21 GMT -5
so you live to help others? sounds cool, sorry im not dissing but trying to undersstand and put it into a simple context hope you do well and achieve success
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Post by y2jsucks on Jul 28, 2009 15:34:21 GMT -5
I'm the total opposite. I need a reason. I hate my life, I hate my job, I hate my wife, I hate everyone/thing around me, I can't find reasons to do anything. I just can't stand anything anymore. Life is just sh*t. Exact same, minus the job and wife. I have no prospect, and no desires. No real sense of purpose.
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Post by slappy on Jul 28, 2009 15:38:06 GMT -5
so you live to help others? sounds cool, sorry im not dissing but trying to undersstand and put it into a simple context hope you do well and achieve success Basically, yes. Thank you.
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Post by Jay "The Brain" Mann [OFSU] on Jul 28, 2009 15:47:28 GMT -5
Slappy has transmorphed into SRS Chris Jericho.
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Post by jeffhardyfanatic54 on Jul 28, 2009 17:13:08 GMT -5
I Hate my life,but what keeps me going is chasing my dream,not chasing life.
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