zzzrice
zzzrice t1_j12ldic wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
??? Speed up lmao I didn’t imply immortality whatsoever
Just have some more faith in yourself, in your nature. A poverty mentality like that is not necessary or helpful, particularly.
zzzrice t1_j122mip wrote
Reply to comment by vapournova in Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
That’s okay. Sit with the feeling. Get to know it. Where is it? Does it have a shape? A color? Does it stay the same, or change?
zzzrice t1_j120e28 wrote
Reply to Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
These are all just your thoughts. The problem is you’re clinging to the seeming reality of these thoughts, which do not in actuality represent the reality of things as they are, but are just your projections and conditioned assumptions about reality. These thoughts are also utterly insubstantial, ephemeral, transient, and illusory by nature, since they’re a part of the universe, and of reality. The universe, or reality, possesses no labels. Reality has no self or “I.” There is nothing substantial or permanent in the universe. It is wide open space. Empty cognizance. Natural quiescence.
By nature, your mind is very much like space, which is the opposite of claustrophobia. But if you fixate, especially in an obsessive way, then you freeze the space. Instead of water you’re an ice cube. Everything is reified and exaggerated. There’s no room, when in actuality, all there is is room. So maybe sometimes try to practice sitting, upright, relaxing, with bare awareness. Simple and quiet. That will get you closer to reality than ruminating about a select few materialist scientific ideas.
—And if you take some time to just sit with yourself, and watch your thoughts come and go like traffic, you may find that you naturally possess some strength, and warmth. It isn’t just space, but there is natural warmth as well. There is a soft spot, which encompasses you and others.
zzzrice t1_j12rarv wrote
Reply to comment by New-Distribution3195 in Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
Sure. Everything is impermanent. But disregarding the meaningfulness of positive impact because of this fact is actually not necessary. In fact it is very useless, and defeatist. An action or impact can be meaningful and impermanent. The very fact that it’s done in the face of its impermanence can give it meaning. Besides, if things weren’t impermanent, new phenomena could not appear. There would be no birth.