I'd like to take a moment to get possitive about negativity. so many peeps i see getting really negative about negativity. "negative energy spirals" i've been told i was stuck in and so on... i see the process, i comprehend much of the psychology that goes on.... i just think someone needed to go hey, negativity, you're great, if only just for once. most people seem to have this dogmatic trained mind that it is to be avoided like it is the plague, like it is the sole u-uh, no-no. um... does anyone else get what i'm on about? ok, lemme put it to you another way... the other side of the coin. possitivity. can you have too much? .... yeah? like being a yes man at a genocidal tyrant's side? many an atrocitiy has been done because of possitivity. many a wonderfull joy laden seed of great beneficience has been negated because of negativity. can we now step out of this dualistic jibberish of possitive and negative? i honestly have tried to see things this way, but to me, i see that a world of two halves is maybe just not quite whole.
negativity is apart of our lifestyle, i think it is nessesary to have negitive emotions at times. not all of life is uplifting...
I see what you're saying, but there is a point when the negativity turns into insulting and more. When negativity starts to take shots at peoples character and such, a line needs to be drawn. Of course there will be negativity though, people will disagree, people will feel strongly about things, but these disagreements can go on without verbally attacking someone or making refrences about their intelligence and whatnot.
it is a thing of great joy to catch a spiral of negativity in a bubble and see it from a higher plane.
without one, appreciation for the other wouldn't exist. this seem to be the case with alot of newer people to shrooms. if its a good trip, then great. if its a bad trip, you walk away with the experiences and learn what really hides inches below your forehead. many fail to take it as a worth while perception and cast it into the depths of thier memory, never to analyze again.
yeah, after a few years of doing mushies, some friends and i reached the concesus that there really isnt such a thing as a bad trip. sure there may be periods in any trip that are upleasant. but we learn from them. we come awa all the richer from the experience. is that bad?
dont ask me, you know whom to ask. ive had one bad trip with them in my life time.one of the things that gave me a relevent stand point to how much fears controls how we act. im only suggesting to pick up a "key." there are things to unlock. edit:
yeah, I dunno how much one can truly learn from psycilocybin, lsd, and the like, you learn a whole lot about yourself, but beyond that, idk...it's almost like analyzing you're dreams...
well for me personally, i have bipolar disorder and i feel that too much negativity can trigger a depressive episode for me, so i try to avoid negativity and negative people, but i understand where your coming from. take it easy.
beyond duality = enlightenment, in duality = samsara, as i understand it. for me this is a hard concept to fully understand and may take a while.
When everyone recognizes beauty as beautiful, there is already ugliness; When everyone recognizes goodness as good, there is already evil; "To be" and "not to be" arise mutually; Difficult and easy are mutually realized: Long and short are mutually contrasted: High and low are mutually posited; Before and after are in mutual sequence. Tao Te Ching
It means that light and shade, long and short, black and white, are relative terms and not independent of each other; as Nirvana and Samsara are, all things are not-two. There is no Nrivana except where is Samsara; there is no Samsara except where is Nirvana; for the condition of existence is not of a mutually exclusive character. Therefore it is said that all things are non-dual as are Nirvana and Samsara. - Suzuki Form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form. Form is precisely emptiness; emptiness is precisely form. - Prajna-paramita-hridaya Sutra The mind is Like a sword that cuts, but cannot cut itself; Like an eye that sees, but cannot see itself.
think it's possable to be born "a buddha"? enlightened? think we all are, and that it is only those who are in samsara who knock us out of enlightenment out of not realising they are... is this crazy talk... anyone... um.... chronictoker, that sounded quite enlightened.
Having any predominant point of view about life makes it boring. I like to jump off cliffs into springs when the heights make me cry so that I know when I've finally drowned that I was happily being alive.
good point digit. i also think this is true. im guessing thats why jesus said ' be like a child and you may enter the kingdom of heaven' the kingdom of heaven being buddahlike or childlike. im curious what made people in the first place to be 'knocked out of enlightenment', like 500,000 years ago? this idea bring another question, is it possible that once enlightened we can revert back to a world of samsara, and is total(constant) enlightenment even possible? conditioning = samsara ? ive also heard conditioning = our developed personality. samsara and personality are both conditions of ego. i dont know where im going with this but im gonna post it anyways
the constant feeding of a self identity turns us away from seeing every possible senario. yes, hand is hand go ego and duality. what you are, shows what you are not, and visa versa. take away one, same goes the other. "make me one with everything."