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Damn... It would have been more awesome if the bill was 00.00 Still funny story This supermarket in a bad neighboor hood, I was there once. One big bald angry guy stepped in front of me in line, but I didn't care at all, so he looked in my eyes and I'm staring at him like and he's like "What are you looking " I coulden't hold my laugh so I burst out right there, he had such a funny face and everyone was looking at me like I'm crazy. Anyways, at the counter the man left a 1 euro coin and was long gone before I filled the bags. Talking about putting oneself last and ending up ahead, hehe Always rethink wether or not the value you place on certain events are actually really that important in the moment. PS Just like this guy here who lost his job because he had a burst laugh, start video at 2:00: 2:00 The harder you try the more you concentrate on it it being funny

Lol, I thought I was crazy... You guys are really out there! xD Just kidding, this is normal. I have it too. Its unconscious. We got 01:01 02.02 03.03 04.04 05.05 06.06 07.07 08.08 09.09 10.10 11.11 12.12 13.13 14.14 15.15 16.16 17.17 18.18 19.19 20.20 21.21 22.22 23.23 and 24.24 or 0.00 All in one day. So thats about every hour one of those. And if you just have random thoughts of looking at the time and notice that everytime you look it is one of those like 11:11 it just your mind... You have trained your mind to feel the instinct by having an emotional reaction everytime you see it. The stronger the emotion the more trained ur intuition, the more accidental succes the more emotion and feelings and suddenly your mind explodes someone slaps you in the face and says "Dude, you get one of those numbers every hour... Your entire life..." And you're like: "Oh yeah... I forgot tat " lol Been there, done that. I only use digital man

Hey, guys. Hope I can bring something to this topic. My thoughts? Loneliness is an emotion, no need to say its bad to feel bad, or you will stack bad and bad on to eachother into infinity... Haha, you know where that leads to. Depression, which on it self is connected to being passive with your anger, your needs not being met, you ignore the loneliness. But if you're just feeling loneli, its good. That means you gotta get out there and train your skills with people. For most men that means skill with woman, which leads to all social skills alltogether. Not saying sexual skills, just social skills, lol. Loneliness is kinda like being angry, only it is specific for your social needs. So if you feel loneli, don't go out angry and kill deers for food! You're hungry for people, haha! Instead, use your loneliness as energy, may it give strentgh and motivation for you to create a better future. Personally, how I cope with loneliness is to denie my nature and try to cope with the feeling of loneliness as something thats just there to deal with all the time. I witness it as a passing storm. It always passes to be replaced by those beautiful days that are balanced. I have to admit, I've been in a storm here 75% of the time. The other 25% is when I made friends with some "players" who teached me to kinda be more of a man, it feels good vibe with girls, that just makes your entire day go "yay!" ;P And having alot of fun hanging out with the friends when not doing that also helps. Just make sure you have the right relationships, not every friend is a good friend just because you call him a friend. A good relationship is always "EASY" and not hard work, + the other person makes you grow is some way and you make him grow just by both of you being your selves. So... That out the way. I just cope with my loneliness by being passive, still... Because I don't care about anything, but hey thats me just giving food for thought ^^

Hey guys, I've had this experience where everything around me seemed an illusion. Don't know how to explain it, its vague. It was more then a feeling, because it actually gave me control over my perceptions, thus feelings, this started of scary. It was a weird experience. Scary at first, joyful later on. The Tao views everything around us as void, which brought me to the Tao. Everything around me, all external objects, and even my body and emotions were all perceivable, but it was like an illusion. As if I was 50% in another realm. This experience was short, but it did not fade away before me. The experience did not pass by for me to understand, to know the diffrence between then and now. Somehow it dissapeared just like you loose awareness when you go to sleep or go from lucid dream to non-lucid. But my eyes were open the whole time, I was simply awake. There is no boundary between this experience of now and that experience of now. Others call this a higher state of consciousness whereby you wake up during waking state just like a lucid dreamer wakes up during a dream but is still in the dream. This usually results in an unstable position that requires alot of practice to keep stable and in control. I've trained this and managed to only have a few lucid dreams, and basicly you either risk being too consciousness of your real body lying in bed and you wake up, or you become lost in the dream and you loose awareness again and fall into a regular dream. It did feel scary when I had WILD experiences and MILD at first. For those of you who never heard of this, I know, but appearantly lucid dream is as real as cake. My awakening during waking state felt the same as a lucid dream, everything around me felt very very fake and unstable, very scary at first, because this time external objects were not a dream but real familiar objects. I could control what I perceived with open eyes... I can't really relate this to much but higher awareness or Tao, if not those, probably scientificly it would be my "EYE that perceives perception and controls what to perceive and what not to perceive" Whereby perception is your believe system. It feels like you are not your body, you are everything around you. I know its stupid to ask how to "recreate this state of mind", that seems completely nonsense to my rational mind, but if someone could tell me more about this it would help me place this experience somewhere. Don't know what to make of it other then my body tricking my mind. Nice experience tho, being in control over what you feel and not feel. kinda like fine tuning emotions, just b'cuz... I don't understand... maybe I'm just psychotic, even tho I've been educated quite alot. Thats out of the question right? Besides... I've only had this experience 1 time in my life.

what are your views on life and death? I have read an article about suicide and it said basicly that suicide was an impulsive thing. People act without thinking, pull the trigger, they usually got the idea out of nowhere, and never contemplate for too long before succesfully killing themselves. For these guys, its not really the emotional state that determines the probability of suicide. Those who do think on and on about death, because they're depressed, take pills (not really effective for stopping your body hmmm?) and seek attention that usually helps sort out their problems. Don't get me wrong, but I'm not trying the create the kind of topic to feel depressed about and whine about that life is short and everyone dies, mwuaaaah mwhaaaah. I'd simply like to discuss this concept/value/idea/communication/believe of life and death, since especially toaist seem to have such an interesting view on this topic! So lets create some food for thought on this TABOOOOOOOOoooooo. Everything will read your comments EDIT: My view is that life and death are the same, only you stop functioning "normally" in the eyes of humans, so they call you dead for the sake of communication. Death is just a word. And as far as instinct goes, fear of death is for initiating boys into manhood.

Been reading a bit on this topic, found some wild ideas and terms I'm not familiar with. So here's my personal believe on this, originally created by Erik von Markovich the worlds number one venusian artist. So... Sex/reproduction/socializing is good. Eating/surviving/working is good. You probably already know that, but your body is called human. Humans survive, make babies and die. However, if your replication value is going out of the roof amd it affects your survival value in a negative sense, you must consider The MARTIAL ARTS for balancing S&R value(Survival and replication value). For someone who has low replication value must consider practicing the Venusian arts. Venusian arts = Replication value Martial arts = Survival value Good example is Bruce lee. He had great survival value, but also he was famous and had great replication value, he was also a very good venusian artist next to the fact that he was a martial artist. Not to forget: one can apply martial arts/art of war even on business! And venusian arts also on friends.

Oh, you are talking about traditional chinese medical techniques? Do you mean trough accupuncture?

lol From what I've heard, the liver mostly has biological purposes to it, not psychological ones! What kind of liver are you talking about?

lol awesome interpretation. Silly me

What if one cannot choose which journey he wants?

Yeah, solitude does that. It questions you things like "Should I really view death as a disease or should I view immortality as a good thing." Which emotional idea is more enhancing when making decisions? My whole life was once based on running away from death, living long enough to find a cure. It felt my heart with anxiety and anger 100% of the time. These kind of limiting believes are hard to identify and change. One requires a great perspective of someone else to focus on. But when not done with discipline and patience, your old believes will return in an instant, and you're trapped again from making decisions, rather passiveness is the way for you in that moment.

Well, becoming aware and present minded go hand in hand with making decisions, ofcourse! I'm not sure what you're talking about, but making decisions when on auto-pilot thinking about past future or some place else is the same as passiveness. Or suffering when the decision you made is based upon the past or future. The only way to grow as a person is to become a witness in the present moment, being aware, then making thoughtful decisions, especially when you're fearful, one must decide to think before acting and doing the right thing, or impulsively go in reflex mode. Decisions with anger is more action prone, sometimes too agressive, sometimes assertive. However, these require patience and discipline to fulfill your needs. Ofcourse one might go about doing the wrong thing automaticly, not being able to make the decisions fast enough becayse you have not practised, you weren't patient and looked for a push-buton result. When you want to change bad habbits, you stay present minded long enough untill you patiently change them in a disciplined way, by becoming aware. Same with fighting. You can't just try and decide to fight all the time if your body does the fighting for you. You first learn your body to fight, then it fights for you. This doesn't mean that we are not the one who decides wether to fight or not!

Hey shyguy. Personally, I feel that everything you read is nice food for thought. As for the Tao? Perhaps you must read diffrent translations of Tao te Ching and carry the words on your heart, practicing the feeling of Tao. This will probably result in the highest return in the short term, so you can go read on and do other stuff with more inspiration. It is hard to say what might be valuable for you at any given time. First you might read Tao the Ching and say that they don't make sense, later you might say it rox, later again it sux, etc. As little1 said big words, follow your instincts, become an animal, go in flee mode your entire life, run from dangers that aren't there. Or instead, become the hero and die, do what you are afraid of, so you may rise and live once again as a true warrior. Get used to saying no, accepting no aswell. Stop your whining instinct when you do courage. Go and do the right thing, even if that means making a complete fool out of yourself for the first time, for it will give you the highest return. Smell ya later confidenceguy

Hey all, alot of questions in here, feel free to answer any of them or comment on any of the words here. Trying to understand the spiritual teaching of the Tao. Lets say we can put all negative emotions in a spectrum between anger -- fear. Where in the middle there is neutrality. Every emotion is either more on the anger/sadness or more on the fear side of the spectrum. Bored is neutral, but little bit more angry emotion for example. Depression ofcourse is sadness, which is stored up anger. This comes from passiveness with anger, being agressive towards self or others with your anger, or perhaps a wrong belief / not living in the present. So without going to deeply into psychology or science here, I'd like to know your opinion about spirituality and the Tao. How does it work for you in your emotions? Does the Tao give you durable happiness / love, whereby love is a mutual sharing of happiness? Does the Tao provide for you Not only confidence rahter then fear, but well-being rather then anger aswell? Does the Tao allow you to deal with negative emotions like, anger / fear, or does it illiminate these negative emotions instead and how? How does it allow you to be couragious with your fears, or assertive with your angers. How does it allow you to block out negative emotions by the wisdom of using your boundaries? Would you call Tao a strong believe of yours, or just and idea that helps? It might be hard to identify the idea of your believe in words, but in emotional terms, how does believing in Tao feel like for you? How has it changed your spiritual life? The part of your life that cannot be communicated trough words or ideas, but love and emotions instead. Have you ever noticed an old limiting believe, or negative believe beings changed during the practice of Tao, over time? Have you accomplished this by focusing on new positive believes of Tao or rather by challenging the old negative believes? Thanks for reading, will read all and write again soon.

Hey there, thanks for your comment. I too have felt this way about love. We all have. Your kind of love is a completion of your own identity. A completion of yourself. The other person is your other half, and he/she makes you complete. This is not the way I roll! You would value such a person alot in the beginning, but later one when he/she doesn't live up to the task of being your other half, it doesn't work out in the long term, because it is not true love. True love is unconditionally given away happiness or a sharing of it.

Yeah the state of mind or experience is very similar to that of in the movie Butterfly Effect. It is an incredible feeling. Kinda naming it will remove its eternal state, thus when I am in such a state I go beyond the material of ideas and words and focus on my emotions instead. And it is more then a vivid or real dream. It is a dream where you control everything that happens, because you are conscious in your dream and no longer identify with the physical body within that dream, because you think "it is all not here, it is void, it is just a dream." Same with Taoist. Some people have reported that they had a similar experience when awake aswell. It feels close to an immortal experience. When I read alot about the tao, it is all so vague, but it all becomes clear when it is perceived as a context to this experience, state of mind, becoming one with Tao that just is unnamable. It is the ultimate inspiration. The ultimate being in spirit. Don't get me wrong, I only experienced this state of mind once in my life. I wrote allot of stuff during that time so that I may recall the moment, but when I reread the words... They are all completely nonsense, just trying to describe a feeling that is, well, unnamable. So vague. Perhaps you could say it is "lucid dreaming, with open eyes and active senses." Damn, gotta try to beat that description! No other way I can put it. edit: I also recall loosing the state of mind when I thought about how this feeling would probably never return, feeling desire for it to stay n it was gone for a short amount of time. Untill I became desireless again and focused on the state of mind again, allowing it. Thats freaky.

Haha, trolls go way back. N btw, droprate is precentage of a drop. Low precentage gotta translate into more value, ofc. And for mankrik's wife, well you gotta have been a witness on WoW release barrens chat. Specificly Al'akir on EU. lol, haven't played wow for a long time! ^^ About Taoist as observers. Let me bring the dream world into all of this. Have you ever had a lucid dream, where you were suddenly realized you were the observer of all, and in a moment you got control over what you did and did not perceive. This is what the practices allow for you to do in the real world as well, but perhaps trough emotions? Hence the spiritual value instead of intellectual. "Tao cannot be named"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgAkWxcPBE check it out. There are no words to describe this troll, its epic. xD Btw taoist don't say that everything around isn't there? MAterial stuff. They call it the void. Remember that from a taoist interview, an old chinese man said it, wearing a robe, talking about carrying the tao in the heart, not giving meaning to external stuff like robes.

What are the rewards for you, hmmm? I was like practicing this when I noticed some car driving towards me at increasingly high speed as I caught my self making judgements about the pain I would have if the car hit me. Turns out there is no pain or joy at all after it hit me, I am now in spirit. Its actually kinda joyfull sometimes! I will never make that foolish judgement again! Just kidding Cure for judgemental is experience. Being too judgemental about everything is a sign of overeducation and lack of confidence, so go and be couragious. But don't suspend the ability to analyse tho. Being logical isn't always bad.

RoflMao Zedong!! Let me translate that child talk for ya guys! Happiness = confidence(instead fear) + well-being(instead anger). Uhm uhm... I mean Happiness is finding a pencil so that you may finally draw pictures! Yay Happy joy joy. And sometimes happiness is facing the evil dragon, to do the right thing, wether you win or loose. Haha Is that a dragon?

Nice thoughts there, but as you said, education should be complex, experience should be simple. Leonardo davinci or micheal angelo, don't remember whom, also found balance in the 8/8/8 schedule of genius. 8 hour work/education, 8hour play/experience, 8 hour sleep/rest/meditation. This is all to achieve succes, but for Taoist, succes is not important. Einstein was an artist, he had enough experience coming from his right brained of thinking, he required complexity/education to understand the experiences and artistic simple ideas of his in a more balanced way. This lead to his genius of finding so much succes in his intelect. For other scientists, they seek art to experience the simple in order to get away from the complex for a while to find their genius. This all is personal for every individual. However if you do not wish to reach succes or intelligence in your personal life, then perhaps yes, you do not need to know that the horse has 1 or 2 livers. Perhaps you can perceive that horse is so awesome and perfect. And I agree about becoming a witness to your perceptions instead is what the Tao is all about ^^

Roflmao, I was looking at the video while I counted, and suddenly this gorrilla comes on screen, I was laughing my but off trying to count, hahaha! I did got to 15 tho. Yay

Hahaha, just like Capital said, we are not happy, we feel happy. Yeah, but who controls their own emotional state? No one is... People are mislead by this idea that you can control your emotional state trough practices. I personally believe it is not the emotions your true self has control over, but rather the perceptions of ones mind. Your true self is a witness to the perceptions made by the mind, thus you can change them at anytime, and cultivate an knowing that you are in this world, yes... But the whole world is in your mind. This way, you never have to be witness of a world that causes too much anger/sadness or fear. Instead, you can begind to perceive all the good things and the capabilities become infinite for your life, or so it seems.

So basicly I become the entire universe by entering some kind of other dimension? A state of mind that allows me to feel like I'm the entire universe and see all as one? Entering the true self? I think to begin with people should ask "what am I?" And begin understanding that they are not what they see, hear, feel, smell, taste, but rather they are the witness to all of this. A witness that is able to choose what he perceives with a mind that expands out in the entire universe, seeing all as one. And when such a witness is ready to leave his body, he will be able to focus on other objects in the world of forms and boundaries, which makes for an immortal, whereby even death will not take away his memories, or so it seems. Perhaps if you understand that you are in this world, but that the whole world is in your mind... The whole world is created by your mind, in the world of forms and boundaries. Without your mind the world would not be. There would be nothing. when you slow down your senses enough you can be a witness to this void, like Doaist. You understand that everything is the same as nothing. Only then can you start asking your self "What am I?" and find the answer. When we are in spirit, the spiritual value is infinite. Right? Is that more like Tao?