What is your Talent ? and did spirituality help refining it?

[Shad282]

Hey ! 

 

- What is your talent and how did spiritual practices, mindfulness, meditation..etc helped you in improving it ?

 

- and you ever thought to apply for a Talent show?

 

For now I currently don't have any talent but i do practice spirituality!  

[ChiForce]

Huh???  I play.  You mean, superpowers???  Precognition.  I don't just judge people, that's easy because I seem to be able to read people in my dreams.    I can sense evil people and their evil intentions in my dreams.  I can spot enemies in my dreams.   I judge an entire nation.  Is one of my superpowers to see catastrophic events being unfolded in a nation.  So far, my precognitive power has been accurate dealing with the Ukrainian crisis and Russia...dealing with Israel and the Third Intifada (the Knife Revolution)...and even the refugee crisis in Germany/Europe.

 

Whenever shits about to unfold, I would see fish tanks in my dream.  The larger they are, the greater the issues.  Few days before the Euro crisis was announced, I saw several apartment size fish tanks with fish the size of a car...in my dreams.  It took me some introspection to realize the connection between fish tanks and world events.  

[Shad282]

Seems like people here don't have any talent ?? 

[Brian]

Seems like people here don't have any talent ??

I seem to have an preternatural ability to irritate and upset people, particularly when I start a reply with "Weeelll..." Does that count?

[thelerner]

Not so much anymore, but when I worked at it and was a bit hardcore, I'd say meditation helped my Aikido.   After 10 plus years in a martial art perception becomes as important as technique.  Meditation helped knock out some of the lag in proper seeing.. as if it cleaned up some of the code in perception. 

[daomon]

I have the ability to wish someone something and the exact opposite tends to happen all the time. For example, if I say "have a nice day" to someone, they are guaranteed to have one of the worst days of their life. Same thing for special event wishes like birthdays, holidays, etc. So I try not to wish anyone anything.

 

I've also noticed that every time I would have an orgasm, three days of misfortune would follow. Any business deals on the line would go sour for 3 days at least or even completely destroyed, same for projects, relationships, and any other activities. Knowing this, I avoid orgasms, and have been going strong for 2 years now with no orgasm. I can see that even masturbating without cumming is detrimental by things getting delayed, but not as devastating as an ejaculation.

 

For periods that I've gone without orgasm and no masturbation, I've seen tremendous success. I've seen a correlation between these periods of god mode abstinence (no orgasm and no masturbation and no porn) and my income levels. Income would grow exponentially the longer I'm able to hold out with no masturbation in increments of 3 days. For example, after 3 days of abstinence I'd see sub $100 level income, after 1 month of the same, I've seen $30,000+ inflows of cash from the strangest least expected sources.

Edited August 18, 2016 by daomon

[Shad282]

I seem to have an preternatural ability to irritate and upset people, particularly when I start a reply with "Weeelll..." Does that count?

HAAHAHAHA... well  i guess i can do that ahahahaha u helped me discover my talent !  

 

I have the ability to wish someone something and the exact opposite tends to happen all the time. For example, if I say "have a nice day" to someone, they are guaranteed to have one of the worst days of their life. Same thing for special event wishes like birthdays, holidays, etc. So I try not to wish anyone anything.

 

I've also noticed that every time I would have an orgasm, three days of misfortune would follow. Any business deals on the line would go sour for 3 days at least or even completely destroyed, same for projects, relationships, and any other activities. Knowing this, I avoid orgasms, and have been going strong for 2 years now with no orgasm. I can see that even masturbating without cumming is detrimental by things getting delayed, but not as devastating as an ejaculation.

 

For periods that I've gone without orgasm and no masturbation, I've seen tremendous success. I've seen a correlation between these periods of god mode abstinence (no orgasm and no masturbation and no porn) and my income levels. Income would grow exponentially the longer I'm able to hold out with no masturbation in increments of 3 days. For example, after 3 days of abstinence I'd see sub $100 level income, after 1 month of the same, I've seen $30,000+ inflows of cash from the strangest least expected sources.

oh wow .... that is something new... can it be presented at Britain got talent ? depends on ur country .. LOL  you can mastubate in front of the judges or wish them to have a good day ...  LOL

 

but to be fair that is a nice observation and noticing the correlation between your masturbation and income .. i did notice some kind of changes before and after stopping jerking off ... but it was more related to being more energetic and optimistic and so my days change..

 

but could it be related more to the reason that makes you want to masturbate... maybe u masturbate because u feel lonely or sad or poor or whatever negative thoughts about you or your life ... and mastubation became as an escape of those thoughts .. because getting hard is 85% due to a thought in your mind that is sexy, or due to many stressful thoughts,  so if you masturbate.. these thoughts stop due to dopamine secretion and your body relaxes... and then this repeated behavior would lead to an cause and effect  relationship. so your brain will start producing these negative thoughts in order to receive that orgasm and release. so the wired relationship in your mind becomes: more negative thoughts more orgasm which is positive feeling. and when you stopped mastubating/ changed your behavior, you broke this relationship.

 

I m not saying mastubation is good, But you should consider later on, when you fall in love, i m not sure if it is pleasant or enough to just keep it emotional, without having physical love making. unless you are planning on shielding your heart.

 

I m not sure if it is the problem with the tool (mastubation) or the way (mindset) you use it.

[joeblast]

 would it be odd to say my talent helped refine my spirituality?    

[Daeluin]

Talent/Nature: Going deep and an inner compass for the heart of things.

Unrefined: Fears and stagnation.

Refined: Bringing clarity and integration to what is heavy and so increasingly merge it with lightness, transforming the paradigm and so entering the heart of unity.

[Shad282]

Talent/Nature: Going deep and an inner compass for the heart of things.

Unrefined: Fears and stagnation.

Refined: Bringing clarity and integration to what is heavy and so increasingly merge it with lightness, transforming the paradigm and so entering the heart of unity.

 

I was wondering if spirituality is a talent of the mind?

 

since people who are talented in cooking have this talent through their mouth... musicians through ears... perfume makers through nose.... artists through eyes.... singers ears and throat... 

[Daeluin]

I don't really know, but I think spirituality is found in many ways, and is simply the nurturing of spirit.

 

Spirit likes stillness of mind.

 

It is also related to the heart. When the organs, emotions, and heart are very active, thoughts tend to be active and spirit tends to scatter. When they are at peace, the spirit can settle more fully within without being pushed away.

 

In bringing the emotions to peace and cultivating a stillness that nurtures the spirit, we are centered, comfortable in who we are without having desires and ambitions pulling and pushing on us, self-so, able to trust ourselves and trust the universe so that we may flow in harmony according to the ways the universe guides us that is completely unique to our own path.

 

I believe we all have talent for this, and it may be found by surrendering our desires and following anything that helps us to become whole.

[Shad282]

My talent has apparently been amplified to an uncontrollable, super-hero-esque extreme. I write things, and people who read them miss the point entirely.

 

It's amazing.

 

Either that or I am just crazy....

 

which might be the case.

 

So, you are a superhero ! nice! 

[Brian]

I was wondering if spirituality is a talent of the mind?

 

since people who are talented in cooking have this talent through their mouth... musicians through ears... perfume makers through nose.... artists through eyes.... singers ears and throat...

Heart rather than mind.

[Daeluin]

心

xin: heart-mind

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_(concept)

[Daeluin]

Which is a little confusing. We like to separate our emotions from our cognition. Yet in stillness we come to see how much our thoughts are directed by our emotions - how much the ongoing dis-ease of our inner spirit directs the momentum of the mind.

 

So the heart center / middle dan tien region can be connected to the emotional/cognitive paradigm. It is the center where prenatal qi that collects in stillness refines into shen (spirit), as that stillness, that ease, that peace, allows the spirit to settle.

 

The upper dan tien / true mind is where the prenatal shen, as it now has a home within the middle, is able to be clear and empty, and is able to transform the shen back into the emptiness that is the true unity of jing, qi, and shen.

[Shad282]

Which is a little confusing. We like to separate our emotions from our cognition. Yet in stillness we come to see how much our thoughts are directed by our emotions - how much the ongoing dis-ease of our inner spirit directs the momentum of the mind.

 

So the heart center / middle dan tien region can be connected to the emotional/cognitive paradigm. It is the center where prenatal qi that collects in stillness refines into shen (spirit), as that stillness, that ease, that peace, allows the spirit to settle.

 

The upper dan tien / true mind is where the prenatal shen, as it now has a home within the middle, is able to be clear and empty, and is able to transform the shen back into the emptiness that is the true unity of jing, qi, and shen.

 

what comes first, the thought or the emotion?

 

because giving you a thought that reminds you of a situation would lead you to have emotion.... a thought can make you sad, another laugh and happy... I can't give you an emotions.. it is a result of your thoughts and minds process. 

 

I have experienced stillness and a state of no thoughts.. and that made me sense the impact of a thought and how it can agitate my emotional state and how different thoughts swipe me from one emotion to another.

 

Also, I read somewhere that... lower dantian (lower chakras) creates emotions... the upper dantian (throat, 3rd eye and crow) creates thoughts... and they both meet at the heart (middle dantian) that would result in manifestation. (intent+visualization).

 

in other words, the talent mainly is in the mind because if we manage the mind and thoughts with stillness, then we are able to direct our emotions and thus alter our reality.

 

What do you think?

[dwai]

Hey !

 

- What is your talent and how did spiritual practices, mindfulness, meditation..etc helped you in improving it ?

 

- and you ever thought to apply for a Talent show?

 

For now I currently don't have any talent but i do practice spirituality!

Meditation helps me meditate deeper and with greater efficiency. Talents unfold as we let the creative energies of the Dao work through us. My music became more spontaneous and satisfying to me (others usually don't like it ;-))...it manifests in the arts

[Daeluin]

what comes first, the thought or the emotion?

 

because giving you a thought that reminds you of a situation would lead you to have emotion.... a thought can make you sad, another laugh and happy... I can't give you an emotions.. it is a result of your thoughts and minds process. 

 

I have experienced stillness and a state of no thoughts.. and that made me sense the impact of a thought and how it can agitate my emotional state and how different thoughts swipe me from one emotion to another.

 

Also, I read somewhere that... lower dantian (lower chakras) creates emotions... the upper dantian (throat, 3rd eye and crow) creates thoughts... and they both meet at the heart (middle dantian) that would result in manifestation. (intent+visualization).

 

in other words, the talent mainly is in the mind because if we manage the mind and thoughts with stillness, then we are able to direct our emotions and thus alter our reality.

 

What do you think?

 

Mind has no substance, but it can direct and reshape substance. That substance comes from feeling.

 

When impatient and directed by desire and ambition, the mind creates obstruction by leading the energy to greater imbalance as it neglects the needs of internal balance through attachment to selfish intent. The mind is like fire - it can control and direct, but is itself controlled by water, which comes from the lower centers. When it does not work toward balance and harmony, the water gets muddier and more filled with errant emotions that then control the selfish direction of the fire. The more this happens, the more the mind transforms from being one, equal part within a whole flow of transformation into a dictator that thinks it has the right to control everything.

 

When patient and clear, one's mind is able to maintain empty illumination by adapting so as to ever create harmony according to the needs of the peaceful flowing of the energy matrix. This is known as the true mind or the mind of dao.

 

Harmony and integrity come from balance. See: http://www.thedaobums.com/topic/41451-is-it-the-duty-of-a-taoist-to-protect-nature/?p=699387

[Taomeow]

 would it be odd to say my talent helped refine my spirituality?    

 

Not at all.

 

I was talking to the Great Spirit of California once.  I was in the mood, in nature, so I made a speech.  Gratitude, appreciation, yada yada.  The Great Spirit of California, just that once, responded.  And here's what it had to say:

 

"Why are you dumbing yourself down when talking to me?  Why are you using generic phrases and trite expressions picked up from dumb uneducated phonies who just copy each other's nauseatingly cloying style?  Why are you talking to me as though I'm retarded, as though I'm simple, as though I'm a child who doesn't understand anything complex?  Why do you think my intelligence is at a level you need to crawl down to from who you are in order to meet?  You are a poet and an intellectual.  Talk to me like yourself, like your best, most talented self.  Talk to me like you talk to your superior whom you hope to impress with your brilliance, not depress with your fake humility.  Remember what a woman of power once said? -- don't be humble, you're not that great.  Give it all you've got, or get lost."  

 

I was in shock...  

 

I now address "other realms" in a different manner altogether.  I write my messages to entities and spirits of greatness in rhymed poetry in my native tongue and polish them as though I'm going to address them to an editor and it's a literary submission.  I make jokes hoping to crack them up, and make sure these jokes are spontaneous and funny, not pathetic.  I know they know I have a sense of humor, and I know a pathetic joke will anger them because I can do better, but a solemn air of someone humorless will anger them even more, because it's not authentic.  I know they have my number, and I now know how much they despise "generic spirituality."

Edited September 6, 2016 by Taomeow

[cheya]

MIndboggling. Jaw dropping.

Thank you Taomeow.

I LOVE this!

[Taomeow]

[biblophile]

i like to draw which for me is a kind of meditation. Sitting meditation has improved my concentration.

[ChiForce]

Well, I just have a fish dream this morning.  What was the big deal?  It means that would be something big, attention grabbing event unfolding soon.  Currently, my mind is on the Nov election and the war in Syria.  Well, I think it has something to do with the latest FBI decision to reopen the Hillary email scandal because it may force her to step down if the latest emails are damaging enough. 

 

Here is why.  In this dream, I saw a school of discus fish.  Fortunately, they are normal size fish.  I used to keep them a while back.  I was very captivated by the color (mostly blue) and the round shape of the fish.  It was just captivating and extremely lucid with vibrant color.  When I did was I cut the fish tank in half, even with water with it, while I was herding which fish I want to keep with the other half.  Physically, it isn't possible because water is not solid.  However, water was behaving like solid in this dream.  I cut the tank, along with the water and my chosen fish, in half and I grabbed this half with two arms and to put it in another fish tank.  Apparently, I was doing a water change.

 

Now, with the latest FBI decision, the FBI director discovered new emails from the Anthony Wiener investigation (his wife worked for Hillary in the past).  And he managed to tie this new emails onto the existing Clinton's case.  There.....  Finding damaging emails from one case and to tie them to another existing one.

 

Originally, I thought this dream was referring to the Syrian war and Russia.  But....can't relate.  So what happens next???  Well, I was doing a water change.  It may mean the latest FBI decision could change the outcome of the Nov election....  Let's wait and see....     

Edited October 29, 2016 by ChiForce