Hello, here finding a way out of depression

[Hancock]

3 hours ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

Thank you for sharing.

 

Besides knowledge and action, can I add willpower?

 

- LimA

Why are you asking me if you can add willpower bro? I'm curious about the reason you've asked this question. Please directly give an answer. 

 

 

[Limahong]

8 hours ago, Zenmode said:

Please directly give an answer.

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

Willpower = the unrelenting conscious embrace of the belief/practice that knowledge and action are always in tandem.

 

I cannot be more direct than this.

 

Beyond willpower is conscious experiential learning/knowing.

 

- LimA

Edited August 8, 2017 by Limahong
Enhancement of sentences.

[Limahong]

19 hours ago, Marblehead said:

Those are the only ones we Floridians have.  Some other places have theirs too

 

Hi Marblehead again,

 

When it comes to - 'Somewhere over the rainbow' - some other places have theirs too besides Manchester.

 

How about Oz?

 

 

Have you been to Oz?

 

- LimA

 

[Brian]

12 minutes ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Marblehead again,

 

When it comes to - 'Somewhere over the rainbow' - some other places have theirs too besides Manchester.

 

How about Oz?

 

 

Have you been to Oz?

 

- LimA

 

I've been there!

http://www.landofoznc.com/

 

I was there before the fire and then, in later years, we would hang out there as minor-league juvenile delinquents.  The Enchanted Forest and the Yellow Brick Road were interesting places during high school...

Edited August 8, 2017 by Brian

[Limahong]

4 minutes ago, Brian said:

I've been there!

 

Hi Brian,

 

When? Last month? Or once upon a time?

 

You went there with Marblehead?

 

- LimA

[Brian]

3 minutes ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Brian,

 

When? Last month? Or once upon a time?

 

You went there with Marblehead?

 

- LimA

I was editing my post when you replied^^^

[Limahong]

1 minute ago, Brian said:

I was editing my post when you replied^^^

 

Hi Brian,

 

Apology. Take your time with the edit.

 

The rainbow is still there waiting for you.

 

Just finish my biscuits. Time to call it a night.

 

Good night.

 

- LimA

[Brian]

29 minutes ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Brian,

 

Apology. Take your time with the edit.

 

The rainbow is still there waiting for you.

 

Just finish my biscuits. Time to call it a night.

 

Good night.

 

- LimA

 

53 minutes ago, Brian said:

I've been there!

http://www.landofoznc.com/

 

I was there before the fire and then, in later years, we would hang out there as minor-league juvenile delinquents.  The Enchanted Forest and the Yellow Brick Road were interesting places during high school...

Oh, I had finished it.  I added the bit about when I had been there.  I haven't been back since they sort of reopened it as primarily a nostalgia trip for people who remembered it from the '70s but I might some day just for fun.

[Hancock]

10 hours ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

Willpower = the unrelenting conscious embrace of the belief/practice that knowledge and action are always in tandem.

 

I cannot be more direct than this.

 

Beyond willpower is conscious experiential learning/knowing.

 

- LimA

Why did you ask me if you can add willpower to what I said?

 

Do you have practical methods to cultivate willpower?

[Marblehead]

2 hours ago, Limahong said:

Have you been to Oz?

 

- LimA

 

No, but I've been to Phoenix. 

[Limahong]

3 hours ago, Zenmode said:

Why did you ask me if you can add willpower to what I said?

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

The question was not directed at you personally. Anyone could have responded. 

Per your post in question, I saw 'knowledge' and 'action' put alongside - so I add in 'willpower'.

I had put all three together before as a mental model in a post. But I cannot recall which thread now.

 

3 hours ago, Zenmode said:

Do you have practical methods to cultivate willpower?

 

No I do not have. I just live life the best I can.

Endeavour to do your best and forget the rest.

 

- LimA

[Limahong]

3 hours ago, Marblehead said:

I've been to Phoenix.

 

Hi Marblehead,

 

But of course.

 

And you wanted to share these on Phoenix with everyone for the longest time, but was too busy.

 

So Everyone - from Marblehead:

 

PHOENIX

 

 

- LimA

[Hancock]

42 minutes ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

The question was not directed at you personally. Anyone could have responded. 

Per your post in question, I saw 'knowledge' and 'action' put alongside - so I add in 'willpower'.

I had put all three together before as a mental model in a post. But I cannot recall which thread now.

 

 

No I do not have. I just live life the best I can.

Endeavour to do your best and forget the rest.

 

- LimA

I still workmanlike help in understanding why ask if you could add willpower. I'm trying to intellectually see your perspective instead of relying on my other methods lol. Working my Brain, lol

[Limahong]

26 minutes ago, Zenmode said:

Working my Brain, lol

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

Perhaps Brian (the very naughty boy) can suggest something?

 

Your Brain + Brian's forthcoming suggestion = Willpower?

 

- LimA

Edited August 9, 2017 by Limahong
Enhancement of sentence.

[Hancock]

3 minutes ago, Limahong said:

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

Perhaps Brian (the very naughty boy) can suggest something?

 

Your Brain + Brian's forthcoming suggestion = Willpower?

 

- LimA

See what you did there, lol. But seriously please answer the question directly.

[Limahong]

6 hours ago, Zenmode said:

Seriously please answer the question directly.

 

Hi Zenmode,

 

Seriously, I know little and little knowledge is dangerous.

 

As mentioned before, life is to me largely a question without an answer.

 

I am not in favour of ready answers. 

 

I like answers to unfold by themselves as I try and live well from moment to moment everyday.

 

- LimA

 

[Limahong]

16 hours ago, Brian said:

They sort of reopened it as primarily a nostalgia trip for people who remembered it from the '70s

 

Hi Brian,

 

A nostalgia trip may make one to stumble and falter over a memorable past?

A memory will still remain the same after a nostalgia trip?

 

- LimA

[Limahong]

14 hours ago, Limahong said:

On 8/9/2017 at 3:50 AM, Brian said:

They sort of reopened it as primarily a nostalgia trip for people who remembered it from the '70s

 

Hi Brian,

 

A nostalgia trip may make one to stumble and falter over a memorable past?

A memory will still remain the same after a nostalgia trip?

 

Hi Brian,

 

You need not respond.

Got my answers - when Jimmy returned with good memories to find Joni thus:

 

 

- LimA

 

[nohbody]

I really cannot say enough good things regarding Metta meditation. I have found that practice extremely helpful in my own struggles. All the best.

[Limahong]

1 hour ago, nohbody said:

I really cannot say enough good things regarding Metta meditation. I have found that practice extremely helpful in my own struggles.

 

Good Morning nohbody,

 

Can you please shared a little your Metta meditation experiential struggles.

You have been helped well to post thus..

Nothing like personal triumphs.

 

To me struggles are a big natural part of life.

They give us meaning to live forward.

 

Without friction, life is slippery. 

 

- LimA

[nohbody]

Lima,

The first struggle I had was that I was contemptuous of the idea of cultivating Metta or "loving kindness" - I came from a  background that viewed that as a "weak" feeling. I no longer feel that way. 

 

Next the struggle emerged that I did not feel like I  deserved to feel this way. It may sound silly, but it was awful for me until I got over myself. 

 

Hope that helps

[Limahong]

6 minutes ago, nohbody said:

Hope that helps

 

Hi nohbody,

 

Definitely yes. You have already made my weekend. I will listen repeatedly to Glen Campbell.

 

15 minutes ago, nohbody said:

The first struggle I had was that I was contemptuous of the idea of cultivating Metta or "loving kindness" - I came from a  background that viewed that as a "weak" feeling. I no longer feel that way. 

 

Thank you for putting it across so simply and meaningfully. You have enhanced kindness with love. 

 

22 minutes ago, nohbody said:

Next the struggle emerged that I did not feel like I  deserved to feel this way. It may sound silly, but it was awful for me until I got over myself

 

Moral of your input - we can help ourselves to get over ourselves. Again thank you.

 

- LimA

 

[Limahong]

On 8/12/2017 at 5:49 AM, nohbody said:

I really cannot say enough good things regarding Metta meditation. I have found that practice extremely helpful in my own struggles. All the best.

 

Hi nohbody,

 

Our paths first crossed on 12 August 2017 - eight days ago.

During this time span, we communicated without much difficulty.

I have developed a brotherly feel for you trying to understand your struggles.

 

This thread is started by Sublimation who is now out of the woods with his own struggles.

I too have developed such a feel for him.

 

Is brotherhood developed in triumphs overcoming struggles?

 

- LimA

Edited August 19, 2017 by Limahong
Correct typo error.

[nohbody]

Lima,

Thank you, I feel warmly toward you,  also. 

 

All this talk of struggle makes me think of The Greater Jihad, spiritualizing the internal struggle. 

Edited August 19, 2017 by nohbody
Added a thought

[Limahong]

12 minutes ago, nohbody said:

All this talk of struggle makes me think of The Greater Jihad, spiritualizing the internal struggle.

 

Hi nohbody,

 

The internal struggle = the eternal struggle?

 

“Ah, love, let us be true 
To one another! for the world, which seems 
To lie before us like a land of dreams, 
So various, so beautiful, so new, 
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, 
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 
And we are here as on a darkling plain 
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, 
Where ignorant armies clash by night.” 
― Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems

 

 

 

 

- LimA