I'm hurt. Not psychologically in any way. My thumb toe almost got crushed. It happened few hours ago and I'm already messing around on steemit. Although it was physically unfortunate, it was and is semi-spiritually helpful and served as great empirical evidence for the kind of things I've been talking about. Getting my toe semi-crushed reminded me of two articles 1 written by men and the other by @eco-alex
I can give you a very simple experiment about pain I discovered while in middle school. Pinch your arm or other body part. Make it painful. You can do this yourself or ask someone else to do it for you. Then start concentrating on your pain. There are no real techniques or training. Just put your complete focus on the pain. There will be an immediate reduction of pain. Your simple understanding of the pain just made the whole thing less painful.
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It wasn't a pinch this time. I was bleeding out of my nail. But the above technique got me to do away with pain 40%-50% of the time. I don't mean reduction here. I had my nail cracked and bleeding and feeling Absolute ZERO pain for at least 40% of the time I was practicing mindfulness and awareness. The rest 50%-60% of the time was reduced pain. Even while getting my wounds treated, I was at peace 99% of the time. It was all because of the meditation I've practiced. I have no history of pain tolerance. I'm pretty much the kind of the kid one would call a "Pussy". I did't play a single sport at school because I didn't want to get hurt. I can't do 5 straight pushups in a row. I know girls with rougher hands than I do. But it seemed like my mom was feeling more pain than I did.
The same brain regions that process our first-hand experiences of pain are also activated when we observe other people in pain.
When typically developing kids (aged 7 to 12 years) were presented with images of people getting hurt, the kids experienced more activity in the same neural circuits that process first-hand experiences of pain (Decety et al 2008).
This automatic response--termed "mirroring"--has been documented in a number of other studies, including studies of adults (Lamm et al 2011; Jackson et al 2006). The phenomenon may reflect the activation of mirror neurons, nerve cells that fire both when a person performs an action and he sees that action being performed by others.
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Why I Was Grateful
Quantum Healing of a Cancer Tumor in less than 3 minutesI'm pretty much the opposite of a masochist and I'm very much of the guiltless and remorseless type. I'm not thanking the universe for my pain and wounds. But happy about what i gained from it. I'm mostly a person who lives inside my head and i'm pretty good with metaphysics and abstract thinking. I have no trouble grasping topics/themes/ideas that many seasoned veterans have trouble with. Blelow is a comment I left on @eco-alex's post on
While this healing is happening you can hear the practitioner chant a word "Wa-Sa". The meaning of this word is simply "Already happened".. there is no magic in this word, but they have agreed that this word will help them create this feeling in their hearts.
Basically the end of The Matrix Revolutions. It's pretty much the most misunderstood movie ever made. Matrix was pretty much just a Buddhist/Taoist movie with Ancient Indian influence and superficial western/christian elements. The ending was literally spelled out in the background music:
Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond
the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond
reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this
is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of
all.
When the five senses and the mind are still,
and reason itself rests in silence, then
begins the Path supreme.
And when he is seen in his immanence and
transcendence, then the ties that have
bound the heart are unloosened, the doubts
of the mind vanish, and the law of Karma
works no more.
It was one of the greatest endings of all; an ending of transcendence. Western science/philosophy seek solutions within a physical realm. It's no wonder they can't comprehend taking control over the physical through the spiritual.
One thing my mind tend to not linger on is the physical realm. The pain was a good anchor to make me think and meditate on the physical world. The physical world isn't separate from the metaphysical. Developments in one can affect the other. The way I handled my pain and the way a yoga student develop spiritually is a great example. I've written some of my personal insights here: https://steemit.com/philosophy/@vimukthi/a-gateway-to-my-mind-3-hours-of-me-trying-to-convey-the-stuff-going-in-my-mind-to-the-world
I should probably be the metaphysical equivalent of a star athlete. But in the physical world I'm just your average geek. I've never wanted to be a athlete. But now with my anchor (wound), my physical awareness has significantly increased. Buddhism teaches of Four Sathipattana which can be learned and practiced to the point of reaching total and absolute enlightenment.
The most important Meditation practices laid down by the Buddha are the Four Sathipattana Meditations. They guide one's mind to understand reality behind the connection between Mind and Body. They increase the Wisdom of dividing Nāma and Rūpa, Nāmarūpa Paricceda Gnāna. The word Sathipattana means being in Mindfulness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_Nirvana
- Kayanupassana (Mindfulness of the Body)
- Vedananupassana (Mindfulness of Feelings)
- Cittanupassana (Mindfulness of Mind)
- Dhammanupassana (Mindfulness of Dhammas)
It was the first 2 that I was lacking in comparison. I've also noticed that the mindfulness that start from Kayanupassana is like a tree with deep roots. It is more solid and it feels all over the body......... or more accurately, you feel your body in much more detail and intensity. Here is an article that can be very helpful: https://puredhamma.net/sutta-interpretations/maha-satipatthana-sutta/kaya-kaya-kayanupassana
A World Without Flesh
Be warned that the videos are full of SPOILERS! Serial Experiments Lain was a series that reminded me of Buddhist cosmology. According to Buddhism, those who achieve Dhyāna can be born in Brahma world. From what I've learned, the last 4 are formless and only the consciousness exists and has a lifespan of thousands of eons where universe is destroyed, born again and destroyed again in cycles. The first 4 still gives you birth in realms that has form but that form is very subtle. Such beings can interact with the physical world and gain knowledge and gain wisdom from the beings with higher understanding like The Buddha. What I've hear is that these Brahmas only have sight & sound. The life of such beings are like VR experiences. The worst that can happen is terrible visuals and terrible sounds. There is no flesh to get hurt.
Just thing about that for a while. A thing gets destroyed only because it exists. Nobody can hack an old Feature phone with no internet connection. It's hack proof. With the advent of fleshy form comes complication just as our internet lives/personas can add further complications from smaller things to internet bullying.
BTW Here is something really amazing I found in the comments of the above video left by a user named "it me":
Tbh of all the SEL interpretations I hate the "she's mentally ill" the most. There's multiple different Lains? Well that's the point, people have a lot of different "selves", which is especially apparent in the internet. When I was 12, I noticed how different I was when I was talking to the people in the internet - I was witty, well-spoken, at times pretty cynical (well you know how teenage edgelords are), I expressed interest in almost every topic on the forum, while in the real world some people thought I was autistic or even deaf or mute. I'd move only to get from one classroom to the other, and I almost never spoked, and when I did, it was barely a sentence. I had a friend once, but she abandoned me for the more popular people, and I was confused by how... indifferent I felt. There was no tears, I didn't told mom that my only friend doesn't like me anymore, and it only meant that I would hang out in the internet more. The dial-up internet which we used at nights since it was cheaper that way was my gateway to the society and I felt pure joy talking to the people there, the joy that I never felt when talking to the people in the real world. When I got older, I found myself a lot of different platforms to talk about different things, and I was once again surprised how many different net personas I played. At one forum, I am very nice and friendly, at the other, I am as cynical as I could possibly be; at one platform I am The Funnyman, at the another, I barely talk, only using "yes" or "no" or "thanks" when talking to people. That's pretty common, isn't it?
It's All Just Boundaries
It can be scary to navigate a world without the flesh or just one particular bag of flesh. But what about the drawbacks like pain and death. Hunger or thirst are indications that something is wrong. When we feel muscle pain it just says "something isn't right". Pain is something to be averted; not embraced. Pain means we have things left to transcend. We have gotten rid of many boundaries with the internet. We are even going beyond the grasp of governments with the help of technology. But that's just the technology of the physical world. What about the technology of the metaphysical; the spiritual? Don't we have to develop that? Don't let the development of one let you loose sight of the other.
Seriously! Go watch Serial Experiments Lain. the video have some spoilers. So don't watch too much of them. I just put them for those who have watched Lain and as something to get people interested in watching SEL. Maybe my post itself got a little convoluted because of me adding pain, philosophy, entertainment, psychology, spirituality and Buddhist cosmology to the mix. What I have to say about that is that you have to be your own guide in life. Others can help. But only so much.
Oneself is refuge of oneself,
who else indeed could refuge be?
By good training of oneself
one gains a refuge hard to gain.
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@vimukthi/deconstructing-philosophies-osho-and-ayn-rand-s-common-roots-oppositet-words-similar-meanings-teachings-from-dhammapada
I'll see you in another post.
The subject of metaphysics has always struck me in fact I have read some topics about it, relamente very relevant if we take them to our daily occurrence, in it also enters the spiritual part, that is, the emerge as we are and we feel With our own being, we can demonstrate moods, the good that gives us some techniques of metaphysics leads to a better energy channeled from our spiritual part. It is like asking a child after falling as you feel, even though he has significant abuse if we embrace him and consent, his pain will be relieved faster. Well I am a teacher, several times I was presented with opportunities where children broke or cut their fingers, I chose to buy cartoon band-aids, and they really were magical, when I put them on, the pain and tears almost disappeared immediately. Quite successful your post, success.
Thanks for the comment.
it's running away from the pain that make things even worse. Cartoon band-aids can really help that at a psychological level. You added a pleasant experience onto something that was purely unpleasant. One thing I know for sure is that Evil begets evil and Goodness begets more goodness. That's why negativity ends in self destruction and positivity prosper and running away makes the wounds rot.
You might also like: https://thoughtcatalog.com/shereen-soliman/2017/02/this-is-why-millennials-are-unfulfilled-by-a-millennial
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