Happiness

[Bramble]

Well it's said we all come into the world ok and collect the shit that sticks as we grow. So it's a matter of clearing that away, layer by layer, to get back to the thing that is ok again. And that I think is a place of non-judgement.

We're all recycled shit. Love it.

[Bramble]

To be fair, if he'd cut off his eyelids he'd have spent nine years staring at absolutely anything.

Yes, one feels he may have come to regret this decision. But Buddhist literature is full of this kind of thing. My favourites are the stories about adepts who go green after living on  nettles or pine needles.

[Rhiannon]

Yes, one feels he may have come to regret this decision. But Buddhist literature is full of this kind of thing. My favourites are the stories about adepts who go green after living on  nettles or pine needles.

Living on Heinz tomato soup turns people orange. Think that mostly affects students rather than adepts though.

[Shaker]

It was Sunny Delight when I were a lad ...

[Jack Knave]

At the same time there's no point in arguing with reality - if you do, you lose.

But that is often the problem we can't always gauge what the true state of reality is at any moment of time which is why we often become stuck. It is only the process of getting ourselves free from our predicament that we can then look back and see what reality was when we got tripped up. More often than not we are behind the curve.

[Jack Knave]

The concept of starting afresh is an interesting one. There's nothing new about the person that looks through my eyes, yet the moment itself is new. So do I bring to it what I am or lose what I am? But then I e just said to Wiggs that I'm just this.

You gave the answer to this in your last post (or there abouts). Your breakdown etc. revealed that what you were told was you wasn't you. So the 'anew' is the shedding of the cultural background that put you in a given box and the stepping out to find yourself. This being like the waves on a shoreline, a gradual process that turns over and over making small steps forward.

[Jack Knave]

We're all recycled shit. Love it.

Well kind of.

Jung said that when we go 'fishing' we aim to catch the bad and rotten 'fish'.