Feeling and mental perception

[Bindi]

My take: Feelings and thoughts are required for survival and don’t need to be thrown away or cease, only the things that destroy clear thinking and feeling need to be removed, and a new perspective based on reality implanted. This then clears the way for the “Central” work, the more spiritual stuff, Shiva, Shakti, the child etc. 

[Mark Foote]

38 minutes ago, Bindi said:

My take: Feelings and thoughts are required for survival and don’t need to be thrown away or cease, only the things that destroy clear thinking and feeling need to be removed, and a new perspective based on reality implanted. 
 

I'm working on the theory that there's a rhythm that can be entered into, thinking and feeling having their place in that rhythm. I'm still working to understand and appreciate Gautama's "mindfulness of feeling"--he actually looked for particular feelings, some of which he calmed ("the mental factors").

Nevertheless, his experience of mindfulness of feeling and thinking (and of the body and the mental state) took place in the first concentration, in which he ever abided (except when he was speaking).  That concentration, and all the concentrations, are marked by "one-pointedness of mind":  "making self-surrender the object of thought, one lays hold of concentration, one lays hold of one-pointedness of mind".  Apparently certain feelings come forward as one-pointedness is laid hold of, and his mindfulness was addressed to them--not the open-ended mindfulness of feelings one would imagine.
 

[kakapo]

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Edited November 24, 2023 by kakapo

[liminal_luke]

No offense intended, @kakapo.  Would you like me to edit out the objectionable post?

[Cobie]

 @kakapo I am very sorry, that was totally wrong of me. I have deleted my post. 

 

Edited November 23, 2023 by Cobie

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, kakapo said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indeed , as you quoted  : 

 

 "  All decisions regarding what constitutes said discussion are at moderator discretion. "

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2023 by Nungali

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, liminal_luke said:

No offense intended, @kakapo.  Would you like me to edit out the objectionable post?

 

.. and  ... accept the standard   DBs punishment   as well ?  ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nungali]

Hmmm ... just so that ^ doesnt get misinterpreted   ... my gif isnt moving  !   ... its a spanking not  .......    '  anything else ' . 

[liminal_luke]

4 minutes ago, Nungali said:

 

.. and  ... accept the standard   DBs punishment   as well ?  ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lets not get carried away. ( I´ve never been punished by a bird and would rather not start now.)

Edited November 23, 2023 by liminal_luke

[kakapo]

2 hours ago, liminal_luke said:

No offense intended, @kakapo.  Would you like me to edit out the objectionable post?

 

Please and thank you!

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, liminal_luke said:

 

Lets not get carried away. ( I´ve never been punished by a bird and would rather not start now.)

 

 

" by a bird "    ???

 

Ohhhh   kakapo , I see .

 

You should come down here ...   I mean its all part of life's experience   : 

 

 

 

[Maddie]

14 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

.. and  ... accept the standard   DBs punishment   as well ?  ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geez remind me not to break the rules at your house 🤭

 

*But seriously I'm a little confused as to what the issue was?

Edited November 24, 2023 by Maddie

[Nungali]

7 hours ago, Maddie said:

 

Geez remind me not to break the rules at your house 🤭

 

Oh no !   Those are only punishments for 'on the  Daobums' .

 

*But seriously I'm a little confused as to what the issue was?

 

It was   for mentioning MoPie and electric wires and stuff  like  ....

 

DAMN  you Maddie  !   ya got me .  

 

  Okay  ...  ( pulls his 'cat pants' down and bends over  )  ...

                               

                               Mod

Nungers  ^ 

 

 

[Maddie]

34 minutes ago, Nungali said:

 

 

Is that these guys?

 

 

[Nungali]

Look Maddie -    you are not gonna get me twice in a row with that MorePie  thingo  ! 

 

all I can say is  :