also also, thoughts about controlling anger, just not psychological, Id like something pragmatic, a lil more hobbes wolve-ish. Im fumbling a bit about when to control it and when not.
is that rituals?

dark soul" what you really mean is devil
you dont want evil just me its only leads to death and hurting others

AFRICANS use witch craft its the closest thing to a black soul there is power in it.

But i tell you theres greater power in a soul of rightousness. If you have the Holy Spirit living in you, you can cast out demons,you'll have power over the devil.

Omm, to me it is only a cause of kids developing double personality (i loved this chan) i have a friend (realy it is not me) he has many personalities which he developed cause his father spanked him. His whole family is like this one of his two brothers have mental disorder cause he used drugs. And the other never stay in the house cause one spanks the other their life is bad and they even feel like much of a family. (friend who am relating if u see this post ask me and i take it off (however))

SO to me pain and fear are bad and dont help ye grown(at all)

>>152
wut???
I never thought I'd see sri gauranga or the maha mantra or any vaisnava pic in a xchan...
I just found this chan though, and it's kinda good to find a devotee id indeed anon is one

yoga
hatha yoga for this matter
Also bhakti yoga like >>152
but that's less material. If you want some body % mind, then hatha yoga

Phrases help alot of people.

>>165 existence has not allowed
Names are just names, dude.
So what if I call God Zoroaster (the original name for him, do reasearch pl0x) or even Hthhonoshgaba?
Why would he care?
You only believe in the Devil because you can't take the idea that God created stuff you don't approve of.
If I'm mistaken, this is the place to show me up.
I'd love to hear a response.

>What is Love?
BABY DON'T HURTE ME
NO MORE

I'm a sceptic but spirituality has secular forms in psychology, but religion is simply irresponsible philosophy. I have a hard time believing what's on this board, but to bring your Jesus here, that's just the worst. Christianity, all of the Abrahamic religions, are not even remotely valuable on a spiritual level.

Modern Christians ignore swathes of the book, if they have even read any of it, and twist it to fit their own perverse views. If you're going to follow an archaic blood cult then at least do it right.

See you in heaven - not a chance. I would never wish bad on another person but I'm not bowing down to your bloodthirsty monster of a "god".

>>156
In this comment that I made right at the beginning of the year, I underestimated the value of "opening the third eye" by limiting its application to human interactions.

The possibilities extend far beyond my initial assessment. Keeping a peaceful inner state and maintaining a disciplined approach to inner thoughs and feelings is absolutely vital.
To assist with this I performed a ritual "cleansing" on my residence in order to release the undisciplined emotions that had settled into the walls and objects around the flat.

In the days and weeks after performing this ritual, I entered the front door in a manner similar to entering a Sacred or Holy Building, with hushed reverance.

The reason for that was to establish a different form of thinking when indoors, especially in my residence and most notably in my bedroom.

The "reverent" behaviour when entering was a deliberately exaggerated attempt to clear my thoughts and not allow any stress-related emotions to enter my residence. They stay outside the front door.

At this point in time, I believe in the collective unconscious connectedness between all humans and possibly all living things.

Due to recent experiences when asleep - lucid dreams - I believe it is possible to have active and conscious interconnectedness beyond the physical contact we are used to experiencing every day.

Removing all distractions from life and focusing on the goal of attaining regular conscious (intentional) interconnectedness beyond the pysical realm is now a top priority of mine.

Sorry, I realise it may be a bit cryptic.
If you were to: remain physically healthy- by means of excersize and eating, remain mentally active - reading and any work, and engage with god - by reading bible, reading commentaries, praying, that you may enter a state of higher being. Even if you are more conscious and aware, or perhaps even more, tapping into the potential we all know we have within our brains.

I try to do all that as much as possible, imo the only way to live is to constantly grow towards your own "inner being" (ideal of self as you truly ((like, without outside influence)) want it?) and I also suggest:

Artistic endeavors (any is good)
Water. Drink lots of water.
Being around nature in places you are drawn to
Only doing something if you know why you're doing it (I stopped watching TV years ago because i realized i hate shows)

Now, I know i'm just some asshole but try to take this as my perception of helpful advice instead of me trying to be a smug cunt.
Cause I see how I could come off that way going HURR HURR TV BAD but really, honestly...only do something if

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gurochan was pretty much the first chan i paid any attention to and the /x/boards i've got lots of information to shareee

>>27
>I'm not so much into religion. I'm more into philosophy.

>In which I would consider myself a humanist.

This sums me up nicely, actually. I only just found this board having returned to LucidChan after a while. I was raised eventually protestant before finding atheism in my teens and sticking with that. Philosophy is a love of mine but specifically nihilism and utilitarianism do it for me, although I do have a fascination of sorts with the paranormal and occult, despite my scientific inclination.

I used to be like REALLY REALLY REALLY Church of England, Like really Anglican. So religious I couldn't even think about girls sexually (no joke, let alone try and come onto someone. Couldn't lie, literally even if I told a small one i would apologise and tell the truth.
Fuck, now I'm completely different. The bible has been edited too many times. Read the book 'God is a verb' now I consider myself a Messianic Jew. Like Jesus was a Rabbi, he observed all the Jewish Laws and Holy days, why shouldn't we?
Not religious anymore though. Kinda wish I was, at least I had direction when I was.

tl;dr

I remember reading something like this on Zetatalk ten years ago. Couldn't find any other references to it anywhere, figured it was made up on the spot.

I watched that episode of Deep Space 9, the one with the blinking planet.

When I was a kid I was great at making people happy because I knew what they wanted before they told me most of the time (Christfag time-period). As I got older and I began to...basically start to think for myself (which was furthered along by teen angst and depression that hit me a bit harder than most people), and I lost the ability (moreso I didn't care) to tell what people want as far as what will help them. Anymore I get a good feel for how a person physically feels, like if I give someone a back rub I can tell where they feel tension or pain (it's like I can feel their back as if it were my own).

Even when it's not helpful, if someone has a bruise or a sore spot, I tend to accidentally punch or grab them th

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Curiousity&Kitties: I completely understand what you mean. I have noticed over the past few years that my sense for others' feelings has become ridiculously heightened, and being a Pisces doesn't help the situation.
When someone in a room with me has a mood change, I'm usually affected, and if they have changed to a lower emotional vibration, sometimes they'll rub off on me, and send me into a ridiculous funk.

I've asked for advice on keeping myself protected from the influence of others' feelings, and negativity, I've been advised to carry black obsidian, as well as hematite. Although I've fallen off of the band wagon, as far as keeping up with my own habits, and I've

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I end up forming complex self affirmations for how I deal with things logically and thus how I should direct my feelings to compliment it. It could e because you lack a greater purpose, or love...I'm a pisces as well and still have those issues somewhat, but I'm working on it. Just keep your head up (hope, if not something stronger) and actively work towards fulfilling your needs, or realizing them, or realizing you don't like some of them and work towards curbing those habits and redirect that energy into other more positive goals and ventures. Just get out more, get connected and make new friends...just realize who you can trust with what (emotionally at least , if you have those troubles too). It's a self honesty

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Well, there are varying opinions on zen meditation even within the zen traditions.

Some people just sit, and let what happens happen. That's called shikantaza. There's also a kind of zazen which is just mindfulness of breathing.

Ultimately, the "nothingness that is zen" is the inner nothingness, the inner vacancy where instead of a self there is only void. This nothingness is always here, regardless of any kind of meditation.

>>141
Thanks for the info. I'm not OP but I'm trying daily meditation in an effort to ease my depression and anxiety so it's good to learn.

Feels good to know there's still people here :)

When I meditate I usually have a cup of green tea, pay attention to my breath for say, 108 breaths (very deep, very slow breaths). That usually gets my head clear. Then I just sit there, not really trying to force myself to think of nothing at all (that usually doesn't work) but rather just relaxing, letting thoughts play out and fade away until it's all quiet inside.