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Great advice, but coming from a loser like yourself I'm not so sure I can trust it
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That's a really good insight. I'm also lowkey tired of clicking on nondual threads just to see some silly arguement that no one takes anything away from. I think this post really gives something to reflect on for people in their own lives and I appreciate that
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The Good Chef There are many different facets to what I would consider a good chef. First of all, his stew is good. It tastes good, and not because he followed a recipe, a good chef intuitively knows how he wants his stew to turn out. He can stick his finger in his stew and know how to adjust the seasoning without referring to his recipe. The good chef doesn't obses over recipes, he can see a recipe and understand what kind of stew that recipe will make without even making it yet. He is able to help other chefs create their own stew, and understand that each chef may want a different stew. The good chef teaches with his hands, he asks his students to dip their finger into their stew and have a taste. How many flavors can you pick out? Which flavors do you like? A good chef doesnt just teach a recipe to his students, he also teaches the ability to intuitively make their own. He is kind and compassionate, as not to discourage his students from letting him taste their stew and being honest about it. The chef knows that the stew must also be packed with nutrition, in this sense he is practical and pragmatic. You cant survive on just a good tasting stew, we require a degree of nutrition and practicality to survive. Finally a good chef enjoys cooking, he understands that even if he can create a good stew for himself and others, that the need for a stew in the first place was of his own design, a challenge to be enjoyed. A good chef has fun in the kitchen Too masculine: If the chef is too dominated by masculine energy, he will obsess over his recipe. After all the latest and greatest stew research backs him up. He butts heads with all the other chefs because he is insistent on his stew being the most nutritious delicious stew. He fails to be intuitive about what him and others want and this leads to a less enjoyable stew. This can lead to insecurities about his recipe being right which may get projected onto the other chefs. Too feminine: This chef is intuitive and able to connect with other chefs and what they want, however they still live in a world where stew is used for nutrition. The lack of nutrition and practical value of this stew can lead to malnutrition of those that eat it. There can be a lack of systematic thinking which makes it hard for the chef to build any kind of recipe for others to follow making it hard for other chefs to stand on their shoulders so to say when making their own stew. Too childlike: If the chef is too playful, they might be prone to belittling the struggles of people who are taking their cooking very seriously. The blessings that they have in regards to enjoying cooking and enjoying whatever comes out leads them to not take the problems of the other chefs seriously despite those problems feeling very real to them
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zambize replied to SoonHei's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
That existential fear gotta feel nice and real <3 -
Well that's good to know, I kind of assumed it was just how it was for me, when I get home I'll look for some yoga techniques to see if I would benefit from them, thank you <3
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I typed this on my phone, no space bar just the English (US) button, wait what are you even criticizing dumb ass?
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I give myself an A for this week in terms of goals day 3/66. I just took away my plus from the A because I ate this kinda shitty muffin for no reason yesterday. Anyways it's no secret I've been working on my emotional sensitivity and connecting with others, this week was a really good opportunity to do that because I was spending the week on a family vacation with my grandparents. This side of the family is known for watching fox all day, being materialistic, bit of tough love. Seems to me to be largely orange centered. I was extra vigilant in making sure to give them good eye contact, to really listen to them, and to help them work through their emotions in a lot of places they've been fucked over. I tried to teach them you can disagree with people and still love them by getting into small discussions/debates about not too hot of topics and just showing them that you can have discussions and disagree with people you love. I think I explicitly said, "there is us, and then there are our ideas, and it's you that matters to me". I of course meant this, but I did try to be extra tender with them. We were leaving today and I saw that woman (my grandma) tear up for the first time in my life, what a cry baby <3. My dad noticed in the car and remarked about it saying something likes "shes a hard nut to crack but I saw some emotion". You're damn right shes a hard nut to crack Haha, just takes a bit (lot) of love and emotion for orange
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Ahhh this is the kind of post I really appreciate <<<3333, last time I got baited into thinking you posted something like this but you were just replying to that idiot shin
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While I find your story very interesting, it seems like there isn't much meat to the story in regards to how you went from being a bit of a hard headed intellectual who was difficult to relate with, to someone who wanted to work on their emotional intelligence. Was it really just a teacher saying "What is missing is the connection. You are holding the plug and can see the outlet. Yet you cannot connect plug to outlet. Thus, the energy cannot flow through" I wouldn't think so because you were there in the first place with that teacher talking about emotions/spirituality, maybe there was some kind of spark before then? Or did it really just take that one teacher to make you interested in emotionally connecting with people? I think you have such an important story to tell where you were stuck in a mindset for a really long period of your life, but broke out of it when you got older. There are a lot of people who are really stuck in this same mindset, and I'm curious what you think the biggest contribution to your kind of awakening to the importance of emotional intelligence and how that might be applied to other people. How does one teach an old intellectual dog new tricks? Edit: I see that you mentioned the student evaluations, but maybe aren't specific in what role they played if any. It sounds like you already knew what the student evaluations were telling you, and don't really tell us what really made you want to make that change you and the students were aware of
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I haven't but I'm totally down to watch a movie if it's on netflix/I don't have to pay for it!
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I think one of the biggest mistakes people make on the spiritual path that I have made myself is that they are less likely to contemplate insights from a teacher when they have direct experience with some of their teachings. Let me explain. You might watch a video from Mooji, in this video lets say Mooji rattled off what you could categorize into 16 distinct insights. Maybe you have genuinely had a direct experience with 8 of them, and the other eight seem intellectually reasonable. Now, because you have so many direct experiences that overlap, you kind of let your guard down and take the other insights which may have seemed intellectually reasonable for a fact without testing them in your direct experience. It's easy to be deeply critical of someone who is obviously wrong in many ways such as logical fallacies, unrelated arguments etc. We need to be extra vigilant with people we strongly agree with to make sure we aren't getting lazy with contemplating their insights for ourselves
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zambize replied to Consilience's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
That's a good one -
zambize replied to Sven's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ahhh yes, back to telling people they are everything and nothing and god. I'm going to awaken the fuck out of everyone -
zambize replied to Sven's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I would definitely not say that joke in front of everyone -
zambize replied to Tony 845's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I really want someone to refer to themselves as this, and maybe even start a dojo and start awarding spiritual white through black belts -
zambize replied to Sven's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Can't a woman get the attention she deserves without begging? -
zambize replied to Sven's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I'm just saying I really think Shin is not as bad of a guy as you might think from this post and some other ones, he's more closer to a cry baby loser than a douche bag, he's actually such a kind boy and good boyfriend <<shin33 -
zambize replied to Sven's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
What if his other posts were also being facetious haha -
zambize replied to Sven's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@kieranperez I think Shin was trying to be the idiot that you are describing, I think he was being facetious haha -
zambize replied to FoxFoxFox's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I'm glad you're reaching out into more portions of the forums, you give some bomb ass answers. I havent read your thread much because you do end up kind of sounding like a broken record after 150 pages of giving enlightenment advice. But that isnt the case on threads around more specific issues. It's cool to see what someone with a lot of spiritual experience thinks of more practical worldly issues -
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Doing something simple and stupid that I enjoy is a good counter balance to how I over-analyze things. On my list of low conciousness shit, this is the best creative outlet, and I listen to Lofi hip hop while play, so it's actually quite meditative mining me some pixels
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We are so developed
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@Shin Took forever but I have actualized the diamonds into my life, this is personal development
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zambize replied to Sharp's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Made it myself <3 Wait no Leo did fuck -
I'm thinking that these goals really resonate with me right now and with what I want to do emotionally and I want to make sure that I am addressing them in a way that allows me to turn them into a habit as best as I can. Making sure that the problem/goal is sustainability resolved will take time. I also want to have it really cemented in my mind what I am trying to work, and be able to plan longer term strategies in tackling my goals. That's why I am going to make a commitment to the same four goals that I have which came from a previous post on maximizing personal development. This will be day 2/66. There was some research behind sixty six being a good number of days before habits really begin to cement, and it seems an appropriate amount of time for these goals. I will also be doing other productive stuff like working out, but I won't be holding myself as strictly to that so I have some flexibility to work with. --------------------------------- My goals are currently: I want to continue to focus on equanimity and emotional sensitivity throughout the day. I want to explore my own femininity deeply, and make sure I am not repressing any of that as I did through a lot of my life. I want to stop munching on junk food when I don't want it. Sometimes I find myself eating to eat, or drinking to drink, and then regretting later. I want stop overusing intellectualism, even though it might be one of my greatest strength, it's just a tool. Those tools have specific advantages and disadvantages, and while it's important to know my strengths and utilize them, it's also important to not get into the habit of relying on that tool too much. -------------------------------