my weird way of thinkin'

Hi.

While meditating I came to the conclusion that sometimes I suffer in advance for things that will not even cause me suffer at the time they happen, and all this happens only because I don't know how to enjoy the moment, every moment.

I found a small piece of text on the web that expresses exactly what I found out about myself.

It happens a lot, with anything we're doing - sitting, walking, getting up or laying down -, our mind is often disconnected from the immediate real, and in it's place, there is the absorbed compulsive conceptualization about the future or the past.

While we're walking, we think about the arrival, and when we arrive, we think about the departure. While eating we think about the dishes and when we're doing the dishes, we think about watching TV.

This is a bizarre way of keeping the mind working. We are not connected to the present situation, but we're always thinking of something else. And very often we'reconsumed by anxiety and desire, regrets about the past and future anticipation, completely missing the perfect simplicity of the moment.

- by B. Alan Wallace, in "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up".

Thanks for reading,
Dan

Hi.

Eivind is one of our greatest friends here at the community (if you don't know him yet, shame on you... lol) and he shared, through his blog, something that is just amazing!

There's this community called Zaadz (which means "seed" in dutch) that's composed by lots of people around the globe. These people share the same interests, such as Buddhism, Taoism, Buddha, Gandhi, Jesus, yoga, meditation, writing, nature, poetry. Well, as you can see, people over there enjoy good stuff.

Zaadz is just wonderful 'cause it gives the opportunity for people to share their thoughts, plan events and empower themselves spiritual and mentally by reading what others write, by getting to know good books others rank and share. All I'm trying to say can be well defined by Zaadz's mission, which follows:

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Ain't that wonderful?
Oh yeah, so take some of your time, access Zaadz and feel more than welcome to participate and empower yourself.

Once you're there, please add me up to your friends list, will you?

Listening to Audioslave - 'Original Fire'
Thanks for reading,
Dan

Hi.
I'm not sure if this post is the only one I have entitled "Learning...". I say that because I feel life as a continuous learning process, and once you find that stuff is being learned the more you need to learn and search.

Some of you may know that I'm into Buddhism (depending on since when you've been reading my weird way of thinkin') and for some time I felt myself a little disappointed with some aspects presented in my life.
Well, for the past 10 weeks I got back into Buddhism and Taoism studying and suddenly (not so suddenly) I have once again gained the light I used to have while looking at life.

I say that because since I remember myself as an individual I primed for being a guy who always saw the bright side of stuff. Well, is there really a bright or a dark side of things? I no longer think so.
What exists is a reality you create for yourself. in a nutshell, you're directly and the only responsible for your Heaven or Hell (or whatever you wanna call the good and bad moments of your life).

Once you understand that everything is inconstant, and that what's good or bad now will pass no matter what you do, and that it will once get back into your life, whether you want it or not - if you really understand that, then there's no point at all for suffering for what's bad and, of course, there's no point for being so euphoric for the good things either. I hope you see what I mean.

Anyways, here I am trying to understand why is that we all get often frustrated. I think it's because we're all the time punishing ourselves in advance, basically because we keep on creating an illusion that is not likely to happen. So, why bother? I'm living what's in my life now, no worries about the past or future. The past no longer exists, and the future may not happen.

Thanks for reading my ramblings,
Dan

ps.: click on the picture if you want to check out a little about Buddhism.