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[shunny]

"There you are, and you suddenly realize that you are spending your whole life just barely getting by. You keep up a good front. You manage to make ends meet somehow and look OK from the outside. But those periods of desperation, those times when you feel everything caving in on you, you keep those to yourself. You are a mess. And you know it. But

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[remolina]

I hope you finished the article on meditation, and didn't just end with that excerpt

[shunny]

"The Dhammapada is an ancient Buddhist text which anticipated Freud by thousands of years. It says: "What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now. The consequences of an evil mind will follow you like the cart follows the ox that pulls it. The consequences of a purified mind will follow you like you own shadow. No one can do more for you than your own purified mind-- no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness"."

Oh I have, I read the whole book a while ago! I was just rereading it and that paragraph kind of hit me. It basically sums up my past and recent experiences. I did not know you were such a keen meditator.

[remolina]

I'm not really, my brain spins too much too fast. =P But I enjoy reading about how others think people should live.

[shunny]

But that's the point of meditation! To slow your brain down for a while to realize why it spins so fast.