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We can color our whole life with kindness, transforming our everyday activities and suffusing our everyday ways of being with human warmth. This can happen. Our life can be translated into love.

17th Karmapa

from the book “The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out”

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a powerful forest spirit visited my yard 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

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Peaches

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On Binge Eating #8

Aversion to the addiction. feeds the addiction. The aversion to it feeds it. Negative press on a politician you don’t like is still press No attention to it, giving up me trying to control it, letting it come and go is what gets rid of it. To be averse to it being there is giving it attention which gives it power which makes it be there more. It’s like a slanderous conversation. You can decide to be a part of it or just walk away.

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The ego is a veil between humans and God.

Rumi (via islamic-art-and-quotes)

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On Binge Eating #7

Found this insightful today: “ You will slip up, of course, now and again. These are hard habits to break. But think carefully about just how often you are engaging in these behaviors, and see them for what they are—a temporary fix that can cause a lasting problem. And remember the lesson of the hungry ghosts. The unsettled self can never be sated with food.”

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Allah promised safe landing, not calm passage.

Waleed Basyouni (via islamic-art-and-quotes)

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On Binge Eating #6

There might always be wanting in my life It just is never special. It never was. There’s nothing to fight or run from. Addiction is as special as any other thought or emotion Fleeting, although seemingly not Until it changes into something else And I am still here I haven’t died I’ve observed And did my best not to react

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“Allah” calligraphy in discontinuous letters

Source: warsheh, via IslamicArtDB

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On Binge Eating #5

Recently, I have been practicing mindfulness meditation after watching some basic instructions on You Tube. I have had experience with concentration and deep meditation before, but never took the simple observation and noting approach to the body, thoughts, actions, and emotions. In my short experience, mindfulness is freedom, at the very least. It is almost as if by simple observation, without judgment or controlling, but simply seeing the body, mind, and emotions as they act of themselves they appear to be not a part of “you”. You are the one that is watching all of this take place, as it arises, stays for awhile, and then falls away. Even physical pain is like this; quite literally the pain i get in my hips that, when disassociated, becomes just another sensation and not something that is coupled with aversion. I’ve also applied this to the cold showers i take in the morning. It drastically reduces the somewhat dramatic reaction involved either in a obtuse or subtle way. The cold water i am mindful of is just “cold”. I just take note of it, not reacting to it to much or trying to control it, run away or fight it from it internally. I hope this makes sense. In the same light, addictions, waves of emotion, and thoughts, and the literally rise and fall of the breath can be seen in such a way. You can then carry this observation and awareness throughout your daily life which, honestly, i think is quite a challenge (mainly because it means i have to sacrifice those things which function as distractions for me) but the result is a serene, collected attitude which i think is essential to any massage therapist or therapist in general.   In my opinion and experience, you establish yourself as not your emotions, thoughts, and body but as the awareness of these.  I’m totally a novice. However, so far, this has been helping me a lot though and i hope other people will investigate this practice as well. Thank you Gautama Buddha and other sages who have perfected and taught this. Here is a playlist i have been watching to get the basics of this practice:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL603BD0B03E12F5A1 Have an excellent, productive, and peaceful day

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On Binge Eating #4 (I think)

Just today, i saw what i thought to be... One homeless drug addict One drug addict I also began reading meditation material and have been reestablishing a meditation practice that I had forsaken. I’ve been setting goals and listening and watching materials that, for the most part aid in me becoming the kind of person i would like to be. I do this instead of dedicating my time to wasting away, watching pleasurable videos, watching porn, binge eating, jerking off, and not dedicating even 30 minutes to something insightful, inspiring, or purposeful

These people i saw today spoke to me. You follow pleasure, you ultimately think and feel as these individuals did and probably still do: lost, anxious, ecstatic, and confused. They sit in the anxiety of a purposeless life. They scratch their necks as they look frantically left and right, haunted by their own actions, hollowly lifted up by their own delusions of pleasure and conceit. Tight shoulders, nappy hair and sun-dried skin empowered by the grease of self-righteousness because... ‘...it’s “their fault” and not mine...’ That is a lie.

It’s in the wasted space that anxiety creeps in, its in the space of blaming others that anxiety creeps in, its in the frantic grasping for power that anxiety creeps in, its in the lack of taking responsibility for your life that anxiety creeps in. I just barely started taking responsibility for my current situation, but i’m getting better at it day by day. Yeah, i might fall back, but that only means i get right back on the fucking horse and keep trucking along.  They reminded me of myself when i would go on a binge eating tangent, blaming everything else but myself for my behavior, i hate my job, i wasn’t taught discipline as a child, i’m to tired to stay focused, i just to lazy, my mom

Who benefits from your self-pity. Where does that get you? Get back on your horse.

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if you have a twitter and aren’t following this man, you’re a fucking idiot

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your crimes are known. the frog council sits in judgement.

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