Earlier yesterday, I had increased the preset timer to 56 minutes. At night, I had 12 minutes remaining on the preset timer when I first opened my eyes. In the first 4 minutes of the remaining 12, I affirmed for harmony with a certain degree of sincerity. In the next 6 minutes, I continued making affirmations but I wasn’t able to do it with the same degree of sincerity as before. In the last 2 minutes that were remaining, I just sat. I made a conscious effort to not get busy with anything that requires for me to move. I just sat straight for the last 2 minutes.
Freely flowing life energy is now dedicatedly making itself heard from a spot within my head. More than 2 decades back, when I hungrily read anything and everything written by Paramahansa Yogananda and Swami Vivekananda, I read about the meditational phenomenon of hearing a variety of sounds that come from within during deep meditation.
I didn’t have the mental capacity back then to be able to imagine what sounds from within could be. That’s probably why Kundalini energy related literature is esoteric. One has to experience it to understand fully the words written for it. Last night, it was so comforting to hear clear percussion like sounds that I knew no one else to could hear. The comfort was in knowing that life energy has not abandoned its blessed work in my meditative mind spaces.
From what I heard last night, I am convinced that life energy wishes to make my attention single. It’s probably a rite of passage. My attention has to be single pointed in order to prepare me for the third eye. My attention continues to turn to the centre of my head through the sounds it hears. Life energy has to train my attention to not scatter itself over mental imagery. To this end, I have been blessed with an interiorised sense of hearing and a steady flow of life energy into my head.
I love how some of the implications of the stories told fly right over SY’s head, even when he’s the one telling them. I mean, sure, they’re the very surface level implications rather than the deep lessons he wanted to impart on Binghe, but really.
9/10
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū
Characters: Luò Bīnghé, Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū
Additional Tags: White Lotus Luò Bīnghé, Thirsty Luò Bīnghé, Pining Luò Bīnghé, POV Luò Bīnghé, Unreliable Narrator, Good Teacher Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Storytelling, 17yr old & teacher - mild underage romance, No Sex, Shen Yuan is point farming like crazy in the background, Pre-Endless Abyss (Scum Villain)
Summary:
With the Immortal Alliance Conference looming ever closer, Binghe finds his Shizun acting strangely, intent on telling him a series of tales with some lessons hidden within that he struggles to interpret. Tales of heroes doomed to an ill fate, of enchanted silence, of love, of kind demons, and demonic realms. The only thing Binghe is sure of is that his Shizun is secretly pleading for understanding and help. And he hopes maybe also… true love?
Look I'm not saying I have favorites because I don't but also I am Andreil trash and you know this about me. So 101 Ways not to Say I Do - @jtl-fics
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Sir, thankfully, remained loyal and eyed Nicky suspiciously. However, Nicky was too preoccupied with petting King to notice.
"Can I give them treats? Where are they?"
"First, no. Second, focus, Hemmick," Andrew said. "You know where the guest room is. Your things should be there, unless your memory has gotten so bad that you think our entryway is the guest room."
Toasting fix by dickhurt, toasting hack by Pescado, and toasting set mod by simler90 all have crucial fixes, but none of them covers it completely. So I put together a mod that:
Disables toast with/to with ungreeted visitors, walkbys, and service NPCs (from simler90)
Also disables them for ghosts (from dickhurt)
Stops toasting getting pushed for sleeping sims (from Pescado)
The mod also stops sims from autonomously disposing the toasting set during parties, and visitors from disposing it altogether.
Download (SFS) (alternate)
For the complementary, the folder also includes a neat little mod by @lamare-sims. It makes the autonomous toast to newlyweds occur less often; it's only allowed after the sims get married, and even then it can only happen every other hour.
These two mods are meant to replace all of those earlier fixes and will conflict with them. They are perfectly compatible with the flute default I did with @pforestsims though.
Update (3.1.2024): Fixed a typo that prevented toasting to getting pushed on sims.
2ish miles with the girls. They're going to be doing improvements to this park for the summer season so I'm interested to see what access will be allowed during construction. It's such an easy place to take the dogs so I'll be a little bummed if we have to miss an entire season of walks here. We'll just have to see!