#cultivation

[nemfrog]

"Mushrooms grown on greenhouse benches." Mushrooms: how to grow them. 1901.

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[joyfuls-world]

the funny thing about the MDZS fandom is that one can write about wwx do all sorts of ridiculous things (from creating a magical dildo to convincing people that he is actually the reincarnation of a god) and fans will just say: yeah, he would do that

[crippled-peeper]

I spent the eclipse ripping up garlic mustard at the local trail and filling the holes left behind with native flower seeds I collected last winter as a way to honor the land I live on (and so every time I walk by the flowers I can remember the cool eclipse)

[lamaery]

Shard Roller Disco: Roshar Odium has been thirdwheeling for millennia. hmm... song to this in the back of my head: All of the Time by Jungle just for the vibe of the song More Shard Roller Disco AU: Nalthis Sel and Scadrial Scadrial 2 First of the Sun and Taldain Threnody Roshar 2 (row spoilers) Roshar 3 Bonus Dawnshard (spoilers)

[theratking-heheheheheh]

I for a while now have been thinking about a scum villain fanfiction idea again.

SY would be Isakied instead of transmigration, and still having a limit to how long his life is because of pre-existing illness. He is a very short time to make an impact in his web novel may it be the one he hated the most.

He quickly learns that modern music makes fast money and begins to perform the village gaining traction before he decides what he wants to do to make his impact. And one day, it comes to him after spending years of his life reading that hellish web novel he would now help half demons in and out of the human realm.

In the way he does this is by creating a travelling orchestra. All his staff from the outside would just be ordinary staff, but from the inside demons and half demon alike, escaping. 

Then, after some time, the cultivation sects Would catch wind of an organization going around in funneling, half demons into the demon realm through the borders and would try to shut it down to spite it not harming anyone because they’re just absurd like that.

And a team of disciples are sent to do recon and get to witness a wonderful, breathtaking play(heavy in your arms by Lawrence + the machines) before it gets interrupted by another cultivation sect, and the play vanishes in the blink of an eye like no one had ever been there. 

[gooseisamenance]

Cultivation doin what she does best

[viridializard]

cosmere inktober 20: dragon

[river-in-the-woods]

Karma

I sometimes come across people who say they “don’t believe in karma.” I believe this stems from a misunderstanding of karma as a purely supernatural force.

Karma is not something you believe in: it is cause and effect, as real and insentient as the force of gravity. Karma is a shorthand for everything a being can experience and the causes that lead to these experiences.

You touch the fire and it burns you. That’s karma. Your karma is that you are a being of flesh and your body cannot tolerate certain elements.

Your family has a history of cancer, and you develop cancer. That’s karma. Your karma is that you carry the genetic inclination for certain diseases.

You encounter a challenge and overcome it against all odds. That’s karma. Your karma is that you had the skills and resources to achieve the outcome you desired.

When we observe certain phenomena in the world, we understand that this was possible because there was the necessary karma for it to occur - the necessary causes were present. Sometimes we label this as ‘bad’ karma or ‘good’ karma, purely because of how we perceive that experience. There will have been innumerable factors involved in that experience coming to pass. Hence, karma can be understood in a purely mundane context.

Since we spiritual practitioners tend to get involved with magic, gods, spirits and other realms, then naturally we observe that there are additional ways in which karma can work. Sometimes on a scale that is difficult to comprehend and spans lifetimes.

When we understand karma, that is, cause and effect, we come to understand some of the myriad of influences upon our experience. Sometimes we understand enough that we can change the karma that we have.

In my opinion, karma makes the most sense in the context of rebirth and spiritual inheritance: the idea that there is some continuity after death and the karma of one life can be inherited by another.

The way that I personally understand karma is that it is like an attunement, or a momentum. Every action, every thought, is like a movement that creates a gust of wind that pushes us toward a certain outcome. Repeated actions of a certain nature solidify this momentum, like gathering winds that create a storm, or trails of water that carve a riverbed into the earth.

Across lifetimes, this becomes especially powerful. We may find ourselves repeatedly experiencing certain themes in our lives. The same kinds of fortune and misfortune that come back in different forms, created by the momentum of our inherited karma. It takes persistent effort to escape what has been ingrained into our experience and go beyond what our past has shaped us to be.

Karma must also be understood in the context of interdependence. We do not exist in isolation, our own karma will impact the karma of others, and vice versa. Everything in the world has its own karma, a way it can influence other things: how we navigate these influences determines our fate.

Don’t be daunted by the enormity of it all. A ship that sails across the sea will not encounter every wave on the ocean, only the ones in its path. We have the choice to ride upon those waves, or we can learn to read the winds and waters and try to change our course.

[moran-more-like-moron]

My friend after me informing about danmie: what the fuck does cultivation mean bc every time you say cultivation my brain says hehe harvest 🌾🌾

@strangecore

[moncoeurestatoimonamour]

Ｌｅ Ｖｅｒｃｏｒｓ

𝘐𝘴𝘦̀𝘳𝘦 - 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

©️LM®️

[sunroseofthewood]

Sorry I couldn't add all of them, only ten options allowed

[onlycosmere]

Shard of Cultivation by Connor Chamberlain

[picocoon]

Terrace Cultivation

[crippled-peeper]

planting trees in densely urban areas will lower the urban heat-island effect on the ground and reduce the number of heat-related illnesses and deaths over time.

trees also help pull pollution from the atmosphere and fix it into their wood and bark. did you know trees life spans can be shortened by being closer to roads/polluted air? they serve us and die for us and we don’t even notice.

trees protect us and we should really respect them more as the globe warms. In the USA, if you’re wealthy/lucky you will have many trees in your neighborhood. If you are in a low-income area they are rarer. this directly correlates to heat deaths.

so if you see a tree dying from drought in your neighborhood…. maybe give it a hand if you can. that tree may very much pay your community back years down the line

[lamaery]

20 - dragon

I just want to draw her more… ------------------ image description:

digital painting of Cultivation and her vessel Koravellium Avanast as a large woman with dark skin and wide hips. there are faint tattoo-like scaled bands snaking around her legs and arms. The funnel bodice of her tress in reminiscent of a tree trunk. Her hair blends into the darkness surrounding her head, sprinkled with the tiny, green, glowing dots of life spren dancing around her, mimicking the green glow of her eyes. One particularly large one just above her head becoming the eye of a dragon, the outlines of its head barely visible, more lines further up hinting at its big wings spread out at the top. The lowlight setting, light seeping from the lower right gives the scenery an eery, mysterious quality of deep purples and greens small iridescent moments giving the appearance that She is glowing despite shrouded in shadows. The second image is a greyscale version of the image with a purple tinge as the lighter mid-tone.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

LMGTS: Xianxia leads to another

Quest master: Here's a quest set in a cultivation/xianxia universe, blatantly inspired by Will Wright's Cradle Series. Me: Oh, that's nice. QM: Everyone talks in funny ways, because this quest is set in another world entirely, one based heavily on Chinese media. Me: Mmm-hm.

QM: Also, here's one of my main characters talking about "punching down" in the negative.

Me:

This particular forum happens to be very, very progressive. And the character in question came from an under-privileged background, and is quoting his former master, a storyteller.

And that master said a certain story wasn't good because it's just about a trickster hurting people who can't hurt him back, even though the story is popular.

Sure, the character is mocking and quoting his ex-master, but that phrasing still shouldn't be there.