lobster @sopuli.xyz We are probably lobster, living in London. Just started the “Meditation” community. All levels, styles welcome …
A non existent practice creates non existent results. Same with most things.
The observing from outside. The duality is the first realisation. We are not our thoughts. Our thought are us. They create the sense of self.
The thoughts come from a variety of directions or arisings. The function of meditation is to initially slow this continual barrage of undisciplined mind and senses. To be aware of the nature of this very real situation and how it controls us, not the other way around.
This is from my rasayana/alchemical journal
MYSTERY
We have created the means of our own expression. The essence calls into being the means of production. Purification and refining leads to the right merging with what is left. Forgetting the eye dissolves the substance. The remembered material is non-existent.
The King remembered by the Queen, consumed in passion, dissolves.
First prise is coagulation, then dissolving. The goal of Light travelling in darkness is the same as Darkness in Light. Darkness in darkness is the eternal arriving.
The point of existence is multiple not singular. We have attended the revels, unravelled the mysteries, revealed knowledge and reveiled our understanding. Now the revels are alluded. One element has many natures. The white harte heralds what is dear to us. The secret unveiled is greater than the secret revealed.
Ignore the wise and attend the fool. The eternal circle is broken through creation. The formation in the receptacle ensures continuation. Create and grow what is not. Each element is pure. You will know when you do not need to understand.
From the mistakes of Our Science comes their seance science. We do not ignore our protégé as they forget their heritage. We have:
- energy without source power without end substance from nowhere to somewhere
It is our knowledge which is completing. That beyond science will discard. To hour Science there is no end. The missing books of knowledge have never been lost.
Reduce the fuel to increase the age. That which struggles to be is perfected by effort. The fruit is better than the result. Create a stillness within the still. The undisturbed flame is uneffected by the storm. Now you are in your laboratory. Work towards efficiency not abundance. We will not reach our goal by moving forward.
How to bow
Bowing and prostrations can be salutation, veneration, slow travel, healing exercise and meditation.
Most of us are aware of palms together and bowing.
https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/17927/health-benefits-of-prostrations
Enlightened?
The ultimate goal of meditation is constant attentive awareness, becoming enlightenment.
Takes an instance of time or a lifetime.
There are several ways of meditating/learning together and it does encourage/inspire.
Examples?
- Second Life and other Virtual Realities have communal meditations
- During lockdown Zoom hosted sits, popularised distance meditations
- Many meditation apps, timers, mindfulness bells available etc
Zoom in
Zoom is a popular way of engaging in instruction on meditation and even online retreats https://amaravati.org/retreat-centre/online-retreats-general-information/
Too intense? Well here are some free books https://media.amaravati.org/dhamma-books
… audio teachings on meditation https://amaravati.org/teachings/meditation/
Going Inward
Deep in the cluster of the young deer herd is a dark deer. This Dear Friends is the protective layers of the mind/being. We can always go deeper.
How we do so depends on time, intention, previous experience, goals and so on …
If for example, speaking from experience, we practice the supposedly relaxing alternate nostril breathing in yoga and it makes us tense … Desist.
If we wish to avoid religion. Do so. Atheists can contemplate.
If Christian we can find practice that moves us inward in retreats, texts such as 'The Cloud of Unknowing' and exploring the great mystics https://andrewjtaggart.com/2021/05/18/the-cloud-of-unknowing-a-summary-for-mystics/
Going inward is finding the resources that gel and inspire the still small 'voice'. Noise we find anywhere and everywhere … https://stillsmallvoicetarot.com/card/the-hanged-man/
OK … How is it going?
Well after reading this https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-mastodon/
Was prompted to search again for RaspberryPi 4 to HDMI cable. No luck.
More searching for info required. She who dares, wines … or in my case whines …
Engage claws. Hold on tight …
Thanks for the feedback guys. ❣️🫵🙏 I am calling my soul server OPERATION HORCRUX. Really in honour of the presently unfashionable Black Hat Death Eaters …
Obviously I hope in time to have several instances. Possibly on a quantum or organic neurone chip if available. Maybe in another dimension/dream world.🤩
But for now before I am overtaken by my dank side:😇
- Have a raspberry pi 3 available, could not find the right cable for the pi 4
- Trying to use my existing hardware for my first piece/peace/instance
- Am plugged into home ethernet and a relatively fast fibre optic cable service
My next tasks: To prepare/format a micro SD card and find a one piece raspberry pi solution. Not sure if I want a Virtual Box/Machine solution. Probably a dedicated Pi Server would be best? I could then white list a savvy friend and MAYBE family … in which case would maybe start with a HTML page and passwords to be given out personally. Wot fun! (I iz such a computer nerd)🤗
Sadly only Herpo the Foul and Tom Riddle know how to make HorCrux. Fortunately I am not daunted by fantasy … 🤓😁🦞
My plan, no rush
In time,
I hope to set up a tiny self hosted instance running on a Raspberry Pi. Containing my personal bubble of interests. In other words it will be my virtual cyber essence.
My cyber-sole/soul if you like, the best bits. Calling my Lemmy/Fediverse instance, Operation Horcrux.
IT is a dream. Expecto Patronum …
Morning meditation - Led
Good morning! Requires a good start.
For example here is an example of sitting into led physical and mental vitalisation. Great way to start the day in 15 minutes of positive awareness https://youtu.be/sQRG1M9PAys
I was pleased to welcome the day. Hope you find/know a favoured way to start …
I saw Richard Stallman talking about GNU. The kids of Linus were running around the stage during the talk. That was the day I decided to be a penguin. My sort of freedom.
If you have ever been cyber stalked, you may prefer to have anon avatars, names etc. Having been stalked I prefer to have the option.
Most of us are pretty innocuous but trolls, scam bots, agenda pusher, junk sellers, etc are not something I want …
Be safe.
This early morning went for a walk around my local greenery. My first point of contact/awareness was the feet. Grounding and consciously trying to relax the feet in my beach shoes.
Amazed to find animals such as urban foxes and squirrels running away from me. That means either they or I or maybe both were stressed. Slowed my walking. Engaged diaphragmatic breathing.
Be present in your surroundings, is key.
https://www.gaiam.com/blogs/discover/how-to-be-more-mindful-just-by-breathing-and-walking
let me in!
This morning, I tried to get into Sopuli, using Firefox on Puppy Linux.
Could I? No! It was rustating. I would say frustrating but I feel ironed out.
I do move between input hardware, so difficult to say what the issue was.
Sadly don't have the interest to chase it down. Just venting. Sorry!
How to walk
Walking consciously and slowly can be done in various ways:
Walking occupies or focusses the physical attention and is often much easier meditation for those unable to sit still … https://www.mindful.org/daily-mindful-walking-practice/
A walk just clears the mind.
- around sanctified ground, shrine, pagan maze, safe area, a room or hall, garden etc.
- with a rosary, mala, prayer beads or just finger 'counting' using repetition of puja, prayers, mantra, zhikr, calming words
- radiating a conscious quality, eg metta, good will, smile etc.
Stroll on!
Tried it, liked it. Glad it is still active. It uses much software I am familiar with. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz
What browsers are used with it, can not remember?
How to Breathe
Dear friends of the out breath,
Conscious breathing is a good practice. With daily meditation, eventually a natural, slow rhythm is likely to arise.
We can also as an act of focus, breathe in and out consciously. Tension reduction is possible very easily as a reminder.
I was almost holding my breath, shallow breathing to such an extent, that my well being/health was stifled.
Learn diaphragm breathing!
https://www.thebreathingclass.com/media-index/want-better-health-learn-to-breathe-like-a-child-again
Rather than copy centralised, Integrate useful features across the fediverse
Examples:
- Mastodon could use the up down reddit style boost/like buttons
- Just giving stylistic differences to services is less important (but end users love it) as it is easier to implement …
- Certain aspects are a nightmare of complexity for end users, for example taking followers to new instances should be automatic, then give users the option to unsubscribe, downvote etc
- User simplicity is the strength of the centralised twitter, reddit etc … until the content pushing/commercial payback of bubble bursting overvaluations …
Linus is coming?
who has sent invites?
I was thinking of sending out invites to my old Puppys (Puppy users) but I use Raspbian, Manjaro and [shield your eyes] even BSD derivative IOS … ☺️
Is we St Ignatius of GNU compatible? 🤔
Why I choosed Sew/So puli/pulley?
Never been much for ribbit/rabbit/read it so don't ever remember registering. I like fediverse mentality and extreme ad-minning but which lemmy lemming to jump off the cliff with?
No haters … and liked the Beaver.
Here I iz and likes it
Lots! ☑️💕❣️
Sorry to hear only flies. I have a tiny 30’ garden patch. The flies arrive first, then the bees, then butterflies (if lucky) couple of months ago it was little blues but hoping for others …
The grave patch I am very pleased with and hopeful for a spreading effect …
Planting box sounds like something us urbanites can manage. Do you have access to a flat roof? We have a slate roof on our outside loo … thinking of flattening and growing moss or some such … for the pixies to play on … 🤔🦋🦞
Unusual dead greening? 🪦🫶🦞
Dear Friends,
went to our local cemetery to tend an ancient ancestor, well just my gran actually. The grave was full of earth, few months ago seeded with meadow wild flowers. Now cornflowers and others are blooming. Sadly much of the high grassland they will spread to was being mowed with petrol strimmers.
Find the corners of earth, I live in a metro area and will continue seeding as the wind blows …
slow and hence unusable when I tried it
spoiler
___ shhh …
IT just works? for otters?/others libraries, knot 4 me … could not even join the Matrix despite two requests for confirmation post/chat/eel-mail
Wot the 'eell/el ? :)
I used Debian Knoppix, before I had a spare hard drive. Puppy can now be built and be compatible with Debian …
Retired Puppy
Many years ago when I was a baby distro-hopping penguin, I new so little. And many distros were full of watered down unix illuminati. Very condescending/dismissive/unkind advisory know it alls. Boo! Hiss!
A rather intriguing Linux, not even on version one had a kind user; knowledgeable, patient and willing to answer my noob questions. I had that distro on the back burner, valuing its incredible speed and efficient programs but its screen scrolling was s l o w on my hardware …
And then … I was helped with making use of my very old graphic card. Whoosh, all of a sudden Puppy Linux was viable and still very different, experimental and well … just small, efficient, ran from RAM as root. Basically the way Linux for a desktop could be …
I was hooked in …
I was not much for programming but could support in a variety of other ways. Daily news-letters, youtube talks, curating the wiki, posts on the forum. Testing every release and reporting back etc. etc.
I am no longer active but remember …
… support your distro … My very first act was starting this page … grown a bit since then https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux
Mantra
Repeating a phrase such as 'relax', 'breathe out' or a religious affirmation can be done in several ways. Which is yours? https://blog.mindvalley.com/mantra-meditation/
Led meditations
I just did a Taoist led meditation but even simpler is Yoga Nidra done lying down. It is a form of focussed and deliberate breathing and body relaxing, many who do yoga will be familiar with …
Personal Journal
Journaling, blogging and feeding back practices, arisings, difficulties etc is a useful way to encourage and get feedback
In many ways the journal is very grounding and a useful tool to enhanced benefits https://careclinic.io/meditation-journal/
meditation is Nothing … oh wait …
The simplest meditations I have done have been 1 minute ones. Yep that's minute … ;)
here is an example … https://youtu.be/6ioSLvAaNF0
you are now a meditator - easy peasy :)
Yep! just call it HLA (Hi Level Assembler) or ++Sea or?
Just wot we need another language ;)
welcome
Do you meditate, contemplate, practice calming through breath, chanting etc. Maybe walking meditation, prostrations etc.
Maybe Atheist or Buddhist, Yogi or led meditations. Sufi, Kabbala, New Age etc.
Here to share experiences and support each other
Dear ex-friends of creddit
… used riddit only occasionally but I am glad to be here, or anywhere on the fediverse …
Thank you admins for your kind efforts. … like all fish, so was keen to join anything with fins
FIN