Shakazulu

The Dispassionate Mind

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A mind of treating reality equally. Ability to not cling or need anything, while remaining  emotionally connected. I'm in the progress of building a dispassionate mind! What are steps towards this? ?

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@ajasatya Further elaboration would be appreciated 

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@Shakazulu experiencing nirvana is a simple (not complex) and hard (not easy) task. it's so simple that we struggle with it because the typical mind is conditioned to chew complexity.

nirvana cannot be experienced with struggle because it's an effortless state. you can't get there. you can only allow it to manifest itself. you need to allow yourself to have moments of contentment and unconditional acceptance of everything.

if you look carefully, the life of a buddha is a life of humility and renunciation. why is it so?


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first step to build a dispassionate mind is destroy the passionate one :)

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10 hours ago, Shakazulu said:

@orroz sexy! Define " the passionate mind " 

in my dictionary, passionate mind = a condition in which your mind is affected and overwhelmed by passions (desieres, emotions, feelings, sentimenatal-memories, etc.). In this state there is a lack of lucidity and the body-mind is highly susceptible and impressionable by anything.

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@Shakazulu Strong Determination Sitting would be a good technique for that.

To become dispassionate, you will have to spend 1000s of hours observing your passions as they arise in the moment, and also resisting and surrendering them mindfully.


You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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@Shakazulu  ;)
ehi, if you need some funny hints try these:

1) indulge in fantasies as long as you can, until you realize the foolishness of that desire.

2) imagine you have already satisfied all your body-needs and accomplished all you mental-goals. Stay in this state. The mind is still and calm. Contemplate this pleasure. Nothing to do, all done. Convince yourself is actually like this.

3) swing between the ultimate sorrow and the ultimate pleasure. At these extremeties feelings (positive/negative) coincide with the supreme sensation. This supreme feeling seems nothing, but it is everything. So, pleasure = sorrow... no need to distinguish them. Just arbitrary preference of the mind.

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if you want to go deeper:

4) go back in time, before you were born. Where is your mind, your body, your personal story?

5) go forward, after your death. Where is your mind, your body, you story?

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@Shakazulu Just came across it randomly,  sorry I don't know...perhaps non-duality & non-attachment work could also be helpful? wishing you the best!

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