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Re: Living without Stories
Due to a set of circumstances which I will not enumerate, I have been compelled to watch movies every night at bedtime. I have felt that I am being poisoned - story after story after vapid story. It affects my state of mindfulness in the morning, and I have to purge this "story mind" as a form of practice. Not too difficult or time-consuming, but I have to be aware of it when it is active and be able to discriminate between potentially useful stories and merely distracting ones.
Not sure I would advocate living without stories entirely - I'm suspect they can sometimes be a useful tool, but they also have a tendency to get out of hand. Just another thing of which to be mindful, I think.
Fosdick
Re: Living without Stories
Every thought has the potential to turn into a story.... I have a trilogy of Novels buzzing around my head. What a Biography this is going to turn out to be.
Currently, one reader.
Needs an editor....
federica
Re: Living without Stories
The ego/ selfish self or identity is just the telling of a story.
This story is created & promoted through the manipulation of our sense gate data flows.
Stop manipulating the sense gate data and the story dissipates.
This is what meditation teaches us to do.
This is one description of the difference between being dreambound and being awake.
how
Re: And Now For Something Interesting..... Perhaps Educational Too...
Family Constellations, also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations, is a therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and isiZulu beliefs and attitudes to family. In a single session, a Family Constellation attempts to reveal an unrecognized dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family and to resolve the deleterious effects of that dynamic by encouraging the subject, through representatives, to encounter and accept the factual reality of the past.
Jeroen
And Now For Something Interesting..... Perhaps Educational Too...
What are the Jinn?
Oops the wrong kind of Jinn spirit...Mind you, both can be found in a bottle...and once out of the bottle both can cause havoc if not used sensibly...
Feel free to add a video of something interested, perhaps educational too...
Shoshin1
Thoughts on Plogging: Mindfulness of Dog Poo, Beer cans and broken wine bottles
I do not know about your countries / places, but Lanzarote is unfortunately extremely littered by cans, plastics, and other waste. There is little to no consideration nor education regarding our environment. Recycling has begun a bit late, but we are getting there.
From another thread here, I've encountered this term -plogging- to go for a walk and collect rubbish. I've started doing it quite often to clean at least my most immediate surroundings. The results are great, but I still get angry when I see cans the very next day, particularly when I see a pattern: meaning the same person just doing it again and again. In this case, it is a red Dorada beer can (squashed in a particular way and then thrown), a wine bottle (same brand, always thrown at the same places, same route) and dog poop in a plastic bag (with a particular knot and always left on the ground or next to the plants).
I realised how quickly my mind starts snapping: Look! Again! Sons of bitches! How can they do this? In Spanish it sounds a lot angrier and better I have to say: ¡Otra vez estos hijos de puta! ¡Serán subnormales! Suddenly, I realised how I was littering my mind, just like they are...
No point in complaining about them. I want this parcel to be clean for hedgehogs to roam, cats to rest, and humans to enjoy their walks across.
Small acts of kindness as How mentioned can be powerful. These also count when we are kind to our mind and not pollute it with these thoughts.
Just a bit of eco-buddhist engagement! 
Kotishka
