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some pain?is it a gain?
paulyso
usa Veteran
i have some pain in the brain,
i got to manage this pain.
because life can change,
from pain,
to gain.
what's the gain to change this brain?
i say less pain,
and feeling a little bit more sane.
so i try not to sit and dwell on the pain,
and do something positive for a nice gain.
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...'and too much thinking about the brain could drive one insane'....
@lobster and I can vouch for this...however my insanity is borderline but as for poor @lobster ...well @lobster crossed the boarder long ago and can't ( or refuses to) find the way home
lol,so relateable.you two are great.i enjoy your thoughts on stuff.
Lack of acceptance in the face of situations we cannot change is far more distressful than learning to cope and making the best of what we have, with what we have.
Far more unbearable than the arrow of dukkha inherent to samsaric reality, is the second arrow of self-imposed strain, when we refuse to accept life as it is, or when we overthink our situation rather than proactively doing something about it, I guess.
I hope your pain is not so unbearable anyway, @paulyso
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thank you buddhadragon.
no my pain is not so unbearable.nowadays the mental efliction comes and goes.the poem was reflective before buddhist practice especially as a teanager who was an outcast.
with buddhist practice --leting go is a real thing with time,grace,and patience.so im in a good place now.but still nutty from time to time.im a bag of chips on my own.so there was something positive being a teanage outcast,i had time with myself...yeah i like myself.
Hey @paulyso .... We all like you too...
We all are.
Shoulder chips, chips without friendly fish, addictive life gambling chips, potato heading chips, mundane fries with everything and so on ...
However, chip away the surface and ...
There is something worthwhile. Self compassion, gratitude, kindness which we can extend from the inside to the outsider. Which is not so crazy ...
There is always pain/dukkha. I think I read that somewhere ...
How can we bear the unbearable? Chip sharing ...
We sure do. ???
I do sympathise paulyso I sometimes go through difficult periods with also some pain in the brain, with various visionary whirlings of thought and I think afterwards ‘was that really worthwhile’ even though it is involuntary.
But it often makes me think of Bodhidharma’s saying, ‘if you can understand the mind, all else is included’. After all these things are all in the mind, and our mind generates these things, our pain is self-inflicted.
Much metta to you, paulyso...
yes kerome i sometimes have left field involentary funky dreams too.but we know it's just brain generated.what you said , nothing should be cling too helps me to not give so much thought to it.
thank you.
thanks everyone for being great and kind.your words are uplifting.
time to come by
and see my mind
how my mind has change
from pain to gain
now my mind
laughs so more
a good fart
will do
my mind
so true to see
my face
is my mind.
now is the time
to be and do
and hug yourself
if you slip and fall
life is here
mind on,
moms heart says,
less think,do more,dont spend to much,
carries in my mind.
so i must walk my talk
and talk my walk.
tree:
about tree,
can be a key
to see.
what do i see.
a tree,is life.
nature and nurture
helps a tree be
strong and true.
so see a tree
and feel the tree,
maybe the tree sees you
the tree dont mind,
its happy to be free,
rooted in tree.
sky:
sky so blue
can change its hue.
from blue to o-so-range.
sky is cool
never so blue
letting clouds dance by
the dance of form
is fun for all
to see icecream floating by
so look at the sky
and let our mind
wanderby