Dharma Curious (he/him)

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  • That’s fair. I would love to be turned into a lemon tree, too. It’s my favorite food. Haha. I’m hoping I don’t have to live through losing the rest of my family, but I’m 10 years younger than the second youngest member of my family. I don’t know if there will be anyone to bring peace to by the time I go. Lemon tree would be cool, but if I can be used to teach to doctors or to somehow save lives, that would be amazing


  • Similar scenario with my buddy. He was a Baptist preacher from the time he was old enough to be told by his family what he would be doing with his life, up until he was about 25ish when he left that. He had done funerals and been there to comfort families who had lost someone, but he was very nervous about actually doing the cutting up and such. He told me all about it excitedly when he had finally done it. Details I absolutely did not need haha





  • Honestly, I kind of wish I could have some kind of purpose for people like this after death. From what I gather, though, actually donating your body to something useful is fairly difficult with long wait lists and such. Which is a shame. I’d like to have some use after I’m gone. I have seriously considered trying to get myself to India to die and doing a sky burial like a few groups there do





  • Most days I’m about a 3, sometimes it’s more like 4. If I’m reading a book or doing something like that, where I’m really focusing on the visualization, I can get to 2. The only time I ever get to 1 is when I’m laying in bed at night about to fall asleep.

    I have real trouble sleeping sometimes, and one of the things I do to help is put on instrumental music (lately, a lot of jazz sax), and then pick some random scenario, like:

    “if I could be king of the world what policy changes would I make?”

    Or “if I ever get to have kids, what kind of things would I most want to teach them?”

    Or “Let’s design the perfect floorplan for my dream home”

    And as I begin to drift off, but while still consciously aware, I can see things in stunning detail, but it’s always like they’re semi transparent. That’s not a great example, because there’s no backdrop, but it’s the best I’ve got.