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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
Wild Coyote, I hope you and everyone else will get a good night's sleep. Just your intent is a helpful step. Though it doesn't always work, sometimes I have good success just turning all lights off (I love total darkness) and saying "You are going to go to sleep now." Then I try to think of nothingness. Not in a bad or scary sense. Just consciously turn my thinking off. I challenge myself to not think. Moments pass, and very often...
Zzzzzzzz
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It took me a long time to be comfortable with nothingness. I read that the western philosophy and lifestyle is very uncomfortable with zen and nothingness. The eastern philosophy is much more comfortable with that state. I don't know if that's true or not for westerners but it was true for me.
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Nammu
…Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …...
Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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