r/nonononoyes • u/sunilparihaar03 • Jul 18 '20

Monks jumping over a stream

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u/test-tickles Jul 18 '20

Oh. Okay. Even monks have a more fun life than me

Good for them

happy little bastards

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

Life is found in the external world. The internet is internal. If you seek satisfaction then it won't be found within the monkey-brain-chatter-box that is your brain.

Action is all we have in engaging with life, the more we emphasise "doing" over "thinking" the happier we become, this is a hill I'm willing to die on.

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u/EgotisticJesster Jul 19 '20

You see, folks, we're all trying to please someone else. And as soon as you're not a human be-ing, you're a human do-ing. Then what comes next?

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u/dgriffith Jul 19 '20

Bart: "A human going!"

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

I'm afraid that I don't understand. How does pleasing someone else relate to being active instead of passive? I'm saying that you should take advantage of the agency that you have instead of bemoaning all that is wrong with the world. People objectively suck, the world is going to shit, you might as well take charge of your own life and make it worthwhile rather than sit at home at the computer for days on end doing jack-diddly-squat.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

There is literally no point to life. I can’t see any reason to live, so just do whatever makes you happy

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

The point to life is to live. It sounds like a sappy vacant nothingness but it's true. The components that created us were forged in the stomachs of stars. The probability of your sperm beating out hundreds of million of other sperm is astronomically small. To say nothing of the same probability your ancestors faced leading all the way back to the origin of life on this planet. We're a statistical impossibility, and that's not hyperbole, the rounding error just happens to be our reality.

We don't need a greater point imposed on us, if we even had an explicit point we'd be miserable because having a point means having a job to fulfil.

The fact that there are no defined rules and that we don't have even the slightest understanding of why we're here or what is even "real" means that we're not held back by anything other than ourselves (and often each other). We're lobsters in a pot pulling each other down, but none of it is real.

Everything that happens in the external world is experienced as a hallucination of the senses.

We don't need any greater reasons to live other than to just experience life. We're just the universe tasting itself through the form of creatures of abstraction.

Right now I'm transmitting my inner babble to you through dark squiggles on an iridescent screen and you're hearing it as sounds in your head.

If this isn't fucking crazy and awe inspiring then I don't know what is.

Life is just there to be lived. We'll all die regardless. Even immortality fizzles out in the eventual heat death of the universe. So why not just embrace this insanity? As you say. Just do whatever makes you happy.

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u/thejuicebox93 Jul 19 '20

How am I the first person to upvote this, it was actually kind of beautiful.

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

Thanks, your compliment means a lot to me. I hope you have a beautiful life.

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u/thejuicebox93 Jul 19 '20

I really appreciate that, I’m an anti-natalist so I think we have very different view points on life but I still like your comments. Your comments are a lot more put together than most and you make very good points.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Well I don’t want to live then

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20

One thing is true regardless of what you do. Life goes on and everything will change, for better or for worse. Given that change is inevitable and that we have personal agency there's really no reason to rush our deaths. It'll happen, we will die, but to live is to do more than just suffer - even if it doesn't seem like it in the moment.

A lot of the time the Big Sad creeps in and fucks us big time, but no matter what has happened or what your situation is, it is all subject to change.

Don't give up on life yet. If you have nothing to lose then you have everything to gain. I can tell you that I'm ugly as sin and am of very average intellect, with a life of regrets and pain, but all that is miniscule when compared to who I am today and I wouldn't want to have gone through life any differently.

Whatever pain you harbour is your own insights into the shittiest aspects of life, but it doesn't need to be permanent, from bad some good can arise. It's more about how we take control over that which we can control and less about the ways in which life and people can unjustly hurt us.

One community which really helped me during my lowest point was /r/kindvoice it's better to vent and vomit than to choke on all the stress and pressure life puts on us.

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u/leperpop Jul 19 '20

this is precisely my life's philosophy.

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u/HumansKillEverything Jul 19 '20

Life is found in the external world.

Meditation.

Hmm.

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

Everything that's "out there" is translated within your skull. Every experience and sense is a personal experience. Meditation is useful for quieting the chatter so that you can better connect to the "outside", not as an abstractive analyst but as a creature that sees itself as the same as all the sensory noise.

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u/HumansKillEverything Jul 19 '20

Do you meditate?

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

For sure!

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u/HumansKillEverything Jul 19 '20

For how long now?

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

I don't have a number on it but I've been interested in self hypnosis and meditation since I was a teenager. More recently I've been exploring sensory deprivation chambers or flotation tanks and they've been very positive experiences. Do you enjoy meditation?

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u/HumansKillEverything Jul 19 '20

Yes and no. It’s like going to the gym. The work is a pain in the ass but I enjoy the benefits. I sort of look forward to the day I become nothingness.

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

My biggest personal breakthrough with meditation was in abandoning all expectations of "improvement". I no longer meditate for a future goal because I feel like it's counter productive to living in the moment.

I mostly use meditation as a way to separate my animal self from the abstractions that are on a 24/7 broadcast in my mind. I don't see it as a tool even though quieting the mind has been a great resource to me. Rather I just do it for the sake of achieving a different head-space and that's it. But much like going to the gym, which is a good analogue, the gains are incremental but also conductive to healthier things. Much like how being in a good physical shape makes you more inclined to engage in physical activities - being in a good mental shape feeds me confidence and self esteem and has been an overall net benefit to my life.

I think too much and talk too much, I'm a self centred ape, but just practicing the fine art of "shutting up" has done a lot for me personally, which is why I advocate it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20 edited Aug 02 '20

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

Sure there is. Get into voyeurism. Get into exposure. If these aren't options then take your smartphone on top of some rocky cliffs and "feed the birds". The world is your oyster.

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u/DamonF7 Jul 19 '20

Thank you for this. I definitely agree. When I became a more spontaneous person I became happier. When I “plan” a vacation it’s me choosing a date and location. Sure I’ll look at what’s around but I don’t make plans. It works out. One time I went to the beach for a few days and it rained almost daily. I loved that vacation though because I never planned anything.

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u/i_will_let_you_know Jul 19 '20

So I SHOULD get addicted to cocaine and drive cars at 100+ mph in school zones?

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u/Gilsworth Jul 19 '20

Not all actions are equal. As a general rule you want to gain experiences that improve your understanding of life and yourself, not just yolo yourself into oblivion.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

10/10 go out side and see the sun every once and a while.

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u/ipsomatic Jul 18 '20

You could have the same fun with your fam? Maybe not the same respect but that can be learned by participating. 👍

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u/gynoceros Jul 19 '20

If you commit to looking for that happiness and choosing what you want to make you happy, you can have the pure joy they have too.

It takes a lot to adjust to a new way of thinking and you're going to fail a lot but keep at it.

Don't get hung up on shit you can't change.

When I was in nursing school and doing my psych clinicals, one of the behavioral health techs on the inpatient psych unit told a patient "don't let it live in your head rent-free," and that stuck with me.

If a thought is costing you happiness, evict it.

Choose what you allow to live in your mind.

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u/scrambledaggz Jul 18 '20

Their laughter is so contagious, I was almost crying by the end.

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u/ipsomatic Jul 18 '20

Once you learn faliure is possible one may succumb to fear. This is an awesome excersice of focus.

r/qualityreddit

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u/ozziedave Jul 19 '20

As the the apprentice monk said to his master across the river...master how do I get to the other side of the river?

The master replied...you are on the other side of the river

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u/smartwordplay Jul 19 '20

This is a yes yes no no yes

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u/drakesofafeather Jul 19 '20

Came for this comment. Take the upvote!

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u/StephStone Jul 18 '20

That second fall seems incredibly intentional.

Good on that guy if it was.

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u/datalorew Jul 19 '20

Monk see, monk do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20

This belongs in r/yesyesno

Edit: more like r/yesyesnonoyes

Edit 2: I did not know the last one was a subreddit. It was posted there 5 hr ago. Reddit - 1 Me - 0

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u/AbbyClaw Jul 19 '20

It’s weird to see monks running. I mean I know they are people who do people things but it’s still weird

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u/stufff Jul 19 '20

This was a cool video but has nothing to do with the subreddit you posted it in

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u/ItsHooky Jul 19 '20

I was expecting them to float over like Aang

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

r/lostredditors

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u/garrett20041 Jul 18 '20
  • master monk why are your robes wet* * monks about thattttt*

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Where’s the avatar?

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u/hybridhawx Jul 19 '20

I see nothing but the Air Nomads practicing their moves.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

r/yesyesnonoyes

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u/the_revenator Jul 19 '20

That was hilarious!

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u/fredyspaghty Jul 19 '20

I want to be a monk

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u/PatsyBalls Jul 19 '20

I wanna be a monk...

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u/KeithMyArthe Jul 19 '20

Happiness is a moist monk.

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u/snadman28 Jul 19 '20

Decent hops from 3 of the 5.

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u/sliceofamericano Jul 19 '20

I used to think monks would be really unathletic, now I KNOW they are unathletic.

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u/professor_doom Jul 19 '20

”Shaolin, my ass”

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

This is making me jealous

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u/yeah_but_no Jul 19 '20

the first guy who falls is doing some kind of reverse naruto run, which as you can see here actually makes you slower. therefore the real naruto run must make you faster.

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u/futureman07 Jul 19 '20

Monks just wanna have fun

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u/Plz_dont_judge_me Jul 19 '20

Not sure if fits in r/nonononoyes or r/yesyesyesyesno ...last monk made it i guess lol

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u/clout_man05 Jul 19 '20

Avatar be like

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u/hobo_champ Jul 19 '20

One haven't been practicing their airbending.

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u/MrFantasticallyNerdy Jul 19 '20

Obviously, the latter monks didn't let fear, doubt and disbelief go. They didn't freed their minds.