Does anyone know how to make life good and if so, how? An which books will help
drugs
>>8017550
k, i'm gonna buy some modafinil
Life is good, dummy. Read some Buddhist lit
8. The Art of Life
Yen-Ping-Chung asked Kuan-Yi-Wu as to cherishing life.
Kuan-Yi-Wu replied: “It suffices to give it its free course, neither checking nor obstructing it.”
Yen-Ping-Chung said: “And as to details?”
Kuan-Yi-Wu replied: “Allow the ear to hear what it likes, the eye to see what it likes, the nose to smell what it likes, the mouth to say what it likes, the body to enjoy the comforts it likes to have, and the mind to do what it likes.
“Now what the ear likes to hear is music, and the prohibition of it is what I call obstruction to the ear.
“What the eye likes to look at is beauty; and its not being permitted to regard this beauty I call obstruction of sight.
“What the nose likes to smell is perfume; and its not being permitted to smell I call obstruction to scent.
“What the mouth likes to talk about is right and wrong; and if it is not permitted to speak I call it obstruction of the understanding.
“The comforts the body enjoys to have are rich food and fine clothing; and if it is not permitted, then I call that obstruction of the senses of the body.
“What the mind likes is to be at peace; and its not being permitted rest I call obstruction of the mind's nature.
“All these obstructions are a source of the most painful vexation.
“Morbidly to cultivate this cause of vexation, unable to get rid of it, and so have a long but very sad life of a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years, is not what I call cherishing life.
“But to check this source of obstruction and with calm enjoyment to await death for a day, a month, or a year or ten years, is what I understand by enjoying life.”
Kuan-Yi-Wu said: “Since I have told you about cherishing life, please tell me how it is with the burial of the dead.”
Yen-Ping-Chung said: “Burying the dead is but of very little importance. What shall I tell you about it?”
Kuan-Yi-Wu replied: “I really wish to hear it.”
Yen-Ping-Chung answered: “What can I do when I am dead? They may burn my body, or cast it into deep water, or inter it, or leave it uninterred, or throw it wrapped up in a mat into some ditch, or cover it with princely apparel and embroidered garments and rest it in a stone sarcophagus. All that depends on mere chance.”
Kuan-Yi-Wu looked round at Pao-Shu-huang-tse and said to him: “Both of us have made some progress in the doctrine of life and death.”
>>8017556
Modafinil is onl good for concentration and avoiding sleep. You're more likely to give yourself anxiety since you're still depriving yourself of rest. I know, I've been there.
You're better off taking phenibut, kratom, and microdosing on marijuana (enough to make you mellow, not to the point where you're incapable of interacting with people.)
>>8017582
this is awful. i'm glad china are going to pay for the wall now
>>8017605
does anyone else find that modafinil irritates their bowels?
>>8017613
11. The Folly of Desire for Long Life
Meng-sun-Yang asked Yang Chu: “There are men who cherish life and care for their bodies with the intention of grasping immortality. Is that possible?”
Yang Chu replied: “According to the laws of nature there is no such thing as immortality.”
Meng-sun-Yang: “Yet is it possible to acquire a very long life?”
Yang Chu: “According to the laws of nature there is no such thing as a very long life. Neither can life be preserved by cherishing nor the body benefited by fostering.”
Meng-sun-Yang: “What would be a long life?”
“All things were the same as they are now. The five good and bad passions were of old as they are now. So also the safety and peril of the four limbs. Grief and joy for the things of this world were of old as they are now, and the constant change of peace and revolution. Having seen and heard all these things, one would already be awearied of it at the age of a hundred. How much more after a very long life!”
Meng-sun-Yang: “If it be so a sudden death would be preferable to a long life; therefore we ought to run on to a pointed sword or jump into deep water to have what our heart yearns for.”
Yang Chu: “No. Having once come into life regard it and let it pass; mark its desires and wishes, and so wait death.
“When death comes, disregard it and let it come. Mark what it brings you, and be drifted away to annihilation.
“If you pay no regard to life and death, and let them be as they are, how can you be anxious lest our life should end too soon?”
>>8017619
I get some gurgling sometimes, but nothing uncomfortable. When it gets bad, it sounds like I'm really hungry. Then again, I only take it on an empty stomach so I COULD just be really hungry.
>>8017605
i've taken it before and it was good, but i took it before an exam once and i felt like i was going to die, luckily i hadn't revised so it didn't make a difference.
can't do weed, can't function on it at all. i think i'm just a fundamentally useless human being
>>8017631
I've had those moments too. Different strands have different effects at different intensities, kind of like kratom. Taking tolerance into account, you have to take just enough to get what you're missing.
The first time I did it, I giggled for hours. When I tried a different strain, my heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest. Last night, I took just enough to reach ego-death, which is exactly what I needed.
After that, I wrote for hours about my emotional baggage and why I look at life as "what am I missing," rather than, "what can I add?" Found out it basically reaches back to pressure from my folks to succeed. 100's and A's were thought of as the norm and anything less was disappointing. 18 years of that co-dependent relationship left me fucked up and now I have to figure out how to look at life in terms of growth potential, not failure avoidance.
That's just me, though.
>>8017656
sounds neat
