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▲ 2 r/ROCD

There’s a free app on iPhones called NOOCD that’s incredible

Long term OCD experiencerer here

Sometimes it has felt like I have no OCD whatsoever. Life is awesome

Other times, it hits and it feels like I’ve always had it and always will

Recently I downloaded the NOCD app

So far I’ve only used their “SOS” feature. It’s the little life preserver floaty icon at the bottom right of the app. I’ve used it twice

And it has helped me both times

There are things that are OCD that I did not really realize were OCD until reading more about OCD and hearing more about it within the app

Now I’m starting to learn to recognize the onset better

And, rather than doing compulsions to seek satisfaction, which does work and feels great in the short term, but ultimately leads to a habit of using those compulsion to seek temporary relief, I’m now learning to just be with and tolerate the doubt and uncertainty, which is awesome and is mindfulness in a nutshell, and it seems this is a way to actually start to dig out the root of the uncertainty and doubt, or at least learn to tolerate it, thus changing my reaction and relationship with it

I’m realizing things like: weighing your relationship and considering decisions about it is one thing. Feeling EXTREMELY DISTURBED during this process is another. The EXTREMELY DISTURBED part is the OCD. And that part isn’t necessary. Yes, some people may have times where they consider their relationships and how they want to navigate them in the future. But does it have to be so frought with stress? I don’t think so

I can highly recommend this app to people experiencing OCD. The SOS feature alone is valuable and great

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u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 6 days ago
▲ 3 r/ROCD

Observe the thoughts themselves

In my life, I’ve found that mindful awareness has a sort of healing affect on wherever it is placed

I’ve sometimes practiced this by becoming mindfully aware of the person I’m speaking to - this seems to have a beneficial effect on both them and me

Similarly, when I used to get hiccups, I’d close my eyes and focus on the sensation of my breathing. The air going down and up through the lungs. The hiccups would disappear. I considered this to be a result of the mindful awareness healing whatever disturbance was happening in the breathing muscles to cause the repetitive hiccup reflex

When it comes to OCD, OCD is so much about the mind

And so, if one wants to heal the mind, it may be a good idea to have mindful awareness of the mind

In particular, one may become mindfully aware of thoughts themselves

To sit and watch these thoughts, this thinking process, for 5 or 10 minutes

To observe the thoughts happening, like observing a school of fish, or a flock of birds

And when one becomes distracted and immersed in the thoughts, one may eventually remember they are attempting to be aware of the thoughts. And at that time, they can reward themselves for remembering by smiling gently

And then they may return their awareness to the observing of the thoughts and the thinking process

And in this way, the thoughts and thinking process can become healed

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u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 7 days ago
▲ 5 r/Soulnexus

Mañjuśrī, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom

The Bodhisattva of Wisdom, who cuts through ignorance

The Bodhisattva of Wisdom, who bestows learning, eloquence, higher understanding, and the powers of memory upon those who concord with him

The Bodhisattva of Wisdom, the youthful Bodhisattva, the Prince of the Dharma

Mañjuśrī

To say this Name brings great benefit

To read this Name brings great benefit

To think this Name brings great benefit

So let those who wish for memory, intelligence, eloquence, and higher understanding

Indeed, let those who wish for the confidence that comes with all of these things

Recite the Holy Bodhisattva’s Name

Mañjuśrī

Mañjuśrī

Mañjuśrī

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 8 days ago
▲ 6 r/Meditation

For those who try to meditste and “can’t stop thinking”

Well, in some sense, “stopping thinking” is not always the goal in meditation

However, this may help either way

Instead of trying to stop your thinking, your task is to observe your thinking

Observe your thoughts

Like they are a flurry of fish

Or a flock of birds

Or whatever metaphor you’d like

Clouds in the sky?

In any case, observe the thoughts, observe the thinking, and when you find that you’ve temporarily become lost in the thoughts without being aware of the thoughts, simply recognize this and return to observing the thoughts

🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏽🧘🏾‍♂️🧘🏿‍♀️

This is a form of vipassana meditation, and it is also mindfulness meditation

🙏🏻

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u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 8 days ago
▲ 554 r/Buddhism

“Your mind is all stories. Let go of thinking.” — Dipa Ma

Dipa Ma was a profound meditator in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism. She was notable, among other things, for her profound loving kindness. Those around her often felt this love as a palpable energy emanating from her. In addition to her powerful loving kindness, she was a brilliant meditator, adept at both concentration practices and vipassana practices. She taught lay people as well as monastics due to her expertise in meditation.

More can be read about her here:

https://dipama.com

I personally read the biography of her which is listed on that website when I was researching siddhis, as she was said to be capable of them, with some stories in the biography

🙏🏻🪷

May all beings be peaceful and well

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 8 days ago
▲ 218 r/enlightenment

Don’t do things that make you feel weak

You have an innate ability to sense what is integrous and what is not integrous

What is not integrous makes you go weak

What is integrous makes you strong

When you perform an action that is not integrous, you go weak

And when you perform an action that is integrous, you go strong

Don’t do things that make you feel weak

For clarity, I do not mean to say don’t be vulnerable

Vulnerability can be good in the right contexts

Don’t do things that make you feel weak

Don’t say things that make you feel weak

And don’t think things that make you feel weak

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 13 days ago
▲ 2 r/ROCD

The Opposte of ROCD is Confidence / Faith

When a person has ROCD, it can be known as the “doubting disease”

The tricky thing about doubt is that it sets up a false dilemma

Doubt tells you something like this:

Oh no, option A… what if option A doesn’t work out? I just don’t know…

Oh but how about option B… well… what if option B doesn’t work out? Ugh, I just don’t know

How about option C? What if option C doesn’t work out? I just don’t know

On the surface, it may appear as if a person is struggling to choose between options A, B, and C, and that their task is in choosing the right option

However, behind all three options is something hidden, harder to see, and is what is generating the whole problem: doubt

Doubt is saying “I don’t know about option A”

“I don’t know about option B”

And “I don’t know about option C”

Doubt is also trying to eliminate options and choose the best one, but it can’t, because it doubts every option it comes into contact with

Doubt is by its nature doubtful, no matter what you put in front of it

The texture of doubt is doubt

The lens of doubt is doubt

So it sees doubtfully, like a filter

The correct antidote to doubt is actually faith

Faith is another word for confidence, or perhaps optimism

Faith is extremely powerful

Consider the anime protagonist Naruto Uzumaki

He’s an incredible symbol of faith

He has immense faith and confidence in his abilities and in his goal in becoming Hokage

This optimism and confidence is a heroic trait, found in many heroic individuals. Another is Aang, from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Let’s see how faith changes the situation when viewing the different options

Faith sees options A, B, and C, and says this:

Option A? It will turn out great

Option B? It will turn out great

Option C? It will turn out great

Faith looks at all options and has confidence that each of them will work out well

This is diametrically opposed to the view doubt has

Doubt looks at every option and thinks it will go poorly

Faith looks at every option and has confidence it would go well

When my ex, who used to fear us breaking up, would bring up her fears of us breaking up, I didn’t tell her “we’re definitely not going to break up.” Nor did I tell her “we’re definitely going to break up.”

The truth is, I did not know which of those would happen

Additionally, I also had gone through my own period of insecurity in relationships, and I remembered what had actually helped me come out of it

And that was this realization:

“Even if we do break up, I’ll be alright”

Maybe not immediately, but eventually, I would come out of it and be okay. Maybe that realization came after losing multiple relationships and seeing that I always bounced back

In any case, I also felt how this answer transcended the question being asked

The person wanted to know if we’d break up or not, but why did they want to know this?

They wanted to know because deep down, they doubted. They doubted they’d be okay.

The answer of “we’ll both be okay if we break up” is a statement of confidence and faith. It doesn’t seek to paint over the wound of doubt by offering reassurance that we’ll never break up, which is dishonest, since most people probably don’t know if that’s true or not

Faith says “I’ll be okay if we break up”

And it also says

“I’ll be okay if we stay together”

This attitude of faith makes all the difference

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u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 14 days ago
▲ 4 r/streamentry

Mettā: Friendliness | Goodwill

What are your ways you like to practice Mettā?

One way that works well for me sometimes is to imagine pink energy filling a room, or pink energy surrounding a person, or pink energy beaming from my body, or heart

Or just to imagine the color pink 😭

🌸 kind of like this pink 🌸

🌸may all beings be happy 🌸

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u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 15 days ago
▲ 0 r/ROCD

I’ve heard it said that the way to end anxiety is to increase one’s capacity to withstand it

Not to attack its symptoms with various techniques,

But to increase one’s capacity to feel anxiety

Like increasing the size of one’s container

Or deepening the depth of one’s depth

This is how a person overcomes anxiety

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 16 days ago
▲ 9 r/ROCD+1 crossposts

Hello

I made this image to describe a simple practice for calming a restless mind

Please enjoy, and feel free to share with those who you may know who struggle with restless states of mind

May all beings be at peace

🪷

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 16 days ago
▲ 200 r/TibetanBuddhism+2 crossposts

Image: Avalokiteśvara

Guru Rinpoche told King Mutig of Tibet and the close disciples, “Listen, king of Tibet, nobility and subjects! OM MANI PADME HUM is the quintessence of the Great Compassionate One, so the merit of uttering it just once is incalculable. The possible multiplication resulting from a single seed of the lotus flower lies beyond the reach of thought. But compared to that, the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once is even greater. A single sesame seed can multiply into many, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once is even greater. The four great rivers and countless other minor rivers flow into the salty ocean, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once is even greater.

All needs and wishes are granted when you supplicate the precious wish-fulfilling jewel, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once is even greater. 0M MANI PADME HUNG. It is possible to count the number of raindrops falling during twelve years of monsoon, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be counted. It is possible to count all the grains sown on the four continents, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be counted. It is possible to count the drops of water in the great ocean, one by one, but the merit Of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be counted. It is possible to count each hair on the bodies of all animals in existence, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be counted.

OM MANI PADME HUNG. The Six Syllables are the quintessence of the Great Compassionate One. It is possible to wear down a mountain of meteoric iron that is eighty thousand miles high by rubbing it Once every aeon with the softest cotton from Kashika, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be exhausted. It is possible for the merutsey insect to finish eating Mount Sumeru to the core, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be exhausted. It is possible for the tito bird to remove the sand of River Ganges with its beak, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be exhausted. It is posstble for a small breeze to scatter the earth of the four continents and Mount Sumeru, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be exhausted.

OM MANI PADME HUNG. It is possible to calculate the merit of creating a Stupa made of the seven precious substances filled with relics of the buddhas of all the world-systems and making constant offerings to it, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be calculated. It is possible to calculate the amount of merit from Offering incense, lamps, perfumes, bathing water, music, and so forth to buddhas and buddha realms in a number that equals the grains of sand found in the entire world-system, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be calculated.

OM MANI PADME HUNG. These six syllables are the quintessence of the mind of noble Avalokiteshvara. If you recite this mantra 108 times a day, you will not take rebirth in the three lower realms. In the following life you will attain a human body and in actuality you will have a vision of noble Avalokiteshvara. If you recite daily the mantra correctly twenty-one times, you will be intelligent and able to retain whatever you learn. You will have a melodious voice and become adept in the meaning of all the Buddhadharma. If you recite this mantra seven times daily, all your misdeeds will be purified and all your obscurations will be Cleared away. In following lives, no matter where you take birth, you will never be separated from noble Avalokiteshvara.

When someone is afflicted by disease or an evil influence, compared to any mundane ritual of healing or of repelling obstacles, the merit Of the Six Syllables is much more effective for warding off obstacles or disease. Compared to any medical treatment or cure, the Six Syllables are the strongest remedy against sickness and evil. The virtues Of the Six Syllables are immeasurable and cannot be fully described even by the buddhas of the three times. Why is that?

It is because this mantra is the quintessence of the mind of the noble bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who continuously looks upon the six classes of sentient beings with compassion. Thus, recitation of this mantra liberates all beings from samsara.

Kings and disciples of future generations,

Take the Great Compassionate One as your yidam.

Recite the Six Syllables as the essence mantra.

Be free from the fear of going to the lower realrns.

Avalokiteshvara is the destined deity of Tibet,

so supplicate him with faith and devotion.

You will receive blessings and attainments

And be free from doubt and hesitation.

To the knowledge Of me, Padmakara,

A teaching more profound and more swift

Has never been taught by the buddhas of the three times

I, Padmasambhava, am now taking leave.

Keep this in your hearts,

Tibetan followers, kings, and disciples,

Who are present now or will appear in the future.

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 17 days ago
▲ 4 r/Soulnexus

The Bodhisattva of Power, it’s said.

The Lord of Secrets, it’s said

Glorious Vajrapani, the Bodhisattva of Power.

The Power to heal.

The Power to walk the spiritual path.

Noxious energies, subdued.

Illnesses, overpowered.

Darkness, wrestled.

The Courage to face oneself.

The Power to set boundaries with oneself.

The Power to set boundaries with others.

Vajrapani, Lord of Secrets.

Om Vajrapani Hum

🌟🔹👤🔹🌟

u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 18 days ago
▲ 66 r/Meditation

Yeah

Here’s a tip for mindfulness of breath

Don’t think you have to watch the breath at the exclusion of other phenomena

Think of it like this instead:

“As long as I’m also aware of the breath, it’s okay to be aware of other things at the same time.”

How is this possible?

Let’s try something

While you read this, I want you to try to also become aware of your body

Try to feel the body while you simultaneously read this

It’s like that

So, in meditation, feel the breath, the touch of the breath

If thoughts arise, you can simply ask: “am I also aware of the breath right now?”

🪷

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u/Few-Worldliness8768 — 21 days ago