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Gm!

Gm ☕️ 🫂 🤙

What's your favorite way to consume the coffee ☕️?

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My favorite is cappuccino

you're welcome. if you read the piece on my website that i linked, LMK what you think. 🙏

The ability to experience the highs and lows in life with equanimity. 🙏🫂

Maybe mix in being content.

But that can lead to complacency which may lead to laziness. Which can spiral quickly to an anxious moment.

So maybe a temporary or momentary feeling of complete calm or peace. (And that moment can last for varying times).

Because nothing can be sustained forever.

Yep, that is very true. Space on a daily level, a deeper level and just Nature too 🖕

For me, and i think for most people. Life will always be difficult in some manner or another.

Serenity will come and go on the daily or hourly. Serenity can be very fleeting.

Calmness precedes serenity.

The more of your time you own. The easier you can find the time to chill and calm yourself.

Therefore an abundance of free time = more chance to do what you enjoy; leading to potentially finding reoccurring serenity on the daily.

I don’t think serenity should be the goal. Owning your time should be the end game.

Serenity isn’t some sort of milestones that you achieve and have forever.

It’s a mindset and lifestyle to aspire towards.

Had the weirdest dreams... Nothing new in that field anyway.

GM #Nostr 🌞🫂

you're welcome. if you read the piece on my website that i linked, LMK what you think. 🙏

it's often a concept that people aspire to that gets in the way of who they really are. this word is a red flag and reminds me of people who think "Zen" means you are always serene somehow or happy. this is not possible. most of the time we are neutral. we can't be happy or serene if we don't experience the whole range of our feelings, our relative minds work by contrast. practice is the deletion of concepts such as this and then the deletion of the deletion to the point that one forgets the self. (as dogen says "to forget the self is to study the self". serenity can arrive naturally but forcing it (like "those" Zen students on retreat who put on a Serenity mask while at the same time visibly look like they are jabbing a fork in their hand under the table.

i wrote this piece about emotions a while ago and touched on what i am referring to above in it.

sacredpeak.ink/2023/10/19/the-strength-of-strings/

in terms of a definition, real serenity is a natural result of dropping our baggage. the half smile of a person steeped in practice is this smile but that person has feelings and displays those as well exactly in accord with themself in each moment. if you want to see a true half smile, DaVinci painted a very famous painting with one that people misread IMO.

@SGT.FISH thank you for asking this question.

I was having troubles with the definition at first. Then I started thinking of it as abundance of the mind and soul

A trap

Not needing anything more emotionally and spiritually. Being peaceful and calm

Have a nice day fren 🐸🫡

Good morning Fish!

Good morning 🐟☕☀️🫂