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Nov 14, 2011 14:35:32 GMT -5
Post by mamza on Nov 14, 2011 14:35:32 GMT -5
Familiarity struck today as the smell of autumn leaves wafted by. I've been heaving all day since, trying to smell for as long as I can (before having to exhale) because it was so awesome. LOL.
It made me realize how smoothed over I interpret everything to be when in reality there is so much texture to everything.
Anybody smell anything neat today?
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Nov 14, 2011 14:48:10 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2011 14:48:10 GMT -5
Anybody smell anything neat today? GREAT question. I love it. That one has to go in the message bottle to the universe as well. |
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Nov 14, 2011 15:11:52 GMT -5
Post by zendancer on Nov 14, 2011 15:11:52 GMT -5
Familiarity struck today as the smell of autumn leaves wafted by. I've been heaving all day since, trying to smell for as long as I can (before having to exhale) because it was so awesome. LOL. It made me realize how smoothed over I interpret everything to be when in reality there is so much texture to everything. Anybody smell anything neat today? Oh yes. Smell is the first sense to disappear on the path from childhood to adulthood and the last to reappear when ATA. Smell is a very powerful sense. Dry autumn leaves have a different smell than wet autumn leaves, but both can bring back ancient memories. I was hiking a favorite trail in Percy Warner Park in Nashville yesterday, and the smell given off by a large patch of wildflowers was so strong and so extraordinary that it stopped me in my tracks. I had to stand there for several minutes and just experience it before moving on. It was like a tangible cloud enveloping that part of the trail. In the spring I often experience such rich sweet smells being emitted by honeysuckle and other flowers that I think the bees and butterflies must get drunk on the smell and go mad with joy. |
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Nov 14, 2011 17:07:03 GMT -5
Post by mamza on Nov 14, 2011 17:07:03 GMT -5
Yeah, a tangible cloud is a really good way of putting it. It's almost as if you could walk out of that one and into another just a few feet away. You can sort of feel the smells. I almost believed that the smell had color to it too, but that was just mind trying to label the very, very distinct smell.
It's difficult to grasp how such a strong sense could be ignored.
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Nov 14, 2011 19:25:47 GMT -5
Post by therealfake on Nov 14, 2011 19:25:47 GMT -5
Yeah, a tangible cloud is a really good way of putting it. It's almost as if you could walk out of that one and into another just a few feet away. You can sort of feel the smells. I almost believed that the smell had color to it too, but that was just mind trying to label the very, very distinct smell. It's difficult to grasp how such a strong sense could be ignored. The other day while working around a cable terminal outside, I accidentally stepped in a big pile of Sh*t and because my work boots have an aggressive tread, it was almost impossible to get it all off. I smelled sh*t the whole day long wherever I went. What's funny is that I realized that the movement away from the smell of sh*t or toward the smell of honeysuckle, is all in the mind. And what gets smelled is just a part of the whole, in this present moment of reality. It's simply the wonderful reality of 'smelling'... Although I do prefer the smell of honeysuckle...heh Peace |
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Nov 14, 2011 20:51:00 GMT -5
Post by zendancer on Nov 14, 2011 20:51:00 GMT -5
(Sigh)
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Nov 14, 2011 21:15:30 GMT -5
Post by angela on Nov 14, 2011 21:15:30 GMT -5
(giggle) oh! and today i smelled my hair, seven and a half years worth of dreadlocks, right after i cut them off my head.  |
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Nov 14, 2011 21:26:06 GMT -5
Post by therealfake on Nov 14, 2011 21:26:06 GMT -5
(giggle) oh! and today i smelled my hair, seven and a half years worth of dreadlocks, right after i cut them off my head. Did the smell bring back any memories? I mean the nuances could probably tell some stories of their own... Going back to my parallel universe now... |
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Nov 14, 2011 21:28:59 GMT -5
Post by mamza on Nov 14, 2011 21:28:59 GMT -5
Oooh, neat, Angela! My friends all got into the dread scene out in Nebraska, but it never interested me. They had to use beeswax and strange soaps to keep it clean... and that sounds like a pain to me. What did yours smell like though? Was it pleasant?
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Nov 14, 2011 21:53:37 GMT -5
Post by teetown on Nov 14, 2011 21:53:37 GMT -5
No. Sh#t stinks. That's reality. It has nothing to do with mind. Revolting smells trigger a natural response in the body. Actually, the very moment you reflected on it was when you went back into mind. What's funny is that I realized that the movement away from the smell of sh*t or toward the smell of honeysuckle, is all in the mind. |
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Nov 14, 2011 22:03:36 GMT -5
Post by mamza on Nov 14, 2011 22:03:36 GMT -5
No. Sh#t stinks. That's reality. It has nothing to do with mind. Revolting smells trigger a natural response in the body. Actually, the very moment you reflected on it was when you went back into mind. What's funny is that I realized that the movement away from the smell of sh*t or toward the smell of honeysuckle, is all in the mind. Correctamundo! |
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Nov 15, 2011 11:08:25 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2011 11:08:25 GMT -5
wetland
it was very subtle...on the scale of underripe honeydew melon.
but even better was the question -- thanks mamza! pulled me out of listening to an interview with an avatar. i was running on trails before sunrise through a wetland and listening to a batgap podcast and then the question popped and i sniffed. nothing. sniffed again, then i stopped and turned and a very soft breeze was blowing my direction and it was the wetland. but better was that now i could hear a few birds chirp, two joggers grainy footslaps 1/4 mile away, the thunder of a jet...
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Nov 15, 2011 11:28:51 GMT -5
Post by therealfake on Nov 15, 2011 11:28:51 GMT -5
No. Sh#t stinks. That's reality. It has nothing to do with mind. Revolting smells trigger a natural response in the body. Actually, the very moment you reflected on it was when you went back into mind. What's funny is that I realized that the movement away from the smell of sh*t or toward the smell of honeysuckle, is all in the mind. To a Dung Beetle it's the sweetest smell in the world. After all if your going to present it to a possible mate it's got to be top notch. Sh*t is not separate from the whole of reality, but moving away in aversion to it, by the mind is....lol |
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Nov 15, 2011 12:54:33 GMT -5
Post by andrew on Nov 15, 2011 12:54:33 GMT -5
I notice that this bodymind system has spontaneous aversions to some things. Thats why we tend to spit our sour milk when we drink it.
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Nov 15, 2011 13:49:59 GMT -5
Post by teetown on Nov 15, 2011 13:49:59 GMT -5
Trf:
So you've never gagged because of a really terrible smell?
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