Occupation: Occupying Your Time Effectively

Optimally Living, that's what Occupation is, often even I can forget that. To me, Occupation initially meant a synonym for experiencing one's career, then it gained alternative implication concerning home-life therapy, which I experienced for brief periods throughout my life. However, I knew these everso superficially, and nowadays I have realised a deeply proper understanding of what it is to be occupied. To be occupied is to be fully engrossed, an imperative enduring state of doing, more than The Flow/Zone, but essentially the opposite of being in a rut. 

I perceive occupation to be best done when one is empty and has cut ties with previous struggles (preoccupations). This new slate is an opportunity for adventure and proving that you've learnt your lessons. Just as a butterfly or dragonfly has shed its cocoon so have you, metaphorically, experienced catharsis and now are fully focused and determined to live this chance wiser and smarter. 

Today I can say that I have truly buried and grieved my past into the curated archives of my subconscious. Today I am aware of my past, but preoccupied and thus still haunted by their meddlesome mischief. Their reign has ended, my sovereignity governs my present and future.

A Worthwhile & Fulfilling Day, Earned!

Each day a quota needs to be met:

• In the fields of health one must maintain, protect, and enhance one's health and those around one. Only then can one have peace of mind concerning health.

• In the fields of wealth one must maintain, earn, and develop higher limits for one's own and those around one. Only then can one have peace of mind concerning wealth.

• In the fields of happiness one must maintain, experiment, and share one's joy whilst protecting the joy of others. Only then can one have peace of mind concerning happiness. 

• Concerning health: dental, mental, hygiene, fitness, nutrition, and organ harmony is necessary to govern. One must be able to say gratefully through to one's own efforts that one did all one could do to maintain, protect, and enhance one's health and the health of those around one. Fear the consequences should be known and repeatedly threatened so as to reinforce the incentive. 

• Concerning wealth: savings, expenditure, investment, career income, independent security, and budgeting these are  necessary to govern. One must be able to say gratefully through one's own efforts that one did all one could do to maintain, earn, and develop higher limits of wealth. Fear the consequences should be known and repeatedly threatened so as to reinforce the incentive.

• Concerning happiness: affinities, expression, eustress, care for animals, etcetera all these are  necessary to govern. One must be able to say gratefully through one's own efforts that one did all one could do to maintain, experiment, and share one's joy whilst protecting the joy of others. Fear the consequences should be known and repeatedly threatened so as to reinforce the incentive.

Camping Prepations Part 1

What is camping? In any terrain, tundra, forest, jungle, veld, valley, meadow, wherever one either uses tents or constructs shelter from the surrounding resources. The intention is to thrive above surviving. It is to prove one isn't incompetent and careless with proof of one's intellect, skills, and wisdom being sufficient or exceeding expectations in a dangerous environment where urban privileges are an absent safety net. One has to rely oneself through this risky simulation. Sure, embarrassment can be a result of failure but learning can also be one despite failing, so it's not the end of the world. 

So camping is to test oneself, to be soberly aware of your current failings and advantages.

So here are my Smart Goals: 

Specific: To Go Camping Alone Or With People Within This Province

Measured: Within Two Weeks

Attainable: Sure, Easy to do. Just need a safe location and know it's terrain.

Resources & Logistics: Relatively cheap to prepare food for, driving to such a provincial place isn't too great, tools and such are usually available to family. Must catalog what is needed. 

Time: Preferably 3 to 5 days/nights

I have asked one family member to join me so far.

Until I have more information this is part 1.

I Seriously Need To Commit To This!

Salutations!

I doubt anyone read these blog posts, I almost never get comments so whatever, so I'll just vent and say whatever I need to read to myself - my only intended audience should begin just with me. 

My life until now hasn't be perfect, pleasant, and worthwhile, but I have grown, despite witnessing things in my life end. Recently I got quite depressed but a post from a podcast presenter, named Gareth Cliff, really helped me remind myself how to be restore my mindful mellowness, so here's his post of which I hope I'm allowed to post here: 

"Not sure why, or for whom, but I felt it necessary to say this: 

If you’re going through hell at the moment - 

If your life isn’t anything like what you always hoped it would be-

If people are disappointing you or hurting you -

If you’re hopeless, disconnected, lonely - 

If you’ve fallen out of love with music, art, dance, even love -

If you aren’t turned on by the things that used to turn you on - 

If you find conversation and philosophy pointless and uninspiring-

If you’ve given up on treating your body like a temple and treat it like a garbage heap -

If you don’t appreciate what others can do for you - 

If you’ve forgotten what explosive, unbounded happiness feels like - 

If you feel like you’ll never have enough - 

If you don’t sleep because your nightmares are worse than being awake - 

And if you look around and see a world that’s broken, 

Please consider that you’re not alone, that you’re alive, and that all the universe, fate and the most impossible series of events over billions of years conspired to bring you into existence here and now. 

That there are many worse off than you, and not just materially. 

That this too shall pass, however dark your personal hell might be right now. Whether you’re religious or not, there’s more to existence than the things our five rudimentary, evolved senses can make sense of, and even the greatest objective minds have never denied this. 

If your life is a disappointment, that it might be your fault and if that’s true, that you can change it. The alternative is much more horrible to comprehend, so hope it’s your fault. 

That you cannot be responsible for the feelings of others, and that if you’ve done nothing to hurt them, you shouldn’t feel guilty about them. That if they have hurt you, you can release the burden on both of you by moving on, even if you can’t find it in yourself to forgive them - but if you don’t forgive them, the burden remains only yours. 

That you can make new friends, meet new people, learn new things - and that just one of those people or things will make all the difference. Treat every person as if they have something to tell you that might change your life - and watch how they respond, and rise to that expectation, without exception. 

That you don’t need permission to be joyful; and that while euphoria and misery are the poles between which we ebb and flow, you can take exquisite pleasure in a song or a sunset without anyone else on earth knowing of it. Learning to love seemingly trivial things can teach you how to enjoy the greater ones.

Meaning doesn’t come from fulfilling your goals or from triumph or comfort - it comes from taking on responsibility, first for yourself, then for those close to you and finally for greater humanity. You’ll continue to feel empty until you realize that things are reliant on you to operate properly, and that you can create and maintain those things. Don’t lie in bed, get up and trim the grass, tidy your house, organize your world. Wallow, and the meaninglessness will eat you from the inside out - and you’ll deserve it. 

Earn a better relationship with your body. Nobody can stop you from eating a donut or lying around all day - but it will stop your heart, eventually. The meat vehicle you inhabit can serve you or you can let it represent your carelessness for all to see. You get to make this call, and it’s never too late. 

Finally, countless generations have sacrificed their lives to create the civilization around you that makes learning, sustenance, law, engineering, construction, time, science, language, religion and culture so easy to access. Pay attention to the things you say about humanity, society, culture and institutions that you didn’t build, but that you’re lucky enough to inherit. If you’re ungrateful for them, you might not deserve them. It is better to be alive now than at any time before on planet earth and there’s nothing you cannot know, that some other primate can. All the information that mankind has amassed is available to you right now. So get off of Facebook and find out whatever you want. 

Sleep tight. 

G" 

I know I can write like this, but sometimes other persons write what you would write to others when they are feeling like how you have been feeling and that's wonderfully remedial. 

So I am hoping to keep to writing blogs as I should. Post, Like, & Comment here, perhaps your words of encouragement with facilitate me in fully becoming who I aspire to be and who everyone already thinks I am already successful and such.

Regards, MPG 

Day Three: More Ideas²

Salutations, My Readers!

I have been thinking about Rick & Morty and My Newest Novel, Eucatastrophe. These are my thoughts:

Tonight, the third of May, episode six of Rick & Morty season 4 is released by Adult Swim and beyond being excited to watch it I want to talk about the Dungeons & Dragons Rick & Morty Adventures. I have read and own the first volume and read the first two issues of the second volume which I hope to buy from my friendly neighbourhood comic book store, Heroes of Games & Comics Bedford Centre. 

Despite how International Lockdown has restricted comic book industry there is still hope. Also, now Diamond Comics no longer has a monopoly on distribution graphic literature to comic book & hobby stores. So I'm not worrying, I should be able to purchase and collection my requested order soon enough this month. 

Second to (re)watching the show the graphic literature of Rick & Morty D&D Adventures are very satisfactory, so much so that I rate it 2nd place in top three graphic novels I bought and read last year, with The Brave & The Bold: Batman & Wonder Woman and Marvel 1602 being my first and third favourites respectively. I have already written essays about investigative reviews of graphic novels throughout last year, so fret not, I shall post them here on Zero To Zenful soon enough. 

Now thoughts of the D&D graphic literature are such, the animation of characters, encounters, monsters, backgrounds, and expression of ideas and behaviour are wonderfully executed, more excellent than shows, especially you can leisurely savour each page without the need to pause a scene in the actual main series. The Rick & Morty D&D Adventures aren't referenced by the show but that may change soon enough, but the graphic novel is canon in a way, you still follow the same Rick Sanchez and the Smith family in a believable fashion but the graphic novels are best examples of what filler episodes could be even though the main show does not yet mention memories of ever experiencing such just yet. So, yeah, I recommend the graphic novels and how they make you feel so blessed for buying and reading them. I love feeling that.

Now on to Eucatastrophe, my latest novel still in the process of being completed. Eucatastrophe is a story about the world reality of Esper, which is similar to Eberron in the sense that all planes revolve around the material plane, and also mostly about those residing, defending, and exploiting Anto the material plane. My protagonists are Mercedez, Jonstantine, and Azarael, an accursed Tiefling, a bastard Cambion, and a royal Succubus. Eucatastrophe is a noir high fantasy story, grotesque characters can be good and others can be bad, the same for statuesque persons can be just as bad or good as the grotesques, but it is not as simply unoriginal as that, as there are Daelkyr and Gith whom are enigmatic and difficult to comprehend and support, yet these can be friend, foe, and or contract allies. Like the title implies, the story will end bittersweetly and cathartically, but knowing the manner of such an inevitable end shouldn't be a problem, as like a Rubik's Cube there many variations of how things realign themselves to complete, thusly destination is not as important as journey and how the journey develops to its paradoxically prophetic end.

Lastly, there is one thought I have been pondering pertaining to success, struggles, suffering, and other procedures. These are trains to me, no matter the simplicity or complexity of the circuitry of wakeful life and lucid dreaming being mindful of being on the train or discovering you are the train fooling yourself by engaging any of those procedures, you must realise it is your choice to continue and discontinue them as well as wisely choose your circuits and remain committed to making them succeed. It's not easy, but it is inescapable, you will always be a passenger and train, so make the most of your everlasting adventure because it is dependent on you how to cope.

Well, that's all I have for you today, please follow me on Instagram via Last_Son_Of_Kempton and subscribe to my YouTube channel Zero To Zenful which I still need to record videos for. Until Tomorrow!

Day Two: More Ideas

Salutations, My Readers!

Obviously I am maintaining the momentum which I began yesterday. 

So lately I have been trying to write another novel, a Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Story called Eucatastrophe: Paradise, Purgatory, & Perdition. While receiving advice from a wise friend she inspired me with how best to create this story, a concept I have translated from what she intended but how I best understand it as 'Susanoo Construction'. 

Yes, this Occidental Otaku (Weeaboo) went there, but I don't mind. So in Naruto Shippuden several significant Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake who can awaken the Dōjutsu Kekkei Genkai Mangekyō Sharingan can unlock and employ the Susanoo which is a gigantic, humanoid avatar made of the user's chakra which surrounds them and fights on their behalf. Being one of the Three Great Dōjutsu, the others are the Byakugan and the Rinnegan, but I digress as per usual. Anyway, so the Susanoo commences with chakra avatar light and dark constructs to form parts of a complete gigantic skeleton above and surrounding the wielder, subsequently chakra avatar muscles grow around the ghoulish skeleton like a monstrous titan from Attack On Titan, and then eventually armour and weaponry manifest armour the Susanoo ready to formidably and indomitably defend, retaliate, and destroy. 

Exquisitely majestic a privilege that would be to literally produce such a construct what I am saying is metaphorical, especially since in my mind maximum effort of willpower is necessary to unleash and accomplish any and everything, thusly if I can utilise my enthusiasm of anime to perspicaciously control and develop my literary actions then I shall embrace that solution. So far this method is helping progress far better than before. 

Additionally I have been pondering and exploiting another idea of mine which I call 'Anime Hero Professionalism' and this concept has been greatly influential in motivating me to return to blogging. The practice of Anime Hero Professionalism is a concept based off a trope I sampled from anime case studying, a very worthwhile pursuit. The structure, focus, and actions of a successful otaku has many worthwhile rewards, thusly I am greatly enjoying the cultivation.

Lastly, from my Dungeons & Dragons adventuring last month I stumbled upon a loophole realisation for my Warforged Battle Smith Artificer, concepts called 'Minecrafting', 'Enemy Material Reaping', & 'Self-Cannibalising'. As these harvesting concepts easily describe almost anytime and anywhere in Eberron Smith can craft what it needs and wants to survive and thrive. I am proud of this loophole, however it does have problems, but those problems are opportunities in disguise, because when your is on the road through wilderness and there are no nearby villages, towns, and cities you better either pray for a travelling merchant with a wagon full of premade device like kiln, cauldrons, and other workshop appliances that cannot be made from scratch with makeshift stuff in the wilderness or that you already have a wagon dragging all lab equipment with you or that your lab is a demiplane/pocket dimension/TARDIS. 

Well, that's all I have for you today, please follow me on Instagram via Last_Son_Of_Kempton and subscribe to my YouTube channel Zero To Zenful which I still need to record videos for. Until Tomorrow!

Opportunities & Dangers of Lockdown

Old Habits Die Hard Or People And Their Habits Die Hard

Welcome Back All, And To Those Who Are New To My Blog. I have always been an ambitiously aspiring writer and maintaining commitment to continue a journal, blog, and most activities have been a constant  struggle. Ultimately I may never fully transition from this default habit of minea and I cannot promise I won't fail again, but what I can promise is that I will keep retrying and relearning.

Anyway, many things have changed over the years since I began this blog, such Dungeons & Dragons Adventures, my Studio Room of Empowerment, a Comic Book Store Job, a (former) Girlfriend, lots of Collectibles, Style & Hygiene Tactics, and Skills. 

Alongside blogging I have always wanted to create and develop a YouTube channel, and lately I have completed the fundamentals of the channel which is also the name of this very blog, Zero To Zenful. Here is what it is about:

I am a Dungeons & Dragons Game Master, Perspicacious Essayist, and Knowledgeable Fount of Graphic & Novel Literature Facts, Tropes, and Trivia. 

My target audience:

Teens, Young Adults, and Adults.

Inclusive of all cultures, personalities, orientations, gender identities, and backgrounds such as Nerds, Geeks, Hipsters, Emos, Goths, Punks, the Grungy, Surfers, Bards, and Academics.

My Language & Mannerisms: 

Mostly British English pronunciation and spelling

Occasional swearing

Expressive hand gestures, Sign Language Skills currently studying.

Knows, Speaks, & Understands: Latin, Italian, and Japanese.

My Weaknesses: 

Sarcasm & Abbreviation

Detection & Interpretation

Impatience & Distractibility

Goals:

Graphic Novel Creation

D&D Campaign Creation & Gameplay

Charisma & Sign Language

Mastering Woodcraft & Restoration

Yoga & Athletic Mastery

Optimal Fitness & Health

Mental Health Self Actualization

My Content:

My Insights

My Reactions To The Insights Of Others

My Experiments 'Mythbusting' 

My Reviews & Unboxing

Topic Analysis

Discussion of Games, Philosophy, and Movies.

The first episode I intend to concentrate upon the following three topics:

    1.'Soulful Zenitude', an concept I have realised, that emotional attachment is akin to one to somehow creating horcruxes, one initially believes one needs these to survive but one can survive and thrive with cultivating and evolving one's soul independent of other persons and things, but this is not always obvious. So instead of pouring yourself into other things and persons to be zenfully secure in one's solitude an actualised singularity manifests, a living nirvana. Not nothingness but sufferinglessness, to live zenful.

    2.'The Serendipity of Sport', sport at its core essentially requires one's willpower to indulge one's craving of Creativity & Destruction to exercise a healthy alternative combination. Throughout the ages men and woman have unhealthily endeavoured to satisfy these urges through war, espionage, and murder/crime. Healthy Alternative Combinations usually include the acts of mating & birthing (violence & pain preceding new life) and artworks, one breaks, damages, and spreads things to become unified in the resulting beauty of creative predation. 

    3.'Ring of Willpower', often when one is alone and invisible to others one is at the mercy and discretion of one's mood and choices, this obvious, however, one is accountable to one's choices, no behaviour just happens, control remains one merely lessens the strictness on oneself. The Ring of Gyges, one of the major inspirations for Tolkien's One Ring of Sauron, naturally inspired me to empower (the opposite of perversion, I believe) the concept with spirit of the Green Lantern Corps Oath which goes as follows "In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night No Evil Will Escape My Sight, For Those Who Worship Evil's Might, Beware My Power Green Lantern's Light!". In retrospect this reminds me of my talent for recreation of concepts, stories, and everything without knowing that I am, I used to be annoyed that I somehow kept on contriving ideas even though I never consciously chose to do such, my subconscious is a most wonderful help, it absorbs to reconfigure to my mind's autistic format and even easily reengineers concepts other people in the distant past and the not so distant past tried very hard to compose over very long periods. So nowadays I am very compassionately grateful to my graceful mind, body, and soul for being so special and optimal especially when I don't always notice its enigmatic processes. Sometimes one can be a stranger to oneself, it's nice to be surprised and impressed with how powerful one actually is and can still become.

As a first episode this much seems sufficient a start as a first step in a marathon of episodes still to be produced and released.

Grateful Am I To You For Sharing In My Daily Quests Transform From Zero To Zenful. Namaste & Live Long And Prosper! 🙏🖖