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    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    RV was great today. Well, not the results but the doing itself. I am way more emotionally stable from just yesterday, which makes the RV practice way more enjoyable. The silence doenst kill me as all the emotions that would usually flood me were already dealt with. Thats at least how I think it works. I need to make body doubling an essential part of my daily routine.
  3. Did Buddha had gaps in his understanding of reality?
  4. I agree with the first bolded part, but disagree with the second. Spending conservatively - ie, in a way that looks poor - can be a necessary step to becoming wealthy, especially if your starting place is debt. Knowledge is certainly richness. Before age 24 I'd never flown in a plane. In the 4 years since, I've flown 40 times, with 36 of the flights paid for me (to several U.S. states, and to/from Mongolia and Korea twice). Companies and universities flew me around because of my expertise, so in a way that was money I "had" or "spent" via these entities. It was largely worth it too. This is good for a long-term arc of getting out of poor/debt/middle-class money mindsets and into wealth using emotional momentum. Switching from the mindset of a broke person, to getting even (if you're under), to becoming rich, to having it all and giving charitably.
  5. Upgrade is a great film from the co-writer of the original Saw. I really enjoyed its surprising conclusion!

  6. Debt is a mindset problem

    NewKidOnTheBlock replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance

    Yeah if you are looking at the "from rags to riches" type of stories related to dealing with debt, I'd only ever dissapoint as I've never been on the bottom and will only ever manage to stay in the middle class. My choices of debt are purely rational and completely conservative and risk avoidant, so someone else might chime in with a more interesting story I suppose; althought I very much doubt this type of content produces these types of impulsive people. I think there was a mod on this forum who took on a 10k loan for some sort of marketing course or whatever, did not pan out very well from what I've gathered lmao
  7. Ask about aliens, entities, telepathy, mind-reading.

  8. I can’t choose!

    WonderSeeker replied to John3596's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance

    I get what you're feeling, but sometimes it takes longer than seven years. Tell me all the things you've tried and what you haven't tried yet. It's all about hitting the sweet spot between what you value versus what's in demand. I got 2 degrees in a science field only to hate the work and try 3-4 other completely different things before settling on something I like. Sometimes that's the way it is.
  9. Figure out your values. Look at what's in demand. Marry the two and refine as you go. Easier said than done.
  10. @Leo Gura How do you know this? Are you saying you are not happy? Are you saying there is no human on earth that can be happy with bad health?
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  12. Well observed. The idea of stillness that Buddhism promotes as an ideal is the opposite of what reality is. Reality manifests as ceaseless dynamism, since it is not contained, it has no absolute limits. Therefore, there is always a point to reach, a movement to make. Although from an absolute perspective these movements may not lead anywhere, the flow of existence is always dynamic. Wanting to be static is resisting that flow, believing that you know how reality should be. It doesn't work; what works is aligning yourself with the flow and becoming one with it.
  13. @theleelajoker You know the question: why dos God allow suffering? Is one of the biggest questions to ask and I’ll be honest, I still wonder about it. One of the things I think is: would it be perfectly loving and just to stop all suffering right now?
  14. If I may, what you're discussing is the point of spirituality rooted in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, and in my (humble) opinion, it's a very serious mistake. I myself fell into it when I was 16 or 17. I read Krishnamurti and others and came to the obvious conclusion that all suffering is self-generated by thought and that if I stopped thinking, I would be free and present like a bird. This sounds very obvious and liberating, but it's a complete error, since it denies the mind as an illusion. It would be like telling an ant that all that stuff about queens, workers, and soldiers is an illusion, that it should forget all that and be like a bird. The ant would tell you that it's a cell in an anthill, not a bird, and that if you want to induce some kind of schizophrenia in it, as its entire system has evolved over billions of years to do exactly what it does, just like your conceptual/verbal/logical/evaluative/social mind. If you do what Ralston suggests, you're creating an ontological distinction between physical sensations and mental movement, asserting that the physical, hunger, cold, pain, are real, and the mental is false. Let's see: cold makes you move to a warmer place to avoid dying. The idea of Rome's grandeur leads to the construction of coliseums. Both are reality switches that trigger movement. There's basic movement, like that of bacteria, and complex movement, like the creation of a religion to provoke a unanimous movement of a billion individuals. The entire emotional system is synchronized with conceptual triggers of attachment, rejection, belonging, purpose, reproduction, family, tribe. Denying it is seductive; it seems like the direct path to freedom, but it's an illusion, it doesn't work. It always seems like you're one step away, just one final step toward freedom, which never comes.
  15. Find some drama first, and ask yourself what your role in it is. Where does the drama exist?
  16. There are certainly times when drama stops instantly! But it is certain to come back. I don’t subscribe to a lot of the beliefs that circulate on here.
  17. Well, if God is the reality the humans are an expression of the reality, are the reality in the form of an human, then there is no difference between god and humans, but you could say the same with anything else. The problem is thinking that, as the humans have a will, objetives, fears, desires, God aka the total reality also must have them. The absolute is not an individual that wants, but due it's limitlessness it's always expansion, movement, creation, coherence and synchronicity. The point is seeing that will, fear, desire, etc, are expressions of the limitlessness in human form. Reality in not personal, it's not someone with a plan, it's just unlimited. Unlimited means everything else.

  18. What is some music you like?

    Jehovah increases replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

  19. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU0k1Edj0E9/?igsh=YW81djVqNzVxdjVh Maybe only a little bit related to thread title based on the words.
  20. I'm not saying the self doesn't exist, because it obviously does. What happens is that the self is a structure, a creation that occurs within reality. It is reality expressed as the perceiving center. Therefore, the self can perform an action of opening up, of dissolving its centrality, in order to perceive itself as the reality, the totality that is. If this doesn't mean anything to you, that's normal, since it's not something interesting to know, but rather something that needs to be done. How to to it? Very easy, or maybe very difficult, it depends: just identify the barriers that are trapping you and break them. How? Only you could know how. Intuition and absolute will of freedom.
  21. I like many things in life. However a lot of them are very rarely monetizable, like rap music, or philosophy and spirituality. I was thinking about finding a traditional career path, something that is easy to monetize. However i don't want to learn any theory, or following an academic education. I went into an institute, i chose physical education because i thought it wouldn't be so heavy in theory, turns out 95% of it is academic theory. I want a hands on job, where i can work with my hands, develop some skills fast and easy, and start making money. I was thinking of carpentry, but i don't know yet how to find a mentor, to teach me the job. Part of it is i also learned that reducing your material ambitions in life, is key for a fulfilling life. I don't want kids or a family, i just want a simple job that i can do to pay the bills and in which i moderately can tolerate and enjoy it to a certain extent. What do yall think ?

  22. Debt is a mindset problem

    WonderSeeker replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance

    Have you dealt with debt before? I wanna know other people's stories I think it's a common problem that enlightened people on this forum have and don't wanna admit in front of their enlightened friends
  23. I thought you were. That's probably the problem. I mean this isn't how you should go about a disagreement like this. Possibly a cultural disconnect. End of discussion If you whine again I'm just going to block you.
  24. That's because I can't be bothered, obviously. Who cares about correcting some random dilettante such as yourself? After enough BS accumulates from the likes of you however, a certain pattern can be noticed and conclusions can be drawn. So I felt like pointing out the obvious and I did. LOL Also you can stop capping bud with that love of history nonsense, what else are you going to cap about next? Do you also love fuckin guitar playing and cooking and cook and play guitar all the time? Whatever suits you in winning points in a pointless internet debate right? Come on bro lmao No I don't agree with it in any way whatsoever. Germany did not in fact create Israel, it just sped up it's creation with the attrocious actions they've commited. Zionism was born long before Nazi Germany ever existed and before WW1 even. Might be just semantics to you but it does make a difference in ones perception of reality and historical events, which you obviously don't care about And yeah I'm not a native speaker, so what? I'm still right and you're a dummy lmfao maybe you need it to be translated to Chinese for you to finally get it? This is an indication that you might be capping about your social life as well, because everyone knows internet debating have nothing to do with social skills
  25. You’re supposed to go out and socialize as a man, and girls absolutely will give you the hair flipping and side eyeing bullshit they do when they find you attractive, it’s an invitation to talk to her. People get laid through 1 or 2, maybe 3 social mechanisms and It all comes down to the man. You’re not supposed to target one woman, that’s more her thing, men’s game is volume based, and when It’s volume based the points she made in the video fall apart.
  26. Okay, I see.
  27. @gettoefl Its gaslighting of a false God to keep you reincarnation. You will die and God will say dont you want to come back? They say yes and are like fuck I was tricked.
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