Leo Gura

I just read a new study last week which said that artificial sweeteners have been linked to increase cancer rates. They are definitely not healthy. If you want a sweetener, just use raw honey and take the calorie hit. There is no need for artificial sweeteners when you have a solid whole foods diet.

Again, this is what it means to understand that the map is not the territory. But also the map is the territory. You have to deeply understand that.

Love and unity.

That is true of an apple as much as it of God. Words are the never the thing spoken of.

Should be fine. But test a small dose.

Consciousness and authenticity are highly attractive. The greatest mystics attract people to them with their state of consciousness.

@kray Or just be social

WTF??

The map is not the territory. God is an experience but also understanding what God is is a bit of an intellectual problem.

Irrelevant to what I said.

Except you can make very precise and accurate statements about God. All the following is true and accurate: You are God God is Love God is Intelligence God is Eternal God is Infinity God is an Infinite Mind God is dreaming reality God is Total God is omniscient God is omnipotent God is Will God is selfless God is One God is Good God is Absolute Truth God is Consciousness Etc. So this notion that you cannot speak about God is silly. Meaningful things can be said about God. You don't have to speak in Zen riddles.

I don't really trust hair tests. Provoked urine test would be more accurate. But food and water most likely.

It's not the that Universe is about love. The Universe IS Love -- metaphysically. This doesn't mean you won't get shot in the head by someone. Love is just a much more profound thing than being treated well or feeling emotions of love. Yes, the Universe is Intelligence doing whatever it wishes. But what Sadhguru isn't telling you is that the highest intelligence is identical to Love. And this Love looks very radical to from the POV of a human. The Universe is doing Love, but it's doing it at the universal level, not at the human level.

Sounds like you need to transition out of pickup into more of a social circle frame, where you can still have fun socially and shoot the shit with people, even girls, but you don't need to explicitly hit on them or approach them with that direct sexual intent that pickup teaches. In social circle you can still be somewhat flirty without coming off as a cheater. Make your flirting more subtle and less sexually intentful. Just sorta be a playful social guy rather than hitting on girls. That's how highly social guys naturally are.

I'd start here. Get to work on handling your career/finances and become independent of your toxic family. This would be a huge achievement and create a foundation for everything else.

By realizing that answers and solutions aren't worth much unless they are rooted in your direct experience and personal insight. Unearned answers simply aren't very powerful or valuable.

Intellectual conclusions are not awakening. Awakening is absolute. If you doubt it, you aren't awake.

All this proves is that the ego isn't God. Ego cannot be omnipotent because it is finite.

He means doesn't exist as a biographical self. He exists as existence itself.

Of course. But "handsome" is super relative. It's not about being handsome, it's about whether she is attracted.

Well, when you construct categories don't be surprised when they blow up in your face at some point. "Male" and "female" were constructed categories which are now being deconstructed. So here we are. People are freaking out because they took it for granted that male and female were always constructions. The outrage is a mechanism to maintain the constructions while pretending they were not constructions.

No one is forcing you to do anything.

There is a difference between being a sugar daddy vs a cheap-ass. This sounds like a clear case of cheapassery.

In my experience usually they are not lying. You can ask for his name or even to see a pic of him if you are so skeptical / cynical. Eventually you learn to just move on. Either way she isn't into you if she gives you that excuse. Although many of my wings sleep with girls with bfs on the regular. I would not advise that though. Bad karma.

If you wanna make these sports more fair then test for height, muscle mass, testosterone levels, etc. and have categories for them.