RendHeaven

Mhm, it fucks with me sometimes when I understand that nothing is not-mastery - or more directly, everything is mastery - by virtue of sheer existence alone. And yet, sometimes we are able to distinguish what seems to relatively be not-mastery (a noobie at a craft making obvious errors, lacking experience, holding back, etc.) So what really is the core of "mastery," as a self-consistent thing? It might be useful to distinguish an uppercase M - Mastery (the "highest" existential mastery, as you note) apart from a lowercase m - mastery (the mundane human kind) but even then we have to notice at what point the uppercase blends into the lowercase and vice versa. And now slap on the additional twist of subjective perception regarding the relative... is it wholly up to me to declare things "mastery" or not according to personal whim? Or is "mastery" something beyond personal preference and bias? But if it is "greater" than myself, then why am I unable to untangle myself from the object of inquiry? Sometimes it feels futile to talk about mastery dualistically as you notice how your own categories begin to break down. But at the end of the day we know when we feel mastery nonetheless... so we know that it is, at the very least, as a private experience. It's all so interconnected and yet so lonely

Amazing. Personally, I didn't feel that myself, but if that is what you encountered, then it is very much "real..." This leads me to the insight that mastery is inextricably interconnected with personal subjective perception (or something akin to that, as opposed to conceiving of mastery as something independently "out there" unaffected by "perception")

Goofiness

bruh

Why?

No, you don't lol: "beta" in men is pretty synonymous with insecure judgement

@Vzdoh I found your comments to be perfectly reasonable, truthful, and even convincing. It was pretty hilarious to see the extent to which your words were misconstrued.

lmao oh boy

@StarStruck You're only missing mild insult-slinging and "male vs female" drama - really irrelevant stuff

RIP people's journal entries... It's worth considering though, (especially if you were hit hard by this) how is this 2 day data loss a lesson in Love with a capital L? Thank you for your continued efforts, Leo.

This is simply untrue. First of all, "if you have good shoes with good shock absorption and foot placement skill so to speak" means nothing, given that the "if" attempts to justify heel-landing. No serious runner or athletic coach will ever encourage (or passively allow) heel-landing. Heel-landing is outright biomechanically disadvantageous in terms of injury prevention & energy efficiency. If you insist on running flat-footed, even then the pressure emphasis is on the balls of your feet, NOT your heel.

@Frosty97 You just completely ignored Leo's point lol. Enlightenment is not a LP, unless you physically move to East Asia and join a monastery until you drop dead. Otherwise, play the game of life properly and take responsibility over your relationship with larger society.

That would never work in real life lmao

yes, they do.

Just go get it. All objections come from insecurity + fear

This.

Katherout my Queen ?

what do you mean by "value"

wear a glove.

glorious

I intellectually agree with you but can't seem to "get it" on a feeling level. Furthermore, I imagine that if by some miracle, I convince myself to find sexual attraction in all women indiscriminately, that will still all fly out the window the second someone conventionally attractive actually shows up in the flesh... even from mild states of no-self, on the level of sexuality I am biased (and this is perfectly fine). I also wonder, if all preferences are constructed, why stop at women? Why don't you fuck men or animals? And in fact, if we truly go meta, all sexual attraction at all is no different than any other desire, emotion, sensation, affinity, or inclination whatsoever. The idea of copulation dissolves into literal nothing. Weirdly, I'm more willing deconstruct "all the way" rather than to stop prematurely at imagining sexual preference to be unreal while maintaining that sexual attraction itself is still real.

As an individual, there's absolutely nothing wrong with diving deeper into "yourself' and foregoing the stupidity of mainstream shit. However, since you're additionally a content creator, there's definitely gonna be conflict there, as you're expected to deliver "value" to your audience. The good news is, your "value" proposition is up for you to decide. I'm personally thinking of becoming a content creator myself - every day I'm brainstorming ways to make this seemingly "boring" lifestyle you talk about appealing on video.

The word "cure" implies that something is "wrong" and ought to be fixed, and yet there is nothing "wrong" or in need of fixing regarding aging. To me, the idea of "curing aging" is just as absurd as "curing" breathing or walking or eating (or any other innocent, non-problematic thing )

This might be taboo in a community that leans towards ~natural healing~ but some good old modern chemicals helped me in my teenage years. Lotrimin obliterated my athlete's foot, it's never come back since then. No negative side effects, personally. So why not try it?