Manjushri

@Sahil Pandit When I get ~ normal weight I tend to get hungry (not psychologically, in that way i just care less so i eat more) I eat healthy but I wasn't moving a lot so I had to do 2 meals a day. Now I'm sometimes hungry even beyond that so I want to prevent gain...

I was talking to my brother about Berkeley and whether or not an external world exists. What about other people? What about Las Vegas? Right now, there's only typing words and a screen and thinking happening and sense data and maybe an idea of Las Vegas, maybe a mental image, when some of you reply there will only be words and an avatar, not a person actually replying . . . So there is no Leo, there is just a video of Leo , and a "video" is a concept too, there's just "raw" data happening and thats it? on the absolute level. is this solipsism?

I see a lot of consciousness monism/non-dualism in the early Westerners.

@Mikael89 What do you think Socrates means by "an unexamined life is not worth living"?

I see now that the non-fiction books I read earlier kinda just disappeared from my memory, and that only the key points stayed. that's sad. so when I read, I engage with it , then I apply it, but nonetheless I don't remember much. what do I do to make my reading the most effective??

@BjarkeT @Consilience @EternalForest @ivory Teaching others sounds like a good method. Because I know that when I read a dense philosophical argument , or something - I can understand it but not teach it yet. I do spaced repetition but for smaller chunks of information - language acquisition etc. I don't know hwo could I apply it to books. Reflecting on it doesn't let me retain. I reflected on Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving after each chapter, I read it a year ago, I don't think I remember ANYTHING from it. . . I don't want to have to read books multiple times to get the good juices out of it if I can accomplish it by doing it only once. I had to read Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis around 3 times and teach it once to truly retain it. @NoSelfSelf Growth?

I'm not clear on this. Sometimes it seems allegorical, but sometime's it also seems very literal. Leo talked about this in the All of religion explained in one video. Heaven and hell in Christianity , Jihad in Islam, Rebirth and the 6 realms in eastern religions. If it's meant as literal, does it diminish the value of the teachings of the Messiahs? Were they really enlightened? Did they actually try to make an allegory to make it more understandable for the common people or is it just an idealization of them?? Looking forward to hear from you guys.

hey skip the sites and observe your loneliness. keep your social energy to get out and meet people. somebodys gonna love your love

I'm researching about spiral dynamics and want to apply it to my personal development. How do you do it?

Guru usually means religious and religious usually means organized religion and that's basically a cult. But how do you know if the guru is genuine or wants to exploit you after luring you in? Relevant article : https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/four-cult-recruitment-techniques

@Hellspeed please explain your reply!

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ” - Seneca Figure out how to stop being a wage slave. More important than having lots of cash. + what aurum said

I'm your age. Just shed your friends lol. Find new ones. Get out meet people do cold approaches until you find fitting. I had problems with feeling "above" but it's instantly nullified when you're not "above" but equal or below so it's not really ego. It would be ego (surface level ego, of course it's always ego but i'm talking about the colloquial one) if you felt above EVERYBODY. also, understand that everybody is above you in something. that's really humbling. you just needa change your friends,like deci said. @deci belle i really enjoy reading your advice and urge you to get to helping people on a macro scale! your words are like seeds of virtue and you can make a much much bigger impact on people's lives (both individual, micro scale and macro) by doing something other than writing forum posts, no?

@Nahm The things on TV are going to be the real deal again is what you want to say? Is it not already?

I was talking to a friend today and told me she was thinking a lot about this question. The dictionary definition is : an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind. We didnćt come to an answer. I guess that I have to inquire for this one. I was really curious about your thoughts on this.

In the last two weeks I wrote around 50 songs. Mass creativity. But what's bothering me... My main art is music. I can use that creativity to write songs, master one art! Craft is a part of art, after all. Writing poetry feels too much like l'art pour l'art. Where is the strategic intent in it?? Unless I'm gonna go full poet. On the other hand, I'm 18 and should explore. I'm confused.

say you lost your hand like an idiot - you cut it off while sawing wood, idk. your present experience is poorer for one arm. you can't play an instrument, or whatever. (no prosthetic limbs yet) or you squandered your time on world of warcraft and now youre 30 with no tangible real life skills and your life is basically a mess.

@denydritz That's really well formulated :)) past goals... ill remmber that. thank you @deci belle thank you, dharma jewel @Shin yes, that's a good way to look at it. it can be too hard sometimes. but yeah the suffering is a building block

went to a poetry night yesterday... talk about synchronicity... the causal chain. i mentioned poetry to one friend who then sent me that event. had lots of fun met great people. i already managed to make a song, combining the flute and the poem. i can see a big hit coming!!!

@zenjen what's interesting is what triggers it... i'm going to read your posts. . i'm a psychology student btw

https://www.actualized.org/insights/rethinking-hallucination

I think psychosis is an umbrella term for a psyche that's not able to function properly. Just a label, not even a concrete one... The psychiatrists are like : hmm let's give him a psychosis nos because it doesn't fit in anything else hahahhahaaha. grandiose delusions happen often yeah PS the medication given for it blocks dopamine receptors, I don't think you want that as a person who's actualizing... Especially if you gotta fucking pay for it, no fucking way, invest that money in a good therapist but yeah you got diagnosed with bipolar so I guess that's a chemical disbalance... not a psychiatrist

@deci belle j´ai pas perdu mon main, c´était juste un example extrème pour illustrer... j´ai pas perdu si beaucoup, néanmoins c´est douloureux... mais bien sûr que j´ai pas abandonné. Merci beaucoup dB! To digress, currently I regret for not having started learning Japanese earlier. I watched anime when I was a kid, so that was like the perfect time. I would´ve probably invested all of my curiosity and learning and productive energy into it, because then all I was doing was having fun and I yearned for doing something useful. But the causal chain is too complex...

@deci belle I check content I started + following once a day/2 days. concerning your reply, are you a motivational speaker??? amazing reply. thank you very much Thank you everyone for your time and insights! @purerogue as from the Lion King - "ahhh yess the past can hurt.. but the way i see it you can either run away from it, or learn from it!" the problem is where the insight from the mistake is minimal ... you know, say you cut off your hand by accident. Okay, I've now learned that I should never put my hand next to a saw unprotected! .. I just can't let regret go. No sedonas no shit it keeps coming back.