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@roopepa How I use the word punishment is just as material feedback to someone's destructive actions. You are right that the word comes with the emotional baggage of deserving. I agree with you that none deserves punishment or suffering. It is simply a material action with the purpose of creating a system where the maximum amount of well-being and flourishing is possible. That is an expression of love.

Keep in mind that every generation has been seen as the worst generation.

You should view punishment, not as revenge but as a purely pragmatic thing to do for the betterment of most people possible. This is possible while loving criminals. Love vs punishment is a false dichotomy.

Have you talked with her about it?

@Rilles lol

God damn it Sweden.

@jimwell good points and thanks for the YT link, great channel.

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I've long admired japan from a distance, but I know I would feel boxed-in if I lived there. One critique I'd like to add is that in Japan, as with many blue cultures, intimacy gets lost in social rules and politeness. Belonging comes from being a part of a social system rather than actual intimate connections. I think that lack of intimacy and connection is where all the sexual dysfunctions, hikikomori, and suicides come from.

1.3, 10.51% 1.6, 9.61% This should not be missconstrued for social virtue. Psychopathy, if used in a wise matter could be a socially good thing. The number of psychopaths out there worries me tho. Any imagined political system gotta take them into account.

@sleep ketchari mudra gives a slight natural high. I can do it partially. I don't know of any dangers to it. I don't think the frenelum serves any big function. Maybe it just make the tongue more intuitive and user friendly. I could also imagine it's to make toddlers not choke on their tongues. You don't have to do it tho, it's up to you.

He has a big power shadow

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@preventingdiabetes Spiritual bypassing is when you rationalize something unhealthy as actually being good because it's "spiritual", like rationalizing submissiveness as being loving, devoted, and detached. Ignoring lower needs is not necessarily spiritual bypassing, even if it's not healthy. If you think ignoring lower needs is spiritual, then it's spiritual bypassing. The healing power of love will show the right way.

@preventingdiabetes Thank you Contemplate it. I realized it when I had an enlightenment experience but I don't think it's required. Don't create a duality between spiritual happiness and mundane happiness. Suffering is duality, happiness is a lack of duality. Happiness doesn't really exist it's just the absence of suffering, then the illusion of duality is seen through there is perfect happiness. When you understand suffering, which is separation/duality, you will know what the opposite is. Compare different forms of happiness and different forms of suffering. See the commonality. Emotions are all different, duality is the same. It's felt in the head, the ajna chakra. I'm talking about an attitude shift of loving all of life and being passionate about it in an almost erotic way. Everything we do is the pursuit of happiness. It's easy to see in the pursuit of comfort, pleasure, joy, love, and beauty. Even our darkest emotions are crooked ways we seek happiness. Anger is pursuing power/joy but we feel like something/someone is in the way of that end, hate is the same thing, but the pursuit of love. Narcissism is pursuit of beauty. etc. This quote comes to mind: Even a crooked tree is growing towards the light. Practicing gratitude is probably the best way of discovering this wisdom and embodying it. @asifarahim A spirituality that is only focused on transcending can be detrimental to life-purpose. A balanced practice that develops all chakras, not just the top two, should make you flow with life effortlessly.

@preventingdiabetes @preventingdiabetes@preventingdiabetes I tried to last year but my physical health is too bad to be able to sit still for that amount of time without destroying my back. Maybe one day I'll try again when I've built up some finances and health. I'd like to summarize what I've been trying to communicate in my previous posts: 1. Happiness is non-duality. It's important to know this experientially. Love and appreciate it wherever it's found. 2. Open your second chakra, it's the ability to enjoy, feel pleasure and passion and to be connected with life. When you suppress desire you can feel a somatic contraction in your lower back and you go into a subtily painful and fearful state. It makes you feel separate from life which is dualistic. That's not a quality of an enlightened being. Bliss is the road to God.

@preventingdiabetes I don't do it right now but ideally 40m - 1h

@preventingdiabetes Masturbation wouldn't occur, I'm speaking as someone who has done a lot of kriya yoga & chakra meditaiton so I'm good at producing blissful states. Practicing this on the cushion helps a lot.

The ability to take multiple perspectives stays the same but one component is added in yellow, it values all perspectives. Green can take the perspective of a Blue person but it's seen as the enemy, then usually green loses its multi-perspectivalism and regresses to blue and moralizes against it. Yellow sees the value in all perspectives. Yellow is an octave over beige. Beige is survival and yellow is universal survival. The impulse to see the value in all perspectives comes from that impulse to make things survive and thrive. The dialectical, or integrative impulse of yellow comes from seeing every perspective as valuable even when they seem contradictory on the surface.

This is great. thank you

@samijiben It's not photoshoped and this was decades ago.

In Ken Wilber's book "The Religion of Tomorrow" he quoted a trial where there were two groups of monks in the same monastery, one trained with weights during their time there, one didn't. The ones who trained progressed faster spiritually. You also get to have more tantric sex with a bod like Kens. Damn he was sexy

@preventingdiabetes@preventingdiabetes notice the desire. It is seeking to express itself as catharsis. Let yourself feel this catharsis unconditionally. Leo talked about this in his last two videos. With masturbation the catharsis would be pleasure. Bask in the pleasure. Pleasure is profound. Now love and appreciate it. Now bask in that love. Notice how you lose yourself in love. Surrender to it. Presence becomes natural with love. Repression is the product of fear. Choose love instead.

https://youtu.be/TibKamUbonc

@preventingdiabetes Sorry for the long delay. Suppressing desire is a way of holding your mind rather than a way of acting. It's closing the second chakra and it's felt in the body as a tightening in the lower abdomen. Going to war with yourself this way creates conflict that shows up as monkey mind. It also cuts of subtle energy flow up the spine, less energy reaches the head results in lower consciousness. It's possible to not hold your mind in this neurotic way while not acting on desire. When desire arises, let it be a gateway for love and let the love be a gateway to self-transcendence. All desire is really a desire for god. Happiness is non-duality. Follow the desire to God instead of to physical action. You are right that monks tend to do this and it's not healthy. The middle path is to be a monk and at the same time to not have this neurotic attitude. To be deeply connected to life and others and at the same time go all in on enlightenment in service of life. I deeply believe that we shouldn't deny any part of ourselves but integrate it all into a harmonious whole. Again, I'm against an attitude, not a way of behaving.

@preventingdiabetes @preventingdiabetes oh sorry I meant to write when we hold it as the only meaningful thing in life. Emphasis on only. I'm only cautioning against the attitude of alienation/disconnection from life. It would be wise to have enlightenment as the only goal just don't suppress your desire for the rest of life, instead use desire as a gateway to gratitude and recognize it's really a desire for god. This is right.