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@kieranperez I think acceptance is where we start. I think I'm already going past acceptance phase since I don't try to change her. That doesn't mean improvements cannot be thought of.

I think you're misunderstanding. I never said anything close to that. I just want her to achieve some basic success in order to live at least an ok life. At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if she became homeless in 10~20 years. I say this because if I lived like her, I would expect myself to become homeless in a decade or two. I remember Leo saying you should focus more on basic survival. That's what I want my sister to do. Focus on basic survival.

@Krisena She knows she's not functional. She just can't help being distracted by something. Watching random recreational videos for days at a time is not going to help make money, no matter how you present it. Acquiring access to money is an obligation for everyone in this era. You will be forced to make money in undesirable ways if you don't find a way to acquire access to money your way. Most of the time, she watches recreational videos. Sometimes, she tries to study, but she fails because she's always distracted by recreational videos, phone calls with friends, and going to church. I can see that her ego always finds a way to avoid looking into the core issues of her own life. Perhaps, she better hit rock bottom sooner than later.

Emerald says she doesn't like receiving too much sexual attention. But, whenever I hear about it, I become curious. That sounds like something I haven't experienced. A new experience. I want to live a year in the body of a 12 years old beautiful girl or a 25 years old sexy woman and feel what it's like to live as one and research how to maximally utilize what I have. It's always important to learn to utilize whatever you have. Perhaps, at the end of day, there will only be emptiness and existential hunger no matter what.

My standard of mastery is not that high. I find myself consistently going to bed and waking up at a fixed schedule. I also find myself meditating for 20 minutes ~ one hour every day. I can focus on one thing for hours at a time without much difficulty. That counts as mastery of basic fundamentals of life. Also, killing ego is practically impossible. Practically, you can reach temporary ego death during meditation sessions or on psychedelics. I'd rather want a healthy ego.

Every year, 74 billion animals are killed for food. As I watched this video, my body was shaking. I was having ego backlash. Leo was right. Humans are devils. To humans, suffering is just another resource. In corporations, people are paid for suffering. In farms, animals suffer to make meat for humans. It's a big hierarchy that includes animals and humans.

Ban or block trolls after giving them some time to correct themselves.

@Zigzag Idiot Are you saying vegans killed all the goats they loved and ate them?

Shining awareness on your exhaustion will reduce your tendency to take note. Perhaps, you should take notes after listening to at least half of a video. After being exhausted by taking notes, I take notes less often. I try to take notes of only the essence. To extract essence, you should refrain from taking notes of everything. To extract essence, recall facts afterwards. If you think a video is not important, take notes after watching a video or decide to not take notes after watching it If you spot an important insight in a video, take note of it. Be more choosy about what you take note of.

Meditation is a metaphor for being distracted and bringing your attention back to something you want to focus on. Work can become meditation if you resist temptation to surf the web randomly. Single-tasking can also become meditation when you try to focus on eating your lunch and resist temptation to fiddle with your smartphone.

Another insight came to me. You can do a solo retreat by dividing your day into working, maintaining yourself, and doing nothing.

I thought you were going to zap your wrist with your rubber wristband whenever you catch yourself distracted.

@Bluebird Is your life purpose about meditation and enlightenment?

Is wearing the wristband enough to remind you to be in the present moment?

Did you quit development? What do you do to make money now?

Perhaps, Leo could call TJ Reeves and talk for an hour or two. TJ seemed unnecessarily critical of Leo.

What is the wristband for?

There are debates about whether shrimps have consciousness. But, I don't think mussels have consciousness because they don't have brain. If mussels had consciousness, earthworms and trees would have it, too.

GMO makes organic farming cheaper because most genetic modifications are done to make foods need less pesticide. Non-GMO food is just as likely or unlikely as GMO food to alter your DNA because altered DNA has the same chemical characteristics as DNA. Altered DNA is still DNA. Worry about pesticide and heavy metals rather than GMO food.

So, the safety of GMO was not a problem. Trying to monopolize GMO seeds and knowledge about cancer was the problem. I wish patents were demolished.

It seems to me that TJ just likes to criticize. Let him criticize Leo and other spiritual teachers on his own venues.

If it was not too difficult to live in foreign countries legally, I would go to a foreign soil and live there. Also, if you want to make a family, make a plan to free your children from three major duties of this planet. Compulsory public education Conscription Jury duty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto was acquired by Bayer. What was Monsanto doing to make GMO dangerous?

Most genetic modifications are done to make products need less pesticide. We eat organic foods to reduce exposure to pesticide. GMO makes organic farming cheaper. GMO organic food is not an oxymoron. non-GMO food is equally as likely or unlikely as GMO food to alter your DNA because both non-GMO food and GMO food contain DNA which is merely a sequence of nucleotides. DNA is a sequence of nucleotides. Altered DNA is still a sequence of nucleotides. You're going to ingest DNA no matter what. There is no difference between natural mutations and artificial genetic modifications. https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2016/05/gmo-safety-debate-is-over/ says "If you vaccinate your kids and believe that climate change is real, you need to stop being scared of genetically modified foods."

Such techniques as visualization, meditation, and positive affirmation? What is heart?