The Mystical Man

There is nothing new under the sun.

Adya sets an incredibly high standard. His talk on commitment to truth and love is one of his most formidable talks.

Have you watched The Queen's Gambit already? Midnight Mass?

I didn't enjoy this movie. The cast is great, especially Kidman, and the child actors are good, too, but the story is pointless.

Pattinson's best scene in this movie: https://youtu.be/F59p73MCDzU?t=73 Dafoe's best scene in this movie: I can't stop watching these two scenes. They're very well-written and well-acted. Pattinson's rant is especially entertaining.

https://youtu.be/CusOhtf7U0E “Truth and love are the two most powerful embodiment tools you will ever have. They are the two tools you have to lead a benevolent, beautiful, and enlightened life.” “To embody love is a commitment. It’s a commitment to be connected, to be available, to be undefended, to sense into somebody’s underlying sense of being, and to not be looking through a wall of defense.” “Where love and truth come together is that the more truthful you are, the more connected you feel. And the more connected you feel, the more truthful you want to be.” “To embody your deeper presence of being requires not only truthfulness but also love.” “To be loving isn’t to be perfect—it’s to be connected and warm both with ourselves and others. It’s to be residing in the humble heart.” "We meet as presences." "I'm not talking about absolute truth. There's also relative truth. What's true for you is orienting you in your life all the time." "Be precise and accurate in your speech." "Start by telling the truth all the time. Tell it to yourself. Tell it to others. Your personal truth is not absolute. It will change and grow over time. Truth is a demanding standard. It's not whatever conditioned thought comes into your mind." "Totally honest all the time. Totally sincere all the time. Never deceptive. Never deceiving." "Telling the truth is about being deeply and precisely honest. And being open to having your truth change." "If you have a little sensitivity, you realize there's more than one way to tell the truth." "There will be consequences to you telling the truth. People won't always like it. But if almost everybody doesn't like it, then you have to reexamine how you're delivering the truth. Or is what you're saying really true?" "It's hard to manipulate somebody, when you've been totally honest." "It will transform your life completely. Some truths create chaos. It doesn't mean it's going to work out the way you want. It will be controlled by the truth." "We stop willfully trying to close our hearts, even if we have to say, 'No'." "What's one way to bring more truth into your life today, one small way, each day." "Watch your life transform a little bit every day. And over time watch it transform beyond your imagination, and maybe it will help transform other lives as well. Or at least contribute something good and true for them. Maybe if enough of us commit to it, it could transform the world. Isn't it about the most worthwhile thing that we could be doing with our lives. What's more worthwhile than truth-telling and love and connection, embodying the truth and love at the core of our being, thus bringing a little bit of heaven to earth, one small act at a time. Start small. Start very small. And slowly work your way up to more challenging expressions and embodiments of truth and love." "It may stretch you and challenge you, also beyond your imagination." "Little committed moments." "Be compassionate with yourself. Care about yourself. Don't be so hard on yourself. Life's a challenging thing for anybody and everybody. What's amazing is that we get through the gauntlet of life at all. It's a hell of a thing to go through a particular lifespan. Don't use your compassion to excuse dishonesty." "Put attention on that quiet and aware presence of your being. And then seek to live it out truthfully, through truth, connection, and through love, and through compassion."

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https://youtu.be/qn23B-Pj4gU "Spirituality, if it's authentic, is going to be something that unites us to something that pulls back the veils that we look through without even knowing that we're looking through them because they become habitual. We look through these veils and our perception stops at the distinction and uniqueness of things." "Even the world of awakening is a diverse world. The uniqueness of things prevails in any state we may be in." "One of my central tasks is to give voice to a universal human experience. I'm giving voice to what we all know, even if we don't know that we know it." "Teachings can pull you away from yourself, if you're not careful. You can be always searching for what some other teaching has defined for you as the goal, and it may or may not be yours." "Some of our best opportunities to transform comes through difficult and trying times in life. When we suffer enough, then we stop holding things so tightly. Often what we're holding onto is what never is to begin with. The most difficult thing in moments like that is letting go of the fantasy that never was. What actually is, or what actually was, that can be challenging enough, but what's even more challenging is what wasn't and what won't be. We can grab innocently onto some veiling of experience that makes it far more difficult, and the difficulty is having some sense of what wasn't or what won't be. Life is different than I thought it was. I'm different than I thought I was. You're different than I thought you were." "One thought believed sets heaven and earth infinitely apart." "Just be honest with yourself and your own thinking." "It's the truth that sets you free, not trying to maintain a particular experience. There is no such thing as the endlessly sustained experience." "One definition of enlightenment: it's the total harmonization of body, mind, and spirit." "Any kind of unveiling requires a radical ability to be totally honest with oneself." "What would it be if I spoke from the quiet place in me?" "Have the intention to have silence from the head: skylike and spacious; silence at the dimension of awakened mind. Down here, the level of the gut, is the silence in the real ground of being. It has a different quality; it has no spatial quality at all: it's something more rooted. And then here, the level of the heart, there's intimacy and connection. This is where we perceive unity from. We can have intimate encounters, if we're here. It's an intuitive attuning. When we feel connection, how we act and move and speak will flow out of our intimate connection. Lean into your heart. It's a little nervous, because it's intimate; it's a little revealing. Play with it. Experiment with it. What would it be to be in the silent intimacy of the heart walking down the sidewalk?" "That's what the human heart has to be willing to do: to be vulnerable. When the human heart gets connected with the spiritual heart, that's the part of you that's invulnerable." "The words aren't as important as the intimacy with which you're engaging. You're the benevolent presence that all that vulnerability needs." "What would it be like to act and move and do and relate from whatever your current version of the deeper place within you is? Start with the small stuff: washing the dishes, walking down the hallway, or encountering somebody outdoors that might need your ear for a couple of minutes." "I don't say this so anybody is overly aggrandizing themselves, because it's actually a humbling thing: the world needs you. It needs all of us. It needs each and every one of us. It needs anybody that's even endeavoring to be connected and to live from a place that's just a bit more connected. It's not just all an inside act."

My goal was to do at least thirty rounds, but, unfortunately, I had to stop my last two rounds, because ALA is making me vomit. That had never happened before. One capsule is enough to make me feel nauseous. I've done eight rounds without problems, so why is this happening now?

It's not a masterpiece by any means. It's not even great. It's just good. Good enough for me, at least, because I enjoy the language and the acting.

I found better rules:

I'm pretty sure that chelation is the only thing that can help me, and if the only thing that can help me is making me vomit, then how am I supposed to get better? I ate a can of tuna every single day for at least five years. I definitely need to chelate more. Eight rounds are not enough.

The more you masturbate, the more you want to masturbate. That's how it is for me. Maybe it's different for women.

True. The important thing is not to do it out of guilt or shame.

The two most important benefits to me are the confidence and the mental clarity. But there are more benefits: 12 Best NoFap Benefits 4 Benefits of Not Ejaculating You lose control in other areas of your life. Sexual energy can be transmuted: The Mystery of Sex Transmutation

I agree. This is not sexual repression, though. It's self-control, which is healthy.

I agree. Because you don't have any control over it.