Shadowraix

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Rhythm games have done a lot of good to train how well I can work with my body. It really proved to me how well you can get good at something if you just do it over and over. Anything with a good story that can make me cry is an A+ in my book. Beautiful storytelling motivates me to want to do great things in my life.

The body does use the lighting around you for your own clock. So if your area isn't completely shut off from the outside lighting I'd say waking up early so most of your time is spent in daylight would yield more awake and alertness. I prefer the quietness of night but I do notice waking up early improving my experience being awake.

Your life is starting to gravitate away from the average person so you will definitely get a lot of backlash about that, but remember to center back in with yourself. With your own self acceptance. They can have their thoughts on you. But the map is not the territory. They are stuck in their own perspective while you have expanded yours. I would of laughed at this kind of stuff even just a year or 2 ago. Understand their outlook. Think of a kid calling you stupid over eating healthy. They don't know any better and you understand that. Or maybe they are reacting to some kind of problem in themselves that you display (lack of fulfillment, healthiness etc) could be a lot of things. First come to terms with their opposing view and accept that and also accept your own path which continues based on your desires and not anyone elses. Don't let that ego grab hold and get upset by other thoughts. If you want to try and reason with them then tell your mom you are happy and that you need to follow your path. You have to be the one that learns. She surely doesn't want to be taking away that happiness does she? Understand, love, and accept those who do not agree or don't understand. If they are meant to grow to the lengths you have they will.

Follow which one you resonate with best! Personally I really like the poly no label kind of form of dating. But that does get complicated when you connect to their social network. In my perspective I had realized that my capability to love people isn't restricted to a singular person and what I do with one person doesn't make what I do with another any less meaningful. Of course there is still jealousy and desire towards exclusivity out of a feeling of specialness that occurs but you work it out. Its a very free flow rule-less style kind of like how having friends is. But while that works best with my desires it may not for you. If you are curious about the more poly style of dating, give it a try! Experimentation is how you'll find whats best for you

I think OP is referring to material success beyond the essentials. Ya got it. Material success just becomes a goal, its a game you play. Play it! Have fun!

https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2014/06/what-is-respect/ ^ This link I find to be a very good breakdown on how to define respect because those in society definitely do not adhere to any specific definitions and its largely relative to them. The tl;dr is that there are mainly two big forms of it. The acknowledgment of what is being said or the obedience to align with their view. And likewise disrespect is the shrugging off or disobedience to their view, but it all comes to a single thing - following or not following their expectation of how you should behave. A projection of what they want onto you. Very interesting to think about. Shunned for breaking their mold of you. And yet you find that adhering to everyone's form of respect isn't practical yet you are shunned for disrespecting someone. I've seen the word respect thrown around in a very manipulative way due to society's high regard for the word. I think a lot of questioning about the meaning and value of this word would be beneficial because it definitely can be vague at times.

While Reddit does have that problem its a tradeoff because the upvote system helps you find content which its helped me find content I wanted to look at many times. Its a very situational thing. Less of a problem on posts that are around for good fun and not any serious discussion.

Having a grand realization about reality doesn't necessarily mean you are personally developed. Depends what you mean by woke. Looks more like he is just trying to process that he feels like he lived a lie for so long.

Nobody can tell you that but you. Experiment and find out what it is.

You gotta really look at your own case. You may find yourself using more or less over time but its not about some number. A number won't tell you much. But look at what the impact is. Is the frequency having a positive or negative impact on you? You could drop once a year and it still have a negative result. Your body will tell you, just gotta learn to listen to it. For me I just follow my desire when it pops up to do psychs instead of doing it every opportunity like I used to in fear of it being my last time. I do it much less frequently but the quality of each trip is always very beneficial.

Why would it imply that? Yes consciousness is the most fundamental form of everything. Reality is a manifestation of it. Laws and principles simply describe some reoccurring pattern. If you find the law of attraction to be true in your experience then use it. it'll be useful.

Leo has mentioned it before but one thing I always found funny about many nihilists is they assign a negative meaning to meaninglessness. Its quite the trap many people and even I albeit only briefly found myself into.

Thats the cost of experimentation, your time. Decide if its worth it for you or not. Nobody can tell you the correct path to take.

The illusion of free will comes from not knowing. Which is why it is ever present in your relative perspective. From the absolute perspective, everything already is occurring simultaneously. So yes its all scripted and predetermined. But yet God can still experience this scripted story genuinely through you.

I see a lot of people who are depressed also have some frayed connection with the world around them. Starts with a negative repeated outlook then repetition sinks you further and further in until it becomes increasingly difficult to break. For me, my realizations repaired such frayed connections. I let go. I stopped resisting which dramatically reduced my suffering. I was no longer restricted to such one sided perspectives which allowed me to regain control. Enlightenment and happiness it is true it isn't necessarily connected but through the process of enlightenment your own personal development can go up repairing yourself.

I very much resonated with this. Thank you for that. Well I don't know if they will always care even if it is direct experience haha. But I would say the majority of what I say does come from direct experience. I try to be mindful if I ever veer out of direct experience, but I don't think its really cut back the 'you're crazy, insane' etc comments. It comes off as pseudo-science to many. A lot of those around me in person noticed dramatic changes in how I am and they seem very receptive to learning about how I have changed, but thats not going to be a factor people can see in many online discussions.

All the time I am finding people discussing things that are sorely off track. I know monks and gurus often let the seeker seek their knowledge out instead of going directly to them. There have been many times I have spread such knowledge and it gets heavily rejected - which is fine. They are at least now aware of it. I no longer pursue to change minds, just spread knowledge. But I do wonder if that effort is better spent on those who directly seek my advice and myself. How far do you go to spread what you have learned?

People may present seemingly green ideas but the motives definitely aren't always green. You look at the actions and it reveals lower stage thinking.

This sounds like a big conflict on what 'enlightenment' is to you and the 'proper' way to seek it. To me it doesn't matter what the motive is for this 'enlightenment' because the further you go in your journey such a motive will evolve with your personal development. We all start somewhere.

Why don't you find out, This isn't about blind belief like modern religion promotes, everything that is talked about you should be verifying through your own direct experience. You will receive many benefits hence why it becomes smarter to follow it. But there is no correct or incorrect path. Its just a path.

A friend and I want to set up a passive income project but its gonna need a lot of advertising/marketing knowledge to do it. Any books on such subjects? Anything that could benefit as someone who has never done this shit before would be useful. Thanks!

@Equanimitize I have a couple of outlets in which I can bounce my realizations off of which are quite receptive to it. Even some real life friends. Its mostly random internet conversations in which they are talking about something and I try to point them in the right direction and I get totally shut down. But you can easily lead yourself in an endless amount of conversations of people not ready to be receptive to what you give them. Which like I said I am content with since I stopped trying to change minds, but it can become tiresome to respond to every off track thing you see and ends up a major distraction at that point. I'm mostly trying to learn the criteria in which you guys decide to engage in such conversations.

The ego doesn't exist. But when talking about ego and what we are trying to point to via then is more just about becoming more aware of yourself. To be aware of what you are once blinded by, not rejecting it. I like to visualize the ego as some routine in your 'program' that you can override, tweak, and manipulate.

I get exactly what you mean. Finding such value in the bodies seems like an oddly materialistic thing to me. I don't need the body to remember or grieve. I didn't care about the body, but the personality and connection I formed I did care about. When it is no longer present with the body then it became like any other inanimate object. But from the absolute I see what I formed a connection with is not done for and is ever present in everything that exists.