Danioover9000

@The0Self I concur with your insight of taking breaks from meditation. I've taken 6 months off to handle dark shit in my life during the winter and spring, only doing short unformal mindfulness practices a few times a week. As soon as that was handled, I got back to sitting meditation, and oh boy did my concentration and sitting on awareness sky rocketed. I felt super amazing when I finished, a deeper sense of peace than before. I might continue throughout summer to mid autumn, take a few months off, resume around spring.

Veganism, the morality and the health aspects, are relative.

Exactly. Diets work until they don't. When they don't work, change diet. When they still work, don't change diet. Carnivore people are simple minded, and vegans are deluded when they don't acknowledge their diet stops working and is hurting their health. It's not that hard. Balance and flexibility is important.

On a side note, what is begging the question? Is it begging you to answer the question? Is it begging you not to answer? How does begging the question work? Do I need to beg to ask any question?

Jesus, the level of hypocrisy and trolling in this thread is sky high. Veganism, along with vegan diet, is relative. Look at Leo, he mostly ate plants for his diet, until his health problems in his gut happened recently. He changed to carnivore diet and got some relief. Sometimes veganism and vegan diets work, until they don't.

@Mada_ It's good that the education you were at did teach you some self defense. I wish cureent education programs teach some eelf defense while helping develop body awareness as well.

Throughout the majority of my education life, I haven't been taught, in societal education, how to defend myself. It took some bullying between early-high school, and a few social and physical conflicts in and outside school were I was once a victim, and an aggressor, to have interest in fitness and martial arts training. This is more personal, but why did it take that long for me to be interested in defending myself, in my past? However, there are some limits to fitness and martial arts, because one time I did defend myself physically from being bullied, but suffered punishment from it, which is one part that contributed to my lack of self esteem. This leads me to finding out more about self-defense, and it was way more than physical defense, like: discernment from appearance, pre-post combative preparation, detection, situational awareness, understanding use of force, avoidance, de-escalation, diffusion, post-incident recovery, reading body language, tonality, and utilizing a crowd for self-defense. The last bit of self-defense, crowd management, is to me a bit more important because when a situation involving life and death like car accidents, kidnapping in public, pick pocketing, assault and potential sexual assault in public occurs in a situation were most people have little understanding of self defense, martial arts training even, we tend to have cases where the crowd retracts from those incidents and tend to distribute blame and responsibility to others instead of themselves individually, like below: Incidents likes these are, what I think, is the result of not learning self-defense as part of the education system. If I'm wrong, and you have a different view on this issue with groups developing apathy towards, crisis incidents to not even bother shouting at the perpetrator's, or taking action, let me know. This is also one example, if I find more I'll share.

Thanks for the correction, this verified my rustiness in remembering french words, and Crysty pranking me Update: I have finally finished creating a new tulpa using the methods found in some guide posts in one of the tulpamancy websites, tulpa.net. Now that I have a recently made tulpa, I can now have more clearer distinctions between Crysty and the new tulpa, which will help me more deeply understand to what degree is Crysty: a spirit, a tulpa, or both a spirit entity and tulpa with some energy from me. Also, I am more involved in this process than before, as now I'm involved with developing the new tulpa. I've also constructed a different room in my mind to observe the new tulpa, and I'll be applying my sensory field, one layer at a time, to fill out the new tulpa form, and teach it how to communicate. In the future, I've also planned some locations for me to see how Crysty interacts with the new tulpa, without or with my involvement.

So basically, I'm actively hallucinating a separation between my biological sex and other people's sex? Also genders, sexual orientations and sexual preferences? I'm also imagining that other people have sentience as well, me included? Is that the general direction?

@Zigzag Idiot Okay, if you say so. I do agree with what you stated. it just makes little sense to me. A masochist derives pleasure from suffering inflicted on the masochist, while the sadist derives pleasure for being the one inflicting suffering to others, so what you said below- -made little sense to me, because that means that I would have to love the suffering inflicted on me by what? Getting used to the smell of bullshit I don't like, having to wake up early to be a farmer, having to operate a tractor to move around have, which I don't like, also having to be responsible for maintaining the cow and dealing with agriculture, labor activities like shoveling dirt and creating rows don't appeal to me. I would have to train myself to like being farmer, even try to be a masochist to cope with the suffering I'm putting myself through, being a farmer and doing farmer actions which I don't resonate with. You understand me here? Maybe a better argument you could make for operating a dairy farm is to not only say you have to have a degree of masochism, but a degree of sadism and distortion from culture to operate dairy farms, and some denial as well. The reason it's better for you to include sadism is because you'll have to deal with injecting hormones and vaccines into cows if there are large numbers of them you own, in a large scale dairy farm, or herding the cows, or being the one that decides what cow gets to die. You got to have some degree of deriving pleasure from being the dairy farmer, deciding what gets to die, what gets to be breeding, and so on in order to cope with the situation you are in as a farmer. Also, it's harder for me to make a case against being a sadist than a masochist, because the power dynamic between the cows owned by the farmer is large, it's similar to the dynamic of a master and slave dynamic, having dominion over the cows. I don't see a masochist having dominion, they prefer being submitted more than the one controlling over the other. Also, it would help to mention distortion and denial as a factor in being a dairy farmer, as there's plenty of things in the dairy farming process, especially at the commercial large scale level, that it would be hard for me to argue against such factors, as these factors help in maintaining your job as a dairy farmer. Understand? If I came off as attacking your position, I wasn't intending for that.

Another example that spiritual traditions are the same as business stores and other industries out there: out market and out compete the other.

@Zigzag Idiot I think you meant sadist, but if this is your projection then verg interesting trait.

@ardacigin Great post. I've noticed in me similar experiences when I had done informal mindfulness practices like mindful eating or mindful walking, sometimes if I do it long enough, I get bored and sleepy. I have some questions about this and some parts if your post for further clarity for me: Is the object of focus limited to the breath first? Do thoughts and sensations also play a role in the awareness and attention dynamic? Is the international attentional movement similar in what Shinzen Young described when dealing with pain/irritation points in the body, switching from the location to the entire body? What about attention deficit disorder, if I have this firet before awareness deficit disorder? Is there a solution to this? Does the order not matter? Is there a solution to this? Is attention the same as analysis? Could you please elaborate on this, as for most of my life I've thought that analysis and attention are more different, that analysis is more closer to logic than attention. What is your solution to raising conscious power in order to sustain both attention and awareness dynamic during the day? Is this limited to times when you are more alert?

@ertopolice More like "The limit is how deep do you wanna go with me". Don't forget there's no 'I', a 'you', and a 'me' to begin with.

It's wonderful that another member is converted into Veganism, one person at a time.

@soos_mite_ah Spot on.

@Wilhelm44 The practical implications for parallel realities is that there's more stuff to imagine and visualize, and that can help you create more in your reality, so you run out of ideas for interesting things to do in your life. At least this is one of many implications for me, more food for my mind to munch on.

@Eternal Unity If you meant how the interviewer handled the questions as a disgrace and insult to human intelligence, then yes she could've asked more question to flesh out the historic context of her Era and the 108 year old woman's life. If you meant it's a disgrace and an insult to human intelligence when a 108 year old woman should've answered better, or had the insight that 'nothing is the same, everything is changed' but after living for over a hundred years, then god help you. because there's such a thing as being limited by the environment and available information in the ecology.

@Tim R They can offer some value in sharing their perspective on what they have experienced. That can be useful learning past mistakes and insights can occur in you when you are talking and receiving their wisdom. It's also amazing that some people could live past 100.

While anger is an emotion, and has a place in being expressed in certain contexts, it's important to let go of it as soon as possible. Anger does have adverse effects on your body when there's too much, from increased temperature, to liver damage, to seeing spots.

@Heart of Space Yes, this can be true. Enlightenment doesn't save you from cancer, or genetics, or brain chemistry such that you are born a sociopath or psychopath, so why should anyone hold high regards for the saving power of enlightenment? While it is a case that enlightenment does reduce follow up suffering, the pain is still there. How did you manage to get you coworker fired?

@WaveInTheOcean They do apply to some men that are more developed in their psyche, and not as horny as younger men. Main issue issue with this advice is it can give a pass on when you do have to work harder on attracting and building rapport with women when the context is necessary for pursuing, because if this advice is true, surely I could get away with less work and effort right? Not quite true, unless you are socially grounded and have higher natural attraction, such a guy could pull off this advice. However, when your looks are closer to average, and you don't have above average social skills, and you don't quite have a positive psychology and attitude, all you have is the following to make it more likely you land a date, and maybe a fling: sex drive, ambition, faith in yourself in making this happen no matter what, visioning, dreaming big and taking massive action. To understand the potential abuse of this advice, let's change context and talk instead about life purpose. Using this advice means I'm telling you not to pursue, think too hard and focus too hard on your life purpose, and not to take that much action on it everyday, which is the opposite of finding out what you want from life, and making it, which does take lots of work. Sounds pretty strange advice, no, that I'm telling you to give up on the point of failure, when just going over that limit a little gives success? It's like abandoning a work project, like say a book, and a month away from publishing the novel, or the manga series, you quit because there's some doubt over the success of the project, and hope the opportunity just comes to you when instead you could've given an extra effort and gone forward with that decision. Until she gives a clear no, don't give up the chase.

@Jordan Welsh This is really good if you want to go meta on a situation where you are already debating, regardless if you win or loss a debate on a meta level. Although I don't see how going meta could improve my ability to get an edge while debating?

@ilja A simple solution would be to become better at clarifying what you want, what the other wants in the exchange, and probing, and being aware of social context. If it's decided beforehand that the discussion is a debate, prepare beforehand, in a debate context. If the social context is different, like in a party, and somewhere in a conversation it's getting heated, or getting into an informal debate, you can always exit out, or go along depending on your skills of rhetoric and mindfulness.