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@Leo Gura Have you ever had crisis in meaning, like when you lost all the meaning you had and as a result didn't know what to do in your life or felt hopless and desperate? I struggle with that myself from time to time, but as you said, picking a domain (fitness, relationships, creativity, spirituality, etc) and investing daily, weekly, monthly creates that meaning and satisfaciton for sure, but in the end you realize that you create it, if you stop investing, you will lose the meaning, but I guess that's how it should be. For example, when I had a relationship, I stopped investing in myself and in other domains of life and I was leeching most of the meaning for my life from that relationship, which in the end crumbled and I suffered because of it. That was a very hard learned lesson of meaning creation and to not put all the eggs in one basket and distribute, and also I realized the importance of consciously creating meanings in life, as oppose to unconsciusly creating it, like this relationship that I had, I realized that I was leeching all the value from it after breakup, not before. @blankisomeone Every major change in life requires time and patience, plus consistent daily investment over weeks and months, that's just the reality of it. If you have to lose weight, earn money in ethical ways, make yourself more attractive, etc, that's how it works in all of that, for all of us. So if you give up, that means you don't really want those things, because guess what, it's equally hard for us as well who don't give up.

@Leo Gura What about some christians that can also be considered mystics? Can "mystic christian" actually be a thing? By mystic I mean someone who understand their nature as God, but then, how can somebody be Christian if they do? So my question is, can you be Christian and God Realized at the same time? Something like a stage Blue Christian Mystic.

@Leo Gura I've always wondered, what's the use of that? Why should one do it? Do they get something out of changing their name to a spiritual one? Indian words are popular as spiritual names.

He actually has a YouTube channel, if you guys didn't know, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/@AvNeryah/videos

TikTok trends Decorating New Year tree Costumes / clothes of christian priests from different hierarchies Fashion industry Playing soccer in school (my dad forced me to join soccer classes in childhood because every parent around us wanted their children to play soccer and be involved in soccer in some ways) Singing national anthem before sporting event begins Oh god, conformity is everywhere. It's like a set of templates that we just choose and follow / act on mechanically. I've always had some dirty feeling when I participated in an activity that I understood was just conformity, but I didn't label them as such. But if I participate more or less consciously, for example decorate a new year tree with my family but in the background I know the act itself is meaningless and conformist, but my intention is being with my family and appreciating and loving those moments with them while they last, the activity itself loses that dirty feeling because I know why I'm doing it. I guess that isn't conformity anymore.

@SimpleGuy I think that's a very direct example of a survival. Why do you think it's not?

@SimpleGuy Yea I've seen it. The tricky part is distinguishing what is survival vs what is not in every day experience.

@Leo Gura Yeah I've been pondering that for some time, but I have one difficulty. I haven't experienced non-egoic, non-selfish pure consciousness yet, I just have my life experience so far as a reference, and I don't have much contrast between selfish and non-selfish perception. Everything is basically selfish from my POV, more or less. I even see my own agenda when I do "non-selfish" activity like helping others for example. I guess non-selfish would be something that I do that's not in relation to "me" and myself. But all I know is "me", so yeah, it's a tricky one. I'll keep pondering.

@Leo Gura How would you define selfishness? In your experience, how do you distinguish what's selfish and what's not in your actions / behaviours / emotions / etc?

What's the goal here? I see the value in understanding my selfishness, accepting it more and more, and becoming more conscious of the gross and subtle ways that I behave selfishly, but I'm not sure how to transcend that. It comes down to transcending survival, but is that really possible? I guess the goal is to be more acutely aware of ones selfishness, and the consequences it has on life in general, and on other people, and collateral damage. @Leo Gura What do you think? Do you try to transcend selfishness altogether? Is that something you see as even possible while physically alive?

@Leo Gura Dude come on, you prefer asians over slavic girls? Maybe that's because you're russian yourself Don't know how that relates to it though.

@Leo Gura I don't think so, eating too much makes you fat. When I'm on a caloric deficit, even if 80% of those calories are carbs, I still lose weight. Maybe eliminating carbs seemingly makes the process more rapid, but carbs also retain water so that might be water weight that you seem to lose couple kg's so quickly. Also, in my experience, carbs are the best source of energy for workouts, cardio and weight lifting.

1. Go to this site and calculate your maintenance calories => https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html 2. Subtract 300-500 calories from that and it that calories for couple months 3. Track weekly, and monthly, make sure you meet that caloric number on average at the end of week and month Do these three and it's basically guaranteed that you'll lose weight if you stay consistend with step #3

@Leo Gura But you also had girlfriends during that time, haven't you? And you also mentioned you might pursue one later and that you wanted to burn through the karma of having more fulfilling intimate relationships. I guess your point is that ultimately your focus was on Actulized, instead of any girl, but you also did that to some degree, pursuing women, but you always had your eye on the most important thing for you, which was philosophy and creating Actualized.

@Leo Gura Have you always been this way? Or you've become like that gradually after you did all the spiritual work and psychedelics?