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How old are you? You sound frustrated. What lead you to making this post?

Tantra I think is different. I never tried it and tbh I’m not really interested in it or bdsm. My sex life has always been kinda crazy and fun without labels and names on stuff. But yeah I’m sure tantra can be powerful in its own way. What I was speaking about is like doing some mindfulness before pick up. Idk meditation removes desire usually and desire can be really powerful when channeled into socializing and pick up. It’s a weird tightrope of walking between being detached but also having a ton of energy to fuck and pull a woman back with your tenacity and sharpness. I would also say the alcohol you drink matters as well. Beer is kinda dirty, spirits can take it too far. I’ve found wine is the ultimate elixir but I also think the environment you take it in is very important. Some environments are just fucking messy and getting drunk along with the rest of the cattle has its consequences. A couple glasses of wine with your wife or girlfriend or date or with your girl and a couple of her girlfriends works wonders. I’m not talking about slamming a bunch of beers and getting all gassy and in a carb high and making a fool of oneself.

Yeah that’s true. I think their drones and EV technology is pretty much their foray though and they are damn good at it too. I’m far from an expert on this subject. China is able to create a lot of really great consumer electronics and goods at an excellent price. They take stuff that was created in other countries and do an unbelievable job at making it themselves more efficiently. They maybe don’t put as much effort into R&D.

Crazy the amount of time and work people put into scamming. I was trying to exchange cash on Telegram yesterday. Seems like there are people who have made it their full time hustle to scam people in the crypto sphere.

Ask Deepseek ai what happened in 1989 on Tiananmen Square

What’s keeping us from stealing from them back? Sounds to me like we got outwitted.

Bro you are not going to create sexual tension with a meditation high

We all are slowly dying. Pick your poison.

Peter Thiel's astroturf'd influencer for poisoning the male youth and getting them to go right wing is now catching chargers

Yeah I am really finding 2 glasses of wine is really useful. I sort of lost interest in sex and even being intimate often with my wife and it has totally brought it back. Also us settling down from traveling as well, we have been traveling all this year so far. You need to really chill and relax to have an active sex life. I lose all interest in sex when I am experiencing stress. Alcohol is so stigmatized in spiritual circles. Drink a glass of wine when you are having an awakening or in your flow with a clear mind and connection to spirit. It doesn’t cloud it, it adds a really playful, fun, sweet and just joyful tint to it. Really surprised I haven’t heard more stories about wine on here like this. I personally would avoid liquor and beer.

careful with your thinking here. you make a lot of judgements. you can be very passionate about ping pong, ok. maybe that opens doors. maybe you build relationships with people you care about that leads you to new opportunities. maybe you teach resilience and responsibility through the sport. you completely tank your point by throwing in your judgements about ping pong. with this way of thinking you can disqualify anything anyone chooses to pursue.

Yes this is what I always am telling people. We get clouded by our emotions. Flow is earned. A lot of people apply flow, success, whatever you wish to call it as something that is this secret to unlock but to be honest there aren’t really secrets. It’s just ceasing all misconceptions and illusions and being able to deeply observe the world. It becomes usually very apparent the way things are, a sense of clarity and clear reasoning why x should be done or why y means sitting still and just waiting. The teachings are all very simple and in any moment it is exceptionally clear what to do. We often times get clouded by expectations, fears and wishing things were different. Patience is a virtue when it comes to shaping your life in a way where it leads to what you would like to see manifested. I spent a lot of my time in my 20s with ideals and expectations. I sometimes wish I had the wisdom I do now. I would of taken a number of great leaps and risks at times when it was appropriate and not wasted my effort when I was consistently marching blind putting tremendous effort into things that weren’t helping me, but of all the mistakes I would say delusions like what the OP seems to have discovered kept me in a state of inaction. Success (what I call flow, since Wu Wei flow usually unfolds as success and perfection in all one experiences) is earned. It’s not something you simply meditate your way to, although this practice can help. It’s a balance off inner stillness and ceasing illusions and expectations but then turning the lens outward and clearly looking at the world and clearly reasoning why a particular action should be taken at any particular moment, cutting through whatever inner resistance arises. I wasted so much money and time in my 20s thinking if I just want something and hope for it it will come to me.

Timing is also very important. Not just time management. But the actual timing of things. What is the best choice to make in these next two hours. Have you all ever had an experience where you spent weeks or months trying to accomplish something but then suddenly as you changed course or reflect on your actions, in the matter of a few hours or days suddenly you made tremendous progress? More than in the last 3-6 months? There is a quiet flow of energy at play and it’s incredibly important to become conscious of timing. There are people who did everything right at their company but when it came time to ask for a raise they did so the moment their boss got off of a phone call with their wife who is asking for a divorce. So always pushing always rushing always thinking you need to be doing a ton isn’t always the case. There is a dance to it. You need to know when to release the arrow. There needs to be tension in your bow which is created through force but enough ease to aim and control the bow as you do so. Effort mixed with flexibility and ease

I’m wanting to start a qigong practice myself, I really found it helpful the few times I did it.

Damn this is a wonderful analogy for creativity and passion. It’s your baby. Babies are fun. Usually the first year or two is a joy. Then as your baby gets older you realize the reality of being a parent. Your kids will misbehave and you will sometimes regret having kids. The same with passion. It’s fun to get started, we usually have big dreams when we go out to buy that art supplies or start that project. 6 months in you realize just how tall the mountain is you began to climb. It’s incomprehensibly tall and you may not make it to the top. That is the pursuit of greatness.

This is the same mistake people make with the law of attraction. The law of attraction works but most people teaching it leave this part out because a lot of people like being sold a dream that feels good over reality. It’s easy to play off people’s naivety for your own gain than share the whole truth with them. Gotta learn to swim before you can effortlessly row a boat staring. And even then a wave can still come along and knock you over. This is an ever present truth about reality. We do not get any guarantees. You can realize everything and on the day of going in to collect your dues get ran over by a truck. It’s why influencer LoA teachings get so many clicks, it removes people’s fears of uncertainty and the unknown.

You put too much energy into caring what other people think about you.

Is anyone here interested in studying Taoism? I am considering making a Taoism official thread that I will post my insights on the Tao and share Taoist teachings and applications to life and raising consciousness.

me too

A lot of artists and creative people filled with passion (including myself) make the mistake of holding tightly onto expectations. Expectations cloud your judgement. It can be especially deceptive as you get into spiritual work. We hear teachings about openness, following your heart. Where did we go wrong? A traveller making his way to another town came across a river he had to cross to get to the other side. One of the fishermen offered him a ride across. As the traveler watched the fisherman row the boat he was deeply impressed by how the fisherman was able to effortlessly do it standing. The traveler asked the fisherman how he effortlessly could row such a boat with zero effort with complete grace and perfection. The fisherman told him only that he first had to learn to swim. This is an interesting Taoist parable that holds a lot of wisdom around this topic. We all want to see success in what we set out to do but we forget the foundation that sits underneath. In order to so effortlessly row a boat you need such a foundation to let go, such a foundation lets us give up trying and going with the flow and in this flow is often times where passion and creativity and grand vision comes from. The parable is simple but the same lesson applies to the nuanced lives we live. We often times forget we need to learn to swim, we have bills to pay, we have responsibilities. We neglect to just sit still and observe. Observe the world. Observe reality. Truly watch how life passes and how the world works, how our life works. We have expectations that if we blindly follow a feeling that things will go how we wish but there are no guarantees. That is life but it is also what makes it interesting. If it was as simple as just following a feeling, the game would not be fun, it would break the game and you would not play. You need to work towards finding a balance where you can live from your heart and passion but not at the expense of being so naive. Balancing wonder and naivety. If you were not so blinded by your emotions and expectations you would of probably been able to reason how placing such a financial burden on what you enjoy would not be a wise risk to take without some knowledge of something else which could help you float in the water. The key here is knowing to swim, that way you can let go and flourish in your flow which is where creativity lives. Clarity of mind is important here. It does not mean completely neglecting and forgetting about your passions. This is often times the energy of your soul speaking out to be realized. But this is not a race. If you need to prioritise more time to learn to swim that is fine. There is no one right path. Passion/wonder and naivety must be balanced with wisdom, reason and observation of the facts of reality.

Can’t live with them, can’t live without them

Wouldn’t we all want this? This is the stuff these chat bots aren’t capable of doing yet and what the tech scammers keep over promising on because they need to sell you stuff you don’t need to keep the hype going. It’s annoying enough already using AI bots that brands implement for product support because people know they make mistakes and they don’t extend the same amount of trust to them. Also those bots are implemented after the fact of getting your money because the power dynamic has now changed. Your solution if you don’t want to put your clients who pay you money into the hands of a mistake prone bot is to hire a smm.

Yeah I use ai for research, administrative stuff, organizing information, lesson planning, getting pathways ready, etc. it’s a useful tool like how the advent of the internet was much more useful than having to drive to the library or post office. But it’s entirely incapable of replacement. I find clients mostly through a third party platform and word of mouth is gold, since my niche is somewhat small and the market I specialize in is fairly tight and underserved. I work 6 days a week like a slave. I have more students that I can teach and counsel. I am in the process of having a professional build a website though and I plan to do targeted ads but this is mostly for saving on commission I pay to third party platforms and also to diversify how I find students. I have 1-2 other people, one is a friend, I’m hoping to market as well and then leech a commission off of them if I successfully pass students off to them. If your conversations are extremely predictable and you believe it is worth the time implementing and will save you time then I won’t argue with that. I’m just saying I’d really wary of handing off any person who wants to give me money to a bot. I can’t speak for everyone but tbh I think most people loathe talking to customer service bots. If the number of inquiries is so huge I would say your idea to just outsource it to a social media manager is not a bad idea at all.

Just power. The same reason the west doesn’t care about Thailand. Because Thailand doesn’t have any power. Do you think Thailand wants to be built entirely on tourism and deal with all the fucktards that come to their country for a holiday? Of course not but what choice do they have? They don’t have a huge population or army or a ton of money to set the rules and get richer in another way. There is obviously much deeper nuance to this and plenty of history, geopolitics and political science books you can read on this. But yeah, they want China to be a poor workshop at best or a colonized country at worst. China seems to be rising above both of these.

poor optics here. tate is a violent serial rapist and child abuse image producer.