Lyubov

In the grand scheme of things, what do you really want? Feel free to share. Here is my answer. What do I really want? I want to be authentic, live my life authentically and true to me, my inner truth moment to moment, without going back to lies or making myself small. I want to live this way in the unknown and be open to all the magic that unfolds.

I guess as a pundit you need to make hot takes in order to get invited on podcasts?

Idk I don’t like this high energy dancing monkey sorta game that seems to come from a lot of USA PUAs. Something about USA nightlife is really loud and intimidating, where’s the fun in going out to that? To approach a group of girls and the fat one gets angry at you? I don’t get it. I just never got this fronting culture and how loud and boisterous it is in the USA even though I’m from there. I much prefer European nightlife and social interaction over USA. I even prefer South America over it too (which is different as well.) USA it’s like cowboys going out guns blazing and you almost have to be a dancing monkey standup comedian trying to do stupid little nags and get attention from guarded mediocre looking women. USA = loud disingenuous aura framing and having to do the “me tough me confident” dancing monkey routine and the girls there are so uncultured they reward it too. I think I just simply don’t like USA culture and how people socialize there. The only guys I’ve seen really pulling hot USA girls with ease by just being super chill / conversational are guys who look ridiculously good and are exceptionally smooth with a ton of glow up from a prior relationship. I’m honestly shocked at how badly dressed some of these PUAs are in these videos. It’s horrendous and they must be sex closing by compensating with an amazing personality on dates (if they even are at all with the hotter ones)

Yes, ideally you need to be perceived as interesting and worth pursuing/knowing for sex/intimacy/romance, etc. That can be done a number of ways. Fundamentally you need to be right with yourself. Then from there you can build your house on that foundation any number of ways. This is why raw game kinda sucks tbh for a lot of guys. You can kinda make it work in some places but if you genuinely are lacking swagger (doesn’t come overnight) you will go through A TON of no/not interesteds. This can be a draining experience if you have the wrong mindset which most guys do. Ideally you should be focusing a lot on yourself and building stuff up. And you can also push yourself to see how you do socially, going out, building up social skill.

Because it’s not properly taught. You have to realize that in the spiritual space there’s a lot of teachers, tutors, etc who maybe have some unique insights to share and their own spirituality that is unique to them but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a solid teaching. Mindfulness and meditation doesn’t have to mean just shutting off the mind and shutting down in general. It’s an incomplete and poor teaching. There are vibrant meditations which are about focusing your mind, attuning yourself and raising your sensitivity. Freeing yourself and LIVING. You lovingly quiet the childish inner voice that’s always yapping and probably has a lot of limiting beliefs attached to it. Then with this intention that is set for experiencing creativity, creativity will come. I would flip it. It’s not about trying to sit and be creative. I would ask what’s in the way of you naturally being creative, since the vibrant and abundant creative state is your true and natural state. Anything less than abundant joy that sees possibilities in everything and beauty in all is some belief in the way blocking this from flowing to you effortlessly with no heavy sense of control or doership to it. It feels spontaneous and alive, the true Self. I’ve been there, those meditating into an empty hole teachers. Honestly they suck. They aren’t pursuing an awakening that pairs well with real life and are sharing a poor teaching.

In what time frame are you talking about? Of course some change will eventually happen. I don't see it happening for a long time though.

I do not think their system will liberalize. They are addicted to surveillance and control. There is a greater chance of Russia liberalizing before China.

I went down the Yarvin rabbit hole. I think some people are so disconnected within they gravitate towards all sorts of warped and dark ideas to rationalize their miserable existence. Literally nothing about this ideology makes sense. It’s completely incoherent and everything about it contradicts itself.

You oversimplify and distort a lot of nuance to argue in favor of whatever we have now. Capitalist manifest destiny. I do not agree with your analysis of capitalism and what we have now is not naturally how people have always done business since the caveman era.

It's not a good argument though that capitalism is somehow all superior. We are headed for another crash and / or any number of issues that could wipe out Europe, the USA, etc. There is barely a middle class anymore. The USSR didn't collapse solely because it used a communist economic model. When climate change completely destroys half the livable geography on the planet and several states get toppled because of it, what will the cope be for capitalism? The USA is "capitalist" now, we already had one coup attempt and we may be headed to a constitutional crisis come 2028, what we have doesn't even look like the capitalism my grandpa had. People who make arguments for capitalism don't see the existential flaws underneath the surface.

To be honest I find the public discourse you usually see on this topic is just another self protective layer of deflection and self perseverance. It's the stage orange version of defending fundamentalist nationalism. Where the blue will defend how it's better to have a dictator that protects the soul of country, "this has problems but we've been through worse, there's nothing better." Stage orange is ruled by capitalism making the exact same argument. Both stages when facing growing pains fall into scarcity and it death spirals down to inequality and all the destructive things people do when in a state of scarcity. Stage blue can't rationally see how invading x country is bad for them, all they can do is prioritize and protect the notions they have about their ethnic group or nation being the best in the short term. Stage orange isn't capable of seeing how warped their own discourse is on capitalism and how in the long term it's awful. They can just say "this is the best we got right now" and prioritize that in the short term.

The issue with your assertion is it's used by those in power to basically further protect their power constantly. If anyone then challenge's their rule they are now anticapitalist. Society doesn't objectively look at capitalism and then rationally create laws and regulations with the intent of preserving society and making sure everyone can function well under this economic model. Society is shaped by those with economic power and THEN they lay on a story about how capitalism is the best and when everything goes well it's capitalism but when everything goes wrong it's the fault of something/someone else. Communism looked mighty good in the USSR during boom times post WWII. The fundamental issue is perceived scarcity, corruption and lack of development in society. Almost any economic model works if there is a boom.

Dystopian Stage blue is exhausting

I remember watching an interview with some guy who called himself a breatharian claim he hadn’t ate or drank any water in a month… no fluid in a month… it was from that day forward I thought this new age label was stupid, dishonest and out of touch.

You can choose what words you wish to place on reality. You call it illusory, which sounds like you're almost downplaying what you have here. I call it a gift, a miracle and a mystery. I'm not losing sight of anything here nor unaware of anything I should be in this moment. You are deceiving yourself by trying to place these words on reality and rationalizing through your beliefs that now you don't need to make an effort because you believe this or that about reality. One thing we can agree on is that you are here now, you are experiencing your life now, and it requires your utmost attention.

I like this, this is Wu Wei, you don't have to force this. Just continually bring yourself back to the present every moment. When it's time to make plans, set time aside to think and plan or learn anything you need to.

I also don't believe in putting much weight into genetics, it's incidental. Everyone can walk the path the best they can and live an aligned life and I believe up to their true potential aligning with god and living in Wu Wei, this will look different for everyone. You aren't going to become a world class athlete through spirituality but there will be something unique for you. I'm not saying ignore genetics, it's just not something which should really weigh on your mind so much. You can make health choices and still honor all the natural and physical laws around them, this is subtle because of course there are physical considerations to give to our bodies, but you gotta be VERY careful not to scapegoat them accidentally blame your genetics for something or use them in any way to un align yourself from spirit.

You're lost in it (Maya) now saying this my friend. You need to seriously examine what you believe, and why you believe it. With this mindset you are going to end up a broke new ager and there will be a day of reckoning for you. You are responsible for your life. I've met new age people who went broke just like this and it is not pretty. You will be flipping burgers, living in abject poverty (maybe on a couch if you're lucky to have parents that put up with this), your health will deteriorate, you will retreat into dark nihilistic mysticism, cut off from your heart (psychedelics will make you psychotic and out of touch if you take them at this time) and you will eventually end up on the street or resorting to some miserable stage blue belief system that puts some constraints on your lunatic new age beliefs and brings some order to your life. I say this a bit harsh because I really don't think a gentle phrasing here of this will make it through to you. I don't know your financial or living situation, I wish you the best, you need to get to work and start taking life more seriously.

I used to think this way. It is a seriously dysfunctional and unsustainable belief system that conflates a number of different misunderstandings. There is zero fear in taking some time to plan for the future unless you place it there for some reason.

Dude you are going to remain BROKE and desolate with this mindset and it will absolutely hinder your spiritual growth if you live in a western country, unless you have really truly sworn off material life but since you are on this forum I am assuming you have not. Focusing on the future is not some spiritual no-no. It is part of life and your spiritual journey, it is one half of living in Wu Wei, you live life fully while staying aligned, it's part of the whole. Living in balance knowing you need to abide by the rise and fall of the sun like farmers.

It's not bad or good. I think it comes down to what you want, where you are at, your current skills and a little but of good old fashion luck. If you have a job you hate, align with your passions and move towards something better, ride those waves and look for ways to find new opportunities and learn new skills. Separate money from your LP. Sometimes the best thing you can do is take the financial expectations off the stuff you love and let them breathe. You can always find ways to align money with your passions when you have a solid foundation. I deal with clients in my work and am completely self employed, I also am able to support myself, but it is a lot of work honestly and can be a bit of challenge sometimes where I need to take some time to help myself through coping with and accepting that this is where I'm at. It's better than what a lot of other people have and comes with some great perks. So I do see the honor in it and that I am doing something positive. I also have my own dreams, I'm a dreamer. And I put energy into them, I believe they will lead me to where I need to be. Ideally if you are focused and taking responsibility for your life, accepting what is and setting intentions aligned with your highest joys I believe you can live an abundant life where you will always ave what you need in that moment. I hope my dreams will come true and will do my best to achieve them honestly.

For sure, but this is a spirituality forum and it goes without saying most people here aren't striving to be billionaires. You can be conscious, wealthy and live your dream life without having to worry about money problems. If someone came here and said they wouldn't accept anything less than a billion my response would be "why do you want a billion?" Obviously anyone doing this work knows you can't be certain about anything and be financially safe, it's an illusion and that money doesn't complete your life. But is fundamental for living and you can live very comfortably and have a great relationship with wealth and money. Having a few million is more than enough to live an actualizes life, fully aligned. It can be done any amount but I would say materially having a upper middle class lifestyle with a ton of free time is a realistic place to shoot for.

Leave the USA. It’s a big shit hole. You will be a slave there if you aren’t making more than like $100,000 and working more than 25 hours a week. Best you can do is get a cool trailer and live on the road. Freedom. Become a hot wild man with a cool truck and wind stream. Learn to surf and live by the beach in California. You will be a super povo and caged up in almost every other lifestyle there unless you are making serious bank and not selling your soul in corporate. If you are loaded, you can live obviously in the best neighborhoods in California and Florida.

Of course they are compatible. The belief they aren’t will keep you broke. Just try your best to do it honestly.

I am being serious but don't take it to such a serious degree. Of course they innovate in some areas. But by comparison to the USA they are a giant workshop. They are woefully behind in many industries even ones they do contribute to.