Gesundheit

@mandyjw I'm sold. Just give me the diet you're currently on already!

Wow! That's a really deep and powerful quote!

So, earlier today, I went and met up with the guy that gets paid in USD. He's one of the friends I made at college back when we were in the same class, very gentle and friendly dude. Now he's graduated and is getting a diploma in internal medicine. He's a very scientifically-mided person with a fairly open mind. He volunteered in a number of translation initiatives before, specifically in scientific research-oriented articles. And so, after years of working in this area, his resume became fairly strong regarding translation. However, when he applied for his current job, they made him wait for almost half a year to get accepted. And even then they don't pay him a lot; 5$ per 1000 words. And even then, it's not a regular job. It's more of a freelancing kind of job. So he might not have anything to work with for a month or so, and then he might suddenly get bombarded with work. I didn't really get much new information from him regarding online jobs. Although, he gave me some very good/nuanced/sneaky tips for manoeuvring inside online markets, which I am not really interested in. Life is designed to make the rich/strong richer/stronger, and the poor/weak poorer/weaker. That's the rule, but there are rare exceptions. And it requires extremely bad/good luck to be an exception. Investing is only good for the capitals. We're actually selling our time and energy at a very low cost. One of the sneaky tricks with the hierarchical design of corporations or anything of the sorts is that they don't pay you beforehand. Typically, you work for a month, and then you get paid. But that's putting the cart before the horse. Imagine a car running on low feul, when you need the feul to run in the first place. Well, they assume that you have enough feul to supply them first before they can refill you. What's happening in practice is that we're actually lending the capitals our time and energy, which is money, when in fact we need to be lent, not the other way around, considering that they're richer than us. Not to mention that we're not getting paid nearly enough for our efforts compared to people at higher ranks. The lower the rank, the lesser the income. It's a good demonstration of how humanity has lost touch with the body/being and now is living inside a giant made-up mind, which we're serving and fighting to preserve mindlessly. It's the ultimate BS. And the results are already terrible enough. For me, I don't invest. I prefer poverty and death over making long-term investments with humans. And why should I invest in the first place when I'm going to die anyway? It doesn't make sense. I don't work to make a good resume or good money. That'd be the recipe for suffering. I work because I enjoy working; It feels good in the present moment, it takes my mind off of life, and it increases my confidence. I prefer physical work over mental because it's healthier. I'm very aware of my body, and I know for a fact that mentally-demanding jobs are bad for the body & the mind. It's just unnatural. We aren't designed to sit between four walls and exercise our minds in the most malignant ways possible for manipulating reality. I used to live like that, but I don't buy into that BS way of living anymore. We are designed to live, breathe, dance, move, run, hunt, chase, explore, play, etc... Living indoors for prolonged periods of time is unhealthy. I've tried it, and experienced its bad effects. I can't imagine living life that way. We need the sun and the trees. We need that natural sunlight and that natural air. We need fire and the earth. Did you ever wonder why there is so much suffering in the world? Well, now you know why. When you're out of sync with your body, you will suffer. And then you will project your suffering onto others. And then others will spread the suffering onto the rest of humanity, and that pattern will keep repeating and going back and forth until it gets reflected onto the earth eventually. But when you die, you realize that nothing in life is worth suffering for. It makes no sense why you should suffer when you're already dead/eternal. Let alone the fact that you can never know what creates survival. No amounts of suffering or thinking or anything can ever guarantee survival. You can do whatever you want to increase your chances, but still die from a car accident or even a random heart attack. Really, suffering is the stupidest experience. Live in alignment with life. Flow. Breathe. Listen to your body. Follow the path of least resistance. Let go of greed. Let go of control. Listen. Enjoy. Look & See. Be.

Healthy egos have no questions.

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Economy is collapsing. Nearly 4000 local currency per 1 USD. On the other hand, I may be able to get a job that pays in USD in the next few days. I don't care either way, cuz I'm in total indifference. When you die, nothing matters anymore. I could work all day, or not work at all, or anything in between. It makes no difference. It's only one life, and only one death. And I've already achieved both.

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The second image shows precisely why I always keep my beard shaved ??

They may be transpersonal states of consciousness, but they're definitely not unconditional. It seems you are pointing to the absolute, but I wouldn't try to conceptualize it as conditional or unconditional. It just is.

LMAO! Just notice how y'all are projecting your ideas onto reality. I don't know the exact techniques that the monk used, but it's not like he'd done magic. Any dedicated buddhist could do the same. To a buddhist, that's just science, not very different from taking a certain type of drug or anaesthetic. Look up the reasons behind this burning monk, it was part of a political protest in Vietnam. It had nothing to do with "grace" per se.

@Fran11 The "arab spring" revolution in Algeria started with a burning man too. Only he did not have grace. He seemed to have had been burning in hell.

I would have said that that's only your perception, and that not all people share it, but that's probably obvious to you. So I will say something different: Wait until Tom Cruise dies, and see how the next generations will perceive him differently. It will only take a few generations before people start confusing the act for reality (and many people already do).

@The Buddha Whatever dude. I've already given you the ultimate answer to your question. The rest is on you. "Why Leo has no grace?" He has, but it's your beliefs that are blocking you from seeing it. Period.

Not that I disagree with what you said, but that's kinda missing the point. The point is that famous people are worshipped & idolized, and they have extremely polished images that get even more polished by the minute, when in fact they're just ordinary people, like the rest of us. All the heroic stories are nothing but an exaggeration, but a lot of people naively believe and buy into them to fill in certain psychological needs, I would say mostly of safety. Stories of human perfection are for children, and perhaps for recreation. They simply don't match reality. People need to learn how to distinguish between reality and metaphor.

@The Buddha I'm absolutely perplexed by how far some humans are willing to go to preserve their beliefs. Ramana died of cancer, for God's sake. Doesn't sound so perfect now, does he? I have no interest in stage Blue debates. Believe whatever you want. But know that beliefs color perception. So, whatever you're experiencing, it's because of your beliefs. If you change your beliefs, your perception will change with them.

That all effort is irrelevant.

Give me good health and throw me in the jungle, and I will still be happy.

I am absolutely perplexed by the presence of such beliefs here on this forum. Maybe quit hanging out with stage Blue/Conformist buddhists, and then try questioning these dogmas/stories/beliefs.

Five months ago, in the city named Tortoise, I've made a pact with myself, right in the middle of a solo retreat; I vowed: "I shall not love another human ever again". And ever since, my eyes never shed a tear, except for my own misery. Out of my heart and into the heart of land, I witnessed the burial of love. I was alone, and I needed someone or something to witness my vows and complete the spell; Blue Moon. I left love there, and came back home. I never felt that which I left ever since. I know I will have to break the spell eventually. When the time is right, I will go back there, and dig it out. "In the crossfire, there's a story.. And how it ends, I do not know.. Don't let it go.." But I will let it go, I need to. "There's one road to the morning.. There's one road to the truth.. There's one road back to civilization.. But there's no road back to you.." And now, it's still & serene. And now, I am free.

@AdamR95 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan

Increased complexity is a hallmark of higher ego development.