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^^ This.

Somewhere close to the following 1RM’s: 300 lb bench 400 squat 500 deadlift Though the bench is less important as it uses a fraction of the muscle mass relative to the other 2. I have the deadlift but not the other 2. Maybe +100lb chin up and close to 200lb standing press as well, for further reference. Maintenance for that will be absurdly high if they’re moving around a lot during the day — once a decent amount of muscle mass is accrued, activity throughout the day (as a whole) modifies the total caloric expenditure FAR more acutely than focused training sessions. After losing, say, 25lb fat though, one might have lost up to 5lb of muscle (more if they didn’t do it right) — that provides a whole lot more metabolic efficiency... as in fat-loss will stall. Even 1-2lb of muscle loss will decrease maintenance calories by a nice chunk.

That’s fair enough. I appreciated the 7000 steps insight as well. What I said still stands though.

Of course not. When you get extremely lean the scale tips greatly towards preserving fat and muscle. And in natural bodybuilding there is greatly reduced muscle mass in late cut. There are no contradictions in what I wrote I can assure you.

Bro... If you had read what I wrote, you’d see I said exactly this. It was kinda the whole point man ? Maybe you just misread a small part what I wrote, no big deal — I said 600 cals per 10 (TEN) lb. exactly what you said. But... that’s for BMR only... +6 calories a day per pound of muscle at rest. So +600cal per day for +10lb muscle. That’s at rest — the effect on BMR only. The increased daily caloric expenditure is utterly insane though! Several thousand calories per additional 10 lb of muscle, very much depending on how much movement is done throughout the day. Most very strong intelligent lifters know this — it’s hard to miss when you’re living it. It’s not some theory I just came up with willy nilly. It’s just not known to everyone.

Well you can't really. Self-inquiry (repeatedly turning away from every object no matter how subtle by looking for its assumed knower) until it gives way to pure subjectivity, and beyond, can maybe seem to be associated with it. The point is the seeming allure and significance of that state is just as much here and now.

Exactly. He can be correct in a sense, but not from a first try... Having a God-realization event can rip reality wide open but that's nothing compared to having reality ripped almost as wide open from sober meditation...because much more stays... Even though that's quite difficult, it can absolutely be done. Inquiring into who knows the difference between God-realization and this/now, in the presence of deep stillness and powerful consciousness, can accomplish this.

^^ This. (duh...)

Inquire into what knows the difference between that state and this/now.

Nice! Enlightenment is the collapse of the distinction between that and ordinary presence... i.e. that "state" is only a memory -- nothing has actually changed -- presence is absence and reality is unreality. Then, everything is "on the same level" -- awareness has the same status as chair, table, body, thought, etc.

This is a widespread misunderstanding. Training for hypertrophy/strength is what matters most in FAT loss, along with adequate protein and less calories. WEIGHT loss depends mostly on calories in/out, yes, but no one really wants that over FAT loss, and if they think they do, they're mistaken . One can add in cardio on top of the strength training, but it's totally optional. It takes a ton of cardio just to burn off a candy bar -- i.e. just don't eat the candy bar. In all seriousness though, please read the following with an open mind: I do happen to be right about this. Hear me out though, I feel I may change your mind. What is the gas mileage of a large 8 cylinder turbocharged/forced-induction high performance engine compared to a 4 cylinder without much power? Exactly. Here's where even people who seem to know a lot about health get confused: they look at the daily calorie maintenance AT REST of +10 pounds of muscle, ~600 calories, and think "well that's not a lot, so gaining muscle won't really help one lose fat THAT much" -- however, the increased daily total caloric expenditure of +10lb muscle is a completely different number, and it is immense... way, WAY more than most people would guess... sometimes several thousand calories... this is because high performance muscle is extremely costly to maintain -- even leisurely cleaning your house becomes very metabolically inefficient -- kind of like using a high performance car as your daily driver. And btw... This makes your 7000 steps insight even more useful -- kudos! Walking around with more muscle is incredibly inefficient and results in more calories burned... *** FAR more than if the SAME additional weight was from fat! And THAT is the part most people overlook or just aren't aware of! *** *** Even on their non-training days, even just relatively-strong, trained people can have daily caloric needs in the 4000+ range... If they chose to eat a normal diet of only 2500 calories that day, they would in fact lose nearly half a pound of fat in one day without even training! And that's provided they hit the majority of their muscles in the past 48 hours (max time for the muscular adaptation window) -- otherwise even MORE weight would be lost, since while fat contains ~3500cal/lb, a pound of muscle tissue is only composed of ~650 calories... (All the more reason why weight loss is truly irrelevant... what people care about is fat loss.) There are many other more technical reasons too, such as muscular adaptation windows and protein turnover -- you'll never want any muscle to go more than 48 hours without being overloaded -- that way, AT ALL TIMES, additional fuel has at least a chance to provide muscle growth and repair instead of fat gain, as adaptive net muscular hypertrophy never lasts more than 48 hours after adequate stimulus, unless drugs are used. The cardio, while certainly useful, is of miniscule importance in relation to the big 3: proper (frequent and complete) strength training, adequate protein, and eating less calories. It's not like you've got to choose one or the other though but it would serve anyone seeking fat loss to just get the big 3 in order first, and then maybe consider cardio. Most won't understand the importance and just won't do it, and in that case, yeah cardio might be their only saving grace, but they'd be a lot more successful it they sorted out the big 3 first. Daily activities (such as the steps you noted) done with a bit more muscle mass is the key to effortlessly maintained fat loss and leanness. Again, sorry for sounding like a broken record, it's NOT because you're moving more weight, it's because you're having to use more energy-inefficient muscle mass (roughly analogous to the displacement of a high performance engine). And btw this is also the mechanism behind rebound fat gain after such diets wherein a lot of cardio and less than ideal strength training was done -- the body has less muscle and therefore becomes more energy efficient, in some cases making fat gain virtually guaranteed. Hope this helps. Just read it with an open mind.

Stop the mind almost as if you're dumb and staring off into space, BUT with clear awareness instead of hazy. Awareness staring-at/being everything in its field, inseparable from the field; objects inseparable from the field. As if you let the mind and body fall asleep, but the awareness/appearance/everything is wide awake. It's almost like spacing out yet it's literally the true exact opposite of spacing out. "Shining" would be a good word for it.

Well, you're right about that. But if one is contemplatively fit, they might be able to know the difference. Anyhow, the key is just not to let any compliments have any effect, because they can only effect the ego anyway... but as long as they do have an apparent effect, that's due to the deeper issue of the illusory sense of lack.

Raising your vibration means raising your state of consciousness, but also your mood -- particularly gratitude.

Yeah... By "great," what I really mean is basically "whatever; no problem" -- was just highlighting the distinction; that case is just not quite so problematic like the other, latter case.

But there can be deliberation before the mind lands on its decision -- due to competing intentions. The acceptable action based upon the votes of all these intentions gets played out. These competing intentions are specifically what meditation is used to still/unify. When they're stilled, it is bliss. Doubt falls away, as does shame; guilt; blame. Unified self honesty = meditation + figuring out what you desire.

Great question! It's simple: If someone you want to live like or end up like gives you a compliment, great -- that's fine; neither bad nor good. If someone you don't want to live like or end up like gives you a compliment, run -- it is detrimental to succumb to the ego boost associated with those particular compliments! To answer your question.

Yep. And there can be a feeling of being of two minds; part of you wants to do one thing and another wants to do something else -- this is illusory, and it's precisely the suffering that meditation can allay. The truth is, you always do precisely what you desire -- you desire to do what you think is right for you -- even if you desire to have competing intentions that make you feel like you're not unified in your intention. When you're unified, intentions and actions just appear to happen automatically without deliberation. Kundalini awakening is the energetic counterpart to the stilling of these competing desires. What you describe is kind of what Sam Harris has been saying for decades -- dropping the notion of free will has a positive moral component/consequence. Not that I really follow him these days. Though I wouldn't say we really don't have free will, because if you were to go there, you'd have to also say there's no We to have it in the first place. There is only Free will (freedom; albeit unconditioned with no separation of any kind) = there is no free will.

As apparently an INxx, I kind of agree. lol. xSxx's are a little harder for intuitive types to get along with, it seems. Don't really know about now, but in the past, yeah I've noted this.

Anything other than the following is taking the focus off the 99% and therefore potentially misleading, if I may say: 1. Adequate protein 2. Adequately intense AND frequent full body strength training using both pushing and pulling and also lower body dominant exercises. With heavy weight (insofar as it’s almost as far from endurance training as it can get). 3. Taking at least somewhat of a break from considering food and hunger to be of interest However, that is interesting information! ?

I don’t know about the earlier stages, but as for what can eventually happen with psychedelics? Trust? What even would that mean? As if trust would have any additional effect on the timeless absolute realization that, not only is what you really are not finite, but there’s no separation of any kind at all.

^^ Precisely

And by everything you do also mean nothing? Or are you still seeking?

Check out YT channel Sifting to the Truth. What to expect is not to expect. But something that happened quite clearly for me was a situation in which the effort to inquire kind of dissipated and it happened automatically, and then it felt like I was looking in at the world rather than out at it. Like a sort of figure ground reversal. And it was a very intense experience. It wasn’t just a slight perspective shift or something.

Just don't let it happen again.