ZenSwift

Nobody Cares about truth. Everyone only cares about survival. Nobody cares about proper sensemaking. I was contemplating earlier, we really only default to the sensemaking systems that were beaten into us. The mind will do sensemaking regardless, and we will naturally just absorb all the examples of sensemaking that we have in our environment out of sheer conformity. But it is not natural at all to upgrade the quality of your sensemaking. You will naturally become more creative than everybody else around you because everybody else around you is thinking in the boxes of the sense making systems that they were taught.

Reality is appearances happening to no one. From: What is Perception?

Open your mind to the possibility that there exists a set of insights that will get you from where you are to where you need to go. - From: What is Insight?

So, basically, me having 95% of my savings in Canadian ETFs is me being a fool right now? (I'm in Canada. But I assume markets are too closely tied to USA)

The only thing I want Leo to reformat is his blog. The page numbering in constant change is annoying. Can't ever save my place easily.

@Leo Gura Appreciate the nudge.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/florida-girl-eaten-by-crocodile Honestly there's a couple things that come up from this. I thought this was a little bit profound I just want to highlight it. First of all I'm totally want to use this distinction in my mind in dating where I don't see a difference between tall people and short people, because I'm 5'3. Also Leo, I want to hear all your black pills about dating and survival. I think a black pill about being short is that women can feel genuinely disgusted by men shorter than the majority. Which is actually liberating for me to think about it in that way. To just start accepting BIAS for the way it is and to stop fighting it or being resentful towards it. This also takes into account the fact that you can level up your charisma with humor and charm many people too. More seriously though, I've been collapsing this distinction between what I would call dopamine fishing and drug addiction. Media addiction and drug addiction are just as harmful. They're both taking your attention off of your direct experience of the sensations in your body and whatever's going on in your mind. Seeing someone at a bus stop Glued to their phone Is like identical to seeing A homeless man on the street Firing up a crack pipe.

Wish me luck. I will report back to you guys.

Are you me?

I experienced it first hand. Except the fame was just approval from an online "friend group." If I fell into a situation where millions of people were following me to be a LOLCOW for them and it was giving me loads and loads of money, I would be so unbelievably trapped.

This has been my experience.

@Zenterus Wisdom from my experiences: Let them go, let them die. Protect yourself. You CAN'T help them. This is the brutality of survival. There’s a story of a friend of mine who was on this extremely tough military training. All the men were carrying hundreds of pounds, like a minimum of 100 pounds per person, and they were marching for miles. Everyone was just dead. Dead tired. The amount of stress was unbelievable, and it was pushing people to their absolute limits. Some of the weaker guys were falling behind, to the point where they were going to get lost. And my friend was like, “Well, we have to go help them.” And the leader of the military pack was like, “No. Fuck them.” At first, my friend didn’t understand why he would say that. Like, why would you just say, “Fuck them, forget about them, leave them behind,” when people are falling back? Aren’t you the leader? Shouldn’t you be looking after the whole team? But later on, he understood. The reason is that in war, you have to accept that not everyone is going to make it. Some people will fall. Some people will die. Only the strongest, most prepared, and most resilient will prevail. In war, you cannot look after everyone. You cannot save everyone. There are moments where trying to save someone else means you compromise the entire mission, or you get pulled down with them. And this same wisdom applies to the war of daily life. You can look around your own city and see homeless people on the street. People who had certain circumstances, mental health issues, bad luck, trauma, whatever it may be. And some people are resilient, and some people are not. Some people survive, and some people don’t. And the hard truth is that you cannot look after all of them. You have to look after yourself first. You have to accept that some people may fall apart. Some people may not make it. And as harsh as that sounds, you cannot save someone else from drowning if you are also drowning. They will pull you down with them, and then both of you drown together. So the lesson is not to be cruel. The lesson is to understand survival. You help when you can. You have compassion when you can. But you cannot sacrifice your own life, your own stability, your own sanity, or your own mission trying to save someone who may not even be able or willing to save themselves.

Wanted to share, this is the best I could do with Chatgpt image generation.

Thankyou.

Women want the stronger one. In all meanings of the word.

Thankyou.

Beauty

Thankyou.

Thanks for the post

Had to share this here. Imagine live streaming your death of drowning in a subway. Horrific! I love finding examples of Falsehood, Devilry, and corruption that shake me to my core.

I consider myself insanely lucky with the amount of helicopter rides I was on (wildland firefighting), and that one time where I was in a helicopter with an aftermarket part in the rotor blades. That helicopter shook a lot during that ride. Didn't think too much about it other than "man this shit has gotta be off." That same day, another pilot of the same manufacturer brand of helicopters went down. The word I got was that the rotor blades straight up flew off of the helicopter, and he went down, falling out of the sky and killing the pilot. It was literally a situation of us or them for whoever was going to die first. I also almost got hit on the ground by the tail rotor. 1 meter in the wrong direction and I would have been shredded. The pilot was a fool with his landing strategy that day.

Update on the Kriya Yoga practice motivation department: I have been asking myself: What are the most meaningful things for me to be doing? It currently appears to be: Raising my Consciousness Developing Mastery I reflect on things I remember Leo saying: And I combine it with a community challenge to practice Kriya 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening for the next 8 weeks. Plus, there's the good chance of going to Leo's retreat, and I want to put myself in a good condition for that. When I asked Leo what's the best thing I can do for preparation, he said Kriya Yoga. Roger that. I also remember reading Leo talking about him doing several sits of Kriya per day. Primarily with Maha Mudra and spinal breathing of some sort. As this had a Pareto principle level of gains just from those 2 practices. Something like that. So I'll likely eventually follow suit.

This guys channel details a lot of interesting facts about animals and their relationships with eachother. https://m.youtube.com/@OddDanny/shorts

I can probably get AI to scrape it, but not make it pretty