Natasha Tori Maru

I do. But as is clear form my actions - I risk it ☹️

The Vidya 🥹 World of Warcraft

That is a question for You

I'm a piece of shit. Had too https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/116359-if-you-self-identify-with-any-upper-sd-stage-youre-cringe/

@Olaf I approached/made the move for 3/5 of my long term relationships. Of those 3, we were either colleagues for 2/3 months prior or it was an online friendship I confessed feelings for (we were WoW Raiders in the same guild, I moved states for him). I am very direct and to the point Not a cold approach. But I basically said "hey, I got feelings for you - you wonna?" There Are some wildcard women out there. You never know who you are dealing with.

@Zenterus You're causing them to crash out.... Self reveal to defend themselves !!! Delicious!

This actually means you have zero overlap in cognitive functions. The cognitive functions are not N, F, T, S - they are Ni, Ne, Ti, Te, Fi, Fe, Si, Se I would share Ni & Se with you. I would share Fi & Te with Yetineti.

When I have to work extremely hard to separate the useful conceptual content from the performance I tend to lose all desire to interact. There is a lot of skill involved in effective communication. Much less so in stream of consciousness text output where we flirt with simile & metaphor in an increasingly recursive manner. Especially if we want to actually have others TRY to understand us. Instead of remain on our pedestal of "I am too above everyone to be understood".

Any sort of pursuit that puts us face-to-face with confronting our attachments can be a process of working on conditioning. The more you clarify and remove the obscurity of conditioning - the closer to truth we become. Sometimes we need to expose the conditioning for awareness to do the work, so we no longer operate on an unconscious level with our consumption patterns. Sometimes much more than awareness is needed to break reflexive habits. For many, food can be a coping mechanism. It can have a self soothing function. It also has a place in ritual. Coming together. Celebration. Deeply cultural. But it is also entangled with survival as a need. How spiritual it is depends on what sort of relationship we are working on with food. If it is in any way negative - I would argue, it is worth inspection.

That's valid. We don't know for sure. Hearsay (for now).

He has made claims he has autism. It may explain some of the messes he seems to get into.

Maybe we could term awakening as "realising ultimate truth" and enlightenment as "embodying" that truth, which would entail significant work accomplished on our individual conditioning. And residing in equanimity. Overall I am remarkably undecided! What do you think?

What do you mean by awake? Do you refer to siddhis? I think many people do not understand the markers for awakening. And expect all conditioning to be dissolved when it is seen. Integration and grounding. These might be markers of enlightenment, but not awakening. I struggle to even believe in some of our great teachers being enlightened by this definition. They have historically been just so derogatory to women (some of their quoted statements break my heart). We are less than. Awakening cannot transcend incentive structures or biology. Maybe enlightenment could. But what even IS that!

@oOo Thanks for the dialogue