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I didn't even notice 🙃 Identifying as female is so low on my radar I do often miss inclusive type stuff.

No, found. I must say, it is on the nasty, vitriolic side for a meme. Someone was upset when the made it 💀 She looks spiritually constipated to me. Strained smile. Bit of uncanny valley with the over emphasised chin, mouth, teeth. And smile that doesn't extend to the eyes. Overall a deranged meme 🤣

Quite the claim. Burden of proof.

@theleelajoker To be clear I'm not shitting on concepts/ideas/labels or thought. They have their use and they are absolutely an asset. But we if are talking spiritual process, freeing, acceptance, integration, ending unnessecary suffering and awakening - as you start to dissolve conditioning we see how these things act to fuck everything up. So you learn exactly when to throw them away, and when you use them. It also becomes very clear when others are using them to identify with ego, centralising experience. Rather than dissolving the subject / object relationship we have and being within experience in a nonlocal, free way. No judgement. Only discernment. It's like seeing the clouds and saying 'those are MY clouds, MY sky' 'MY ideas, MY thoughts' Not sure if this resonates with you? I think you understand this part of the path ❤️

How come you were unable to see your shadows without the label?

Yeah, it seems to be the actual root issue behind the surface discussion regarding labels/concepts/ideas. It's not about ND not ND. NT not NT. It could be anything. It's the underlying theme behind the human drive towards concept/idea/label in an attempt to seek existential meaning. Without investigating what meaning is, in an of itself. There appears to be attachment present. And reassurance / relief from said attachment. Evidence by emotional attribution. This is actually counter to equinimity. There's a huge mix of users who are more direct experience based, and those more concept/thought based. Sometimes there isn't the realisation the concept/thought/idea/label acts as a cataract between the eyes and the vision/truth. This is a heavy model/concept thread. I am aligned with your view. But I don't want to engage, pick my battles etc 🥹

I suppose the thread title is also a misnomer - no one needs to be fixed. No one is broken. We are all valid as we are, without having to prove it, fit in. Or show worth...

How come we cannot accept ourselves without a label/concept/idea ? Perhaps we look too much to society to tell us what is right, rather than within.

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Do you prefer practical in-camera effects during filming (SFX) or digital effects post-production (VFX)? I understand many like both - but this is about what you prefer Might be interesting to add your age too! For demographics. VFX examples: CGI creatures CGI/Digital environments Green/Blue screen compositing De-aging actors/adding makeup Blending Motion Capture SFX examples: Explosions (controlled pyrotechnics on location Weather effects on-set Animatronics/puppets Stunts Stop Motion animation There is a bit of overlap with stop motion/motion capture as both effects require SFX & VFX to pull off. I consider stop motion animation to be more SFX though.

@PolyPeter You may enjoy a lot of Peter Ralston (if you have not already heard of him). His delivery is forceful, emotive, passionate and earnest. Candid. Some cannot get past that. But if you can, he has a lot to say about beliefs. It is an asset to be able to make a distinction between a truth and a belief. Regardless, both are an asset/have use. In my opinion

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@Ramasta9 Rofl Don't you see? They want a formula for life! Dick and balls in white pants = 58.57% increase chance to get dick wet

Oh wow thank you - this is additional context that changes a lot! Will think on this. Other users might find your addition above useful also

Any woman who is smart knows nothing means shit unless you are at full action stations 😈

How balanced his outlook is for an Olympia BB winner. You often hear these extremist '1%' Rich Piana mentality types who blast test and ruin their bodies. Dorian was meticulous. His emphasis is on REST over endless training. But when he was IN the gym he went incredibly hard for the small time he was there. He took extensive notes of all his workouts, compiled them, and analysed them over time to create a protocol. I think it was rather pioneering as there was not as much information as widely available regarding the sport as there is today. In the later phases of his life, he went to a balanced quality/longevity type health approach. He wanted to win - but not at any cost. I admire his drive, commitment, single minded ambition, but also the balance and spiritual work he does. The most intriguing parts for me, in terms of what was presented as new information in this particular interview, were his comments on consciousness work! He has taken a lot of psychedelics for this purpose. I believe it is timestamped. But from his words, emphasis and realizations - he sounds God realised!

Never expected to see this, but here we are. Not a fan of Andrew Huberman. But Dorian is great. For anyone that doesn't know Dorian Yates is a legendary English bodybuilder, six-time Mr. Olympia winner (1992-1997) nicknamed 'The Shadow'. No bullshit, straight to basics. Takes a dump on 'exercise science' while he is at it. Fuck 'Dr' Mike Israetel tbh. I'd listen to Dorian over him any day. He knows his shit. He has taken a health-centric approach in his later years. Stimulate, don't annihilate. He is also pretty big on psychedelics. @Jannes

The problem with humans is we can detect/interocept acute, subjective issues and reasonably isolate them well. The contrast in state is immediate and obvious. Holy fuck my arm is broken. The insidious nature of low level, chronic creep of lowered quality of life means we cannot as easily use this contrast in state to deduct its origin, or when it became so bad. Something something frogs in boiling water. The only way to answer if one is under stress due to chronic/habitual use, is to try eliminating it. Experience is the greatest teacher.

@Shermaningeorgia where did I say you cannot express yourself? Outside forum guidelines. And to be clear, that is the guidelines speaking. Quote please You can challenge me all you like, it doesn't bother me and there is no rule against it. I never said you could not. Present a quote.

It plays a big part, in my experience. There is a dark night of the soul that often smacks you about for a bit prior to the process taking over. Many people stop there.

To end unnecessary suffering. Peace. It feels natural. No force. No neuroticism like with 'self improvement'. Open, in attached exploration and questioning without conditioned beliefs. The process just resolves itself as we go. Experience no longer feels localised - it is just happening. Without the construction of the 'I am the experiencer' as a result of subject/object collapse, the egoic reactions seems to resolve themselves in a (to me) surprising way! I think it is really important to have meta awareness of our thoughts through mindfulness/meditation. You can begin to reverse engineer a feeling from a thought, and assess if the thought is a belief. Resolve the belief (if it no longer serves) and the feeling lessons to the point we can respond over react. Requires being deeply in touch with feelings and thinking. See clearly when a feeling or emotion is in response to survival, an egoic manifestation, or even completely false originating from fantasising about a future event that doesn't exist. The feelings all point to something. I think it is my job to figure that out, to reduce unnecessary mind chatter and suffering. Meditation helped me so much. Diving into thought and feeling, equally.

In terms of our emotional/feeling responses reactivity I agree with you there. That initial whip-crack feeling is usually correct, if we are grounded and relatively whole within our truth. I think the key takeaway is widening the gap between the trigger and the choice to take action, when it is an egoic/small-self responce. But there are elements of our survival and base nature that require a fast response. Fear as in example. To run from danger. This is why I think our emotional/feeling responses are more intelligent that our minds/thoughts. You see a tiger; your fear prompts you to fucken MOVE faster than a thought can do that. There is some nuance to this topic I need to think on further. Good one for contemplation!

This is a question for you, a good inquiry one. It isn't so intentional (not for me, anyway) - awareness just slowly and naturally cleans it up after awakening. Neurotic for me, implies overthinking. There isn't so much thinking involved in that way because you don't enter the cleanup phase with and end goal in mind. It ends up being a process of life. Something to be engaged with in the absence of 'completion'. Observation, realisation - maybe I can change this and see what happens? - exploration of experienced results. I think there isn't a goal or intention. Awareness begins the cleanup when you see through the illusion; the illusion sort of breaks its tight grip once you see through the ego self. I think this is the initial rock pulled away that can lead to little avalanches of change. You react, but you aren't taken away into the grip of it so as to feel out of control. There is peace in non-reactivity. You respond, not react. And the responding carries less attachment than the reacting. I feel it in my body differently - the responding feels deliverate, grounded, slower, cleaner, aligned. Not about winning. Like I am pausing, choosing my words and reacting on values/principal. Prior to this I would react and feel it as automatic, emotion led and fast/sloppy/defensive. It felt like it happened outside of my control. In both reaction/response there is a body grounded feeling, but the response does not carry all the weighty attachments of the ego. In no way was it about being better by not reacting. I feel that is a fantasy. Responding feels like it widens the gap between trigger and choice. The flavour of feeling, being, emotion is DEFINITELY still here. Feeling and emotion should NEVER be deleted in the spiritual process. Something is very very wrong if it is.

Do you think there is a possibility you are too focused on yourself and this 'character' when out and interacting with the world? I ask as your paragraph leads me to think you are quite concerned with how you are perceived by others. This can lead to us crafting an appearance in an attempt to control others reactions toward us. Naturally this will stunt authenticity. People are very sharp at intuiting when others are repressing. It might be worth digging into what could be underlying unconscious belief or thought. Is it so bad, if people do not like us? Does that say anything about us, or more about them? We cannot please everyone. Cannot be liked by everyone. Obviously there are some habits and ways of being that are offensive; abuse, racism etc. But if we are just talking about general character, often we are looking too much for external approval. Maybe some more context might help - is this inquiry relating to romantic relations/social/family/professional?