Natasha Tori Maru

Closing this. Don't want to invite drama. If you have a serious issue PM Leo or a Moderator you feel you can speak to.

I have no personal feelings toward you - all is well Why in the world would I dislike you? I disagree with your actions - there is a large difference. This post does make me think you might have unclear boundaries - my compassion. Always a challenge. Disclose AI use and you good man

I tend to eat 2/3 very small meals through the day. Main meal 3hrs before bed - larger. I let my body digest and process food by fasting until 11AM. I use the morning for my most focused, intense tasks. Because my main, larger meal at night, is quite large, it fuels the morning weights/run/ride by loading carbohydrates the evening prior. I have personally found exercising or doing any intense non-linear thinking work on a full stomach to detract from performance. For this reason, I load the night/evening before. I have tried one meal a day (OMAD) but it did not do so well for hormones. Such a pity women are not even looked at properly for a lot of modern nutrition studies My advice is - experiment. The timing and diet for you is the one that YOU can stick to, and gives the best performance. If you cannot stick to something, it's never going to work. I think all this food timing stuff can feed anxiety; paralysis by analysis!

I couldn't get past the first 4 sentences. Sorry, but I can't do AI slop. There's no pacing. Theres no rhythm. Just this relentless content with every sentence - with no natural breathing room to take in the information before I am assaulted with more words/concepts/descriptions. No room for my mind to digest while I read a users unique phrasing. Phrasing that often says little, but adds pace and pause. It is just punchline after punchline, sucking away my attention. ChatGPT generated text is the true vampire energy. How ironic.

Once you call a thing what it is, name it. I think it has power. You can no longer avoid relating to it. You step into agency. It takes conviction and courage to definitively assert something. It always gets my respect. Because you have to come to party to back the claim/naming. Force Ralston to get those balls on the chopping block, hehe 😈

Grateful! Appreciated ❤️❤️ I suppose it's not about being right or wrong for me - at this point I am genuinely curious ! Especially as he is getting on in years. I wonder if his reply will be the typical mutant Ralston tongue lashing 🥹

I understand this of him as well. But the fact remains he IS still trying to teach/communicate something. Terms like Love, God etc will always be loaded. ALL words are - no word has inherent meaning. Context defines the word. Light (weight), light (rays), light (sleeper). All terms are loaded until we strip what context we do not want, and add that which we see fit to attempt to communicate. I am sure there is a saying about ' Why teach? No one well get it. ' So I think it appears quite arbitrary Ralston won't speak on Love in depth, or with nuance. A full understanding usually creates a compulsion to want to flesh the truth out into some sort of word spatter. Especially from someone like Ralston, who has expressed the meaning of his life is his work. Teaching. I have heard him state this matter of factly in interviews. I don't want to assume anything here, just pointing to the gap.

🎯 I don't like when individuals are empowered and don't take responsibility.

I think thriving is hard for everyone in different domains. NT or ND. Everyone can develop consistency. Passion. Pick a domain. You are a creativity machine! It's not a mental thing, it's an action thing. Physically do the thing and the mental rewiring follows. Engage. No one wants to hear this.

Thank you for your topic - and expressing your choice. Those sorts of breakups are up there for me. The emotional turmoil is gut wrenching. Respect. x

My Doctor Hallucinates People Very gratifying. Especially for experiencer folk. Doesn't go down well with normal audiences.

Deciding to sit by my Grandfathers side in hospice, until he passed on. I was a moment away from leaving. I thought I couldn't face seeing that. I leant over him, and whispered 'Bye, Papa' and he semi-rose up and said 'NO'. So, I stayed and watched him pass. It took 3 hours. I saw him come into a complete state of being as his brain shut down, his self left. I feel I witnessed a form of no-self at the moment of death; as the overlay of all his conditioning melted away as the brain switched off. His body was putting off so much energy. His last words were 'Beautiful girls' and he looked around like it was the first time he saw anything in his life. He repeated 'The light, the light' many times. Pure being, everything else erased. Horror & beauty all at once.

Is the search for truth or meaning some sort of marker for ND? I don't think I fit the ND profile. I am different, yes. No doubt. I don't fully discount it. I hope we aren't shitting on neurotypicals. We exist in symbiosis. NT's help keep support networks and society running, which ND's benefit from. No sense crying about how life is harder - it is just a different set/domain of challenges. Useful to acknowledge. Not good to fall into victim/self-pity mindset. I do also think what @Joseph Maynor raised is very, very astute; we can never really know someone. Not fully. We can come close - but this requires in-person dialogue/relationship. And at length. It is a crude disservice to think we can know anyone at all through text. Text is powerful, I do not deny it. Very good format to express things we otherwise could not. But it also gives a false sense of intimacy and knowing. We are working with a crafted avatar of a person; they have more control over how they are perceived. Often times this runs totally counter to the earnest on-the-fly expression we see in real life. Totally intimate uncensored reaction to shared experience in the moment. In addition to the above - we never really know how/what/why other people think the way they do. I think to even consider we do, is hubris. Just think on it - none of us know Leo. Not at all. Not a wit. We see only what is presented. We know some random facts we might be able to make assumptions or connections with; but it is the gaps in our understanding of other people that mystery, intrigue and earnestness lie. False confidence in patterns leads to arrogance - I know this well. Which is why it does not do to make any formal claims without facts/evidence.

I gather, from what I have listened to on YouTube, his gig is merging Eastern/Western mental health and personal development help. He often espouses eastern methods when western fall short (or has a gap) and vice versa. I think he advocates for ayurvedic medicine as a supplement to Western style treatments/training. I think this is core to his branding. On a side note, I think he has good things to say. Not always correct. I think (totally personal opinion) there is a bit of spiritual ego present - almost as if he has dissolved a lot of the typical egoic patterns and attached to the new, spiritual ground.

This is me, disappointed. I really do respect you @UnbornTao. I appreciate your input and your open, deep enquiry you contribute to discussions here. It is very unique. Lends nuance and always attempts to drive at our assumptions, misconceptions and presuppositions. I'll own my disappointment. Mostly confusion. Self generated through investing. I'm out.

https://youtu.be/Xgaj5suTCgk?si=NSdSS22sLdDyfPyy

On you to clarify that, in that case. The words you chose do indeed broadcast the tone I raised. The above is gaslighting. You, yourself, stated above 'I get irritated with all this'. That came out. Irrespective of whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

@UnbornTao because you think I have a belief, you deem it acceptable to speak to me in that way? This is some mental gymnastics to avoid the fact you are, for some reason, emotionally upset by this discussion. You are the one making the claim you know 'what others are listening to, or hearing', while simultaneously implying you understand what Ralston is saying. Despite you professing 'I don't listen either'. The statements imply otherwise. And I suspect you state this to try to level yourself with others. Do you not think, that even thinking you understand what another user understands, is arrogant? Without even asking enquiry questions to prove the reality of the situation. This is actually about what YOU believe regarding cults, I suspect.

@UnbornTao regardless of your answer, I certainly won't engage now. Thank you

There's no need for that. I apologise if I have offended you. I feel this is quite dismissive, condescending, passive aggressive & broadcasts superiority. Like engaging is beneath you 'I don't take you seriously, so I won't engage you further'. I have seen you use this tactic before. Really mean spirited. Why would you say this?!?

@Hojo you just described building context! Hahaha That's a lot of mental gymnastics to get out of fucking up your statements. I understand what you mean, but this is ALSO ego from you!

Your claim was you do not build context - you contradicted yourself. 'Listening to the whole' is building context around a user.

@Carl-Richard Starseed films - sides are in orbit. He looks like a foot speaking to me...

@CARDOZZO My GOD I have this movie playing right now. The fuck! It is a rewatch. 100% on different kinds of love - and this is sort of what I am pointing to. There is a lot to 'love' or 'Love' if you will

Desk + ergonomic chair that suits me well. Dual screen 27 inch + 32 inch curved. Mouse, keyboard and the 8bit controller. If that's what you refer to as 'setup'. Battlestation etc I still go ham at the PC games, it's just my preference it to plant my skinny arse on the chaise lounge (which isn't near the PC side of the apartment).