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Agree, but not fully. Sometimes you need that pep talk. All gurus do is to school adult children to do the work. You can be so good in one area in your life and do the work, yet be blocked, unmotivated and withdrawn in other areas, where you need to wonder, crash in a few places and sufferings to realize what you really need to move on. However yes, you can crash all your life without trying also.

I don't know to whom you are referring to as she, since this was an example I gave within a question you did not choose to answer. But if I currently had relationship, I would entice, talk and explore some kinks for sure, because the point is to satisfy the other.

I can't say anything good or bad regarding this particular retreat, but I wouldn't advise to a close friend of mine and show other sources and activities they can do that are working in this field.

For example, if I and woman agrees that I should be tied up for some time and we have sex, is this sick? Just curious.

What interests do you have? Do you like to see something, hear something, touch, take care of something? Do you have something that sparks joy? Do you have good memories doing something?

There was a short period of time where I practiced my guitar in a car. I am happy that I continued and realised some important things about myself and life not to go into more detail.

Hey, I just wanted to wish you guys a happy new year. But I also have a message to my fellow artists. Depending on who you are; a successful artist with a casual tension or moment of confusion, an artist on hiatus, an aspiring artist who still is yet to figure how to do things or somebody who is wanting to express their creativity. I want to say that it's worth starting, continiouing to express and nurturing your art form or vehicle of art. Please have the courage to keep preserving your authentic identity and guard it from mediocrity and rat race. Yes, rat race is devastating, we maybe have to spend most energy surviving, but that's what makes the art better for the future generations to witness and see how we lived. It's not about sharing everything you have today. It's about nurturing the tree of your creative project or skill and learning the process. You will change multiple times because of this and you will learn something only you can reproduce and what will make it unique is the content and self-defining methods you will learn on the way. It is worth sitting alone, it is worth that frustration and worth breaking that frustration, it is worth it to do it not knowing if you will be able to do that again, it is worth the frustration. You will learn things society cannot teach you. Don't kill your dreams because of some naysayers or some ridicule. These people don't and can't know you. They will endlessly project something they didn't want to solve themselves for the rest of their lives. You are doing the opposite with your artistic intent. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and be criticised, bad artwork is the basis of good artwork and most people don't understands these invisible methods and instrastructure other than other artists. You will also be more engaged with other people's art, because artists understand each other and are able to get more inspired and appreciative of the art and messages of others. They understand that you can pay attention to something endlessly and you will find something new. Abusive people and people who ridicule and gossip have no vision for you, so how can you take them seriously? They have no well tought advice for you. They don't even have vision for themselves usually. But you do. And this vision is worth living. It is worth trying. It is worth stimulating non-mechanical parts of the brain. You are Mahadeva, this is your birth right to live how you want and to continuously attempt to live how you want. The process IS worth it. Don't forget to visualize what you want to DO, regardless of the obstacles, you will see that it generates positive feedback within you. Keep going, my friends.

Same reason why you use substances.

Idk how it relates to this topic, but ai got this synth and it's amazing! It has long learning curve though.

But, Leo! What about the new products that you would like?

*If you want to relax, people will shout, what do you do? Why do you do "nothing"? Yes, if people don't see that you are emotionally distressed in some places you can get killed literally for that. It is a survival coping mechanism for the masses, you don't want to get your reality altered by somebody, because it's too comfortable where they sit, yet this comfort contains the things that poison them and acctually make them unfit for life. Psychedelics can either create the biggest uprising or fall of the society.

I don't find this fascinating somehow. Shrooms give electric impulses that are coverted to CV. What I find more fascinating is that a person comes who has mastered a hardware piece of equipment and give you coherent out of this world performance.

Really, do you think so that this is the reason? He's literally going clubbing every now and then.

I have a similar problem but for different aspect. I am too straight edge/overdo things overcheck things so that I can conclude that something really happened this way or was done therefore I work "slower". There is a deep psychological reason for that. I had grandparents who both told me that what I do is wrong and after failing them in some small things they basically bullied me. Due to this I have some sense of uncertainty and I just don't want to fail, therefore I will do everything in my power to make sure I don't, hence why this reason. Even if everything is going great, I expect the worst usually. This is not healthy, as well as for your bf. It's very similar pattern. I understand him very well.

Well, the real question is, do any of them like Meshuggah? If yes, then OK. I don't know acctually.

No, you are bliss itself. The moment you tap into it your delusions that suffocate you relaxes.

I feel the best when I am by myself.

I just realized something while watching Latvian prime minister speech for new year. She was talking about Ukrainian war and military service in our country. And that "our men has Latvian identity in their heart" and I realized something Identifying with nationality has been the most efficient tool for governance and also greatest vehicle for ignorance. Every identity like that, your family, nationality, workplace, animals and other labels you identify with you tend to care about and you usually only care for these groups of these people/things. But what if you started to think about identifying with all people or everything in the universe and hold this tought current/constantly remind in your day to day life, you will become in such a way that you can not not care about all people and everything. You are bound to become all inclusive, but we are conditioned so that if "meh, it's not my nationality that has this problem, it's not my company that has this problem, it's not my family that has this problem, it's not me who has this problem", but if you identify with everything, you are bound to be willing to have that emotional backlash and willingness to do something. This is why people become activists. Of course this is just not one component required to have that, but this is a technique how to become that. Nobody wants to do that though usually. Therefore, a lot of the times it's just "it's none of my business or I don't care" and "I don't care" literally means this event is out of scope of things and people I identify as myself. But if you did you are bound to care and bound to do something about it.

Sadhguru also reveals what happens when you live for 4 years, 7 years, 14 years, 21, years, 28 years, 33 years, various karmic cycles and any other number of years he has talked about.

I was waiting for somebody to post about Nithyananda. I will describe my experience with him in few words. No guru to this day has so many techniques and sutras available on the net (Sadhguru maybe being far second), his akashik readings are out of this world (in a good way). He is probably the best guru to turn to today. Why I do not talk about him? I don't want be labeled as weird, cult like etc. and don't want to be involved in the battles he is fighting by association but Nithyananda is one of the most valuable people in my life. Same as some other mystics, but for different reasons. If I will recommend his teachings to someone people will think I am stupid and it will not solve their problems, but things like unclutching, nirbhaya dhyana, samsara daghana kriya, iccha shakti, third eye meditation just works. I tried it. There you have it. Not that I would join him or whatever, but he is very good at what he does.

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Check this out if you have nothing to do this evening. EDIT: I did not realize that it's over...

One thing that can reduce is buy honey and mix it with cocoa powder and some seeds or nuts. This much healthier if you are not diabetic.

Whatever works for you. I find no problem composing completely sober. My problem with people who do drugs is that they endlessly try to convince to use it too. And then they get into problems with police and drag you too. But about what I said that people who smoke weed are lazy and slow, that may not be the case, but I have seen many people who have been like what I am describing, mostly in my childhood. Their words simply do not match their actions.