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I agree, spiritual practice can internally turn your life downside up. This is not a joke or a well wishing from my side. If EVERYTHING fails in my life, i always have spiritual practice and the benefits of spiritual practice already done.

The million dollar question is this. What for do you need it? I am asking this because you do not have a million dollars yet. And if you don't buy such an expensive laptop, well then you have more funds for your business idea that can make you the millions or have a safety pillow or money for financial stability so you don't burn out while chasing the million. Let me replace computer with a vehicle. Are you going to buy more expensive vehicle, because the vehicle is a crucial part for you to get where you need to, so you can potentially make millions and the vehicle being essential part of your workflow to get to the million. You will probably just buy a vehicle that serves its purpose and is not too expensive, but in good condition. Why am I saying this - i recently bought 1k laptop with R5 and 8 GB ram and 512 MB ssd and pen/touchscreen is not bad either. I recently bought vivo flipbook and it's pretty fast for casual use - browsing, documwnting, sheets, even audio production, and its super small, alumunium exterior. It was surely a nice purchase. Do you really need the newest gen products? Sure, for things like graphic design or AI, animation, game engines, simulation programs, programming software, streaming software. Probably many things... I am not saying do not buy. But clarify for yourself, do you need it? I am saying this from experience. I bought a 1.5k syntesizer. After more than a half year it turned out to be ok, not good, not bad. If I knew some other synth from the same synth series I would save like 800 euros and just get more appropriate synthesiezer. The synth i have is a machine and I haven't figured it out so I am far from the celling and I need to spend alot more time to get something out from it. Luckily for me it introduced me to new styles of music and new music vocabulary, principles of sound synthesis e.c.t. so in general, even if I want to sell it, it was not too bad of a purchase, it was ok, but not great. Maybe with more unimportant gear there would be lesser interest. Expensive can make you inspired or force you to do something with it. If you buy the computer to re-watch sitcoms like The Office, or surfing the net, deluding yourself with the potentiality as an idea then you don't need it.

Here is what you do. Reach out to 10 new people. Look for people, groups of people that have common interests, or just go out and talk to people, obvserve them, see what they are like, see what they are about e.c.t. The thing is this, you simply (in a scheduled and consistent way) reach out to them and let those connections naturally evolve into something beautiful. These "friends" are but a coincident relatiinships that may or may not last, ofc you may try to fix that also, BUT, reaching out to new people is MUCH more rewarding. And also work on your own emotional intelligence, this is why observing people around you and yourself ia very imortant, you will learn very much!

Sometimes you just have to play the thickest string, I get it.

Hey man, this is gold! I will keep that in mind my friend, that would mean the world to me, however I need a bit of time to get to a place where I consistently practice, and I see you have to get there too.

May I add to this. I would say that objectifying is a masculine tendency that is unfortunatly expressed too much in men and women. It is usually about, well I have this, what do you have? If you are a young male you should be having this and this by 25, or I will not value you. Alot of older generation has this, conservatives especially. They will not accept you for who you are and want to be. You have to do what they were doing and have what they were having and even then, you will not be accepted as an equal.

Btw @ivankiss, we should start a djent band with programed drums a bass VST and a band name of a plural noun, for example, objects or awakenings or things or whatever.

The more established in the truth you are, the more alive, life-positive, elastic, flexible, liquid you are. Less and less sticks to you, wether good or bad. If you identify with the good too much, it will also start to stink and turn bad. That is perversion. It may be even easier to say, seek the truth and keep seeking the truth and reminding yourself of the truth, then you will be passionate and kind e.c.t.

It is quite incredible how consistently and with how much tought and effort you try to dismantle such posts.

Hey, hope I relieved you! Thanks for your feedback, it really means much to me. IMO, you shouldn't quit guitar or leave metal influence out of your playing. Or stop doing something because it seemed frustratinf at that time. I am acctually try to solve that exact problem by looking at it from various angles. How should my lifestyle be, to make such music, what are most efficient ways of doing it when I am with the instrument, what can you do without the instrument. How to keep consistency from the very basics, stabilizing how you feel or the amount of say you have in how you feel so you can choose more often. What are the best things to resolve to do creative work and how to. I will do series in my journal of making all of that as efficient as I can. Stay cool, keep calm!

I will pass.

Well, best of luck to you too, however I can only respond to the rest of your statement in a language you may underestand better.

I had soreness too when I vaccinated against mite encephalitis, I think that is very normal.

@Preety_India well i am sorry to sound a bit harsh, but: - the worse the situation gets, the less rules people will follow; - the more the need to work, just to survive, the less rules people will follow; - with poverty, overpopulation and limited healthcare resources, meaning different antibiotics for different fungi, this can potentially go out of hand really fast, taking in the fact that it may uncontrollably spread, meaning there is another curve to flatten and some fungi can become resistent to antibiotics that are used in the treatments for patients currently; - and if people die and they are thrown in ganga, animals eat those fungi infected bodies and then people eat those animals, because they have nothing to eat will contract the fungus, because of high dose of fungi and supposedly lower immunity, covid also being the direct reason; Countries around the equator are really screwed in my opinion. But a covid vaccine can possibly eliminate all of this, though there is no 100% guarantee, however the fungi infections rise to those, who are sick, freshly treated with covid and have their health already compromised due to diabetes e.c.t. This is what I meant with that prase, unfortunately.

If you are in india, please please please do, ASAP. There is also white fungus and other kind of fungus infections happening there. I think people will die like flies over there. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57027829.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/21/mucormycosis-black-fungus-disease-linked-covid-spreads-india

Yep, but I do underestand, really. Keep visioning it in great detail and see that it provides such peace and timeless feeling. Life celebrates you when you make it as you want. It is your birthright to wish and get something, unless it is dangerous for you. Also, I think you can adress the low-paying job things with different strategy. I think you can send your work application and get interviews left and right, even if they don't have any wanted signs, i think better job is pretty much an assignment away. Sure alot of jobs have different pros and cons but what I would do/am doing is to just bounce around to see what options are there. You probably can smoothly between jobs, no need to quit right away. AND if you do take spiritual development "all the way" seriously, your main concern wouldn't be your circumstances, because for THAT, everything can be a stepping stone, then your practices and desire for the truth is important.

@Preety_India thanks for your answer. Well, at least I feel, ethics is an axiom that came from morality which came from law, at least in my underestanding. Ethics may involve an element of empathy. But at the end of the day, it's all about the reception of the loss or break, betrayal e.c.t. while ethics is a flexible pool of notions about how one should act, the pain for whatever reason is pretty solid. I don't think a binary answer is not applicable to this question, if it can be answered at all, and what an answer can explain (both yes or no to this question in particular)?

I am having the same question.

I wanted to express the whole situation in one small sentence: "You can't spell sex without an Ex." Do you really think he will not ask for it, try to turn you on or "she will give in if i play good for a certain period of time."

But they say Buddha has mystical powers, there is videos on that by chinese practicing buddists. I very vividly remember a buddist monk mentioned a navel center when he gave us instructions on mantra/visualisation technique to unclutch from the breath.

From what I have heard and my experience i can say that a glimpse of enlightenment is not necessarily correlated with feeling your energies rising to saharsrar, and I don't think there are alot of people who can direct their energies at will. Also I have heard, when SUCH a thing happens, if you don't know or don't want to hold on to the body, you will leave the body, and you will be in such an ecstasy for no reason. And if you are practicing a lifestyle that is for liberation, whatever the sadhana is, you will feel energies in your sahasrara, or around that region. That is my daily experience and it is largely unconscious. If I force it, it may hurt. But if I do it right, for certain period of time, then i think that will be my mahasamadhi, where you leave the body trough sahasrara. I recommend warching sadhgurus videos about his wife's mahasamadhi. It is more practical to say/think that a part of you is permanent, rather than trying to cognize that one can/will center his energies permanently on sahasrara. You cognizing you as permanent will itself lift your energies up.

Yes. Praise can be more dangerous than blame and ridicule. It can make you arrogant. It can derail you from what you want to achieve e.c.t., make you relapse and be lazy, seek more of it or run into too much pleasure, procrastination. And we all know what an echo chamber is and that if you do something to be validated, you will burn out. But i think it's about the reception, i wouldn't mind giving praise to somebody whom I want to, regardless of my hypocrisy, @Derek White pointed out.

Just look at Owen, he has mastered some aspect of the social aspects in life. He is magnetic, extremely charismatic, knows how to "hang out" so that maximum number of people have a good time and probably knows how to say no, how to retreat. It's not just about dating that this works. Words can make somebody ruin your life, right words can cause your life, de-escalate conflict. Attract right kind of people. Socialy speaking, you are worth that what and how you are expressing. The streets got something for you. Either it can take everything from you and gice what you want. Have to be careful, sometimes it punishes your greed, somtimes your non-expression. If you were hostile to everybody, immagine how TERRIBLE your life would be, you would be on the street, because you can't properly relate to anybody, and on top of that, somebody would kill you for the smallest of things. So presenting yourself and enabling your self-expression is whats pick up seemingly can do, besides getting you laid, at least that's what tyler radiates.

@ivankiss yes, i am going trough the same thing and have been going for quite a while, life has been dragging me in multiple directions right now.