CARDOZZO

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  1. The retreat is done. Lots of pain, suffering and learning. The last day was amazing.
  2. Good. I became much more honest, clear, bold and direct with women. I simply say that I want sex on the first 5 minutes of the interaction. Let the chips fall where they may.
  3. Today is the last day of the retreat. I'll do 2pm-6pm.
  4. Report - Day 04 I started the meditation retreat at 2:08 PM and ended at 6:25 PM. I divided the retreat into 1-hour sessions of meditation and 5-minute breaks for bathroom visits, writing insights, and stretching. Process, Events, Insights: I started the day with extreme difficulty focusing on meditation. The beginning of the process is almost always tortuous until it becomes light. After a while, I began generating a sensation of satisfaction throughout my body, becoming increasingly satisfied with the present moment. Some sexual images started distracting me from the process, but I managed to return to focus within a few minutes. I had an insight about becoming a more strategic and responsible person in all areas of life. I might be falling short in some matters. 5-minute break. Returning from the first break, I had an insight about being more pragmatic and realistic regarding my life and goals. Being a visionary is great, but you also need to align with the HOW to make those visions reality. Right after, I had an insight about how important it is to TURN your POTENTIAL into tangible results. You can have all the potential you want, but you need to squeeze the orange. I had another insight related to being extremely results-oriented in certain areas of life. Fooling yourself about your results in some areas is an easy trap to fall into. I returned to feeling my whole body, meditating for a good while without distractions. 5-minute break. I lay down to continue the meditation, as I was feeling tired and with body aches. I focused on breathing very slowly in a synchronized way. I noticed that my tolerance for boredom and monotony has evolved quite a bit since the start of the retreat. I was happy about this specific result. I started remembering friends from the past, memories from when I was between 5 and 14 years old. I felt nostalgic for a good while; it distracted me, but for a good reason. I thanked the people who passed through my life in the past, those who helped me, old friends I haven't seen in many years. 5-minute break. I returned from the break feeling anxious, restless, and tired. I lay down again to meditate, breathe, and regain focus. In the last hour, I had to persist for a good while to not give up at the end. I was tired and wanting the day to end. I did a meditation counting from 100 down to 1 to regain focus, and it helped me finish the retreat day calmly and peacefully. (Translation made by AI - Portuguese to English)
  5. I'm reading about deep stuff on science, engineering, technology, computer science and physics. I will develop a deep understanding of these fields to create new solutions to humanity. I will share resources, books, lectures on these fields.
  6. You are resentful because you don't communicate what you think/feel.
  7. Sure. I agree. What I'm trying to point is a way to relate to change, transformation or "what should be" in a empowering manner.
  8. Report - Day 03 I started the meditation retreat at 2:07 PM and ended at 6:25 PM. I divided the retreat into 1-hour sessions of meditation and 5-minute breaks for bathroom visits, writing insights, and stretching. Process, Events, Insights: I started the day with extreme difficulty focusing, very sleepy, distracted, and wanting to quit. I remained restless for about 20 minutes, trying to stay focused on the meditation. I had an insight on how to relate effectively to human beings. Imagine that the human being is an inanimate object without a mind, existence, or five senses, like a chair without consciousness. What happens? How do you relate to the human being? I had various visions, imaginations, and ideas to apply in different areas of my life. 5-minute break. I returned to meditating and began having visions related to science fiction and the books of author Greg Egan. He is one of the authors who inspire me to stay in the STEM field and also to want to be a science fiction writer. I had an insight regarding monotony, where this is generally the rhythm of nature, where everything happens in its own time according to specific cycles. I started feeling A LOT of boredom, becoming impatient and tired. Shortly after about 10 minutes, I had an insight on how to create a subjective experience where you transcend power, sex, status, and money to live on planet Earth. I went back to feeling BOREDOM like I haven't felt in the last 20 years. Feeling/getting bored is so hard these days. What ended up leading me to another insight related to the frenetic stimulation that human beings are exposed to nowadays. You should meditate just to get bored and learn to appreciate that mundane and monotonous state. 5-minute break. I returned to the retreat contemplating the question "Who am I?" After a good while contemplating, I concluded that today was the MOST DIFFICULT day of the retreat. I was extremely irritated and bored, just wanting to stop meditating. I had an insight regarding why I have this need to be important in society and in the eyes of other human beings. I lay down for 10 minutes on my yoga mat, continuing to contemplate the question "Who am I?". 5-minute break. In the last hour of the day, I had to persist in staying seated. I really wanted to give up. I started the process of feeling my entire body again. I did a meditation counting from 100 to 1 to refocus. I did some contemplations related to inventions, mechanical engineering, and remote viewing. I had a final insight about the importance of how difficulties are crucial for forging a human being. (Translation made by AI - Portuguese to English)
  9. It is about letting go/transcend. I'm not trying to change. I just want to not have it in the first place.
  10. I'm not tallking about medication or transformation. I'm talking about to transcend, to stop it altogether, to go all in into the roots. I'm talking about having a subjective experience that it is extremely rare where you are not just a human but a new kind of human free from a lot of humanity shit/unnecessary suffering.
  11. This approach seems much more a way to medicate suffering than to stop it altogether. You want to transcend what is causing suffering itself (context) not what arises from it (content: emotions, sensations, thoughts).
  12. Sure. Endless possibilities.
  13. I don't know if being present solves the case. Suffering is a conceptual activity. You have to know how to stop suffering and I think that to stop suffering is not the same as being present.