Yimpa

What is your values when it comes to relationships, irrespective of where you live? Are your values in alignment with the cultural norms that you find yourself in?

It looks like a banana and a pickle fighting for his attention.

You love those things, but what happens if you were to let go of your ideas of what you have about them?

Cats that authentically enjoy water is so perplexing indeed — https://youtu.be/K9Mk2Aqk9Mw?si=2N6NaUqH_aPGBUKR Please do not fuck with this cat. Thank you.

Kinda like how you can have tens of thousands of different McDonald’s. All at different locations and with different workers. Yet they’re all McDonald’s.

@Francis777 being selfish isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Being part of society is itself selfish if you think about it. You use resources like water, gas, food, etc. So this idea that you need to let go of all selfish desires might very well be holding you back a ton.

Paradoxically, you can be in a really terrible mindset yet have a profoundly beautiful trip.

You realize with absolute certainty that You are existence itself loving itself.

Interestingly, NAC seems to also help with that: https://examine.com/supplements/n-acetylcysteine/

You may want to try NAC. Looks like a promising supplement: https://examine.com/supplements/n-acetylcysteine/faq/b2wX3rQ-does-n-acetylcysteine-nac-help-with-lead-toxicity/

I thought I was going through spiritual catharsis. Actually, it might’ve just been cataracts! Someone refer me to an “I” doctor!

Gradually expose yourself to new experiences that you’re passionate about. The initial results may seem mundane / pointless / hopeless, but keep at it and you’ll start to discover love and passion organically revealing itself. Your sense of purpose will rejuvenate.

I’ve also gone through the wringer many times with mystical experiences. However, they’ve gotten much easier the more I exposed myself to them completely raw and unapologetically. This doesn’t mean that I’m now completely fearless and have no struggles anymore in life. For example, I still have crippling social anxiety in certain situations, so I need much more practice and effort than most people.

“I’ve never been in a kitchen where I’ve never been in control, so this is really fucking weird”

A simple Buddhist with a simple life purpose. Very cool.

Where did you get this idea from?

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@DefinitelyNotARobot

You and I are absolutely reflecting each other. Reframe “non-self” as an everlasting expansion of SELF.

LOVE. If you can’t see the LOVE in the most mundane of things, you are not awake! Haha, actually… God can’t help but be personal and unconditional simultaneously. The seeker and the seeking are absolute.