Jwayne

Specifically, I say that, because the conscious effort to love is indubitably moving in the right direction. And it is suitable for everybody. Whereas the effort to 'awaken' can take you in many different (even opposite, conflicting) directions, including onto potentially dangerous paths not meant for everybody, like an obsession with the use of recreational substances.

But you don't need to wait or rely on 'awakening' to 'LOVE'. You can start being loving right away.

Of course!

Also, "you" can't do it alone. Anything substantial in the world requires the collaboration of others. That's the crucial part missing in all self-help/spiritual discourse. Of course, you should seize the day and not resign yourself to a belief in fate that will justify your anxiety/unwillingness to act, but also, you must work with and serve others.

Exactly, its a game of semantics. It is better not to engage in such silly ego contests, nor to fuel the egomania of the persons starting them.

Love, beauty and bliss are always there but we also have lives to live that demand our attention to be occupied with other tasks. The demand to be entertained or pleasured with "24/7 bliss" is pathological. Instead, you should learn how to contact bliss so that you can be with it when you are not engaged with other more urgent, distracting worldly things. Obviously, bliss is also present in the worldly activity too but not in the form you were expecting, or have as yet learned to appreciate. To appreciate the extraordinary in the ordinary is a wiser intention than to demand 24/7 pleasure from mystic-realization-experiences.

Intermittent fasting burns fat the fastest, but its not a healthy option long-term. You shouldn't be tired after eating but feeling satiated and ready to work. More important than meal timing is nutrition.

There are certain situations, despite however 'awakened' you are, when you may confront an unknown, potentially dangerous situation, and especially if carrying a responsibility for others near you, that fear may arise as a aspect of the total situation with which to inform your decision. If fear is present, then simply tally it with the other data that you have.

Have you 'discovered that reality'? Does that make you an expert in art criticism across all cultures throughout all time?

The way the defense (i.e. war) industry, which has a lot of political clout, looks at it is there is no use in developing and possessing cutting-edge military technology if you're never going to test them in live situations. The USA historically - and presently - is hundreds of billions of dollars ahead of its rivals in military spending. It is a sum far more than necessary for protecting its homeland (e.g. the amount other nations spend). The USA spends enough to control the opposite side of both oceans and to even have the means to extend its force into the lands beyond that (as demonstrated dozens of times over the last century). The only reason to enact this policy was originally expressed in terms, since gone out of favor with intellectuals, of 'manifest destiny' and in things like the Monroe Doctrine. The idea is that the American (at least certain white landholding ones) is a unique breed of individual who has reached a higher summit of moral, intellectual, psychological and spiritual (historically Christian) development and thus has a burden to, what amounts to, an epistemic-cultural imperialism of the world, and that's enforced through outright military and economic pressures. That the United States sees itself as possessing a higher moral authority (i.e. American exceptionalism) and thus can't help itself but to undermine and intervene in the self-determination of others, hasn't changed one bit. What is changing is its unipolar hegemony over violence. Multipolarity is the relative decline of American influence. Specifically, north-east Asia is an extremely culturally rich and now economically prosperous pole of geopolitical significance that is also growing in military parity (particularly China). And its building a very impressive trade and infrastructure network in the One Belt One Road project which is re-shaping the faith the developing world had in neoliberal economics. OBOR represents an alternative model of economic growth that's being very well-received, and delivers real results (in terms of tangible industry and infrastructure) and its not done in USD. That is a current, measurable outcome of multipolarity which is nothing but dialectics applied to geopolitics.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can tell you haven't read any books about this time period of contempory Chinese history by the way you are writing. I'll ask you a question. If it were so simple as 'going capitalist' then why isn't India as equally well-developed, with routine mega-infrastructure projects and massive annual GDP-growth? Why isn't Bangladesh like Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan? Furthermore, why isn't Taiwan as well-developed as mainland China? Prosperity is not so simple as transitioning from one set of Maoist policies to another set of 'capitalist' ones. The world is not a video game. It is morelike decades of iteration (starting in the 1930s through 2000s), especially in agricultural reform. The foundation for even having a functioning centralized governance to later enact Dengist reforms was first dependent upon the 1949 Revolution. These things move dialectically, which the Chinese understand very well as students of Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu and Marx.

I've thought a great deal about this line of reasoning from beginning to end. And I've had extensive discussion with other people about it elsewhere over the last few years. I'm comfortable to discuss every detail of it. But you were more eager to place a temporary ban on my account then examine your own positions. So let's try it again. What you're claiming is that majority White nations in the Western hemispheres - whom historically enslaved and subjugated the rest of the world based on the belief in the self-superiority of their ideas and genetics - have (again) arrived at a superior state of moral development? I see a pattern here of Western culture, specifically whatever its latest iteration is, asserting itself as a universal standard. How does this not violate the intellectual sovereignty and self-determination of the rest of the world? The implication is the entire world should emulate what White Western English-speaking nations believe to be right.

Your reference point for an absolute claim to morality has shifted to "LGBTQ rights" and "Transparency.org" reports. This is not a philosophical argument but empty talking points. It's arbitrary until you defend what about those specific metrics matter. Imagine someone saying absolute morality depends on Xinhua News reports and Mandarin-fluency. It would be equally ridiculous as what you've said. As for Chinese economic progress, it is a measurable objective fact to put food on people's tables (erasing centuries of famine) and thus to give more opportunities to discover and explore individual potential by enhancing environmental richness, and so forth. This part isn't controversial. As for your vague reference to "authoritarianism", it is another empty remark until you can substantiate what it means in the context of this conversation of East-West hermeneutics. Chinese people (and Russian, as you know) also experience love, and value love. They are not different in that regard.

What is also authoritarian is your implicit claim to a universal morality which all cultures and languages (even those you don't speak, nor understand) should adapt themselves to. That's the definition of cultural-epistemic imperialism. And this implicit claim, ostensibly, is founded on either your personal reasoning and/or mystic experience of 'omniscience' both of which betray messianic thinking. Specifically, that one person - you - has personally come to absolute knowledge (i.e. of morality) and everyone else everywhere must agree and adapt themselves to it. It's obviously peak arrogance.

China is a one-party meritocracy, with a very remarkable history of delivering results over the last 3 decades. Really starting with Deng's reforms. Every measure of economic progress supports the objective achievements of the CCP in uplifting their people from a history of extreme deprivation and poverty (in the 1970s) to an impressively stable, safe, happy and prosperous nation. Their record of progress speaks for itself. You'll need to elaborate on Dugin and explain what exactly you disagree with. Because "he's full of shit" is an empty signifier to someone whose read his books.

I advise everyone over the age of 25 to go get a full hormone blood panel done to see if you would benefit from testosterone therapy. Or, if you have other deficiencies that need to be addressed. But for many men the root, bioenergetic issue is hypogonadism. You are climbing uphill if trying to overcome hormonal imbalances with substances or inner game.

It must be contextual. In some (many) moments, a material action is appropriate to serve humanity. The situation wherein withdrawing into spiritual practice is the (theoretically) most optimal action is a specific one with its own specific pre-conditions. It is not a universal.

How will it know what 'art' is? And what guarantees what it generates will be recognized by humans as 'art'? It must be fed information to perform a task. That necessarily means there is human bias built-in to the first step.

To engage with that line of reasoning you will need to engage with Eurasian thought on its own terms, the way it sees itself. Such as by reading Aleksandr Dugin and then having a conversation along the merits of multi-polarity, or Dugin-Heideggerian philosophy concerning plurality of dasein, and so forth.

China is non-interventionist and has been experiencing the fastest economic growth in world history the last few decades, including sharing the prosperity with citizenry (lifting 800m+ people out of poverty) rather than to a mere few financiers at the top. This is very opposite to the USA experience during the same time period.

Some scientists are also currently studying an underlying scaffolding to reality that precedes time and space, and from which they emerge (as known via human perception). Good news is in the future there will be a more advanced mainstream scientific consensus than what we have now.

What is unique about the essential aspects of the teaching that hasn't existed somewhere before? Am I missing something?

Fair enough

I'm sorry, can you do both things at the same time? I find using screen-based technology to be very distracting. What is it about exalted experience that makes people immediately (like... within seconds) share about it on Actualized.org?

You're not having a 'mystical experience'. You are logged-in to the forum and typing.