UnbornTao

It's just called Guraism! In all seriousness now, do this: Rephrased: think for yourself and find teachers who you resonate with.

At times I idealized authenticity when in fact it's just like being a kid again. Less non-authenticity is more "you". Recall your experience as a kid when you were simply you. It's a freeing and joyful experience in itself. More present, much more real, more vital, more open and vulnerable, and yet that is a result of becoming less, of dropping pretense, of letting go of anything that isn't you. Over time, throughout your "growing up", you adopted a lot of pretense and nonsense, for whatever reason. Authenticity demands experiencing life as who and what you are. What stands in the way of that for you? Kind of like an incomplete expression but there you go.

A concept you have about it is not an experience of it!

Coffee (caffeine), apparently. Or it may just increase sperm production. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/testosterone-boosting-food Cold showers may help, too.

Not a vegetarian myself. What you say is of course possible. In my view, though, that's not a feature of veganism per se but relates to the individual choices made within that parameter. Your vegan diet could consist of French fries and coke. There're overall healthy vegans out there. When it comes to muscle mass, look up vegan bodybuilders.

Man in that case then I'm borderline autistic lol. I continuously look up their etymology.

Huh. Sometimes fear creeps in the background of my investigations whenever I get very open. Why is that? Is this a fear of groundlessness?

Who do you make responsible for your learning? Which institution, authority, individual and group do you place at the source of your learning? What are the consequences of not taking up full responsibility for one's own learning? When you experience yourself as the source of your learning, dwell in that. Observe that, whenever learning occurred for you, it happened in your experience and nowhere else. Grasp deeply that the one in the driver's seat is you.

In our society we're not valued by who we are as a being but by how we look, what we do and say, etc. In other words, by the impressions we make on others and by how they feel about them. What would it look like being valued as the being that you are? What about valuing the being of another? What about dropping "value" altogether? Can you perceive "another"?

Appearances can be deceiving. The most disgusting food in terms of taste can be the healthiest one, for example a cooked, unsalted, plain broccoli. As an analogy, if the criterion is taste and titillation, you might prefer sugary drinks over water because the latter is tasteless and might be considered "bland", depending on your taste buds/palate. But in this example water is, as you know, the healthy option. Vegetables aren't very filling, they're low in calories and provide various antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, etc. Whatever the latter means.

@Juan I'm sure they can be useful for certain people in specific use cases. Consider though that they were designed to be as addicting as possible in the first place. I just find them unnecessary most of the time. Their effects are probably negative overall, in my view. But hey, people do what they want. I hear tell that the founders of those networks don't let their kids use them. I wonder why.

She probably has interests, stuff she likes -- sports, fashion, philosophy, music. What does she want to create? Ask about that, perhaps.

They seem to add to the devolution of humanity as a whole. It's mostly a drug, and one with very acute negative effects at that.

Red cabbage here. Where are my fellow cabbages?

Why does one need to watch what everyone else does? What originality is there? Then you'd be bound to whatever information others consume. Would you read a book just because you were told that many others have read it before? That's basically groupthink and peer pressure. Consider that at some point there was only one person who consumed the content that then became widely popular. You can do it on your own.

You're welcome!

Stumbled upon this book by Robert Fritz, the author of The Path of Least Resistance. Promising premise. Check it out: Your Life as Art (Kindle edition).

Don't forget Aghast.

Yeah. Not dismissing potential benefits in the short term or for treating certain deficiencies. But what would happen to your body if a diet like that is followed for a couple decades? A lot of ugly stuff according to science.

I've heard this before. What you say sounds plausible and seems like it was a key contributor to psychedelics' current legal status in most countries.

29/36. In any case, I've done various tests, scoring on some of them likely to have Asperger.

Watch How to Shop For Healthy Food. Solid advice. Basic principles still apply.

@Devin According to research, there are physiological differences between the male and female brain, even before birth. So saying that they're different from each other isn't always bias. I assume that would translate to pretty important differences in behavior and how the world is perceived by each sex. Could be an area to research. Yep, was going to mention this. It might as well be an instinctual drive.

Feeling overwhelmed isn't needed. Just wonder about stuff.