ajasatya

sorry, this cannot be stopped.

@Peter12 develop the habit of looking deeply into people's eyes. learn to feel people. nobody else can tell you how to lead your own intimate life. that's your job.

because they are not love letters. they are just gratuitous displays of toxicity.

it can be college. it can be your parents' house. it can be an ashram. it can be the streets... any context can be the paradise of the lazy person. similarly, you can start working really hard RIGHT NOW.

can't happen. it's an eternal game of hide and seek. it's part of the beauty.

@Adam M as long as you're able to commit to hardworking, it should be fine. it doesn't matter if you're a genius. an important detail is that going to college is a way of getting out of your comfort zone. i actually recommend that you do it. college is a waste of time only if you allow it to be. you can be responsible to make college a GREAT experience (i did it).

@NoSelfSelf you don't know what you're talking about, sorry

would you please link the source?

is this statement true?

yes. thoughts and beliefs can entail anxiety. zen all the way through it.

hello. i'm about to finish my master's on artificial intelligence. it's not about AI per si. it's about those who program the AI and those who have the power to use AI to make decisions for them. shortly, it's still about human responsibility.

it depends on the state of consciousness. sometimes it feels like i have to be responsible and make things work. sometimes it feels like i can't do anything and things get done by themselves. there's no absolute answer.

@7thLetter you know things i don't and vice versa. we're here to help each other. you might have been holding a distorted belief about the goal of this forum.

@supremeyingyang this is my second and last off-topic post on this thread. you don't seem to comprehend the difference between simple practical advice and vague philosophical assumptions. making true friends is about being open to emotional connection without judging. "how are you feeling?", "how is your day going?"... make deep eye contact and listen with patience. people will say the strangest things. you act as a tool for them to face the pain from which they run day after day. it won't take too long until they start calling you to tell you those things because they trust you. it's that simple.

that's a false statement. short, straightforward, clean and objective teachings were the most effective ones to me. if it offered something else i would be a hypocrite liar. everyone helps according to their own experience. i don't know what your goal is when you try to invalidate what others say when, in fact, it's about helping someone. unable to feel compassion? too much pride? thinking that your experience is the only valid one? sure, almighty enlightened SUPREMEYINGYANG.

@Marinus wanna make true friends? start listening to people with your heart.

@Matiyos i'd go with number 3. it may sound like you're running away but when you actually get there and start practicing yoga everyday you'll see that it will drive you TOWARDS your emotional pain. as a plus, you'll come out as a completely new person. that's what my first yoga teacher did. she even had an amazing job at google. but she was obese and had lots of bad habits. after 1 year she had transformed her body and faced huge amounts of emotional pain. i did something very similar, although i didn't have enough money to go to another country. i found an ashram here in brazil and lived a monastic life for 1 year. BEST CHOICE OF MY LIFE. now my Life feels great. i am married to a dream woman and we practice yoga and talk about spirituality almost everyday. no, it's not running away. in practice, it's facing your demons straight.

@Gerhard congratulations! it looks very clean now (:

i find it very relaxing to watch. it makes new ideas come to my mind.

@TripleNipple please do not use spirituality/psychedelics for lucrative purposes, for your own sake. you may use them to seek guidance. they can help you get in touch with Pure Creativity.

@Destiny good call. i'm glad to see you here. keep up the good work!

@Ampresus be passionate about something you can do alone. have a sense of purpose and learn to enjoy Life on your own. be creative, explore the edges of what you are and learn to listen to your feelings. paint, dance, compose your own music, write poetry... live up! don't be the typical morbid needy and platonic type of guy. first of all, those do NOT represent healthy ways of living. second, those guys are NOT interesting for women (and shouldn't be).

both free-will and predestination are just mental noise. get over it and feel WHAT YOU ARE.

@Consilience emotional healing is highly related to spirituality but they are very different things. spirituality is the process of seeking, experiencing and embodying Truth. it's a long process and it can't be done if you hold emotional trauma that can distort the way you feel in Life. if you want to heal yourself, there are several tools. i'm not saying that it's easy. it's actually very hard because it's easy to get lost on the healing path and it's hard to actually know if you're completely healed or just fooling yourself. but spirituality is something else. let go of your traumas or they won't allow you to abide on your True Identity.

makyō