Joseph Maynor

I am the Creator.

Interesting insight. You might want to drill down a bit more on this one. This topic has fascinated me now for a while.

I'm not discounting emotional spiraling and blaming, because those are here too and I still do it. But often the wise friend of mine will get me out of the emotional quagmire by guiding me to considering a larger system at work which is causing the problem or impasse. Then, this releases suffering immediately because I realize nobody is at fault, it's a system issue. Then I can plan accordingly. It takes it to a level where optimism and calm returns.

Wisdom is neither accepting nor rejecting thoughts but properly considering them IMO. Sometimes this means finding the meta structure that the thoughts are revealing that take you beyond suffering toward planning and creative action.

When does death come?

Chinese mixed with Indigenous people. What's cool about Taiwan is all the temples are still standing. The Japanese influence is also present as well as a Western influence. Culturally, Taiwan is very different from China.

This is kinda funny because this was the advice I was giving you about the neo-advaita beliefs like a year ago.

This is what is conventionally thought, yes.

Yes, including the I.

This seems like arguing and debating.

Can you walk a path that you don't first know?

I'm an INFJ.

The sample size doesn't represent all the people who are into this work. But I think you are still right.

I agree. This is deep. But what you say writ large as conscious creators. Some people might recoil at this and think it's ego. There's a common feeling that any kind of doing is ego. It's Creation.

I've lost count how many times I've been given this advice over the years lol.

Birds are natural musicians. You know this. When I was learning how to play Jazz I would go to the forest and improvise with the birds. You can get them to respect form too, they'll get it. Like you start playing a twelve bar chorus over and over and they will join in and get the structure almost immediately. But also, I felt like I was imposing myself on their jam session which is ongoing by default.

I appreciate people who will debate with me more. You have debated with me many times over the years and I love that.

Breathless (1960). Saw in theater finally. One of my all time favorites.

That's the question. And IMO this is why getting clear on what friendship means is so crucial. When there's no friendship (or a false pretense of one on either side) -- exploitation can happen. Most of us have no idea what friendship means, and so we default to living alone and paranoid and unhappy with our current relationships.

The OP's question is how much socialization do I need?

I disagree with this. I think the ego ignores relationships due to selfishness and focuses on health and finances deficits being a result of lack of social support or social alignment, and then blames others for not having more social or relationship abundance. Anyway, we may disagree here and I'm fine with it. Good to have a contrary point of view to consider.

Relationships can come from friendship not power necessarily.

I guess I'm both types of person, since I do both.

Having more relationships naturally bring more opportunities to make money. This is often seen the opposite way oddly. We tend to think it's like this: Health, then Finances, then Relationships when it's really more like this: Relationships then Finances then Health.