Carl-Richard

@Ramasta9 You've made the claim somewhere (correct me if I'm wrong) that frugivorous eating is more spiritually aligned. I could see how that could be the case. But then you have the immensely energetic kundalini shakti teacher Jan Esmann (RIP) who said if kundalini tells you to eat meat, then do that. Whatever kundalini needs for fuel if you want to awaken kundalini. Then he also died in his mid 60s while overweight and with probable cardiovascular issues (he seemed to have an operative scar in his chest), so sometimes spiritual practice or adeptness might be orthogonal to physicality.

I could see someone going insane after 3 minutes of meditation. Nothing ultimately stops you.

If that's what you want.

Because these are hard things to integrate and hard things to fake. It's hard to fake not being in control of your actions, of viewing yourself from a 3rd person perspective, of your body moving of its own accord. And it's hard to accept not being in control, of not making choices, of not having a life or a future you can decide or want. When there is actually no you and you've seen through identification and it's for real and not some fairytale you're telling yourself, there is no you that can want anything. There is nothing you can do, nothing that can ever be done. You can only be what is eternally present. The words "God", "Love" and "Truth" are glamour words that belie the fact of the Dark Night of the Soul. That you must die for you to be reborn as who you truly are. And that thing has no personal agenda. It does not care about your personal wishes or wants. It is not these things. It is everything. If you have not ran up against the wall of the sheer reality of annihilation of the personal self, forever, for all of eternity. No you, no actions, nothing. Then you are not yet at what is truly True, what is truly Love, what is truly God. Because you are still in the way, projecting shadows on the wall of the cave. To relentlessly go against the light, requires giving up the shadow existence, exiting the comfortable seclusion of the cave and becoming one with the Sun.

Gaining muscles by cutting your program in half and WHILE ON A CUT (lower calories)? I bring to you, Mr. Jeff Nippa: That's a convincing N = 1 empirical argument for why Mr. Mike is delusional and why rather training to failure is optimal for hypertrophy. Now, here's a convincing theoretical argument: It's about providing a clear signal. When you push yourself to failure, your body literally cannot do any more. That is a clear signal for adaptation, which leads to muscle growth. Anything else than that, e.g. "three reps in reserve", means you have to firstly add brakes, and secondly interpret where the zone of adaptation is. And this interpretation gets even more muddy as you add more volume (which is the only way you can drive adapation if not pushing yourself to failure), because the zone of adaptation constantly changes. And those changes tend to be so so small. Three reps in reserve with respect to 15 reps the one day vs 16 reps the next day is not a straightforward mental operation, if it's even possible. With three reps in reserve, what is more likely is that you will choose a level of adaptation you're comfortable at, and you'll stay there largely irrespective of how much volume you add. Because even if you do manage to nail the miniscule increase between 15 vs 16 reps, you would have to nail that for every other set as well for the rest of the exercise, and you should expect that extra effort to be evened out by the next set (because you're seeking a zone of "medium" effort, you are seeking where to pull the brakes, in a body made for minimizing effort and taking the path of least resistance). You have to use the natural tendencies to your advantage: let any and all effort go to pushing the gas pedal, let that become the path of least resistance, let there be no other alternative. Let the body speak, let the mind be silent.

On and off lately. Used to be more before, was a challenge. Yes, same. How you would go from living a life in 3D to living a life in a perfect flow where there is no self, no time, no actions being made, but you're still experiencing life, is the biggest mindfuck. It's like entering the singularity of a black hole. The way I see it is you just have to somewhat paradoxically really not care about those things, about anything at all, and let go of everything. You have to want to know yourself more than anything, love yourself more than anything, trust yourself more than anything. If you decide to leave your job, so what? If you decide to leave the country or your family or your loved ones, so what? What if you die as a result? So what? You are still you. But if you do go all in for love, all in for knowledge, all in for you, odds are you will do more amazing things than you can ever imagine. And the very reason that you have to let go of those things, to not really care about them, is because you love them so much, because the level of love you have for them cannot coexist with your attachment to them. For you to love them absolutely, you have to let go of them. Worrying that you will not be good after letting go is a Catch-22 of the ego self, it keeps you stuck in a state of lesser love through fear. But not everybody feels ready for the level of love that disintegrates all sense of separation. And you should be honest with that and ask yourself what you really want at this moment in time.

No.

Notice how Leo has not made a video on the Dark Night of the Soul. Notice how nobody on the forum talks about it. Notice how he has made a video on conformity. Notice how everybody talks about it. Confirmity comfortmity.

Hey, it's the quotes guy responding to a post I made. Did I watch a Spira video the last day, week or month and then I had the idea to write this topic? No (not that I can recall). Have I watched a lot of Spira throughout the years? Yes. I used to listen to Spira (and Alan Watts and other teachers) while falling asleep every night for many weeks. If you literally feel like you didn't just move your hand and as if somebody else was steering your hand in the direction they wanted, that's without a doubt non-doership.

This is not about philosophical free will. This is about existential/phenomenological (lack of) free will. That this conflation is happening is also indicative of the problem. I'm talking about that you are literally experiencing yourself moving on autopilot, as if somebody is controlling you with a remote controller. This is what non-dual embodiment implicates. If there is no difference between you and the chair next to you, there is no difference between you choosing to move towards the chair and the chair choosing to move towards you. Your agency is intertwined with the whole universe. The universe moving is you moving out of your will. Your will is the entire universe moving.

I don't really eat seed oils but sure

Which ones?

Exhibit A.

@Natasha Tori Maru Could be the anti-inflammatory effect. I get similar effects from eating cumin powder.

Hmm, I've been avoiding fruit juices, just eating the whole fruits, but mostly due to blood sugar and that I would've gotten the processed pasteurized crap. Avoiding oils, not sure with that one. The things I eat aren't usually very naturally oily. Most times when I avoid added sources of fat either through oils or dairy, I just feel on edge, like my cell membranes become dry. And people say "placebo!" when I say shit food makes me feel like shit.

Try almost failing a max deadlift. You'll maybe not feel a "burn" during the lift (rather like your entire body is going to split in half), but your back will be sore as hell the next day. I did essentially this once and I almost passed out:

My body runs on olive oil squeezed by virgins (isn't that why they call it that?). Anyways, I feel really good after eating extra virgin olive oil. It's like it lubes up the entire machinery.

Gimme a ooch.

Schizo, izo.

Endorphins and other neurochemicals make you less volatile and more present. Increased blood flow, decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure. Essentially working out is a source of vital energy, it's the basis of your physical existence. If you don't use your body, you deterioate as a physical being, and your physical being is linked to your mental being. If it's particularly high intensity training, you also pump a lot of lactate into your brain which is used as an energy source and has especially stimulating neurotransmitter properties, and noradrenaline which increases alertness. BDNF is released which is involved in neuronal growth and plasticity. High intensity training is arguably the #1 brain health intervention after sleep.

Don't you see my profile picture is Turquoise? You can't fool me, Yellow 😌

@Leo Gura Get yo ass to moderator discussion, right now 🥰

Not just a part of you, but likely you in an earlier stage of your life.

These would fit perfectly: Because they're Blue.

That would fit right under the Reddit cave exploration posts.