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@Leo-Tzuifk@Leo-Tzuifk@Leo-Tzuifk@Leo-Tzuifk idk why my mobile is doing this "@Leo-Tzu". Fucking mobile actualized.org lol. Here's some orange for you:

To say that killing animals is wrong or not wrong we play the game of philosophy. We start off with axioms about reality and work from them in making arguments. It wouldn't be until you stop playing the game of philosophy that you enter non-duality and ask questions like "Who is doing the killing?". Right now I am not in a higher consciousness state, but there have been times where I have felt that in my present moment experience morality literally doesn't exist. And from that perspective killing animals isn't wrong. But lets philosophise about this anyway. From a non-solipsistic and your bog-standard empiricist view of the world, you reach the conclusion that animals with more complex nervous system experience more suffering than trees and insects ( through science and "empiricism") and you use the axiom that (more suffering)=(bad) to conclude that killing a cow/chicken is more wrong than killing a insect. But you're probably already aware of this point of view and are just questioning people's axioms about reality .

When it comes to the ethical standing of killing animals for food I'm not concerned about the fact that I've "robbed a life" the same way I am of humans, but I wonder how much pain do animals feel compared to humans. Like when you kill a human you think "I've robbed this person of their hopes and dreams" and etc but that's not very applicable to non-humans imo. Could killing animals be comparable to killing human infants in terms of the suffering you generate in a conscious being? In both cases you are killing creatures of comparable intelligence. I wonder how much pain an animal feels relative to humans. Because if killing animals is comparable to killing human babies then I think there will come a time in the future where humans will look back on us past generations and think "I can't believe those barbarians ate meat when there wasn't a need to" and they will look down on us in the same way we might look down on past civilisations for human slavery and other injustices. I don't think that killing animals generates the same amount of suffering as killing a human infant, but if the comparison is at the very least a bit valid I think there may be something to reflect upon. Because I know that I myself would barely hesitate in killing an non-human animal, but this would not be the case for humans for me. Perhaps there is a double standard here. Perhaps we suffer from "speciesism" but this speciesism is hardwired into nature at a far, far deeper level than other things like racism. Despite the arguments I've provided for not eating meat, I'm still gonna eat meat and love it and I know I'm probably a hypocrite but I don't feel guilty. @Tony 845 There are two angles I have on your question from both a chemical and psychological point of view. The first angle is very quick to look at. I think its extremely, extremely unlikely that eating meat will cause your body chemistry to be incompatible with enlightenment. Eating meat is natural is for us humans biologically (and even psychologically which I will now discuss). Let's consider "evil" in the conventional sense of the word. You cause suffering to others and are an asshole (e.g. rapist, murderer, thief etc). Even if killing animals and eating them when there is no need to is an evil act, the evil act is hardwired into our biological essence that it won't have the same impact on your psyche as other evil acts like human murder. Like theoretically speaking, a human murderer can become enlightened its just that it's unlikely because most human murderers have a fucked up psyche. But even if killing and eating animals is "evil", the act of doing so is not nearly highly correlated with a fucked up psyche the same way rape/murder is correlated with a fucked up psyche. This is further true if you are only eating the meat and are not killing the animals yourself.

@Gabriel Antonio I found this paragraph interesting from the link: " If you make a sincere effort to 'just sit,' you may really go insane. Only because people do not really try sincerely does insanity not happen more often. With a sitting posture you begin to know so much madness inside you that if you are sincere and continue it, you may really go insane. It has happened before, so many times; so I never suggest anything that can create frustration, depression, sadness ¯ anything that will allow you to be too aware of your insanity. You may not be ready to be aware of all the insanity that is inside you; you must be allowed to get to know certain things gradually. Knowledge is not always good; it must unfold itself slowly as your capacity to absorb it grows. " If you go too hard with enlightenment work there are homeostasis mechanisms in place which will bite hard. What is good about meditation is that it gives you an insight into just how insane your mind is. It makes you realise that despite the fact that you are sitting down with nothing external acting upon you, your mind alone is great enough to create a very deep conscious experience. There have been times where I've finished meditating and thought "damn I can't believe that was all just inside of my head". @Hellspeed @Torkys @PsiloPutty yes

I've made a thread about this a long time ago, but I still have this problem. Any time I meditate I experiences waves of irritation and annoyance which express themselves as subconcious muscle contractions. The urges feel very much out of my control and happen any time I meditate. I common experience I have is squeezing both my arms and fists at the same time. Or I'll squeeze my facial muscles. I think these movements are just the result of my ego and body fighting back against letting go. At other times I might just keep swaying my head, but then I might become mindful of me fighting back and I slowly snap out of it. Does anybody else have this experience? Whenever I you meditate there's always this paradox between being forceful and not being forceful so I just wonder what the right approach is for me when I get the urges to tense muscles. If I choose to not act on the strong urges for muscle contractions, my mind goes crazy for some reason. Should I "force" myself to not move and be try to be mindful of the intense feelings? Should I just let whatever happens happens and just observe it?

@Gabriel Antonio Nice link. I've been doing meditation for a while now so I ain't gonna stop it although I should do kriya yoga or something.

@PsiloPutty I have two interpretations to your question and my answer is yes to both of them.

Couldn't agree more lol, especially in regards to Dave Rubin lol. The guy cannot think for himself to save his life. He's just says whatever will benefit his career. I used to watch him until about a year ago.

@Tony 845 "Enlightenment through the path of Kundalini" by Tara Springett is one book and another is "Kundalini Exposed" by Santata Gamana. Trust me here

@Outer Yeah that podcast is some good shit

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Increments of what?@non_nothingI might try this

@Revolutionary Think That's unfortunate. I hope you've at least exorcised some pessimism and negativity in your system by typing your thoughts and feelings on this forum. It's always the same story for all of us miserable creatures lol, the external world doesn't conform to our egoic desires so we feel down.

@Roman Edouard This is a completely baseless assumption you've made. There is no "why" in reality, so your question is meaningless.

@Roman Edouard Putting away the question of whether life has meaning or not for a second, think of a random question like " what is the meaning of the existence of cars?". There are many facts you can say about cars and about their history but in my mind the obscurity in answering this question deepens by rephrasing the question as "What is meant by the existence of cars?". Like wtf are you supposed to say to that. Meant by whom? Meant by what? Meant by (absolute infinity)/(God)? What is the meaning behind our existence as biological organisms? Well we may be able to say that reproduction has allowed for the existence of biological life over a time spans far longer in duration than that a single life time. Reproduction is necessary for life to continue to exist. But what is the meaning of life? This is completely subjective. It doesn't matter how many facts I accumulate about life, a question regarding meaning asks you to explore the very centre of being and existence. But when we go that far deep into reality, concepts are useless. Reality is (*insert massive gong noise*) .

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@Shin@Shin@Shin@Shin Im gonna mainly talk about note taking in relation to academia. Whenever I want to learn about something, I want to maintain a balance between note taking and paying more attention to the source of information. This may not apply to information which is not cognitively intense, but I say that there exists such a balance because there is a trade off in your attention between taking notes and paying attention. People can think far, far faster than they can write information. Therefore the downside to taking notes is that you waste time that you could have spent assimilating information and synthesising links in your mind. I've seen so many people who've had amazing notes on topics and yet they fail at exams. However, it is still generally the case that you need some form of notes. I've seen notes be useful as a way to present information in the idiosyncratic way that you understand and connect with, and notes can act as a tiny spark to a large amount of information stored in your mind.

@StardewValley "The reason you aren't better is precisely the reason you want to be (better)" - Alan Watts. Don't misinterpret the quote though. There's this lecture which addresses the human predicament of self improvement.

The following was posted in comments section of Leo's last video by this user https://www.youtube.com/user/uzamaki32 " SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO: Caveat, this is not complete, but it should allow for guiding towards further research. (1) Modafinil - Actual pharmaceutical - Creativity - Focus - Energy - Connecting the dots - subtle effects - Better memory - A synergy of brain functioning (1.a) Armodafinil (analog of modafinil) - Basically same as modafinil, but: - more potent - Fewer side effects - Do research to understand the difference and why it works better than modafinil even though it uses fewer chemicals, which is one reason it has fewer side effects. (2) Lions Mane Mushrooms - Neurogenesis - Energy - Focus - Clears brain fog - Reduces depression & anxiety (3) L-Theanine - Relaxant - Increases alpha and theta brain waves similar to meditation - Neuro growth factor - Mood booster - Gabba/ serotonin/ Dopamine (4) Huperzine A - Increased short-term memory - Long-term brain health - Vivid dreams; helps with lucid dreaming (5) Alpha GPC - Choline > Memory > building block/fuel for the brain - Mood - Mental energy - Neuro growth factor (6) Pterostilbene - Neurogenesis - Neuroplasticity - memory - Dopamine - Memory - Mood - Dopamine - Improves cognition - Reduces anxiety - Neuroprotectant (7) 5-HTP - Reduces anxiety, stress, and depression - Don't take it with other anti-depressants! (8) Sulbutiamine - Attention spawn - Focus - Increased vocabulary - Sociability - Quick tolerance (9) Vinpocetine - Blood flow to the brain - Focus - Memory - Helps with brain fog - Neuroplasticity - Anti-inflammatory - Helps regenerate stroke damage or other types of brain damage (10) n-acetylcysteine / NALT - Improves cognition - Memory - Helps with ADHD/ADD - Since it has tyrosine I suppose it gives the brain building blocks for neurotransmitters like dopamine (11) Phosphatidylserine - Helps with learning new skills - Stronger myelin sheet (important for learning skills, since myelin sheets help with chunking actions) - Helps with changing habits - Brain health - Reduce ADHD/ADD - Brainwave reduction (12) Bacopa(Indian herb) translates to Brahmi similar to Brahman. - Improve memory - Natural Adderall (analogy) - Focus - Helps with ADHD/ADD - Reduces anxiety in the short-term - Increases memory for long-term e.g. after stopping memory benefits can last up to months. (13) NAC - Dopamine - Helps with colds - Neuroprotectant (14) PQQ - Antioxidant - The growth of new mitochondria - Energy - Increases nerve growth factor - Improves memory - Improves cognition - Neuroprotectant - Can take up to a month to work (15) QoQ10 - Effective for older folks - Protects brain cells - Reduces fatigue - Anti-aging effects on the cardiac system - Energy (16) Uridine - Boost release of dopamine - Improves mood with fish oil - Neuroprotectant (16) Gingko Biloba - Increases blood circulation in the brain - Attention - Focus - Cognition and learning - Helps repair brain cells - Requires several weeks before it works ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (A.1) Fish oil - Important vitamine, not necessarily a nootropic. (A.2) Vitamin D3 - A very important vitamin that a lot of people lack due to that they work inside. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good stack: - SAL Butherine - Alpha GPC - Uridine - Fish Oil - Vitamin D3 "

@The Don I'm someone who suffers from mild dyslexia so I understand your struggle. When a piece of text is written on particular topic, the author paints a picture of the topic in their own idiosyncratic way. Their word choices and connotations of those words, the logical steps they highlight as well as the logical steps they ignore, the intuitive picture they try to communicate and etc (ofc this is not the case for hard-core fact sheets which just have facts written down with no explanation or back up). Human minds are complex and so it is that the same topic can be intuited/thought of in an infinite number of ways. Struggles can arise when reading a book because your brain is not the same brain of the person writing the book. When you read about and are studying a particular topic, do not try to memorise the chains of reasoning or memorise the sequence of things which were focused on. What you should do instead is take the information from the book and try to synthesise your own "unique" understanding and viewpoint of a topic. Come up with your own starting points, your own points of focus on a topic, your own chronological order of things to focus on. For example, if I'm studying maths I do not study things in the order that my school recommends. I start with foundations and build upwards, rather than spread myself thin and jump from topic to topic too quickly and not understand anything I've learnt as a result of my incorrect method of studying. The method people use for learning maths is to become a memory drone, rather than actually understand the maths. I'm trying to form my own pathway in understanding a topic. It requires that I constantly look at different sources and synthesis my own, personal understanding.

@Recursoinominado cuz you're a pussy

You pay $35 purely for the list, you aren't given the books. Leo gives the books a rating and gives a small audio clip for each book where he just talks about his general thoughts, feelings about the book and uses of book. My personal view, even though its annoying to pay $35 dollars for a list, the list is really good.

@The Don You can drink decafinated green tea

@Shin 90% of my diet is fish, eggs, milk and vegetables. Giving up meat and animal products is too hard for me ? ? because its all so delicious

My meditation habit for the past month has been bad as well.