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Interesting. They are so different for me. Different aspects of the mountain of God.

Careful in chasing money for the sake of chasing money also. It's a shame to be a billionaire but poor inside.

Also, I am still confused on the relationship between psyche structure and awakening... Like, your beliefs, intentions, epistemology and metaphysics must affect the awakening or the quality of insight and integration of awakenings. Maybe even the awakenings themselves...

I have it on my kindle! Thanks for the orientation.

I am noticing that whatever I want in life, like starting my own business, or keeping a partner/ intimate relationship. I find my neediness or desire for the thing can bring about it's downfall or loss. I notice myself starting to get people interested in Qigong and have been doing sessions around my city. People really seem to enjoy it. I just want to make sure I am not clinging onto my ideas of success and just allowing the process to unfold. But, I also need to make sure and put effort to ensure it unfolds. There seems to a need for a light clinging, but room to breath. Tips?

Yeah, I don't know what Neo advaita is yet. I've heard the names Rupert Spira and Eckart Tolle as well in that group. So much to learn

I second this. Basically, once you reach nihilism you begin to take control of how to construct meaning. I think a big part of what I learn from Zen is what Octo said above. However, that being said. People attach meanings to everything and no one here if fully free from meaning making because we use it for survival and social cohesion. But, we can work toward liberation the more we unleash ourselves from the mental prisons we create. I'd like to add the concept of transference and projection here as well. Many of our meanings lay beneath the surface of our conscious mind and can be very archetypal. The map isn't the territory as they say Any meaning that does exist, you created because you are God.

So, did you trip or wut bai? did you go full ham?

What do these words mean to you? Exoteric means information taught to the masses, while esoteric is specialized information for a small ground of people. I think teaching, or religion may have either exoteric or esoteric aspects to their teachings. I own the book 'esoteric encyclopedia of eternal knowledge' which I like to read. I had internalized my own meaning of esoteric, which mean wisdom known by a few or wisdom developed through personal introspection as many of Vernon Howards teachings teach that we must first focus on the inner working of our minds instead of following blindly exoteric teachings of the masses. I had been reading some of the paragraphs after my Qigong sessions but today someone pointed out to me their interpretation of esoteric. It seemed to rub them the wrong way and brought up many religious meanings for them. That this book could not contain real esoteric knowledge because it was written down, and that esoteric is an open meaningless word. As, even a satanist group can have esoteric teachings. This made sense to me but made me second guess whether or not I should share these wisdom nuggets after my classes. Personally, I think Vernon Howards teachings line up nicely with Taoist philosophy so I personally know there isn't a problem... But, everyone has their own defenses etc. It made me recontextualize and my initial idea of these readings I thought the tasty wisdom nuggets. I thought they were fun and refreshing and would go along with the Qigong nicely. However, after this morning I am leaving the book at home and am just going to stick to the Qigong. I think I am still learning the subtlties of how people have developed their operating systems. Best to focus on just teaching relaxation, and find a more specific group who wants to discuss other things. I will however consider making a study group of philosophy, spirituality, esoteric etc in the future.

Slowly the western world is realizing it's been treating substances the wrong way.

I have tried to listen but don't resonate yet.

We are not lions. Completely difference teeth and digestive systems. High quality meats are probably fine it eaten irregularly. But, farmed meat and processed meat make you smell weird and are carcinogenic.

Plus it's like, you have actualized teachings, you are going into engineering, you are young the future it still open... You life is going to be amazing. My biggest trap at that age was not seeing how much will happen in a course of 5 years.

Oh man, give me like 50,000 and I would do a little jig for a month. I live pretty simply, if I have a million dollars my life purpose would happen 100x speed

Do you mean billionaire? You should be tell me ahah It's possible maybe, but you need to create a lot of value.

Are the lights out?

What did I just watch? This grossly over simplifies everything. I don't know. I find all these idealogical systems too limited. The law of one is interesting but I wouldn't go balls deep.

I feel a lot of anger and resentment towards my ex. When we started dating I introduced her to my idea for showcasing artists. She started helping me with my vision and project. We did a lot of great work and it was a lot of fun to create. We were able to help a lot of young artists showcase their talents. But, then she ended up moving back in with her ex boyfriend. So, I backed out of the relationship, and then what seems like a week later she was back with her exboyfriend. I felt like she strong armed me, and was likely cheating the whole time. I was so hurt and devastated I couldn't focus on the project. She continued to finish the showcase without me. My resentment boiled because this really messed me up emotionally and hurt my entire vision. I needed time to process and heal but she just kept going. Now she is still running it, with basically the exact same design that I came up with. I feel so much anger and resentment toward her and my ego keeps telling me that she stole my idea, and how evil she is and how 'bad' and 'awful' this is because it should be me, or me AND her running it because its my idea. Everytime I see her or the showcase, which is actually having a lot of success... thats right my life purpose is working but some girl stole it. Anyway, that's how my ego feels. But, I think if I don't reframe this, which I am working on doing today. It's just gonna eat me up. I can't change her. And I am glad artists are benefiting from my creativity. You can change the world, ahaha. Also, I need to remember why I did it in the first place. For the artists. I should be glad someone is doing that work. But, it should be me I am so passionate about that... Anyway, sharing this because others might be dealing with resentment too. Wondering how people process it, or what books are out there.

What is the best method to protect passwords, documents etc from people? How to best protect your privacy and information online?

Totally see this in myself

Accurate. For me though, with breath of fire it filled my whole body.

People like to dance! to share, to get likes. It's human. Maybe it says something about a shadow you are suppressing? Would you like to dance?

Have you tried fabulous? https://www.thefabulous.co/ I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid... So I have been learning to overcome it as an adult and I found this app helped me install the habit infrastructure I now use. Also, check out Bullet Journaling by Ryder Carrol. He has ADD and invented this journaling system to organize and plan

I too am learning the power of active inactivity

@Alysssa Thank you