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I get so paranoid when my throat gets sore now lol

When you become successful you inadvertently learn this stuff

All dopamine addictions will work the same, whether it be food, sex, YouTube, etc. So, you can try to find a pattern to how it works and then try applying it. You could try something like a dopamine detox. Personally, I'm doing intermittent fasting right now which is also acting as a sort of dopamine detox since I get so much enjoyment out of food. I have noticed I am less lazy now and much more grateful and happy when eating and doing other things that stimulate dopamine. Well, you're still functioning within the construct of a human body. I don't think you're gonna understand your way out of experiencing dopamine, but you can manipulate it through understanding it more. It is a very nice feature of reality, I think. It will reward you for not giving into temptations and it keeps balance to your enjoyment. In my experience, the "forcing yourself to do work" method didn't work very well for me. It was only after I quit video games out of boredom that I realized how useless it was and how I had wasted my entire time playing it. One day you will quit, and the game wont even matter to you one bit. It becomes irrelevant just like that, and then you will move on to the next big dopamine influx. The fact that something I put so much time into didn't even matter to me anymore drove me to realize how devastating the dopamine cycle can be.

Hate is just a narrow form of love You hate other countries out of love for your own country You make fun of someone else's looks to feel better about your looks etc. Hate is what happens when you are only able to love certain parts of reality rather than the whole. So, it's a byproduct of fragmenting your love to only specific parts of reality.

Lots of good stuff from Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape series

Maybe you're trying to force yourself to be horny? When I go on no-fap my libido gets very high but I climax quicker

@Artsu Hahaha I was writing a reply to another thread about synchronicity and I got a synchronicity while I was doing that. Universe is so funny.

Not another one of these... I first saw blue and black and then it switched to white and gold like 10 seconds after

I believe Napoleon Hill used Infinite Intelligence to probe the ego in his book Outwitting The Devil, at the interview part. Apparently he had to let go of all his fear in order to achieve a conversation with "the devil". Leo also had a conversation with Infinite Intelligence which can be found on the blog. So perhaps it can be achieved through a state where you have no fear left, maybe through the use of psychedelics.

That's The Onion, it's satire. They're just poking fun at the fact that we act so different alone lol

Love guided meditations. Maybe i'm just bad at meditating but they get me really deep into the meditative state. I like the imagery here too.

this happens to me when i stare at something for a long time

@lmfao There was a story with the Buddha that I'm reminded of. To paraphrase, someone spat on the Buddha and then the next day started apologizing for what he had done. Then the Buddha said something along the lines of "Why are you apologizing? You never spat on me. The person who spat on me is not here anymore" Basically, our identity is always changing. If you feel guilty about it and you've acknowledged your mistake, then you've already evolved to a different person now. You just need to make amends and move on.

@Nak Khid It really is nothing, not how you're imagining it though. It is completely impossible to imagine BTW, because your mind is finite and can only know finite things, whereas nothingness is infinite and without duality. It's like trying to imagine what having no eyesight is like, it's just absent. There is the experience of it being absent. You don't see black, you don't see any colors, it's just completely gone. That's what turiya is like, but your entire reality is gone along with your eyesight. And you just exist there. I like how Rupert Spira describes it, "absence of absence". Your reality/body becomes nothing but existence is still there. It's a paradox to the finite mind. Pure consciousness would just be pure awareness with nothing else, aka nothingness. What else would it be? What do you think pure awareness is like? It's awareness with nothing else. Pure existence with no content.

turiya says otherwise

I see this happen a lot and I just ignore it. Usually they're not really asking for my opinion and they just try to slip it into the conversation. Then i'll just ignore it or try not to validate it. But if they zone in on me and ask for my specific view then i'll try to tell them my view in the most easiest way for them to comprehend. Or I might take occasional jabs at certain things they say. Truth is, a lot of people won't be ready for the truth so you can't just throw it in their face or they will attack back to keep their ego alive. This happens a lot with my friends who are very unconscious and I know it will lead to conflict if I straight up called them out. You just gotta be gentle with it or ignore it for the time being. If you're too confrontational with it, their worldview will lock up and it will just become an ego fight. It is a tricky thing.

you've never experienced anything outside of your awareness

Feminism simply means equality for both men and women, which is a nice ideal. There are very radical versions of "feminism" which seem to have given it a bad rep though.

This is me with my friends basically. They're all massive devils and I know i'm gonna have to probably let them go some day but when I interact with them I always feel like I have to conform or things will turn awkward. I already struggle with social anxiety and I don't like getting into conflict.

Because reality is infinite but our mind is finite so it likes to see things in finite and limited ways. When this limited way of looking at the world is challenged the finite mind cannot fully comprehend it because it can only comprehend limitations and differences.

Do not personify your hate. If a tornado hit your house and destroyed it would you hold anger towards the tornado? No. That's just how the tornado is, you can't blame it for that. The ego always likes to put blame on something and once it puts blame on something that's where anger cultivates. This effectively diverts attention from your ego onto something else. You wouldn't get mad at a crocodile for trying to bite your arm off because that's all it knows how to do. That's how it survives. It is too ignorant to understand morals or even consider empathising with you. That's just how they are. The people who do low-consciousness things literally don't know any better. If they did, they wouldn't be doing those things. It is not accurate to look at what they are doing from a high-consciousness perspective. It is like expecting the crocodile to know morals and not bite your arm off and then becoming morally outraged at it when it does do those things. Leo's forgiveness episode is also amazing if you're really struggling

You could just fast. I like doing it that way cause it is more simple and doesn't take much planning. It also gets you into ketosis faster.

@PukkaDanks Connor Murphy on Youtube is going for 40 days

I've done intermittent, which isn't as extreme. Head felt much clearer. It felt like I broke out of a trance where i was just unconsciously eating all the time. It also made eating food 100x more enjoyable and it made me more grateful.

@Unwiring Lol Jim just doesn't care. I don't think he's trying to convert her to spirituality or anything he is just having fun with it by saying it out in the open.