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Thanks for all the help everyone !

This guy (named Rohit Arya) is an Indian Yogi with great videos covering many Yogic concepts otherwise hard to find properly articulated in the original form. https://m.youtube.com/user/TheAryayogi/videos

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Yellow is the first stage to be able to empathize with serious criminals in general right ? If true, listen to this great Eminem song from his latest album, its a masterpiece. The whole song is a double entendre.

Happens to me sometimes too.

@Don Wei I'm guilty of the same thing as your friend. I'm currently doing these sorts of things to a good friend of mine. Let me tell you the reasons, and then you can analyze if they are relevant in your case. Might provide insights from your friend's point of view. My friend achieves a LOT. Effortlessly. And I'm just jelous. Nothing more, nothing less : just jelous. I really want to feel happy for him, like I know he would feel for me if I started achieving, but I'm unable to at the level I'm at right now. Maybe its because I'm at the fucking rock bottom, and he's killing it in the material world. He's also a chick magnet. He talks about himself a LOT. He got a fairly big ego and keeps mentioning many irrelevant things about him. Like I care. I know the details about all his friends who I don't care about at all. It was fine when our friendship began, but after sometime it just got unbearable. Like your friend, he's somewhat interested in the metaphysical stuff, but at the end of the day he doesn't really care and I get sad about it. You and me both know what he's missing out on. But that is all. Other than these, he's one of the best friends I've ever had and in general is a high quality human being, plus super helpful. We both have learnt a LOT from each other and will keep learning in the future. I don't do things like talking behind someone, neither does he.

For whatever amount of protein that is necessary, can I depend on almonds only, instead of milk, meat, or eggs ? Never eaten meat in my life (no religious reasons or such, my family just doesn't like it, but I've not taken any vow against meat, might consider to eat in future if necessary) and have some problems regarding milk. Eggs too, have only eaten a few times but open to experiment more with them if beneficial.

@Leo Gura Gandhi wasn't turquoise ?

@Tarzan I don't know it just does, can't find a reason or logic to it.

@commie Have a look at the edited post.

@Username I already eat only 2 meals a day and have 18.5 BMI (borderline underweight). Rice, wheat, pulses and potato are the four main things I regularly consume, and no milk ( not sure about how to analyze them in nutritional terms, do you know how, if these four things are causing problems ? ).

Right now, being the unconscious human that I am, you can verbally give me as much reasons to not fear death as you want. But as soon as you point a pistol to my head, I shit my pants lol.

What are the various ways in which Love can help to cope with addictions and destructive patterns ?

How do I realize the Love in effect in the middle of a difficult time such as when I lose a parent, become homeless, have a really bad fight with a parent, loose a limb, or during long periods of physical pain such as while trying to pass a kidney stone or having a severe stomach pain ? Can I do so without an 'awakening to Love' ? Can 'rationalizing into Love' in my mind help me here ? Like while in the middle of a stomach pain I'm contemplating how this is a manifestion of Love or something like that.

YES

Also known as Paruresis. I have difficulty peeing in public spaces when people are nearby. Its almost completely a mind issue, not a physical problem. I experience mild to intense irrational anger towards people nearby moving around or making sounds, or just being present. A field of irritation courses throughout my body. This causes me to standing there like an idiot with my dick out trying to concentrate or doing other techniques for starting a stream of pee. It sometimes gets so bad that even if my bladder is completely full and ready to explode, I'm unable to start a stream. I'm afraid I'll go to the hospital becuase of this someday, while making a scene. I can't tell people around to go far away from the washroom and explain this weird condition of mine. Nowadays I sometimes even have problems at my home with parents around. However, when I'm not concerned about anything and not concentrating on this pee problem while going to pee, I usually pee comfortably. Also, even when people are not around, I can have problems due to a time limit. Like when I leave an ongoing exam and I'm supposed to pee quickly and come back. This is when I might visit the toilet, suffer for a few minutes and come back without passing urine, forced to give rest of the exam in pain. I'm afraid this might hamper my ability to go out of my house for multiple days in the future. Maybe this is an anxiety/social anxiety issue. Does anyone else have this ? What can I do to solve this issue ?

I've not been able to come across a concrete answer to this question, and not able to figure it out properly by reading various stuff related to it.

@Rilles Thanks ! By the way, is it similar to what Leo talks about in this one (assuming you have seen the video) ?

@pdude Thanks ! Also, it gets weird when you go for your third or fourth attempt within 40-60 minutes and people start noticing. Sometimes when outside of home, it gets scary even to drink sufficient amount of water.

@Preety_India https://www.actualized.org/insights/my-health-situation

I too, sometimes pause and look at people and realize how awkwardly and comically serious they are about regular stuff and especially matters related to themselves.

When we laugh, we tend to be kinda selfless and in the present moment. I had this thought, that maybe God laughs at itself all the time. In addition to being infinitely intelligent, its also kind of an idiot. I mean look at all the lunacy it has created. Its a huge prank and I'm looking for the camera. It is everything yet nothing, it's infinite but can limit itself, its all loving and a racist, its omniscient and Trump, and so on .......

@Rilles I'm not talking about peeing in the open man, the problem is in stalls (closed spaces) and urinals too. @Nahm Tried all sorts of body positions including leaning forward, they don't seem to work. The thing is its not about pressure of pee or position, its all in my mind. But yeah, I'll try leaning forward more. Thanks !

Watch both of these videos :

Its an incentive to inspire you for taking the spritiual practices seriously and doing them consistently. According to him (or any legit spiritual teacher), you'll find all the hard work worth it once you're knocked out of your sleep. So one must hone their desire to wake up. Leo's words, whether polite or rude, work as a catalyst.