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@Nahm How does purpose make you believe that you aren't filled with passion? Can you elaborate on this metaphor?

@Nahm What is the difference? @soos_mite_ah That's an interesting perspective. So the fetishizing of interests is sort of like romantic infatuation?

@Matt23 What jobs offer that kind of flexibility?

@Sempiternity That's cool. So you're basically financially free?

@Rhinosaur I feel like joining those monasteries really narrows your experience of life. You can't learn from other perspectives. You're kind of in a little box, where all you can do is meditate and introspect. @bejapuskas I would think that a full time sage is one that devotes all their time to spiritual work and understanding reality.

@Ora What was your diet like during the protocol? And did you do anything in particular to be able to stick to the fast?

@Leo Gura Will there always be deeper insights into Truth that no one else has ever realised? There are people who say that Enlightenment is like a binary switch, you're either Enlightened or not Enlightened. But if it's truly infinite, aren't there infinite degrees of Enlightenment? Your Enlightenment could always be deeper.

@Leo Gura What would being a full time mystic/sage entail?

@roopepa Rock on man. Do what you want

@Thought Art I don't think you can maintain a military-grade spiritual/contemplative practice when you are also doing things like being an artist, inventor, politician, etc. Those things take up a lot of your time, at least to make a living out of them. Mastery generally takes 10,000 hours. My image of a full-time mystic/sage is someone that does the practices full time, and shares their insights with others.

@Leo Gura That's completely relative though right? For example, if you are gifted/talented and passionate about music, the most meaningful thing you can contribute to society is sharing your gift with the world rather than trying to contribute out of a feeling of moral obligation.

@flowboy Agreed. I think it's a matter of what you are gifted/talented at. Pursuing that would be the biggest contribution you could offer the world as it is a unique ability within your Zone of Genius that that no one can replicate. There are things that I can enjoy doing, but that don't feel important to me. Such as playing the piano and designing. A.K.A things that I can "dabble" with. However, I can see how those activities can be meaningful for others. Things that I enjoy doing and feel important to me are; working out, giving people advice on how to improve their lives and find clarity, creating new concepts from my model of understanding how to live life to help others do the same, built from all the reading and researching I do in my free time (which also feels meaningful).

@asifarahim You say do what you’re passionate about in the remaining time. Are you saying that that your purpose is not something you’re passionate about? Do you know your Life Purpose?

I can attest to this. From a SD perspective; Stage Beige is the foundation for literally everything in your life. Your Beige gets undermined from a health problem and it drags down the rest of the spiral with it.

@Leo Gura Would you say that the impact of your Life Purpose should be the most meaningful thing you can contribute to society?

There is no contradiction here. That is correct. That is why you have a bias against it. I don't think there's anything wrong with bias per se. We'll probably always have biases. If we didn't, we would die. The point is, it doesn't have anything to do with Truth. Truth is not prescriptive. Just because pain and pleasure are relative terms that have no basis in reality, doesn't mean that you go up to a persecutor and volunteer to be tortured.

@SQAAD They are not inherent to reality. It is just a bias we have because pain feels "bad" to us and pleasure feels "good" to us. I put "bad" and "good" in quotations because notice that these are also biases. There's no Truth to good and bad, nor is there any truth to pain and pleasure. They are concepts we use in the relative domain for our survival - which, also has nothing to do with Truth.

That’s what God would do

In the last video, when you said that you further refine and consolidate your understanding of reality, it reminded me of two concepts; The Protégé Effect The Feynman Technique Both of these concepts suggest that when you teach others, it reinforces your understanding. Seneca also says “While we teach, we learn” Does this increase your motivation to do everything that you do to improve yourself? Because outside of solely improving yourself for yourself, it serves a purpose that’s meaningful to you, which is sharing your insights with others so that they can also improve themselves? That includes sitting down to contemplate, meditate, yoga, retreats, etc. Imagine that you couldn’t share any of your insights with anyone, imagine that you didn’t have a Life Purpose, would you lose some motivation?

Can’t have up without down and vice versa. It all comes full circle. Non-Duality.

@Leo Gura Agreed. I’d say that having a Life Purpose, counterintuitively, is more selfish than the mainstream idea of what selfishness is. It all comes full circle; Highest Selfishness = Selflessness I find that when I’m studying all these perspectives, interconnecting everything, and contemplating, I have this huge urge to share my insights with others. If that got taken away from me I’d lose my drive. I still have an attachment to having a purpose. I think that will be hard to transcend.

I really want to think hard about this as there’s usually no going back once you pick one and it takes a lot of time to develop a brand. The ones I initially thought of are already taken.

@aurum I know that changing your name at the beginning doesn’t hurt as much, but I want my name to have some meaning behind it. And you’re absolutely right about not making it a top priority. I’m focusing on the core aspects too. I’ve gotten more ideas while I was working on it. I should be able to figure it out soon, if I find that it’s been 2 weeks and I haven’t just gone with one I’ll just jump in.

That's interesting. Thanks for sharing!

@EugeneTheSage Interesting. Thanks!