Applegarden8

I don't even know how that would look like. 😀

I am beta on the outside but alpha on the inside x)

Master of one

I am too. Where else I say that I listen to Sadhguru exclusive religiously, try to implement radical ideas of Osho and Nithyanada which I think work better than those I learned in school and that I have a bondage/latex fetish. Where else if not here? Isn't it funny how repressed society acctually is? It's quite phenomenal. Not that all of that even mattered that I said it, but there would be actual people who would spend significant amount of time to give a shit about that and to gossip and compare endlessly and create a story around you just because they either didn't like you, they genuinely tought there is something wrong with you or they had nothing better to do with their life. But no, your cognition is so much more sophisticated and flexible that you don't need to feel guilty for who you are. Period. But there are real consequences to expressing your sexuality or say that you listen to everything some guru is saying. Due to social conditioning I am bound to feel ashamed, and to a point I am and probably will be for the rest of my life.

There was a guy called Origins who abused user Modmyth. Then there was an admin who made a copycat version of this forum. We will have those.

Relatable, it's good when Leo agrees with me and bad when Leo disagrees with me.

Some individuals in the past were very very intelligent. Look at ancient Greek music theory or Hindu temples and lingas or craftsmanship of literally every culture in the world.

There is nothing sexier than female vocalists / jazz vocalists. Period! Women's day... well, women have been abused for most of the history, so as other men by the current tyrants at whatever time in the past. Right now it's a very political day. I rather view this day as a celebration of shakti. The feminine dimension of universe. Feminine qualities we all embody such as creativity, appreciation, beauty, expression, storytelling, language, diversity, being spontaneous, motherliness, nurturing, supporting, laughter, appreciation of all emotions, feeling, playfulness, submissiveness, inclusiveness, occultism, magic, prayer, faith, trust in life etc. It is strange that we celebrate this day to accent the femininity of women while they are becoming more masculine because our economy requires it. This day reminds me of the socio-economic gender war propagated by marxist-like idea that is happening rather than celebrating a woman for what she naturally expresses. It is good to recognize some group of people in society, but the problem is that we forget about the idea about how to live sensibly and how to include everyone in society rather than pushing one agenda, otherwise Feminists and Manosphere will fight endlessly.

I think because they are like antennas, just like long hair. I guess it increases their sensitivity and stabilizes their energies in the head. The weight on your head, pulling of the skin and circulation of blood in your head area also plays some role in circulation of your pranas, it's a hard question, i don't know the answer and I am not a guru. But from the stories I have heard, depends what you use it for, it makes them more sensitive and stable in their body. Some strange things happen in the body when you become enlightened and to hold the experience or not to leave the body, they try to rely on everything they know. Buddhist tradition (for monks, but i have seen masters also like that) practicioners remove their hair on the head at shivaratri's of the year, since it centers their energies at the top of the head. Basically it has it's pros and cons, for example, Sikh men always have beard and long hair wrapped in their headpiece. Some Hindus have it too. It's even popular in middle east.

It's not hilarious, it's another sad distraction from who Putin really is. It's like passive propaganda in contrast to the active propaganda his administration runs in Russia for two decades. People literally die from it now more than ever, and make others die.

I think you have to come in terms with this. For the most part, the daily life is boring, repetitive, spaced out between events, minimalistic and even when there are events, they may not even be satisfying. But where you are in life in the most direct sense (needing something or not needing something, relying on a belief or not having to rely on belief) is very very important. You creating a sober and sustainable lifestyle is fantastic by itself. You having the mental stability, abstain from something that hurts you and being in line with the large things you value makes most of the difference. But to have that you will need a lot of awareness and a lot of sielence, contemplation, shadow work and time spent on entertaining ideas contrary to what you believe now. And it is boring, but the boredom can be cured. Really. It will take you a long time, but if it can be cured it is worth it! And another thing you not only need to push it but you need to pull yourself from the future by constantly visualizing the life you would like to live. Have you even spend a consistent amount of time visualizing of big things and little things you want definitively? Yes, life will narrow that down, but you will have few authentic desires left which you will follow with ease, no matter how hard it is to upkeep. But it is a part of a boring, organized and healthy lifestyle not based on much sensory stimulation but inner bliss. And to get that boring, healthy and organized life you have to do some boring research which will come inspiring because it will give you the health, work ethics and technical problem solutions in any field. Don't waste time of you thinking how life is going to shit. Better start searching for what it is that you want, how it would feel like and how to get there in babysteps. For example how cool it would be to live alone and not to bother with anybody but to design your own lifestyle. There is a possibility of you becoming blissfull, ecstatic or whatever (something that you and Iclearly cannot immagine and cognize, just fantasize) in some people's experience it's possible.

Because people want violence, chaos, excitement and their lives just fundamentally suck because they haven't found an inner solution to their violence. Just look at Putin. He likes inflicting mass murder and destroying the lives and futures of russians and especially Ukrainians for basically no reason other than that he thinks he can. Putin loves to emotionally torture Ukrainians by stealing their children and re-writing history and their culture. Putin likes when children's hospitals and schools get destroyed. Yes, we have such people. Putin also loves silencing his own people, making them weak and stupid and treating them like war pets just to take their money. What a trash human being. Period.

So am I. Here is how to deal with it, please, listen: - with imagining her every moment in your life you are not imagining how you are going to live your life and your life suffers, because the destructive tendencies you have express themselves unchallenged, remember that you have a life to live, you are capable of being alone as a complete human being and you are interested in living a healthy and adventorous life in which you create this meaning by visualizing and acting; - have you entertained the idea, at least for a time, ok, right now I decide I don't need anybody and just proceed with it. There are good reasons for it like, there are people who really have nobody and they can cope extremely well with life and that realistically she doesn't give a fuck and the woman I am "obsessed" doesn't care either. She is a free human being protected by constitution just like you, which means that your attention holds a lot of power, anything you commit your life to is bound to yield to you, better learn some skill, build something or relax completely. Make yourself in such a way it's easy to get laid. - Natural forces and societal conditioning. You have to have because everyone has. Most of the media reminds you that you have to have a spouse, right now. Sometimes you feel like wanting to share something, some intimacy, ok, you don't have it, but this loneliness taught me very important life lessons. Quitting jerking off helped me the most in this aspect because I don't feel so identified with the body. So this obsession is so passive in me right that that this person does not trigger anything really and I have strong sense of purpose that losing this person means nothing really, the sun will rise and I will do what I planned to do and keep reflecting, since this is actual tangible thing a human being can do to improve his position in to the existential. Good luck!

If you take care about the basics to make a sustainable lifestyle and have some kind of independence from other people, like living alone and having your debts paid, it is quite a bliss and you really underestand that you can change even your base assumptions about life. In that case, why does your age even matter? If you will not fight for health, then your life is predefined to implode into a downward spiral (it still can, however at least your health will not decline by your own merit).

But you don't realize that you and me don't want to get involved to end the war, it's not some third person, politician or group of politicians or whatever. We don't want to end (majority of the people) wars, conflicts, tyrannies, shadow governments, marketing exploitation, human trafficking etc. Even the idea of charity, tremendous action goes into the charity, it's a full time job into an invisible infrastructure which you won't see the result if you don’t do it for long enough not just to give money to somebody. The ideas people believe are based on self-preservation. My family, my friends, my hometown, my homecountry, my nation, but it's never bigger than that. Why? Well, if there is no enemy, nobody to blame but you have to change and act for reasons bigger than you, it is unfamiliar, hard and unsettling. There is no comfort and yet there is relief doing something that the world needs. Otherwise our lives are just some survival, gossip, entertainment and abuse of the other. We are not interested in stopping this madness, for many people it's not even having the desire to learn something new!

It's clearly not the case. Putin just doesn't want to lose his comfortable seat with his oligarchs he bribed each other with so he has to distract people with war. Ukraine had a change of president from zhulik to Zelensky, therefore a slight shift to democracy, Putin fears he will lose his seat because of this peaceful transfer of power that can happen in Russia also. It's not a strong sense of order, it's utter self-preservation to the degree of laughter. It's just him trying to over-extend his pathetic life and Navalny almost got him, and would be after him if he was released due to prisoner exchange program. But he obviously killed Navany from the top. That man almost broke him, took his precious seat sucking the blood out of the Russian masses. He lives a double life, what principles he has other than making sure he steals something, bribes somebody for his advantage and kills the opposition. He doesn't believe in god probably. His religion is propaganda and building castles. Thank you, Navalny. Slava Ukraine.

And how can you say that it is the most powerful practice? What other practices you tried and for what period of time? Based on what traditions? I have sat for periods of time and think that is is not the best practice. I have found some other practices, yes, which includes contemplation but is not just sitting somewhere.

Stupid ideas are enough for self-preservation, that's why they are so popular. But that is a life lived in gossip, mediocrity, pain, jelousy, projection, gaslighting and yes, stupid assumptions. It's the typical Christianity like idea as an example: "Sorry Jesus that I am going to sin (do something which I wouldn't want to be done to myself and maybe have enough awareness feel guilty about it) but admitting that to myself is basically pointless because I will not do anything to solve it and I will do it the same all over again and go trough the same restlesness, guilt and unbarable pain, constantly whishing that situations, life, people whould be different now and in the past which is not possible."

1) no fap helps a lot to have mental clarity in literally everything; 2) if you do it with the right person, who is about the same development of consciousness or if you are really in love you should be fine, but if they are more compulsive, restless, instinctive, depressed then you lose a bit of energy every time you do it, imo 3) you feeling guilty about it creates a vicious cycle. 4) you just need more clarity not to do it rather than compensating it with guilt.

I willalways remember Navalny for his humour.

Ok. But so did Biden. What is your point? Russia has different political apparatus which is not a popular vote election based. There are people waiting for a change for at least 20 years and I think a revolution will involve military and a literal civil war + some regions want to disband Russia to this day. It is really fucked and twisted in Russia right now. The average joe's life in there is corruption right now, it's not the same as in America right now.

This is not that simple. Navalny was also not alone and he had and has people's support. Maybe a civil war would emerge from Putin's lackies and anti-Putin supporters, or a collapse and fragmentation of Russia from the end of Putin's rule alone, i don't think your depiction is very accurate. It is cooking one way or the other as time passes by.

This is somehow sadder than any of my relatives dying. Some force of positive change died with him which is not awakened in many of us. He was up against too much. He sacrificed his personal pleasures for this life of inprisonment and torture. I don't think people underestand what it really means. Thank you, Alexei, for speaking up for all of those who didn't want to have this life, but somehow we have to continune. I feel like we, the people who tend to think more freely, are next, although it feels that it was just an isolated incident, he was not the first one and will not be the last one killed by the Kremlin. RIP, I hope you find any existential relief, thank you for the bottom of my heart.

I am pretty far down in the bat cave. I have a long way to go in order to truly sit alone and some instincts and forces of society play aginst me, meanwhile I also find socializing pretty boring, however that might also not be true in reality and it's just my inability to authentically communicate, but then I see how transactional, inauthentic and manipulative a lot of relationships around me are and it makes me sad. I have done the groundwork for that loner lifestyle and I plan to live it, because I feel there is nothing better to do than contemplate and meditate. Life in general and life purpose takes most of my energy anyway so I have to figure how to make myself most healthy and minimalistic and to really build that base for the future, knowing very well that I can die any day, it's quite an interesting paradox. But I want to face my traumas, self-destructive patterns, life-negative assumptions so that I am truly not an issue in my life because of my lifestyle. Accidents or me being killed even is not that much of a problem but if I robbed my life, it's something that's hard to not regret because I have the tools to do it now. I think there are ways to really do it, if you touch some siddhis of the human body or your awakening is just a little too imbalanced that you just disregard certain aspects of your life and probably the people who did it successfully are not on this forum.