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Thanks

When I was in my teens, I used to lift and could squat and deadlift slightly over 100 kg each at like the age of 16. #flex Its a cool activity

What is fallen energy ? I love her Id have to disagree there speaking from my experience of intense exercise . So Courtney has the ability to go very deep into the so called “pain cave”. What I notice when you exercise is that you get to a certain point of intensity where every single step forward is a struggle. And you require a very strong ~conscious focus~ to be moving yourself forward . So dissociating is not possible there, you need ultra focus. Dissociation I would say is possible when it feels easier to run, when it’s more effortless. Not when it gets REALLY intense

You write very beautifully it was a nice read. I have a guess that the self for the average person is not this constant thing, there can be moment of no self when immersed in something, in flow state, but maybe it’s not recognized that it’s no self, it’s not noticed, it returns to often and too quick . I don’t know Ive experienced partial openings, softening to the ego, and maybe the full once, but I’d like to experience it more like you talk about

What’s it about ?*asks you instead of reading it*

@Nemra I want😋

Being unbothered can be really nice

Someone less extreme with a more positive, chill attitude which I admire, if not more than David, is Courtney Dauwalter. She is considered by some to be one of the best ultra runners in the world

Damn I’ll check that out

Hahaha he is cool in his toughness but not cool in the chill way yes

It builds something very special in the mind , which is what he speaks of All those things are cool

I like running outside too. I’ll go to a track soon

I’m impressed by such strong mindset. I feel very weak at times

I was being a little funny in my post but yea it’s a good mindset. I’ve been working on my mindset recently. I don’t know if Goggins is pride oriented That sounds like a cool anime

Humans like limits. We want the good not the bad. Reality would lowkey be better if it was limited. Because then if we all came together we could control it and make it a pleasant place to live. But instead any evil we get rid of, god can just spawn infinitely more, because it’s unlimited. As long as you experience yourself as human you won’t be able to enjoy this “creative power”

It’s odd i don’t talk about it anymore outside my family and doctor. Of the more “normal” things I suffer from is emptiness, dullness, apathy, anhedonia, low libido. Basically like a living zombie

We had religion class already in middle school. You learn about the main religions . We learned about greek/ancient mythology too. I liked it. I saw beauty in all the major religions, deep truths.

Didn’t know

Maybe

The sense of self is special. Like I said it’s like we both ARE ourselves and are aware OF ourselves. It’s a special appearance with no regular qualities to it, like it’s not a sound not a sight not a sensation, it’s different. I think our conceptual mind is involved in shaping our experience “is there something within experience that isn’t a sense or sensation?” yea the sense of self. “do we experience an object as it is, or do we experience how it relates to us?” Firstly are there even objects that exist outside our perception? We experience the liking too, it’s two experiences In absolute sense yes, reality (you) is imagining self, and that creates experience (to me experience implies duality)

That’s a cool sharing. Yea it’s like there may be bits of truth in all religion Ive astral projected and had sleep paralysis and only had one occasion of meeting a presence im sure wasnt a hallucination i believe in some kind of soul so that’s cool info

I did that but I meant religion class in normal school

I like having a self to be honest. I just wanna escape suffering .

Someone on reddit said “non duality is this experience without the doubt about it” I resonated

I wonder if permanent non dual state is one of no suffering, not even physical pain. It makes sense the self could desire that state. But who knows, we have ideas of it Very beautifully written I reflect a lot on the self lol because it dominates my life i like having a self honestly , being able to experience but I don’t like suffering It is like the absolute writing about itself! Yea it was just my free expression! Which is pretty much all I do on this forum, I don’t need any answers I’m content not knowing Absolute freedom can appear as trapped I mentioned this somewhere but once during sleep paralysis a voice told me reality is love. It was cool