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I’d say I agree

Yes

People think you should love family just because it’s family

No I haven’t . I’m in a very calm state 90% of the time still, it’s kinda meditative. I don’t care anymore either. Monitoring your mental speech sounds good, because it’s with you all day long. Introspection too

You dont need to love anyone. You just need respect, openness, non judgement.

I would say saying higher vs lower consciousness is not specific enough as to what it means. I think it’s more accurate to say people have different selves, that are configured differently and perhaps differently dense. So activities that affect this will affect the so called “consciousness”. So psychedelics is the most obvious example, it reduces/loosens the sense of self thus “increasing consciousness “ , breathwork and mediation etc can do the same, lessen the sense of self by being in a flow state and reducing thoughts which correlate with the self. Those activities that seemingly “decrease consciousness” let’s break them down one by one. With addiction it’s someone stuck in a compulsive pattern (which corresponds to a certain identity) so it’s the self that is dense and stuck in its configuration, so “low conscious”. Eating unhealthy foods can cloud the mind and make you sluggish so less clarity = less consciousness. Lying , depends on the reason for lying, but let’s say you lie about how good your life is because you’re insecure, the insecurity is a negative identity that is stuck so that’s “low conscious” . So it’s all about how the self is. Kinda, just my two cents…

If someone is able to distill a lot of info into short text then it’s a sign on mastery yea

I think for high stage development your interest for truth must dominate your emotional attachments, identity attachments, judgments, biases, so you’re interested in truth of the matter over being clouded by those mentioned things. Becuase let’s say someone is identifying with their nationality and attached to it, that might cloud their worldview so they’re likely to be biased in matters regarding their country, but with a genuine interest in truth it will triumph over that.

I’m so impressed how someone is able to write such a long book. Like how do you store so much info in your brain that you could write for so long, and something that is somewhat unique so doesn’t come from you purely studying but rather partly your own mind and discoveries. It’s cool. I remember hearing from Andrew Huberman I don’t remember which episode but he talked about difference between awareness of the inner world (like thoughts and physical sensations) and awareness of the outer world. So you figure out which one you are dominant in, for example if you’re more inwardly focused naturally. Then you meditate the opposite way, so an inwardly focused person would focus on an external object and vice versa. I think it seems to hold some value

It’s not like you gain 50 kg overnight it’s gradual and you always have the power to stop it through a calorie deficit. Even if you gain some you could lose it anytime it’s not like you’re trapped in some weight

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Hahahahah spot on. I will go back there sooner or later and then I might ask what flavors they have and try again, and then write it down

I’ve been wanting to ask the same. I’m on a little hunt for the tastiest tea and coffee. Personally I haven’t tried that many but once I tried one at this cafe and it was really good, don’t remember what flavor it was unfortunately.

Maybe try the more organic route of developing a social circle and finding girls that way.

Pain feels very real, suffering feels very real. But I’m suggesting it’s the self that makes all of this feel real, that’s what I think

Because you feel real. The self is the base sense of solidity that gives rise to all other sense of solidity and otherness. So the question should be to investigate this self, why do “I” feel real? Is closer to getting to the core of the issue.

See school as the opportunity to build self discipline and a good work ethic. So it’s not the subject at focus but rather the underlying skills that come from studying rigorously, that could give you a purpose for doing it. That’s kind of what I did

I doubt we’ll live long enough to experience this. If the climates change doesn’t kill us this will probably happen in the future as society evolves

Yea that’s not what I meant😹

What was your interpretation of me writing “organically” like you and your chemistry talk?😹

Yea exactly. She might not be in the mood for flirtatiousness with a stranger, as you said she’s out with the girls for the girls. So sometimes it’s not about the guy, the guy can be decent and she can still reject

It means looks is not all that matters. Sometimes girls just don’t like getting hit on they wanna get to know a guy through other means like organically through social circle the very act of getting hit on can be tad uncomfortable I think

I understand it can be hard I can relate to that, as someone who doesn’t feel hunger much. But I think in general if you could drop all the “rules” around food, and instead just eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re adequately but not too full. Sometimes it happens I eat once a day when I follow this, and it’s okay. No rules as I said. Hunger is not to be mistaken for cravings , that can be a hard distinction to make, signs of hunger could be low energy and stomach sounds. Important to have a healthy diet overall so you don’t get significant sugar crashes. Reducing stress it’s important too because that could affect your cravings and hunger in my experience Drop the idea that it’s dangerous to fast or be a little hungry, some people think that, as if you need to eat often to avoid hunger, but we can survive some time without food it’s not dangerous . Depends also what your goal physique is, for example I like to be quite lean so that entails eating a bit less but still adequate, we’re not starving over here. You can be healthy with a little bit of chub too which would entail eating more , but still healthy foods which is important. Because it’s a bit harder to overeat on healthy foods as they’re more nutritious and satiating. When people overeat we have to take into account they might be eating a lot of ultra processed foods which is easier to overeat as they contain more calories and can be less satiating I like to sometimes follow the plate model, so it’s like half the plate veggies, 4th of the plate some starch like rice or potato, then 4th of plate protein and a little healthy fat. This keep portions moderately large and with moderate calories because veggies have less calories. It’s science behind the plate model

Okay I see, so like the sum of the individuals life story is their karma, which shapes who they are That’s wild. Yea if he realizes no self a lot of survival agenda goes away

I still don’t really understand what karma means lol But yea everyone is different and see different worth in different paths What do you mean to a suicidal degree? Like he didn’t care about living because he had no self?