Davino

Life is a Celebration! Reality is a never-ending Party! Davino

That is a lot more work than renting. I know nothing about ETFs, do you have any sources were I could learn more?

His post made me reflect and have a nice insight. However now seen from your perspective it feels quite nasty. It's hard to take into account others interpretations when the full context is lacking. Or we might just be feeling insecure one day and it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Sometimes writing in the forum is like taking a walk in a field of mines.

Hi @CoolDreamThanks I'm sure I'll do a retreat in the future so I would like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind. How did you manage the logistics (food, water, cooking...)? Did you have some mechanism of contact with the outer world? Did you tell anybody you were doing this? Did you have a schedule for sadhana (morning yoga, evening meditation, night psychedelic)? What were the problems you faced in the retreat (boredom, slacking off, purging, wanting to quit...) ? How did you overcome them? If you were to do it again what would you have done differently? Thanks for taking the time to answer them. I appreciate it. Lots of love❤️

@UnbornTao I really like Adi Da. One of the few Mystics I truly appreciate. It's a pity how misunderstood he is while embodying and speaking from a Godly Realization.

Satisfaction is not found inside either. The same outward trap now is being done internally. All things come and go, this is the nature of Reality. If one finds peace in this truth, then satisfaction may come.

Motivation gets you started, discipline gets you finished.

Optimization of time is different than multitasking. Multitasking is problematic when you are involved in high cognitive tasks simultaneously. Your brain needs to switch modes and that is inefficient. Nonetheless, non cognitive demanding tasks (driving) can be done simultaneously with low to medium demanding tasks (listening to podcasts). Besides, experiment yourself and see.

I'm exploring ways of sustaining myself in 15 years with minimum amount of work (2 days a week max) So far renting seems the easiest way to go. That's why I wanted to hear other inputs or possibilities but they either require high competence or too much work. I'm not avoiding hard work, I'm trying to set up a nice lifestyle to pursue meaningful endeavours without worrying about survival. I'm eager to hear new possibilities. Thanks

It works nicely. Just make sure to get all the papework right and declare your earnings to the state. Be careful with squatters, avoid young people that only go for partying and prioratize family. Be mindful of reviews as they are your presentation cart.

That's a legit position to take. However, I grant you there is more to Religion than that. You have only been exposed to a narrow set of religions, from your historical times, to which you categorize as pre-rational. There's truth to that but I would say you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are an immense range of Religions. For example, Jainism not only passes the moral test you have given but doubles down on them: extreme veganism, crafting their own clothes, only uplifting bussiness can be done, no vehicles because of pollution... They wear moth protection not to swallow insects accidentaly and they sweep as they walk to not step and kill little creatures. So the exact same criticism you are making of souless religious action, these religious individuals could make about you and your lifestyle. So again it all depends on where you stand in the spectrum, your values and your level of development. Moreover, consider that Religion is an amalgamation of culture, codes of conduct, history, art, architecture, rituals and mysticism. One can judge each aspect of a Religion accordingly. You are just judging the codes of conduct and culture and are ignorant about the rest. Islamic art from their golden age is of tremendous beauty, geometry and mathematics. In fact, a muslim temple called Alhambra in Spain was the inspiration for Escher to make one of the most profound art and research on tesselations ever done in Human History. There are diverse family branches to religion, many aspects to each one of them and they all evolve and intermingle with each other. Overall, you are fitting religion into a very limited box given to you by rationalism, scientifism and materialism: all of that to feel so good about yourself and point out their obvious shortcomings, without realizing your own ones nor caring deeply to understand the Comparative Religious field of study.

You got the bigger picture, but I wouldn't call it falsehood. You preferring chocolate ice cream vs vanilla ice cream, is not falsehood, it's just a bias of yours. Your own human form is a universal bias, it is this form and you don't want it to be any other form, like being cut in half. So there are degrees of quality to bias. Some are intelligent and with meaning, others are there and we don't know why and others are just wrong understanding, ...

What is it that you find so despicable about Religion? Or are you disappointed about how Religion is done? Or the current Religious ecosystem? Or the maturity and development of Religious individuals? Or the hijacking of Religion for survival and cultural agendas?

I love you too See the world is like a pendulum: between progress and regression, between conservative and liberal, between tradition and securalism. This pendulum is constantly dancing in microcycles and macrocycles. Now we are seeing a local regression, I grant you that, but the overall tendency of humanity to evolution is unstopable. Trump if anything will show us the importance of bullet proofing democracy. Religious nationalism will teach us the profound limitations of fundamentalist religion and their injected agenda through idelogical individuals. Conservatives movements in Europe and over the world will put a momentary break on never-ending expansion and progress at all cost, allowing as to breathe and let the dust settle down. Earth, the world and its ecosystem is an extremely complex and self-intelligent organism. It will get through this and balance itself by feedback mechanisms. Don't you worry you can sleep at peace tonight.

You are enganging in the same catastrophistic trap they are falling into. That's the communality that I found perfect for craking a joke

It was a double-edged joke, nevermind

How can we increase Love? What do you say are the bottlenecks for Realizing Infinite love? What is your advise to embody Love? Is it also a worth it pursuit?

I've had a huge breakthrough regarding my LP. I was thinkikng about it in a very limited, conservative, job-oriented way. I discovered that having a fucking job and working is not something I care about, most honestly. So survival apart, my purpouse for living is not having a job, not for me, I don't care at all. My life would be very different. I would rather be a full time mystic, do my spiritual practice, experiment with cool psychedelics, have a nice home with a great wife and some pets; a peaceful existence. That's something meaningful to me, I don't wanna be teaching spirituality, nor writting books or healing people, I just wanna do my own thing, at home and enjoy myself. That's it. How to get there? Well that's a question for another day. I'll become filthy rich if that's what it takes to live this kinda lifestyle. I'm surprised it's so simple afterall. What I really want is so freaking simple. Self-cultivation and to enjoy Consciousness.

The Sedlec Ossuary is a Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints, part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have, in many cases, been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. A chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls draping the vault. Other works include piers and monstrances flanking the altar, a coat of arms of the House of Schwarzenberg, and the signature of František Rint, also executed in bone. What do you think is the importance of such temples? What role do they serve? This seems to be a common theme across cultures, Varanasi is another great example. Skeletons forcefully remind us of all that we try to forget, deny and repress in our life. The obscure, the grotesque, the spooky, the shadow, the fearful, the pain, the suffering, the impermanence of form. The fact that we will experience death and that all that we hold dear in this world (Family, friends, romantic partner, children, home, possessions, unfulfilled dreams and goals, legacy, memories, knowledge and skills, identity, prestige, sense of self, responsibilities, health, beliefs, body and mind...) EVERYTHING will vanish with our last outbreath. Death is a compulsory experience. Better get ready

What about AI sex? I'm stull puzzled by your life advice: Don't fuck your AI

One of the best things I've read in the forum so far. What a punch line!

Extremely practical for cleansing the body mind and energetic field. You ain't gonna get all the delicious consciousness without profound inner purification and katharsis. Such inner healing translates very well into everyday life. An example, I had lots of trauma stored in the hips and stomach. My situation has improved dramatically thanks uniquely to 5meo. Sometimes you just gotta cry like a baby for minutes and minutes. 5meo can make that to happen. Crying feels so good honestly, even more from a high state of consciousness. Such a relief!