AION

Everything has a pay off I guess. I live in a middle sized city with a lot of high oxygen forests and quick access to bigger cities. Rent is ok here.

It is a desert. One of the few environments I don’t like.

After reading this book (I haven’t finished it) but you will see that all problems are self made. Especially other people’s problems, dramas, and tragicomedies are self made and it can be clearly seen. Then I realized if other people’s problems are self made then my problems are self made too. And it is much more difficult to see my own bullshit. I couldn’t see through my own problems when I looked at my problems at “human time”. Humans don’t think on long term. Humans usually think in terms of days and weeks while some very successful people think in months and years while if you really want to see through shit you have to think in infinity. Every moment is infinity. The book until now is the book of not knowing 2.0 and it is very refreshing. Reading that book prior is necessary though. I tried to listen to the book but one really needs to put all of the attention of the book to get anything out of it.

Some judge based on 5 minute video 🥲

That is like saying gravity is suffering. Yes it is suffering if you don’t know how to deal with gravity and keep falling and injuring yourself. But don’t forget that gravity is needed for your bone density. In the same way suffering is needed for growth and repair. Gym people know this. No wonder you like Breakingthewall. You are both grade A fools.

Ralston reached the highest echelons in marshal arts and is an expert is skill building. You really have to be a total Sméagol to not enjoy the fruits of his work. Only for couple of bucks you can learn what you learned in decades. Skill building is a meta skill that perhaps one of the most important things in life. If you know how to build skill in life you will reap benefits in life that will outweigh the suffering in any endeavor.

Ending suffering shouldn’t be the end all be all of things. The truth can cause a lot of suffering but it is a process that is worth while. I think you have it ass backwards. Suffering is just a force of nature. Of the psyche. A necessary part of the mat-rix. Not feeling suffering while you should feel suffering is where the real damage happens. People numb themselves with alcohol and drugs for this reason.

He uses this word all the time but he doesn’t define what his definition of state is

You just have to change your thinking. Don’t make it a rocket science with structure of this or that.

@Breakingthewall you are constantly misinterpreting his work. It is getting tiring to constantly have to correct you. Obviously there is necessary suffering but his book is called ending unnecessary suffering (that one creates with unnecessary additions of the mind)

@Breakingthewall I think he doesn’t contradict you. He calls it mental activity versus mental action. He is not anti mentalism. Did you even read his books?

@Breakingthewall That is not what he is saying. He says we can make things worse than they are with our mental activity / mind.

My guy is dropping bombs. 💣

@Natasha Tori Maru that is a book worth rereading.

Finished reading the book. It is basically the book of not knowing 2.0. It is so simple in the sense that truth speaks for itself. At the end of the book I thought “why didn’t I know this shit?”. I do recommend to make annotations or highlights. His books are always hard to digest sometimes.

How can truth be empowering but also be anti self?

The best way to develop this skill is through trail and error (and thus optimizing intuition). Just go on a lot of dates and care about your skills and principles more than the result you desire. A good way to do this is to go out with girls you don’t necessarily like and just run the set into the ground guns blazing.

@Sugarcoat you are going to die one day anyway, it is a natural process

You need to find more drives to be alive

It is an old video but insane how he unraveled on tape

Softness

Everybody has a death drive according to Freud. It is important to be conscious of it. For example. It is like those people who dig a big hole in the sand and then it collapses and they die in their own hole they dug. Or people who get some kind of illness like cancer. It is an unconscious hole they dug most of the time. But humans have a drive to live too. And our drive to live should be stronger than our drive to die. That is called survival.

I wasn’t there so let’s leave it at that 😭

@Natasha Tori Maru you literally told me you left after he asked you to go to couple therapy. You can go and read it back. If he only saw you as the problem he wouldn’t do that. People who blame others don’t go to therapy.

A guy wanting to go to therapy and you dropping him for it? You really dropped the ball by letting him go. But it is typical for a woman to do that when a man shows weakness / vulnerability. Although women claim otherwise, men shouldn’t show vulnerability to a woman.