AION

I’ve tried tons of street food and Mexican is hands down the best. Both in taste and more importantly health.

Denial of your human nature is low consciousness spirituality. Alien consciousness and shit is bullshit as long as you can’t upgrade your human body.

I lived in Asia. And it is very different than traveling it aka eating a cute meal and talking to people. That is what I’m saying. But perhaps you might like you so you can try.

You never know how good you have it until you experienced the lack there of. If you are hell bent on it you should fuck around and find out. Same with Japan. It looks all cute and funny until you get caught up in their soul crushing system ending up with a deadpan stare looking into the abyss. I couldn’t live somewhere else than the west because regardless of everything wrong there is still some human decency like various human and workers rights, free time, privacy, freedom of speech, security, equality etc. Even in the top notch countries like Japan and Korea, you get treated different as an outsider. There is more to it than getting a cute haircut and a fancy meal. Living there is another experience.

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.

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.

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

Softness

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.