ajasatya

@Wisebaxter what's an "addiction"? my definition of addiction is attachment to a habit that weakens or destroys you. so there are vices and virtues. they're just toxic and healthy habits, respectively. there are tons of researches made about meditation. search for benefits and harms of meditation and then decide if its a virtue or a vice.

@Ingit very nice. the beginning of the journey is astonishing, but don't stop when results don't show up very clearly.

hm, it depends on how i feel at the current state of my life. right now i'm inspired by science and engineering and that's why i'm reading isaac asimov.

@hikmatshiraliyev how do you spend your day? i mean, what's your schedule?

ok, i'll talk about my own experience and give you an example. god, i love statistics, probabilities, calculus, linear algebra, computer science and all of that. i found out about data science and i started to study it really really hard. then i got to know machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence. i was (and still am) amazed so i started a blog and created an account on kaggle. i've created tons of public material just because i enjoy it so much. then i sent my cv to a company that works with data science. they loved it and were like "get this guy quickly!". i work with what i love and the quality of my work is so high that they respect me a lot. i never did anything to please them. everything i do is because i truly enjoy it.

sorry to say, but that's a very poor way to live imo. it is possible to live in appreciation and to be appreciated without any kind of struggle to make up for external approval. this is true freedom... it's liberating! the hard part is that you may have to go through a purification process in which you'll teach yourself to let Love flow through you. you may become a highly magnetic person and even looking through your eyes will be a thrilling experience. that's just a glimpse of how far spiritual purification can take you. if you depend on external validation for everything you do in life, when will you be authentic? when will you get to know yourself and not a fake entity made up for others' tastes?

@ROOBIO i highly recommend that you drop the need for external validation. you gotta feel that you're living the dream life, otherwise it won't work. what you feel is what matters.

"ultimate self-coaching course", taught by someone else

no. i am outside causality! you're just the kind of NPC that was programmed to babble existential certainties ok, the fun part is that you may actually believe what you're saying. not sure if i feel sad for you or if i should have some more fun spoiler: everything is the same NPC...

interesting! an NPC programmed with smart lines tell me tell me. what's the meaning of life? hahahaahahaha i am the real player character here! the rest of you are just empty NPCs

so you're one of those npcs that give us quests

yes, it is just another paradigm. it becomes a concept when you give it a name or try to explain it. "tell me a zen word or i'll kill this cat". wonderful koan!

@floresflowerscgf i recommend groups that study the sacred feminine. get in touch with your discomfort until you get used to it. the malice is in your mind.

by knowing very clearly two things what you want what it takes to get it then you compare your daily practice with the 2nd item. do they match?

nope. i only fast when i feel my digestive system sick.

5 bucks to the first one who go sit down and admit to himself that he's been arguing here just to protect his own structure of dogmas about the world and himself. bbl. gonna get those 5 bucks asap!

logic has its use but intellectual pride is a curse. the avatar of the smart/high consciousness/enlightened one is a huge trap. this is why true humility of heart is so rare.

this very moment

@tentacion short answer: yes.

@dinesh hi there. if that's not a physiological issue, which i doubt to be the case, you may have lots of inner work to do. the safe way to tell you what to do is saying that you should seek professional help, but i'm not saying that because it didn't work for me. in my case, it came down to a moment where i decided to heal myself. hell, it was the most painful and brilliant idea back then. this is what i did. it may or may not be the case for you, but feel free to try. i started to investigate if there was a fundamental truth behind everything i had been telling myself for 25 years. there was simply a huge pile of shit under the carpet and i finally had the courage to clean it all up. this is the big line that guided me and still guides me through Life: find a way to live your life as an open book. stop doing stuff that you need to hide from others. stop doing stuff that make you ashamed of yourself. if you succeed, you won't need to meet people and put up the mask of a strange made up entity. instead, you'll be able to look straight to people's eyes and be comfortable with who you are and make deeper connections without any fear of rejections because you've finally accepted yourself. living as an open book is living with a light heart. you don't have to be the crawling creepy creature. you can be a graceful healthy being.

elon musk is an inspiring example of how to embrace duality

enlightenment doesn't fulfill the ego in any way. people usually don't understand what enlightenment actually requires in practice. they usually have an idea of enlightenment, but an idea is far far away from what it is. when we say "cut the ego crap", it's not just a mental process. it demands LITERAL ACTION. sell/give away the excess. drop all the dramas of your life. live with the minimum necessary so that your meditation sessions will fill emptier and emptier. implement meditation in your daily activities until you meditate 24/7. it's about losing and losing. there's nothing to gain. it's pointless... if you actually do what it takes, you will feel huge anxiety spikes. you'll feel your life being wasted day after day. no new friends, no new things... just barely enough to survive. when you go through all the emotional screams, when you feel like you're dying, then you'll have the chance to see through the suffering. you may realize what is IT that's alive. you may become conscious of the huge mystery that drives the Universe and creates Maya every instant.

@Valach ask him how he's feeling and listen, listen, listen and listen.

short answer: no.

living with gratitude everyday and dying with a sincere smile