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This is huge. I’ve been noticing in tiny tastes how much my whole world is made up of unconscious distinctions. It’s really illuminating

This has already been settled in a previous post

Mark Hyman is a GREAT example of Yellow. What he’s doing in the medical field and all the work he’s doing in nutrition is fabulous.

No caption does justice to this amazing meme

@Hellspeed by far the most full of shit user on here. The amount of shit and incoherent nonsense you talk on here is astounding. You talk about how you can heal people from afar, how awake you are (in the most incoherent way a person can communicate), in yet I look at your profile and it’s clear you spend the majority of your time since joining this forum talking shit about how supposedly enlightened you are and you can heal people and all this nonsense. If you can do this stuff and you are as awake as you are, go out and do something and walk your talk. You have no business then being on this forum talking shit and spewing incoherent nonsensical statement like “speak to his chest” and all this bullshit. If you’re so much more awake than all other enlightened people, go out in the world and walk your talk. Put your money where your mouth is. You joined in September in yet you already have 1000+ posts spewing nonsense in yet you have the arrogance to talk down to other people. If not, just be honest that you’re just another grumpy little gremlin on any other forum talking shit and talking big but lives small doing nothing else but spending time talking shit on a forum.

I used to work 2 stores down from his aikido dojo. Awesome book. So simple. So true.

This brings up a question I have that I’d love a more in depth answer on, even though you’ve touched on it in some of your videos on your blog: there’s a lot of different things people can awaken to... Unconditional divine love Infinite intelligence The “mind of God” Ones true nature What existence/life is Nothingness The collapse of the real vs unreal and how life is a dream What the mind is What is another Obviously can keep probably keep going on. My question is more along the lines of... what determines one’s degree of depth of these different facets of enlightenment? As that doesn’t seem to be something I hear a lot of teachers talk about but I remember you’ve talked about on your vlogs on your blog, particularly on your 30 day meditation challenge, how when you’re taking those daily rounds of 5-MeO that you can’t see how a human being can possibly awaken to facets that deep. There seems to be depths of awakening of even particular facets. For example someone can awaken to No-Self on a shallow level and someone can awaken to No-Self in a radically deeper way. Would love to get your take on this matter as I don’t hear it talked about that much

I don’t know why people keep saying this. Thank you. Yes I’m employed. Full time, no. If it was any other city than San Francisco I feel like this would be way more doable to move especially if I still had my car. I’m probably going to have to stay in SF because I wouldn’t have any other means of moving somewhere outside of SF plus that would probably take a lot longer and my dad (and I) wants me out now. SF is like $1100 for a tiny room in most cases (and that’s cheap). I can probably find one of those liberal communal houses they have here but honestly a lot of them are borderline stage green cults but I’ll look I guess. Im just discouraged cause if I did move I’m afraid im going to have to have to live in some horrible area where I’m even more stuck, have to somehow come up with some way to escape being a wage slave and all this shit. Thanks @Arthur. To be as clear as I can on what my vision is (which is hard to describe I mostly just go by examples of others to give an idea): To start, my vision is not joining an orthodox monastery and joining another pyramid. At the end of the day I want renounce. If you’ve read the story of Om Swami that’s pretty much exactly what I want in the end. I have no interest in joining some religious order. God (or whatever word we want to use) is all I want and I want to go deep and rid myself of everything that I think that I am. I want to be free of these beliefs and want to go to the core of what all of this and permeate me completely. That really is my ultimate goal. I want my impact t on the world to come from that place. I want to raise human consciousness, awaken people yes but I also want to share wisdom, Truth, deep insights, help people with their shit and also help people achieve their highest physical potential as well as their psychological, spiritual, and intellectual potential. Again, a perfect example of this is Shunyamurti and his work at Sat Yoga. However, something like that takes extrodinary leadership, mastery, wisdom, know-how, etc. This is the more difficult path but it’s what I want which is both inspiring, terrifying, totally confusing, etc. The easier thing to do would yeah, just join some monastery and do that whole thing. It’s much easier to be a follower in a sense. However I also have psychological issues (for those that haven’t guessed yet) and spirituality can sometimes make certain psychological issues worse in certain ways. As Basho said, I don’t want to follow the footsteps of the wise masters. I want to seek and attain what they sought and then make that my gift and impact. But again that takes that withdrawal. Which is what’s confusing because it’s like “what do I do until that time? Even then, how is this renunciation even going to take place?” And so on and so forth. I’ve thought about starting a YouTube channel but I know I’m going to renounce anyways. I mean, this part is crystal clear in my mind so it’s like “why would I start something I’m going to abandon anyways?”

@ajasatya my dad would have to be the one that would have to help me and he said he can’t help me and he hasn’t even been able to pay taxes since 2007 or 2008 because he wasn’t able to keep up with my moms spending. Which jsnuatbanother way of saying he has bigger fish to fry than help a son who he believes is going to work minimum wage the rest of his life. My mom is virtually psychotic and is so traumatized from a family dysfunctionaluth and her upbringing that I’m not going to get help from her. I also don’t plan on joining a monastic orthodox order. @Rilles thanks. @Shroomdoctor love doesn’t solve my debt and the fact that I’m fucked and have no help and have a fucked up mind. Thanks anyways.

@outlandish I want to give my take on the whole “agonizing effort” as well because that’s actually a good question: Depending on what you’re training for, a few times per training cycle. However, that really depends again on what you’re training for primarily because of recovery time. I call those workouts “see god days”. For example, a see god workout for a miler could be 10x400m with 60 sec rest for the first 7 reps at Mile pace/effort and then all out each of the last 3 reps with say 2 minute recovery. However, if you’re running a 50k mountain/ultra/trail race, that can be in the form of a depletion long run with a ton of vert or at an uptempo pace or something (be creative with how you torture yourself). Or if you’re marathoner you can make it a double day workout where you do a 10 mile tempo at marathon pace in the morning and then again in the afternoon (please don’t do that workout if you’re not aerobically conditioned). Most solid quality days take about 10 days for a very very well conditioned to adapt to and truly bounce back from. I know coaches who will do those kinda workouts and they literally take the next 10 days just running super easy just to absorb that workout. So keep that in mind and be careful. A good aerobic foundation is really important for these workouts to be of use otherwise youre just going to thrash yourself and not be able to recover completely. I’d use these 3/4 of the way into a training cycle. Or you could just make race day a see god day by doing some stuff after the race.

@outlandish I just don’t agree with Bryon Powell premise on training. Great guy. Love him. He used to stop at my old work (San Francisco Running Company). Love iRunFar but yeah don’t agree with him. Lydiard is awesome. Lydiard to me is probably the running coach of the 20th century. I used to be deeply inspired by coaches like him, Cerruty, and Bowerman. Those guys exemplify creative genius as coaches. I think they, like most people that create maps and systems that came from their own creative genius, went to far when they started creating a whole paradigm and cosmology on why their approach was the one true approach... now where have you heard that before?... it’s a common link. Just remember they are all fundamentally arbitrary. The creativity, the principles, and the outcome you’re shooting for is what you need to guide yourself by. And that’s hard. That’s why self coaching is fucking hard and also why self coaching under this rationalist stage Orange paradigm and get out of this world results is near impossible because it’s so tricky. It’s SO much easier having a coach tell you what to do but to go through that same creative process and formulate all this stuff and be the very athlete that does it is hard. Always remember that the map is never the territory especially when you’re self coached. However if you don’t care about the creative stuff and just push out the miles and have someone tell you that’s fine. It’s easier. I personally, since I like questioning and have a hard time having faith in other coaches who take a lot of stuff for granted, don’t find that sustainable for me mentally and emotionally. However, I also ran faster too when I had a good coach because, although I knew more than he did, nailing the emotional and mental component is hard on your own when you’re the coach as you’re running your tempo or (what I call) “see god” intervals and no one is out there supporting you. It takes a certain person just like in entrepreneurship. So keep as emotionally and mentally simple as you can.

@outlandish out of all the training books I’ve actually read on running, believe it or not I find Ralston’s Zen Body Being to be the most absolutely foundational. It may sound weird but if I had to pick a book, out of all the “fitness books” I’ve read and apply the principles I’ve learned in that book into my training, it would be that book. Nonetheless here are some good books I’ve read over the years on running and training: Daniels Running Formula Anything you can find on Renato Canova (search through letsrun.com forum) Running The Lydiard Way Run Run Run by Fred Wilt The Science of Running by Steve Magness (READ THIS) Better Training For Distance Runners by Coe & Martin (not a fan of the 5-Tier system but still a must read) Every book by Vern Gambetta The Endurance Diet by Matt Fitzgerald Mark Hyman’s books on nutrition Zen Body Being Healthy Intelligent Training by Keith Livingstone (Modern day understanding of Lydiard) The Happy Runner by David & Megan Roche (friends and former coaches of mine. Great book especially if you’re getting into MUT Running - Mountain Ultra Trail) Training Essentials for Ultrarunning by Jason Koop (really a paradigm changer in how a lot of ultra runners train. His approach was a real game changer) Born To Run Once a Runner by John L Parker (you’re not a runner if you haven’t read this. Period.) Lore of Running by Tim Noakes (you’ve got to be a real nerd for this. A lot of this isn’t true, particularly on the Central Governor Model but still a good read) Anatomy of a Runners by Jay Dichary Ready To Run by Kelly Starrett Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett Road to the Top by Joe Vigil Endure by Alex Hutchinson Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes (used to do some runs with him actually here in Marin County) That should be good for now

https://www.universal-tao.com/dark_room/enlightenment.html

Isn't it funny and also crazy that we celebrate the day of birth of a man who isn't even a historical character (Christ) in yet the majority of people on earth and Christians believe he is and we operate as though he really actually existed? Not that it matters necessarily. The story of Christ is what's important but still

and of course it’s titled as regular DMT. This is just a PERFECT example of how even these people who write books on research on psychedelics have no fucking clue what they’re getting themselves into and still have so many assumptions. @Leo Gura you’re probably going to cringe

Me watching this video

@Leo Gura you need to tell me the name of this song

It’s your distinction. It’s your answer your creating and putting down. No one can tell you what the right answer for you is. You’re creating these distinctions. Try being more clear in your answers.

It’s counterintuitive that the most selfish you become the less self accepting you are Its counterintuitive that the most “evil” people are the people need the most love

This is just a perfect example of how literal and how emotional Blue people take their religious texts... I grew up as an Atheist and am finally opening to spirituality and man... didn't know people can take it this literally and be this emotional of how literal their texts are... Literally mythic literal LOL

Enlightenment is a complicated thing and also dead simple. If you're not willing to understand and learn and research a very nuanced field, you're in the wrong field

NO NO NO NO NO NO If you haven't had an enlightenment experience, you don't know.

You need to do more research. Buy the booklist and buy 5-10 books on enlightenment. Start doing your homework.

Enlightenment isn’t bound in a technique

The more you accept not knowing rather than seek an answer, the more likely it is you’ll actually truly get the answer The more truly empty you are, the more full you feel The more cheese you get, the more hungry you are (rat/maze analogy) The more happiness you seek “out there”, the less likely you’ll be happy The less challenge you’re faced with, the more likely you’ll fall apart The more acceptance you seek from others, the less you accept yourself The more you gratify pleasure to feel happy, the more pleasure you end up needing to seek Being totally by yourself with absolutely nothing and sitting still is a hallmark test for happiness, fulfillment, self acceptance, and love Success has nothing to do with fulfillment Manipulation doesn’t mean you know how people work Anger isn’t a legitimate emotion Believing the earth is round is not the same as directly knowing the earth is round Everything about one’s own “individuality” is an invention and is totally arbitrary Everything is all one thing in yet reality seems dualistic We have no free will in yet our lives don’t change unless we make a choice Every religion is true in yet they fight over their differences The more truth you speak, the more likely you’ll be demonized, called a liar and deluded.