Carl-Richard

On a forum with women, good luck. You will die.

Buddhism is a religion.

Does she draw mostly from her imagination? I used to only draw from my imagination when I was little, and when we had to draw the teacher in art class in high school (he was posing), I only drew him from my imagination, not what he actually looked like 😂

You can't feed traditional religion to a New Age cat 🐱

No 🙂

Did you deconstruct anything during those 7 days?

That's good. It's really the only way it works.

And that's when all the delusions occur, e.g. "I'm all alone" therefore "nobody else is conscious", or "I know everything" therefore "I know what is behind that door". Solipsism, the way 95% of people understand it, is one such delusion.

Is that which is, spatio-temporally constrained? Is is-ness located in space? Is is-ness an object you can draw on a piece of paper? Nopity nope.

I want to be crystal clear that solipsism in the sense that 95% of people understand it, is not non-duality, not Absolute Truth, not spiritual, not insightful, not deep, not worth anybody's time. It's de-lu-sional.

Great, so now that we've established that there is no room, no inside or outside: there is only what is. Done. We're pointing towards non-duality, not "there is nothing outside my room". Are the solipsists hearing this? @Solipsism

Hehehe are we talking about the body being the ontological primitive now are we? No we're obviously not. Why are you bringing this up, Razard?

This is what is going on: when people around are talking about solipsism, you start talking as if "there is nothing outside my experience, I'm solipsist, alright?". Then when pressed on that, "well hang on, don't get hung up on inside or outside, ok?". It's like you're dog whistling solipsism to get the "I'm a Leo solipsists" seal of approval but you're actually just a boring non-dualist. See, now you're doing it again. There is no rooooooom. Omg. "Room" is a construct, a concept, a fantasy, a delusion. Stop it with the delusion. If not, what is the implication there? That there is nothing outside the room, only what is inside the room? If not, then why bring up the room? There is no room. Stop with the dog whistling.

He was trolling when he asked me to clarify. There is nothing inside or outside, get it?

The only thing USA has got going for them is a higher incidence of risk-taking and sociopathy and that's about it

You have not integrated it unless you're living in it regularly, and that's not at all a non-threatening prospect. It's easy to integrate it as intellectual masturbation.

"I'm not making distinctions" -> "there is nothing outside of this room". Nice try.

To understand this, we need to view everything in life through the lens of work/stress/energy. Every breathing moment of your life is work/stress/energy (let's just call it stress). When you breathe, that's stress on your lungs. When you sit, that's stress on your skeleton and muscles. When you stand up, that's even more stress on your skeleton and muscles. When you walk, when you think, when you speak, when you digest food; everything is stress on your system. It's work your system has to do, and it can do it better or worse, more efficiently or less efficiently. A crucial distinction is chronic stress vs short-term stress. Chronic stress occurs all the time. That's the stress of everyday life. That's the stress you want to reduce the effects of, because it's constant. Working out on the other hand is short-term stress. It only makes up a small fraction of your day (1/24th if you work out 1 hour a day). It's in the larger scheme of things not very important (only if you train e.g. 12 hours a day). Now, what working out does is it makes you more capable of handling stress in general, and also chronic stress, the stress you want to reduce the effects of. When you train your ability to pump blood to the right organs, when you train the ability of your cells to perform metabolic processes, to breathe, to walk, to stand; when you train your body to respond to stress, you will adapt in such a way that you will be better able to handle stress. And because working out only induces short-term stress, which again is only a small fraction of your day, and because it reduces the effects of chronic stress, the stress of being alive as a human, working out will have a positive effect on your lifespan (as stress is virtually synonymous with reducing your lifespan; it's your life-clock). Again, there are cases where working out too much could start to tip the balance in the wrong direction, which could be the case for those who work out intensely for say 12 hours a day (which is no one); I've done the math on this and it seems to add up. But if you are 99.999% of people who work out somewhere below that, working out will positively impact your lifespan. This is also why I think you can probably never replace working out with e.g. drugs like Mike Israetel might wish could happen with things like myostatin inhibitors and the like. Working out produces a holistic response on the system, it's not something you can fix with one receptor or one chemical. It's the entire system responding to something the entire system is doing. It will probably not be reproduced by anything, or something which is indistinguishable from magic. Or anything which could reproduce it would look something like working out in a big way (taking a streak from Bernardo Kastrup's "when we'll be able to create conscious AI is when we'll be able to create life from non-life; abiogenesis", essentially deconstructing the AI vs life distinction). So maybe you could sit in a chair that makes your muscles contract spontaneously without you having to do anything, but this also means you lose things like coordination, balance, movement patterns. In reality, it seems like you have to be willing to get off your ass at some point and work out.

120 decades judging by Jordan Peterson's daily indulgence in it (maybe he stopped idk); actually, I don't buy into people being captured by politics not being spiritually advanced, I retract my joke. Any practice you do depends on how intensely you do it. That's really all that distinguishes someone who gets benefits from someone who don't, regardless if that intensity comes mostly from a furious obsession, sheer genetic talent, intelligence or know-how (it's good with a good mix). You also have to be clear on your goals. If you do Kriya Yoga as a stress reduction technique or to become more relaxed, you will probably get different benefits than if your aim is to connect with the most sacred thing in existence.

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxTDxS_l0ARkgt-Mm8Q4c-FezJUk_YS9WR?si=YSoU7Wja1o_5Vg8R

What is With Typing like This?

If you're not Enlightened yet, you suck at meditation. That could be my signature.

Yes I was going to mention dopamine but I didn't have enough "dopamine" to do so 🫠 There is also self-referential thinking (thinking about yourself) which drops timestamps in your episodic memories. And not coincidentally, self-referential thinking is linked to negative mood. I have to think out a theory for all this (I can't actually remember reading anything on time perception). That's exactly what my day was today. Sometimes I thought it was going slow, and then suddenly I teleported 30 minutes forward in time (I napped; that was a joke 😆).