Some people appear confused about the bar for full awakening in the classical Buddhist sense.
So, here's an uncontroversial minimal definition that cuts across traditions:
Anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi:
anuttara - unsurpassed, there is nothing further
samyak - complete
sam - perfect, correct
bodhi - awakening
What does this actually mean?
1. The delusi... See more
“what is a woman’s erotic capital?”
it’s her FEMININE RADIANCE
-how good she feels to be around
-the warmth of her heart
-the depth of her love
-her ability to hold you in her gaze & destroy & be tender w you all at once
and HOW DEEPLY SHE EMBODIES POWER & SELF-POSSESSION
hot take:
the biggest problem many men have, as it relates to their relationships with women, is that they take from women without realising that they’re taking
a lagging indicator: you can't see or feel her radiance
(and neither can she)
But the most crucial part of committing is *not needing other people to validate your schtick*. When you release others of the expectation that you need them to approve of you, when you say a little "fuck you, I'm having a good time" NOTHING you do will be cringe
- notice what qualities, behaviors etc. u admire about them
- notice that u desire to have these qualities in ur life, that they are lacking and u yearn for them.
- accept ur crush is at least partially projection of that desire onto them, a clue from ur subconscious about who u long to become
- find creative, fun, safe ways to embody those qualit... See more
whenever I try to put together some kind of “master resource” it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious
when I write something like a personal recommendation doc for a friend, it almost always ends up being useful for other people and way easier to share too
My most powerful mental move is something I call “let it dance” and basically instead of looking for patterns or trying to control sensory input you just watch it like you would fireflies or ripples on a lake and then patterns emerge on their own. What’s the official name for it?
interesting consequence of this is that adhd might just mean you have a body with more fragments of the computation in it, distributed across society. you are responsible for their integration. suggests the answer would involve an idiosyncratic path