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Post by inavalan on Aug 3, 2023 17:09:01 GMT -5
Taco Bell breakfast ... Let me guess ... a medium apple, half a cup of just cooked thick-cut oatmeal, half an ounce of 72%+ dark chocolate, vitamins, supplements, unsweetened whey protein, fish oil? Most excellent. Taco Bell is a treat about twice a week. I never otherwise eat breakfast, intermittent fasting. I have a greens mix and my without-food supplements 'for breakfast'. This easily gets me to noon with no hunger. So I guess you're also working out on an empty stomach ... |
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Post by andrew on Aug 3, 2023 17:09:44 GMT -5
Gotta go, my Taco Bell breakfast window is closing. Taco Bell breakfast ... Let me guess ... a medium apple, half a cup of just cooked thick-cut oatmeal, half an ounce of 72%+ dark chocolate, vitamins, supplements, unsweetened whey protein, fish oil? lol sometimes you strike me as being a bit British in your manner/tone/humour. |
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Post by andrew on Aug 3, 2023 17:10:28 GMT -5
Taco Bell breakfast ... Let me guess ... a medium apple, half a cup of just cooked thick-cut oatmeal, half an ounce of 72%+ dark chocolate, vitamins, supplements, unsweetened whey protein, fish oil? Most excellent. Taco Bell is a treat about twice a week. I never otherwise eat breakfast, intermittent fasting. I have a greens mix and my without-food supplements 'for breakfast'. This easily gets me to noon with no hunger. Gotta have treats, we all deserve them. |
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Post by andrew on Aug 3, 2023 17:14:12 GMT -5
Did you write this post using such a method? I presume you mean the bold. Yes, of course, it's not really a method, it's just what occurs. Even though I consider ~we all~ have the possibility of *freedom*, a better word, liberation, this is immeasurably difficult to achieve. So, here, now, in all situations and in all circumstances, in all thoughts, feelings and actions, everything happens in the only way it can happen. When I find a particularly pertinent quote, I change my signature. I chanced upon the Norbu quote recently (I've read him pretty extensively, but don't recall this quote). We are just little birds in a cage. I will eventually get to some pertinent quotes on the Yogacara thread, relevant. Is it fair to say that you enjoy the challenge, and enjoy the process? |
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Post by inavalan on Aug 3, 2023 17:18:28 GMT -5
The truth is I don't remember the last time I read a book, and I wasn't familiar with that title but just perused the synopsis. Interesting and most assuredly death is not the end. It's just where winter transitions into spring. That death is no end is one of the few things I'm supremely confident about and one day I might get around to waxing lyrical about some 'between life' memories I think I might have. Although don't expect a lot, hehe. Anyway, I'll definitely put that book on my list for the next time I travel (which is when I tend to read, if ever). I like that it doesn't sound too strenuous.  Trust me, it's an easy read....I don't read either, but in lockdown December 2020, the situation was a little unusual. I read that book and played the piano for the first time in 20 odd years. Haven't done either since. I'm interested in your between life memories if you want to share sometime. Like you it is something I am sure about, though I do believe that the options beyond death are wide (I don't mean the Christian 'heaven and hell' thing) Plenty of sources for that book to freely read and / or download : linkI haven't read it. |
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Post by inavalan on Aug 3, 2023 17:21:34 GMT -5
Taco Bell breakfast ... Let me guess ... a medium apple, half a cup of just cooked thick-cut oatmeal, half an ounce of 72%+ dark chocolate, vitamins, supplements, unsweetened whey protein, fish oil? lol sometimes you strike me as being a bit British in your manner/tone/humour. I'll take it as a compliment! Once, a friend told me that I said something like from "Seinfeld". At the time I wasn't aware of the show. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Aug 3, 2023 17:25:48 GMT -5
Most excellent. Taco Bell is a treat about twice a week. I never otherwise eat breakfast, intermittent fasting. I have a greens mix and my without-food supplements 'for breakfast'. This easily gets me to noon with no hunger. So I guess you're also working out on an empty stomach ... I don't 'work out'. Until about March this year, I had walked every day for 14 months. So, walking is my thing. I have not gotten back into the habit of daily walking. ....Walking any time is no problem. I have accidentally discovered the benefits of ketosis. Burning fat for fuel, I never get hungry, I never have up and down energy levels. I eat very few processed carbs. It is exceptionally difficult to first get into ketosis. I bought a breath meter about two years ago. It took me over 3 weeks to get into ketosis (you basically have to burn up the excess carbs-glycogen stored in the muscles, and burn up the excess fat stored in the liver. Then you can start using for fuel what we call body-fat. Burning fat shows up on the meter). Thereafter, restricting processed carbs, eating keto, I'm in ketosis a significant part of every day. I wake up in ketosis every morning. (That means I'm burning fat, while sleeping). |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Aug 3, 2023 17:30:06 GMT -5
I presume you mean the bold. Yes, of course, it's not really a method, it's just what occurs. Even though I consider ~we all~ have the possibility of *freedom*, a better word, liberation, this is immeasurably difficult to achieve. So, here, now, in all situations and in all circumstances, in all thoughts, feelings and actions, everything happens in the only way it can happen. When I find a particularly pertinent quote, I change my signature. I chanced upon the Norbu quote recently (I've read him pretty extensively, but don't recall this quote). We are just little birds in a cage. I will eventually get to some pertinent quotes on the Yogacara thread, relevant. Is it fair to say that you enjoy the challenge, and enjoy the process? Yes, that's a major part, you just have to enjoy it to continue it. Without the joy, disciple alone won't ever 'get it' (done). There's the carrot and the stick. The carrot is more-effective. But a little tase of freedom is sublime. |
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Post by inavalan on Aug 3, 2023 17:39:42 GMT -5
Most excellent. Taco Bell is a treat about twice a week. I never otherwise eat breakfast, intermittent fasting. I have a greens mix and my without-food supplements 'for breakfast'. This easily gets me to noon with no hunger. Gotta have treats, we all deserve them. reminds a discussion from last evening, about some relatives indiscriminately praising their toddlers (not pets) with "good girl", "good boy", "god / great / awesome job", and such, for any small gesture. This inflation of superlatives, devalues them: they aren't " treats" anymore if they are expected, and regularly received; they become an entitlement, the expected, the default, and not receiving them looks like punishment. I recently read somewhere (paraphrasing): When you help somebody ...
- - the first time you're his hero
- the second time you're his friend
- the third time he he thinks you owe it to him
- when you can't help him (anymore) you're a jerk
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Post by sharon on Aug 3, 2023 17:49:05 GMT -5
And this is a self-limiting belief. A powerful one. Do you want to explore this? Liberation means, first, liberation from one's own thoughts, feelings/negative emotions, derogatory actions. Most people, probably 95%, don't even know they are ~caged~. If you want to explore a self limiting belief, then you have to refrain from using other people as an example. Is that an acceptable place to begin? |
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Post by inavalan on Aug 3, 2023 17:50:21 GMT -5
I presume you mean the bold. Yes, of course, it's not really a method, it's just what occurs. Even though I consider ~we all~ have the possibility of *freedom*, a better word, liberation, this is immeasurably difficult to achieve. So, here, now, in all situations and in all circumstances, in all thoughts, feelings and actions, everything happens in the only way it can happen. When I find a particularly pertinent quote, I change my signature. I chanced upon the Norbu quote recently (I've read him pretty extensively, but don't recall this quote). We are just little birds in a cage. I will eventually get to some pertinent quotes on the Yogacara thread, relevant. Is it fair to say that you enjoy the challenge, and enjoy the process? If one believes that something " is immeasurably difficult to achieve", then so it is for him. This is easily experienced through hypnosis. Many inductions begin with tiring your eyes, mostly by suggestion, so the subject finds it hard to open his eyes. The difficulty / failure to do it, furthers the deepening of the trance. |
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Post by sharon on Aug 3, 2023 17:59:15 GMT -5
And this is a self-limiting belief. A powerful one. I agree. I have this quote written on the first page of a notebook that I write in regularly. "When we go beyond any self-imposed limitation, we experience a profound sense of relief accompanied by a flood of new life force." It may have been from Seth, though I can't say definitely. |
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Post by inavalan on Aug 3, 2023 18:19:30 GMT -5
I have this quote written on the first page of a notebook that I write in regularly. "When we go beyond any self-imposed limitation, we experience a profound sense of relief accompanied by a flood of new life force."It may have been from Seth, though I can't say definitely. Worded that way, it doesn't seem to be from Seth: linkA restricted internet search yielded this article: anotherslice.life/2021/03/22/a-profound-sense-of-relief/, in which the author talks about her " profound sense of relief" for getting vaccinated. I'd say that her beliefs caused her "profound sense of relief", and she didn't realize it, or as stardustpilgrim put it: she didn't realize that she was "caged" (fooled ...). |
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Post by andrew on Aug 3, 2023 18:33:51 GMT -5
Is it fair to say that you enjoy the challenge, and enjoy the process? If one believes that something " is immeasurably difficult to achieve", then so it is for him. This is easily experienced through hypnosis. Many inductions begin with tiring your eyes, mostly by suggestion, so the subject finds it hard to open his eyes. The difficulty / failure to do it, furthers the deepening of the trance. yep agree. Though congruence of belief can be difficult to achieve  (I know, I know) |
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Post by andrew on Aug 3, 2023 18:34:38 GMT -5
I have this quote written on the first page of a notebook that I write in regularly. "When we go beyond any self-imposed limitation, we experience a profound sense of relief accompanied by a flood of new life force." It may have been from Seth, though I can't say definitely. That's a good un. Also sounds like Abe, they like the words 'relief' and 'life force' |
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