Syding’s latest newsletter post, How the World Work, is very rich in theosophical and existential treaties. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Obviously, I can’t reproduce it here, but he’s keen on *meetings* being the core of everything and consciousness, not matter or time, is what defines existence. [I spoke about the non-existence of time already back in 2019]. Karl-Mikhael Syding ends up signing his newsletter with the title “Aspiring Sheng-Jen”. According to the Oxford dictionary, a Sheng Jen is in China, one who hears the way of Heaven (Tʾien) and develops understanding, often translated as ‘sage’. Sheng-jen is therefore the ideal wise person who penetrates the hidden meaning of all things and lives accordingly.”
This year, I brought to your attention the Indian mystic Sadhguru . I hope you’ve read my book review of his latest book weeks earlier, and that contemporary mystic Sadhguru has inspired you.
In the beginning was a field…Syding says. Not the Big Bang. What happens is human mind can only perceive snapshots, beginnings and ends, labels. These are our limitations. Past, future. Snapshots of the human mind.
I see this “field” as emanating from the present. The future is made now…and so is the past. Poor human snapshots of reality the mind of the common folk is unable to grasp. The Universe is marching towards its end as well as towards its “beginning” concurrently, because there is no “beginning” or “end” to begin with.
In the Zone (Sadhguru’s latest short video) with former rugby player Jonny Wilkinson, CBE.
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- If you are/were at a large or mid-sized organization (middle range businesses are those that have 250-500 employees) start looking at small sized businesses and startups.
2. Participate in conferences, developers forums, seminars and strategy forums. The more involved you are in your profession and the more you know about verticals the better. Speak to and meet your peers and avantgarde leaders.
3. Whatever your last employer, your best chances are to get hired by a competitor. This doesn’t change regardless of your industry and profession.
4. If you haven’t bought the Book of the Underdog yet, buy it. It is the best, life changing book on personal and professional development of the last decade. Now, 3 years later and into a new decade, the book still holds as the gold standard.
5. Pivot if you have to. Read the 15 Invalubale Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell and The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew S. Winston.
Relationships
All amorous relationships in your life need to be dynamic. We have numerous posts here on relationships from the male perspective: do a search for 2019 and 2020 and you’ll be floored with relationship advice. We don’t follow the mainstream advice on “working in relationships” because once a relationship needs “work” (other than minor corrections) I believe the relationship should be curtailed. Things to bear in mind:
-People naturally grow apart.
-Monogamy is a myth and all the happy couples that I know have or have had, multiple lovers.
-All relationships end in breakups, hopefully the breakup is gracious and well-choreographed, eg. you have a prenup and a postnup.
-The way you got into that relationship the same way you will split up.
-I don’t recommend marriage for men. If you get married you need to clearly spell out your economic arrangement with the woman. No ambiguity. (The honeymoon phase usually ends in 6 months).
-If you’ve made the mistake of getting married and have kids, you need to obtain 50/50 custody. That is for the kids since they need both a father and a mother in their lives.
“Ballooning is almost similar to edging with the addition of Kegel exercises while performing a massage on a fully erect penis concentrating on the lower shaft part and the perineum area.”
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Subspace
I was reading this blog E.E.W. Christman when I came across her “Subspace” post:
“As your pain tolerance increases over time, the physical pain recedes into the background and you are left with an often overwhelming euphoria. It is very much like being drunk or high; your body feels as if it is floating, problems disappear, and all that’s left is that fuzzy good-feeling.”
E.E.W. Christman
Video of the day:
“No matter what they do, I’m like this: I’m not giving that freedom to anybody:
Somebody can make me happy, somebody can make me angry, somebody can freak me; somebody can make me unhappy these privileges I keep to myself.”
Sadhguru
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“Young, ambitious, and insecure” is the moniker for this show which…I’m not going to watch. This is a time waster for me, like most shows on TV these days.
The WSJ did a piece about it October 29, 2020.
“She’s very good and she’s meant to be in these rooms, but she comes from humble beginnings so there’s an imposter’s syndrome.” -Myhal’a Herold about her character Harper.
WSJ, John Jurgensen, Oct. 29th, 2020
One of the dumbshits who’ve made the show:
“The way my desk was structured, you could see your career progression across the room, the Vp on one end and the managing director on the other,” Mr. Downs said. “I left, but I think I would have been pushed…I was really, really not very good at it.”
WSJ
Good. Which qualifies you for nothing. And now you’ve made a movie. Which nobody’s gonna watch.
Meanwhile, I have a movie idea that’s 100% solid and has nothing to do with romanticizing banking careers.
Until Hollywood finally wakes up to making a good movie, I’m re-watching GoT and other movies worth watching.
HOTTEST MODELSIf you play poker, can you talk about the hand from the other perspective ?
In the article, she covers a few things we’ve known for years, such as anchoring, avoiding zeros and even numbers (at salary negotiations, for example).
” Applying this idea to poker, value bets use precise sizes, while more splashy round numbers are used for bluffing (when still at level one of a leveling war, that is — at level two, the opposite could apply). I look out for this one at live tourneys, even when my only read is that my opponent is so annoying he bet 5,075 when I have no green chips.”
Jennifer Shahade
Shahade concludes her article with something I’ve said for many, many years: “too few risks is the biggest risk of all.“
I’ve listed some online resources for those who want to learn poker in the Book of The Underdog. Here are those listed in PN: Websites To Play Free Poker Games Online. (I have no affiliation to those sites)
I was watching an Eckart Tolle video last night where he says that to get out of over-thinking one must have the spiritual rigor to come out of perception as opposed to thinking. And of course mindfulness. Not following the thought. But I want to go beyond that.
“Only like can know like. So to know God we must become like God. To do this, Hermes advises us to imagine ourselves at all places at all time, to see ourselves as still in the womb and yet already dead.”
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
It seems that God (if there is one) does something spectacular, he takes time out of the equation. (he also takes the space out, but I’m not going to dwell on that). I wrote about memory and time earlier (see also here).
Q: Max, what happens when we die ?
A: Same thing that happened to you when you were born.
Me
If you want to be like the Big G (God, not gangster here…or maybe ?!) you must constantly recreate yourself. Come out of your own ashes.
Memory plays a funny game. It goes back and forth, back and forth on that line… Timeline that is… But it is only from what it says, is the beginning. So Buddhists have designed this visualization exercise a long time ago, where you see yourself on your deathbed, and work your way backward from there.
So timeline seems vulnerable to mind exploits, but what about time ? Is time that solid we can’t break it ?
Time is clearly a creation of the mind. How come it is that strong and is always referencing you back ?
It is time that crucifies you. For the ultimate freedom is freedom from time. Freedom from the mind. Freedom from thinking.
The theme of the Underdog, a prevailing theme of this blog, is relevant to all people. I call it a “meta” theme. You see, even a filthy-rich person, one at the pinnacle of their profession, will still identify with the underdog. They’ll say they’ve overcome this, they’ve overcome that, and that they are an underdog.
In Vengeance’s Episode 6 “Chosen Path” Spartacus asks Crixus about Gannicus:
“You knew Gannicus from before I did. What is your opinion of the man?”
Crixus: “He is a Champion, like us. A boon to your cause.
Spartacus: He has expressed doubt towards it.”
Crixus: “As have we all. Yet you always find ways to convince otherwise.”
Spartacus does a second round of assessing Gannicus when he and Gannicus go into the woods hunting; this time around alone with Gannicus he gauges the other’s questions.
In this episode’s ending, he doesn’t change Gannicus mind towards the rebellion. In the end, life will set Gannicus upon that path.
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What is he training for ?
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— Guy (@apiecebyguy) February 20, 2019
These people…they have never been in the arena. That’s why they ask the wrong question.
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