if you have a universal value system, you can do things by yourself

for the world , and have them stand for themselves

most of us work in organisations where we have a shared value systems

re gall - most universal values are not allowed within any orgs

after all is said and done, it's hard to look back on your life and see that you did what the boss said for 30 -40 years, hard to itemise or describe out of context, only common theme is boss said

all time awesome benefits of running - this is the most integrated wholistic piece of information structured as a talk 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ga2jhlaus 

 if you're looking for one practise for prospering, 

this is it it fits the bill for meditation as defined as 'a deliberate doing nothing or something else or goal-less thing to rebel from the social pressure of always doigg something that is tangible and for others" *

 it helps to build different neurons and diversify your identity and self and build vo2 and stamina in the meanwhile, also free endo-cannabinoids 

 if you run for a month atleast, you can legitimately wear a goggins tee

 you will need to build 'calluses on the brain' , going past the 'i am not doing it i don't need it i can't do it' 

 it costs a month to see lowering of heart rate 

 narrator says you need to do this for 3 months to see more tangible benefits 

 also you're in good literary company - george sheehan and murakami 

 my goals are 

 1. run regularly - don't think I'll achieve this anytime soon, even walking daily brings a piercing in my knees. i plan to shuffle walk run until duration goes up 

 2. bring heart rates down from close-to-max rate to the 60 or 40 that sheehan mentions 

 3. get off the aflame-amygdala train 

 4. be able to take office out of my head and do other things

 i suppose calisthenics and pushups and core crunches will follow in eventually as rest of the body remains disharmoniously flabby and flappy as the lowers firm up 

 imma gonna chase heart points until i develop wind (like bruce lee said) - walking running/jogging skipping stairs etc 

 asana for recovery and evolution. goggins does 2 hrs. kareem abdul jabbar does it 

home cooking and meal planning as the way to get off snack-fat train and grow good tissue. 

 muscles are nice, yoga sutras by bks iyengar is nice, sarvapriyananda's raja yoga lecture is nice, but later 

 * mens sana in corpore sano *

your ambition for a project must be matched with your ignorance otherwise you are aiming low, fishing in your home pond crusading in your backyard you need to lose sight of the shore

explore-exploit is rampant in nature, like, centrally

for eg, flowers have both male and female parts - the pistil and the stamen

why would the flower need 2 ? quite simply, nature prefers the flower to scatter the male seed across 

it's not a one-shot thing but a two-step process - variety is built in, and some of the various survive. without variety, lines might end

the pistil does the exploit, of the ground beneath - roots tapping the earth and the xylem and phloem taking care of the logistics, and the stamen, and the pollen taking care of the seeding, as well as the exploring

and while mcLuhan talked about centers and margins, and while he did refer to '...women as beasts of burden as men needed to be free to run interference' , I can't help draw the parallel that women are the first center and men as the first margin

to me, the parallel to women=exploit and men =explore seems obvious at this point. extending to humans, the women only has the X chromosomes, while the male has the XY chromosomes

this also explains why women age fast once their birthing years are over while men don't, and can create viable 'seed' well into their old age (not all, but enough)

looks like nature wants men to scatter their seed all around...

 everytime i open up to you

something big and meaningful 

dies within me

from ranprieur (the man is a treasure)

 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/oscar-wilde-the-soul-of-man-under-socialism

"The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody."

( here 'presses so hardly' means 'presses so hard' )

this is a line we've never departed from, all discussions about individuality happen in the context of the current econo-political scene, and is a reaction and adjustment to it, rather than a separate existence

sora made these

 

be realistic, plan for a miracle !

 religion, or rather, spirituality is that irrationality that forms the centre of our being

rationally there is no reason for existing

irrationally, there are many, varying from "you're here, might as well go on to the next one " all the way to "God put me here with purpose and ability and there's His work to be done, and tax rebates to be collected"

"i like it here" is somewhere in the middle

that irrationality is the  root from which many shoots of being stem ( yes, i know)

art, skill, will, achievements, arete, rationality .....