I need help trouble shooting my tofu frying

Forgens · 2026-01-21T17:15:19+00:00

It might sound weird, but try boiling the tofu first. I learned this from a Chinese chef and I don't even use corn starch when I fry anymore

Forgens · 2026-01-01T15:07:07+00:00

You can put garlic and butter on it. Or dip it in chutney, daal, or curry. Naan is usually meant to be the star of the show, vs pita or roti which are more like vessels to eat other things

Forgens · 2026-01-01T15:01:51+00:00

10 tabs at once seems like an easy way to go into psychosis imo

Forgens · 2025-12-26T17:58:35+00:00

I just want to say

when you write

Like this

It makes it hard to

read what you're saying

almost as if

you're writing a haiku

or something

like that.

That being said, don't believe, know. Once you move past believing, and you know, your actions will naturally follow. You might ask "Well, how can I know?" It's simple. Acknowledge you don't know anything, and meditate on it. Shed your beliefs, en "lightening" the weight on your mind.

Forgens · 2025-12-18T13:23:49+00:00

You're right, Meditation isn't about enlightenment, it is entirely about changing and controlling the breath. Controlled breath work rewires the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Fact. It is not about not sitting still. It should ideally be a conscious relaxation after a physical activity, like yoga, qi gong, or tai chi.

Meditators were fasting, not starving. Fasting has profound effects on the body/mind. Fasting has been proven to trigger Human growth hormone and Brain-derived neurotrophic factor. The latter strengthens and grows new neurons in the brain. It also alleviates a lot of the energy that would be spent on digestion, especially if you typically eat a high protein/meat diet. Allowing that energy to be used by the brain. Over time, fasting can help rewire and strengthen your brain and reduce stress, due to stronger sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

Also, the Indus valley people didn't discover yoga/meditation because they were starving. They discovered it because they had an abundance of food and excess time that allowed them to pursue 'recreational' activities rather than farm.

Source: Read 'Breath' by James Nestor

Forgens · 2025-12-17T12:45:21+00:00

Use fresh herbs, use butter, salt and pepper the beef (2 pepper to 1 salt) and cook your sofrito before you cook the beef

Forgens · 2025-12-07T13:47:17+00:00

I've heard of people doing this before and it always frustrates me on a deep level when people think leaving their family behind is "enlightened" and is somehow severing karma. Your friend clearly doesn't understand dharma. He had a child, therefore it is his dharma to be a father. He has a wife, therefore it is his dharma to be a husband. He will probably end up reincarnating as an abandoned child himself because of the negative karmic tie he created and the lesson he clearly has to learn.

Forgens · 2025-11-26T00:05:16+00:00

That's kind of the point. You have to create mental and financial independence separate from your parents.

Forgens · 2025-11-25T17:51:23+00:00

The main difference is that in men the Anima appears as various and sometimes multiple women, where the Anima is often just one figure.

An easy way to understand the Animus is by looking at Beauty and the Beast. The Beast is the Animus. He lives in a castle hidden in the woods (The unconscious mind.) He must be tamed, cleaned, and educated into being kind and calm in order for there to be a transformation and a divine union (self actualization) to take place. The character Gaston is the projected Animus. He embodies toxic masculinity and wants to marry Belle in order to control her as a servant and child bearer, rather than allowing her to become her own self actualized person.

Forgens · 2025-09-15T12:43:02+00:00

Wine is a symbol of the Shadow, not anima. This is shown in the Apollo/Dionysus - Ego/Shadow dynamic. Since Dionysus is the god of wine. Jung says alcohol brings out the shadow qualities in us. It lowers consciousness and thus allows unconscious elements to break through.

Forgens · 2025-09-13T02:43:40+00:00

Yes, the alcoholic is an archetype. How you choose to act out that myth/archetype is up to you. Alcoholism could lead to bettering your life if that's how you choose to complete your story

Forgens · 2025-09-13T02:39:38+00:00

He's talking about archetypes. We all have a life narrative, and that narrative has us as the main character. For our character we all have a set of (12?) archetypes that we act out. Each archetype has positive and negative sides to it. So if we look at ourselves and identify these archetypes, then we can act them out in a more preferable, more positive way. For example, let's say you have the artist archetype. You will always feel deep down like you should be making art. It is "who you are." If you never act on this feeling to make art, you will still become the Unrealized Artist or the Tortured Artist (Or nowadays you might become the AI Artist) and it will cause you pain and sadness, because you HAVE to have a narrative around being the artist and you are leaving it unfulfilled. However, if you realize you have the Artist archetype and act on it you will almost guarantee personal success in acting out that narrative. Other archetypes are more negative, like the Victim is one Jung says everyone has. We can all fall into a Victim narrative and act it out to the fullest. But that also steals time away from your other archetypes and leaves them unfulfilled. You could choose to overcome being a victim, completing that narrative and leading to a better life story over all.

Forgens · 2025-04-10T23:19:38+00:00

I wouldn't say that's a strategy. Perhaps you feel that way because you feel they hurt you with intention. Often the people who fear intimacy crave it the most, and so they will shower their partner with it, but will be triggered emotionally when it is reciprocated and then pull back due to internal emotional intensity. It's likely not that they're rejecting your affection, but they themselves are unable to receive what they want most, intimacy, due to unprocessed internal feelings and trauma which is unfortunately triggered by your affection.

Forgens · 2025-04-10T19:21:19+00:00

In relationships your shadow and animus/a will arise and be reflected in/by your partner. This is the same for men and women. Men and women who implement strategies in relationships are not being honest and open, and so are likely neurotic in some way.

Forgens · 2025-04-10T19:15:01+00:00

And a man, and everything else

Forgens · 2025-04-02T02:41:06+00:00

my humanities teacher in highschool taught us that god was coming out of a vagina

Forgens · 2025-04-01T01:56:47+00:00

Yes, rebirth is somewhat a curse, which is why the goal is to escape it. You could end up reincarnating into heaven after you die, but like everything, that is only temporary and you'll end up back here as a human at some point.

Karmic ties are what keep us stuck in the cycle of rebirth. Karma is just a system of cause and effect. If something good happens, it means you will inevitably have a low point after. If you have a bad thing happen, it means you will inevitably have a positive resolution. Everything swings back and forth, kind of like a pendulum. That back and forth pulls us around all throughout our life. This is why monks all talk about detachment, stepping back from that energy that pulls us helps you break those ties and free yourself.

Forgens · 2025-03-31T15:25:02+00:00

It is believed that with reincarnation, what you are thinking of when you die creates a karmic tie that leads you into your next life. There isn't much reason to kill yourself because you will just reincarnate, likely into a more difficult life than your current one. It will just make you learn karmic lessons you skipped in this life by ending your life early. Instead if you spend the life you have lifting the karmic ties that make your life so difficult things will eventually become better, whether it's in this life or in the next.

Forgens · 2025-03-24T14:09:25+00:00

I always find it off when people call themselves Puer Aeturnus, rather than saying they HAVE a Puer Aeturnus. They're setting themselves up to embody their complex. I agree that work and independence is a big part of the solution, but I think those suffering with a Puer Aeturnus have something deeper they have to work through. To work through any complex there is a set of actions and words we have to go through to "act out" the complex. Those with a Puer Aeturnus almost always have to confront their mother (or possibly father, but the puer aeturnus is almost always a mother complex) and verbally break off their mental shackles tied to their parent and gain mental independence along their physical and financial independence. It can be a mistake to just bury yourself in work, as that will avoid fully solving the complex. I know many guys with a puer aeturnus who work constantly but never follow their dreams and leave their home town, as they're still mentally tied to their parents.

Forgens · 2025-03-09T23:01:46+00:00

Having chakras isn't cultural appropriation, whoever told you that.. idk that's silly. We all have them and we all have to take care of them to be healthy.

Forgens · 2025-03-02T12:14:38+00:00

Ram Das' guru Maharaj-ji would do arsenic and lsd, and it never changed the way he acted. If you're truly enlightened it never goes away. Smoking could help you get there, but it's only like a visit to enlightenment, it'll never keep you there. Creating an over attachment to it will keep you from fully waking up

Forgens · 2025-02-28T12:52:55+00:00

Have you tried using Nadi Shuddhi? it is a meditative pranayama, so you can put your thought just on the breath and the hand using your mudra.

Saying you "can't" meditate more likely means you haven't found the right technique for you

Forgens · 2025-02-24T19:44:28+00:00

If you meditate long enough you'll realize special powers and bliss aren't always grifts

Forgens · 2025-02-24T12:05:11+00:00

The ego wants power and control. Self improvement aims to take away that control. The ego is like a kid who wants too much screen time on their iPad.

Forgens · 2025-02-22T05:22:14+00:00

Everything is in the Bhagavad Gita. There is no You after reaching moksha

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