Ascetic

The first part, I guess there is the urge to become more psychic in the first place. Like as if it was an efficiency or level rather than a state of being. But being more psychic is a corruption to me, in a sea that used to just be one psychic what does becoming more psychic to psychic even mean? It still does something, but any enlightened junkie would easily scrap a large psychic force without thought. Bliss and enlightenment don't exactly make sense and provide no benefit. Sleep, meditation, and higher states of being aren't much use to something that is slightly psychic (like having a bigger net that doesn't lose things by not being there). Like I used to be very used to sleep being helpful but I've come to recognize that the benefits of sleep are already collected. Sleep feels like a loan taken out, and having to sleep is the debt that is being paid. I know of one psychic practice that only has to do with becoming more and more awake. Like failure in logic even has to do with just needing to be more awake, and one kind of just becomes a luminous ball. But what is being more awake supposed to do? Diversity or any gains in psychic energy are just dubious. I've somewhat concluded that shamanic practices are the best. But even then its odd. It's still a worthwhile life, if I'm not trying to become enlightened to become more psychic as fruit of my asceticism. I worry that becoming more psychic won't be possible in the future/ I somewhat want to go against the trend of Psionics just being better. Like how can you even match every human having their minds linked and awakened, forming into a hivemind that isn't even hivemind. I personally don't see how an old age psychic is supposed to match the psionic might of a human species. I generally follow the route of becoming psychic through craving connection though, kind of like becoming more ascetic and desiring more. Can be wanting to meet with people and so on too. Generally psychic at the end of the day has to do with others, so I try to avoid things that are mine/aren't other organisms to build craving. There is also becoming Ego-less or finding more environments that lack Ego. But that's weird technology and I'm not sure if there's much more "psychic power"/energy left in the environment that provide this resource. I don't want to become reliant on the environment so much or something that just provides benefit because order. The former is cool though, because it allows one to still experience Psychic Corruption. Psychic Corruption is one of my favorite feelings even though I know I shouldn't be indulging into it at all, but craving connection really allows it. Like immense agony and so on, can be really pretty psychic colors. Craving also doesn't do anything or cause any event, so its like an alive energy that you keep through your own motion and don't dirty the psychic sea by having. It's hard to keep that craving though, and never fulfill it, I'm not that intense of an Ascetic that I can keep a consistent practice.

I mostly find it very interesting to form relationships with what should just be Imaginary beings, or distant psychic connections. Or being alive on another planet while still being on this one. Really stretches that psychic appetite. Asceticism has really changed my horizons though, I wasn't disciplined or couldn't keep a straight mind at all before. Exploration is scary for me, never been a positive experience for me. So many hostile consciousnesses that know separation through malice, just like how we know love as bliss, they know malice as etiquette. It may have been because partial noble origins, but I've always experienced very intense cultures and diet rather than the usual openness or blissful apparatus that most take different planes to be.

I think Soul, Psyche, and Ego are different and separate. I can't handle the separation though and only focus on one in day to day living. I'm curious to hear your opinion though

You may actually be more accurate. Seem like someone who may have actually even dipped into the sea or been able to be active in it. I'm very regressive/not very experienced with trave/navigation. I also misunderstood your first post, sorry. I have somewhat of a grudge against ideas like the infinite and the self, so I might actually be a bit biased. I've only been noticed by other forces from inside it/ have experienced the brief connection. I try to be more psychic, do things like clearing to see or making it lonely where I'm the only psychic in the room. Makes it a lot easier. Inevitably all these practices are likely corrupt and I have to rethink. I do somewhat agree with your approach. For me, that largeness describes itself in the endless lifeforms and interactions that could exist in the psychic sea. Being noticed more and more is fun for me until I actually am noticed by something eerie at the edges of my consciousness.

Maybe Shamans? It's weird to bring up but I think only Shamans accurately abandon everything to work OK their souls

If my primary focus of cultivation was removing Heart Demons how would I go about things? Things like trauma, dirtied psychic connections, and so on. I hold up day to day, but I want to be ascetic towards asceticism and there is no reason to torture myself.

I would think the psychic sea is more of the phenomenon of minds/psyches believing psychic nonsense is happening elsewhere. It forms a sea, kind of how like someone experiencing bliss and is enlightened proves that for themselves, it's very metaphysical. Even in worlds where psychic temperatures are not possible and do not exist, billions of souls believing in psychic or the psychic sea somewhat cause it. The easiest way to access the psychic sea I think is to think about how far away psychic is.

The Psychic Sea isn't infinite nor is it the self, its more built on the psyches and powerful psychics that curve things to their might. The idea that there is individual benefit and gain in a sea that is psychic is corruption. Even bliss, enjoyment, and elevation make no sense in psychic temperatures. It takes constant might, attention, and various resources to maintain any form of purity that is not limitless. Have you ever witnessed Psychic Purity that is limited and not an infinite light? The phenomenon of countless shamans exhausting their souls towards psychic temperatures, while not infinite, is an actual effort exhausted and a pure light that is beyond what is limitless merely by its limited nature. These can even do things like make the world more psychic, even while something becoming more psychic in the first place doesn't make sense and appears corrupted. I can go into the corruptions. Psychic (no difference of information/only detail) -> Ego Sea (Ego needed and allowing the impossible) -> Psychic Sea (Psychic not present in certain areas/some are more psychic than others) -> Psionic Ocean (Distance and Difference of information are no longer irregular) -> Warp/Sea of Souls (Omnipresent forces are reverted to being part of the environment) -> Posthuman Era (New Psychic Forces attain the purity of their shell) It is fair to assume, that in every era and change, it is still the Psychic and that there has been no actual change. But this purity can easily be overpowered, and the changes are not possible to revert. Constant mental activity, powerful scars rendered by large souls/future actions/hive minds which generate psychic power that is separate from the universe. All the while, actual psychic might is not natural, it is more than possible to have might and temperatures that go beyond the Universe or creation. Large souls, immortal willpower, and even Psychic Emperors are like irregular anomalies. Compared to these beings there is no stable order in the universe. We are used to "Halflings" or the corrupt being the cause of change, but it is just as easily greater Psychic essences. We are currently experiencing a Psychic Sea, the division of the Psychic with might and skill only appearing in certain individuals, as well as a Psychic that is different from the environment. It is fair to say though: the infinite itself does not exist anywhere in psychic and is purely mental activity, bliss itself is exaltation that has no reason or actual benefit, while skills and perfection are like strange boxes that make no sense. But most people compare the might of this undividable single psychic force to some ascetic force, an infinite/lifeless apparatus or one composed of order. This is not the case at all. It could even be that there was no psychic in the first place, and it was just the Ego Sea, or large Ego's which started all of this. Hence the measuring of distances or things that connotate distance inside of a psychic, are like miracles or irregular events inside a psychic that has no cause or reason for such things. Eventually the Psychic Sea will then be widened into a Psionic Ocean, merely because of measurement.

A Clean Opinion. I find that abilities like telepathy and so on are actually things that distance the psychic sea from itself and turn it into a psionic ocean.

It may be a Mass Consciousness of sorts, Mass Consciousness wouldn't be hurt by its own self limitation/suffering and even illumination of any state of Mass Consciousness doesn't really do anything. There would probably even be resistance to Mass Consciousness being illuminated, what's probably painless to humans probably hurts a lot to a consciousness that is as fragile as its own self appearance.

It could be that, thankful that it didn't take me that long. I might try a practice that has been passed down to me called 'Burning Soul Timber' to help ail what's left behind.

That sorry to hear. I myself just had a weird spiritual awakening that I'm still recovering from, like 2 years ago even. Been a long process of psychic beacons and really pushing myself to learn etiquette, appearing insane from an outside perspective but very useful. Overtime it feels like the influx has died down. I didn't expect to hear or have my mind filled with so much nonsensical spiritual connections, psychic streams, and even divine hymns of Gods like Allah. Things I had no relation to or connection, just bursting out of nowhere. It is comfortable and amazing in some sense, but I actually prefer the feeling of purity and isolation. At some point, still somewhat is, things became uncomfortable with feelings of being watched, ideas of possession, and so on. But I still feel like a lot of it was just inner conflicts of sorts that caused me to perceive or my mind to dip into unpleasant pictures. Meditation does help, so I will be trying those guided meditations. A gratitude journal may be nice, I might pick up on that. Things are getting better, just wish there was a larger cake to eat from, feel like I should be rewarded in "full recovery" in a way that makes the struggle/unpleasant experiences compensated for.

I go by emaciated ascetic though I am not emaciated yet. I generally like the topics of this forum, not the political stuff, online teachers, and off topic things. But just about everything else. I have a few questions regarding cultivation and that's about it. Then maybe I'll become an emaciated ascetic, and not just an ascetic lol

Thank you I'm assuming dawei's posts? They appear to have a long history of posts with translations. I'll study those first + the dao de Jing in general.