introduction to this channel. i'm here to show you the way

[@yourzombiemop8259]

Hi Mr Liu, I am personally very much for letting go of anxieties and seeking to exist an ideal state of mind. However, you describe "the way" as entirely letting go of all ambition. I have a few questions and criticisms for you to address regarding your way. 1.) You describe letting go of every material thing (which I agree with), however you also describe letting go of people and relationships. How do you suggest parents manage their responsibility for their children? How do you suggest that you maintain fulfilling relationships? Already, too many people in the world neglect their responsibility to assist their family and friends. The consequences of this is that both you and the people you could have relationships with live less fulfilling lives and end up more isolated. I argue that it's not ethical for someone with great happiness to reject assisting others who have a great sadness. 2.) Totally rejecting ambition leaves you reliant upon the charity of others. Similar to how monks and shamans live on donations, if you are working below your means, you are living on the work of others in society who seek to raise their means of work. I believe it is intrinsically ethical to seek positive impact through your work, such that you genuinely earn the homestead you live in. By this I mean that working as an employee at a gas station to pay for rent and food is subsisting off of the system and providing no intrinsic value to other humans. However, working as someone who develops better infrastructure (in any domain) is providing value to other humans and deserves what they eat and where they live. Just because you can survive working a low-impact job, doesn't mean it's ethically right to. I would instead encourage every person to seek education and seek meaningful work to better serve their society and their children. 3.) Describing your beliefs as "the way" is awfully presumptuous of you. I believe that the human experience is one which every person may craft to their own desires; describing your ideal human experience as "the way" and referring to it as better is reductive and dismissive of the experiences which other people have adopted. I use psychedelic experiences to explore the possibilities of the human experience. This has had amazing benefits on my life and understanding. The chemical I use most often is Dextromethorphan, which promotes serotonin release and blocks the reuptake of serotonin. This causes the neurons in my brain and body to send much longer and more frequent "serotonin received" signals. This has multifaceted consequences including modulating mood, cognition, reward, learning, and memory. (This chemical is legal in the United States, where I live, and I'm comfortable with the science behind how it works - these two things are ideal for a substance you intend to regularly trip on.) I have an experience like this about every 1-6 months to answer questions and become more understanding of my cognition. In contrast to your claim that we should live worry-free and seek nothing, I believe that we should live worry-free and seek the best in everything. I agree that it is ideal to live worry-free and anxiety-free. However, it is also ideal to provide value for the society and world you get the privilege to live in. Value judgements between how "good" or "better" things are is multi-faceted and cannot be described by subjective individual experience.

[@yingdi]

i'm really glad you brought up these questions. i'm sure many other people are wondering the same things, which is why i'm going to be making future videos addressing these questions. thanks for the comment!

[@yingdi]

for now though, i can only answer your questions briefly, without deep consideration of giving the best possible answer. 1. of course we shouldn't leave children, the elderly, and other dependent people to fend for themselves. the whole point of the way is to end suffering. if other people are suffering, we should help them if we can. but we have to be able to help first. if we are suffering ourselves, we won't be as helpful as if we had healed ourselves first. 2. if you've gone far enough along the way, you'll come to a point where you don't fear anymore. if fear can't control you, nothing can control you. you're then free to decide for yourself what to do with life. neither you nor i have standing to tell someone whether or not they should work a "low-impact job." 3. nothing i say here is mine. i'm only showing people a potential shortcut. everyone should do what they think is right. i'm not telling people that what they're doing isn't the way. most people probably need to go around in circles many times before they open their eyes. but perhaps some people simply want to do the same things over and over, forever.