Man of Zero
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What experts have said about Man of Zero
6 statements · 2 positive · 2 mixed · 2 neutral
Man of Zero involves presence and awareness without an urge to change things
“It's pure presence, it's pure awareness”
Open the episode · The New Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida - #1101Listen at 2:55
Allowing former motivations to become still is healthy and appropriate
“It's healthy and appropriate for, for the motivations of your body and mind that had moved you in the past to come to stillness”
Open the episode · The New Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida - #1101Listen at 11:35
Man of Zero is being without depressive collapse or compulsive thought activity
“So if you subtract the doing, if you go to true zero, so you're not even doing, not doing slouching, you're not doing the mulling of the thoughts. Then what's left is being without collapse and that's the man of zero.”
Open the episode · The New Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida - #1101Listen at 19:16
Entering Man of Zero brings previously suppressed psychological tensions back into awareness
“when you come to this place of zero, all of those tensions from your entire life, all the ways you've lied to yourself and others come back to the surface”
Open the episode · The New Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida - #1101Listen at 23:50
Reduced personal tension can make someone more skilled at externally imposed tasks
“you might even be more skilled because you're less wound up in Your own issues”
Open the episode · The New Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida - #1101Listen at 25:47
Approaching Man of Zero reduces sexual desire while increasing sexual fantasies
“what men often feel as they approach this phase of the man of Zero is less actual desire for sex, but more sexual fantasies coming out of those depths”
Open the episode · The New Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida - #1101Listen at 31:04
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