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<p>Suppose you are trying to enjoy the sun outdoors, do you want there to be anything obstructing the sunrays from reaching you? </p>
<p>This is all you are doing when taking up identities, beliefs, compulsions, and allowing them to permanently stick to you.</p>
<img src="4.png" class="imgRz">
<p>You have taken up masks after masks, placed it on your face, one on top of the other, and now they have begun to stick to your face. You are unable to take them off without being in pain. Over time you may have even given up trying to remove them, and probably you have even started to accept this mess as your new normal.</p>
<p>You have taken up masks after masks, placed it on your face, one on top of the other, and now they have begun to stick to your face. the more layers you stack on top of your face the less you are able to percieve things as they are. On top of that you are unable to take those layers off without being in pain. Over time you may have even given up trying to remove them, and probably you have even started to accept this mess as your new normal.</p>
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After all, everyone's like that, why does it matter if i become like them aswell, i'll fit right in !
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<p>Thing is, even if you're in a madhouse where being mad is considered being normal, you better stay mentally sane and refuse to fit in, especially if you want the ones that are stuck there to come back to mental stability one day. </p>
<p>Thing is, even if you're in a madhouse where being mad is considered being normal as we have <a href="../poisonofmoderntimes/index.html">previously explained</a>, you better stay mentally sane and refuse to fit in, especially if you want the ones that are stuck there to come back to mental stability one day. </p>
<p><b>In this madhouse of a world where everyone has lost their way, whoever truly has clarity will initially be percieved as mad, but only the sane one realizes that everyone's been mad the whole time.</b> </p>
<p>This is where the crux of the problem is, the less you exert your ability to choose how to be, how your body is, how your mind is, how your emotions are, how your very life energy is, the least control you have over it. When you start making it normal to loose control over them, do not be surprised that they start to deteriorate and break down.</p>
<p>Which is normal ? Is it normal to throw your hands up and just proclaim that you are only human ? Or is normal to refuse to accept your current limitations as being normal ? Are you going to accept being forever stuck in your current state of being ? </p>
<p>Do you seriously believe that this body of yours, and this mind of yours, were designed to produce suffering ? On the contrary, they are designed to produce incredible levels of wellbeing.</p>
<p>Which is normal ? Is it normal to throw your hands up and just proclaim that you are only human ? <b>Or is it normal to refuse to accept your current limitations as being normal ?</b> Are you going to accept being forever stuck in your current state of being ? </p>
<p>Do you seriously believe that this body of yours, and this mind of yours, were designed to produce the suffering you are experiencing ? On the contrary, they were designed to produce incredible levels of wellbeing, the thing is that you've been given a very intricate technology and you don't know how to handle it, It's not painful because that's it's their nature, it's painful because you're not handling the super-super computer like a blacksmith.</p>
<p>To be able to evolve from where you currently are, into the one you are supposed to become, you must be willing to lay waste to everything that you believe you want, need, know, and are. <b>However, the necessary dissolution that needs to happen is not physical in nature. It is of a mental nature.</b></p>
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<p>As you'll see in the following tutorials, the reasoning behind the nihilism practice comes from a minimalism approach but applied on your mind directly.</p>
<p>The main reason for it is that you can't leave filth in a holy temple, because you won't be able to appreciate the subtle ambience that the holy temple is supposed to have.</p>
<p>As you'll see in the following tutorials, the reasoning behind the nihilism practice comes from a minimalism approach but applied on your mind directly. Where everything that is not justified to remain in your mind is supposed to be thrown out. <b>Everything that's on your mind must serve the one you are supposed to ultimately become, and everything else is to be destroyed.</b></p>
<p>You can't leave filth in a holy temple, because otherwise you won't be able to appreciate the subtle sanctity that the holy temple is supposed to have.</p>
<p><b>Your mind is that holy temple, and the filth is all of the identities, beliefs and compulsions that you have accumulated over the years.</b> Nihilism as a practice is meant to be the cleansing of that holy temple, to continuously keep the temple free of filth, free of distractions, free of anything that is not truly needed, <b>so that you may use it for what it was truly made for.</b></p>
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<h2><b>Do I need Confidence or Clarity ?</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>So we need affirmations to alter one's mind, but should they be positive or negative ?</p>
<p>Most of the affirmations you're going to find online are 99% positive, because they are about building confidence, rather than building clarity.</p>
<p>Positive affirmations are fundamentally flawed because they are meant to either puff up your ego, your beliefs or your compulsions. By puffing up either of those 3 you arrive at confidence, not clarity. </p>
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<p>Suppose you are driving on the highway at 130kmh. But suddenly you can't see anymore because there is alot of fog. (Meaning that there is no more clarity at the moment).</p>
<p><b>Do you try to puff up your confidence to keep driving at 130kmh ? or do you wait for the fog to clear up (meaning for clarity to return) to drive at 130kmh again ?</b></p>
<p>Of course, if you are not insane, don't want to wreck your car and potentially end up dead you'll wait for the fog to clear up to drive fast once again.</p>
<p><b>Confidence is not a substitute for clarity.</b> In fact there is no substitute for clarity. You anyway have to adapt your speed of driving to the extent that you have clarity of the road ahead. Without clarity you have to drive slowly, it is only with enough visibility that you can drive faster safely.</p>
<p><u>the Nihilism mantras are not positive, because they are not about building confidence.</u> Rather, they are purposefully negative because <b>these are tools to restore clarity</b> into you. Positive affirmations would otherwise bring solace, puff up your ego, empower delusionnal beliefs, and reinforce automatic behavior, at the expense of your Clarity. If you want to be able to drive fast, you don't need confidence, you need clarity. <b>These affirmations bring clarity, because they are geared to destroy the obstacles and distortions that are in between you and what you are supposed to percieve.</b> Identities, Beliefs and Compulsions, <u>these are are all obstacles that you must destroy on a daily basis</u> to be able to maintain that clarity within you. </p>
<p>Another way of looking at it is that you sooner or later you'll need to realize a series of things, such as your true purpose in this lifetime, sooner or later in your life you're meant to realize those things. But how soon or how late you're going to realize those things? <u>It all depends on how clear your perception is.</u> When the time comes, <b>Will your ego be in the way ? Will your false beliefs be in the way ? Or will your addictions be in the way ?</b> These lightning strikes will invariably happen in your lifetime, and you never know when they will happen. That's why you need to be ready and receptive at all times, because you do not know when it's going to strike, and those may only strike once and never again in your lifetime.</p>
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<p>You may have been going in the wrong direction for your entire life, you may have been wasting all that precious time away so far, and one day, one random dude on a random blog on the Tor network may tell you something that could make you realize the most important thing you may have ever came accross in your lifetime. But your may ego, your beliefs, and your compulsions may prevent you from listening, understanding, percieving, recieving that important message. It is only if you are receptive to the message that you could realize that your life was meant to go in a totally different direction.</p>
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<h2><b>Nihilism: in Nothing we trust</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>In philosophy, nihilism; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is any viewpoint, or a family of views, that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, namely knowledge, morality, or meaning.</p>
<p>While it is often mistaken for pessimism and depression due to being about "Nothing", Nihilism counterintuitively is actually essential to your mental health, especially if you have concretized thought patterns, and reinforced identities and beliefs.</p>
<p>Your inability to control your own mind comes from having all those identities, beliefs, and compulsions. <b>Your inability to control your mind is the only reason you are miserable.</b></p>
<p>While it is often mistaken for pessimism and depression due to being about "Nothing" (but in fact, <b>pessimism comes from negative identities, beliefs and compulsions</b>), Nihilism counterintuitively is actually essential to your mental health, <b>especially because it allows you to dissolve your concretized thinking patterns, reinforced identities and false beliefs.</b> It is a way of efficiently restoring your neuroplasticity, or in other words, your ability to rewire your brain the way you see fit.</p>
<p>Your inability to control your own mind (and therefore the source of all that pessimism and hopelessness) comes from having all those identities, beliefs, and compulsions. <b>Your inability to control your mind is the only reason you are miserable.</b></p>
<p>It's about time you start to take back control over your own mind. What happens outside of you may not always be in your control, but <b>Everything that happens within you is 100% in your control if you choose it to be</b>. Let's take back control of it shall we ?</p>
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<p>My approach to Nihilism is structured around the 3 main variables that can be influenced over your own mind, your identities, your beliefs and your compulsions.</p>
<p>It is composed of 3 Mantras, each are designed to dissolve a facet of your own current way of thinking and your current way of percieving things.</p>
<p>Don't be fooled, most people percieve Nihilism as pessimism, But they fail to realize that pessimism is a also set of beliefs, identities and compulsions, that are destructive in nature. <b>No, these are also meant to be destroyed with the following practice. We aim to dissolve both the positive AND the negative identities, beliefs and compulsions, because that's the requirement to restore Clarity.</b></p>
<p>Nihilism as a practice is composed of 3 Mantras, each are designed to dissolve a facet of your own current way of thinking and your current way of percieving things.</p>
<p><b><u>The Three Nihilism Mantras:</u></b></p>
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<a href="../opus-nihil/index.html">Opus Nihil:</a> to dissolve your compulsions
<a href="../opus-nihil/index.html">Opus Nihil:</a> to dissolve your compulsions (including addictions)
Inhalation: I want nothing,
Exhalation: I need nothing
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<p>None of those sentences may make sense at first, but in their own way these are all deeply rooted in reality (<b>i have rewritten them more than 50 times over the course of the last 10 years, with daily use</b>). There is a way to percieve each mantra, in a way that makes sense, <u>to give it additional weight as a fundamental reality that shouldn't be forgotten</u>, upon mentally uttering them. </p>
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<li><a href="../sum-nihil/index.html">Sum Nihil</a>: Do you truly matter in the grand scheme of things? Among 8 billion humans, Are you truly as special as you think ?</li>
<li><a href="../scio-nihil/index.html">Scio Nihil</a>: How can you possibily know anything at all ? Do you realize the magnitude of your own ignorance ?</li>
<li><a href="../scio-nihil/index.html">Scio Nihil</a>: How can you possibily know anything at all ? Do you realize the magnitude of how little you truly know ?</li>
<li><a href="../opus-nihil/index.html">Opus Nihil</a>: What is it that you truly want ? What is it that you truly need ? What do you even need to survive ?</li>
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<p>All you need to make use of them is to sit comfortably in one place, to close your eyes, and to intentionally and repeatedly, mentally utter each sentence in synchronisation with your breath.</p>
<p>Each thought being mentally uttered, must last the entire duration of the Inhalation or Exhalation. Given the level of focus it takes to maintain it over long stretches of time, if you are doing it correctly, you shouldn't be able to fall asleep while doing it, especially if you are intentionally slowing down your breath the whole time.</p>
<p><b>Each thought being mentally uttered, must last the entire duration of the Inhalation or Exhalation.</b> Given the level of focus it takes to maintain it over long stretches of time, if you are doing it correctly, you shouldn't be able to fall asleep while doing it, especially if you are intentionally slowing down your breath the whole time.</p>
<p>Give it a solid try (do it <b>once a day for at least 5 minutes at a time</b>) if your mind hasn't stopped producing internal suffering for a long time. </p>
<p>One of the first signs that this is working, is if when you stop uttering the mantras, and just breathe normally without eyes still closed, <b>your mind should be able to remain at ease, without thinking unecessarily.</b></p>
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<p> You will be able to enjoy the sunrise in the morning, you may rediscover small things that you may have forgotten about, such as how beautiful nature can be, and how peaceful it can be. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that this is to remain a daily practice, it can be practiced whenever you have a few minutes to sit by yourself, quietly with your eyes closed. </p>
<p> Over time, once again you will be able to enjoy the sunrise in the morning, you may rediscover small things that you may have forgotten about, such as how beautiful nature can be, and how peaceful it can be. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that this is not a one-time deal, this is to remain a daily practice, it can be practiced whenever you have a few minutes to sit by yourself, quietly with your eyes closed. At least 5 minutes a day, but ideally 20 minutes in total.</p>
<p>Make no mistake, it is very easy to fall back in the trap of being identified with things that you are not, believe things that you do not truly know, and fall into new compulsory behaviors. But at least when you are taking a break from the madness, you are able to see when you are stepping into it and when you are stepping out of it.</p>
<p><b>The virtue in annihilating everything that is not truly you, is because in the end, Only the real you will remain</b>, and the real you, while being ineffable, and impossible to describe with words, is perfect in every way.</p>

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<h1>Opus Nihil: Dissolving Compulsions </h1>
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I want nothing, I need nothing
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<p>In this tutorial we're going to take a look at the first Nihilism mantra that you need to know, as it is the one that will help you regain, maintain and reinforce your ability to control yourself, as it is a crucial tool to have in order to be able to unwind addictions, in order to move from compulsive behavior, towards conscious action.</p>
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<p>Before you indulged and abused all of those dopamine releasing poisons, you might have felt pleasure, perhaps even joy from looking at the sunset, from looking at nature, and all the mundane things in life. But after you start to indulge in bigger and bigger dopamine releases (meaning feeling increasingly more pleasure), <b>you end up desensitivizing yourself</b></p>
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<p>When you have such a huge caliber to shoot yourself in the head with, to feel that pleasure you seek, nothing else can compare anymore, you won't feel any pleasure from anything else. The brain will anyway adapt to it and gradually, you will feel less and less pleasure coming from the same activity. <b>You are essentially reducing your ability to appreciate the world more and more, the more you seek pleasure.</b> </p>
<p>You need to realize that <b>to pleasure seeking is a path of self-destruction.</b> All the joy, grief, pleasure, pain, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything else you have felt so far, you have experienced from within yourself, you ARE able to generate those yourself and control them, without stimulation from the outside. <u>You are supposed to produce that wellbeing from within yoursel,</u> <b>True lasting joy and wellbeing will never come from the outside, it has to come from within you.</b></p>
<p>You need to realize that <b>pleasure seeking is a path of self-destruction.</b> All the joy, grief, pleasure, pain, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything else you have felt so far, you have experienced from within yourself, you ARE able to generate those yourself and control them, without stimulation from the outside. <u>You are supposed to produce that wellbeing from within yourself,</u> <b>True and lasting joy and wellbeing will never come from the outside, it has to come from within you.</b></p>
<p>Hell, why do you think everyone has cannabinoid receptors in their brains right now ? Do you seriously think our ancestors were getting stoned ? On the contrary, it is the brain that is supposed to produce those chemicals from within, rather than ingesting it from the outside..</p>
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<p>In short, to expel the poisonous identities, beliefs and addictions (since your mind isn't supposed to be society's garbage bin), you must spend at least 5 minutes every day, (ideally 20 minutes a day) repeating those mantras in your head.</p>
<p><a href="../opus-nihil/index.html">Opus Nihil</a> is about dissolving addictions and compulsions, allowing you to remain still and feeling whole.</p>
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I want nothing, I need nothing
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<p><a href="../scio-nihil/index.html">Scio Nihil</a> is about making you realize that it doesnt matter how much you know, there is always more to know, that way you won't ever be bored or arrogant again, everyday will feel like yet a new adventure.</p>
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I know nothing, I know nothing else
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<p><a href="../sum-nihil/index.html">Sum Nihil</a> is about putting you back in your place since you are a very tiny happening in the universe, Effectively bringing back humility into you and making sure that you are no longer in the way of your own actions.</p>
<p>These 3 mantras are all tools to restore clarity into you. <b>Clarity is when there are no obstacles in between you and what you want to percieve.</b> Identities, Beliefs and Addictions, <u>these are are all obstacles that you must destroy on a daily basis</u> to be able to maintain that clarity within you. </p>
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I am nothing, I am noone
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<p>As <a href="../nihilism/index.html">explained in the Nihilism tutorial</a>, contrary to most mantras/affirmations you're going to find online, the Nihilism mantras are not about building confidence (positive affirmations), but rather, <b>these are tools to restore clarity (negative affirmations)</b> into you. Positive affirmations would otherwise bring solace, puff up your ego, empower delusionnal beliefs, and reinforce automatic behavior, at the expense of your Clarity. On the other hand, <b>these affirmations bring clarity, because they are geared to destroy the obstacles and distortions that are in between you and what you are supposed to percieve.</b> Identities, Beliefs and Addictions, <u>these are are all obstacles that you must destroy on a daily basis</u> to be able to maintain that clarity within you. </p>
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<p>Once you have managed to take your mind out of that poison being spilled everywhere in the world, you'll be able to realize everyone else that's still hooked up on it. But the thing is, the individual has to be willing to expel the poison, it must come from their own individual will, you cannot force them from the outside, it has to come from within them aswell.</p>
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<h1>Scio Nihil: Dissolving Beliefs </h1>
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I know nothing, I know nothing else
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<p>In this tutorial we're going to take a look at the second Nihilism mantra that you need to know, as it is the one that will ensure you remain open to the possibility of knowing. It is used to trim away beliefs, to be able to undo all distortions that one may have upon his own perception.</p>
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<p>These sentences are uttered out of the sense that no matter how much you believe you know, you ultimately cannot know more than an insignificant portion of the existance, if at all you are capable of knowing something.</p>
<p>When even an atom you are unable to know in it's entirety, how can you ever pretend you know anything from there? It is a fundamental reality that people keep forgetting or intentionally ignore.</p>
<p>To bring back the awareness of your own ignorance is fundamental. To be able to know anything, one must first admit that they don't know. Those that pretend to know, for them the possibility of knowing is not even there. </p>
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"Ignorant of your own ignorance. You no longer interest me."
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<p>Once the awareness of your own ignorance is brought back into you, as a reality that you keep close to you every day, you'll feel a burning longing to know in you. It may be uncomfortable at first, but that's how it is.</p>
<p>This mantra is not there to reject the possibility of knowing, <b>but rather it is there to remind you that there is always more to know</b>, Like what was explained at the top with the Ocean and bucket analogy, your mind is like a Bucket, and all of the whole world's knowledge is like an ocean. <b>Trying to empty that entire ocean into this bucket is a futile endeavor isn't it ?</b> Yes it takes time to fill that bucket with spoonfuls of that ocean (which your thoughts are), so it may feel rewarding to have filled that bucket after some time, <b>but the bucket being full does not mean that you managed to empty the entire ocean</b>.</p>
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<p>Once the awareness of your own ignorance is brought back into you, as a reality that you keep close to you every day, you'll feel a burning longing to know in you. It may be uncomfortable at first, but this is essential for your wellbeing, because otherwise you become arrogant, bored, uninterested, the more you beocme identified with what you think you know.</p>
<p><b>This is especially a detriment to your mental health if you start to believe that you know everything.</b> If you start to think that there is nothing more to know, it means that you are rejecting the entire universe and it's countless possibilities. However, if on the contrary you are constantly aware that there is more to know, there will be wonder, curiosity, adventure, it will be impossible to stay bored! <b>This mantra is there to make sure that you stop stagnating.</b> There is always more to know, Always more to explore, Always more to discover, and you can't ever reject that objective truth. </p>
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<h2><b>Chess: Lessons in Humility</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>To practice staying humble you should try playing chess for a while:</p>
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<p>On the surface, chess looks trivial, 64 squares, a few sets of pieces, and whoever checkmates the other first wins. But when you start to dig a little, there are so many different skill levels in Chess, that you can spend your entire life trying to master it and still not attain 100% precision in every game.</p>
<p>On the surface, chess looks trivial, 64 squares, a few sets of pieces, and whoever checkmates the other first wins. But when you start to dig into it, you'll realize that there are so many different skill levels in Chess, that you can spend your entire life trying to master it and still not attain 100% precision in every game.</p>
<p>The game is immensely beautiful by it's sheer complexity, despite looking like a trivial game on the surface. <b>at times you will be convinced that you are doing the right thing, but against a stronger opponent, your beliefs are invariably going to be shattered,</b> leaving you scrambling to find a way out of your own mess, many times in disbelief.</p>
<p>The game is immensely beautiful by it's sheer complexity, despite looking like a trivial game on the surface. The total number of possible games in chess is 10 to the power of 120, which is superior to the number of atoms in the universe. <b>At times you will be convinced that you are doing the right thing, but against a stronger opponent, your beliefs are invariably going to be shattered,</b> leaving you scrambling to find a way out of your own mess, many times in disbelief.</p>
<p>A little reminder that there is always more to learn, always a new niche technique and pattern to learn, some of which can be truly challenging to comprehend, and remember. So don't hesitate to sign up on <a href="https://lichess.org">lichess</a>, play some games and get better at calculating and pattern recognition by doing your daily <a href="https://lichess.org/training">chess puzzles</a>. You may win over 10 noobs and call yourself the best, but when a real pro comes in and teaches you a lesson, not everyone has the humility to sit down and listen, <a href="../sum-nihil/index.html">especially if their ego is in the way of their own improvement</a>.</p>
<p>In short, there is always something more to learn, and since you do not know when lightning is about to strike, you need to remain open to the possibility of learning and knowing more at all times. <b>Stay aware of your own ignorance at all times, and stay humble especially when your beliefs are being destroyed, because that's when you are coming back to reality.</b></p>
<p>In short, there is always something more to learn, and since you do not know when lightning is about to strike, you need to remain open to the possibility of learning and knowing more at all times. <b>Stay aware of your own ignorance at all times, because staying humble is what will allow you to remain grateful when your beliefs are being destroyed, Returning to reality is the goal, not leaving it.</b></p>
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<h1>Sum Nihil: Dissolving the Self </h1>
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I am nothing, I am noone
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<p>In this tutorial we're going to take a look at the third nihilism mantra, which the most important one. It's purpose is manifold, where you are trimming away all of the false identities you have picked up, releasing your intellect from being a chaotic mess, and undoing the remaining perception distortions you may still have, to restore the clarity you once had.</p>
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