自我否定也是一種自我沉溺。其實那可能是最危險的一種沉溺，因為你自以為正在做偉大的事，但事實上只是將注意力，完全鎖在自己身上而已。

比方說，健身狂以潔淨的飲食為傲。他們跟朋友出去吃飯時，只點沙拉、喝白開水，而別人都吃炸雞翅和披薩，因此他們會覺得在道德上高人一等。

健身其實完全是自我中心的追求。要驗證這點，你只需要在腦中做個簡單的思想實驗。要是你到了一個無人島，沒有旁人會注意你的肉體美學，這樣你的目標會改變嗎？你還會像現在訓練得一樣勤，追求一樣的外表嗎？

健身的目標，是要變得越來越健美，但同時也越來越不在意肉體。我想我剛開始舉重時，絕對比現在更執著於肉體。但很多人跟我相反。他們的外表越好看，就舉重舉得越勤；而他們的自我認同，就越發根深蒂固，深植於肉體。但其實我認為應該追求的目標與之相反，因為當肉體越健美，就越難維持，更何況人都會一天天老去。

隨著身體一天天越發健壯，肌肉線條越明顯，也就越難保持。你越沉浸於身材帶給自己的愉悅，日後也就越痛苦。就像嗨過以後，藥效退了一樣。

那樣一來，你終其一生就要被困在肉體城牆之中，再也無法超越身軀。就像某些女生高中時，從沒好好讀過一本書，或學點技巧，因為她們光靠外表，就可以予取予求，賴皮一下就可蒙混度日。日後她們的老公只會再搞上更年輕的婊子，年華老去的她們，只能靠虛擬實境安慰自己，沒別的辦法。

肉體應被視為蠶繭一般，雕塑它是為了失去。當你達到了目標，應將它視為一種載具，或一道梯子，讓你的精神通過它發射出去，到達奧林匹亞山頂峰，與阿齊茲（Zyzz）並肩而立，我的意思並不是要你停止舉重，正好相反，你應該比從前更賣力練習，唯有完全達到目標後，才能超越，進而放下。

Self-denial can be a form of self-indulgence. In fact, it might be the most dangerous kind because you think you are doing something great, but when in fact we are only fixed within ourselves.

A good example of this is when fitness freaks take pride on eating a clean diet. When they go out to eat with friends, they might feel morally superior by ordering salad and drink water while everybody else is eating fried chicken wings and pizza.

with that said, bodybuilding is an entirely egoistic pursuit. Just do a simple thought experiment: If you are the only person on an island, without anybody else to perceive your aesthetics, how would your goals change? would you still train the way you do now and want to look the way you want to look?

The goal is to become as aesthetic as possible while caring about the body less and less. I think I'm definitely more attached to my body when I first started lifting weights. For a lot of people it’s the opposite. The better you look and the longer you lift, the more your identity is ingrained onto your body. But it should be the other way around because the better your physique is, the harder it is for you to maintain it, not to mention the older you are getting. 

Each day that you are growing bigger and becoming more shredded is actually bringing you closer to losing it. And the more you enjoy your body and all the pleasure it brings, the more pain it'll cause you later...very much like coming down from a drug high.

Then you get stuck in this meat wall for the rest of your life where you can’t see anything else beyond... Kinda like those really hot high school girls that never bothered to pick up a book or a skill because they could get (away with) anything they wanted by their looks alone. Now their husbands are banging younger sluts and they are too old to do anything else but watch and wait for virtual reality to save them.

The body should be treated and sculpted as if it’s a cocoon. Something you gain to lose. Once you complete it, you should use it as a vehicle or a ladder, to eject your spirit so it can climb on top of Mt Olympus to join Zyzz. I'm not saying stop lifting. In fact, lift harder than ever because you can only transcend/let go of something after you’ve thoroughly attained it.