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  2. That's a step. Your story shows that you're a serious guy, that you're on a serious path. Little by little, your reality and the reality around you become equalized and cleansed. It's a rapid process once it begins. Things become more fluid. Then you begin to perceive the real openness, the energy of reality, its vitality. It's no longer an effort to be here and now, but an impulse to blend, to be one with reality, to dissolve. Open your heart and your mind and merge with reality without reservation. Then you see that reality is you. A shift has occurred. You're no longer looking at reality; you are it. And you have no limits. Then you can open yourself more and more to yourself , until in some moments you are totally open and then you are the totality that lives.
  3. I never saw him in person, but I did watch the livestream of his final concert. All 10 hours!
  4. Haha. It's bound to happen. Yes, I think this is the best way to go about it. Only problem is, most guys aren't going to be disciplined enough. Haha, yeah, it's like when you truly don't want them, they can't stand it. And if you're open and honest with them about it, they think "hey, not only does this guy not need me, but he is also responsible and has integrity by letting me know... I think I like him" lol. I have a buddy who I talked into telling girls upfront that he didn't want anything serious from them and he found out this kept them on the line even better than previous techniques, and now he uses this to exonerate himself when they keep coming back. "I have told them over and over".
  5. Hey @Never_give_up, when i first started trying to overcome my own depression and general malaise I also suffered a lack motivation. It takes patience but if you apply consistent pressure towards generating awareness, you'll stand a chance of finding satisfaction with your life. I started small (and even failed a few times), 5 minutes of simple meditation (no mind, just let your thoughts float past) per day and a walk around the block in the sun, I added 1 minute every week to my meditations, and in time, ended up finding peace of mind. It's tough out there, try to be kind to yourself and set boundaries with people who enter your life. All the best.
  6. Seems that they are a group of people with very low level of maturity, with a lot of trauma, who are looking identity in spirituality. Then, if you are in that game, well, it's because you are in that wave (a quite anxious vawe), and if you aren't, you abandon as you did. Take it as an experience to mature yourself, to understand that spirituality is personal, absolute inner freedom, and that any imposition is precisely the opposite of what spirituality is. An organized group of spiritual people is the exact opposite of spirituality. Spirituality is about leaving the herd, not changing herds.
  7. I don't really know how to explain it. It's like I move faster, I'm more hyper, and something about a beer buzz just makes me feel more neurotic or something. It's like it's more heady, where whiskey is more body. Maybe it's just me.

  8. The Princess Diaries

    Princess Arabia replied to Princess Arabia's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    When a volcano erupts, it just erupts. No volcano management needed. Volcanos don't go around explaining away why it erupts, it just does. When a hurricane comes, it just comes. No hurricane management needed. Preparation by humans and some species, yes, but the hurricane doesn't say to itself I wonder why i'm going to hit, why do I hit these towns and cities, I need to fix that. No, it just rams itself into existence and leaves like nothing ever happened. Same with a tsunami and any other natural disaster. A fly doesn't go to therapy because it keeps buzzing in your ear, it doesn't think to fix the fact that it eats dog shit then pitches on your burger in a grilling fest. A roach doesn't care that it invests your home and ants doesn't care that they form a line around the front yard and creep inside to steal your bread. The wind doesn't give a shit whose wig it blows off and whose skirt pops up because it blows, it doesn't care who is in it's way and it doesn't seek therapy and wind management for its destruction. The sun burns your skin and doesn't give a shit. It doesn't wonder who will suntan today and get burnt, whoever is in its way will feel it's wrath and it doesn't apologize for it. Now, all of those scenarios I just mentioned when they happen, we deal with it, we don't ask the hurricane for an explanation as to why it's coming and we don't look for answers and question a roach as to why it creepy crawls on our bed and we don't inquire about why the earthquake hit and destroyed our town, we just simply move on and adapt to nature's wrath. We just simply say a hurricane is coming, let's prepare. We don't take it personally and say the hurricane is coming for me, or a hurricane happened to me; no it's a hurricane and that's it. Here's the thing. It's the same with feelings, emotions, seeming wrong doings, corruption, envy, fear, accidents, anger, whatever. They just come without any warning. I'm going to be angry now so please move out the way. Who says that. No, anger just arises. It comes and it goes just like an earthquake or hurricane. What us humans do with these emotions, however, is take them personally. We expect others to explain away why nature hits. It's my anger so I must explain why I was angry. I never have to apologize for a hurricane blowing your house away, but i'm expected to apologize for anger arising. Same with anything that offends a human, that we take personally. It's just anger, but we see it as my anger. I will get flux for saying this and it will be mistaken as shunning responsibility for actions taken and that's OK, I'm exposing truth. You want truth here it is. This is why I say humans can't handle truth. The truth is, there's nothing that belongs to you, not even suffering; it's just suffering. Not even anger, love, jealousy, rage, honesty, corruption, lies, peace, happiness, judgment, criticisms, you name it. None of it is yours. None of it is aimed at you. If someone tells you to your face that you're a piece of shit, you will not look at it the same way as if a tornado hit you in the face and tore your arm off. You will not tell that tornado to apologize and that it hurt you. It's the same thing only different object. Why then do we tell the person you rejected me, hurt me, traumatized me, embarrassed me and not go tell the earthquake while it's happening to apologize or that it's hurting me. No, we as humans are different. We have a sense that whatever looks like us is just like us or we relate to what looks like us personally. The hurricane doesn't have a heart, neither does a pen. So we don't blame the pen for stabbing us we blame the heartless criminal for using the pen to stab us. The hurricane that used the zinc to slit out throats in passing isn't blamed and ostracized, we just deal with it and say nature is a beast and we don't blame the zinc. To be human is horrible, it's the worst thing that could have ever happened in nature. That sense that has bestowed itself upon us is human's demise. We suffer because of it and personalize everything because of it. It is also in animals but the difference is, animals don't take it personally. They will fear you, but they don't look at it as you did me wrong, it's just fear but they've associated that fear with something - you; so now they run when they see you out of instinct. (Example there). They don't see it as 'my fear' or 'my trauma' it's just fear and trauma appearing. Us however, it's personal and if it wasn't personal, we wouldn't have to create stories about those fears or whatever happened. What happened just happened but because we have the capacity, we invent and create stories behind those fears and whatever else happens and now it's happening to me, by me and for me. It's a fucking demise and a sad situation - us humans. That sense is nothing but a bitch and we clap and congratulate a baby for being born and cry when we die. A baby cries at birth and a human is silent at death. I wonder why.

  9. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    r0ckyreed replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Leo Gura If you see 5 problems with your videos the week after you release it, then wouldn’t it be wise to not speak absolutely? For instance, I remember a video you made about politics and you talked about how drug decriminalization and universal income would push people towards actualization. The way you presented those topics were as if people were fools if they thought otherwise. But it turns out that you were wrong about drug decriminalization and universal income being effective means for self-actualization. Look at Portland. Look at the rise of self-deception in politics this past decade. People can have their basic needs met but doesn’t mean they will care enough to pursue truth and avoid self-deception. People can be lost in state blue no matter what needs you give them. This is just feedback. You still do great work. Thanks.
  10. Rationality should be learned and transcended - a stop rather than a destination. Metarationality is its higher form. From 'In The Cells Of The Eggplant', written by David Chapman, with an audio version narrated by my friend Matt Arnold. "Meta-rationality is particularly useful when rationality isn’t working well. Its value comes into view when you have seen rational systems fail enough times that you start to notice patterns of limitations to their use in practice. You realize that solving technical problems within a fixed set of concepts and methods is not always adequate. You become increasingly curious about why, and what to do about it."
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  12. okay but let me challenge you with this. how much of sweden's issues are actually due to mass migration and how much of the problems are a scapegoat on migrants? i wonder precisely that breakdown because i tend to notice that there is a lot of scapegoating, misdirected outrage and lots of misinformation that goes around
  14. Thanks @James123, Seems like the thing to do.
  15. You're totally right that older generations "settled" more — because they had fewer options, stricter social roles, and more immediate survival concerns. And yes, material comfort has absolutely led to greater freedom, but also to spoiled expectations — in both men and women. But I don’t think it’s just about "people being spoiled" or men "playing video games." That’s only part of it. There’s a much deeper existential and systemic breakdown underneath this. Our generation is trying to create meaning and intimacy in a radically deregulated cultural and technological environment — where capitalism has commodified everything, including sex, love, and identity. So yeah, we have freedom now — but with no clear guidance, no cultural guardrails, and algorithms that reward superficiality and infinite choice. That creates emotional paralysis and relational inequality, not just “spoiled people.” You're right that “it was easier to be married when life had a gun to your head.” But the paradox is this: too much freedom without structure becomes its own form of suffering. It’s not a call to roll back feminism — it’s a call to build new collective frameworks for love, meaning, and connection. So I’d say: both things are true. People today are more free and more lost. We’re living through the collapse of old relational paradigms, and the new ones haven’t emerged yet. This isn’t about blaming feminism or men’s choices — it’s about realizing we need more than freedom. We need wisdom to navigate it.
  16. Mussolini started out a a socialist and is the person who really developed fascism long before it was adopted by Hitler. This was the real fascism and not just name calling. During the same time period, the 1933 plot to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt and establish a fascist dictatorship in the US was revealed by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler. Arch conservatives like Douglas McArthur were overwhelmingly loyal to the Constitution and served under FDR during World War II. Conservatives could have taken out FDR if they wanted too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
  17. I’d do psychedelics. No effort required just trying to not get caught
  18. Trevor from GTA 5
  19. Freedom from boredom, but you have to accept being absolutely bored. Start by sitting still with your eyes closed and notice the boredom and what it wants you to do. Instead of getting up and doing what the boredom wants you to do, tell yourself that you will be ok just sitting there. If that is hard, I made a small guide for meditating:
  20. I don't have many kind things to say about contemporary conservatives for cozying up to fascism, but Winston Churchill was a conservative who, for all his many faults, despised Hitler and fought to keep Britain in the war against Nazi Germany, when it would have been very easy for Britain to leave Europe to its fate. Gustav Stresemann, also a center-right leader, was Weimer Germany's greatest diplomat, who played a crucial role in stabilizing the Weimer economy and improving relations with France in the interwar period. So it is possible for conservatives to be principled defenders of democracy - even if it's as rare as rooster's teeth since MAGA revealed many so-called 'conservatives' to be fascists in waiting.
  21. My life has no meaning. I have huge problems with boredom that make me unable to do any activity that I want, this is not laziness it's a real problem. Also I live in very bad social enviroments and I need something else to focus on my life. Will spirituality and spiritual practices make me happy? What spiritual practices can achieve? Will they just make me numb or I will have bliss? I prefer easy spiritual practices if such thing exist cause my boredom will not let me do anything difficult. What does every spiritual practice achieve? do all spiritual practices achieve the same?
  22. What you mean "neurotic hyper state"?
  23. Vr headset. There is a player playing it. One player. If you had a collection of 100 videos games and played them they would all have different characters different worlds same player. The player has nothing to do with the video game besides the fact they they are playing it.
  24. My experience align with what @Joshesaid Me not wanting them made them typically want me more (truly not wanting, not pretending to not want) ONS yes, but after that it's typically "committ or no more sex" Multiple times sex only if they see potential long term Women with self esteem don't come back when you make things transparent. You have an mature conversation about it and then part ways Yeah silence signs the contract. It's one way to get more sex but I don't do that (anymore) because of mentioned integrity and more awareness about my own intentions & dynamics m/f There are exceptions of course but most interactions went as above And I strongly recommend integrity, every action has consequences. You fool some girls and then you fall in love and ...she fools you lol
  25. Like a narcissistic dog you say .. 😂 Awkward way to stand and hold a hand while the mics in the other.. homie just trying to establish 45sec of kino contact to unlock cosmic levels of attraction and free love.
  26. Detroit - 6/10. I'd bump that rating up to an 8/10 if America itself was in a healthier place. You can have pride in a place while recognizing that it has problems. Detroit has undergone a renaissance over the past 10-15 years, but much of that newfound prosperity hasn't made its way outside of downtown yet. Very reasonable cost of living for a place with a rich history and a vibrant culture, with tons of things to do. On the other hand, Detroit is located in America, a backsliding democracy with a wanna-be dictator at the wheel. And god help you if you get sick here, since our private health care system is essentially a pyramid scheme meant to extract money from people
  27. Thank you. I was looking for hardcore, full-time spiritual training which MAPLE does indeed offer. I was also looking for work around the intersection of contemplative practices like meditation and existential risk, which MAPLE also did and technically still does offer. It's just that this offering has slowly morphed into typical cult dynamics over the course of my time in the community. It was a very different community when I first began training there.
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