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Listening to a game streamer on complex social issues? That's like getting career advice at a whorehouse.
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That's right. All rights are imaginary. Ta-da! Welcome to adulthood
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Leo Gura replied to JayG84's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Wait till you realize that reality has infinite resolution. Notice that your visual field has infinite resolution. There are no pixels, contrary to what science told you. -
He's pretty solid.
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Meh... Look for better sources.
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Is there any other kind? LOL A nationalist with a global context is a globalist, LOL
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No
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Leo Gura replied to Winny's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Of course Sounds, feelings, or anything else in his experience. He must have some experience, otherwise he wouldn't exist. It makes no difference what sensation you focus on. I use visual examples because most of us are highly visual creatures and our visual fidelity is highest. Plenty of Zen masters got enlightened by focusing on sound. Sound can be an excellent meditation target. As can bodily sensations like pressure or breathing. You can even focus on nothing and awaken that way. Since you are Nothing But it's hard for newbies to focus on nothing. -
I believe I am here because of my hard work and that I deserve it and that many people don't because they didn't do what I did to get to where I am. By definition, anything you have you will feel like you deserve. Especially if you worked hard for it. It's almost impossible to have a decent degree of success without feeling like you deserve it. If you did what Bill Gates did, you'd feel like you deserve it. LOL. And their life's work is helping mankind in other ways. Bill Gates' life's work was to make PCs available to everyone in the world. How many lives has Bill Gates saved by making PCs more mainstream and efficient? 1 million? 10 million? 100 million? How many lives have you saved with your work? You see... it's all so much more complicated than it seems.
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Leo Gura replied to Winny's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Okay, but how do you know that RIGHT NOW is true? Could RIGHT NOW be false? Don't guess. Look at what is true. And in the meantime just realize: I don't know. If you fantasize about a banana. Is that part of reality or not? What is reality? Locate it. What is fantasy? Locate it. -
Leo Gura replied to Winny's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Good. But how do you know experience is true? What is more true, experience or fantasy? And what is the relationship between experience and fantasy? Is fantasy a type of experience? Good In this case the only way you'll know if it's true is if you do the action and test it for yourself. Say banana 100 times and see what happens. Without doing that, notice, all you have a belief. The science could turn out to be false. This happens often. In practice, we can talk about brains as long as we remember that we are talking about a relative, imaginary construct of the mind. We can talk about conceptual stuff but the key is not to get lost in our concepts and start confusing them for reality. Again, you have to be extremely careful with how your mind weaves strong imaginary narratives such as: "To optimize my sleep I must change the brain and the brain is a real organ, etc." << all that is relative stuff. "The brain" is a conceptual narrative which grounds your entire sense of reality. Which is why it's so difficult for your to shake free of it. You see, you've hinged your very life on it. So this puts you in an existential bind. If you question the brain too much, you will lose a piece of yourself. Some part of you will die. And you don't want to die. To you, reality comes from the brain. To a Muslim, reality comes from Allah. To a kid, Christmas gifts come from Santa Clause. All these are imaginary constructs to which we grow attached and which are difficult to let go of because they are so fundamental to our worldview. If Santa Clause is imaginary, where do gifts come from? The kid is confused. He does not yet know the true origin. That takes work to discover. -
You might be surprised to learn that most elites don't identify as being elites. "Elites" is a notion that normies invented in many ways. I don't wake up every morning thinking to myself, "I'm an elite". But some normie might think of me as an elite if he sees my bank account. Often times an "elite" is just a passionate, hard working person doing his best to help the world as he sees fit. The fundamental problem I have with conspiracy theories is that they misunderstand the motivations of people. They tend to ascribe evil motives to people without recognizing that all humans, be they normie or elite, are acting out of what they think is best for the world. What needs to be understood is that when a normie wakes up in the morning and goes to work, he thinks he's doing something good. And when an elite wakes up in the morning and goes to work, he thinks he's doing something good. But how did his family get it to begin with? Of course later generations can free-load off the wealth of their ancestors. And in such cases the wealth quickly gets lost. Trump lost daddy's $400 mil. He would be richer if he just put all that money into a bank CD.
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Leo Gura replied to Winny's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Well... don't ask me. Look at what is true. Is it true that RIGHT FREAKING NOW is all there is? Don't believe it. This is not some kind of dogma you take on. Fundamentally this work is about seeking TRUTH. What is true? Is it true that your brain is imaginary? Is it true that a scientific theory is imaginary? Take a look. Whatever is true is what is true. My opinion about it is irrelevant. You can optimize your sleep without needing to appeal to some metaphysical notion of a brain. In the same way that you can eat a banana without needing to bring to mind the atoms which you imagine it is made of. Chimpanzees have been eating bananas for a million years without knowing anything about atoms. You can read about atoms, but don't confuse atoms for a banana. Atoms are imaginary. And just because atoms are imaginary does mean that you cannot now optimize how you eat bananas. -
Not much other than its makes one closedminded, dogmatic, and perhaps stuck at a certain stage of the Spiral. I mostly speak of it in the collective, large-scale context.
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Leo Gura replied to Winny's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
No worries. I enjoy it. You are supposed to think: "Is that psychologist in the room with me? No? Then he's imaginary! And so is his bullshit scientific explanation." You are going to have to seriously question the foundations of science here. Science is not true as you were led to believe. Science contains some partial and relative truths, but it cannot grasp Absolute Truth, Consciousness, or existential questions. Science cannot ever tell you what you are. This is a meta-scientific question. Science cannot tell you what anything is in the absolute sense. Science can only make relative comparisons between things. Science cannot ever get at the thing itself. For example, science cannot tell you what red is, or what a chair is, or what matter is, or what energy is, or what time is, or what a number is. Etc. Notice that science has never given you a bottom line answer about what ANYTHING is! Start to wonder why that is. -
Leo Gura replied to ivankiss's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Matt has a soft, feminine style which works perfect for a lot of New Age gals. -
That sly dog runs high-level game
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Leo Gura replied to Patrick Lynam's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
We just had a thread about this video. -
Leo Gura replied to Winny's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Dude! Cut the shit. There is no brain in your direct experience. You've never seen your brain. Notice that. This work is 100% about sticking to what is present in your direct experience. If it's not in your direct experience it does not exist. That means the back of your head does not exist. You need to be ruthless here about noticing what is actually present in direct experience vs whatever your mind is imagining. You are imagining your brain right now. Notice this. This is not a theory. This is literally what is happening in your experience. Take your finger and point at the brain and notice if the pointer is pointing to nothing. It doesn't matter what your mind is saying, you must look strictly at what exists in direct experience. The mind is constantly imagining all sorts of fantasies. You must not fall prey to them. Is your mother in the room with you right now? No? Then she does not exist. That's what is literally true. The rest is fantasy. The whole trick here is to not believe your own lying mind. Your own mind is constantly lying to you because it is constructing reality. You have to catch the mind in the act of construction, and stop it. Otherwise you will forever be living in a self-constructed fantasy while thinking you are looking at reality. -
Obviously. This is true by definition. The thing you have to take into account, though, is whether maybe they deserve that power. The reality is that some people are much better leaders than most, and are much more visionary, talented, capable, educated, hard working, etc. I'm not saying that Bill Gates deserves $100 billion because he worked a billion times harder than his employees. But you have to admit, Bill Gates is an exceptional leader and visionary who accomplished things that very few normies could. So of course he has more wealth and power than a normie. And I would offer the following point which most populists will find hard to swallow: Bill Gates is more developed than the average person and he actually uses his wealth and power in a more responsible way than a normie would. If you give $100 billion to a normie they will get corrupted by it and use it for all sorts of selfishness and evil. I think most normies don't appreciate how evil Bill Gates could be if he really wanted to with that amount of wealth and power. Bill Gates is an exceptionally developed person relative to the national average. To some degree. But largely what normies believe is not so much dictated by elites as it a function of collective cultural forces which are beyond the control of any one individual elite, or even a well organized group of elites. And also, elites themselves do not control what elites believe. Elites themselves are products of their culture which they are nearly powerless to stop. The boundary between elites and normies is not so clear-cut. Yes, but this is a generic problem of the mind which will not be fixed by dethroning elites. A mob of normies could be even more cult-like because it has no sensible leadership. In many situations a small group of highly educated and talented elites is far preferable to a mob of ignorant normies. Which is precisely why elites have a lot of power. You have to wonder, how did they get it to begin with? They got it because they were more effective than a mob of normies. A small team of 10 highly exceptional and ambitious people is superior in effectiveness to a mob of 100,000 mediocre people. To distribute power evenly across those 100,000 people could actually create a disaster.
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Hard to find such people. I'm sure they exist, but I haven't really put in the time to find them. Naturally they will not be mainstream popular channels. You will probably find that sort of stuff more in books than on YT. If you want serious Yellow analysis, books is where it's at. Don't limit yourself to the laziness of YT.
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How to get a girlfriend: Step 0: Stop fucking whining and making excuses. Step 1: GO OUT and talk to girls in real life. And keep fucking doing it regularly. Step 2: Snuggle after sex. - - - - - Also works: become a successful leader who offers massive value to the world, and girls will come to you begging. This is actually the most powerful way. But most guys are too lazy and incompetent to do it.
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Leo Gura replied to andyjohnsonman's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
He would see Trump and shit his pants. -
This is just not true. You see it that way because you lean conservative and so that's part of your mind's confirmation bias. Plenty of radical lefties get censored too. In fact, in any given society, radical lefties are more censored than right wingers because the right wingers are aligned with the status quo while radical lefties risk the threat of upsetting the status quo and getting killed for it. History is full of radical lefties getting killed for their progressive ideas and values, and getting censored. As but one example, in American history, socialism has been demonized and censored A LOT over the last 70 years. Progressives are routinely kicked off the air on mainstream media channels like CNN and MSNBC. News anchors who were strongly against the Iraq War, for example, were routinely fired at MSNBC because their views were bad for business. There is a lot of incentive for businesses to censor progressives because progressives often challenge the business's drive for unchecked profit.
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Such as?