Leo Gura

It's about actualizing your potential. A human being isn't born complete. A human being must work on herself to become great and God-like. This has nothing to do with not accepting yourself. Greatness requires effort. Even accepting yourself requires effort. You only have two options in life: to be mediocre and shitty, or great. If you don't make the effort to be great, you will be shitty by default. Devilry is the default position for humans. Unbecoming a devil takes a lifetime of work.

How about helping raise an adopted child to be a healthy and loved adult? That's not paramount? You want that child to become a mass shooter? Notice how utterly selfish your position is. The reason you feel it's important to have kids is because it's all wrapped up with your ego. Self-bias 101, survival 101. You are just acting out a survival script like an animal.

Then again, it's just a divorce. Happens to people all the time. There's no need to make a giant narrative out of it. People grow apart from each other frequently. It's okay. You move on and meet new people and keep growing. 50 years old is still very young. Ralston just got newly married and he's almost 70! Martin will find a new girl.

@Huz What is your point in entering AI? What do you want to accomplish in this field?

First of all, yeah, nonduality tends to upend one's plans and one's life. That's the point. But also.... You fundamentally misunderstand how nonduality connects with psychology. Psychological problems are not fake. They are real and people suffer enormously from them. 99% of people are not ready for awakening or nonduality. Most people need years of remedial psychological work in order to bring them up to a functional level where nonduality might become a possibility for them. People need to be gradually guided up to nonduality. You can serve this important function. Also, psychological problems and nonduality are not mutually exclusive. I know enlightened people who might still go and see a therapist. Enlightenment does not eliminate all of one's psychological problems. Much growth and work remains post-enlightenment. You are cheating yourself if you aren't empathetic towards people's psychological difficulties. Because that's Love. Also, empathy for people's "problems" is an important part of enlightenment as it opens you up to Love. There is nothing fake about helping people at whatever level they are at. There is a huge opportunity to combine nonduality & psychotherapy. Most therapists lack a deep existential foundation, which awakening would give you. You could become an extremely effective therapist, guiding people from the psychological into the mystical. Or you could focus your practice to cater to clients who are pursuing spirituality/nonduality. Making you an exceptional guru with a deep understanding of psychological issues that hold people back from awakening. For most people the biggest obstacle to awakening is sorting through all of their psychological baggage, fear, insecurity, anger, and trauma. And more broadly speaking, the field of psychotherapy needs to be extended and integrated with nonduality for truly effective treatment. You can be a leader in this emerging trend. Stop pitting life purpose against awakening. If anything, awakening should deepen your commitment to a life purpose. Just upgrade your LP. Make it big enough to align with awakening.

You're going to burn all of your money on a PC to play Cyberpunk??? This is your "crossroad"??? Lol Good luck with life.

There's literally no need to pass anything down because you already are the entire Universe. Your fantasy of "passing stuff down" is just that -- pure fantasy. You might as well have broken up with her because she couldn't shit out a unicorn. If you want a kid with her, go adopt one. My video on Reproduction addresses this very point.

Smoke some DMT.

Actually Beauty is an absolute. But that's beyond the scope of this thread.

If reality is ONE, then it must be unlimited because there is nothing outside itself to limit it. And if it is unlimited then it can literally do whatever the fuck it wants instantaneously. That's how God gets its power. God's power comes simply from the fact that God is ONE and has no other. To be ONE is to be totally sovereign. God cannot be limited by anything other than itself because it invents/imagines all limits. The ability to imagine all limits is what makes God unlimited in power because it is not bound by any of them. When you realize the above, your life will never be the same again. That is the heart of God-realization.

From the absolute perspective Beauty is Infinite and Total. But from the human perspective you will certainly have biases which cause you to find some things to be more beautiful. That's normal and okay as long as you don't turn it into some neurotic chase for perfection. You are certainly allowed to find some people more attractive than others. You're not meant to sleep with any random person. Find the people that turn you on. You can still appreciate people even though you may not want to sleep with them. Personally, I have very high standards in terms of who I would sleep with. But I have also opened myself up to Absolute Beauty and can see the beauty even of "ugly" people. What you find beautiful/attractive is not an objective standard, it's purely self-biased. But, hey, that's okay. The mind will always have biases and preferences. You're not going to have sex with a hunchback.

That'a the kicker: there is no how. Infinity is magic. The key is to realize that an unlimited thing has God-like power.

God save this poor girl.

Such things can happen to anyone doing serious spiritual work. When we are talking about realizing the deepest nature of reality.... yeah, it's a lot to handle. Spirituality has some inherent risks and dangers. My 30 days of 5-MeO got to the point where I thought I would never return to Earth.

It's not about the money, it's about the sense of being significant. Getting $20 mil and then being useless again will just make him depressed.

Who cares! Just realize that you are God and put an end to all this silly religious stuff. Keep your eye on the ball, not the dancing squirrels.

Read the OP to get the context of this thread and my response. All I said here is that a psychedelic can quickly clear up the OP's question. And that is true.

But that's not the main reason I think he wants to fight. I think he wants to fight again to recapture some of his former glory and have a sense of purpose. One of the worst things is to be a world champion where everyone loves you for your talent, and then not being able to do that any more. It's a huge downer to lose one's purpose and become a useless old has-been. If I couldn't shoot any more videos tomorrow, it would be really sad because I invested so much effort to build up that talent and it gives me a sense of significance. But for Mike it's much worse than it would be for me, because I always have awakening I can find refuge in while he does not.

Well, I'm tired of methods that needlessly take years. Why not do what is proven to work?

Tyson lost all his millions long ago. I think he went bankrupt.

Visualize love and success to counteract the fear. You gotta become your own biggest cheerleader. And remember, failure is totally okay. Fail often, fail faster. Repeat.

Geez... sucks to hear.

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Guys, just drop it. Let this issue go. She's new here and she's doing okay. Let's be welcoming towards new people who are here with good intentions.

Playing devil's advocate, actually God is closer to a feeling than it is a logical puzzle. If you just shut up and try to feel God & Love, you'll do much better than intellectually masturbating about it. I think you guys are neglecting the power of things like faith, devotion, commitment, and feeling. Religion can be a powerful healing & transformative force -- despite all it's obvious problems. Religious people are not just in delusion or fantasy. They are reaching out to God in their own crude way and it does transform them for the better in many cases. Of course devilry and ego still runs rampant. But it does so even among meditators and yogis. It's extremely rare to find a totally pure and selfless person. And there is more to all this than just awakening. Awakening will not make you a totally pure person by itself. Becoming God-like is a much larger project than simply meditation or self-inquiry.