Leo Gura

That's outside the scope of what I teach. I'm not really interested in teaching people how to become clones of me.

The name of your channel is irrelevant to its popularity. Achieving popularity is a lot harder than finding a popular name. It's about creating the right kind of content and marketing it in the right ways to the right people. If you get those 3 things right you could name your channel HairyMonkeyBallz and it would do great. Be careful naming things using your full real name because everything you put out will be permanently tied to you forever. It's very easy to screw up your reputation forever.

Mu

That is more survival. You are doing survival. That's fine. But our work here is to become conscious of how survival biases our view of reality. Don't take it personally. I pointed out your survival to you and you took offense (which is a doubling down on survival). Totally understandable. But it has nothing to do with truth. It's impossible to transcend survival if you get offended about your survival being pointed out to you. There cannot be conscious politics without awareness of one's survival biases. What your post did was unconscious politics. Please don't make this about me. I am irrelevant.

@AdamDiC Did you have totally empty bowels? It would kill the whole trip if you didn't.

If it is a miligram scale, then yes. Assuming you know how to use it properly. Your plugging technique is also very important.

You definely need to use a scale to calibrate your microscoops. You have no clear idea how much you actually took. Your numbers could be way off. Some people are also just immune to 5-MeO.

You cannot atomize these things. They are deeply interconnected. That is the chief delusion men have, they want to treat sex and relationships as indepedent variables where for women it is not like that. You can have some quick sex and run off. She has to worry about dealing with a pregnancy. But of course you don't care about that risk as much as her. Sex for men and women is not symmetrical as men assume.

@Keyhole But also notice that the POV you expressed is based on selfishness and survival. A devil upset at devils for being devils. See how this works? How can you judge others for being selfish when your judgment of them is itself selfishness? Hence selfishness prevails and not much changes.

I've known several short guys like this who had great game. Game is what really matters.

@roar There are degrees of awakening you cannot even imagine.

There is, if you dare.

Well, you are mixing survival issues with God-realization, which is a bit unfair. You are too wise for your own good! But not wise enough not to hang yourself with your knowledge of enlightenment. So you are stuck in a sort of netherzone. Ultimate fulfillment is too big of a thing for you to worry about right now. I would leave some room open for enjoying basic survival and getting good at that. It won't all be for waste. It's all part of your growth. Learn to feed and cloth yourself before you go chasing dreams of enlightenment. You are right that whatever you do, life is about enjoying the journey, not the destination. This applies to earning a billion dollars as well as to spiritual work. It's too easy to pursue spiritual work joylessly. And don't forget: before enlightenment, the laundry. After enlightenment, the laundry. So you might as well get good at laundry.

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You don't need a book. Go experience some suffering. To clarify, your suffering must be mindful to dissolve ego. Mindless suffering can actually increase ego. Go do a 30 day solo retreat. You will learn suffering.

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Well, that's clearly a very unresourceful mindset. Do you want to spend your whole life thinking like that? Are you happy with the results that mindset brings you? If not, what results do you want and what mindset would create them? Do you see how your current mindset create a self-fulfilling prophecy? The thing you fear you end up creating by fearing it.

Of course it can. Like heroin or eating too much food. But if you're disciplined, you can put that money to good use rather than allowing it to make you lazy and indulgent. You're never gonna be sick of simply have lots of digits in your bank account. The problem comes in what those digits drive you to do, or not do, and what you're sacrificing to get those digits in the first place. If you have a lot of digits and it doesn't corrupt you, no problem.

Of course it depends on what kind of biz you're trying to make. If you're starting a new car company you might need $5 billion. But I started my first online biz for $2000-$4000. I don't know where you'll get a mortgage these days with 5-10% down. Those days are long gone. 20% is standard these days. And that mortgage will cost you an opening fee and 3-5% per year. You gonna make all that back from your dinky condo? Don't forget, a condo has expenses, utilities, property taxes, and association fees. I would either save that money for a rainy day or invest some of it into building your skills so you can get a better job or start your own biz. The best investment of money is in training. But also you should have at least $10k-20k in saving just for emergencies and wiggle room. Don't be spending all your money. You need the wiggle room to change jobs, move cities, get needed healthcare, etc.

No, I had to start anew from scratch. Of course many skills I learned transferred over. I knew that I would not. It was a stepping stone. A lot of it dissolved on its own. And I handed it over to my brother to manage so I could be free of it. It's very hard to leave a successful business that brings in lots of money. Very hard. It's like quitting heroin or the mafia.

But how deeply?

Judgment, ego, shadow, and lack of compassion all go hand in hand. The less developed one's sense of self is, the lower one is on the Spiral, the more one judges, the less compassion one has, the larger one's shadow is, the more one must fight, deny, project, distract, distort, demonize, crusade, and justify. Suffering is the most direct path to compassion for others who suffer. Suffering is the ego dissolving. Suffering leads to love. It's very simple: any teaching which teaches judgment and fear instead of love is false. The degree to which your teacher is afraid of anything, he is corrupt.

I thought it was obvious I say such things tongue-in-cheek. I deliberately choose ridiculous examples to show humans how ridiculous we are. Before we can become conscious we must first be honest about how unconscious we are. What is it that you do at home which is the equivalent of "jerking off to porn"? The points I make are never limited to any specific example. Think of each example as the tip of a giant iceberg which abstracts out and encompasses millions of specific examples. When I tell you to go look for a giant space kangaroo I hope you don't actually think I'm asking you to hunt for furry creatures.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/profound-quotes-016 That is the paradox of life. All meaning is imaginary, so what kind of meaning do you want to imagine? If you don't imagine consciously, you will imagine unconsciously. Not imagining is not an option. You are going to imagine something. You are going to create something. So what do you want to create? Life purpose and detachment are not opposites, they go hand in hand.

Careful... this is incorrect. Thoughts are distinct from feelings. You can have a thought without a feeling and a feeling without a thought. Thought is also possible without language. Thought can be in the form of images. You are on the right track, but this stuff is more nuanced than you think. Of course language is used to divide up reality into categories, all categories are dualities, and then those categories are reified or made "objective" through the creation of these categories, and then language is used to construct meaning. And all of this is ultimately imaginary.