Leo Gura

Sounds like your passion lies in spirituality. So follow that.

Looks great!

@Jcent To do what? A solo retreat? Maybe start off by doing a 2 or 4 week solo retreat and see how that goes. That shouldn't cost you too much. After that re-evaluate your results and priorities. No one can tell you what's worthwhile for you but you. It's always smart to make small strategic bets and testing the waters before going all-in. Do a 1-week program before you sign up for something that's months long. Most retreat centers have short 1-week programs to get you a feel for the place and people.

I never said going to the gym is against consciousness work. I was talking about the gym rat types who create an identity out of going to the gym. Do you even lift, bro? This is extremely common. Unconscious survival strategies tend to backfire and become self-destructive. They lack the intelligence necessary to navigate out of a complex situation. When it comes to improving with women, the RedPill/MGTOW/incel survival strategy is to blame women for that man's problems. It's the victim strategy. This is a very effective strategy for staying your old self. See, if incels and such took full responsibility for their problems they would have to admit that their inner game is the problem. This would mean lots of work to fix it, and if you failed, it would be on you. It would mean you're weak or lazy or unintelligent. This is difficult for the ego to accept and deal with. Instead the ego would much rather not change and blame someone else: women, society, feminists, SJWs, etc. This quickly becomes an appealing ideological position, similar to radical Islamic sects. Getting good with women can be very emotionally challenging. So most incels instead create elaborate victim narratives and justify those narratives with bro science. Then they don't actually have to go out and talk to girls. They can sit at home and make toxic online posts against feminists. Of course this will not effectively resolve their problem. But they are not conscious enough to see that. They are addicted to their fear-based, hate-based ideology. The ego gets off on it. Admitting that you've wasted years of your life subscribed to a false, egotistical ideology is too much to admit for most incels. So they double-down on it and attack even more. Yes, the ego-mind will try to co-opt glimpses of Truth/Being for its own purposes. Which is why the most advanced spiritual teachings have typically been held secret, only revealed to qualified, mature, serious students under the expert guidance of a master. Truth is prior to logic, so logic must always be subservient to it. You can have Truth without logic, but you can't have logic without Truth.

You can't become totally limitless so long as you have a human body. Being human is a very particular limited thing. You cannot escape that entirely until physical death. The purpose is that you are experiencing what it's like to be human. Until that runs out.

Keep in mind that in many of these places you actually spend more time working, cooking, cleaning, socializing, etc. than meditating. If you want the most effective and direct path, find a cabin in the woods and live there for 6 months by yourself. Then you can get some real work done. Even just 1 month totally solo will be life-changing. The deepest work is done solo, where you have zero social obligations. All you gotta do is handle your food, water, and cleaning.

Well, I can't tell you what is right for you. But it sounds like you've simply not done enough work/experience with it. Remember, that relationships are what you make of them. If you put in no enthusiasm you will get none back. Maybe you just want to be a celibate monk. I dunno. That's a fine path, if that's what you truly want. But for most people intimate relationships are the way to go. You can always become a celibate monk later in life after you gain more experience with relationships & sex. I think becoming a monk is only proper for very serious people who know what they're doing. It's not right for most ordinary folks.

To be an effective Bodhisattva one must be enlightened. Holding off one's own enlightenment is not the proper understanding of how to be a Bodhisattva. Christ and The Buddha are prime examples of how to do it right. They did not hold off their enlightenments. Trying to save the world while one is unenlightened is a dangerous game to play. One needs to be firmly rooted in Truth & Love, with minimal ego and shadow.

Well, you'll need an army larger than Hitler's to enforce that.

I don't know what you mean. Give an example.

Here's a meta-thing for you guys to notice: All your opinions about gender are a function of your survival. Because gender is central to your identity. None of these opinions have anything to do with truth or reality, but rather about self-definition. Notice that. Gender is one of those hot-button issues like religion or politics because it's so central to one's fabricated identity. The more fabricated a thing is, the more it must be defended, argued, and justified. Your opinions will be precisely whatever helps you survive and get your needs met. That's what opinions are!

The milk is literally poison.

No, you're being sloppy. Stop speculating about it and actually OBSERVE what is and isn't survival. This is not a matter of theory. Sweet!

Our culture these days does not teach discipline. Life has become too easy. You are addicted to sucking on society's tits.

He is thinking about the cartoon caricature that people like JP and the right-wing have made out of feminism.

There are many levels to contemplation. At the simplist levels it's just asking yourself questions.

@Garuda Try to lead 1 billion people politically and let's see how pious your life looks. Living in a cave is not a serious test of what life can throw at you. Nor does a person have to match Ramana to be amazing. People are amazing in different ways.

In that case your mind should be very open.

I still meditate.

Do not equate feminism with Red Pill or incels. Feminists are much more evolved. You speak of feminism yet you've never actually studied it.

That might be wise. Being limited to a university campus is not all that great. Remember, many of the greatest scientists were not professors in academia. Many were independent. You can make an even bigger impact without all the institutional red tape and orthodoxy. No one is stopping you from changing the world but yourself. Also broaden your notion of what "science" is. Science is much bigger than what goes on in universities. The highest forms of science do not exist in universities at all! Universities are corporate machines.

Yes indeed. What they need is love.

Actually you are NOT free to die, since God cannot die. That's the only thing you cannot ever do. What you can do is realize death is an illusion.

Psychedelics can be a great way to take your growth to a whole new level. But also don't neglect your sexual needs. At your age sex is healthy and good. Just do it responsibly. Get you fill of it. Get a girlfriend. Enjoy it for fucks sake. You're only human. You ain't ready to be saint just yet. Burn through some of your karma. You're young. You've got time. Don't view sex as a dirty, bad, or unholy thing. Sex is very holy when done right. Even masturbating is holy! Enjoy it. Stop judging yourself for it. Watching some porn is not going to destroy your life or even keep you from awakening. Remember, all sex is masturbation. Since there is only one entity is existence. Sex with anyone other than yourself is metaphysically impossible! Lol

Human history is just an uninterrupted catalogue of devirly, and it is still being written today. And the historians documenting the devirly are devils too!