Leo Gura

I hope to do a Tour in the future. We have a thread about it. But the Tour has been delayed as I work on myself.

I'm just looking out for Tyson's job. He's got to eat too

@Alexander Goffrier The biggest challenge with spiritual work is that the mind refuses to do it. And the closer you get the Truth, the more the mind resists. There cannot be spirituality without self-discipline and training. There is no magic trick for avoiding this. It must be faced. Which grows you in and of itself.

@Ampresus Do you care more about pleasing your teacher, or speaking truth with people?

@Carlos At your age all of that is totally normal. The good news is you're actually way ahead of the curve because you've already found the most important thing: the field of personal development and spirituality. Most people won't find these fields until they are 30, 40, or 50 years old. Since you're only 17 you've got many many years to resolve all those issues. I have made multiple videos where I give a blueprint of how to begin doing personal development and I give long lists of techniques. Just pick a thing and start working on it. Focus on whatever your heart wants most. If it's girls, then go chat up girls. A very simple exercise is to go to the local mall on the weekends and start trying to have conversations with shop clerks. Try to chat them up. Don't even hit on them, just chat with them. Try to make the conversation last for 5, 10, 15 minutes. Try to make them laugh. After practicing that for a few months, then start applying those exact same skills at school by approaching random girls at lunch. Girls you don't know. Just teach yourself how to socialize. You don't even need pickup skills at this point. Learn to have conversations with strangers. Learn small talk. Learn eye contact. Learn how to talk about yourself. Learn how to tell interesting stories. Learn how to smile. Learn how to project your voice. Learn how to be friendly. All of this stuff has been written about in books and talked about in videos ad nauseam. Just go apply it. Break it down into small actionable steps.

I'm not trying to prove anything to my parents. After all the talking I do via my videos, I'm good.

@tashawoodfall The issue is, someone who hasn't satisfied the Love & Belonging need will not be capable of self-love. Or at least they will not believe that self-love can help because they think they need other-love. So can you? Yes. Will you? I wouldn't bet on it. Learn to crawl before you fly. Self-love is much harder than finding someone else to love you. Self-love requires a lot of maturity and consciousness to execute. Isn't it true that you hate yourself? Think about what it would take to never hate yourself again.

@Kalki Avatar Notice how in your relationships, you never actually relate to the actual person. You're always just relating to your own needs, the way that person fits into your life. The relationship is always about you relating not who she is, but to your fantasies of what you want and need her to be. But the actual her never lives up to your fantasies so you try to change her over and over again, which still doesn't work, until eventually you give up and leave. YOU ARE ALWAYS RELATING TO YOUR OWN EGO! Not to what is actual. You don't give a rats ass about what is actual. You want to live in a fantasy. But you want it to feel like its real. So you just call your fantasy reality. EVERYTHING YOU DO IS YOU MAINTAINING YOUR OWN FANTASY. Every thought you have and every emotion you feel is part of this effort. Notice this. Then maybe you can learn how to relate to things actually.

Lol Your logic is like this: Doctor: "Bob, you've got psychosis. You are hallucinating demons." Bob: "But doctor! How could that be so? Hold on doc, let me check. Hey, demon! Come here. Now answer me truthfully demon: You really exist right? I can trust you right?" Demon: "Yes, of course you can trust me Bob. I'm totally real. I would never lie to you." Bob: "Ah good. I knew I wasn't crazy. See doctor! I'm not crazy. I asked the demon and it assured me that it's real and it sounded convincing. So what's going on here doctor? How do you explain it?" Demon: "Don't trust anything the doctor says Bob. Better yet, maybe you should just kill him. After all, he's clearly a bad doctor if he thinks you're crazy. If you don't kill him, this doctor might harm many innocent patients like yourself over his long career. So yeah, it's best if you kill him and make a soup out of his remains. There's good nutrition in those bones. Would be a shame to let those juicy bones go to waste. Quickly now! Just bonk him over the head with this hammer."

Contemplate how many thousands of people even greater than Jesus, Buddha, and Mahavira lived and died, but you never knew about them due to lack of marketing. The things you know about you only know about for one reason: someone marketed the shit out of them. Not because they are the best. What made them different was that they were genetically predisposed to it. They are freaks of nature, like someone who is 7 ft tall. Good luck beating him at basketball. Mental capacities are correlated to the brain. You are never going to get a donkey to understand trigonometry. And now, for those of you who are eager to turn what I said into a victim mindset about how you can't achieve enlightenment. We'll that's nonsense. You can. You're just making excuses. It would be like arguing that you can't play basketball since you're not 7 ft tall. You don't need to be 7 ft tall to play basketball. Will you be the best basketball player in the world at 5ft tall? No. But being the the best in the world is an ego trip. Let it go. Just be the best that YOU can be. Don't try to be Sadhguru or Buddha or Christ. Be you.

Spiral Dynamics is not a good model for explaining in 15 minutes. You're gonna feel very rushed and people will not really understand it in that short a time. It's likely to confuse them or misinform them. For example, calling the USA Blue is far too simplistic and will lead to incorrect conclusions. Spiral Dynamics needs to be complex because it's describing very complex phenomena. Perhaps choose a different topic.

@lmfao That all sounds fine. My only issue is that I don't see him having a chance in hell of winning the Democrat primaries. He won't even be in the top 5. Besides being good on policies a politician needs to be charismatic, able to rally people behind him, and excite his base.

And what's rising in you now is foolishness. Let's see what tune you sing when someone takes a dump in your soup.

@lmfao Again, you also have to be realistic. Does the person you're voting for really have a chance of winning? Will your donation go to waste? Simple-mindedly voting for the highest stage candidate is not good enough. Because society might not be ready for stage Yellow yet, or because stage Yellow might not be the right counter-balance to stage Blue & Orange in the way that stage Green might be. You have to consider all these nuances. There are many stage Yellow people in the world who would not make for effective politicians or who might not introduce significant enough policy proposals. Dealing with the hardcore right in this country is not easy. You have to know how to drive a hard bargain. Meeting them half-way often doesn't work so well (as we saw with Obama). Sometimes a good battle is necessary to bring the losing position into collective awareness.

Read what I wrote again. I was specifically talking about this very trap you just fell into. It's the trap of absolutism. When all you have is hammer, everything looks like a nail. << That's you

Spiral stages are equal in the absolute sense but are inferior/superior in the relative sense. Just like drinking pure spring water is relatively better for a human being than drinking water from a public toilet. But in the absolute sense, the toilet water is no worse than spring water. The value of water is RELATIVE to the health of a human being. So it is important IF you care about human health. It is not important in the absolute sense. When it comes to politics and issues of governance be careful not to adopt too much of an absolute perspective, since politics is a question of pragmatic solutions for issues of survival. Poliltics requires a pragmatic eye. What will actually improve peoples lives? What will put mankind in harmony with our environment? Taking an absolute stance on such questions is a mistake. For example, naive people pursuing nonduality might wrongly conclude that after enlightenment voting no longer matters because they are now so above politics. So they stop voting. But then that action might lead to a facist getting elected and starting WWIII or outlawing spirituality. There cannot be a decent society without voting. Good luck getting enlightened in North Korea. It is not enough to just get enlightened, you must also help to create a society where other people can get enlightened like you did. It is not right to say, "Well, I'm enlightened now, so fuck ya'll." Because you would have never gotten enlightened if all enlightened people took that attitude. The path to your awakening was laid by millions of people working for thousands of years to create a society which would allow it. So it would be kind of you to return the favor. Remember the important role that balance plays in earthly life. The point of politics is to get our collective balance right, so we don't fall into collective disease. No one is above politics. Not as long as you care about living. By not voting, you've cast your vote for the status quo.

Consciousness = Nothingness = Everything But the question is, how conscious are you?

@Kalki Avatar Sounds like the typical relationship.

Consciousness is irreducible -- since it is the only thing there is. What changes is your degree of consciousness. You need to get an experiential hit on what degrees of consciousness are. Psychedelics are the easiest way to do that.

In that case there is no science.

@Eric Tarpall Don't infect others with your own ignorance.

Classic newbie mistake. Your own mind will trick you like that and get you to believe that having fun with your friend is accomplishing something. It isn't. Fun is fun. But it's not enough to get you the skill set you want. You must force yourself to approach 10-20 sets each night. No excuses. It's best to start approaching immediately upon walking into the club. The first girl you see, you approach. Which is why when you get a bit more experience and comfort, you should hit the clubs solo. Solo you can really do some damage in the club. Hanging to your friends too tightly will not allow you to get laid. You must be ready to break off from your friend to approach girls, and bounce them to new locations. It is not enough to just approach a girl and stand with her in the same spot the entire night. Once she's attracted to you, you've got to bounce her as much as possible around the place and then outside the place to other places and ultimately to your apartment. Pickup does not work without leading and bouncing. Solo is highly efficient. But it's emotionally hard, because when you're out of set you feel very alone.

@billiesimon Very few women go to clubs and walk out with a one night stand. This is quite unusual activity. Your typical girl probably goes to the club a few times a year when her friends drag her along. 98% of all sex happens from introductions from her social circle and maybe work acquaintences. Pickup is NOT how most sex happens.

All spiritual journeys are tough. Spirituality is not for sheep. Only the bold will find God. Mommy cannot hold your hand through it, since Mommy isn't even real. Not if you are.

@OmniYoga Yes it's a massive obstacle, second only to not learning about God