Leo Gura

@Psychonaut You are being a pussy and you are full of shit. Go approach those girls! They're not gonna do the work for you, and approaching is always uncomfortable. The women in clubs are ordinary women. They aren't trash. That's your own mind making up bullshit excuses for why not to approach. Be very mindful of your self-talk in a club. Do NOT trust it! All of that is pure fear-based excuses. You will be amazed at the types of sweet and cool girls you'll meet in clubs. Clubs are not for whores or drunks. Ordinary girls go there. Girls are social creatures so they just get dragged along by their friends. If you approach enough girls you will be some great ones in bars and clubs. Girls in bars and clubs are not necessarily regulars. They might be there once a year for a birthday party or bachelorette party or for a work event. Before holding all these prejudices, go approach 1000 girls in clubs with an open mind. Then approach another 1000 girls in bars. Then approach another 200 girls at the mall. Then compare where the best girls come from based on your direct experience. P.S. If you go to clubs to enjoy dancing, what do you think the girls are doing? They enjoy dancing more than you! And yet you judge them for it. According to your twisted logic when you go to a club to enjoy dancing, you are not trash, you are better than everyone, but the girl is a trashy whore. If you're looking for a dog, go to the pet store. Frankly, with your rotten attitude you don't even deserve a trashy girl. Stop acting like you're too cool for school.

@Liger How can you control her when you are not even in control of yourself? Pay very close attention to just what control is and how little of it you have. This doesn't just apply to people but all of life. This question of control is a very deep existential one. Notice how the ego keeps trying to control life but keeps failing and getting upset at itself for not having the control it wants. What is in control of you? Are you in control of yourself? Then why do you keep failing to control yourself? What is control? Why do you want control? Patiently contemplate all that.

@TheAvatarState This is well-documented by researchers. Ravers don't last. They crash and burn and turn to other drugs. Most raves don't even have real pure MDMA but other substitutes. And most ravers don't even know the difference.

@Enlightenment MDMA permamently rewires parts of the brain after 10-20 trips, creating a permanent life-long tolerance. Which is why I do not talk about MDMA as a tool for consciousness work. It is not a true psychedelic, it is in a class of its own. Stick to LSD, mushrooms, and 5-MeO-DMT. 5-MeO-DMT is the closest psychedelic to enlightenment. Nothing comes as close.

Baby's baking in the oven

And thereby his work is deceptive. He doesn't use the word God outwardly because he has a tight-lipped and sober style. He's fully of aware of God though. He just withholds that from you.

I've attracted girls (8s, 9s, and even 10s) who were way more physically attractive than me. Because girls aren't primarily attracted by a guy's looks, but by his persona, charm, charisma, confidence, wit, leadership qualities, intellect, social status, and strength. If you go out a lot and approach a lot you will attract 8s and 9s fairly regularly. Which is not to say you'll be able to close all of them, because closing requires having perfect logistics, which usually isn't possible. So you will lose a lot of 8s and 9s, but at least you'll get the validation of having attracted them. You will be able to tell, for example, that if the logistics had been good, she would have eagerly slept with you. And from that point, it's only a matter of time until the logistics line up and you'll sleep with your first 8 or 9. 10s are just so rare it's not even worth thinking about. All that's required is that you go out a lot, approach a lot, and have good game. If you can set up good logistics (by living very close to bars/clubs) that will up your chances of pulling girls by a factor of 2x-10x. Logistics are super important if you want to get laid a lot. Basically any girl that's an 8 or above is a model-quality girl, as she can make easy money off her looks, and often does or did so in the past. She can be a model, actress, stripper, pornstar, webcam girl, go-go dancer, hostess, etc. But don't forget, a lot of these girls can be annoying to deal with as they tend to spoiled rotten by men. These girls know how to use their looks to manipulate men. They know they are hot and they know the value of that in our society. Handling girls like that requires a serious boss/pimp attitude. A weak man cannot handle a girl like that. The rule of thumb is, whatever quality of girl you feel you deserve and can boss around, is the quality of girl you will get. Anything above that you will not be able to handle because your confidence is too low. Hot girls have high confidence. As a guy, in order to attract a girl your confidence and value must be higher than hers. If you want to date models, you need to develop balls of steel and a delusional, borderline narcissistic degree of self-confidence and self-love. You need to be unfazed and just have an I-don't-give-a-fuck attitude. Or become famous. Famous guys get hot girls easily.

Because reality is a giant mind. There is no possibility of stuff unless it is occurring inside a mind. Here's the kicker: there actually is no difference between sentience/non-sentience, nonphysical/physical, conscious/unconscious, mental/non-mental. All of those are relative distinctions which collapse into one nameless unity. This unity is what is. It is pure Absolute Truth. Which is not different from something and nothing. Reality is just one giant fat zero. Like it never even happened. Because there is no one to tell the difference between happening and non-happening. Another way to phrase it is... it seems to you that reality happened because you think it did.

@martins name I do it call it those things, but that still does not communicate the significance of there being a God!

Calling it presence is extremely deceptive though. Everyone thinks they have presence so they don't think they're missing anything. Whereas with God, it's clear to most people that they are missing an experience of God. Take someone like Sam Harris. He has meditated for years, he even has some degree of awakening to no-self, and he would readily agree with you about presence, but he is not conscious of what God is. Presence or awareness are way too neutral of terms. These terms actually make many Buddhists believe there is no God.

There will be blood. There will be tears. There will be suffering. That's how growing is done.

@Garuda You're still not getting it. Enlightenment is not emotional mastery nor development. You can be genuinely enlightened and a racist or sexist, for example. The answer is to tread carefully and not build cult-like organizational structures and to stress an integral, dogma-free approach. The answer is also to not get ahead of your skiis, to maintain high personal integrity and to not lust after power, sex, money, fame, or success. The answer is to do shadow work even after awakening and to be sensitive to the collateral damage you cause. And to not go on a crusade.

@Miavono Nonduality contains duality within it. Just look at the yin-yang image. It's both nondual and dual at the same times because it depends on how you want to look at it. Free will vs not-free-will is a duality which collapses when you're in nondual consciousness. Yes, you can tap into the infinite creativity of God, since you are him. But that does not necessary mean you can create mountains out of thin air.

@Cocolove Yup, that can work. I had my first mystical experience doing just that: Vipassana followed by self-inquiry. I find self-inquiry not to be effective unless one's mind is already in the zone and highly mindful. So, for example, I find it bad practice to being a meditation retreat with self-inquiry because the mind is not focused enough yet to have any breakthrough. So my retreats begin with lots of Vipassana. The self-inquiry is best saved towards the end. Vipassana is sorta like sharping the knife and self-inquiry is more like using it to slit the throat. Without Vipassana you've got a butter knife.

But the crossfire might kill ya' Two devils do not make an angel.

A "relationship" in high school is a rather fickle notion. More like a 2-week affair. Obviously you're not gonna be doing one-night stands or same night lays in high school. You gotta build up to it through friendship in a way that you wouldn't need to do if you're hunting for girls at a bar or club. I don't see why you'd even want that in high school. Just get yourself a girlfriend. You don't need to sleep around with your entire class. If you're gonna be having sex with a girl in high school your intent should be to be in a relationship with her. Why you making it such a big chore? Relationships are fun. A relationship (in high school) is not marriage. It's a flimsy thing.

@Matt23 Such a thing should not be attempted unless you have significant spiritual experience. So if you're really serious about it, start by building your spiritual experience.

Entire books could be written on that one question.

@Garuda You are not hearing what I telling you. Your Buddhist Dhrama fantasies are wrong. Enlightenment will not even come close to eradicating all issues. You are already well on your way to developing a massive enlightened shadow. An entire book could be written on post-enlightenment shadow issues and pathologies.

Should be, but it isn't. We live in the real world, not some Buddhist fantasy. This is a very dangerous misconception. By equating enlightenment with moral perfection and an impossiblity of shadow, you set yourself up to be a great Zen Devil, full of much shadow. Because once your enlightenment happens, you'll still have a TON of shadow issues left unresolved, but your fantasy of perfection will force you to deny this fact and so you will suppress these shadow issues even deeper, doubling the size of your shadow and become a half-enlightened devil. Even the greatest most enlightened masters have shadows and pathologies. Don't be a fool. Nothing in this work is automatic. You have no idea what imperfections Ramana Maharshi had. You just have a fantasy of him in your mind. It's easy to appear to have no imperfections when living one's entire life in a cave. The real test comes when you live an active life, where you have leadership obligations, duties, money, fame, sex, luxury, family, children, business, politics, and other things to deal with. When a hot girl with big tits comes and rubs them on you, let's see how long your enlightenment lasts.

@Etherial Cat Orange will not regress to Blue. But Orange is dangerous enough as it is. And when those 60% Blue evolve into Orange, that will be a big problem as Orange will run hog-wild. That could easily end humanity. Imagine if all of Africa, South America, Middle East, and Asia became Orange! That's pretty scary. And you know it's coming unless we kill ourselves even sooner. Which is why I'm not worried about Green. We need a thousand times more Green to balance out all the Orange that's yet to come.

God speaks to those who know how to listen Try opening your ears.

Nonduality and Infinity are not laws. And the distinction of apparent vs non-apparent is extinguished in nonduality. It is precisely what it wants to be. Nonduality requires nothing outside itself to define it. It exists without non-existence. It is light without dark. Nonduality has no opposite. You are still thinking of nonduality dualistically.

@Guided That's a good insight, but still only a partial perspective. If life is suffering, what is it when you are not suffering? Are you suffering right this moment? Yet the moment still is. Be careful not to over-generalize and call everything suffering. That chair is not suffering, for example. Notice that there are many times throughout the day when you are not suffering. Which shows you that your perspective is not totally right.

60%+ of the world population is at Blue or below. So I'd be more worried about that and Orange. Much of Green radicalism is actually a reaction against the stubbornness of Orange from evolving into Green. If Orange took environmental issues and income inequality seriously, then there would be much less incentive for Green radicals.