Leo Gura

There are deeper levels and more facets. Don't stop prematurely. Depression is an egoic reaction. It's normal and to be expected. But go beyond it. Go deeper.

This is an unemprical and highly subjective claim. An epistemic assumption and dogma. Question it. Have you explored every other alternative mode of inquiry? Then how can you say science is the best? Don't just believe things culture tells you. And yes, science is def cultural.

Enlightenment is the awakening from the illusion of life. You are inside a dream. WAKE UP!

Exactly the same

@Cody_Atzori Looking at the hand is basically a form of self-inquiry. Of course don't ONLY do that exercise for the rest of your life, but you could doing it for a couple months and then switch it up. You gotta experiment to see which exercises jive with you.

That's just ego backlash/resistance. If you're doing a lot of personal dev then you should expect to feel WORSE not better. This is like lifting heavy weights at the gym. Muscle soreness is not bad, it's sorta the point. Big change is emotionally taxing. You must learn to console yourself in times of stress and upheaval. But also, don't be spending all day doing personal dev. Schedule some time for R&R and fun. Your schedule needs to be sustainable in the long run.

Your two groups are a rather arbitrary dichotomy. The self-help industrry is gigantic and draws in all sorts, young to old, suffering to ambitious, depressed to happy, losers to successful. There's not a single person wouldn't benefit from some form of self help. Your entry point will vary: a bad relationship, desire for more money, desire to calm your emotions, desire to be more confident, etc. Hell, you could study this stuff purely for intellectual curiosity, as I like to do.

@Anton Rogachevski Keep tripping deeper and you will see. You have only seen the tip of the iceberg so far.

@LiberatedMonkey You are so young, you have lots of time to work on many things. Plan things out strategically. Life purpose is a very long-term project. It will take you at least 5 years to seriously actualize it. So while you're chipping away at that, you should of course also work on other areas of your life like developing dating skills. You can work on your life purpose most of the week, but then Friday & Saturday nights you can focus on dating. This will actually rejuvenate you for next week's work. Counter-intuitively you can sometimes accomplish more work when you have good outlets for rejuvenation & socialization. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy There are times in your life when you will need to focus on your LP 100% to the exclusion of everything else. But then there are times when that's not efficient, where you don't have that much work to do on your LP, which frees up time for other things. And sometimes you will need to put your LP on the backburner for a while (into maintenance mode) while you work on your relationships, family, house, health, etc. At your current stage in life you probably don't need to be spending 8 hours a day on your LP.

Yes! Good! That is the moon the finger was pointing at. That is Being. That is Consciousness. That is Nothingness. As soon as you try to articulate or conceptualize it, it slips through your fingers. This is what makes enlightenment work so tricky. You have to be able to grok that which cannot be grokked. I call this hyper-intuition. You start to understand reality transcendentally, non-symbolically.

@Shakazulu What you're starting to realize is that reality is fundamentally groundless and unbounded (AKA, infinite). Reality is like Jello, its impossible to nail reality to a wall, no matter how hard you try. Because the wall, the nail, and the hammer are all part of reality. How do you nail a nail into itself? Now there's a koan for ya!

@lmfao The zero point of all sensations, and all of reality, is Nothingness -- or pure empty consciousness. Zero sound is pure empty consciousness. Zero sight is pure empty consciousness. Zero feel is pure empty consciousness. To become aware of this Groundless Ground is enlightenment. It's remarkable when you realize that ALL sensation have always occurred within the Groundless Ground. It will be so obvious that you won't understand why you never "saw" this Nothingness before. It was there the whole time! It is you! It is God! Look closely at your actual hand. That is Nothingness! Nothingness is NOT an idea. Nothingness is actuality itself.

Yes, that is the catch-22 of social development: low consciousness crowds tend to elect low consciousness leaders, and low consciousness leaders tend to empower low consciousness crowds. The entire society must therefore go through the struggle of fighting it out. The fighting it out IS the ACTUAL process of growth & evolution. Growth and evolution are sometimes bloody and ugly. Peace leads to war, and war leads to peace, and on and on it goes. That's the duality inherent within nonduality. Every country, and every human being is going through this struggle to various degrees. It's just since Brazil isn't as mature as America or Europe, its growing pains will be more acute.

@Anton Rogachevski Excellent! Happy for ya @How to be wise Hogwash You haven't even a clue yet how much spiritual growth LSD can trigger. Being "full enlightened" is a totally wrong expectation. That's like refusing a million dollars because it wasn't the billion you wanted.

Just to be safe, you can cut a blotter square into 4ths and consume one fourth just to test it. That should be about 20-30ug, which is a very mild dose. You won't trip balls on that amount, but you'll def feel it. After that test run, you can have much more confidence consuming a full square. Never rush to high dosages. Be patient and take your time with it. You will be rewarded for your carefulness.

@GeoLura You are becoming the universe. Embrace your new identity as God. There is still much further to go.

@Etherial Cat Lula is in prison. Thing is, you can't just upgrade an entire nation by electing one good guy. That never works. What's necessary is to upgrade the systems, the infrastructure, the culture, the average people. Low consciousness people cannot appreciate a high consciousness leader (if Lula can even be called that -- I can't speak to what crimes is did or did not commit). Brazil is very Blue still and it will take a lot of work to transition it to pure Orange, let alone Green. Even America is failing to embrace Green. Brazil will not be Green in our lifetimes. But Orange is possible.

It's not shallow reasons. Being successful opens a lot of doors. Then love comes. It's not like the girls falls in love with your money. You can lure her in with your success, but then make her fall in love with your personality. Most girls are not the golddigger types. A few are, but most aren't. If you're intelligent you can use this to your advantage. Become successful, access the hottest girls, and then pick one and make her fall in love with you rather than your money or success. The best thing about success is that it can buy you access to lots of people, which then gets you a lot of eyeballs, which makes attracting females a lot easier than being just another guy at the club. The point is, there are pros and cons to each personality style and mating strategy. Nerds have ways of getting laid. Jocks have ways of getting laid. Etc. The only people who don't get laid are those who sit at home complaining on online forums. There is just 1 tricking to finding girls: GO OUT & BE SOCIAL! That's it! Everything else is minutia. I don't care who you are or what you look like, if you go out long enough you will attract a girl.

Becoming rich has nothing do to with luck.

God bless the Chinese. First they give us Zen, now they give us Zen in powdered form

John Oliver did an episode about this topic this week: Some cringey moments there.

Looks like you got the Trump of the South on your hands there. Not good.

Yes, but you will need to go at it much harder in the end to breakthrough. But for starting, that is okay. You gotta start slow. In the end you will need to go at it 100 hours in a row.

@Ampresus From the way you write it does not sound like you are mature enough to handle it. Focus on yoga, meditation, self-inquiry, shamanic breathing, etc. And read a lot about nonduality. Psychedelics are no joke. They will rip your reality apart.

See video: How To Use Psychedelics For Personal Development