Leo Gura

That's precisely where life purpose becomes invaluable. If you knew your LP, you would know which direction is right. But now you're just a leaf in the wind. When you base your business on making a quick buck, 95% of the time you end up with neither the satisfaction of following your passion, nor the big bucks.

@Marcell Kovacs Make music that elevates people. That's all that was said.

Realistically, if you cannot muster the strength and consciousness to leave a toxic relationship, you will never muster the strength and consciousness necessary for enlightenment. It's sort of like you're complaining about being too winded from hiking up a local mountain trail, so you're hoping that by scaling Mt Everest you will then be able to hike your local mountain. Yes, that's technically true, but you see the problem with that logic, right?

@Ilya See videos: Low Quality vs High Quality Consciousness Understanding Awareness

You can't. It is a thing beyond the notion of "being convinced." An awakening must happen.

@egoless I never said you could escape society. I said the exact opposite: we are all in this together. I basically gave you a high-level strategy for using the system against itself. You can generate lots of money doing conscious things. I never asked you to become a bum.

Yup, that's how it works. Enlightenment is death. No shortcut around it. You gotta keep facing it until you break through. The desire for Truth must outweigh the desire for life. It helps if you can intuit that death is an illusion. You are already dead. You just don't know it yet Psychedelics help a lot for this particular problem, as they will just force the death upon you, even if you are scared, so it will be too late to stop it.

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Of course. Although it can be helpful to visualize how you might be after enlightenment -- more selfless, more loving, more detached, more profoundly connected to reality -- or to visualize yourself meditating seriously and genuinely. That alone will not enlighten you, but it will make you more serious about your practices, which ultimately will. That shouldn't be done as a replacement for self-inquiry/meditation, but as a supplement to it. In the same way that all great athletes visualize themselves winning and performing well, which is not a substitute for training. Spirituality is really a lot like athletics. You train and you get results. No training, no results.

We are using same words to talk about different things in different contexts.

@BobbyLowell Loving yourself is important. Don't confuse that with loving the ego. Ego doesn't really love itself, it hates itself.

@pedro23 The whole beauty of being a monk is that no one has any strings over you. You can do whatever the hell you want and there is nothing they can do to stop you.

You can't help becoming more liberal as you move up the Spiral Dynamics stages. Because conservativism is largely based on closedmindness and tribalism.

I would suggest that you don't actually love yourself. So here's the solition: 1) Do self-esteem exercises (Nathaniel Branden) 2) Practice more self-love through visualizations, affirmations, etc.

Injecting heroin tends to make other things pale in comparision

@Angelo John Gage All of that is concept. A story within a dream. Concept-land is not Truth, it's "relative truth" instead.

@Angelo John Gage The truth is, you invented all those "facts"

@Will Bigger You are underestimating the power of consciousness. It can literally dream up any kind of reality is wants. You are confusing perception with consciousness. Idealism is just another name for nonduality. Psychedelics would quickly show you this.

@Edvard I'm not really opposed to anything. You are free to murder people if you want. Such is reality.

@herghly I found float tanks rather gimmicky too. Although I'm sure some people can make it work, like Joe Rogan. But he has one installed in his house! Good luck with that.

@Egosum The better the model, the bigger the problem

@molosku Well put.

It will be pretty big downer on you working with people like that. But, hey, someone's gotta do it. And for some people that might be the prefect niche. Probably people who have gone through that kind of thing themselves.

No, not right now. Short on time. But I plan to start one in the future. I like Kriya yoga, but I'm no expert on yoga. Not a big priority in my life. Not really. That would be something which would require dedicated work which isn't high on my list of priorities. I would keep the practices separate. Law of Attraction is still good and important if you want to sculpt your mind and succeed in life. Nope I would probably get upset. But I would also come to understand why it must be so, and that would take some of the edge off. 6) Not much. That's an area I require much more work in. 7) Closer to my own age. 8) Depends on how you define "place". In the US I've lived in 4 different states. 9) No, but I own a sharp ninja sword. All trespassers will be sliced Try to treat the situation casually. Go answer the door if you must and then return back to your meditation like nothing happened. No, I don't have much doubt any more. Seen too much at this point. But of course I'm always open to being proven wrong in the future. If that happens, I will be open to it and report my discoveries and errors back to you guys. 1) Dying prematurely, before I fulfill my mission. 2) Morrowind Because for now my focus has been on building Actualized.org rather than going balls-to-the-wall on myself. My diets fluctuates a lot. These days I eat more meat because I don't find it very sustainable to only eat plants. I basically starve to death that way because I don't eat any wheat or dairy products. Healing is quite a common ability actually. There are many legit healers around. Which is not to say there aren't frauds on TV. I real healer probably wouldn't be showing off on TV. Apply everything you learn and use your consciousness to help elevate the world. I don't know for sure. Probably in the 300-range. Of course that excludes all the books I read in school and college. I'm talking post-college. Good books on epistemology are quite rare. My understanding of epistemology largely comes from years of my own personal contemplations, not books. Although I will be adding some more epistemology books to my book list in the future as I'm doing a lot of research into it right now. Yes, one. All fears are the same. You must face them head on or they will enslave you. Either way will work. Some yoga and walking meditation is healthy I think. Too much sitting isn't good for the body. You should watch my video: Meditation Technique: Do Nothing "Do Nothing" is a very specific technique. A few points about this: Yes, that's sorta my style. I like to be a bit abrasive and confrontational. I also do that because it amuses me. When I speak, it's like I'm acting in a play, or like I'm doing standup comedy. The fact is that most of the things I say are so obvious that they should be common practice. So some outrage is warranted. It would be dishonest to speak about such things nonchalantly. Society is a chimp circus, and it needs to be called out for it. In this way, I'm sort of channeling George Carlin when I speak. It's a bit over-the-top on purpose. Of course my ego is still intact, so it must show through in my work. That cannot be avoided. All enlightenment teachings are misleading, by definition, regardless of style. I find "modest" styles and teachers to be extremely misleading, even if they are very enlightened. I speak to a very broad general audience on Youtube where most people have no idea what enlightenment is, nor are they serious about pursuing it. So my style is aimed at getting them interested. That's a very different challenge than what someone like Peter is doing. Peter is only teaching small handfuls of extremely hardcore students. I teach A LOT more stuff than Peter or your typical nonduality teacher. I talk about lots of pragmatic things which have nothing to do with enlightenment. The aims of my teachings are more ambitious. A lot more territory must be covered to assemble THE BIG PICTURE which no nondual teacher gives you. My communication style will evolve and improve in the future as I become more conscious and authentic. I always tell you guys to think for yourselves and to don't believe me. My videos are already long, and I'm tired of saying it. It should be obvious that all my words are merely words. Comparing me with Peter is rather unfair. You can compare me to him when I'm 65 years old. Wheat is just empty calories and is hard for your body to digest. Without eating wheat, it is almost impossible to become fat. What's wrong is that reality is immaterial. I like having one girl who I like. I don't think polyamory is healthy or sustainable. Nope. Sometimes in early 2018, hopefully. Beans, no. I have tried, but nuts make me feel nauseous. They are too rich for me so I avoid them. ??? If you want that, you should be the one telling me. I want to make an entire course about it. Too much hassle. It takes dozens of hours to prepare things like that. Yeah, we'll get to it at some point. It's not an easy topic to cover meaningfully in 1 video.

@Max_V Nothing whatsoever is egoic unless you make it so.