Leo Gura

I highly doubt you've experienced true enlightenment. There is further to go!

@Ether Discover for yourself what is being pointed to.

You spend all week there, 24/7 Yes, they provide rooms and food. Usually it's two people per room on separate beds. Although often you can pay extra for a private room. I usually pay extra. 17 should be fine

@Ether After enough observation of the present moment, eventually something POPS: you never existed to begin with.

@Ether Enlightenment is nothing other than the eternal emptiness of the present moment. All you gotta do is focus your attention on it. It really is that simple. But when you focus your attention on it steadily for a very long time, something POPS!

Good for them

@Caterpillar You'd be surprised how much girls are attracted to high consciousness. Deep down it's what they've always dreamed of in a guy without knowing. You just still gotta be proactive with attracting them. Don't expect to just sit like a yogi and have them flocking at your feet. Although on second thought, if you really were a serious yogi, you'd have hot girls flocking at your feet!

@Mart You're talking about an affirmation, not a mantra. Affirmations do work. But they require daily practice for months really, to drill it into your mind. And you have to do them with really feeling and conviction, not in a piddly half-hearted fashion. REALLY picture yourself being confident until you make it a living reality (for at least 5 minutes).

@Blissout I spoil you guys with too many answers. That's the problem.

@CruellerSloth As Sadhguru says, "All business is the business of growing human consciousness." (paraphrasing) The only question is, how consciously do you want to do it?

That is something you should contemplate. The issue of finding truth is a very tricky one. It requires years of contemplation. Don't expect anyone to give you an answer because it's not about having an answer, it's about becoming aware of the traps and fundamental issues of how the mind works. You should be EAGER to contemplate this stuff and find your own answers.

She will pay the cost for that for the rest of her life though. Personal development is a long-term investment. Yes, to onlookers it will at first seem like you're wasting your time. Until years later when your entire relationship to life has been transformed and you're chill as a cucumber, meanwhile they are stuck with all their old neurosis, their life full of suffering and drama. Of course if you focus only on work, you will get more work done. But work never ends. You are a hamster spinning in a wheel.

@RossE Life is exciting as fuck. There's too much to do an not enough lifetimes to do it all! What is the point of all your development and spirituality if you're not becoming more conscious of the awesomeness of life? Yes it's meaningless in the end, but you already knew you would die since you were a kid and that didn't stop you from living. So just pick a mission for yourself and get to work on it. The point is to DESIGN your life any way you want! Go be a skydiver or pornstar or whatever. Life is the ultimate sandbox MMORPG. Why do you need some sort of externally enforced meaning? Create your own! Be a creator! Be an artist. The problem is that you haven't designed your life purpose.

For you, it may be 10 years

@username I am generally open to all techniques. It's just a matter of limited time and energy. I already have a backlog of techniques and things to try out. Years worth. So I have to be very selective.

@username No, I personally don't get into that kind of stuff. Not because I think it's necessarily BS, but because my focus is on figuring out reality from scratch for myself. I don't like depending on any guru or any technique or anyone. My premise is: whatever is ultimately true must be achievable independent of any human teacher or teaching. For me, the most powerful method is solo-retreats and psychedelics. Nothing is as direct as that. With that said, I have studied hundreds of different teachers. So I am not opposed to learning from people.

If they shared more than 2%, you'd think they are batshit crazy. We are in the Dark Ages still. The world at large isn't ready for these kinds of teachings. Look at Teal Swan for example. She needs security guards at her meet ups because people do death threats to her. Why? Because she talks about New-Agey stuff that pisses people's paradigms off.

Yeah, I see a lot of that in the pickup community. Because pickup doesn't address any deep inner deficiencies. It just masks the problem by getting you laid. It's like a Band-aid on a broken leg. I know guys who've been with 200-300 girls, but inside they are immature, insecure children. This all goes back to the point about success being a false metric of inner growth. People confuse success with development level so easily. And it's very easy to trick yourself into believing that your success = development. Because you want to believe it! Success is actually MUCH easier than development. Success in life merely requires excellent manipulation skills, which are not that hard to acquire in many cases. You can manipulate a child into trading you his ice cream cone for a rotten banana peel. But that won't grow you. In fact, it actually sets you back because the only reason you'd want to manipulate that child in the first place is because of some deep fear or insecurity you have which you don't want to face. It's very easy to run away from your inner issues by having sex with many hot girls, going to clubs every night, and getting absorbed in PUA theory & bro-culture. PUA is really not much different than radical Islamic fundamentalist groups: young immature wounded men acting cocky, learning to assert their power over others because they got nothing better to do. But hey, that's how some humans grow up.

Hundreds of them do do great marketing. Nevertheless, you don't know about them because you are so isolated and you haven't gone out of your way to do the research. Maybe it is only hundreds. I am just guessing.

There are probably that many in India alone. I have met some, and extrapolate the rest using common sense.

@egoless Every language has dozens of synonyms and titles for God, each with their own nuances. Almighty, for example.

There are thousands of such yogis and sages all around the world. They just don't get much press. The problem is that people mistake publicity, marketing, and external success with spiritual mastery. The only reason we're talking about Sadhguru is because he has successful marketing. The only reason you're talking to me is because I have successful marketing. Without the right marketing, you would just be watching some Netflix right now, jerking off in your basement, and thinking you have the whole world figured out.

Sadhguru He is hardcore as fuck. He is what I imagine Jesus must have been like. The funny thing is, people like Jesus exist today, and people just take them totally for granted. Ignorance really is like blindness. There can be an elephant in the room, and you will miss it, mistaking his scent for a pile of shit.

@egoless Because they are Hindus! You want Hindus from 5000 years ago to speak English? Think about what you're asking. All words are arbitrary sounds pointing to direct experiences other than themselves. We say God, they say Shiva. Same exact thing.

It's not a metaphor. It's a synonym for The Absolute. If you experience the Absolute, you will know exactly what the word "shiva" refers to. It's just like any other word, like "apple" or "dog". The only difference is, you've never experienced "shiva" so you don't know what it's pointing to. Yogic teachings go back further than recorded history. Just like toilets.