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@Shane Roberts If you stay tuned, I will share an amazing technique in the future for curing ADD permanently. I have a backlog of important topics I want to share.
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@ULFBERHT Glad to see you're getting some value out of it. Stick with it.
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@jennywise So in other words you wanna outsource and abdicate the most important thing you've got -- your executive and strategic capacity -- to someone other than yourself? How am I supposed to know what your life requires? You know why CEOs get paid the big bucks? Because they exercise the single most important capacity a human being has: executive strategic judgment. If you want the most direct path to the highest human fulfillment possible, sit down and relentlessly wonder: "WHAT AM I?" Until you become fully enlightened, realizing that reality is Absolutely Infinity. If I was coaching you, I would just sit there and ask you, "What do you want?" over and over again. YOU would have to supply all the answers.
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Leo Gura replied to Tancrede Pouyat's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
If ya'll are seriously interested in astral projection or OBEs, check out the book: Mastering Astral Projection: 90-Day Guide To OBE Experience by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer. I'll be adding it to my booklist at some point. But remember, enlightenment goes WAY fucking deeper than OBEs. So be careful where you invest your time and energy, given that it's your most precious resource. -
@somenathpal The desire to punish people is so misguided. Drop it! Try love instead. If you can't love a murder, than you'll never really be enlightened. Notice how you keep fighting with reality to get YOUR way. There's hope if you sit down, carefully observe reality, and realize you never existed to begin with, and give up fighting. But if you stay at the level of mind (what you're currently doing), there is no hope.
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Leo Gura replied to Toby's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@cetus56 I described it in my What Is God video. -
@Callum Milner No, that rule applies to your career/job/creative output. Not to your personal or spiritual development. You do those alongside whatever field you're mastering for your career.
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Hint: it's about control and power
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@Shane Roberts Sit down and contemplate: Why am I creating this fear? It's not like you're just beset by fear. YOU are creating it! Why don't you take more credits?
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Why not both?
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Leo Gura replied to Toby's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Huz I haven't done it in a while. Focusing on more orthodox methods right now. 5-meo is like a cheat code, hehe. It's so effective it's scary. -
@smd It's hard to accurately understand what you'll become without knowing what you presently are. That body is an illusion. It doesn't actually exist as an object. It never has. It's more of a pleasant story you tell yourself, cause otherwise, what would you be? Here's something to ponder about: What if this feeling that you are that body is actually arbitrary, and NOT you?! Imagine for a second that that entire body is just like a coffee table, existing there, but actually not you. Funny enough, that's true! Hehe.... what a ridiculous situation we find ourselves in. How can something SO obvious go unnoticed? And yet, even now, as you look into this, you can't help shake the feeling that that body is you. That's clearly untrue, and yet you still can't stop believing in it.
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@Shane Roberts As a therapist you can make pretty good money. And there are many other options for psych majors. If you were an English or History major, you'd have more to worry about. And hey, I was a philosophy major and I never regretted it. And I've made more money than 99% of managers, programmers, or engineers can dream of. So don't let the dumb masses pigeon-hole you. You can earn big bucks with any degree, and even no degree. But you gotta be willing to roll up your sleeves and hustle. Don't expect handouts. Career success has VERY LITTLE to do with degrees. This fact cuts both ways. Math and science are harder because they tolerate less subjectivity and bullshit, and there's more ways to be wrong than right. An engineering degree is definitely harder than a philosophy degree. I've done both tracks. But the difficulty is irrelevant. What matters is what you're passionate about. If your passion happens to be easy, so much the better for you. If it happens to be hard, that's your lot. The harder fields generally pay more and have more positions available, so there is compensation for your effort. Oh, and BTW, a job isn't so much found as it's made. Take responsibility for YOU making the job! Nobody owes you a job. The best way to deal with this kind of fear is to take 100% responsibility, devise a strategy for success, and start taking action on it. You'll instantly feel better.
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@LetTheNewDayBegin Awareness is not trapped in the self. The self is an illusion within awareness. Self doesn't remain because it never existed in the first place. The self can NEVER become enlightened because enlightenment is the awareness of no-self. Free will isn't a miracle. It's an illusion (of control) which causes all your suffering and separates you from Truth. Ask yourself this: Why do you want free will? If you have it, you can never be happy, because it means you must always be on-guard. Nonduality is a path of surrendering control. This whole issue is one of power and control. You -- ego -- wants to think it controls stuff. But in fact it doesn't. And to believe that you do control stuff is the chief delusion that causes your suffering. So when you gonna wise up and give up the game? I mean... you can keep seeking power, but at some point you're gonna realize (hopefully) that the greatest power is total surrender. THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE SELF IS TO CONTROL STUFF! (But it always fails in the end.) So you're playing a game you cannot ever win.
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Leo Gura replied to Toby's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Toby Good share! Keep in mind though that asking spiritual masters to opine on a chemical substance they've never tried, can give you a distorted perspective. I doubt any of those folks have tried 5-meo for example. And lumping 5-meo in with psychedelics like mushrooms is a mistake. -
That's how I started, and so did many others. You gotta earn your position in life through work and good strategy. Freedom ain't free. Yes, it would be nice if we lived in a society where it was free. Rather than whining about it, the best solution is to roll up your sleeves and get creative. If you love making music so much, why aren't you making enough good music to please people and earning yourself some money? People are making hundreds of millions of dollars in the music biz. If you really wanted to, so could you. Music is one of the easiest fields to get into, because it requires zero capital. You can write amazing music in your Mom's basement.
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@somenathpal To reconcile that, you have to get at least a taste of enlightenment. You can't reconcile that through logic. For practical purposes, just assume that you're 100% responsible for everything, but you don't exist and have no free will.
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@somenathpal You're not making any decisions because you are an illusion! There is not even a you who's reading this very sentence. Sit down and discover that for yourself.
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@rush I explained exactly that in my How To Harness Your Intuition video (towards the end).
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@somenathpal Here's a very simple exercise: sit down on your couch, get comfy, set aside 60 minutes, and now start to curl your index finger open and closed. And as you do that, start wondering, "What is curling that finger?" Drop all ideas or scientific theories. Only pay attention to DIRECT EXPERIENCE. ZERO theorizing or speculating! ZERO beliefs. Take a close look at what DIRECT EXPERIENCE reveals. You may be surprised.
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Leo Gura replied to Afonso's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Sano Morphing Who told you you have to cross your legs? Meditate standing on your head if you like. -
@Evilwave Heddy What I said doesn't necessarily mean you have to quit your job. If you need your job to pay your rent, then it's probably not a good idea to quit it right now. You can follow through on what I said without quitting. But that's something only you can decide.
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@StarfoxEpiphany Nicotine is very physiologically addictive, so you're definitely in for an uphill battle if you're trying to just wait it out. It will probably take more than just a few days. For something like that, it might be helpful to plan like a week-long retreat to a cabin in the woods, where you have no possible access to cigarettes and nothing to do. It's gonna be hard to quit a physiologically addictive substance while in the midst of your everyday routine. Your routine is part of the problem. The good thing about a week-long retreat is that you could pair it up with meditation. So it's like a serious, week-long meditation and self-improvement week. Then you'll REALLY run into the void. And you'll get more growth in that one week than you would during a normal year. It won't just be nicotine, you'll slay a lot of inner demons, so it would be a win-win. Alternatively, you could try doing a 10-day Vipasanna retreat. They don't allow smoking there.
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@Afonso Sounds like your body energy is twisted up. I would suggest doing some daily practice where you consciously relax your hands and arms and get acclimated to that "empty" feeling of being fully relaxed. Open up your body and try to attain perfect symmetry. It will feel uncomfortable at first, but over time, you should adjust to it. Focus your mindfulness on muscle tension in your body. There's probably a lot of it there that will take some work to notice. Also, try to contemplate the root source of this behavior. WHY are you doing it? What role it is serving? How are you using it to avoiding facing some kind of emotion?
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@Toshko There are animals that need saving in Central and South America too.