Leo Gura

Happiness is the wrong motivation. That's a petty, selfish desire. The right motivation is Truth for Truth's sake. Because you want to know what reality is. Don't you? You should be willing to die for it. Think it through. There is no human activity or experience which can compete with understanding the source and totality of reality. Break out of your daze and just commit to Truth.

@Matteo You are talking about the need for personal development in general. This is not something to get "unstuck" from, this is the human condition you are talking about. That is why personal and spiritual development exists. It's a lifetime of learning and application. This is WHY you are alive: to grow, to break through all the traps and barriers to infinite consciousness. This is not a chore. This is the greatest gift and joy possible. So what you do is this: You realize that there are no quick fixes, nor are they needed or desirable. You commit to growing for your ENTIRE life, and for excellence in being human. Because there is nothing more to life than this. You dig into the work, starting with whatever babysteps you feel are best. Meditate, contemplate, self-inquire, journal, whatever. Chill out and trust that everything will come together if you just take action on the fundamentals, following the highest principles that you are learning in the videos and reading in books. Enjoy the process of learning and growth, both the theory and the application, even though it will be a struggle inevitably.

@Swagala You are already dead. You just don't realize it yet. Death is what is conscious of life. Death is what everyone is. There is only ONE death. It is everyone equally. Notice this in your direct experience right now. Notice that you are dead, and yet experience is happening in that void. The body sits and breathes and look out onto the world, and yet all of that is taking place inside infinite death. Death and life are actually identical.

All those are common abilities for advanced yogis. You guys still aren't getting it.

Sadhguru could easily get more laid than an RSD instructor if he wanted to. And he would know how to fully enjoy it too

That's too deep and complex of a topic to address here. Holotropic Breathwork & psychedelics are two simple and highly effective techniques, out of many others.

A very good question. You should contemplate that deeply. Might even lead to an enlightenment experience or two

"Great wisdom looks like stupidity." -- Lao Tzu Indeed, you are very wrong. But I will leave it to you to figure that out. The things being spoke here, none of you are prepared to comprehend yet. Your minds are too closed. You are wasting your time with this mental masturbation. Go self-inquire! Maybe in 20 years you can come back here and understand.

It's really a no-brainer. Humans are not meant to eat wheat. It's empty calories with no nutrients, it's hard to digest, and all modern forms of wheat have been genetically engineered to be extra-resistant to bugs, so they are even harder for humans to digest. Many people allergic to wheat amd don't even know it. Wheat makes you sleepy and lazy. If you don't eat wheat or sugar, it's almost impossible to get fat.

@hundreth I cut out dairy, whey protein, and certain meats, and nearly all my acne vanished forever.

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.