Leo Gura

@Revolutionary Think It's not a lottery at all. If you have the skills, the portfolio, and know how to market yourself, you will get a bunch of job offers. You have to bring something enticing to the table. Just expecting people to do favors for you by hiring you is not the proper way to get a job. The more value you offer, the more the world opens up to you. The big problem here is that you're just applying to random jobs. Which shows you don't care what job you get, and you have no specific idea of what job you want. It's hard to get something when you don't know what you want because you cannot prepare yourself for it. I assume you're 20+ years old. What career have you spent the last 10 years of your life preparing for?

@DnoReally This idea that you will get enlightened in one shot, isn't realistic. Realistically, whether you use psychedelics or not, your waking up process will take years, and involve a lot of mini-breakthroughs, followed by ego backlashes, etc. The solution is to stop looking at this as a magic pill, and see it as a life's work of growing up. And then enjoy as much of it as you can. Don't treat it as something to be over and done with. The whole point of this path is curiosity, awe, love, magic, beauty. Try not to turn it into a grind. With this kind of attitude you should be able to weather any negative phases that you encounter.

@Max_V Ain't nothing enjoyable or peaceful about a retreat. It's the most disturbed you will be all year. That pain is how you know spiritual purification is happening. That's the devil leaving your body If you want enjoyable and peaceful, go to a movie.

Those don't work. Minimum cost for doing effective neurofeedback is about $2500 in total. If you can't accept that, don't bother with neurofeedback.

@TeamBills A good way to think about this issue is: everything you've ever done, was done without free will. In the same way that every time you got Xmas gifts, it wasn't caused by Santa. So it's really not a problem that Santa doesn't exist. Xmas gifts still happen. You can climb mount Everest with no free will. Your body and mind will do whatever they are capable of doing, no more, no less. How do you know what they're capable of doing? You don't! That's why you gotta try. Sometimes you will succeed, sometimes you will fail. But if you never try, you'll never know what you could have accomplished.

@doronshadmi Have you actually tried the thing you're criticizing? How many times?

@TeamBills Do it indoors. You can do a few sits per day outside to break things up.

Both ways have their pros and cons. Pushing through to the end, even mechanically, can be good because it disciplines the mind. Often times, as soon as you accept that you are stuck there for the entire length of time with no option of retreat, your mind will surrender and get down to some serious meditating. If you give yourself too many options during your sits, the mind will tend to be restless, thinking up ways to sneakily excuse itself from the task at hand. The whole point of doing a retreat is to be extremely strict about it. That's what makes it different than regular daily meditation. You are on this retreat to meditate 24/7, without break. Even during your breaks, you must be meditating. Even as your head hits the pillow at night, you must be meditating. You meditate until you start to lose your mind, and that's just the point when the real meditation starts Retreats are serious things. It should scare you when you think about doing one. A retreat should be the toughest week of your year.

@iTommy Ego and personality are different things. Enlightenment won't destroy your personality, just the opposite.

@Max_V Keep probing it deeper. What are you? How is it that anything is being awared at all if there is no you? What is doing the awaring?

@Edvard 20 years ago, you couldn't even imagine a phone message. Now you can't live for 10 days without one.

@Nadosa What would you do if you had $100 million dollars and no chance of failure? Do that now

That's not a valid impact statement

@Spiral There a plenty of people here who are into programming, engineering, etc. Life purpose has nothing do with personal development. The reason most of you guys are gravitating there is because you're lazy and you're just going with the most obvious thing you see. For this reason it's bad that I ever shared my LP with you. It's very important to craft your own custom LP. If it truly turns out to be personal development, so be it, but for most people that shouldn't be the case if they do it right. And even if it turns out to be PD, you have bring something new to the table. You cannot just be a copycat. That's not proper LP. No one is authentically passionate about being a copycat. Dig deeper into what you really want to create. Creation is innovation. If you're thinking "Let's start a YT channel", that's NOT it. That's putting the cart before the horse. "Let's start a YT channel" is not a passion. That's just one medium. And an oversaturated one at that.

@ExodiaGearCEO Both ways are possible. But there is a big trap with the cash-first approach. Once you get cash coming in, you will get hooked on it, and realistically, you will not drop it to go look for a life purpose. "Why?" you will reason, "Here I am already succeeding. Let me just do more of this." And besides, chasing money often doesn't pan out. It's hard to succeed at something you're not deeply passionate about. Watch my video: The Truth About Passive Income

@Marios Tsagoulis Lol. You already failed by logging online. Your mind tricked you. Let that be a lesson for next time. FYI, standard Zen training begins with 100 straight days of meditation, with no talking to humans for 100 days. And that's just the start. That's the whole problem right there. You see?

@WhatAmI I think you're trying to drag him into your spiritual path too much. Do YOUR work by yourself! You don't need to do it with him. When you two are together, do fun stuff. Then when you are apart, you do your serious spiritual work. Once in a while you can meditate together, but that doesn't have to be a constant thing. Make sure you're not seeing him too often. Once or twice a week is good enough. This gives you plenty of me-time to do your inner work, and it also keeps the relationship fresh. Too much time together ruins it. BTW, best reason ever to never see a person again Conversation at bar: Guy: "Hey, baby, you looking fine. Wanna go home tonight?" WhatAmI: "Do you watch any of Leo's videos?" Guy: "Who?" WhatAmI: "Get lost!"

@Hard_Agent Classic ego backlash. Pretty much guaranteed to happen many times along this path. Nothing to worry about. Keep calm and carry on. Things will get better. You haven't lost anything. You're still in the process of waking up. Be happy you got a glimpse of what's possible with this work.

@MarinM A lot of lessons there for you to reflect on and learn. The reason you're suffering is because you haven't learned those lessons yet. Sounds like you're breaking your own integrity a lot, which then makes you feel helpless and stuck. The solution is to self-reflect, wake up, and start following the principle of right action: do the right things when they need to be done. Re-connect with your life purpose and slowly begin getting yourself back on track, one babystep at a time. It also seems like you're too caught up chasing states. Emotional states always come and go. You will never be able to reach an emotional peak and hold on to it. The solution is to detach from all states, grounding yourself in fundamental principles of good living.

Right, that's a lack of preparedness, lack of desire to see the Truth.

In my experience wheat doesn't cause acne, but I avoid it entirely for other reasons. You have to experiment around and see what affects your body. Try cutting out all wheat for 1 month.

Just not something I care much about. This is a good question. It baffles me sometimes that everyone isn't doing it. Since I was 7 years old, I knew I wanted a passion-based career. Because I was passionate about creating stuff. I wanted to create video games, digital art, computers, airplanes, etc, etc. It was just the most obvious thing. How can you see the beauty of life and not want to participate in the process??? But it took me some trial and error to figure out how to really make that happen, and that I wanted to work for myself. That wasn't something I discovered until I got my first job at age 23, straight out of college. Up until that point I thought I was destined to work inside a company or studio. But my experience inside a studio quickly showed me that I was really destined to create on my own. And so I mustered the courage to quit within the next 6 months. It was one of the best decisions of my life. But it wasn't easy to do at the time. Sounds like you just didn't get in touch with being a creator. It's a spiritual connection. You have to be an artist at heart. Artists in the audience will understand what I'm talking about. The beauty of reality compels you. Some select songs, sure. There is no kind of music I like across the board. I rarely even listen to albums because most of the songs don't meet my quality standards. Don't know what that is. Yes, I'm interested in it. Although not so much that I go out of my way chasing answers. It wouldn't surprise me if the human body was an outgrowth of a deeper structure like a "soul" which can spawn multiple bodies over time. Even if there are souls, the truth of no-self still underlies everything. From what I understand now, everything infinitely reincarnates. Reality has infinite structure and boundaries, but all those boundaries are ultimately nondual, permeated by Nothingness, which ties everything together. I will shoot a video when I have something more concrete to say about it. It's still an iffy subject in my mind. And I won't want to scare people off with woo-woo topics.

Contemplate what is life, what is death, and what precisely is it that is dying?

@ill The boundary your mind has erected between yourself and all the other species of nature is a conceptual fabrication. Everything affects and causes everything else. When you realize this, your genes will become irrelevant. The kind of evolutionary thinking you espouse is just a virus of the mind, no different than fundamentalist Islam or Evangelicalism. It's a misunderstanding of evolution.

No The only thing I will regret is not doing more of it. I wouldn't waste my time trying to classify all the states. Your focus should be on INSIGHT and answering the following questions: What is reality? Why does it exist? What are you? What is another being? What is the Absolute? I am extremely happy that I chose personal dev over video games as a career. Working on video games is very unhealthy as a lifestyle. I'm still passionate about video games and digital art in particular. I might even pursue it in the future as a hobby. I enjoy imagining up designs and building prototypes in Unity. But I would never trade enlightenment for anything else. Enlightenment is literally infinite beauty. There is nothing even remotely as beautiful. If you took every work of art that has ever been created by man, and that will ever be created for the next billion years, and added them all up, that will still be only 0.0000000000000001% of the beauty of enlightenment. Only a fool would know about enlightenment and not pursue it all the way. I don't have a desire to write an autobiography. There are way more interesting things to write about. There is no comparison at all. The book is concepts. Contemplation is deriving the truth for yourself. Without personal derivation of truths, you actually know nothing but stories. Personal derivation is not optional here, it is MANDATORY!