Leo Gura

Contemplate why you're so bothered about it. What do you fear there? Nonduality makes you MORE effective at life, not less. Watch out for such simplistic and wrong assumptions. Life is a bittersweet thing. It's not meant to be 100% sweet. Watch and see. Don't really have one. I do not fawn over celebrities or any authority figures much. Couple of years ago. Yes, enjoy it. Never, nor would I want to be. He clearly had some spiritual attainments. But nothing special about him over any other human being. Every human being is equally God. I liked smoked salmon. I like self-inquiry most. We're all basically racists. It's just hardwired into us. The ego's job is to be self-biased. I am highly introverted and I do get nervous in social interactions sometimes. Pick up helped me overcome a lot of that. But what helps the most is enlightenment experiences. Over the last year, with various enlightenment experiences, it's getting harder and harder to care what people think, or that people even exist. I'm not looking for a coaching lesson. I am happy with the trajectory of my life. I'm into letting it evolve organically. 1) It varies. I experiment with my diet a lot. Every quarter it tends to be different. 2) Probably, I don't really worry about them too much. My focus is on understanding reality, not states. I don't have any fixed schedule. I usually listen to an audio book for 30 minutes every morning while I shower. I tend to read organically. It depends on what I'm in the mood for and what great new book I find. I just pick a book which I'm most curious about at the time. Not all of them. I take fewer supplements now. Not for a while. And maybe never. I am letting things unfold more organically. I'm not gonna force it. If my heart doesn't want to create it, I will not push it. Glad you learned that lesson I have managed a sort of middle way. Not to say that I will never abandon it, but for now I have been able to get massive consciousness growth in the last year while still running Actualized None Yes, but I decided that's not aligned with my life purpose. My purpose is to be generate my own insights. Well, I have changed careers many times before starting Actualized. I would never quit personal development. If anything, I would quit Actualized in order to deepen my pursuit of personal development. Ironically, running Actualized holds back my own development. I would easily have been enlightened by now if I didn't invest so much time in Actualized. I rarely get lonely. For me, reality is just too amazing to be lonely. I would be happy if I was the only person alive in the world. In fact, even more happy. Get more in touch with reality/being and your life purpose, and you will never be lonely again. No! Wheat is evil. It's not possible to quantify. There are of course daily frustrations. But my connection to reality is pretty amazing. You start to feel a bit like a Jedi attuned to The Force which nobody else sees. I can see the infinite beauty of everything more and more. See above answer. Yes, it feels like there is a higher intelligence at work in every facet of reality. Both have helped a lot. Spirituality is starting to transform the very fabric of reality for me. The solid physical world is dissolving into a infinite sublime hallucination. Every problem in life simply dissolves into irrelevance, including death. I don't worry about that at all. I just let my mind organically interconnect everything, and it does so almost effortlessly. My problem is not getting distracted by tangents, but seeing too many deep interconnections. The interconnections are quite literally infinite. So it's hard to keep track of them all for sharing purposes. Yes I used to in the past. Not any more. Sometimes I just self-inquiry while playing trippy music. More fun that way sometimes. Mundane life distractions I don't make a big deal about images of enlightenment, so they don't bother me. I know what I'm after and I know what must be done to get it. It's as simple as that. Yes, I have chronic pain sometimes. There is no magic solution. You try to find way to fix it as much as possible, but in the end if nothing fixes it, you just carry on with your life purpose as best as you can. You have no alternative anyway. I don't worry about retaining information. All the information you really need you will remember. Don't worry about remembering trivial stuff. There's no ideal order to read it. It's gonna depend on where you're at in life and what issues you're tackling. Try to read the top-rated books about consciousness. They are the most important. But you might not be read for them yet. There are many. I tend to distribute my sources very well, so that dozens of the best teachers can influence me. I don't like sticking with any one teacher because all their teachings are partial and incomplete.

When you contemplate, give your contemplation focus. Select a specific topic and try to stay on it.

Deep, deep suffering. Followed by peaks of consciousness to show you how deeply ignorant you are. When you become conscious of how evil you are, that will stun your arrogance into silence.

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.