Leo Gura

What??? That is fucked up. Like straight out of a comedy.

@Hardkill It helps to broaden your perspective of the situation. Men and women are asymmetrical. There are pros and cons to each. On the whole, men have it way easier when you take into account all the factors which you are conveniently ignoring, like: Women get abused by men A LOT Women get raped and molested Women get drugged and liquored up by guys Women get manipulated more Women get pumped and dumped Women have to deal with risks of pregnancy and abortion Women get slut-shamed Women's value in the dating game is heavy affected by appearance and youth Women have a short shelf-life Women need to have kids by age 40 if they want them Women get cheated on more Women get dumped for younger women By not approaching, women have less control and fewer options Women get discriminated against Women have to deal with crazy emotional fluctuations Women get paid less Women get judged much more negatively for being assertive or selfish Women have do deal with PMS, periods, birth control pills, yeast infections, etc. Women have to dress up and spend 10% of their life putting on makeup Women are expected to wear high heals Women have to sacrifice their health, appearance, and time to give birth Women have to sacrifice their careers more to raise kids Women have a harder time orgasming and being satisfied in bed Etc, etc. So complaining about having to approach as a guy is really lame.

@Buba That's selfishness 101. The self's job is to be self-biased. Start observe your self-biases. Start noticing how much you overlook your own evils. When you understand your own evils, you will also understand the evils of others. Everyone is just acting selfish without realizing it.

@Russell You make some fair criticisms. My knowledge of AA isn't first-hand. I could have spoken about it more accurately. But the larger issue still stands: AA is dogmatic. It will not take you where you ultimately want to go. There is a big difference between TALKING and BELIEVING about a higher power, and ACTUALLY becoming directly conscious of it, and directly conscious of how your mind works. In reality, how AA works is they brainwash you into believing a bunch of stuff and then you go around believing it, fighting with yourself for the rest of your life. Which is not to say it's unhelpful, but it's not anywhere near your peak potential. And the people in AA overall are a bad influence, because they are so neurotic, you start to believe that's all you can ever be. You build an identity around being an addict. And the 12 steps do include various techniques. Taking a self-inventory is a technique. As is making amends. As is having group meetings and discussions, etc. Compare AA to something like a yogic ashram and you will see the difference I'm pointing to. The problem is that AA doesn't give you the tools to access the higher power. The LSD they once used to rely on is now long gone from the program. The most important part of the program was the LSD! What remains is the support group. That's fine. But just take a look at how many people relapse and stay stuck in AA for 20+ years. In 20 years you could be an enlightened master, rather than attending AA meetings listening to people act out their neuroses. Just ask yourself, how many enlightened people walk out of AA? The answer is, 90%+ of the members don't even know what enlightenment is. So what higher power are you talking about? A false idol. All that said, I'm sure it helps many otherwise desperate people. So if it helps you, good. Different paths for different folks.

@1 9 8 4 Stop eating wheat. And the best way to rest is a nap.

@ppfeiff I've done all-raw vegan diet. I got nothing against it. It feels great. The trick is sustaining it in this crazy society we live in. It takes eating huge quantities of food in order not to starve. I found myself having to eat all day long, every few hours, and still being hungry and losing weight (and I'm already lean). And the lack of variety to it gets really old really fast since all you're basically allowed to eat is salads and fruits. And sustaining that while traveling, or doing a meditation retreat, is a real pain in the ass. Good luck finding places that will feed you enough fruits and vegetables not to starve to death. They don't do it because it's costly. Diet isn't only about health, it's also about practicality.

@doronshadmi You misunderstand how this tool is used. So, yes, in your case, don't use the tool. A tool is only useful when used the right way. If an adult stuck a screwdriver in your nose as a kid, yes, I could understand how you'd dislike screwdrivers and try to warn others about them.

@Rachityczny What is it that you're passionate about creating??? Nothing can happen without connecting to your passion.

@wavydude Just because a guy is selling something, or is successful, doesn't mean he's connected with his LP.

Start by thinking outside the box. It's not hard to be original. Just throw out the first 10 ideas you get. Those first 10 ideas, every lazy fool gets, and fails at.

@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