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@AlexB If you're young and ambitious, I would keep your options open and not tie yourself down with a mortgage. Yes, the rent is a bit wasteful, but it's worth flexibility. Once you get a house, you tend to get stuck. That's why I've avoided buying a house, even though I could.

@Slade Have you considered stand-up comedy? That might be right up alley. You could definitely make a successful niche in spiritual/enlightenment + stand-up. That would bring a new twist to an otherwise low-consciousness field.

@Hardkill Sounds like you should do it. It will grow you enormously, even if you end up utterly failing. Being dependent on your parents at 29 is lame. You're capable of much more than that. You can't listen to parents who you work for whether you should stop working for them. Talk about conflict of interest. Of course they want to keep you under their thumb. They've grown very comfortable with that arrangement. Working with your family is problematic. It's incestuous. You're not getting enough diversity of perspective there. Go actualize your life purpose. Working for your parents is NOT your LP. That's just your comfort zone.

@Serotoninluv Yeah, the territory is singular and undefinable. It has no name and no value-judgments say anything true about it. It just is. It's unknown what it is. It is itself. To see this requires dropping as many ideas about it as possible. The more ideas you have about it, the more distorted your perception of it.

@aniss Look around, see what everyone else is doing, and do the exact opposite.

@Serotoninluv The only thing that exist is the territory! Look around. Everything you see is territory. Even maps are made out of the territory.

@Serotoninluv The map is whatever ideas you have about reality. The territory is BEING.

@egoless That's like asking, "Will it rain tomorrow next year?"

You're more likely to catch an STD there than getting enlightened. It's a giant party. Which is not to say it's bad or that you shouldn't go. But enlightened it will not make you.

1) Nothing stops him. He's totally free. What stops you from sticking your finger in your butt? Nothing 2) There are no who's.

@egoless 1) It's not possible to be alive and not kill. Doesn't matter how enlightened you get. You're gonna kill lots of stuff. The nature of reality is ever-flux. It must feed upon itself. An enlightened person can do everything an unenlightened person can do. In fact, there is zero difference between them. Enlightenment is not about becoming "good". It's about becoming aware of what reality is. Just because you learn that 5+5=10, doesn't mean you won't murder someone. See? Awareness of Truth doesn't constrain action. 2) No, no-free-will means that there is no one who's in control of your body's actions. If you sit in a chair for the rest of your life, that will not be your choice. And if you climb Mt Everest every year, that will not be your choice. No matter what happens, it's not your choice. Because "YOU" are a concept. Like Santa Claus. Santa Claus does not cause Christmas presents to be distributed to kids. See? Because Santa Claus is a conceptual fabrication. 3) This is impossible to comprehend at your current level of consciousness. You must do self-inquiry if you want to grasp it.

I have read reports of people taking Jeffery's course and benefiting a lot from it. If you seek the most efficient spiritual technology in existence, you need look no further than 5-MeO-DMT. It's a veritable spiritual nuclear weapon. But be careful what you wish for Truth is not for the faint of heart.

That's part of the problem. You think I am better than Hitler.

Of course. You were literally Hitler. The only reason you have any knowledge of Hitler is because you are him. Consciousness happens through BEing. You cannot be conscious of a thing without being it. Literally. Ego denies this of course. That's what it means to create the self/other boundary. Nonduality = no boundaries When you can look Hitler in the eye and love him as much as you'd love your child, in that moment you will vanquish all evil in the world. But note: he might still throw you into a gas chamber. But you'll be at peace about it. You will understand why it is necessary.

@Lauritz That's gonna be intense. Good luck! Write us a trip report when you get back.

@The White Belt Instead of "meditating", try to sit normally, like you would on a park bench waiting for a friend, and JUST BE CONSCIOUS. Be conscious of being. Take a small object in your hand like a pen or pencil, and start wondering what it is.

@Serotoninluv And yet, Sean is still confusing the map for the territory. No language, including math or physics, gets at the existential nature of reality.

@mathieu Sometimes haters gonna hate. If you don't go out of your way to piss people off, usually it's not a problem. Just ignore it and carry on with your life purpose and consciousness work. If you are surrounded by haters constantly, change your surroundings. Don't stay in a place where you aren't appreciated for being you. See my video about Toxic Relationships. Cut those out of your life.

These are teaching aids. Pointing towards something transcendental. Don't take them too literally.

@sgn Yes, it sure seems that way when you've not awoken yet.

Guys, watch your projections, name-calling, and finger-pointing. The Devil is going a great job working this thread

If you're already dead, nothing can harm you. That's presently the case. But you're not aware of it. You believe you have something to lose.

@Ilya Sometimes you have to act your way out of neurosis. At other times you have to realize your way out of neurosis. Both are complimentary. Watch out! Good habits done too rigidly, too mechanically, become bad habits. The secret ingredient is consciousness. Meditating mechanically is not true meditation. You must advance to a point where you meditate consciously. It might take a few years of trail and error to start seeing the difference. Rather than thinking of it as meditation, start thinking of it as: BEING CONSCIOUS. Watch out for inventing mechanical ways to be conscious. That's the Devil playing this tricks. Doing one thing but calling it another. Aping consciousness is NOT consciousness, it's aping! See?? Try to sit right now for 5 minutes and just being conscious. No meditation. That's really what meditation is trying to get you to do. And YES!, you can allow yourself to be neurotic. Allowing is the whole point of the process. You must ultimately surrender to the fact that you have no control of anything. If you're being neurotic, allow it whilst maintaining as much mindfulness as you can muster. Get used to letting the ego play itself out. Observe it happening. See my Self-Acceptance video. It will help you with accepting what is. There's no use fighting what is.

It requires a very big commitment. You gotta be his guinea pig for over 6 months, doing his exercises every day, filing reports every week. If not for all that, I would do it. I've already got a lot of commitments. And I've already got a dozen different techniques that I could use for enlightenment. I don't particularly need any more. If one of you guys wants to take the course and report back to us, that would be great. I would be interested to know what techniques he's teaching.

1) Material success != personal development. 2) Successful people are not happy (see my video by the same title). 3) Don't compare yourself to others. You have a unique path you must walk. 4) If what you seek is material success, then studying a lot of personal dev theory can indeed be a distraction. Theory is a tricky thing. The Devil loves to use theory as distraction from action.