Leo Gura

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@rrodriguez111 The monkey-mind will latch onto anything it can find. It's not swallowing that distracts you. It's the monkey-mind. It will fade away within a few weeks or months of consistent practice. You'll advance to other, more subtle distractions.

Oddly enough you can be enlightened and still hold many silly beliefs. Beliefs die hard.

@carlo You're not doing do-nothing properly. Watch the Do Nothing video again and notice that you're specifically told not to try to stop thinking. That is doing something!

@BeginnerActualizer That's why I talk more about life purpose than passion. Life purpose is a life-long commitment to a particular passion, which is formalized and strategic enough that it will support you even when you feel depressed, lazy, or down on your luck.

@Foreign It's good that you're at lease conscious enough to realize the problem. The reality is that you certainly will pass on your neuroses to your child unless you take some action. The good news, you've got plenty of time to self-actualized while your daughter is still young. In a few years, you can make lots of progress. Start with baby steps. Perhaps start with a 20 minute per day meditation habit.

@framu Sounds like you got a hit on who/what you really are. The trick is maintaining it and not getting dragged back into ego. There's nothing to be afraid of. Keep digging deeper into it and notice that the fears cannot touch you if you are nothing.

In an effort to make this community tighter and more on-point, I've decided to merge the Habits & Productivity sub-forum and the Lifestyle Design & Travel sub-forum into the main Self-Actualization sub-forum. Don't worry, all the content will still remain, it will just be moved over to Self-Actualization. This will make the Self-Actualization sub-forum more active and productive while simplifying navigation. Thanks!

Guess that means I'm disqualified

I plan to release it just like the regular videos. But it will take a while to interview everyone and assemble it. Probably 1 year or so timeframe. I'm trying to do one long 2-hour documentary rather than fragments or parts.

Sure, take a look at Osho for example. 91 Rolls Royces, lol.

Soon

Covered here: http://www.actualized.org/articles/being-a-spiritual-seeker-good-or-bad

Quite neurotic. Try instead loving yourself like a 5-year-old child next time. Watch some Matt Kahn videos By fighting with yourself during meditation, you strengthen the illusion of the self. There is no one to fight with. All your struggles are illusion! There is no one is control!

I read Jed McKenna's first book and immediately recognized what he was talking about because it fit with my own musing from years of epistemology study. Lots of gains. It would take a long time to describe them all. Here's brief list: More peace of mind Purging of old neurotic emotions One incredible enlightenment experience Much greater self-awareness More focus More mindfulness An entire direction for my life Haven't listened to him too much. He seems great. A grunt who can manage everything I manage would cost $200,000/yr. I moved here because of the insane nightlife. But I haven't gone out to the clubs in like 2 years now. No other ideas. There were hundreds of names. I can't even remember any more. The problem is always finding the name available as a domain. All the good domains are taken. I got lucky in that the owner of Actualized.org let it expire the same month I came up with the name, and so I snatched it up!

If you can afford it, and you want some of the deepest consciousness training in the world, that fall retreat will blow your mind. BTW, you don't have to do the full 4 week retreat, you could just do 1 or 2 weeks. Actually, a 28 day retreat for $4000 is not a bad deal at all. It includes food too! Not the greatest food, but eh, you can't be too picky about such things. When you're cheap with your personal development, don't be surprised when you fail to get good results. I will be interviewing Peter for a documentary about enlightenment next week. I will interview a handful of masters who have 40+ years experience each!

They matter in the sense that if you can't discipline yourself to ace a government exam, how you gonna ace the much more emotionally challenging aspects of life? How you show up in life tend to be consistent. I find that people who slack off in school tend to have the exact same attitude towards life. And their lives are shit. That said, of course there is no direct causal link. You could technically flunk school and become a rockstar human being, but I wouldn't bet money on that. And none of this is to say there aren't serious problems with our education system. There are! Which is why I recommend taking your education into your own hands. Going WAY beyond the basic curriculum, but also including it. As far as grades themselves, and even entire diplomas, the truth is they virtually don't matter in real adult life. Nobody cares about your grades, diploma, or what school you went to. They care about what results you can generate. And if they DO care, then those are the kind of people and places I would avoid, because it's just a silly status game. Focus on mastering life and business, not on jumping through somebody's hoops like a well-trained poodle.

Eventually mainstream science will come around and recognize enlightenment. Because enlightenment is an empirical fact. It will just take a long time. Science cannot avoid the objective/subjective split forever. Once neuroscience gets deep enough, fundamental dogmas of science will have to seriously be called into question, and there will be a paradigm shift in mainstream science. How long that will take, who can say? All that being said, don't count on science as being a way towards enlightenment. All science will be able to do is to explain via better models how consciousness, brains, and matter/energy interact and interpenetrate. Then again, maybe some day science will be able to just surgically remove the ego structures from the brain. But it will still never be able to perfectly model enlightenment because the fact remains that the model is not the territory.

I'm grateful for how good life has been to me. Not eternally grateful though, because it's really easy to forget and take for granted. Gotta remind myself of it consciously.

You're asking me to promote all my competitors?! My sleep schedule can be erratic. Right now I go to sleep around 1am and wake up around 9am. Making faces in front of a camera is pretty easy Previously answered. Thanks for the sentiment, but I don't know if I'll ever be in Germany. It's pretty far from Vegas and I don't really have any reason to go. Not knowing about enlightenment in college. And not meditating since I was a kid.

@aze Do that process for another several thousand hours. It's like you're asking "What's next?" after you traveled 1 mile towards NY from LA.

That's not really necessary. If you want to get enlightened, you can do it without changing your environment at all. In fact, plans to make drastic environmental changes are often just a distraction of the ego. In the end, it will all boil down to you sitting in a quite room facing the agony of not knowing yourself. No guru can save you from that. Muster the self-discipline to sit and look now. You'll have to no matter what. The only question is how many years you'll waste with spiritual frippery before you throw all your gurus under the bus and sit.

That's our lot as humans. This big brain of ours turns out to be a double-edged sword.

You might as well ask why the squirrel has to gather acorns for winter. Wouldn't it be nice if the squirrel was just born and was handed an infinite pile of acorns to feast on? It would be even better if the acorns were liquefied and mixed with sugar and pumped directly into the squirrel's stomach via IV. Then he wouldn't have to exert effort to crack those acorns with his teeth and swallow.

Two of the most enlightened people I've met were both happily married. You don't even understand what a relationship is until a few enlightenments in. Sex != relationship In fact you can be in a relationship and celibate.