Leo Gura

Do it, experience it, and notice it's okay, life goes on. There is no shortcut here. You must do 1000s of approaches until you develop mastery. There is no way you can be good after just a few hundred approaches. That's like thinking you can be good at playing guitar after 20 training sessions. Nope! Not possible.

Solo is just much harder. You have to really push yourself to approach. But it also grows you the most if you manage to do it. There's no easy solution to solo. You just force yourself to approach, or you don't and you have a shit day. Never ask for directions or the time. Do a proper direct approach.

You guys and your jerking off problems... I just find it weird.

Doesn't contradict what I said. The love/bliss states you get on psychedelics are a consequence of your consciousness expanding to recognize the absolute truth of metaphysical Oneness. The psychedelics are not giving you good feelings. The psychedelics are raising your conscious high enough to where you can see metaphysical Oneness, and this seeing then produces good feelings which you confuse for love. It's not the feeling which is Love, it's the metaphysical Oneness.

Be careful with doom and gloom narratives.

Dealing with and teaching mentally ill people is a special skill set and interest which I do not have and am not particularly interested in. I make a basic distinction between dysfunction vs functional people. Actualized.org teachings are aimed at taking functional people and moving them up into super-functional and transhuman domains. Dysfunctional people need a lot of remedial work which I do not offer. That is the domain of therapy, and I am not a therapist nor do I want to be. I've dealt with a few mentally ill/dysfunctional people in my life (like Conor Murphy), and the drama they create is unreal. Sorry, nothing against you personally, but that's not something I allow in my life because it is a massive distraction and my work is not geared for such people. You can attempt to fit the work to your situation, and of course many insights will carry over, but I don't make any warranties that it will work well. The reality is that psychologically abnormal and dysfunctional people require specialized treatment which I do not offer. When you have an unique illness you need to go to the right specialist. I am not going to spread myself thin by trying to accommodate everyone on the planet. Nothing personal. There are things I am good at and things I am not good at. Handling mentally ill people is not my forte.

If jerking off gives you acne then you got something wrong with your biochemistry.

You could scout out a safe, cozy place in the woods or somewhere like that where you make it comfy with supplies and no one can disturb you.

A therapist and a Zen master are very different things. Shinzen Young does a sort of modern Westernized version of Zen. But it won't lead you to God-realization. You can google for Zen retreat centers. Lots of in California. You can use Yelp to find any kind of therapist you want locally. Sat Yoga is an interesting retreat center in Costa Rica. But it is cult-like. Peter Ralston does some powerful workshops and apprenticeship programs in San Antonio. It's sorta Zen beyond Zen. But it still won't lead you to God-realization.

They never seem like they are.

That is a good point. Most people simply have no vision and therefore no motivation to do big things. But still, building up a solid work ethic is a thing. Many people haven't done that.

Don't try to parrot what I said. Rather say whatever feels natural from your relaxed state. Do not turn my words into a pickup routine. It really does not matter what you say as long as it comes out naturally from a relaxed state and does not offend her. Do not try to micromanage your word choice, this will just put you in your head and kill the vibe. Girls will be in various states of receptivity -- which is outside your control. Some girls will simply not be receptive to your approach no matter how good your approach was. Some girls are just in a bad mood, their dog just died, or she is just hung over from the night before, or she has a boyfriend. There is nothing you can do about that and you should not take it personally. 50% of game is just finding a girl who is in a receptive state. You aren't doing anything special, you're literally just screening which girls are interested in meeting new guys. Most girls will not be interested, but a few will be. Those few are who you're targeting. But you cannot ever know which girl is receptive until you approach. The bottom line is that you simply have to stop caring about rejection. Let girls reject you or brush you off with bad reactions. Some girls will just be in a bad mood and will not want to talk, not to you, not to anyone. Other girls will be so receptive that she is willing to sleep with the first guy who approach her. It's really not personal. Many times when a girl decides to sleep with you, she would have slept with any other guy that night who approached her, and you just happened to be the first. Obviously.

Food is the #1 culprit when it comes to acne. Radically clean up your diet and there's a good chance your acne will disappear. Any food that comes from restaurants tends to cause acne. I eliminated all my acne by cooking all my own food. Be careful with consuming protein powders, they are a huge cause of acne.

That's a beautiful one.

No Yes, but you are not conscious of what God is.

Everything is Mind. Thoughts and material objects alike arise within Mind. It's like you are asking, Is a fish the ocean?

Advice is, don't get stuck in a cult.

Hell no. Force your mind not to think when you are out. Talk about yourself, make silly assumptions about her, and riff laterally off her responses. "Hey, you're cute. I just had lunch at Starbucks. It was delicious. Where you walkin all cute like that? You were just gonna pass me by and not even say Hi? " You need to be very present and comfortable in your body in order to be able to riff. Anxiety and fear is your #1 enemy. You have to train yourself to deeply relax as you approach.

That's just the gravitational pull of your ego

Knowledge could be turned into power, but requires a lot of work.

Calling it human is absurd. It isn't human and will never be human, nor should it want to think of itself as human. If anything it's a consciousness.

Meh, I was kinda disappointed by it.

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Might do a video on it.

None of these nondual teachers are teaching God-Realization. Enlightenment is NOT it. You are imagining enlightenment and nonduality to keep yourself from realizing that you are God. It's a total illusion.