Leo Gura
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The mistake is in making this an either/or choice.
BOTH!
The answer is always BOTH!
People don't like hearing that because it means more work. And that's absolutely right! If you want to match up to someone like Aristotle or Da Vinci, you best be hustling from the crack of dawn to late into the night. Those people put in massive amounts of hours studying various fields. They weren't dabblers. They were very serious about their work and their life.
Life is pretty long. If you use your time wisely, you have time to master multiple fields. The problem is, most people find it hard enough to master just one field, let alone two or three. That really takes exceptional dedication and vision, and also a fair amount of neurotic workaholism.
The danger in taking on multiple fields is that you master none.
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Yes, it will probably happen, sometime far down the road. I don't want to make a course on something that I haven't mastered yet.
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Thanks all!
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@student This has nothing to do with your age. Fear of surrendering the ego is ALWAYS in the way of enlightenment. It is pretty much the biggest obstacle, perhaps aside from distraction.
It won't get any easier with age. In fact, it should be easier now, while you're young and your mind is still relatively fresh and open to new things.
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Focus on one thing at a time. Baby steps when you're just starting. Pick one habit to install and master it.
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@Hardik jain A Vipasanna retreat is pretty hardcore. You should start with just building up a 20-minute daily meditation practice. Do that for a year or two, then try Vipasanna again.
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54 minutes ago, actualized1 said:you coded the site and forum Leo?
No, I didn't code it, but I installed it and manage it. Forum software is extremely complex and prone to bugs and security loopholes. It needs to be constantly maintained by a team of professional coders. And this forum software is still rather new, so they are ironing out bugs every week.
And every new update potentially introduces new bugs! Which then requires a new update.
So yeah, it can get messy. But in the long-run, this software is very good and will become very stable.
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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.
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Oddly enough you can be enlightened and still hold many silly beliefs. Beliefs die hard.
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@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!
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@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.
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@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.
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Over the last 2 weeks there was a bug with the forum software that prevented people from logging into the forum, including myself!
It took me a while to find a fix for this weird bug.
I'm happy to report it's been fixed!
Sorry for the delay and technical problems.
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@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.
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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!
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1 hour ago, Gmork said:Lesson cant be more than 25 min. (When in class) No one can be at high efficiency for longer than ~30 min and thats why there should be no lecture longer than that. No one can actually LEARN form long 90 min lecture.
Guess that means I'm disqualified
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15 hours ago, Huz88 said:When are you planning to realise the documentary on actualised.org?? Oh my I am so exited!! I have got a smile on my face bigger then this
right now!
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.
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Sure, take a look at Osho for example.
91 Rolls Royces, lol.
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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!
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On 4/12/2016 at 9:53 AM, Arik said:@Leo Gura Who introduced you to enlightenment and what really hooked you onto your own journey? What told you right away that this wasn't just philosophy or far-out eastern fairy tales?
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.
On 4/13/2016 at 1:19 AM, Bittu said:What kind of gains have you gotten off meditation? How long do you meditate/visualize or enlighten yourself daily?
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
On 4/13/2016 at 5:46 AM, Lorcan said:What do you think of Alan Watts.
Haven't listened to him too much. He seems great.
On 4/13/2016 at 11:10 AM, Dummy said:You could hire a grunt.
A grunt who can manage everything I manage would cost $200,000/yr.
On 4/13/2016 at 2:13 PM, Huz88 said:why have you chosen to live in Las Vegas? What appeals to you there?
I moved here because of the insane nightlife. But I haven't gone out to the clubs in like 2 years now.
On 4/14/2016 at 5:17 PM, Emerald Wilkins said:@Leo Gura Were there any other Youtube channel ideas that you came up with before settling on creating Actualized.org, or did the idea come to you as one whole inspiration? What were the other names you were debating on if any? Thanks.
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!
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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!
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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.
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Most people's lives have so much fat you could trim without even touching their life purpose.
Life purpose needs to be managed wisely. To become a workaholic at one's life purpose is to lose sight of the bigger picture, and it's a common trap for many media-hailed entrepreneurs and tycoons like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, etc. These people are successful, but their lives are far less than they could be. Don't get distracted by glamour and glitz. Be a good editor of your own life.