SgtPepper

its fine dude.

take a break every once in a while and then come back to thinking about these topics.

You have to connect with your heart. Essentially, your feelings and emotions. How to be proactive about it? I mean just acknowledge how you feel on a day to day basis and do not ignore it or try to say ego or whatever. It's a part of your nature, so praise it. If you feel angry, let the feelings come through, if you feel sad, lonely, or joy and happy, let it yourself be in those emotions completely.

Nope. I love songwriting and doing it almost near daily basis either in my head, writing lyrics, coming up with riffs, and then when I have more free time, tracking it down and figuring out what makes a song good. Follow your passion, that's true living.

the only skill you're gonna master doing pick up is Pick up skills. You are not actually going to master having a mature relationship with a women in my opinion. That will only happen by having actually having a long-term relationship with a woman. How to practice talking to girls? Just find a common ground where they are at and talk with them. Are you attending a university? get into a circle with guys and girls and discuss life, listen to their point of view, exclaim your point of view, not much else to it. Going to parties and picking up tipsy chicks is not the same as being able to have a relationship with one person for two years and being able to keep it fresh, stoke the fire between each other, and problem-solving.

lol, no. A girl can open up to someone who she is attracted to. She can also open up to her friends. If a girl is opening up to you, it mean she's opening up to you.

No. What would be the motive?

Just keep looking till you find a girl that you resonate with. And a serious intimate relationship with definitely grow you. Doesn't necessarily have to be a romantic relationship. Having children for example will grow you too.

You explain its to grasp the nature of reality or be like, to see what I am when I am still and not distracted by the "external world" Then you question the crap out of his beliefs haha. Thats one way. Also ask him if he actually studied spirituality? does he actually know anything about it, or does he derive his ideas from assumptions vs. personal experience.

Love is connection. So if "you" want to feel it. You want have to become aware of intimately connected EVERYTHING is. edit: It is also absolute acceptance of what is.

Don't think about it too much, just read what you are interested in at the moment. Let your curiosity take you places.

That child was abused. That's why he felt unwell every time it happened. They scratched the verses into skin... you can try it yourself. write the number 4 on the lightest part of your skin with your finger nail, don't be afraid to dig deep, and then wait, rub your skin a bit and you will see the 4 appear reddish on your arm.

I thought It was a great post. I love the simplicity of it!

Me too!

if your goal is to not "abuse" it, you have to set proper boundaries around your usage of it. So maybe use it biweekly and create a ritual around it. Use the time to meditate and self-reflect.

Yoga is complex as fuck. Your conception of yoga is less than basic and is pretty much developed from western propaganda about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga Just read that whole wiki page and you've only scratched the surface. One aspect of yoga is about stretching, but your next issue would be what you think stretching is for and the potential it has for us.

Hehe. I love those songs . You can tell I am a big Beatles fan by my username. Another great one from a radically different band: "Well, I have a home Longing to roam I have to find you I have to meet you Sanctum your face Slowing your pace I need your guidance I need to seek my Innervision Innervision My pupils dance Lost in a trance Your sacred silence Losing all violence Stars in their place Mirror your face I need to find you I need to seek my Innervision Innervision Innervision It's never too late to reinvent the bicycle Small breaks for the new Giving you life Giving you force There's only one true path in life The road that leads to all leads to one There's only one true path in life (innervision) The road that leads to all (innervision) Your sacred silence, losing all violence"

All that's required is for you to surrender, thats it.

Pretty awesome song. Too many good psychedelic songs to name. But I'll leave one I really like: "We were talking, about the space between us all And the people, who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late when they pass away We were talking, about the love we all could share When we find it, to try our best to hold it there, with our love With our love we could save the world, if they only knew Try to realize it's all within yourself, no-one else can make you change And to see you're really only very small And life flows on within you and without you We were talking, about the love that's gone so cold And the people who gain the world and lose their soul They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them?" - George Harrison

Lol. I feel silly. Hmm. I can certainly see that. Why not right? I still think Ego is part of it all else it would not be, but it is. It just should not run it without it being fueled by inner-being.

You are right! But. This is something I wondered yesterday actually. How does one hold an ego idea such as conservatives have terrible principles, but at the same time recognize the multiple perspectives? In another context the principles of conservatism may actually be the best principles to have for a particular situation. The perspective that Trump is a horrible president for example is contingent upon who you are asking and further, their education, culture, and life experiences. So... Who am I to say one way is good or bad. From a relative perspective, it just is, and it depends on the context whether a set of ideas are useful or not, and it will always be related to the ego's position. I am not saying this as someone who love or hates Trump. To me there is a bigger systemic issue with government and politics and its in relation to the average person, but that besides the point because it is a relative perspective lol. I am not attacking Leo here, but it surprises and slightly confuses me how he encourage the ability to hold multi-perspectives, but yet appears to hold finalized conclusions about Trump, when from a relative perspective, it's all relative to the situation, the person, and more. From a relative perspective it would just make sense to not even have a "real" opinion on the issue because there is no determined perspective. It's like going in circles cause nothing is absolute besides the absolute itself, but for the sake of order, communication, and my relationships, I hold a view, that I recognize is relative. Maybe I am not seeing the bigger picture on relativism yet. So I will look into it.

Yes I do. But I find it difficult to be able to separate a conversation about ego vs. contemporary issues of society at large since I feel that to make changes in society, requires ego, accumulated knowledge, and an effort to find what direction is "better" than another. Society at large is in its own ego and perhaps evolves when individuals within society drop ego so another evolved ego can form to change the Society Ego. If I drop ego, I probably would not even post on the forum since It is ultimately much more pleasing to sit in peace and let it be. There's nothing to fight or change. I am not at a point where I can balance staying in a non-ego state while posting opinions. In one way I am and another I am not. Ego loves to participate and connect with other egos who are ultimately itself.

haha. I do not really see myself as resisting green. If anything I feel I am moving to yellow. I have a little bit of orange because I am young and I gotta make something of myself financially speaking. Maybe I should re-watch the stage Green episode though... I lean toward liberal values with a libertarian twist. I am very open-minded compared to people I know. Connected to my emotions which is why I am not in the STEM field and I am also a musician. I am not very materialistic. I like nice things, but I am not strongly attached to them. If anything I am more fascinated by systemic thinking and how we can apply it to improve the function of our society. It is very clear to me that life is a system within a system within a system. My main issue is mastering discipline and strategic thinking.

Self-reflection and self-understanding 100%. In a sense. I want to teach others how to effectively self-reflect that they can heal themselves so they won't need a therapist or psychologist. and I am 100% going to be bias. As long as I communicate, I can only speak my experience and it will inherently be biases, else I'd sit around here saying I don't know because I only know what's real to me. I am only aware of my ego. I can only communicate through that avenue.

I definitely agree with that. or at least, that's always been my concern since I was a teenager. To me there will be authorities and hierarchies. I mean just look at this community, we are all on this pathless path, but lets not kid ourselves to say we equally value each other opinions. I am 24 and I look up to Leo because he is older and has more experience than me in this field. At some point, I will outgrow all teachers and become a teacher myself for another student. How else can I listen to someone with complete attention if I do not humble myself or else I would not be reading any books or watching Leo's content. I mean why not just become a heroin dealer vs becoming an engineer that develops phones? Why not, become a prostitute, sucking 21 dicks a week vs getting a job at a daycare taking care of people's children? Because we individually actually PREFER stuff. As long as I'd rather be a labor in construction than sucking dicks for money than I will always value something over something else. Hence Hierarchy. Or forget about money. As long as I'd rather snowboard than skateboard, then snowboarding will always appear "higher" to me. YES in the bigger picture, when you zoom out, we are all one, but from our relative small perspective, this stuff does matter. the sameness and difference episode is relevant to this discussion. Edit: Disclaimer: excuse my passion btw. I enjoy discussing and am not trying to be argumentative. I am as much a student as everyone here. I am just becoming extreme in my communication here to get across my point. @Jack River I agree with you. As someone playing the capitalism game, in western society, going into the psychology field. That is exactly what I plan to do and am hoping to earn a living by guiding people with many perspectives and approaches.