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@Shin Fap - why you shouldn't quit porn & masturbation, because my recovery time is too fast

@exhale You can actually go beyond doing anything.

@Nahm hahahahahahahahahaahahaha Thank you ?

@exhale Oh yes I get you Good question to contemplate... You could say from this perspective that like scientific progress and moral development are more important than babies (this could be questioned with how many kids are needed to become more meaningful to us than the other two, from what level of conscious are we judging etc...), but I am more concerned about the attachment to any of these. It might last longer, but not forever. Maybe I am pointing more towards emotional mastery than towards practicality here... if that makes sense... I resonate with Abraham Maslow's opinion on this very much, I guess I have some sort of human nature and caring for the Universe, which makes thing enjoyable, but maybe I haven't arrived at the final answer yet. It's probably just that when I feel better, I do stuff. And you might maybe look at it from the perspective of transcendence of the story where you see that this is just happening, but still there is this kind of flow that navigates you more towards particular things than some others. Like when you are in love with everything and joyful, you won't go out and hurt people, helping naturally seems like a much better idea. What is your view on this? @Nahm You mean in the relationship between you and your parents / your kids and their grandparents? Could you say that you support anything (maybe not absolutely anything) that arises from them? Hahahahahahaahahaha this sounds so zen devil, but yeh, beautiful <3 Oh yes! I am still confused though about how you manage to do this... Kids these days sometimes feel like they have always been addicted to chocolate and Fortnite, monkey mind, selfish, but have they actually? I wonder what would happen if I would observe a child grow if they were really connected to the Source all their lives... This is inspiring

@Nahm Thank you! Could you elaborate more on what you mean by that?

@exhale No no no, I don't like nihilism much. But I also see that argument that a teaching will live longer as ignorant. When all kids die, all teachings die as well, right.

Yeh without kids there is no teaching to spread And even with kids, the teaching will die, all things will

@4201 I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation with Serotonin. Sometimes it might be the case that you just aren't aware enough to understand what the teacher is saying, for example someone might be too calm, too airy fairy for you, and that's ok, find a better suiting teacher then. But I think that you shouldn't use this as an excuse not to do the practices. Without practices, most teachings will be useless pieces of information that you won't be able to fit anywhere. You have to be honest with yourself about what might be more of an accurate explanation of your situation, it might be something completely different as well. But also Leo suggests that you read/watch/listen to multiple sources, if you only watch him, that might not be sufficient or you might be wasting your time... Good luck on finding that answer that answers it all That's what this is about.

@Nahm Is your parenting style different from how your parents were taking care of you, if they did? How, why?

@danilofaria Anything you do can be taken as a deep spiritual work. If you meditate for twenty minutes but then you play video games for the rest of the day, it is something different as if you were reading, exercising or consciously socializing. The spiritual work can be separated from the rest of what you do, but the thing is, you can grow from doing literally anything, be aware of that.

Maybe you cannot stand his calmness

@docs20 +1 for Fight club @Spiral Wizard Just watch it I guess, but I didn't remember the trailer even though I watched it so I don't know really

@Pacific Sage Thank you for this

I don't have the course, but I can imagine that the exercises there are worth doing. No no no, it's okay. Now you can forget the armchair philosophy, I feel like the armchair philosophy term has more to do with an unpleasant feeling of excess comfort in your body, whereas self-reflection is just being stuck in the world of small self, that is limited by thoughts. This is connected more to seeking than living a life. I just wanted to say that you need to stay vigilant about this self-reflection, because it will create imaginary excuses for you to stay alive as the small self, rather than Love. The doubts are only reasonable in the relative, but their meaning can be thrown away and you can stop resisting. Leo has many videos about the Higher Self I was Leo this question so I can perhaps better understand your situation.

You just think you understand. You can be any kind of thinker, serious, philosophical, scientific, and you can spend days, weeks, months, even years meditating, but self-reflection can always get you. As long as you are self-reflecting, you are trapped. It's not like you understand that much when you're there. By saying that you understand, but it's become so real, you're just giving the problem extra illusory validity, that makes it easier for you to stay in self-reflection. Do you see how you create whether the doubts are real or not? Good to hear Make sure to do the exercises, if you go through them just in your mind, they won't help you @Leo Gura When we are at it, I heard this opinion that it is dangerous to introduce someone, who hasn't yet figured out what even their small self is, to spiritual work. (they probably meant a person in their identity x role-confusion stage of development) I personally think this can be overcome, but I think that Abraham Maslow wrote something in one of his books that when you have a strong ego, (I don't think he meant strong identification, maybe he meant more like maturity, shadow-integration etc...) and you know who you are as a small self, it is easier for you to target your ego and to dissolve it. (or perhaps that you might have less problems with your other values when on the path) I am not a big fan of this approach but I'm interested on your perspective on this as I feel like @Dean Walker, and other people in my social circle might be struggling with this issue.

@Stakres Thank you, I will look for that!

Hey guys, I recently found out about my friend that she's been experiencing psychic powers for about 2-3 years. She isn't struggling with it or anything, but she is looking for high quality sources, preferably books, about prophetic dreams, seeing auras, travelling out of your body, astrology etc... If there are any people like this or who know something that could give her a good pointer, that would really help us.

Oh really? Source?

For reality bending movies: Shutter island - DiCaprio movie about a detective who is investigating in a psychiatric hospital, this movie will play with your mind

@Svartsaft I'm sorry about your feelings. Sometimes this path is twisted, different approaches work differently on different people. What relationships are you talking about, what's on your mind when you cannot sleep?

@Svartsaft Relationships can be beautiful, if you the person is there for you and you love them unconditionally, just because they exist. You can touch a deeper place beyond physicality in them. Of course many people here don't meditate, otherwise they wouldn't waste their time in the threads about consciousness

Sending some juicy videos that I watched: This whole series is great but this video resonated with me the best This is about ayurvedic psychology, blows my mind how some of it is so accurate.

You have to train before you overtrain. The motivator for you to enter the spiritual path is most likely suffering, so you need to do something different. This doubting is, in my opinion, another load of armchair philosophy. Also I think you are your own person and whatever Leo says doesn't have to be 100% true for you, you need to get out of that armchair and actually experiment with yourself, what works for you. I actually think that connecting deeper with Love can help you build deeper relationships beyond the physical and emotional. Leo's videos nowadays aren't comprehensible if you don't meditate, they are there to drive you towards that path. Leo doesn't want you to just think, you need to do the work and then maybe you won't even need Leo which would be the best case scenario. Remember there is no you in the future that works on their relationships/meditation or is happy, there is only the present. You need to do what you want now, otherwise it will never ever happen, and you will end up being miserable.

I cried watching this! No no.. are you joking? I don't know if you can appreciate what's happening here. Yeh I really liked Brad Blanton's book called Radical honesty, he was talking a lot about Gestalt therapy there, and even from what I've read about it, it seems very good if done correctly. Yes yes, you are on point Salvijus, and beautiful also ❤

Hey everyone, Recently, I've been thinking about what career path to choose, what university to go to etc... To give you some idea about where I'm at: I am 16 years old, living in Czechia (Central Europe), 2nd year of high school. For the last couple of months, I've been studying psychology quite a lot with some neuroscience here and there and it's been really interesting, so I began thinking about choosing a career path as a psychotherapist. But today, I went to visit my friends from which one of them is a psychologist and a psychiatrist and his husband and daughter are somewhere in the field of medicine, and the psychologist told me, that studying psychology at the university is very much about theory (mental masturbation) and that he feels like I would be wasting my potential, if I only studied that. It kind of sounds like a typical response from someone who studied medicine, but then he started telling me what it really is like with studying psychology here and there are some psycho/hypno/gestalt/integral therapy courses, that are of greater value in his eyes, as they are more practical. And that I could even be more independent as a psychiatrist (or perhaps something related like neurologist/sexuologist), because I would understand both the psychological and physiological side. And I mean, I see what he means and I am impressed when someone who understands these things like biology, chemistry, talks about them, but it feels like a very reckless idea to reorient myself like that. I have a couple of questions: Do you think studying psychology in other countries (preferably in Europe) is more advanced than in Czechia (theory, mental masturbation), how? Do you guys think it's possible to develop an interest that seems crazy at first and become good at it, use it well, do you have a similar experience? Do you think there is a better way beyond all this, that would make me the most useful as a person? What is your experience?