Bill W

Ignorance is no defence lol

So you are going for thread lock status plus risking the ban hammer. You will get 3 warning points. 1 for each girl in the poll lol

Get in! I managed to vote before this thread gets locked.

Yes exactly. People who like to gossip find it important to keep gossiping.

This thread has survived 5 hrs. Has flown under the radar.

I just wanted to bump my review. This book is just packed full of wisdom. Great read.

Okay so like modelling? Looking for a role model kind of thing? I understand.

Have you ever thought of doing one of those YouTube entrepreneur adverts? The one's that you can't wait for the "Skip" button to activate. You might make a killing! You can advertise the perfect method lol. Do you work in sales? Good post. Keeps it simple. Back to basics. Totally agree it's worth practicing this.

Love it. Reverse empathy. You are well developed in this area of your development.

And if they do, then what? What does it matter? I'm not being awkward with you, I am genuinely wondering what it will serve if we do or do not establish that they do?

Thanks Pluto. That means my post would have made it before the lock. I am grateful.

I read the whole thing. I feel like this sometimes. Thankfully not too often and perhaps not to the severity of how you experience this. Your post reminds me a bit of "perspective" when you describe that people seemingly don't give a shit. What I mean by that is that sometimes I get a powerful dose of perspective that my life is pretty good compared to many others. I think of rape, torture, mutilation etc. The perspective is super powerful but then I quickly lose the perspective and then can feel agitated and aggrieved at something so petty it beggars belief. I get stuck in my own world. In my own head and forget the wide world and bigger picture. The serenity prayer is something I use when trying to keep perspective.

I think masturbation, porn and video games are fine if done in moderation. Gossip is a good one to try and eliminate. Masturbation and porn are great for me although the masturbation is dropped as I don't need it right now as I have a girlfriend. Well I masturbate with her but I count that as part of the sex.

I'd rather be called a devil. It has an air of banter about it.

I love all the teachings and books I've looked at with Osho. I saw the documentary as well. I guess it happens with many teacher's in that they end up over doing things a bit? Excess rather than moderation. Most of them are probably just as obsessive as we are.

My idea of what an ego is, is probably not what any other person would say it is! I have developed my own theory on this that I mostly keep to myself. I'm not sure if my idea of what the ego is correlates with what any authorities on ego would say. Actually to call it my own theory is a stretch. I think books like the Chimp Paradox have helped me form this opinion and belief. Our ego is a major reason for monkey mind. It is a mostly dysfunctional alarm system that one day might evolve into a more functional part of us, but until that happens, all we can do is try to transcend it. There must have been a good reason for it, but somehow it has malfunctioned mostly. It see's danger where there is none. It wants us to strive for things that are not actually always in our own best interests. The ego is willing to sacrifice the whole of the rest of the person to meet it's needs. People killing each other over an insult, or road rage are examples of how dysfunctional the ego is. It literally kills you. It makes you the dumbest motherfucker around. I'm not sure if we need to work on eliminating or just retraining it. I'm not sure if there would be any catastrophic consequences of eliminating it. For me, Enlightenment is the transcending of the ego. Intentionally transcending the ego is the most advanced life skill there is for me. You would be in the top 1% of the world, if not the top 0.1% in terms of being an advanced human being. You cannot be offended. You always forgive. Life holds no fear. If there was a medication or therapy that got you to this point, it would be the most valuable thing in existence, especially if you had it and others did not. You would be in the top 1% or 0.1% even of the most effective human beings on the planet. It would be like steroids for the mind and soul. The mind with a transcended ego is a fortress. It would be like Neo from the Matrix when he is dodging the bullets for the first time. This is Heaven on Earth.

Hi Natasha, This reads to me as you attempting to put a more mature spin on the purpose of this thread. Fair enough. I'm not the moral authority Police as I have a lot of my own less mature / growing up issues to work on. To me this thread shows that even Leo can have an off-moment and that we are all still battling the idiot inside of us. Joel Osteen, I am sure can take sillyness on the chin and rise above it. I have no personal attachment to him anyway. I like silly comedy too, heaven knows I watch some strange stuff to get laughs, I just wouldn't make a thread on it under the sub section of the forum that's entitled meditation, consciousness, spirituality, and enlightenment. I think there is a separate thread for this kind of stuff already. Laughs and giggles etc. It's also so easy to mock others, and often Leo himself would reply "just get on and do the work" and he is correct about that. I'm actually just feeding back to Leo and the forum what I have learned from Leo and the forum itself. Get on with your own work and don't waste time taking the piss. I'm guilty myself at times. I'm not better than anyone else here.

@Zigzag Idiot Nice one and thanks for the other recommendations.

I actually wouldn't mind if you defined highly conscious as I'm not sure what that is (genuinely question). I've been pretty much agnostic all my life, neither "here" or "there" in terms of religious beliefs. Over the past 9 months I've become very interested in Christianity, so I'm at the beginning of my journey, and probably looking for the same literature you are asking me about. I will say that I am enjoying the author Gina Lake. I think some of her stuff is referred to as "channeling". I don't care either way for channeling. The text is useful or not, regardless of where it came from so to speak. A year ago I'd have dismissed these books out of hand just by the cover, thinking them as nonsense. How times have changed for me. These are the two books of hers I've really got a lot from

One my favorite books is this

If I was a moderator I'd lock this thread. Sorry to be the party pooper. I can be a right miserable git at times, but alas, this is a place where we try to rise above the general trash that exists all over the internet! Love to all though (seriously). Enjoy the comedy.

This is unbelievable. What a fantastic gesture. I wouldn't have complained having to pay for this. Can I make a donation to anything as a thank you?

@Jkris Hi, I didn't read that thread. If anyone wants to know why a thread is locked they could speak to the moderator who locked it, but usually the reason is given at the end of the thread just before locking. They could always PM a moderator. They will point out the mistake/error and it can be corrected by starting a new thread or just dropping the issue. I think that's how it works pretty much? I think sometimes also threads get locked through no fault of the OP of the thread.

I hate this saying. I accept it has it's merits though. Also, I believe the term "choice" is a grey area somewhat. People can only "choose" something if they are aware and understanding of their options. It's like consent. It's not consent if the person doesn't know what they are agreeing to. My personal belief is that some people just don't know there is another way or many other ways to approach their life. I'm not excusing the need to take personal responsibility though.

I forgot about a cognitive technique of identifying your "demands". This is related to not being flexible and having beliefs and expectations that are out of touch with how the world and other people actually are. I love Albert Ellis' work for neurosis. It's simple and effective. He was a genius. YouTube him.