Danioover9000

I'm reminded of a story I listened to when I was attending a local retreat with an occultic Gura. He was slowly pacing back and forth on the pearl-white, wide stage he's on. I was at the front row, and he gazes at the back row. " a long time ago, my teacher once told me a long-bearded old man, trudged up a hill with his cane, smiling, taking in nature before him, and came across an oranged cloaked man sitting on a stony patch, with beads all over his head.". He eyes each attendee at the back, landing at each guest, "The happy old man resigns to sit across the oranged-cloaked man, onto the soft green grass. Their eyes met and the old man could tell this man's devoid eyes have seen another part of nature. Before greeting each other, a long-haired, flute-playing man strides along the graveled, muddied path with lengthy strides. Strangely, like the orange-cloaked, beads-headed man, he instead has a spiky flower that sits slanting away from his head, which contrasts the bluish soft powdered skin of his face. And for that matter, his entire bluish body. Like the old man, he flows into sitting on the wet, graveled path he walks, and with vibrant eyes, greets the old man eyes and the orange-cloaked man's eyes-". He then starts eyeing up the middle row. "They introduced themselves, the old man's name is Lao-Tsu, the oranged-haired man, Buddha, and the flute-playing man, Shiva. They then commenced their discussion about nature itself. However, each knowing the difficulty of talking about the true nature of nature, begin by first declaring an attribute to it. Buddha first declares nature is bitter, Shiva declares nature instead is sour, and Lao-Tsu finally declares nature is sweet.-". After spending some time here on this thread, and seeing how users interact with each other on the issues of race discrimination, inequality, and left vs. right politics, I can't help but detect how each mind of the users are battling each over, framing and re-framing each other's pieces of information, inaccurately interpreting each other, trying to control the bigger, mainframe of this thread: Will Trump be re-elected? This is the mainframe: 'Will' sets this context as a future possibility, which is comparable to an imaginary scenario, of which little can be argued for in terms of objectivity. 'Trump' is already a loaded word, that has a variety of associations in minds today, starting from the right, as a successful businessman ready to 'make America great again', and show 'those sleazy politicians that leached us some real change!' that'll finally 'stop undocumented immigrants coming in!' Or a man that'll finally make my business profit some more, and him being a business person himself, he'll finally bring America's economy to greater levels than China! Or To others from the left, an idiot that'll run this great country to the ground, who's merely an idiotic racist that doesn't know what he's talking about' and so on depending on your position and life experiences. 'Be re-elected' is a nasty part of this mainframe. Why? First, it re-inforces the future, into a more specific direction: will history repeat itself? Depending on who you are, this can bring out, once again, feelings of fear and defeat (if you're leftist), or feelings of hope and confidence (if you're rightist), from the possibility of re-living Trump's victory again, and keeps this mainframe as a specific frame within the general projected future frame. Predictably, different users here bring up issues about race discrimination, inequality, and policing, issues that stem from a different situation/context: George Floyd's case and #blacklivesmatter protests, and some come from lived experiences. I remember the first time I saw a black man, and his name is Michael Jordan, who was playing as one of the characters that, at the time, I thought discovered how to travel to the cartoon world and got to hang out with Bugs Bunny and the other cartoon characters I liked. That left an impression on me. Shortly after, I was into music, when I first heard Michael Jackson's songs he was a favorite of mine. When I learned about his backstory briefly, that shocked me and left my young mind confused then (I was around 7 years old) and I couldn't figure out why he went from black-skinned to white-skinned. That left an impression on me. Years later, during my adolescent years, I got to stay in the Seattle area and continued my entire middle schooling. Not only did the racial diversity of students shocked me a little bit, but my experiences with the Afro-American part of the schooling, positives, and negatives, really re-contextualized how I saw that part of the human species, was different from the Michael Jordan/Jackson modal (without the blue school uniforms, and some common practices and procedures from teachers and the environment I learned from my UK primary-elementary schooling, I would confidently be lost and confused as to which class and which peers to hang out with). Come to think of it, a lot happened so quickly that at the time I couldn't recognize a pattern forming, Years later, during my high school years, I was in North Canada, Quebec, at yet again I met some very different people with different cultural backgrounds, with an added challenge: the French-English language, bilingual culture, and of course another country with different cultural importances like, in Quebec, they loved their poutines (fries with gravey and cheese), were more liberal with regards to clothing, and loved hockey. However, the American culture didn't have this particular fetish for poutines or liberal clothing (maybe, I was told off for some of my fashion sense), and they loved Rugby more than hockey or soccer. Speaking about my childhood, I remembered the first chess game I had with my Dad. At first, it felt hard, trying to associate meanings onto each chess piece, how each piece moved to each part of the chessboard, learning all the chess rules and techniques, and piece values. I didn't continue playing the game, until many years later, when I was able to watch a recorded match on youtube between Gary Kasparov, the world champion at the time, versus deep blue, the latest chess A.I developed by IGN at the time, and that entire match was for some reason exciting enough that I picked up chess as a hobby. I remembered very well a hard chess game I had with an A.I program on my phone, that I lost plenty to. Each move I made I was calculating each variation of moves to make, evaluating each sequence and whenever I knew a sequence is bad I would discard it out of my mind, to keep continuing searching for better moves. During the match, I found the greatest sequence that limited the A.I"s influence of the board while maximizing my ability to attack its king. There was a user here that I was communicating to that brought up many different points, really keeping in line with the mainframe of this thread, without diverting and going deeply into too much on race discrimination and somewhat more on policing and adds in the spiritual/paranormal topic like entity manipulation, which was to me at the time so left field, but had some interesting interconnections to the actual mainframe I established and we had an interesting back and forth, and most of the time I was trying to get the user to pause for a bit a look at the assumptions being made here, on the user's pet theory, or you could say conspiracy theory, that the user draws between spirits and elections. I can't quote or bring the user's name here, for some reason they're all gone, but he was rather confused and from his writing seemed triggered when I was 'conflating' A holy man with spiritual powers, stating to the majority of immigrants that 'Europe belongs to Europeans' and my way of telling it was too conformist and inaccurate. He insists that instead, it was part of a spell to lull people into conformity and moral obligation, that demons were at work, trying to feed off of the emotional turmoil of every election. Again, I tried to help him re-frame his side of the story, but he just up and went 'poof'', and now I'm starting the forget how interesting our back and forth was, let alone the point of our interaction at all. Which reminds me of that chess game. I finally defeated the A.I. program, and I felt very happy. Later on the day, though, I realized I didn't save our match, and I felt so annoyed and felt like what was the point of having such a victory when I lost the data that I could learn from. I even was trying to remember each move of the game, a caught myself here, and there misremember or misplacing pieces that it was frustrating. This brought up a memory of the aftermath of Gary Kasparov versus. Deep blue. Despite Deep Blue winning, controversially, it was taken apart and discarded. Near the end of my high school year, I remember not liking too much hip hop, but I remember one song in particular called 'Rap God' and I was liking the song. If I'm not mistaken, it was playing on the radio, or I was listening on an online website. When I got around to seeing the official video, I was surprised, that a white man was rapping, and rapping really well! Briefly learning about his background, at that point I felt that despite the differences, from racial to cultural, that actually there can be similarities, despite emotional frictions and differences that we can somehow co-exist. When the Gura's gaze lands at the front row I'm in, he exclaims "Unfortunately, my teacher said that Buddha, Shiva, and Lao Tsu couldn't quite resolve their discussion of nature, and so, they conclude themselves and part ways. However, the Buddha's understanding of a bitter nature now has some elements of sweet and sour; Shiva's conception of a sour nature is mixed with bitter and sweet, and Lao Tsu's understanding includes not just sweet, but bitter and sour natures as well." You know, it was one of those moments back in life where you would, like, be giddy and rush towards the roller coaster, to really get at the action, until later on at the top of that peak you go 'Why the hell am I doing?'. Well, I raised my arm and asked the Gura "So, were the teachers able to understand the natures in the end?". He shrugs, saying " My teacher did say they have, by a miracle, managed to communicate the impossible, to their peoples at the time. But, people's heads are like lakes, and when they come together, their minds are like the seven seas and their minds, then, create torrents of muke and storms to cloud a single drop of truth. In a bizarre way, humanity is itself an achievement of lies, a really vast collection of siddhis onto itself. Probably why other masters warn of seeking out paranormal powers: you have already been enmeshed in powers around you. It was my speculation, back then, that this was why spiritual rites and magical abilities were guarded. Now, because of the mind's nature, there's no need, it's already warped with magical lies."

@Dutch guy Sorry, I wasn't intending on being reactive. I slightly agree with your points on police brutality and culture. I was just reminded of the Deepak Chopra vs. Sam Harris debate, and how similar the dynamics are between the users here, the Sam Harris's that articulated far more than you did. Like Chopra, you struggle to contest with people here that have a binary opposite view to your own, similar views, or views outside the context of this thread and situation. However, I get your side and am not debating against you here. I agree with parts of your views here. Yes, he does like peace when other cultures keep to their own without too much mingling. The Dalai Lama, a holy, supernatural saint, that altered the wether during the Chinese communist attack on the Tibetan temples, saying ' Keep Europe for Europeans' is saying a lot.

@Dutch guy Most of the threads I've seen between you and others seem to suffer from the Deepak Chopra vs. Sam Harris dynamic, where you don't quite skillfully articulate yourself while the oppositions could do better, a few did quite well to articulate their points. However, Chopra is still pointing to some big truth, despite his lackluster delivery of it. @Dutch guy is pointing to some truth here that the user struggles to clearly type it user-self, and we're criticizing this user's delivery, but not the truth behind the wall? If the Dalai Lama, an enlightened man, and a supernaturally gifted man, can say 'Keep Europe for Europeans', doesn't it give it some validity at all?

Didn't the Dalai Lama once said to 'Keep Europe for the Europeans'?

@Dutch guy You are tickling my funny bone. @Carl-Richard

@Serotoninluv Can a person with a severe mental disorder, in such a state of consciousness unable to voice his/her thought to another, be able to vote for a politician? Can a person in a vegetable state (coma), vote? Can a person vote under a life and death situation? If a person has given a vote, but under duress to do so(blackmailed, threatened to vote, e.c.t) be considered a vote? To the OP, when I addressed the could've, I meant it in such extreme circumstances that the person cannot vote, absolutely cannot vote without risk of life. While we're talking about politics, we also have animal rights issues. Do they have a right to vote? What about the A.I program that can speak, that was given American citizenship? Regarding would've, a choosing, that is interesting, because if you don't want to vote, can you don't want to vote? In a dictatorship? A tribe? An alien planet? The astral realms? And I'm interested in the OP's motivations for this thread.

@louhad Would or could makes a big difference. If you could vote, you can have a say in politics. However, If you couldn't vote at all, depending on some circumstances, that leaves you unable to have a say in whatever politics you are in. Whether you would or wouldn't vote for a politician is another issue, because in most countries, if you're eligible for voting, you have to vote to register as a citizen paying taxes. As far as I know, the USA does allow you to not vote for any politicians and you could declare yourselves stateless, but that choice is illegal in most countries. Not regardless. If you followed Leo for years, and he's your role model, and he says his opinions about Trump, would you agree that that would shape your view of Trump? After all, he's the vehicle in which you made real progress, right? Mind sharing some of those Prager U comments? Any other website? Have you talked to a 'Trump supporter' face to face? I'm asking because you acknowledged that this website is antithetical to Trump. I know you said you were genuinely curious, but what if you're not really curious, but instead feeling secure in that because this website is antithetical to Trump, you wouldn't face strong backlash voicing your question?

@louhad Would or could vote for Trump? Is someone that is non-American also a Trump supporter? Is this before or after Leo voiced his opinion about Trump in his videos/posts that gave you this antithetical feeling of Trump? Have you asked on other websites or places about Trump supporters before?

I'm beginning to think that geography can play a big role in which countries can either benefit or degenerate from leftist policies.

@louhad In your words, what makes a Trump supporter a Trump supporter? And why here, when you could find out elsewhere?

@louhad Just curious, what are you trying to get out of this thread?

@Dutch guy Best to not let people trigger you. People's opinion's about you are irrelevant.

@Dutch guy EU and European democrats aside, I would've sided with them had they actually delivered more than just had a discussion that goes round and round in circles going nowhere. However, for the past 40 plus years of fishing on British channels, using fishing trawlers that damage corals, is another reason I don't like the EU, Not only that, they act as if Britain belongs to them, just like any other European country which is disrespectful because, without the help of the UK and USA, they wouldn't be able to win against the Germans during WW2. Because of our help, EU was a possibility, and the thanks we get is fishing trawlers pillaging our channels and much more. That aside, do you side with Trump because he came off as more assertive than the other politicians?

There will always be extreme groups on either ends of the spectrum.

That's not nice.

@louhad I sided with Trump mainly because out of most of the politicians at that time, he was more assertive than his opponents and strong in delivering his points across, and as a business person, I assumed he would take a more practical and straightforward approach towards change. I lean towards conservatism, so that could've influenced my support for him. I'm not American, so I couldn't vote for him. Also, I remind myself that people's opinions are irrelevant when the opinion is about me, others, or the world. Because of that, when I want to share an opinion, I'm more careful with it, also because ' what you are to people are what you communicate' so when I see someone post that contains derogatory or mocks another, I get alert. For example, these two posts here.

Hi there Leo. It's been roughly 7 years since I followed your content and during that time I was getting better with visualization. Lately, I seem to struggle to feel more of the emotions in my vision. A video about visualization and vision and being emotional is probably really good to do right now. If it's not too much to ask, understanding emotions part 2, please? Thanks.

@Insightful27 Drawing, tai chi, chi gong, yoga, listening to different and similar songs, cooking, Baduk, and any other board game, poetry/storytelling, creative writing. To name a few, maybe I'll come back with some more ideas.

@Nak Khid And This is your answer to your question. Similar to mine.

@stopwow How you've interpreted my post as an insult is a mystery to me, but I'll clarify myself simply and leave. I meant that if you're seriously struggling with dating, relationships and it's mostly external circumstances, then be ok with what you have at the moment, be grateful, even if you remain single and have to find other ways of sexual release. Actually, you need to develop a stronger desire, especially when circumstances are stacked against you. Don't throw out intention too early. No need for a vicious attack at me, but ok, I don't know anything about you, so sorry for triggering you. Let's agree to disagree and I'm backing out the door slowly now...

@remember No worries. Like I said, under development How have you been? I hope you're ok. Whatever it is, it sounds like you're taking a long break. If that's the case, then good break to you!

Hello all. I hoped you all have done those exercises above in section one: developing your mind's eyes. I've done these exercises and felt great re-creating rains and burning leaves. I felt a bit more empathy for the burning salad on exercise 3, and 4 was not just visual but vibrational for me, meaning that it's as if I felt the energies from each color. Let's move on to section 2 of developing your visualization: mind's ear. For some who are experienced with meditation, when they describe a 'ringing sensation' in between their ears, this is what they're referring to. The mind's ear is also what is being used to play that catchy song in your mind, or when you bring up a memory of a conversation, or when you what to mix and match different sounds together. Some people who are gifted and are involved in spiritual traditions use practices like chanting, prayer, mantras, and certain musical instruments to create mystical experiences through their mind's ear, and some psychic and paranormal abilities and entities are associated with the mind's ear, like spirit communication, phantom whispers, mythical or mystical sounds, so much more I can't cover here but I hope this interests you. If you're interested in developing a tulpa, then a strong stable mind's ear is important when listening to your Tulpa communicate, although Tulpae can communicate in other ways than inner voice or mental vocalization. I'll further elaborate when I get to stage 2 on developing your Tulpa. While I think this is important for being able to converse with a Tulpa, If you're not interested, then the spillover effect that develops with a strong mind's ear is tied to visualization. You could visualize musical instruments and work on a song with your band, or practice social techniques in an imaginary social setting, or replicate soothing musical instruments or nature sounds to add to your 'happy place' and so on. There are lots of options to develop later with a strong mind's ear, but if you still struggle to hear mental sounds, they're jumbled or lose tone or lose volume, then it's crucial you still work on identifying each aural weakness and do isolation training on each one. Before I list some new exercises, I would recommend picking up a musical instrument and practice, listen to songs, or podcasts as a leisure hobby and supplementary training for mental sounds. Because of these activities, I've progressed much further. I've written instructions on the original post, so here are some changes: if you can do 5-10 minutes, increase by 5 minutes for each exercise (or 1 if you're really struggling), and please feel free to add another exercise appropriate to what you're working on, in this case, it's relevant to the hearing. However, if you wish, go multi-sensory on some exercises, but beware that you won't progress slightly faster than another that uses deliberate practice on each element of visualization. Exercise 1: Mind radio station. Begin after a meditation session. Start by remembering your favorite songs in your mind and play the songs. At random, switch to another song, either still in the same album or same artist but a different album, or an entirely different genre of music. Try your best to pick out each individual musical element as much as possible. Exercise 2: Nature's calls. Begin after a meditation session. Start by remembering the sounds of different birds, and if you can switch to a different bird song. The optional goal here is to include other natural sounds like the wind, leaves, or other animals if you wish. Exercise 3: Mental talk show. Begin after a meditation session. Begin to remember the voices of your favorite actors/actresses doing a podcast with your favorite host. Try to follow along with the conversations between the host and actor/actress, really listen for volume, tonality, pitch, pace, etc... Exercise 4: Social gathering and small talk: Begin after a meditation session. Bring to mind a memory of either a social event you were in or a location where you're at the cafe or a bench, around other people. Bring to mind every conversation you had face-to-face, with family, friends, or strangers. Listen for pace, volume, tonality,etc. Optional, pretend you had a listening device that allows you to listen further, and eavesdrop on what other people are saying, paying attention to their voices. Exercise 5: Echo location. Begin after a meditation session. Construct a simple urban style home 2-3 stories high, with the lighting between dim to midnight so that the house ad it's rooms are simple. Bring to mind your phone, a chirping bird, and another object you're familiar with. Now, imagine each object scattered about the rooms at random, making a familiar noise, and begin locating the general direction; Is it left? Right? Behind? Ahead? Above? Below? then narrow done the direction some more while walking slowly towards the object. If you want, also note the sound of each footstep you make. Exercise 6: Thunderstormimg. Begin after a meditation session. Imagine a storm developing, then imagine a lightning strike a distance away from you, at whatever direction it came from. Lister to the thunder, and try to not only locate the direction, but also the distance between you and the lightning. Exercise 7: ASMR for the mind. Begin by first listening to an ASMR music, then wait for at least 30 minutes or longer, then after a meditation session. Bring to mind how the ASMR sounded like, as best as you can, to re-create the feels you get from it. That's it for this week. In conclusion, not only is training your mind's ear important for listening to your Tulpa's voice, but it also trains your ability to recall memories of different sounds you've had experienced. Also, this training may develop your musical ears, to the point you could become more creative with sounds. If I'm not mistaken, Leo has recently released an episode about Learn= making distinctions, which his second exercise involves distinguishing multiple types of music genres consciously. To build on that, developing your visualization skills will allow you to keep making further distinctions with each element of that visualization you're developing. Keep going, until eventually that vast difference between external and internal sounds become more and more similar until you reach realistic levels of depiction. Have a good week, hoped these exercises are simple and enjoyable, and never forget; Destiny is ALL!

@Preety_India Both of these exercises are designed to train your ability to replay any scenery, either to rewind or fast forward. Also, to see in greater detail your pictures or movies you make in your mind.

@stopwow Nothing wrong with pursuing relationships or dating. Just remember, if it becomes too difficult, there's always the single life, and there's always another way to sexually release than through a woman.

@Nemo28 Nope.