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  1. Posted

    On 23.4.2024 at 10:37 PM, Leo Gura said:

    The solution to procrastination is to just take action and stop thinking about it.

     

    On 24.4.2024 at 0:51 AM, Leo Gura said:

    But again, just showing up and getting to work is the ultimate solution. You just do it and turn off your mind.

     

    I think you underestimate how hard it can be to most people to ''just do it and turn off the mind''. Most people are not genetically wired that way, and that fact is illustrated by the trend of hugely increasing ADHD diagnosis in highly demanding and competitive capitalist societies. 

    Also, what I think is a big challenge in your teachings is the amalgamation of spirituality and basic self-help. Yes, a conscious person knows the power of life purpose and it's place in human life, and can build his life according to that realization. But it's not that easy, is it? There is a lot of work to do to get to a point - if seriously exploring reality - where you can sit down for hours and focus on mondaying stuff in day-to-day basis.

    You could say, that for a conscious person the stuff he does for his life purpose is not mondaying at all, but deeply spiritual and meaningful, but to have that reality, is a result of years of work, which many people here seem to be currently struggling with. 

    I mean, I use that "just sit down and do the work" advice everyday to motivate myself and I tend to give that advice to others as well, especially if they are NOT into spirituality. But here, as your channel is guiding people to construct and deconstruct their lives at the same time (which makes your teachings unique btw), I think the challenges in reconciling those two domains should be more considered in your teaching.

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    18 hours ago, erik8lrl said:

    @Snader Yes, it's really good! Good for finding common themes across your notes. The quality of the chatbot will be determined by the quality and number of notes you have. If you have a lot of notes and they are all tagged and organized, then the chatbot will be very good. 

    Thanks! Seems like there's a lot of potential for creative work.

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    Obviously we have our biology and brain chemistry. There are also psychological and social factors that interplay with the process. To some degree, you can change how you relate to situations which cause your emotions, and better, you can change how you view your emotions, especially the negative ones. Contemplating the duality of positive and negative emotion helps with that, as you might come to see that there wouldn't be happiness without sadness (considering we are talking about happiness as a positive human emotion).

  7. Posted

    Of course you wish you could do without medication, as everyone who has a medical condition wishes. For you it seems to be a life quality med, so I wouldn’t worry too much about using it regularly, if it really helps your everyday life. Maybe consider it as an investment for the future, as using it helps you build resources you’re gonna need, including the ones that might eventually replace the meds in some degree.

  8. Posted

    I agree that to expect one to master all the basic human level areas and still dive deep into the deep end of the spiritual sphere is in itself an overkill. But a bit like @universe already sided, it’s a lot about your own perception. Perfect life doesn’t have to look specific. You make it yourself and you evaluate it by yourself. The skill that becomes central is your capacity to not give a fuck, to not take the metrics for good life from anywhere else but from whithin. It really is hard, but it becomes easier as you become more conscious and learn to make sense of everything - the meaningless and the meaningful aspect of life and your existance. That’s what the process of working on yourself is about.

    But I understand. It’s messy, hard and frustrating. A really small portion of the work we do on ourselves becomes concretely visible and sometimes it fools us. Hang in there my friend!

  10. Posted

    33 minutes ago, NineHfanbase said:

    I like this a lot. But I wonder, some people find solace being around others. Like they really can’t live without them. Me, I’ve felt the desperation of loneliness, sought solace in others again and again, until the pain of being around others outweighed the pain of loneliness. Then I just had no choice but to be alone, or become a homicidal maniac (just kidding I could never) but that’s how much I hated being around people. But you’re right, the most joy I ever felt came directly after accepting suffering that seemed impossible to accept. The more suffering I accepted and stopped projecting and blaming others, the more joy I got, almost immediately after. Acceptance is such a mind fuck because it’s the easiest and most difficult thing to do. Now it seems it’s come full circle and I enjoy being around others because I know they can do nothing for me. You can’t truly love other people if you’re so busy worrying about what you think about them, how you feel about them, if they’re being nice or mean. Real love is watching them as they are and understanding why they’re inclined to behave the way they do.  This will not happen if there is a “self”, or what I understood, a “receiver” of information that is watching and interpreting others actions. The “self” is the only problem.

    Yeah, it’s amazing how much more enjoyable relationships can be when you can approach them more consciously. But sometimes it’s hard, especially if you are constantly forced to be social e.g. in your job. 

  12. Posted

    One interesting thing is that when you look at people who are interested in exploring their true essence and question reality, they have spent some real quiet time with their suffering. Instead of running away from it, they have sat down with it and contemplated the nature of it.

    The capacity of a person to confront one’s suffering, probably depends on many things; genes, life situation and environment being some to start with. 

  16. Posted

    On 11.1.2024 at 8:03 AM, Leo Gura said:

    Don't be so lame and desperate that you stare at her ass and tits like a mouth-breathing ape.

    Haha it's funny to observe people in public and notice how they secretly try to get a peek of an ass, especially when when they try to keep their gaze as long as possible. And the improvising they do after that to demonstrate that they were not watching the ass.

  17. Posted · Edited by Snader

    It's interesting what abundance of options and possibilities do to a human mind and how that contrasts with action stemming from having only few options.

    Anyway, if I were you I would use all my free time diving into self-help to really work on myself so that I could find my true passion in life. You've heard it before but having sense of direction really is crucial and without that a man is most likely to be doomed.

  20. Posted · Edited by Snader

    About a month back I was walking on a market square towards home. It was pretty late so it was very quiet and peaceful. Suddenly a group of scout girls (around age of 6-8) ran to me wanting to sell me a fucking advent calendar. As a cheap but kind boy scout myself I didn't want to turn them down too cold, so I said ''I would love to buy one, but I don't have any cash, sorry'' (I assumed they don't have a method for electronic transaction, as they were so young). They said ''don't worry, we have plenty of payment options!'' after which they gave a signal to an adult far away, who then came to me with a fucking payment terminal. I ended up paying 15 euros for a stupid silly advent calendar, just because I was too kind and naive.

    So I was played like a bitch and it really got to me. That really reminded me of how sneaky people are to get your money. After that I've decided to be cold and concise everytime someone approaches me with merchandise and I've applied that to other intercourses as well, and haven't been fooled ever since.

    You can be kind (and you ought to), but it's wise to filter every agenda through a shit filter first, just in case.

  23. Posted · Edited by Snader

    Happens to me as well. If I read about a specific subject my mind tends to offer me a memory to which I can contrast that subject while I read about it and try to make sense of it. I guess it's just a common unconscious function we have to make sense of stuff, but to be conscious of that is completely another thing. 

    I've also become conscious of something like that while playing the piano. Some quick flashes of memories or fictional scenarios appear every time I play a specific sound or a part of a song and it reappears every time I play the sound again, even though I put zero conscious effort to any thinking whatsoever. The scenarios change from session to session depending on what's going on in my life. A bit annoying sometimes.