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Hey, I've been meditating for 20 minutes every day for some time now, and I am curious about how hardcore is meditating for 10 days straight? Will it be sustainable for people like me? How long should my daily practice be, in order to be prepared for something like meditating for 10 days? If you've been to one of those retreats, I'd like to know your experience.

Thanks for the advice guys! @Nak Khid I haven't decided to go yet. I will be attending a retreat next year I think. Or not, depending on how my daily practice will go and how long will my sittings be.

@Leo Gura What is the value of meditation then? If we seek understanding, why should we sit and meditate for hours when we can just take a psychedelic? At this point, what do you think is the main reason for doing meditation?

@Leo Gura Can you explain what is the difference between those two? If it's possible of course.

@Leo Gura In your latest video, you said that we, humans, called God death. So, how is shooting myself different from naturally dying, in regards to God-realization? Death is death, right?

@Leo Gura When I do this, I feel that I'm doing something wrong. As if I'm just manipulating other people to engage in relationship with me by telling the stories and stuff about myself. But I also know, that's not what it's like from their perspective. But I feel kinda guilty and dirty inside, when I talk about myself. It's like subcounsiously I think of it as an egotistical behaviour that I don't want to do. I guess it's a self-esteem issue. What would you advice for fixing that kind of attitude? Just being mindful whenever I catch myself feeling that way?

@Girzo Yeah, I agree with this point a lot. 1-on-1 conversations with people are actually okay, but still, if it's with a stranger, it comes with anxiety and discomfort. But hey, everything is uncomfortable when we haven't got any experience, so it's just a matter of practice. @mandyjw That's actually a pretty good idea Thanks

@Leo Gura What should you talk about in those kinds of situations in general? I understand that it should be a dynamic and spontanious, so we can't be defining things to talk about beforehand, but still... Is it possible to conquer fear of socializing through brute force way? Like going out and socializing a lot with strangers everywhere, without thinking too much about what you say or do, as long as you don't do something really stupid. That kind of thing seems so hard when you are introverted type of a guy and even a little small talk with a stranger feels too much.

@rlc Yeah, I've read some NDE reports, it seems a very fascinating phenomenon. And yeah, I agree with you, just becoming aware of our fears is so hard, not to mention conquering them. But hey, what better things do we have to do anyways. I think of it like eating an elephant, bit by bit, month by month and year by year.

@Leo Gura So, basically, fear is the mechanism which limits us? And if we get rid of fear 100%, we will die and become unlimited? So, fear is just a God's way to fool itself in order to experience itself in a limited way?

@Leo Gura What about hell? Can one "go" to hell after death? I mean an actual place, like they describe in Bible or something.

@Leo Gura Is it possible to experience samadhi state using weed? It isn't psychedelic, is it?

@Leo Gura What about those people who are really hardcore addicts who watch porn a couple of times a day and ruin their day-to-day lives because of that? I've read reports like that on Reddit No Fap. I think that community exists for such people, not people like you who doesn't use it that often. Don't you consider it to be a problem? What do you think is the solution to that? Not banning, obviously.

Hey, This question has been bugging me for a while and I wasn't able to come up with an answer. Yeah, I understand that sitting at home, closing schools and universities and that kind of stuff is useful for not spreading the virus, right? And libertarians are saying that it's all bullshit and we have to open everything. And yeah, I don't find that line of reasoning logical. But, how long? Until scientists invent a vaccine? But what if that takes a year or two? What then? If the government opens up everything after a month or two, what will be different? What will make a virus stop spreading? What will be the reason of this quarantine period that we are going through right now? Maybe I don't understand enough biology to get this right. What do you think?

@Leo Gura For people without a prior psychedelic experiences, will smoking at a ceremony be as effective as you desrcibe in your videos? (even as in your first 5meo-trip video couple of years ago) What dangers do you see with smoking at a toad ceremony?

@Leo Gura How can we do this? It just seems so abstract, I don't know how to love myself. Does this mean accepting whatever I find as me unconditionally? Does loving myself mean to accept fully the way I am?

@Leo Gura Is it possible to experience a glimpse of God with 20-30 minutes of daily meditation habit combined with one or two 10 day meditation retreats? If not, then what do you think is possible with that amount of effort.

@Leo Gura What does it mean to supercharge a temple with spiritual energy? How would that work? Would you feel something upon entering a building? Or would your meditation yield different results inside the walls of the temple? Can we speculate on what does he mean when he mentions spiritual energy?

@Leo Gura Was that during your first 5-Meo breakthrough?

@calibrate @Yog Check out his latest video

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48457530-the-joy-of-not-thinking Check out this book, it's really short. It will answer your question.

@blankisomeone Those are the same exact reasons for why I chose to be a software developer too. @StarStruck Yeah, there will be lots of time when things won't work out at once. That's why being a software developer can sometimes be stressful. But you learn the most during those periods.

Yeah, but the fact that the girls you want to approach are probably stage blue, adds more emotional labour to this whole matter, because then you don't know where to find girls who are not stage Blue, except Yoga classes maybe And in a family-orianted culture, girl's family becomes another problem, because maybe she is not a typical Blue, but chances that her family is traditional are very high. So the new thing to worry about becomes the fact that her brother or father may kill you for having sex with her lol. No wander why PU is not a common practice around here. Yeah, the thing is that Georgia (not US state) is a little country, and it's the capital city that is the main biggest city in which I live. All the others are considered as the countryside, so, that doesn't leave many opportunities. Moving to another country is not really an option at this point because of financial reasons, and also, doing Pick Up in another language, which is not your national one, adds much more difficulty on it.

@Leo Gura What do you think about Pick Up in stage Blue society? I live in a place where if you randomly approach a girl, she will most likely be traditional christian type of a girl who doesn't have sex until marriage. How would you deal with that without moving to another country?

@Leo Gura I don't understand, how does this make men more attractive to women? Sounds too egotistical and self-centered. Doesn't that repel girls? This reminds me of the problem when you need the experience to get a job, but you need a job to get an experience Sounds similar. How can you handle sexual neediness, when in order to attract women, you need to have your sexual needs met? I guess the way that list of yours works is that one doesn't have to check all the items of it and then consider himself attractive. One at a time will make a man more and more attractive to a woman.