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Leo, I think long videos are good but also shorter videos can be effective. Look at how short those Rupert videos are. That highlights a particular point. Similarly Sadhguru makes short videos, like 10-15 minutes ( and long videos can be made also) I think you should call out this fool Ralph Smart for putting out this populist denial while COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting black people He's trying to link masks to the surveillance state which is two different things. Leo, you have been commenting on a lot of political issues in the forum but you are keeping them off of youtube just in the blog. I think you should set up a second youtube channel perhaps for social commentary and politics. And look at Sadhguru he doesn't even distinguish, he comments on social -political issues as well Compare the massiveness of his exposure to somebody like Rupert Spira who avoids politics. I don't fault him. People have different focal points

Ralph Smart seemed like this very upbeat harmless New Age guy but now he is helping to spread a highly contagious virus. I hesitate to call Ralph smart at this point

I'm not sure if you are accurate about what Leo said but Leo has been having some health issues for a long time in regard to energy exertion for a long time and that is a complex issue and there could be many causes and he has tried a huge amount of approaches to dealing with it. My father had this and it is a serious thing, not to be written off "it's all in your head" He says focusing his diet on meat and chicken is the only way he can eat otherwise a diet heavier in carb foods like grain, vegetables and fruits causes him stomach issues and fatigue. I don't think this means he has eliminated those thing just that they aren't primary. Before things like marathons, long distance swimming or other endurance competitions professional athletes often "carb up" beforehand so they will have fuel for energy. But there are also people who follow the Keto diet. It takes for about 3 days to over a week for the body to go into a state of ketosis and instead of drawing energy from crabs the body draws energy from fats. People on this diet focus on high fat animal products and cut out the crabs and sugars The Atkins diets focused on animal based protein but also like the Keto plenty of animal fat is eaten, meta, eggs, diary, etc So what happens if you eat a lean animal based diet and cut out both carbs and fats ? A high-protein, low-fat, low-carb diet results in what is called Rabbit starvation _____________________________ Protein poisoning (also referred to colloquially as rabbit starvation, mal de caribou, or fat starvation) refers to an unverified acute form of malnutrition that some have speculated may be caused by a diet deficient in fat, where excessive lean meat is consumed[medical citation needed]. The effect may have been treated as a hazard by Lewis and Clark and other frontiersmen of the western United States who lived on game. There is speculation that 'Protein poisoning' was associated with eating rabbit meat, which is very lean[medical citation needed]. There is speculation that other low-fat game meats could cause the same phenomena. The reported syndrome includes initial symptoms of diarrhea, then headache, fatigue, low blood-pressure, slow heart rate, and a vague discomfort and hunger. It is speculated that eating fat may relieve the reported syndrome A World War II-era Arctic survival booklet issued by the Flight Control Command of the United States Army Air Forces included this emphatic warning: "Because of the importance of fats, under no conditions limit yourself to a meat diet of rabbit just because they happen to be plentiful in the region where you are forced down. A continued diet of rabbit will produce rabbit starvation -- diarrhea will begin in about a week and if the diet is continued Death may result." In Into the Wild (1996), Jon Krakauer conjectured that Chris McCandless might have suffered from rabbit starvation

Hen has a piece of paper that has been cut into a strip and the ends are taped together He says that because the strip was twisted that there is no inside and no outside of the strip. Bit he had not twisted the strip that same strip could be used to argue that it had an outside and inside. And a third strip might not be not taped together at all. So to make his argument he uses a physical object but in only one configuration of it

So I was watching live video of the Portland protests every once in a while they were chanting "Fuck the Police" which is a dumb thing to chant as opposed to "Reform the Police" anyway I also heard the chant " one, two, three, four, slavery, genocide and war, love, six , seven, eight America has never been great" I suspect this is part of a hard left Marxist element coming out of some part of the what looks like a 75% or more amount of white protesters (although black people with megaphones do the speeches ) If your goal is to abolish the police, have no police then you might chant "Fuck the Police" but if you are trying to reform then you come up with demands This, that element of the protesters, reformists have done see Here is a detail detailed 8/1 editorial from Portland as well as a link to the policy demands https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2020/08/headline-let-feds-withdrawal-open-a-new-chapter-in-racial-reckoning-movement.html Editorial: Let feds’ withdrawal open a new chapter in racial reckoning movement _____________________________________________________________ Reimagine Oregon Policy Demands https://www.reimagineoregon.org/policydemands

Another dimension to this is people who are right wing might think that it's worth the risk to get the virus because disregarding the health element doing this defies and test the government as if to say " you can't make us do anything, we can start resisting on other things now " And this is what is happening in Portland and in other U.S. cities also but from a left wing political movement and they to are defying social distancing although not the same idiotic extent as not wearing masks - however masks are extremely useful in concealing one's identify

In what model? That everybody goes to hell or instead that some people go to hell and others heaven?

So do you give heaven the same consideration? Or only hell ?

So where are you getting this concept of hell from? Gehinnom?

Do you think you are doing things now that are very sinful? And if you can humbly repent and be forgiven then why worry about hell?

No that is incorrect. Physicalism is nondual. It holds that everything is physical. There is no separate mind to separate please go back and study, Physicalism is a form of monsim monism is synonymous with nondualism Dualism holds that the soul and the body are two distinct things things "shutting down" or ending is not a trait of nondualism In fact in Zen Buddhism the idea that everything is impermanent is one of their most fundamental teachings and nonduality is most often associated with Zen Buddhism This is not to say Buddhism is Physicalism but it is to say Buddhism is Physicalism are both nondual in different ways In the Western tradition the other form of nondualism is that instead of all being physical all is mental, that is called monism and Idealism "Idealism" in philosophy has a specific meaning that is more detailed than just the common use of the word Physicalism is nondual. It is just nondual in a way you don't like

. . Most people do not think a chair is mental. They think a chair is physical and thoughts are mental. This is why most people say there's a differce between a thought and an object. People who say that might be wrong or right but you say objects are mental So then if I ask you "Is there a difference between an object and a thought ? " and you say "Sure, there's a difference. Otherwise we'd call them the same thing, right? " and acts like that is an obvious explanation. It's only obvious to what most people believe that objects are physical not mental. So you have not explained why you think a chair is not a thought only that people have different words

Requisite Variety & Creative Laziness (blog video) July 22, 2020 ______________________________________________________ The spiritual life and the creative life are most often two different things One is about accepting what is and improving one's own psychological health and the psychological heath of others The other is about trying to fix or improve or create objects that my inspire or improve people's lives I think writing books, both philosophical and fictional could work for Leo as a next step. They later the fictional, perhaps spiritual science fiction , I think could be an untapped trove It could start with improvising stories by speaking and then recording them stories can also teach But what do I know? I'm a very creative person but sometimes I find it burdensome to be constantly creative. There is a freedom in being boring. And very creative people often have problems, they can design incredible buildings, dynamic businesses or write symphonies or great philosophical books but they can also fail drastically in human relations and self awareness To me it's not creativity that solves emotional problems It's bravery and faith and as Leo points out here, people say they want to change but are often actually very afraid of it

Has somebody defined systemic racism yet?

but does everything need this mythological "nothing" to exist?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/face-of-god-archaeologist-claims-to-find-10th-cent-bce-graven-images-of-yahweh/

It depends on the baby some babies are born enlightened , other babies are delusional

Evil is Good Hate is Love You are Me etc etc ,

the spelling of her name is also annoying

In other Trump news the Mayor of Portland has a couple of days to clear out the "beehive of terrorist" protesters "If they don't do it we're bringing in the National Guard" (24:00)-Elections (25:32)- Ultimatum to Portland

I'm working on my book I don't believe in the actualization model where you have to have this sort middle class platform to get to the higher levels Monks and Sadhus and artists sometimes live at poverty level You ask "Why are you so concerned about the people Leo talks about? It doesn't make sense. " But it is your question that doesn't make sense. You and I are here because we are interested in what Leo talks about and then you are asking me why I would be interested in one of the things he talks about, people. Even if he's wrong on some things I learn from it. Leo has accomplished a lot and that is one thing that makes him interesting , he talks about various thing, philosophy, people, soup, etc etc

In the video Leo doesn't mention creative artistic people like Beethoven or PIcasso He is talks about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. I'm a little surprised because these are not spiritual gurus and they are very creative but in material very utilitarian ways not in the shamanic ways of an artists who produces "useless" objects like poems, paintings and music He also mentions Tony Robbins No spiritual people were mentioned except Rupert Spira who he used as an example of someone limited in scope And psychonauts, Terrence Mckenna wasn't mentioned or Timothy Leary etc. Instead these tech entrepreneurs and their innovative products. That is very material although a lot of imagination and risk taking is required to come up with these products. I'm not saying "materialistic" in a negative sense as if it is all motivated by money ( sense of security and power) But Leo is not a part of this tech entrepreneur field. He also briefly mentioned Tony Robbins, self help entrepreneur . That is closer to how Leo started. Leo has also talked about spirituality more in recent years but if you listen to this video he seems a lot more impressed by these super-entrepreneurs than by spiritual gurus. One thing I think about sometimes is how certain people, myself included might have a partial motivation in doing creative things as a compensation for feeling lesser than other people or as "revenge" against naysayers and people that say that you will never amount to anything or that your ideas are stupid. Then you have this concept of "success is the best revenge" So are these mega creative people motivated by that? I think that could be a part of it but it varies. I'm not going to write off creativity as being solely motivated by the thought that someone needs to do it to prove their worth and than a so called "ordinary" life is not worth living. What about the need to help people and improve the world with innovative new things and ideas. I don't think those are the primary motivation things with these super-Entrepreneurs or highly accomplished artists. I don't think they are sitting around thinking about how they can help the world I think what motivates them more is that they have found a thing which they enjoy doing and they become obsessed with it. They like to tinker with specific objects and utilitarian systems and if they are talented the byproduct is they produce creative things that may improve the world There is also that competitive element that can drive certain people. But unless Leo changes direction into making tech or communications products and starts a company based on this what he's doing now is more similar to Sadhguru, Rupert Spira, Tony Robbins (put all in a blender) . But what they do that Leo doesn't do so much is 1) write books* 2) regularly interacting with people in public, conversing or advising them in person But he may no longer want to do this. He may want to change direction and start a company and bring in experts to work on something like a cybernetics system I don't know what he's going to do. Rupert Spira keeps things on a small level and I think he likes it that way, look at his personality. But Sadhguru and Eckhart Tolle bring in millions. The seem to me to be largely very centralized, most of their ideas come through them although Sadhguru has a big organization of people helping him But people like Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, their innovations are a lot more about hiring innovative people and creating their products collectively. This is not to say they are not highly creative but what they do is bring together many minds under their companies. Comparatively Picasso or Einstein are soloists Do you want to have a dynamic company or do you want to be a great philosopher or guru? choices __________________________________________________ * writing a self improvement book or spiritual book would be easy. Somebody could be hired and simply transcribe already made videos. This could be made into books -or that could be just an outline that Leo would come in and make changes to, edit, rephrase, switch things around, update etc . This would be easy (if not stifled by perfectionism) And there is a second type of book I think he might like, fiction because in fiction there are no limits. You are nor thinking about if something is proper advice or not. It's pure imagination. And the thing about it is it reveals your own subconscious problems and also wisdom. Myths are a re powerful teaching tool. they way to do it is not try to produce absolute truth. Just let everything flow out with all it's "errors" and "mistakes" we are constantly evolving

Portland LIVE now, 7/31/2020 Portland LIVE now, 7/31/2020 2:00 AM hit play on both at the same time Protests Continue in Portland After Announcement of Feds’ 'Phased Withdrawal' The protesters are out. They don't seem to be setting off fireworks yet or pushing on the fence. That may or may not come until around 3 Am typically That may or may not happen. Suppose it doesn't and it remains peaceful ? Trump may or may not acknowledge that difference and want the Portland police to clear the area of "terrorists" if not the national guard in a day or two. Agitators could also mess things up I just heard two shot-like go off . fireworks going off now an then, you cant hear them but not see them Not clear if Feds are still in building or Oregon State Police , they seems to only come out when the fence is being breached. - but they may be under pressure to attempt to get the protesters out of the area entirely at some point

the breath would be a distraction to this form of meditation