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@Consept Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know

He needs letting go by david hawkins

@Leo Gura how is he sharing his happiness if he is so distraught? If he had an awakening wouldn't it be obvious to love them regardless of their ego? Or is it so out there that his ego is trying to reconcile the experience which is causing suffering

Kinda puts me off trying psychedelics. Never done them but seems like it fucked this guy up big time!!

When I was depressed as fuck, doing a degree I hated and snorting a bunch of cocaine after getting fired from my job he was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. My life was a shambles, and he was the only person I knew giving pragmatic advice. 3 years removed I don't need him anymore and can act arrogant and nitpick his information. But back then? I was hopeless and leaned on his advice heavily to get out of a rut. I know he gets a lot of flak for being close minded here, being immersed in blue / orange worldviews and being a bit too pessimistic. People posting here have an interest in self help and have been meditating for a while (Assuming) - so his advice seems banal. For the majority of the world who don't even know basic self help he's incredible though. Same with Tony Robbins. He's an intelligent guy, articulate and can tell you what you need to do to sort your life out. Once it's sorted you can choose to do as you wish, but if your lacking that foundation you can't build anything. Honestly I think people need to be careful condemning him without fully hearing out his advice and living it before moving on. Otherwise your spiritual development will be limited. You need to exhaust each colour to move up.

It's an ego backlash. Is it really a problem? Aren't all problems imaginary? Did you truly have a terrible 6 years of your life? Or are you only a bit pissed off and thinking it's the end of the world ? I do the exact same thing - most human beings do, so it's nothing to be ashamed of. If you've been meditating consistently for 6 years I can guarantee your life is better. Sure there are low points, and with more awareness can come some resentment of others if you don't keep letting go of stupid thoughts like that. Remember the most basic personal development mantras - '' YOU ARE 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE'' Leo showed you the path, you decided to walk it. You can get off any time and enjoy life. There's a lot to do here. As for losing humor and joy, I've done the exact same thing. Realize spirituality is meant to enhance your life. You aren't supposed to become the grim reaper, condemning humanities lack of consciousness and living in a gloomy world. The work liberates you from feeling compelled to live a certain way, to conform to society. You can choose to be detached. Doing what YOU want. To cure your depression - eat healthy for the next 2 days (focus on only two, it's achievable. Plan 6 meals, 3 per day) Do 30 mins exercise per day Drink a bunch of water - Go out in nature (if possible) Continue your spiritual practices. Don't disregard them because of a foul mood. Then chill out and make intuitive decisions about what will be the most appealing thing to do. Talk to a friend as well. If your pissed off, be pissed off! Feel it fully and let go of it.

Been reading Juliette. It's insanely sexual, but the guy can write. What do you guys think of his quotes? He's hedonistic but I think he has a point. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2885224.Marquis_de_Sade “Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous state. You are going to become the raw material out of which new beings will be fashioned. Will there be pain in this natural process? No! Pleasure? No! Now, is there anything frightening in this? Certainly not! And yet, people sacrifice pleasure on earth in the hope that pain will be avoided in an after-life. The fools don't realize that, after death, pain and pleasure cannot exist: there is only the sensationless state of cosmic anonymity: therefore, the rule of life should be ... to enjoy oneself!” ― Marquis de Sade “I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.” ― Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade “So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.” ― Marquis de Sade “Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.” ― marquis de sade

As someone who wasted time doing a teaching degree I had no interest in, and only did so because my friends were going to university and didn't want to feel left out (none of whom I have contact with currently), I'll say make sure you ACTUALLY want to study whatever it is you're studying. Ask yourself - Will this industry be relevant in the next 30 years? Can I see myself doing this everyday? Do I enjoy this? Why? What is my favourite, least favourite aspect of it? If you can answer all of those questions honestly, and are excited about pursuing the degree: How can I make the most out of my experience? While I was there - 90% of people hated being there. Didn't like lectures, tutorial, assignments or doing homework. It was a frustrating interruption between socializing or playing sport. Busy work to maintain a pretense of productivity in a nosy society. What books can I read to get ahead in my field? What tutors or lectures are informed? Who can I chat with regularly? Who can I network with that is passionate? Can we meet and discuss coursework and learn together? Unrelated tips; Meditate everyday, twice a day for 20 minutes. Do this and commit to reading an hour a day and you'll blow out every other student. Schedule routines - Morning routine, dedicated study periods. What get scheduled gets done. Discipline = freedom. Learn how to cook. You'll cut down so much time fucking around waiting in line to get served average food. Plus healthy food = better mind. Exercise everyday. Ride to university, or walk with public transport. Oxygenated brain = smarter. If you are uncertain about what it is you want to study - DON'T GO TO UNIVERSITY A motivated person with a library card and access to the internet can learn more than a bored enrolled student. Degree's are becoming more and more devalued over time. Becoming a self educated individual is just as viable in the online world. If you're smart, competent and can demonstrate aptitude companies will want you - or you can build your own. Steve Jobs and Tony Robbins are prime examples. Don't be scared into believing survivor bias. Hell, even Leo created this website without relying on his degree (Feel free to correct me, but I'm assuming that all of the information you applied can be learned online @Leo Gura?) Work part time while pursuing your interests. Apply self help like crazy to optimize your time so you can learn as much as possible about what it is you love, then do it as much as possible. You can still attend university in mid to late 20's if you feel lost after trying to do it alone. Get mentors if you aren't going to university though. Read tons of autobiographies, do self help courses and earn money part time.

Do you have an identity around not finishing things? Release that part of your ego. Why do you think you need to finish things? Do you think it will mean something? Often times I've read books to completion when the value was 30-40 pages ago. Don't feel compelled to complete every thing you do. Keep trying things, you'll find what you like and wont feel the need to finish it. You'll be engaged in the process, there will be no completion necessary.

This is really interesting. On one hand, for your own mental, emotional well being letting go is the best solution. Nothing will equal its efficacy. Where is your moral position though? Can you take action without using it as a spiteful endeavor to ''get back at him''? Can you turn him in from a place of compassion and concern for those people who he is exploiting? The benefits he is accruing for himself? Can you act from love instead of hate? You can do the right thing without activating your pain body.

Yo, if this is the wrong section let me know. What are some songs you think are spiritual? Any genre, any song.

I would say through reading, writing and talking with others I have the skill of communicating clearly which would place me on the lexical side, but I think more intuitively and understand the limitations of language in conveying ideas - especially as they are subject to idiosyncratic interpretation. So honestly I would say both. Lexical as a result of education, but my true method is impressionistic.

@Nivsch Can you provide examples of yellow literature? Would you consider Manufacturing Consent yellow?

@Moreira is it possible that self hatred can be a benefit towards enlightenment? Is that what happened to Eckhart Tolle? He hated his ego so much he was prepared to kill it, and his brain killed it before he had a chance.

Hey, just watched this video and had some questions. If people are at the mercy of cells upon cells making decisions for us - with our ego being the one who believes he is in charge, with our consciousness observing all of it, what does that make people who pursue spirituality and enlightenment? Are you just a lucky one in a lottery? Someone who has the right attributes in the right environment to discover these tools? And everyone else who doesn't do it was never going to do it? What are your thoughts on this?

@The observer Ya man. Reminds me of that bit from the bible - ''It'll cost you everything''. I'm happy to give up my ego. It isn't really all that lol.

@The observer I think I paid for it because I had to give up every single thing that I was doing before wasn't working. I was miserable, doing drugs constantly, doing things I hated and acting like an asshole. I felt super entitled all the time, like people were constantly out to get me. I thought I was smarter than everyone else - like everyone was an idiot except me. I thought the only way to have fun was to win. To destroy others verbally, physically and emotionally. I felt like it wasn't a choice though. I think things were destined to happen this way. I was on a path of self destruction and I guess grace did intervene.

XIX Book One ''Exterminate the sage, discard the wise, And the people will benefit a hundredfold;'' What do you think this means? Do you think that you would have benefited from Leo never existing? If we had never discovered his work? What are the benefits of having no mentor? No Sage? Would we become in tune with our own god if there were less teachers? With less distractions we would become aware of our inner nature?

I am so sick of orange, but I know I need to establish a career. I feel like I applied all the principles of it to sport and got so fucking fed up with the entire paradigm that I was forced into green, but didn't have the same shift with my job. Can I learn financial success with green? Or do I have to go back to guys like Derek and tony robbins. For a long time I liked that material, but now I feel strongly repelled by it.

This is the full quote for context: Exterminate the sage, discard the wise, And the people will benefit a hundredfold; Exterminate benevolence, discard rectitude, And the people will again be filial; Exterminate ingenuity, discard profit, And there will be no more thieves and bandits. These three, being false adornments, are not enough And the people must have something to which they can attach themselves: Exhibit the unadorned and embrace the uncarved block, Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible.

What watching Actualized feels like nowadays

@Leo Gura How do you love negative things? It seems insane to claim you love the holocaust

Heyyo, I thought it would be interesting if we would provide examples of individuals ascending through the spiral, and discuss why we believe they have grown (Or regressed, if you have examples). To begin, I have Marco Pierre White. In his early years he was arrogant, rude, disrespectful and focused on success. This is evident in any programs you observe him in. As he was on his path to becoming a 3 star Michelin chef it's safe to say he was immersed in orange. Around 2 minutes especially. Contrasted in later years shown below. This whole thing is brilliant, but the question and answer is fantastic. I'd say he's showing a lot of yellow in this speech. Incredibly wise. Another example of evolution is Russel Brand from Orange to Green. (Orange) Green.

I struggle to vibe with his content. Anyone I take advice from, or use as a mentor, I ask myself - would I want to be them? Does their perspective seem beneficial to my life? The answer for Derek seems like no. Sure I can attain material wealth, but at what cost? He doesn't seem like a happy person. I'm reminded by two spiritual ideas when I observe him. ''What will it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?'' There is no light energy about him. Everything seems like a zero sum game. People are binary. Productive or unproductive. Useful or not useful. It seems as if he is analyzing people in terms of profitability rather than humanely. Secondly, in a New Earth, as an example it uses a business man who goes through many painful years to realize his vision of becoming wealthy. As a result of doing so he spews forth toxic energy that impacts his environment. Ultimately he has sacrificed time that he will never recover to achieve something he never needed - and winds up in essentially the same place. I respect his endeavor and acknowledge his methods are useful for achieving specific goals. I don't appreciate his negative demeanor and lack of joy. In one of his videos he claims he never listens to music - that it is a distraction. He only listens to podcasts or something informative. Is that the kind of life I would want to live? Clawing at every moment in an attempt to acquire more? His motivations seem to be coming from scarcity, a feeling of never being complete. It seems stressful and not worth it. I may be wrong. These are just my observations.

Excited Leo!! Keen to hear about your insights