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@Leo Gura ''What Rogers is speaking against in that video is Orange vulgarity. Orange is all for showing tits and violence on TV for the sake of profits. Which Rogers would have a serious problem with because of his Blue values of propriety and decorum.'' What would be a green or yellow perspective to these perceived problems? Embrace them? See the value in them?

Hey, so I have a few questions about dating / sexuality that I'm curious about. If I choose one person over others, how can this not be a desire? Or a part of attachment? If for instance I love more than another, how can you be equanimious about the situation? Valuing them over others, liking them more, treating them differently? I'm also confused about simultaneously caring about someone while being indifferent. Isn't it a pre requisite to be emotionally involved with someone for intimacy? How can this be possible if you are ambivalent if they leave?

Hey, I stumbled across these videos the other day. What do you guys think? He's claiming that our brain development is due to a symbiotic relationship between human and plant. We co evolved in the forest which led to our brain expansion. However, as we left to the Savannah we lost our main source of nutrients, which has forced us to operate primarily left brained, causing us to become neurotic, fearful over generations. Ties in with Eckhart Tolles discussion of ego and insanity.

I mean, if I have the choice between living in my ego and having eternal suffering, or waking up to the reality that I'm God and living in love - there isn't really a choice is there? Is his whole schtick that he wants attention? Giving you infinite paths but only one worthwhile? Why would he create a world where the only right way to exist is to essentially suck his dick? Kind of egocentric?

Hey, I feel like I'm using spirituality as procrastination. I'm not really doing anything to make money after losing my job, except meditating, journalling, taking a mentoring program and reading. In A new Earth, Eckhartt says that discovering presence is my primary purpose, and from that my action will flow. I've completed the LP course and came out with ''improving the lives of others with knowledge'', and have committed to writing it for 90 days. Honestly though, I don't know if that what i'm about. Should I go through it again? I think my passions are comedy and basketball. Two things I genuinely care about, alongside learning, creativity, open mindedness.

@Meta-Man So grateful for such an infinite loving source, truly aligned with peace and harmony, seeking only to love and cherish the humans it has created.

@Meta-Man Why does he give you such shitty hardware though? It's like God's designed a computer and intentionally installed a bunch of viruses on it, then fucks off and leaves you to troubleshoot it yourself for your entire life, just so you can get the privilege of using a normal system.

@Meta-Man Love................ looooooooool spare me.

@mandyjw Reminds me of that Orson Welles quote on Woody Allen ''I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man," he tells filmmaker Henry Jaglom. "That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge." When Jaglom objects that Allen isn't arrogant but shy, Welles drives on: "Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited." Allen "hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It's people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest," while, in Allen's case, "everything he does on screen is therapeutic." Would you say Trump is secretly self deprecating though? He's arrogant, but where is the underlying diminishment?

@Meta-Man Why does he put you through this dumb rigmarole? It isn't exactly fun

@Meta-Man Is my ego god as well? I suppose it's everything. Thought there is a disconnect between my higher self and lower - but they are both made of consciousness, which is god? Dude.. Does any of this have any worthwhile application? I'm curious. It seems like spirituality can fall down the same rabbit holes of philosophy, where you just talk shit about unverifiable things for amusement.

The universe in an eye, and an I in the universe

@Derek White The world is being influenced by legislation, so people are forced to provide hard rules in fluid circumstances. They exist to prevent undesirable outcomes, but are made to be broken.

@Leo Gura Okay I understand your point. So, are you saying that the game is shallow while having the potential to be as deep as I make it? (Interesting paradox) I'm confused about this hierarchy of usefulness, or deep activities that are as deep as anything else. What makes these more worthwhile than the others? I'm assuming you aren't claiming that it's relative based on your answers.

@Ya know I can legit feel my ego getting very mad hahaha. Okay fair enough. I understand you have your own opinion and i'm trying desperately to qualify it for approval. I guess my main point is that I believe there are greater depths to this activity you aren't acknowledging but that's fine. Maybe I am wrong.

@Leo Gura I meant ''useful'' in the context of awakening, expanding consciousness, self actualization

@Leo Gura Why are you not addressing anything else that I've written?

@How to be wise Couldn't an athlete inspire people to get active, to push boundaries, to become greater than what they already are? Inspire them to action, extend the possibilities of what is considered achievable? What about the story of that guy who ran a mile under 4 minutes? Before that, nobody considered it possible. What about the guy who changed high jump with his new technique ''fosbury flop''. Showing that creativity can transcend the norm. @Leo Gura I find your comments to be rather reductive. It's easy to portray anything in a lesser form to diminish it's quality. Arguably I could claim your work is nothing more than posting videos on youtube. Of course that negates everything that you do, how you inspire people to expand consciousness, revealing more about reality. But my statement isn't incorrect either. Why does spirituality and this work have to be limited to a few domains? What is presented as an appropriate medium in your opinion to help others wake up? Posting videos, using language, meditation, psychedelics, yoga.. beyond that nothing is useful? I understand some methods may be more effective than others, but as humans we are known to have different ways of learning, and one may resonate more with another. For instance - someone may find your 2 hour videos a chore to watch, but come to similar conclusions about the illusionary nature of reality through intense dedication to the sport. I think if i said Ballet instead of basketball, these ideas would seem more palatable despite the fact they are true for both. It may seem like a stretch to say metaphysical understanding can be deduced from observing or participating in sport, but as we know sport is drowning in orange at the moment. Who is to say in the future the entire paradigm cannot evolve, grow into something greater? Genuine sporting analysis that goes beyond banal platitudes and a focus on points gained. A collective consciousness growing with the intention of expanding the human ability - millions of people working together using their right brains in a dedicated way of discovering something new every day, testing it and uncovering contexts where these new skills can be implemented. Loving the game, and each other. Acknowledging the uniqueness of humanity and our different anthropocentric features. All learning as one. Just as one can observe a toddler painting a drawing that seems nonsensical, you can write off the entire domain of art as trash. While completing neglecting the higher tiers of ability that are evident in beautiful creations, such as the Mona Lisa. And to conclude, one of my favourite scenes from the animatrix.

@fridjonk Haha, would be cool if our astral projections could battle it out. I'm a beast in the paint though.

I love basketball Leo. It has helped me in some dark times in my life. Shooting by myself is incredibly therapeutic and meditative. I completed the life purpose course and I came out with "improving the lives of others with knowledge". I feel strongly about helping young athletes understand more about the world, and using basketball as a method seems noble. And like another poster mentioned, you rarely encounter highly conscious people in most domains. I don't think business corporations are much better. As you said, the same values are intertwined with sports. Can something truly be shallow leo? I think there is immense depth to the game. Like you say, life is infinite fractals. The same is true for the game. It is an organism that is forever evolving. There are always new depths. As Virgil says, "from one learn all"

Also, so much of it is utterly meaningless, truly. People place this simulacrum over their perception. People aren't even seeing what they think they are seeing, and become so immersed in the idea of what it is they think they see. Completely identified with their mind, incapable of seeing something different.

@fridjonk Also I think there can be a ''less is more effect''. People training smarter without having to clock in absurd hours, achieving skills in half the time. Working smarter not harder, 80/20. There's that Tony Robbins story in Unlimited Power where he gets soldiers to model the best shooters, bringing the target closer to their face. He has some unusual success rate in a previously difficult test. That's an example of a stage yellow teaching orange. I think grassroots sport has become infected with orange tier thinking, and is in desperate need for change. People driven by fear, despising failure and becoming emotionally attached to outcome. The more I think about it, the more I want to be the change it needs.

@fridjonk True. For a long time I chased sporting accolades in a game I grew tired of. Part of me thinks there is a level beyond orange narrow mindedness. I believe there's so much untapped potential of the mind in sport, and awakening can contribute to it. If someone can completely let go of their desire to be something, they can be anything. So much of what is shown to us as ''achievement'' is little more than intense pressure, neuroticism, anxiety and fear. I wonder if you asked athletes how much of them play to win (fun), rather than not to lose what the answer would be. Especially with social media nitpicking every single mistake. Also the dogmatism associated with orange. If you can get to yellow and truly begin synthesizing information, letting go, becoming present to the moment and applying a variety of unorthodox skills and unique training methods - I think there can be genuine evolution's in games.

@Identity I feel like I have the issue of progressing to green without embodying the positive traits of orange, financial stability, career and I'm reluctant to go back

@Roy I'm asking if it's possible for them to be great, without resorting to lower levels of thinking, I.E Orange. Does someone who works on themselves spiritually to progress to yellow, green levels have to regress in order to compete?