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If you live your advice you are a master of your craft.

You do, in a pretty direct way. One of guru's function if he is enlightened is to trigger you, just where it hurts sometime, deep inside the cluster of tantrums behind the assumtions of human interaction and qualities. He is the person to tell you that you and me are deluded and show why, and what can be done about it. If you think a guru is a narcisist, maybe he is doing a very good job of triggering your delusion. One way i can tell a mystic or a guru is if they radiate bliss. And if they do what they teach themselves. I have found orthodox hindu gurus the best. because hinduism has the vastest records of scriptures which you can follow and evaluate the person, if that is even needed. Too bad India is totally ruined. There are ways to cognize the world which will make you powerfull and powerless. These sacred texts do hold this capacity if you internalize, you become Shiva, because in fact, you already are. How much do you care to find the truth is the question. For any seeker. Its usually about, what will other say is if want to follow a guru. Its culturally easier to follow secular gurus like Rupert, Echart, Adya e.c.t but there are people out there that are the catalysts of truth, but you will hesitate to follow them; thats what i have found. And exactly you will think they are narcissist. And just about any guru has a bad media coverage. Will you also internalize that? What are your chances of taking gurus words? For example like Osho, only his value was really recognized later. In such conservative culture he triggered just about anybody. But he had something to say if you really wanted to listen to him. I have found such people, and i attempted to put my bullshit aside, and i am listening to them, best decision i have made in my life. For sure something must be wrong with me to? How can i be right e.c.t.? I am delusional right. In short the title of this tread is like you looking with sunglasses with 5% transparency.

Well, good luck guys, your own self-biases of what a guru should be will function as a blanket hiding the wisdom from you.

Dark night of the soul is deeper, more existential than depression. Dark night prevails in your dream state (swapna), deep sleep (sushupti) and waking state (jakrat). It is the reasonless feeling of stagnation and not being enough as you are.

Roasted.... I agree.

Those overtones in this third one is killing me. Also, JUST INTONATION makes me melt.

Dude, nooooo, what is this. Nothing i have ever seen before if this is true.

If she is open minded, can be reasoned to, and sees trough her mind games, which we all play, and can act regardless of social pressure and is an individual thinker while wanting to be ina relationship with you, i would put a ring on it. I would do 50/50 but we all have some quality/kink/talent only we individually can offer to our partner.

@Godhead The tinfoil hat is fine, what is not fine this is a cessit for covid.

Society is GG'ing it.

@Member You missed my point. If you don't give birth to a child, there is nobody to raise. And there is competition involved because everybody has to get educated to get a job, and get a job, before the individuals choice to make children. What do you mean, men should protect the the women and women should protect the child. Sure shit happens and there are people that will trying to exploit your family, however in first world countries THE GOVERMENT PROTECTS YOU IN AGREEMENT TO FUEL ITS ECONONY. The police, school, medical system e.c.t. protects you. At large from who man will protect your woman? From a nuclear warhead? Raising a child is pretty much a versatile thing, unless the child is an infant and even then, you can grow an infant in a lab and substitute the mothers milk. In a system that has a capitalistic element in it, it is mostly about competition, survival is competition anyhow. The notion of love in our societies is so scarce, wo what are you talking about. Maybe the love from your parents, sure, if you had both or any, or werent abused and treated like a property or didnt have tiger parents. Or your friends or community, which you cab probably count on your fingers the number of people you have conditional love. With womeb being better at rising a child, infant maybe, but a man with a balanced feminine quality should do really good, look at Sadhguru jaggi vasudev and his daughter which he raised alone from a young age, looks very healthy and balanced person to me. About something being easy or hard. Depends on peoples capability and choice of being responsible, doesn't it? I smell a right wing ideology.

Pretty interesting statement. Yes, women do have to go trough that process, if they want to. But making babies is a choice. Yes maybe very tempting choice for various reasons, however it is still a choice. Just like not to cheat, just like staying on diet, just like choosing to meditate to day, just like to have a sexual intercourse e.c.t. At the end of the day, its their choice. If you said that earlier when women were literal baby factories, it would make more sense, but now the gender roles are literally becoming very liquid and women to men relationship has become far different. In maybe 300 years or to be safe in 1000 years it has changed pretty radically. And the provider dynamic is changing as women start to outcompete men in various fields like work or education on average in first world countries for example.

I once was entering into sleep paralysis and i somehow past it, only once in my lifetime consciously that i can remember. It was scary, but i continuned to observe what comes and goes and i know for a fact, i had something more than the deep sleep. I felt the infinity/void while in deep sleep, i "saw" the continious expansion before my vision while in deep sleep and i couldn't do anything about it, felt pretty awesome too, i have also had instances of waking up before opening my eyes and moving my body, kinda in a state of prepearing to wake up, but i was aware, that was weird also.

Something i think is interesting to hear, since there are posts aginst various gurus, and a good addition to Leo's stage turqouise video about gurus having their agenda and blindspots. Some points of his make senese to me, however alot of what gurus do make so much sense to me aswell. This is like a typical non-duality war, however some may benefit from this exact description to reach the truth. (is that even needed? stopping projecting the seeking? clearing out blockages so the flow and restless consciousness reduces naturally?)

@Chumbimba you know,9-5 is still not 12h and there are no night shifts, you do really have time to learn, even on your own. The motivation problem is far far bigger tho.

Wow, what the fuck is this? Was the goverment hiding the numbers? What does this mean for Iran and rest of the world? I guess i need to prepeare more for the pandemic it seems... What if my goverment lies too? :DDDDd

@Shooby yeah, making games can be really fun! I made alot of unfinished warcraft III maps with cool custom triggers. Got some negative feedback, and some positive. Played my maps on multiplayer. Was pretty cool experience.

@Vipassana you know, i tried some types of short term fasting, and it works for me! i would like to do long term also, but i need guidance.

@Leo Gura What happens after covid, could be even more scary. Mass riots and famines could arise. Maybe actualized will become a billion dollar industry, because its digital self help, which may be valued the most after the pandemic.

I am curious, with all those examples, nobody has listed the chinas communist party, which has a long list of reasons why its the embodiment of toxicity, run mainly by males.

@Rilles yeah, reincarination feels true to me, you might have to come again and again, until you experience enlightenment, then you have a choice.

Couple of points for self-reference, nothing personal. It all comes down to brutal self-honesty, guided by your own intuitions, and based on your own goals. Almost all the viral gurus new/old, doesn't matter, have been framed and allegations have been made. Mooji also has been framed for being responsible in someones suicide. Teal Swan is somebody who is called out into causing someones suicide. Sadhguru is constantly having legal battles over his isha foundation settlements. He has some controversy over wether he can own a bike which he loves to ride, and that he built adi yogi statue on elephant corridor. And allegations of having multiple wives and being responsible for murdering his wife, while she left by falling into samadhi, and so many others. Osho... you already know all you need to know about osho, if you watch a few docs about him. Nithyanda has a false rape case aginst him, and allegations on child abuse in his gurukul and probably so many things over the years, many legal battles too probably. Leo has got some fair controversy too. Youtubers talk about him about being a madman who talks nonsense, or being too liberal on drugs. If i correctly recall i saw @Amandine expressing some toughts on him too. Some of your todays gurus like rupert shpira, echkart tolle, you know, the good ones. Have ate meat and probably still are from time to time. Yeah if you are vaegue enough and passive enough then some people will accept you as your teacher, and others will be labeled cultusts. However there really is a potential harm with cults, for sure. And anyhow, gurus are not perfect people and life is wild and people will make mistakes... So does that make their teachings more untrue? We are literally scraping by, maybe a thousand people in the world ate enlightened right now. So we don't have the perfect teacher. To even do that is harsh. Harsher and harder work than what the naysayers do together. Peace.

@Elham wow, this looks so bad. Wishing you strength to overcome this situation. This is like multilevel type of bad and just spiraling down. I cannot immagine, since there are almost no cases in Latvia anymore, but i am sure this will come back... Maybe at the end of the year people will be distributing food just to keep people from starvation, if this keeps happening.

Non duality arguments, of course.

Meditation also works life an amplifier of highs and lows and when your shadows get purified there will be resistance, 20 mins is too little for me, i found. Guided meditations are great, somebody here suggested me Shunyamurti meditation caled the gift of divine love, works ok.