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Zionists interpret the slightest bit of criticism as anti semitism, it’s their forté.

NOW we finally have prove that Democrats are not just more “conscious” in a vague philosophical sense in policy prescriptions , but actually more conscious in a deep existential and spiritual way (they’re literally legalizing drugs which allow you to raise your consciousness).

I know that this community is very well against ideology and dogma. But I really want to give it a try, being a zen monk. I already know Japanese for which I taught myself and I have spoken to a Zen practitioner. I think as a temporary measure in order to really hone in on my meditation skills, I could do this for a few months to a year. I know Buddhism is very well warned against by Leo, but he has admitted that his spiritual path took 10 years of Buddhist teachings and served as a great foundation for him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/why-college-rankings-are-a-joke.html Greetings forum, I want to open up to you just a bit. I have been going through a crisis of envy which has been obsessively (I have been diagnosed with OCD btw) going on for a little over a year. I got into a University which is considered by many to be a ''good University''. But it's nothing fancy or really high up there in National rankings. I feel so insecure about this for two reasons. One is that my school is notorious for being the school which has no parties or social scene. These are supposed to be the best four years of my life, two of which I spent in a Community College, and the other two are going to be in a non-party school. I looked around at Instagram, for which I deleted because the FOMO and jealousy was causing me to cry, and I see all these people for whom I know and don't know, really living it up. They're all at these fancy Universities with fancy classical Christian architecture which are more prestigious than I will ever enter. They posted on Instagram about all of their crazy, alcohol filled parties, study abroad, spring break, etc... One (female) childhood friend I spoke to who has done all of the prior listed is a year young than me and has a 30+ body count. I'm older than her and only have a bodycount of 1 (thanks tinder). I'm a year older than her and haven't done any of that, and because of the school I go to, I don't think I ever will. The second thing which bothers me tremendously is the status and prestige. Like I mentioned in the above paragraph. My school has very high rankings in niche fields, but overall is not very highly ranked (it's a top 200 R1 research school). It was founded in 1966 and the campus is hideous, whereas everyone else's campus is so beautiful and classical, they look like Cathedrals. Going to this school with such a low ranking really makes me question my intelligence. I am aware of people who were not given the opportunities that I have who are going to more prestigious schools. I worked really hard in High School, but my academic performance tanked significanlty due to COVID. Community College was really confusing due to the hybrid online format of the school which emerged from COVID and I made various mistakes which made me academically very weak. There's just something about taking calculus and chemistry courses entirely online which makes me perform so poorly. Also, how oh how oh how the fuck do I score less than a thousand on my SAT (American college entrance exam)? Is this normal? Am I exceptionally stupid and don't belong in a University? (To be fair, I had immense trouble focusing both times I took the exam. I remember how I broke down, didn't fill in half the bubbles/answers and went to cry in the front office due to an anxiety attack. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and for as long as I can remember have had issues focusing, and issue for which I am gradually resolving). How do I mange the jealously of everyone really living it up at college and having the time off their lives? How do I mange the jealousy against people who are academically better than me? Am I stupid because I'm so academically weak? Are people who attend fancier schools and score high on the SAT smarter than me? I really hate myself for this and don't love myself at all, and I have considered numerous times just ending my life or harming myself in some way. Because it seems that no matter how hard I try, I will never attain my academic and social goals. I suppose this is where I belong, in a stupid college with stupid kids because I myself am stupid. The smart gifted kids deserve all the sex with the hot college babes because they worked hard for it, and I'm simply getting what I deserve. Thanks for reading this rant, I suppose. Heh heh, for all this talk by Leo about how Buddhism is bullshit... My desires are surely causing me an immense amount of suffering, aren't they.

@Leo Gura You made an excellent point. While I disagree with you that the cause of this war was cultural, there is no doubt that Ukraine's cultural shift to the West played a huge role in this. My family is Russian and they almost all support Russia in this war, especially those who still live in Russia. For justification reasons, sure, they will site NATO, they will site Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, but one justification for this war in which they will sometimes site is culture. Foreign observers may notice that a lot of the Russian soldiers are carrying Soviet flags. People might wonder 'why are they waving the flag, and wearing flag patches of a country which no longer exists'? This is actually intentionally to signify old unity, back when Ukrainians and Russians were a brotherly people, allied in the Cold War against the degenerate West. But now Ukraine has been thoroughly corrupted by Western NGO's (their perspective, not mine). As for the culture stuff, I was surprised at how many times the LGBT community was mentioned as a justification for this war. https://www.newsweek.com/russian-troops-state-tv-pep-talk-satanism-lgbtq-attacks-1775008 There seems to be plenty of people who genuinely think Ukraine deserved to be attacked because it is becoming more Western, Democratic, and LGBT friendly. They view this as an actual genuine existential threat to their way of life and culture. There's also a shifting cultural change with young people, not related to the LGBT; less reverence for The Great Patriotic War, being less religious, and more. But this especially applies to LGBT stuff, They well view it, not as a genuine civil rights movement, but a sort of Western ''plot'' which was deliberately designed by America, the EU (European Union) and Satanists to destroy Russia. Not just the Government believes this, but I have as a Russian person (both ethnically but also a legal citizen and passport carrier) met simple ordinary Russian people who very well think like this.

Greetings. I have my bags packed and I am set to move out of my parents place and into my dorm room at University within one day as of writing this. I'm really scared and I don't like change. For some reason, change, and any change is incredibly disturbing to me. I have and have always had a very fixed and sometimes extreme routine which I will follow religiously. My routines sometimes look very strange, but they're my strange routines, and I love them. Throughout my whole life, I never liked change. I can vividly recall the unhappiness I felt at changing schools, when a friend would move away, family member would pass away, etc... But moving away from my parents and into the dormitory, I feel emotional and sad about this because this was my childhood home that I can connect all of my waking memories to. Everything from all the pets we had, to our visitors, to the good and bad times, etc... One of Leo's videos which is keeping me going is his video on impermanence. I suppose it is silly for me to be emotional about leaving my childhood home, something which is inevitable unless I choose to be some sort of adult loser who lives with their parents.

@Leo Gura I vividly recall you a while ago claiming that Orthodox Christianity is the purest form of Christianity. Even to this day there are SDi BLUE mystics from the Hindu and Sufi tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mysticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Solovyov_(philosopher)

Take the American SAT exam. Then use your good high school grades and SAT score to try and become an international student at an American University.

I really like this video: The impermanence video helped me realize that my living situation in my childhood home was inevitably going to change and the people pleasing and loneliness video helped me manage the loneliness and isolation of my college dormitory.

@jdc7733 This book is an excellent read on this exact topic, I highly recommend.

*Laughs in Russian*

As I learned from clocking in an excessive amount of hours watching Actualized.org: The Devil always projects itself onto others who are not devils.

Good morning sirs.

''No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (mammon meaning wealth).'' Mathew 6:24 KJV

Really? What do you think of the modern phenomenon of women making a living off of OnlyFans, because they're being 'expressive'? Is it all psychological damage?

I really recommend this book. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/priests-and-politicians-osho/1123191887

Why is there such a strong movement to legalize weed and yet complete silence on legalizing psychedelics? Disappointed.

Holy **** you're right! According to his profile, he was banned on 2019 and yet last visited 11 hours ago.

If you were really inspired by the Qur'an, then I recommend you explore Sufism. But please, I'm begging, don't convert to Islam. My family is Muslim and none of them do actual spiritual work, such as meditation. I wouldn't call them happy people, Muslim people are just heavily conditioned people who have been thoroughly conditioned by culture into adopting an ideology. They're no where closer to reaching God, enlightenment, etc... And Islam is an ideology. To help you see through the seduction of ideology, I recommend you watch Leo's ideology video.

I still don't want to vote for Joe Biden because of his age. He's done a lot of impressive achievements, but his age, the slow way he speaks, and his gaffs continue to bother me.

I never liked it when New Age types ruthlessly trash Christianity, Christianity has produced so many great mystics and esoteric teachings.

And here I am as the materialist I am (Okay… I’m no le a materialist but bits of that still linger) thinking that emotions are just rubbish produced by the brain and chemicals and getting in touch with your emotions doesn’t matter.

Whilst vegetarian civilizations have and continue to exist (India for example), never once in Human history have existed a Vegan civilization. The modern day plants that vegans rely on only exist due to forced breeding/selection by farmers to only breed the most nutritious fruits and vegetables. And even then, those plants can only get on the Vegans plates due to artificial luxuries brought by modern society: Their avocados being loaded onto plants and shipped from Mexico, bananas loaded onto planes and being flown from Guatemala, etc..

I had the same problem with Sadghuru's yoga. I downloaded his isha Yoga app and I tried a third day ''isha kriya'' challenge, and experienced no benefits whatsoever.