Terell Kirby

Sounds like you have waved the white flag. yes indeed .. awakening is not for everyone, but those that it is for are bearing some pretty awesome fruits of their labor. Feels good not be human

Seems as though you are overthinking. The answer to all this theory, is taking action .. getting outside a socializing. You won't meet like-minded friends or romantic partners without being social. Ignore any negative self-talk on this front.

You haven't interacted with enough women to make such a generalization (kudos to you for realizing that it is a generalization). When you do, you'll realize that looks don't count for much in judging the character of humans ... for men, women and everything in between.

It isn't stealing, they had the same idea and actualized it faster than you did. You could possibly look at their product and service and find a way to improve it as an alternative.

Self actualization.

I wouldn't take Leo's assertions so literally .. all business are exploiting for profit to some extent (even what you call high consciousness ones). Remember, you are dreaming up Leo ... be willing to carve out your own path that is authentic to you .. could be sales, could be something else.

Be careful not to use spiritual insights as a weapon.

The point is whatever you want it to be. Stop complicating life.

Happy for you .. my ex was sexually repressed as well. She was a sweet girl but grew up and traditional, patriarchal family where her father was domineering..and her mother would shame her. She was always weird about sex due to lack of experience, and shame associated with her childhood programming. Good to see that there is hope out there for these kinds of women.

Solipsism, God realization… whatever, won’t stop the experience of the heartbreak that follows a breakup of a relationship. This work is not about escaping suffering, but accepting it as a necessary component of human existence..and embracing with Love. That being said, focus on the part you played in the breakdown of your relationship, use it it to better yourself in future relationships.

Primarily due to painful Truth that others (friends, family, lovers, employers, enemies, etc) are all imaginary. Take a moment to think about how attached you are to humans and what it would mean to rid of those attachments. Most normies can’t handle this.

I’ve been pondering this for quite some time. It has been mentioned many times that awakening and God realization is beyond concept, though being able to frame it thru language is helpful to get some kind of grip on what is being pointed to (The Self, No Self, Infinite Love, you are the Creator of reality, you are imagining stuff etc). Each of these punchlines helps in opening one’s mind … but the goal is not only open the mind, but transcend it. How do spiritual seekers go from a conceptual understanding of Infinite Consciousness to an Absolute understanding that goes beyond the mind? @Leo Gura and others for insights. Thank you ??

I was waiting for an answer like this . Holy cow

This is a gross generalization of why people pursue enlightenment. Quite an unfair assessment really ..

Lol … sounds like you have a bias against these so called “spiritual people”. No one is here to argue with you, but you might be subconsciously looking to pick a debate with these types. Anyway, thanks for sharing your perspective ??

What is the answer then? The spiritual path is anything but logical. When you get deep into the work, logic and reason are seen as flimsy constructs. I would challenge you to deconstruct logic .. you seem to put heavy reliance on it.

Awesome. Wait until you are able to drop your ego entirely after all the years of development…then life gets infinitely blissful .

Fair enough. Yes spiritual seeking is self deception, as is all of egoic mechanisms, but what separates this one is that it ultimately annihilates the ego..if done genuinely. Seeking points to efforts to attain enlightenment, which does not happen automatically. Everyone starts from somewhere. Where does this intuition come from? Curious to hear your perspective.

Thank you ??

I have not been able to successfully strike a balance .. yet. I meditate A LOT, I contemplate A LOT .. both require me to isolate myself and spend much of my time in an inactive, sedentary state. This has done wonders for my consciousness and understanding of reality in the last two years, however the lack of physical activity has left me with a not so great fitness level (5’10 height, ~ 170 lbs). My BMI is considered healthy and I eat decent, but I have lost a lot of muscle mass by not regularly exercising. I want to continue my spiritual practice but at the same time get back into the pragmatics of fitness (awakening has drilled in me the shallowness of gym rat culture, which I don’t want to backfire). Any tips to balance would be helpful. Thanks.

In my experience, this is true for seekers who have yet to grasp that they are not human … the idea of being a separate (objective) biological form is what constructs their sense of self. However, God (what these self proclaimed “humans” really are) can experience a sense of frustration upon awakening...mainly due to the realization that it is the only entity that can awaken … since it is all that exists … thus not be able to share and/or validate its experience with “other”… unless it constructs it. This thread itself is nothing but dialogue in the mind of God … talking to itself incessantly

Lol I like the simplicity of your answer, but could you make a finer distinction? Cessation itself is only one aspect of the Infinite (if we consider it the same as the mind shutting up). And that’s the frustrating part .. I’ve had significant shifts in consciousness and there tends to always be human urge to have it validated by “others”….who are also just mental constructions.

This is good advice .. highly subtle. When I first started, I was so in my head about what needed to happen and how it needed to happen when approaching girls. Then one day I said fuck it, I'm just going to enjoy being out on the scene .. if I see a pretty girl I'm interested in, I'll just say hi. But that is second to me going out and having fun for fun itself.

2008 Honda .. I'm totally satisfied lol.

Helps to see things from another's perspective, but that can be challenging. Active listening has traditionally been a good method to develop empathy.