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Why is this though? I noticed this as well with certain old people from certain countries. Just insufferable.

I was creating very painful emotions and judging myself, someone told me about those 10 day vipassena retreats so I did a few, and then from there I started searching for stuff on meditation and spirituality and Leo’s videos came up. From there I did a lot of work on myself, got into psychedelics then quit. Then I started studying Taoism after really having a consistent and strong awareness of spirit during each waking moment. Here I am now ever learning and growing!

Reading is very helpful and incredibly useful. I don’t think it’s ever a time waste for most people if you are sticking to self help classics and spiritual texts. The thing is most people will benefit from reading more because they may lack a bit of information needed to answer their own question or set themselves up to move forward and discover something else. Do you want the guy operating on you to say he doesn’t read and learned everything on the job? If you’re so caught up in reading and literally doing nothing then it could be a waste of time but most people can barely finish one book a month so I would say it’s not something to worry about. Just choose the right books.

This clown fails to mention right wing efforts to ship labor overseas, right wing efforts to union bust, right wing attacks on labor rights, deregulation. It’s like how these jokers tout how the invasion of Iraq was a mistake yet it was fueled by right wing ideology…. Their ideology and policies caused the issues but as time passes and people forget, they can create some faceless boogeyman of elites who did it, most Americans are even so dumb they don’t even look at what caused the current situation they are in. They just scream how it’s a problem and how the left caused it.

Crazy what has been normalized in the past 8 years, this guy complaining about his portrait… USA is a madhouse.

I actually think nofap has its place but it also has a lot of limitations and there are higher belief systems and practices that are better for most guys. For me I want to do this less because I think it’s getting in the way of me being more intimate with my girlfriend out of some fear of being separated on day. So for me addressing that instead of retreating would be beneficial.

We need a deeper discussion on what happened to Joe Rogan, I still don’t entirely understand what happened to him.

Idk I’m not charmed by it 🤷‍♂️ I’m sure there were plenty of Nazis who were personable and you could sit down with over a cup of coffee and have a laugh with, they probably liked playing sports like me and we could bond over some things. It’s not really surprising to me since I know dangerous people still are human.

I don’t think this type of language and characterization of reality is helpful. People think because there’s a lot of difficult shit to face in life that we got to poison the well and say we live in hell. If you find that empowering, sure go for it. If you want to use victim language to make your experience feel valid, go for it. I just think this is a poor teaching and characterization of things. I’m not saying there isn’t some incredibly challenging and complex situations in life which require compassion and understanding, some which come with a lot of pain. But labeling it hell… expand consciousness and build your vocabulary. Giving power away to these negative labels.

A clock is right twice a day? Dems push fringe issues and have strange ideologies in their party. Republicans do the same but it’s basically shutting down democracy. Pick your poison. 1 upping in the online comments over a trans person who wants to fit into society even if these changes are bizarre OR losing your democracy and living under Christian autocracy.

I think it’s very personal. I wouldn’t say meditation is less than contemplation / inquiry. They are just different tools / processes. I prefer self inquiry but I think it suits my personality more and my story more. Some do better with meditation. I do both. I think self inquiry is a bit better for people who have gotten themselves stuck because it allows for a more gradual re engineering of the mind. Meditation I’ve found does less of this if there is a bunch of shit in the way. It sort of cuts through it but you return to the stories. But at the same time meditation builds focus and it’s useful to be able to see different perspectives. Both are great it’s just personal which one works best.

Easy targets to punch down on. I could see them using this as warm up and then trying to mess with the opposition using bizarre laws and strange and twisted interpretations, for example claiming anyone protesting is in violation of the whatthefuckisthisshit act of 1901. Twist stuff and clog up the courts. It's a good way to cause more grid lock and confusion and it can tie up government resources.

Yes distraction is a big thing and most of it is mental chatter and unresolved issues one is choosing. You got to resolve big picture belief based problems in order to get out of the way and let the way guide you.

There’s plenty of things on can do to alter their state, alter their perception in radical ways, have mystical experiences. What’s important is does it lead to insight, understanding and lasting resolution. Does it fundamentally change oneself so one is living with integrity? A lot of this stuff is usually based on the idea that it’s a short cut or you can just swallow a pill and it somehow solves your problems, lack responsibility.

Yes. And this is a big problem. I had a discussion today with my girlfriend about this. How a well known influencer faked it with lies until they made it, and in that process they learned marketing. Because of course you can become a decent marketer regardless of whether you are telling the truth or not. So now this influencer has sort of laundered their past away and apparently does have some decent information base products to offer but these skills were built in exchange for integrity. It lacks truth and it’s not someone you should really look up to even if they have developed some valuable skills through telling lies. The same applies to stuff like this. The person is harnessing their power as the creator but doing so out of ignorance, stage green new age superstitions.

That’s an insane cover. Has it always been that way? Some people have really figured out how to monetize and bottleneck the male search for sex / companionship into a way to leech cash from men. Onlyfans, club covers, premium dating apps, the list goes on. It’s disgusting. Men in the west need to get stronger and rise above this crap and take back their power. But they are too underdeveloped to see that if everyone uses the same strategy to do this it turns into a rat race to “escape the matrix” with a few winners and a lot of losers. It’s ridiculous how an entire population of lazy men basically lazy’d their dating strategy away to a small percentage of people at the top who now milk them for cash.

Listen if you want to get lost in what you don’t like about reality go for it. I’m not saying there isn’t anything we as people don’t like or dislike. There’s a section at the bottom of this forum for that.

Stop creating pessimism. This is a spiritual forum and I wonder sometimes if some of you aren’t actually trying to learn the teachings and just clicked some Leo videos and thought the woo woo was cool and decided to stay around because you think the mystical stuff makes you edgy. You are lucky to be alive and life is a miracle. Enough said.

Now if only dems could finally use some of this to fuel the opposition. Fill congress with hearings. Republicans did this with Hilary’s emails. They need to start a slackgate.

Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped. Above, it isn’t bright. Below, it isn’t dark. Seamless, unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can’t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom - Tao Te Ching, verse 14

Same, contemplating / self inquiry. Self inquiry if done correctly can deeply resolve anything. The issue with it though is that while it’s very effective when applied simply, there is a high degree of maturity and openness needed I think for it to culminate in inquiring away all the stuff in the way of living aligned with the Tao. Self inquiry brings you back to the center, the cause, not living from the effect or as a victim. Meditation is a different for me and from my experience. Meditation can be a sort of escape and actually deeply ineffective if you aren’t actually resolving these self created inner issues in the way. It’s sort of like trying to up hill with the break on. Meditating can sort of melt stuff away but I’ve not found it to actually resolve anything. It can help support self inquiry though, focus and it can lead to insights so I’m not saying it’s pointless. I try to meditate a few times a week. I actually have my own practice where I mix in my self inquiry questions while gently talking to myself with love, and I focus on my breathing and emotions while tracing back to their source. I’ve not found traditional meditation practices to be super helpful like vipassena for example. I think it’s just too dismissive of the inner stories we have which are so personal and require firm but precise handling to gently take them apart and I also think the teaching isn’t so relatable.

“European freeloading.” Bros are so dumb. They don’t realize the amount of clout and dictation the USA gets over these countries by supporting them. Be prepared to be weaker and poorer when your country gets demoted from world leader to regional power.

I’m not saying there aren’t any dangers or serious mistakes to be made when taking a psychedelic. A teacher of mine saw his high school friend jump to his death out of an 8 story building because he believed he was super man, kid took too much LSD. Did that turn out to be true? There’s nuance to what I’m saying, but im inviting people to inquire on this. What do you believe about entities. Why do you believe it. See for yourself.

I don’t think I’m taking it for granted, I’m grateful for it but this is my lived experience and I realize there are other people who are making the best with what they have, I don’t mean to downplay mental struggles and challenges people may be facing and this is just my lived experience where the wording may not resonate with anyone. I assume that most people here and most people in general who are trying to live honestly and better connect to their inner world will come to understand they create their emotions and are at the center, not a victim or at the affect of them or trauma or entities. You can cultivate a healthy and stable mind. And with that said I say this within the context that the forum here is comprised of people who have done the leg work to create a healthy and stable mind for themselves. I don’t believe anyone should be doing psychedelics if their mind is not healthy (even people with healthy minds need to be careful of the risks associated with these substances) and this especially applies to people with schizophrenia who I would never advise to use psychoactive substances. I am not entirely familiar with schizophrenia and I do think this teaching I am sharing is something that has to be sensitively given to someone with that condition. I don’t consider schizophrenia and demons from psychedelic trips to be the same.

It’s difficult to say. I don’t know any specific people like this who don’t eventually wake up from this trap, and when I experienced this myself from having radical trips on Ayahuasca I eventually realized I had my own finger firmly on this button (entires, demon voice, loss of control). I’ve said it here before, it’s impossible to be a victim. It’s kind of a pill that’s a bit hard to swallow for people because from where they may be in life or how they are choosing to view things, it may come off like a slap in the face to tell them they are creating their trauma, they are creating their emotions and they are creating entities. So I say that with compassion and understanding that with what they know and their current perspective that they may need to expand their perspective more. But I am able to share this teaching now. Maybe some will be ready to understand it and take responsibility for themselves, and of course there are people who physiologically should absolutely not take these substances, but it should be clearly stated that the entity experience is another creation through belief which if one wants to inquire on can see it can be let go of.