Tim R

This is primarily a question to @Nahm since he talked a bit about focus in his video, but please, feel free to answer if you feel like you understand. "With your focus you are the creator of conditions. Anytime a thought doesn't feel good to you that thought which is focused upon is in discord with the infinite love and truth that you truly are. When you let that thought go, which is to say focus on something else which does feel good to you, you feel good. Good feeling and focus really is the key to creating the experience that you want and becomes more and more obvious the more you consider this in your own experience. Simply put, it is not possible for you to experience that which you are not focused on. If you don't like what's on channel 2 you simply change the channel. Focus is really no different. Each one is the creator. We are the creators. We make changes to this place based on what we focus on." https://youtu.be/1TxOmW3Iz_c?t=2983 Ok, so I'm not sure if I understood this correctly (or at all lol) I think I don't understand what "focus" is. To me it sounds like a center of some sort. As if there's a POV. As if there's something of which we could say "there it is". But awareness is nowhere and thus everywhere, so how is there focus? Why is it not the other way round? Isn't it that I have conditions in mind which therefore creates a discord in my experience ("I want something else") and then focus comes into play to change my experience in order to fulfill my conditions? How? Isn't it my condition that creates the discord, rather than my focus? Isn't that what creates the discord with Love in the first place? If focus creates condition? @Nahm Thank you for the video❤ Many many things I don't yet understand but that's okay

@Nahm Thank you❤

Ok this might be kinda random but I thought it was funny so.. I noticed how in his earlier videos, Leo used to talk faster than he does nowadays. So what I did was I calculated the words per minute rate from his older and newer videos and lo and behold, Leo used to speak at a rate of around 202 words per minute, whereas today it's only around 132 words per minute. Over the years his speech rate gradually slowed down (about 35% slower), which is actually a lot. I wonder why that is. Is it because his mind has become more calm or because of something else? Why do wise people speak so slowly? I think of J. Krishnamurti or Alan Watts, maybe one day Leo will be talking like them?

@The Buddha What do you mean when you say "grace"? Is a pine tree without grace because it's prickly? Are cats more graceful than sea urchins? And what what about cacti? Are they not as graceful as algae swinging in the water? Nothing lacks gracefulness, one only lacks in ability to see it.

Good idea. And a "solipsism questions not allowed" policy haha

Meditation isn't something that you're doing. Meditation is the awareness of what is. And awareness isn't something that you're doing, is it? It even says it: "being aware", not "doing aware". Meditation (as something that you are) and and enlightenment are identical.

My God... You guys also sometimes just tear up over how unbelievably beautiful reality is? Just went for a run.. And I couldn't contain it anymore. How is this possible, I don't know, but thank God... Thank God for Love, thank God for reality, with all its struggles and problems, thank you. It's gorgeous❤️

Before enlightenment, watch cat videos on YouTube. After enlightenment, watch cat videos on YouTube.

Your thoughts are making you sad, nothing else.

@zeroISinfinity Lichess or Chess.com? Yup, that's me. Idk where you live, but where I live it's evening, so... wanna play a couple of rounds?

Showing our faces lol. What's the point of life

@RendHeaven Thanks @Someone here ❤

This becomes evermore important in our own lives...

For sure! @EmptyVase Nice! No, I currently study biology at the JLU in Gießen the next semester is my last one. I'm not quite sure yet whether I wanna get a masters as well (biochemistry) or study something else altogether and I'm still playing with the thought of studying psychology after getting my degree. I love it, together with philosophy and spirituality. And I guess psychology is one of the few fields where a more spiritual approach can be somewhat tolerated. Science in general will be transformed anyway if psychedelics become more mainstream. Maybe I'll get a masters degree in biochemistry and then study psychology and then I'll plunge into the psychedelic revolution haha designing some kind of instant satori-pill that will bring peace and enlightenment to the world what else, right?

Thought I'd say hello to you dear people... Hello!

@EmptyVase Definitely!! Oh, big fat "yes!" to that. We know so little and are so ignorant about the human psyche. Which is tightly linked to our ignorance about reality. What is real? What is healthy and what is sick? Are the hallucinations of a schizophrenic "real"? We say "no" because we're scared that the correct answer might actually be "yes". And what about thoughts? Where the hell do they come from? And dreams? What are dreams? What about memory? There's so much that we don't yet understand (at least in ordinary psychology). Haha Wartesemester also? Do you already have a university in mind?

Hello friends, lately I feel overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the tasks that life throws at me, none of which I myself am interested in doing. Tasks that I have to do. Additionally, living in Lockdown doesn't exactly make things easier. I get more and more fooled by my thoughts which tell me that life is dreadfully serious and that if I mess up some of these tasks, it's gonna have some serious consequences, whichever they may be. When I think about the tasks left to do, I feel as though I'm facing a gigantic heap of problems and I lose sight of the individual steps, which is pretty discouraging and stresses me. Any tips on how to not worry about this sh*t and keep my cool? I'm getting sucked into this ordinary, stressed out life style and I abhor it.

@SamC Depends on what you mean by "worth it".

German, English, Russian and some French. It's funny you know, the more languages you speak, the less I think you're prone to get fooled by language as such. That is to say, you are less likely to confuse the map with the territory because you see that the world is in fact not what we call it.

Who cares about Leo's opinion on sports, what the hell

@TheSilentObserver Nothing to talk about and yet you've made this post?

@meta_male Hello and welcome to the forum! It's not fucked up at all. Death is the most authentic and real thing there is. Why be inauthentic in the presence of death?

Amen.

@dsfs Bro. What the hell is the point of this thread? No. As far as I know drinking has nothing whatsoever to do with growth. Zero. Not without serious surgical interventions. No, there's absolutely no way of easily or cheaply manipulating you height. Sorry, but that's exactly the sort of answer that you'll get on this forum. You have the perfect height, you're taller than most people but not so tall that it becomes an impediment to yourself or others. So for heavens sake, accept your height. It's not like your 5ft tall, got it? In your life you have no problems whatsoever with your height, other people have either problems to reach stuff or to get fitting clothes. I don't know where you live but even if you'd live in the Netherlands, where people are the tallest (on average) on earth, you wouldn't be considered small. I'm also 183cm so I literally know your perspective. It's the best height any male could ask for. You don't know how good you have it.

Guess that first half-way was the easy part... @Leo Gura Why is that? Why does the way to wisdom behave kinda like a logarithmic function? Why can't it be linear growth?