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"A purposive life is the life of a slave. a Life without any purpose is playful. It has immense joy, moment to moment, but it has no tomorrow, no end. It is not going anywhere. It is simply being now and here. I am enjoying myself."

Hahaha it's only a chore to be hot if you make it one. Like anything in this world! It honestly depends on what you make of it. How much you cultivate an inner garden of blissy awesomeness. Look beyond the form of just being pretty and see it in it's entirey: SPIRITUAL AWESOMENESS. Embody it, and there's no problems left

That's silly. Leo himself (and everything in existence) proves how transitory 'bad' is. And that's the joy of Osho's teachings! To point to a life beyond good and bad, beyond guru and student. A life of sheer joy just for the fuck of it. Now if you latch onto Osho and his teachings, you are probably missing the point. He is not your savior. He is not the all-knowing source of power that if everybody listened to, would be saved. No! He is another simple human being pleased enough with himself that he points others to this state of existence. And it's quite beautiful. Also, I don't recall Leo entirely bashing Osho. It's useful to have awareness of both the shadow and light sides of a spiritual teacher. I'm not aware of the 'gaslighting' of the documentary; I only saw the first episode. It was pretty cool. But I didn't feel the magic until I actually went to Osho's direct teachings. The story behind it (no matter who tells it) is still interesting and may offer perspective. It's a very well-done documentary. But in the end, none of it matters. All boundaries, all problems, all good and bads, all, just dissolve into the light and begin again. So rejoice! And that's the beauty of spiritual teachers. They show us this. But what is important is if we have the ears to listen

This is one of the most profound YouTube videos I've ever seen. Packs a punch right to the heart of the ego.

Saw hella spiritual themes in this bitch.

Adyashanti (LOC 1000 according to Ramaji) is a badass who wrote a very concise, simple, yet loaded book about (you guessed it) Spiritual Enlightenment:

One book? Shittttt. Way of the Peaceful Warrior showed me a completely new way of living and started my 'spiritual journey' (oh gag). The Mastery of Love taught me what real love looks like. The Voice of Knowledge taught me about how imcomplete conceptual knowing is. The Way of Liberation simplified my meditation and enlightenment practices and opened a space for more being.

I. Agree. Though do be warned, Duncan Trussell does have a bit of dogma and on his podcast, sometimes you can just hear him filter what the other person says through his mind, then distort it into concepts he's comfortable with.

I think these are both very yellow. Being John Malkovich is so beautifully odd it's hard to really classify it as anything but true art. I Heart Huckabees is very stage yellow, and a bit stage green

I've been rewatching Leo's meditation videos and am very confused. I don't here anybody talking about his vanilla meditation technique anymore. What are the pros and cons to this technique? Why does Leo pretty much dismiss this technique now? From my experience, I did it very consistently for a few months and saw amazing results, I didn't get lost in thought throughout the day and I was so much more present. Eventually I abandoned this technique (it was just too simple) and tried out all the other techniques Leo recommended more highly (like Do Nothing technique and Mindfulness Meditation with labeling). Monkey mind is on full throttle now. Last week I did 4 hours a day for 4 days of Do Nothing Technique and holy fuck, one thought gets me sucked into this super powerful river of concentration spacing me out into this thought. I feel dissasociated. My thoughts are more rampant than ever. I am a lot more neurotic. At least on an individual level. It feels like there is this ocean. It's all encompassing. It's everything. It's basically nothingness. And I'm always there. I'm always this ever present awareness. And now I'm a lot more tapped into that. But on an individual level, my mind is in chaos. It doesn't know how to deal with this ocean. Doesn't know how to live in sync with this ocean. So there's a lot of individual misery I guess. But its subtle. Its almost faded out because the ocean dulls the individual suffering a little. Extremely hard to explain. I don't know what the fuck this is. So on day 5 I decided to go back to 20 minutes a day of Mindfulness MEditation with labeling but that's extremely difficult because I get sucked into these thought streams into this dissasociation mode. Not present. So I'm considering moving back into the vanilla meditation technique (be aware of thoughts and let them go) but Leo's talked sortof negatively about it enough that I'm too doubtful to get back into that even though that technique has brought me much more peace than I've felt any other way. Also, CONSISTENCY. Leo says you can't miss a day of doing a meditation technique. Well how do you switch it up. How much consistent daily practice of one technique is necessary to move onto the next? Can you do multiple meditation techniques at once? THEN there are the meditation books on Leo's booklist which make it even more confusing. Which of Leo's meditation techniques could be considered 'Insight Practices' and which ones 'Concentration Practice'? And Om Swami's meditation book adds trillions of other techniques. How do we balance all these techniques without going crazy? Is it okay to switch up techniques every day? If you have to meditate every single day or you'll lose progress, what the fuck does 'meditate every single day' mean? Does it mean do 1 meditation technique every single day for 10 years or does it mean any meditation technique that falls under a certain criteria must be done every single day for 10 years or for life?

Mindfulness Meditation- A Complete Guide with Techniques and Examples Mindfulness is the 1st or 2nd most important skill you can build. Credit to Shinzen Young who has created a very robust, complex and technical mindfulness system. This video will explain the basics of this system. As you get deeper and deeper into this practice, take a look at Shinzen Young and his mindfulness system. Mindfulness is a deep tradition that goes all the way back to the Buddha. Mindfulness is experiencing reality (literally) EXACTLY as it is. Reality comes to you through your senses, not through any other means. All you really got of reality is sensory channels through which you are receiving stuff (sight, sound, body sensations and feelings, emotions, thoughts, smell, taste). All you really have is what you're experiencing right now, in this very moment. Right now, whatever is happening to you, is what's real. And it's changing every single second. Rather than living on the raw information that your channels constantly feed you, you live on your fantasies (past, future, emotional reactions, plans and goals). Your life is mostly conceptual, not grounded in actual reality, the raw data that’s being fed to you. Mindfulness is putting you in touch with what's really, literally there. What's true right this very second. 3 Components of Mindfulness: Focus- the ability to direct your attention on certain phenomena for long periods of time Sensory Clarity- how clear you are perceiving the present moment Equanimity- the ability to stay grounded no matter what emotions or sensations you're experiencing Mindfulness attunes your senses times 100,000. Notice- pick a sensation and put your attention on it Label- silently say to yourself the channel of which you are perceiving this sensation through (seeing, hearing, or feeling) Savor- take in the RAW perceptions that are there for about 5-7 seconds Notice, label, savor Humans created these distinctions, so this is simply a SYSTEM to help our mind become more aware of what's actually happening in reality. This practice expands your awareness to the present moment, to what's literally right there in front of you. As you practice mindfulness more and more, you'll get better and better, causing extraordinary shifts in awareness and consciousness. Outer seeing (looking at lamp) Inner seeing (visualizing an apple) Outer hearing (the sound of a clap) Inner hearing (repeating in your mind 'I have to take out the laundry') Outer feeling (smell, taste, itch, sensation of butt on chair, sensation of feet on floor, beating of heartbeat) Inner feeling (emotion) Set a timer for 20 minutes. Every single day, sit down in a quiet place, calm your mind down, and run these cycles (notice, label, savor). Let your mind focus on whatever it wants to focus on. Then notice, label, and savor it. This cycle will take about 10 seconds. Your mind will wander off to some other phenomenon, which you do another cycle on. Repeat this for the entire duration of the practice. If your mind starts to wander away and get lost in stories, bring it right back on track and note, label, then savor. The most basic practice- you allow the range to be everything (sights, sounds, feelings, outside and inside). When you get more advanced, you can limit the range of what you let your mind focus on. You can limit to, for example, just sights, or just sounds, or just feelings, or just the inner, or just the outer, or both the inner sounds and the outer sounds, or just thoughts (inner sounds + inner images). Some more practical tips: As you practice this, multiple phenomena will come up simultaneously. For example, you may notice an itch in your foot while simultaneously saying 'itch' in your mind. For basic starter mindfulness practice, focus on any ONE that you want, usually whatever is drawing the most of your attention. So if the inner sound 'itch' is the most dominant, focus on that. If the phenomena disappears or stops, You could savor the gone-ness of it. If a phenomena changes, stay with it and notice what happens with it. Whatever it morphs into, stay with that. Life is a fluid dynamic thing that is always flowing, so don't take static snapshots of life here. If you're not clear what to label the sensation, go with your best guess, it doesn't really matter if you label it right or not. You'll get better at labeling more accurately as you practice. Labeling itself is an inner hearing sensation but don't label the labels Do this practice 20 minutes (you can gradually increase this up to 60 minutes per day), every single day without skipping any days ever. Be very consistent. Do this every single day for months or years. This'll take months and even years to see results. If you want to supercharge your mindfulness, take retreats. Vipassana retreats are great for this, and usually free. Retreats are usually 5-10 days of complete silence, 12 hours a day of practicing mindfulness. This basic technique is very powerful and can take you very far. The fancy elements aren't necessary, but you can go learn them if you want. There is no best meditation technique. Experiment with them. If you really want to self-actualize, test out each of these techniques for a month or three. There is no best technique. You may have favorites but even the not-favorites are very useful and powerful. This mindfulness meditation is so stupidly simple. You know how it works, not develop this habit. This is probably the most important skill you can develop as a human being. This is how you interface with reality. You need to start seeing reality as it really is. As it is actually happening right fucking now. This isn't an optional thing if you want to have a powerful life. Benefits: Enormous levels of awareness, focus, and consciousness (10,000 times more awareness than the average person has) In your work projects and creative endeavors you'll be able to focus for an hour straight no problem You'll be able to be fully present and to fully listen to what the people around you are saying Emotional mastery- all the nasty emotions you suffer from will melt away because you see it as it really as at high levels of mindfulness You can dissolve all physical pain and discomfort with sufficient degrees of mindfulness The more mindful you are, the more fulfilment you can get from everything you enjoy about life (food, sex, business, social interactions, parties, the list goes on and on) You can experience feelings of rapture, joy, and bliss just by being sufficiently mindful Behavior change- your bad behaviors will change effortlessly and automatically You can experience enlightenment and discover the real existential nature of who and what you and what life and reality is through mindfulness. You can focus the mindfulness lens on the 'I' you identify with and it will dissolve. My questions on this video: Does it matter how still we are? Do we have to remain completely still or does it matter? What are the differences and pros and cons between this and Daniel Ingram's noting practice? Eyes open or closed?

Relationship Advice- The Master Plan for Creating an Amazing Relationship If you want a successful intimate relationship, you're going to have to deal with the harsh reality that we have a 40% divorce rate and most of the people still in relationships are dysfunctional. The solution is to study the art of sexuality, the opposite sex's psychology, your own psychology, the commons pitfalls in relationships, and work deeply on yourself to fix all the potential hang-ups that could ruin your relationships. Ultimately the way you're going to fix your relationships, is to fix yourself. You cannot control the other person. Controlling other people never works. The only thing you can control is yourself. The only thing you can change is your psychology. You're going to have to do a lot of deep inner personal development work. The only way to get laid, get a relationship, and eventually get married is to really work on yourself. Work on Sexual abundance (lots of options, no neediness)- work on yourself to create that abundance- going out and socializing etc Finances- get your finances in order, good understanding of money Nutrition and Fitness Emotional Mastery- fix all your limiting beliefs and change any sort of neurotic behavior Do personal development, take relationships very seriously, and put the responsibility on yourself. Study and analyze all this stuff, then do a lot of introspection. Develop amazing emotional mastery.

Some other titles that have the same sort of magic as Way of The Superior Man: The Mastery of Love by don Miguel Ruiz Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

https://www.knowledgeformen.com/books-every-man-should-read/

Oh, you don't know me 'cause I'm from a different age And you can't see me 'cause I live in a different age And you can hurt me but you wouldn't know what to say But you should believe me, our dreams are all the same Like a life without love God, that's just insane But a love without a life Well, that just happens everyday And I wish I could change, but I'll probably just stay the same And I wish you could sing along But this song is a joke and the melody I wrote, wrote! Oh, you can't hear me 'cause I sing to a different age And you should fear me 'cause I believe in a different age But I live in the city that lives in a different age Oh, I live in a city that lives in a different age Where all the poets are writing memoirs And I'm still singing songs Oh, all the poets are writing memoirs And I'm still singing songs This city's got nothing for you here, kid Oh, I told you just go home They're saying this city is useless But we've already done it all Oh, all the poets are writing memoirs And I'm still singing songs And I wish you could see the Lord But this song is a joke and the melody I wrote, wrote!

The sun will rise again With love comes forgiveness Lift the burden on my back Letting go of what we had So that I'm dancing in an empty room The colder the night, the warmer your hands hold Held in your arms, the hole in my head grows whole I don't want to die alone, but I don't wanna die at all I'm not gonna keep you be the phone, dear Hang up when you've had enough Too much to talk Call me when you're coming down, call me when you hang All is well that ends well, but all is well that ends Clocks made God from the monsters in my head Do you wanna know my name Is that all you want to take from me In your arms the end is in my eyes And I don't want to die in my sleep when you're left Call me when you hang and Call me when you're left Call me when you come down Call me when you hang I don't want to die alone, but I don't wanna die at all I'm not gonna keep you by the phone dear Hang up when you've had enough Too much to talk Call me when you're coming down, call me when you hang All is well that ends well, but all is well that ends Call me when you hang Call me when you Hang your head and cry if you like, but all is well that ends

Here's Google's translation: Where are you right now, I'm late I'm walking the corridors Looking for what I don't know Miss I love you and you know Let me take you away, we 'll find a hideout Sheltered from the world, sheltered from lack Between the dew And the shooting stars I'm not the type of guy to sit next to you You ice and break me, there's something in you that's stopping me from anything I just want to take you, to the hollow of the waves Breaking waves that land on your sleeping body In the waltz of the wind And the sound of the night We will foil the statistics, ignoring the percentages Chances for me to have been able to undo your blouse In the middle of a thunderstorm I'm not the type of guy to sit next to you You ice and break me, there's something in you that's stopping me from anything No I'm not the type to sit next to you You ice and break me, there's something in you That keeps me from anything Whatever it is I just wanted you to follow me to speakeasies From New York city Listening to old twenties jazz In pursuit of nothing But you wanted my butter, the money of my butter And my dairy ass But it pays miseries To offer flowers, to offer glasses I'm not the type of guy to sit next to you You ice and break me, there's something in you that's stopping me from anything I'm not the kind of guy to sit next to you You and me ice break me, there is something in you That keeps me from anything from anything Oh shit!

Can you do success work (visualizations, affirmations, time management, emotional mastery, etc) at the same time as enlightenment work? If not, which one is best done first? And if so, how does one keep balance?

What do you mean?

This is amazing. I read your dream board thread thingy and intially felt a light, felt more tapped into this infinite source of light or being or whatever then I felt kinda dread and discouragement of how unaligned i am. How out of sync I feel. And how that out of syncness feels infinite. But its a subtle feeling, nothing big and profound which makes it all the more depressing haha. I felt drawn to your website and filled in a form for a skype chat, hoping that'll help with this empty sad feeling. I love your posts though, they're beautiful. Anyhow, I am confused how exactly one makes this dreamboard? What do I write on this dreamboard? Whatever I feel the most bliss towards? Whatever I desire the most? I found an old dry erase board and some markers, but I'm kinda lacking direction. What do I write?

Define 'essential practices'? What are the essential practices?

This is an old thread that brings up really excellent questions have yet to be answered, so let's revive it! Watching TV- pros and cons Watching movies- pros and cons What are the consequences positive and negative of consistent film/tv show watching? How do we find media that has a positive impact on our lives? How do we find films and tv series that raise our consciousness and shit? How do we avoid media that destroys our progress? How do we discern what is and if there is good and bad medias (in this case films and tv series). How can we use films and tv shows for personal development and growth? How can we use them in such away that prevents us from losing progress? Do films brainwash us? Do they throw shit into our subconscious that hinders our growth?

He recommends Arthurian Legends, here's a really useful list for finding these: https://mythbank.com/list-of-arthurian-texts-ancient-and-modern/