SeaMonster

Surrender is very masculine. It's going into uncharted territory, a foreign land like a mythological hero. I think you confuse yourself by conflating various meanings or contexts of the word "surrender."

But you're also like in your early 20s, right? Men reach their peak in their mid-to-late 30s, women are at their peak in their early-to-mid 20s as far a sexual market value. Do you want me to comfort you a little bit? Fast forward 20 years. You won't give any of these women you're currently pining for a second look, assuming you develop your value as a man instead of being a whiny baby. A new crop of 20 year old women will be showing you interest. Get in the gym, get your career going, develop your personality and stop being a pussy. Most guys in their 20s aren't shit for good reason -- doesn't mean it won't get better.

I think the above is pretty accurate. But then people here refuse to investigate what malignant narcissism is and how it shapes Leo's interactions with the audience. They simply take him at his word -- there is zero skepticism involved, no critical thinking, just...drinking the kool-aid. I think it's partly due to the fact that a lot of his most ardent followers view THEMSELVES as special as well (for being one of a select group to recognize HIS uniqueness.) It's a pretty pathological dynamic, very much like in a cult. A major trait of narcissists is that they DO believe they're better than you -- SUPERIORITY. He's not trying to help you reach his level -- rather, he has fashioned himself as this unique, unprecedented psychedelic adventurer who will always be SUPERIOR to you because of his experiences. It's a rather convenient strategy to keep one sense of superiority intact, isn't it?

Hunt them down and make them beg for mercy.

What I really like is that awakening/enlightenment is possible at all, and you're not stuck in self-induced misery.

I don't understand what that means ("devoid of any important resources.") The one important resource you have is intelligence. You can use that to educate yourself on how to achieve your goals, both professionally and socially/romantically. You can use it to learn how to make positive changes in your life that will improve your self-confidence and self-esteem and allow you to tap into your personal power. The one thing you have to understand is that if you're unhappy, that's a signal to you that you need to change your ways, from the littlest details in your daily routine to your overall big picture attitude.

Why are people on this forum so desperate to convert people to Leoism? Accept that maybe these people are right and you're wrong, you're acting like annoying missionaries.

Actually, not-knowing is completely liberating. You may want to look into Zen mind. "You might go insane" is the mind playing tricks on you. "Believe this or else!" - in other words perpetuate the ego. You don't need to know what reality is to LIVE, just as you don't need to know integrated electronics to use a computer.

Above endorsed 100%. Your atheist friend is correct. "There is falsehood in my teaching" seems like a strategic disavowal of responsibility, a disclaimer of sorts: buyer beware. In other words: I won't tell you what the falsehood is, either because it is not in my interest to tell you or I believe in my own bullshit so I couldn't tell you even if I wanted to. That's a problem of course. But then what Leo does isn't spiritual teaching but SPIRITAINMENT. Real spiritual teaching is BORING; it's just the same thing over and over (like the quote above.) A lot of people just want to be entertained (and constant novelty is required for that.)

@Someone here I endorse this idea for you. My view is that Islam provides excellent discipline for young men, which is something young men everywhere need. Yeah, Christianity is relatively easy and soft in comparison, there is no denying it. Christianity is rooted in the "take the Judaic ethics, discard the Judaic law" paradigm. If you follow through and practice Islam as is required, I think you would grow tremendously as a result.

I think the problem with books CAN BE that you get into constant "preparation mode" and put off actually gathering the real-life experiences you need to grow. In other words, theory above practice. This is a way to shield yourself from possible discomfort and rejection that can be experienced in the social sphere. I don't think there is a substitute for just doing - learning through experience. One has to take risks to reap the rewards in life, that's the bottom line. I would rather take baby steps towards actually socializing. You will learn a lot more through experience than through books (because you don't know how accurate or applicable to your situation the books are.)

So I watched the whole video. I like her, she's legit enlightened. Some of you have been corrupted by Leo to be so cynical about her. Sad. I wouldn't say her perspective is necessarily feminine beyond the superficial aspects of being a female, she's just a legit enlightened teacher period.

Y'all should consider that "understanding reality" holds any importance for you only because Leo has persuaded you to believe that it matters, or has confirmed some preexisting bias in that direction. A spiritual teacher isn't required to wear the hat of a philosopher/metaphysician. "Observable effect on state of consciousness" is all that matters; the rest is mental fapping.

If it's everything and nothing at the same time, then there is no "before." In other words, there is no "in the beginning..." That's just the human time perspective. What evidence is there that nothing precedes everything, in other words, and is not, like you said, co-existing?

What is a "part" of the infinite? "Something" which "thinks" "it" is "finite." Remove that thought and "it" is back to the infinite again.

Maybe not all flakey. But being tall and good-looking and confident is NOT SOLID GAME in and of itself, even if it works some of the time. Firstly, the reason it works is that HE IS FUCKING MAKING CONTENT FOR HIS CHANNEL. That is the primary goal. His ego is not invested in getting dating results, in fact he probably wants some kind of interesting negative reactions. It's a contrived situation, he is being intentionally goofy and over-the-top. If you're looking at that and taking away anything about how to run game, you're kidding yourself. In the real world, numbers don't mean shit, as was pointed out above. Even if they succeed, you've just postponed having to run real game for another day or three.

False dichotomy. The second part assumes the reality of the personal self concept. First you must prove its existence (or fail and perhaps get enlightened in the process.)

It was a good dialogue, but you basically badgered ChatGPT into a solipsistic perspective. The problem with that is that you didn't go far enough and deconstruct solipsism itself. Solipsism requires an EXPERIENCER. If you deconstruct it, all you have is EXPERIENCING. (In other words, you took the existence of the self for granted, without probing it. Asking similar kind of questions about it as you did about sensory-cognitive experiences in relation to the supposed external world would deconstruct the self in addition to the external world.) For the TL;DR crowd. Deconstructing the external world is solipsism. Deconstructing the internal world (the personal "I" narrative) is spiritual enlightenment. Congratulations -- Leo can stop making videos permanently. School's out. The ultimate nature of reality is EXPERIENCING.

Your ego-identified parts (I like to have everything figured out in my life, and have control over everything) are more important to you right now than good outcomes. Sounds crazy, right? But that's how the ego rolls. Faith isn't to be "understood." That's the whole point.

I would shitcan gurus, politics and most books and spend more time socializing with people your age so you can get some experience. Learning without experience/application is garbage anyway, probably worse for you than not learning.

OK. First bit of advice is, your family is giving you bullshit cope advice. Secondly (this was already touched on above by others), it doesn't appear as if you're running actual game. Asking a girl to dinner when no vibe has been established and she has not reciprocated interest does not work. You're not getting her excited about you. You're probably running "nice guy game" or something of that sort. If you don't know how to get a girl excited about you, you are going to fail repeatedly and wonder why it's not working for you. Forget about socially conventional crap like "dates." (Inviting her to dinner was basically a sneaky date attempt.) Figure out how to flirt and get girls excited about you.

When you're a kid, God is virtually indistinguishable from Santa Claus. You want something from him. When you're an adult, God is simply what TRULY IS, and it's in your best interest to align yourself with that.

The internal dialogue is epiphenomenal to the ego (in other words, it is an outgrowth or a consequence of it.) First you need that identification (the I-thought) then something to identify with (some part(s) of the psyche) which produce kind of a fictitious relationship with "the world"/"others" due to psychological processes like repression, projection, etc. The internal dialogue -- the narrative -- is generated as a result of this. So yeah, it is a serious mental illness but at the root of it is that psychic split between the accepted and rejected parts.

It's not fear in general, it's a very specific kind of fear of which fear of rejection can be an important instance. You can't and shouldn't get rid of fear in general because it is indispensible in certain situations. Namely, it's a fear of certain parts of yourself that have been deemed invalid or wrong. This is the ego's function: to create this divide between some parts of yourself which are accepted and some which are rejected. This creates suffering because then the rejected parts of you are met as external obstacles, sufferings, all sorts of "negative" phenomena due to the psychological processes of repression, projection, etc. Getting rid of the ego (in other words to stop identifying with only those parts of yourself which are accepted due to biosociological factors) creates a space for you to reintegrate the rejected parts in order to create a psychosynthesis (a healing of the psyche.) The reason why people have so much trouble with the word "ego" on this forum is that they are very much in their ego and cannot conceive of the idea that identification/clinging is not content. When they think "I" they automatically associate this identification with a bunch of biosociologically inherited baggage. So of course it's extremely threatening to hear verbiage like "destroying the ego." They think it means destroying a large chunk of their psyche, while in reality it is destroying the limiting identification with that chunk.

That wasn't the context of my statement (i.e. the provision of material goods or services.) I mean, I could go into other means of providing these (such as community or church charity and all that) but that's not really the point and I don't want to take the discussion there on this thread. My point was that actually believing current progressive ideology is bad for individual people psychologically. It is stacked almost entirely on the side of nurture or "social construction" as opposed to nature/biology. Being brainwashed or compelled to believe things that are observably untrue (or even to outwardly profess and defend such beliefs) makes for unhappy people.