How to be wise

What did he mean by 'you have to become life'?

I guess weed is linked to psychedelics, so you could have had a mystical experience. Interesting...

You could try contemplating on this issue.

For me, sleeping for 6 and a half hours is a lot. Most days, I sleep less than 5 hours.

I was reading a book where the author helped us to unattach ourselves from our thoughts. By this process, negative emotions and bad habits caused by us believing thoughts would be unwired. So I was wondering, if I am able to work on unattaching from every thought that I currently believe in, then will I become enlightened? I mean, the ego is a belief that we have, and if I am able to unattach from that belief as well as any other belief that I have, I don't see a reason why I can't be conscious of absolute truth?

So what are some examples of other things that I have to let go of, given that all negative emotions and bad habits come from attaching from thoughts.

Make sure you grind through all frustrations that could come up during your meditation

Are those insights that you had. or are they thoughts that you just thought up or did you get it from a book or a person? just curious...

If all of our insights are untrue, then what is truth?

It feels good when you act kind, so that's how you know that you should do it.

In the book review, Leo said that he could have put this book into the enlightenment and consciousness category, so does that mean that if I do The Work long enough, I will be able to attain enlightenment?

So lately, I've made it my mission to meditate so that I can realise the fact that all sensations are impermanent. If you've read 'Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha', then you'll know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I was wondering, if I meditate every day for 20 mins, then approximately how long will it take for me to realise that sensations are not continuous.

I don't need those kind of answers gosh...

I'm 17, but I've still not looked at the life purpose course. I intend to discover it before I finish university. Good luck with your life purpose searching.

i think this post should have went to the enlightenment thread. Great advise though.

So I noticed that there are two types of life purposes. The first one is where you open a business which tries to make a big change in the world, for example opening a business which sells electric cars and has a goal of eradicating petroleum cars. The second type is where you have a dream which is basically very unlikely according to most people, but if it happens, people's lives will change forever. For example, as a physicist my dream is to figure out how to make a wormhole which could let us travel billions of light years instantly. It is (according to the laws of physics) possible, but most of my colleagues tell me that I'm thinking millianiums ahead of myself. So my question is, is it worth spending my whole life trying to figure this out and hope that it is possible, and that if it does happen, then humanity will advance a lot. Am I thinking too big? And if I decide to spend my life working on that, I have to find myself a 9-5 job, because unlike the first type of life purpose, I can't make a business out of this. Any my opinions or suggestions?

I would say, start a business which sells music? Leo's book list has a lot of books on making a successful business based on your art (music), and also he has a lot of books on money, and how to change your money. You have to believe that it's possible for you to make a million dollar company based on making your music which you enjoy doing. You can stay in your childhood area if you want to, and with a million dollar company at your fingertips, the bills won't be a problem for you. BUT..., staying comfortable in one area for your whole life isn't what you want to be doing. An ideal life could be where you travel the world, grow yourself and your talent in music, and also let the world taste your gifts in music. Point is, don't narrow yourself down. Make sure you aim to live the ideal life that YOU want to live, whatever it maybe. Probably you should check out Leo's life purpose course and book list for a guide on how you can go about doing it. Good luck!

If I do strong determination sitting everyday for one hour when will I become enlightened? i don't want any vague answers like 'don't know' or 'years'. I'm a hard nosed kind a guy I want numerical answers only, well if you know at least.

I was watching the episode about maslow's hierarchy and was wondering that since he made the self transcendence pyramid was he enlightened. What about Ouspensky?

after watching 'Understanding awareness' I was convinced that awareness is quite important, but what makes it more appealing than enlightenment is that awareness can help you become successful in life, but enlightenment is just some hidden truth which would be good to read about on your holidays. so do you think you should quit self inquiry and dedicate your one hour to mindfulness meditation so that you could sky rocket your awareness, and then maybe after you retire you should seek the truth if your interested. Btw I also was watching the benefits of enlightenment but turns out awareness is not one of them, shame.

I see your quite into enlightenment. Do you read outside actualized.org?

Lol I wasn't arguing with you. I read in a book that there are two types of enlightenment schools called yoga and Vedanta. I'm not that into enlightenment anyway I only listen to wat Leo says about it. Since you were talking a lot about Vedanta you were probably against yoga. Btw I'm neither I hardly know what they even mean.

Your not a big fan of yoga i assume

Well said ?

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