How to be wise

DeSantis cannot run again. He will step down in 2026.

It was the depression that led him to study zen and spirituality. 80% of people who enter spirituality do so because of their suffering. So in the end it turned out to be a gift.

@Leo Gura It seems that there has been an increase of conservative individuals on this forum who may not be familiar with the concept of spiral dynamics. I think it might be helpful to pin some of the mega-threads on this topic, as it has been a while since you last made a video on it.

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Tulsi Gabbard, who was previously allied with Bernie Sanders and identified as progressive, is now a contributor on Fox News, working with Tucker Carlson, who has extreme far right views. How could someone shift their political beliefs so dramatically in such a short time?

@Elton 2030

@Kuba Powiertowski War occurs because humans have the ability to hold their own opinions and strong beliefs, and are willing to fight in order to implement them. Other species do not have the same level of desire as humans, the drive that causes them to leave home and face death in battle.

Do you have any evidence for that?

Most of that change happened during my teenage years. And yes, people like us who are interested in personal development do change, but most people don't.

@IAmReallyImportant Did you study it? Have you watched Leo's videos on Blue, Orange, or Green, and read books like The Religion of Tomorrow by Ken Wilber and Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck?

It’s a beautiful song, but not necessarily the ‘highest truth’.

@lxlichael I stand by my words..

People don’t change. Never.

@StarStruck All of reality is mind. That's it. Notice that nothing exists outside your imagination of reality.

@r0ckyreed Your mistake is trying to make science relevant everywhere. Science is very important in deducing third-person reality, but it has no business (nor should it) in first-person spirituality. Let science be science and spirituality be spirituality.

@IAmReallyImportant Do you understand spiral dynamics.

Notice that fear is the only emotion that can make you unaware of the truth. You have to try to induce fear within me to make me lose my awareness of the truth. No other emotion would do it. It won’t work with me. The truth is the truth.

Because adults don’t change. It’s extremely rare for an adult to grow spirally even by one stage. Our only hope is in the next generation.

There is no alien-mind, only mind.

@Someone here Once you understand spiral dynamics, beige to turquoise, you’ll understand the diversity of worldviews. You just have to peg them into their stages.

@Hojo There are no aliens, only mind.

Not a ‘full understanding’, because that would imply you can’t go deeper.

We don’t have to worry about that anymore.

This experience should make you engage in spirituality more, not less. The mind is the cause of all suffering, and you have to use spirituality to undo the mind’s illusions.

@Hojo You obviously have access to experiences most of us will never have.