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This is interesting, how could someone seek for decades by doing all the practices ?

If you want to get practical, realize you've never seen your face.

Go to a party with her, wait until she's drunk, then have a super night with her. Isolate her and do just what you've done before. When she will want to kiss you or more, kiss her once then refuse when she want it again and say you can't abuse her like that. Wait untill tomorrow night Call and meet her PROFIT !

Part of the path, almost everyone go through this. Probably the sneakier part of it, because you really do think you're getting somewhere. In a sense it can really help, because prior to that you don't know what you have to do, you don't have proper pointers. So if you chase enlightenment by listening to lots of different teacher, at some point you will be forced to recognize the simple truth, which is you just have to be. You can't understand that without a lot of mindfulness momentum, without hundreds of hours of meditation, the mind just can't grasp it (well he can, but that means you're not corrupted by this society, and even then it's hard ...). So you meditate, you're aware of the thoughts/emotions, as the same time your mind thinks it's gonna have some magical answer from a guru. Then you just stop, because enough awareness has been awaken, not because you got enough concepts or theories (you can go on forever with that lol). Then it gets really interesting, reality starts to change subtly in front of your own eyes, because for the first time in your life you acknowledge you really don't know. And this is exactly what every guru wants you to experience, full blown not knowing. Since ignorance is seen as the opposite of being smart, the mind cannot fathom this, he will do everything in its power to refuse to not know. Which is really funny once you realize all the wisdom from all the sages throughout history comes from the fact that they really don't know what they're saying and doing in the first place ...

Just go to a Zen temple, it's not that pricy, and if you don't have enough money they either cut down the price or let you come for free. @iss100 http://iriz.hanazono.ac.jp/zen_centers/centers_data/usaNW.htm

A typical spiritual seeker day:

Becoming a child again, no problems, just happy little accidents. Look at Leo in his last video ! What an innocent man !

Start there: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-move-past-the-superficial-and-build-deeper-frien-1685595122 https://tinybuddha.com/blog/7-ways-to-form-deep-meaningful-friendships/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wander-woman/201509/how-make-new-meaningful-friendship

I have to buy it directly from Samsung ? Can't find it on Amazon.uk or .fr. BTW I'm quoting Leo, but I'm asking everyone. Edit: Nevermind, buying this one, it has a better battery. https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Notebook-NP900X5N-X01US-Traditional-Laptop/dp/B01N5HXZAB

What is distracting you ? To me it was video games. Sold all my consoles/games, gaming accounts, computer. Basically, remove what is distracting you from your life, like the word points to, it's useless in your life on top of taking time from what you really want and must do.

I don't know, I'm still waiting for a pm of AleksM for the ones he said that are "extremely powerful".

Yes and no. Your "problems" will still be there, but you won't make drama of them in your mind. @Moreira It's not seen as a problem since there is no drama, it's just an event that you have to deal with.

Easy to experience, impossible to understand.

For those who wants to guess what it will be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

He realized he was dead all along, that the ego was just an illusion. Just like any old scripture, there is a lot of bullshit in it, cause the people who wrote it didn't understand jackshit about it. Same thing for reincarnations, it's just identification with a new form (or an old one), again and again. You "go" to the hellish realms when there is a huge identification (you're more inconscious = more suffering), then you go to the paradisiac ones when you go meta and realize an identification was an illusion (more conscious = less suffering).

I FIGURED OUT, LEO WILL CONTACT BOB FROM THE DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE WILL BE POSSESSED BY BOB, AND BOB WILL PAINT FOR US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KILLING TWO STONES WITH ONE BIRD, SO PROFOUND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What do you think they are doing in a Zen monastery ? I'm not saying self-inquiry isn't usefull, I'm just saying you can be conscious every second, and go deeper and deeper, there is no end.

It becomes way easier if you watch your thoughts patterns 24/7

The momentum of your meditations will carry into your trip, and vice versa

2 week solo retreat + 1 trip in the middle and 1 trip just before the end.

It could be the case. I don't see the point to think like that personally, I just see that life becomes more and more enjoyable, fun and beautiful, that's enough to makes me think it's no bullshit (at least for now). Even if it was bullshit, if we follow the logic of the path, that would mean there is something even better after this fake enlightenment paradigm ! Super Enlightenment 2 !!!

Because I had samadhis where I wasn't "Shin" anymore (never took any psychedelic). So it really doesn't make any sense that I could be the brain.