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Would starving help to force your presence into pure being ? Let's say you only meditate and be all day, wouldn't it make the process of realization shorter, or does it have nothing to do with it ?

You say that like he was your best pal, where are the sources ?

Ok thanks

Delusion #1: Thinking that love comes from an external source, yep after your 5th divorces, maybe you'll start to hear what we're saying here. #2 is when you think you're right when you're delusional as fuck, I struggle a lot with this one sometimes Almost shocked when someone give back, like "what are you doing, really ? Oh ok, that's nice, thank you !"

Meditate every day for 20 minutes, no excuses.

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When you realize you can't locate yourself:

You're reponsible in the sense that you can always choose how to live the present moment. EDIT: Well, if you're conscious enough to see through your emotions, otherwise you're a robot.

Make sure you're not bullshitting yourself, because that's a lot of text, and a lot of justifications and rationalizations.

If you really can't go to a retreat, go out the all day into a forest or a plain, and only come home to eat. The only limitation here is your own will.

Is there any french guy in here ? I'm searching for workshops in France, and aside a Sesshin retreat I didn't found anything. If someone know some good workshop/gurus to experience in here it would be nice to share

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Albert Einstein

This is the most important ^^ It doesn't matter how much sexy, smart, or funny you are, if you don't make the effort to please her in bed, it's all gonna fall down one way or another (unless she's a carpet). Now if you're a virgin or have very little experience, that might be a problem, but not because you don't have any experience. It's mostly because she's gonna wonder why, why does a guy that attracted me is still a virgin/have little experience ? Is he asexual/gay, or is he faking confidence ? The trick is to know that you'll probably fail, but not because you're not sexually experienced, but because you'll be needy and won't be grounded in yourself, you'll see her as the women that finally saves you, you'll put her on a pedestal (you won't fuck her like you should because of that), and she will hate you for that. So meditate and do personal developement like a motherfucker, THEN FAIL, realize that you don't need a women, meditate and do personal developement like a MOTHERFUCKER, and then if you feel like it, search an another woman. The kind of women you'll be attracted and that you'll attract will be very different, and the relationship will be way much more interesting and satisfying. WHY ?! Because the relationship will be a bonus (you'll already be happy on your own), because you'll stop being fake, because you'll see the woman in front of you like a full fledged human being, and not some goddess without any flaws. Hope that helps

Do nothing and observe your feelings/thoughts. This is extremely difficult to do, but this is also the most effective process.

Don't close your eyes if you do it while in bed.

Leo always remind people they shouldn't do drugs if they aren't doing self-developement seriously, there is even a warning message. This is a problem yes, because many people think they master everything, and will still do it and failed, but for people who are really doing shit to work themselves, these videos are helpful. So what should Leo do, not capture these videos and not helping those who could understand it, or capture it and maybe crushing emotionally some people here and there (which could indirectly lead them to the path later) ? Well, it's expected, the more Leo talks about it, the more you'll hear it here. You can either accept it or fight it in your mind, but that's not gonna change, it will only get "worse" in your perspective. There is nothing to be sorry of, I'm trying to help you I know I seem too serious/cold, and I'll work and that, but I just want to help some people, that's all I want.

That's what I want to find out too. If I can already calm the mind to the point where I don't even think (for like 95% of the time) just by walking for 1 hour, and see and feel reality different because of it, I wonder how far you could go by meditating hours and hours in a forest. Yersterday, after 45 minutes of walking, I really REALLY feel like some trees was alive, it was so sharp and beautiful that I had to stop walking for a while. There was also two horses, and when I looked at them, it felt like I was watching myself (sort of, don't remember exactly, but it was a feeling close to that). Now everything is reality, but as a newbie, it is way much easier to see this kind of stuff in nature, then on animals/people, and finally on "inert" man-made objects.

Spring, plz cum fast

If you think it's gonna solve all your problems and that you're neurotic and or dogmatic about it, yes.

You don't need to be enlightened to realize there is no self, just do self-inquiry for some weeks/months. For everything else, just meditate 2 hours a day for 3 months, and watch your thoughts non-stop without judging them. This is extremely challenging and emotionally disturbing, and everyone will think you're crazy/a freak, but if you really want to get rid of your approval/judgemental thinking, I don't see any other way. EDIT: You will still have approval/judgemental thoughts, BUT, you will see them as stupid and silly and won't act on them. On the very long-term, they'll eventually totally disappear, I don't know I'm not there yet.

Hi everyone, I was just browsing the web when I found an interesting picture which perfectly describe what I've experienced since I've started my spiritual practice. What is/are your struggle(s) in this list, why do you think are you struggling with it/them (the root cause) ? I think it is a good way to know a bit more about each of us, knowing where we come from and what we have/had to face. Of course it is a very personal subject, but I encourage anyone to talk, it is always liberating to open up I've personally struggled a lot with all of them for all my life (except for conflict). 8 months ago, I would never believed that I would be able to experience such peace, I was extremely neurotics, thinking that everyone was judging me, and I was judging every actions of every person I met. I was judging and treating myself badly every day, thinking that I didn't deserve love, that I was a failure, that I will die alone and that I will never achieve anything of importance. I rarely thought about killing myself, but It was a possibility in my mind. Now for me, my number 1 problem in my life was always about my virginity and my lack of relationship experience. It was a fear so powerful, that just talking to an average girl was impossible until last year. After slow progress in my self-esteem I decided to have my first girlfriend, to erase that fear and see if a relationship can truly make me happy if everything goes right. It did goes right for 6 month, it was a really nice experience, but I let it go sour. I somehow knew she would be happier with someone else, so I let her go, I didn't try to change to keep her, I didn't make effort to be someone I was not , I just wanted her to be happy. My intuition was telling me all along that this relationship wasn't what I needed, and that I should focus on my life purpose/spiritual work. So that's for my trauma, concerning my spiritual work, I was meditating for 2 hours every day, reading a lot about consciousness/non-duality/self-help/psychology, hiking 1 to 2 hours a day comptemplating nature, and the most important, watching my thoughts at every moments, seeing them come and dissolve into the void, trying to locate where they come from while concentrating my "energy" below my belly (centering yourself). Brute forcing your way to looking at reality with a different outlook is what I'm also still doing, which simply consist by stopping your stream of thoughts and looking at what you see from an holistic kind of viewpoint. You just simply look and try to see the big picture, not focusing on the details/people. There is a very weird thing that is happening more and more now, reality seems moving "through me", I also see objects and people and kind of feel like they are "empty" and also more alive (especially for objects). I do have every symptoms by now, and when I think about the person I was just 8 months ago, It is like I was remembering a dream, like none of it was real, like it never happened. So what's your story ?

I know, I have a lovely laugh too, but apparently I can't stop it when It comes

Can an introvert become extrovert, and vice versa ?