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Be careful not to repress sexual energy, it was a mistake I used to make. When you get aroused, note the feeling/energy in your body, the motivation and intense desire. Note what kind of things you would be willing to do if you actually had the opportunity to have sex, what kind of energy you would be willing to spend. Would you run a marathon to have sex with a goddess? Of course you would, in fact it would become completely effortless. If you learn to transmute this energy and focus it into different aspects of your life, imagine what you will accomplish. Just picture this: You are absolutely tired, you got 4 hours of sleep and it seems like nothing would be able to get you out of bed. Then imagine, if a willing beautiful woman would, in this state, offer you to have sex with her. What would actually happen to the energetic state of your body? Would you still be tired and unmotivated? Your mind can give you intense energy at any point in time. Your body always has that kind of energy. If it came to it and your life was under threat, you would be capable of running for the entire day up until the point of unconsciousness. The only reason why it would seem impossible to you now is because your mind does not give you the needed energy and motivation. But trust me, if someone pointed a gun at you, within seconds, you would have the energy of Hercules himself. What does that mean for you? Well, whenever you get aroused, try to notice what is happening in the body, and be conscious of the fact that you have a goal. Take that energy you feel, the arousal, and visualize how it goes through your body to fuel different aspects of it. Read up on sexual transmutation and do the transmutation each time you get triggered. Nofap will become a piece of cake. Each time you get aroused it's like a nugget of energy for free that you can transmute into whatever you want. I can literally, right now, take energy from a sexual fantasy and transmute it into my arms. It feels like a raging fire. Though be careful and don't seek out sexual content or fantasy on purpose. When it happens, notice it, transmute it and continue with your day. You have to actually notice that your arousal is intense energy, and whenever you lose it by having an orgasm (even a wet dream!) you will also lose that energy. Just realize this: Sexual energy is the reason why you are here. It is the reason for why each of your billions of ancestors have survived, reproduced and evolved into what you are today. Imagine the struggle, the amounts of suffering, adversity, death and cataclysm your ancestors had to face, and each and single one of the succeeded. All of that motivated by the same energy that is motivating you to jerk off. We are talking about a force of nature here. Look at all the animals out there, surviving each day in the wild. Look at their focus, at their relentless struggle. Look at the birds looking for food, chirping in the trees, flying across continents, feeding their young, always being on the look out for predators. That is not a simple task, and they give their absolute best every single day of their life. Now look at our civilization, look at the monumental energy it required to achieve this feat. The creative genius, the amount of mastery and dedication. All of this just because we really, really want to procreate.

I feel like my question was not really addressed. I was inquiring into what Leo thinks of the efficacy of Sexual Transmutation.

I am not bullying you, maybe you should do some nofap so you stop being so emotionally sensitive? The reason why I asked whether you read it or not is the following: This is super important, because the same argument is used by Cholesterol deniers, when they claim that people who have low cholesterol actually are unhealthy because there is a correlation between low cholesterol and death. Well, it happens to be the case that if you happen to be sick, your cholesterol is lowered. And it might very well be the case that if you have prostate cancer, your libido might be lowered. This is why correlation does not equal causation. Look, to me it's very clear that you do not really do your research and are just here to bash on something you do not understand or do not find appealing. None of the links you have presented give us even one good argument for why Nofap would be a placebo. You keep making health claims on this forum without backing it up whatsoever. You still have to provide evidence for 45% increase in serum testosterone to be non-significant, but of course you will not. https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ There is not a lot of research done on the long term effects of abstaining from sexual activity (there is on porn, however), and it is very hard to find study participants who would be willing to take part in such a study. Either way, if you want to be rational you should adopt a position of agnosticism on this topic, but I can see you have invested far too much emotion in your position. In the end it does not even matter whether it is placebo or not, because it is absolutely life-changing. Not a single piece of advice I got from Leo benefited me even remotely as much as the practice of Nofap, and that is saying a lot.

Have you actually read the article yourself? Can you provide proof for the claim that we do not get anything significant out of nofap? You are basically throwing around baseless claims, how do you know that the regulation of receptors makes increases in testosterone from abstaining from orgasm insignificant? By the way, from a perspective of someone who does do nofap everything you say seems laughable anyways because we ourselves directly experience all the benefits, though I think it's beneficial to expose reactionary positions like yours to people in this forum. You are acting like an atheist trying to disprove non-duality. Just read what you have quoted from quora, there is not a single sound argument in that entire paragraph. It's all basically "It cannot be true because I don't understand how it could be true!".

45% increase in serum testosterone is non-significant? Can you provide evidence for a causation between masturbation and reduced risk of prostate cancer? What makes you think the Nofap movement is a placebo effect, and why do you think testosterone is the only significant change that takes place when abstaining from pornography and masturbation?

Actually the Rogan podcast was filled with misinformation and incompetence from both sides: 7 hours of free schooling and explanations, very interesting to actually get to understand where these people make mistakes or are simply incompetent.

I can only say it again, people just do not see the depth of the problem. Everything I experience is such radically my subjective experience that even the notion of subjective experience falls apart. Even the notion and sense of reality itself is something "subjective". The reason you do not agree with everything is consciousness is because are deeply confused about what everything actually is. Everything is a notion, just as any other notion you can come up with, happening in the mind/consciousness. If you were to see this problem you would realize how much deep of an epistemic riddle this is. This is so deep that even epistemicness itself falls apart, literally everything does, including the questioning of this problem itself. That which you call world cannot be the world, and that which you call outside cannot be outside. Question what outsidedness and worldness even are. It is very interesting to observe how minds play around with the idea that all they experience is their own mind, but it always happens as if in a quarantined realm where they actually do not truly apply it to all they experience, but instead apply this idea only to the intellectual realm. You do not actually see that everything you experience and can possibly experience is your own mind, and once you realize that, truly, you will see how completely absurd your assumptions about "reality" were.

I also do sense that Leo is hiding it for marketing reasons. It could have been something that would be damaging to his reputation if it went public, I do not really buy the "I don't want to tell you because it's a distraction" claim. But in the end who knows.

I disagree. To me this person seems philosophically and scientifically illiterate. To be careful and not blindly believe Leo's positions is something we should already be aware of as Leo himself is advocating for that. What exactly in his critique seems reasonable and valuable to you?

Do you guys think there is anything to this?

How do you know anything you just said? How do you know the question you asked even makes sense or is valid to ask? You are begging the question here big time.

How do you know that, and what is "existing"?

Why do you think that such a thing as creation even exists?

It seems like he is one of those people who blindly accept spirituality without having a solid scientific foundation. He deluded himself into spirituality without understanding it, and now that he caught up on some of the scientific literature he is bashing his previous believes. It's like a person who was raised christian and then went atheist because of how silly Christianity is. Maybe this is why you learn philosophy and science before you become spiritual. From what I can tell he does not yet recognize the mind-reality problem and it's significance.

Yes, I think the problem is that we conflate concepts with reality. So when we say "Nothing is what is left when you remove everything, it's still something!" we are actually talking about the concept of nothing. The concept of nothing is actually something, it is the concept of "The absence of everything!". It's nothing but a delusion of language, and has as much to do with nothingness as the concept of red has to do with redness. I just want to poke into Leo's logic, because he values concepts so much when they do not seem to have much to do with what is beyond.

The problem is I know that, but it doesn't help at all. I am not conscious that my ideas are delusional, and when I am I fall back to it as soon as I become more conscious of reality.

After listening to so many of Leo's videos, and other enlightenment content, I feel like I already know the answer and it's so hard to ignore it when I am self-inquiring. It's like I am always trying to find that the answer is true, instead of being actually curious about my reality. I used to be very curious, before I knew Leo I spent hours and hours thinking about reality and what it is, I came to all sorts of conclusions like reality being necessarily unlimited and infinite, but I didn't know of spirituality back then and it was more of an intellectual exercise. Now that I know how significant it is to inspect consciousness, I cannot do it because I already feel like I know the answer. Whenever I am self-inquiring I am trying to get rid of my self, because I already know that I am not what I think the self is. I am using the Neti-Neti method with a clear expectation of what will happen and it's just useless. It kills my curiosity. The only times where I seem to get deep is when I question language, when I question the meaning of words until they make no sense anymore, and that is when I don't actually think about enlightenment at all, but I am actually curious. Though even that is being corrupted by the ideas I have, whenever I realize that I am getting onto something I immediately think of enlightenment and am like "Wow, this is it, this is how I will get to the truth!" and then it's all for nothing. How do I get rid of all these ideas and concepts? Or how can I use these concepts to aid me on my inquiry instead of being road-blocked by them? I have this problem that I am only curious when I try to investigate matters on my own, when someone makes me question something about reality that I then have to figure out by myself. This is when I can actually inquire into the nature of things. Listening to teachings to me is almost like adding delusions to my conceptual framework. It's like spoiling a movie for me that I then don't care to watch anymore. I know that the experience of watching the movie is different from the information I was told, but that does not change the lack of curiosity and the inability to actually, consciously inspect the mind.

I have no access to them.

Is it not ironic that you say the egg came from outside of consciousness, when the concept of "outsideness" itself is something that is actually in your consciousness?

Yes but that means reality is clearly limited to logic! All has no opposite in your opinion because it makes no sense to you logically, or because you have not become aware of it. But that limits reality to either of those two things: Nothing can exists completely outside of your awareness. Reality is bound to logic. Both of these things limit reality, why would such a limit exist?

But not being able to have an opposite is a limit, is it not?

If reality has no opposite, reality is not limitless.

But then, is your thought of a thought of a rock not being a rock actually a thought of a rock not being a rock?

From time to time I do entertain the idea that Leo might be some sort of super-genius charlatan. Who knows... he might have deluded us all.

But the all is the source of suffering, if one is conscious of being the all, why do something about something the all has created in the first place?