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@Jani fair enough ?. thank you. i learned here as well. you sound well ahead of the 19 yo median. keep on rockin ?

@Nichols Harvey You are wise in not believing me. One of the best ego traps is expressing verbally what I've learned and giving references of others who have not learned it. This reveals it has not been realized, only learned. It may be clever observation, but it reveals a lack of practicing and building momentum. It shows where the focus actually is. Clever camouflage. And, how old am I? What gender am I? See, you are doing the same thing as what I'm describing. Thinking you know and realizing are not the same. If the ability to focus was truly developed, the title would note 'creating a better work environment', and then the content would be about creating, not the current work environment and shortages of coworkers.

@Jani There is a state of mind you can obtain in which none of the negative perspectives you described exist. I would not expect you to believe me, and I hope you don't. In your current state, your mood & perspective seem to be dependent or at the least, influenced, by what other people think of you / getting validation, recognition, respect. These are the facets of the hamster wheel. That's all ego feed. It's not helping you in the long run to feel good about that stuff in the short term. Get yourself to a place where you see that for what it is. Contemplating what others think of you is a waste of time. Praise & blame are all the same. When how you feel is only determined by you, you'll be running a company, not working for one. Please don't believe me. Believe in the practices.

@2000 @TJ Reeves TJ nailed it here. One point I think is worth adding...be sure to meditate and then establish your intention in a longer term visioning way. I have found the muscle development analogy applies to this too. I have been pleasantly surprised by what I get from a workout when I first focus on why I'm doing it, which muscles each excercise will expand, that all of it contributes to a much higher conditioning, which allows me to spend more time practicing and less time sitting around tired.

@Adam M I'm at a place where I see/ feel that complacency coming. What works for me is learning something new because it changes my understanding of things I've already learned. Currently, I'm learning to sew and tailor clothes. I'm not interested in it, and that's why I get benefit. It's a practice of practicing something without being inspired to do it. It keeps the preference & emotion factor away as an obstacle. Also, when I feel it coming, I go away, alone, for a few days to spend a lot of consecutive time doing the practices and being creative. Consciousness to me is sort of like blowing up a balloon...if I want it to pop, I have to expand it. While I'm not expanding it, it has a slow leak. A few days of blowing is necessary to push through the leak.

@Violet Great to hear your career is going well. Seems like (IMO) you are looking for happiness & fulfillment from a corporate career. "You're still young, that's your fault". Practices have no substitute. Only the practices will lead you to the place of satisfaction and simultaneous expansion. It is a delicious harmonious state.

@Joseph Maynor Living vicariously is not a real experience, it's regurgitating one's own experiences in an illusion of conflation.

@Noname Thinking is helpful if it inspires adherence to the daily practices & leads to an individuals discovery of the non-thinking state. Otherwise, thinking is preventative to progress.

@Anna1 I'm feeling so transparent! You are intuitive, and so right. I struggle with this big time lately. My oldest son is 23. A hard age imo. He puts me on a pedestal, and I tell him he shouldn't. It's not a be like me thing, it's a be less of you, and you will become so much more of you thing. I am becoming more aware and mindful of it, but I too often forget to meet him where he's at. Once in a while though, I love that look on his face when I touch on something close enough that he hears it, and far enough that he wants it. Life is so fucking sweet & precious.

@Anna1 You are right. What I said was from what I am now. When I think for a second back to being younger, your sentiment and logic ring true. It's an interesting phenomenon, how anyone, especially Leo, holds no punches and basically is saying do the fucking practices, but as said in Lazy Eye, "So clear but so unheard". Why is that? Why is it so hard to hear? Best I can make of it, is that it's because the objective reality is so overwhelmingly convincing. Like watching / playing a virtual reality game in the year 3000. So good, we'd argue it's real.

@Anna1 Yes, that is what I said. There are so many words through this post. It is a far more simple thing than the context here. If you say I and mean a human by your name, you are not enlightened. If you live, go by a name, "are" a human, but your "I" is awareness, everything - then you are enlightened. Honesty supersedes, all else is just words and meaning can not possibly be known and so are fruitless. All the books and teachers are hamster wheels with carrots. Unnecessary and typically hindering. There is someone who meditates properly and someone who doesn't. It can be expedited, but otherwise can be obtained very simply, over time. The hero's journey however, is entirely different and it seems that's where so much confusion comes from.

The end is what you mean by "I".

@Himanshu love this post man. im in agreement, God, everything, superposition, the one... it seems to me our imagination shares the same properties in a literal observable way, and all are one in the same. I know Leo says we are more just computers, but I don't feel like a computer and from what I can tell, my computer doesn't feel at all. Perhaps one day I will attain that level of wisdom. I have seen that all is nonmaterial oneness, but I was seeing none the less. It is strikingly bizarre how science verifies & utilizes the levels of matter and makes computers, quartz crystals, satalites, etc and we still ask ourselves if that substance is within us.

@S33K3R depends on how u feel

Brain waves do not equate to a decision, they represent activity.

Entanglement, superposition.

When I saw that it's all beliefs it made it much easier to see my beliefs and see beyond them.

@aniss get a job anywhere and out work everyone, opportunities will come out of the woodwork. don't pass up any of them

@Wouter I feel you but I have different wants and preferences. You're the only one experiencing what your filtering down to this "life", as am I. So, something is generic only because you say it is. Money is only "earned" if you say it is. I don't hold those perspectives. I'm not trying to rip on your preferences at all, but I think you are boxing opportunities out. In my world, I want it all. I have come to appreciate incomes that are residual and passive so I don't have to work and have time for actualization, family, music, art, hobbies, fitness, travel, etc. Furthermore, I love not having a boss at all. What do I see as a "gap in the market"...I'm trying to get my mind there but I'm overwhelmed with how much money there is to be made helping people. I'm not "find the gaps" minded I guess. I wish I had a little more to offer on that. Godspeed my friend, I wish you the best.

@Dodo Is it possible, perhaps, that God is missing nothing? There is no separation, only perception. Ant's probably can't perceive the view from 6 feet above on hundreds of them. A wise man once said "we all do it the same way".

@Alii It's all energy. Right in front of my face. Right inside my face. Can't find a miracle in miracles. Can't find a God in God. Can't find a me in me. It's all energy. Were it not limited by me, the light would drown me in unconditional love & blindness.

@ajasatya ?

@nexusoflife Love em. I think in the future his work with stem cells and aging will be regarded very highly. There's a lot of red tape for him currently. Biocenstrism strikes me as trying to bridge levels of systems. He's obviously a pioneer. I hope he lives a long life. At his current pace, even bigger things are sure to come.

@ajasatya Are you enlightened? Actually, no need to answer that. You're probably the nicest human I've ever come across and I'm not trying to put you on the spot. Really, I wonder, how does one know if they are enlightened because there is no objective anything to relate it to. It's only relative to one' own connotations. Right? I feel you will say I am wrong and I'm hoping to learn something in your explaination. Thanks in advance (in hopes of)

@Salaam "No problem. I guess a clearer answer to your question would be my energy "ends" and the world's "begins" in the zone upon which the edges of their different patterns interact and change in response to each other." Can you describe the 'response' from and to each party (based on your assertion they are seperate, even if in some intellectual way)?