kieranperez

They’re still around today. There’s no such thing as “worst” cult. That’s all relative. Culture is itself a cult.

Met an enlightened yogi/monk yesterday on the street here in San Francisco. They're out there. It's nothing fantastical. Don't let your imagination get the best of you There's a lot of fantasy with these people. They're very ordinary, very plain. In yet that's what so extraordinary. Zen/Chan traditions really depict enlightened people very well. Very plain, very simple. Nothing mystical shmystical about it.

The reality is that no one can do this for you. The enlightenment and life purpose I suggest maybe hanging out with more developed people and associate with more conscious people. Move somewhere new, make new friends, etc. You seem to have limiting beliefs about people.

It's weird. I talked to a bhakti yogi monk from India today. I literally ran into him on Haight Ashbury today as I was walking around and he was just handing out books. We talked about his enlightenment and everything he was saying was really really grounded and humble but also we talked about all the different sages and how they're all talking about the same thing and he seemed open minded. He told me practices bhakti and told how his teacher is Radhanath Swami who frequently comes to SF which made it seem more legitimate but when I asked him if he's part of the Hare Krishna's he said yes which struck me odd because I didn't get this coverting cultish fake ingenuine vibe. I mean, he seemed really really open minded which I feel like is the antithesis of cults. He said he's part of Krishna Consciousness

Not Greek but I would also like to throw out Marcus Aurelius. Read Meditations after getting some traction in consciousness work and you see what he's saying in a whole new light

YES!

Why don’t you just come to the SF one since you live in SF?... LOL

I’m in the Haight Ashbury right now and I can only imagine the amount of posturing and elitism JP would have here “All you hippies and your relativism!”

Believe it or not I actually like Sam Harris' original 26 minute guided meditation. He times his pauses well and provide enough space between each "instruction" and incorporates self-inquiry at the end. Though I don't use it anymore I do think it's good. It was that meditation that made me first realize I don't know who I am referring to when I say "I" which got me on the path of spirituality.

*insert video on recontextualization*

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Instead of rose petals it’ll be 5-MeO

I couldn't have found a more perfect real world photo that depicts this difference perfectly. Notice how tense, rigid, upright, and heavy Putin is and how featherlight the monk on the right is.

FOR THOSE COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO: Depending on when Leo comes here I HIGHLY suggest you bring some sort of face mask due to the current horrendous air quality. The smoke from the fires up in Northern California has the air here in San Francisco (I live here) really polluted. Again, just from the smoke. We have worse air though here than Delhi and Beijing. The AQI yesterday was 400 (double that of Delhi). The air probably won't be as bad by the time @Leo Gura get's here but it's just a heads up. P.S. I can't wait to see what Leo's legs look like in person and there better be goody bags at the end of the seminar filled with 5-MeO-DMT!

@youngshinzen holy fuck that actually sounds dope LOL wtf that's so awesome

The only true part of that whole projection of nonsense of yours. You don’t understand because you have fantasies over this matter.

@Javfly33 randomly found this just now at a bookstore here in SF LOL @Joseph Maynor go to Green Apple Books on Clement St in the Richmond here in SF! The books they have here on spirituality, metaphysics, personal development, etc. is nuts. They have SO many books from the booklist and so many books where I’d be look around on say amazon and be like ‘no store is going to carry this book’ I find all the time here. It’s nuts.

The 2nd might be a "Try not to Cringe challenge" for @Leo Gura LOL jk Orange reacting to Blue belief structure without recognizing it's own biases and it's own belief structure.

Simon Sinek is a good mainstream example of someone whose (metaphorically) pounding on the door screaming "THIS A GENERATION OF ADDICTS! HELP THEM OR WE'RE DOOMED AND THEY'RE DOOMED! SOCIAL MEDIA IS EXPLOITING THEIR BIGGEST WEAKNESSES! STOP THIS!" Remember, the world of attention is a well plotted out and exploited science by business.

The answer is going to be the same even if you take out the part about this being a question specifically about life coaching. Have you noticed that all the answers to all these questions are always the same?

Try more. Try harder. You'd be dumbstruck if you knew experientially how hardcore people pursue this. And how many is "many times before?"

I know “I’m only 23” but right now it feels like all the shit in my life is just hitting the fan and I just feel so absolutely demoralized about my future and like I’m not prepared enough internally/psychologically to turn things around. Still living at home with no real friends at this point at a dead end part time job with no support system at all but more importantly, no solid internal development, I just found out yesterday from my car insurance company raised my rates again for an accident that involved me getting t-boned from a guy blowing a stop sign and because the guy didn’t pick up the phone after I filed the claim on him to accept liability they actually dropped the claim, stopped pursuing him, and aren’t going to coverage about $5000 minimum if I’m lucky worth of damages. It just feels like my life is just in this melting pot and culmination mode of endless misery and hopelessness that’s destined for me and all the mistakes I’ve ever made are coming to haunt me and will to me being just another average person that accomplishes nothing. Where there’s no background of sense of self-acceptance, self-esteem, how I was never good enough to my parents and how they coddled me with giving me all the wrong forms of help when I was younger and how stupid I was bullshitting around. I struggle to be concrete on my life purpose through the course after taking it 3+ times because it’s so emotionally hard when you have so much fear about how you can’t subsist which leads to being motivated from this place of aggression and anger which is really more of a reaction from this deep sense of hurt. I just don’t know how I can get myself out of this. I grew up in a emotionally and psychologically unstable family where screaming and yelling and suicide threats by my mom and yelling about money was the norm at my house, I struggled in high school from ADHD and from struggling socially and emotionally from the toxic parenting I got at home so I didn’t get to even get to taste some sort of freedom in what would’ve been “the college experience”. I have a terrible relationship with the family I live with now (my Dad) because I’m treated like I just my mentally unstable mom and how I’m some loser that needs to work 80 hours a week. I have no friends to move out with or anything. I feel resistance to just apply for a job here in San Francisco, because 1. I can’t afford to live here, 2. I hate living here in this claustrophobic neurotic human zoo, 3. Working these jobs, I’m sometimes in the bathroom just in tears because I’m faced with ‘this all I can fucking do and I don’t know what I actually can do.’ Every time I get another job like this (some low end job) I just get used to it and numb to it until I stop being numb to it and then I sabotage it by coming in late in stuff because deep down I’m reacting to how much I resent and despise hate with a very visceral hate how much I’m wasting my life in yet I keep getting caught in this catch 22. It feels like yes, life is a maze, this thing is fucking rigged against me to lose and go for fucking cheese, I don’t want cheese, I know the goal, but I’m not good enough in the achieve that goal and I can’t just ask 99.9999999% of people for help on this issue because they want cheese and I don’t want cheese. In yet, I’m not good enough nor prepared to get out of here.