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Marketing is 20% of the actions in your business that will generate 80% of your success in business. That DOESN’T mean that you’re necessarily good at what you do, a master at your craft, etc. You can be very successful and actually not be a master at whatever it is you’re doing. Which is why I have a lot of inner conflicts because I tend to not want to talk, teach, and sell people things that I haven’t embodied and mastered in my life. That’s a tangent though... Back to you - I hear EXACTLY what you’re saying because you’re basically describing my mindset that I need to work on changing. What’s important about marketing is: 1. You can’t succeed in business without it. I don’t care who you are and how good you are, if you can’t market yourself, you’re going to fail. 2. Its disillusioning because it strips you away of your fantasies, dogma, and idealism. The marketplace doesn’t give a shit about you, me, or anything like that. You need to be strategic enough AND conscious enough (and balance both of those so you don’t shoot yourself and the people you sell to in the foot) of that reality and have the craftiness to create your vision but also be flexibile in your approach and toss all the means to the ultimate end. Also, get this idea of “fun” out of your head. Yes, you will reap rewards later on. However, starting a business, as I’m learning now, is not fun. It robs of your fantasies. You have to work on figuring what your prospective customer actually needs, wants, and their triggers. Like @Equanimitize said above, marketing done right is a superpower. You can use it to manipulate people and also elevate people. However, don’t fall into the trap of either being so idealistic and pretend to be a saint where you’re not pragmatic but also don’t fall into the trap of fucking other people over. Marketing really is a science. Now that I’m learning what real marketing is, I can see a lot in the videos alone on actualized.org where Leo is doing very effective marketing and I never even knew. But hey, look at what he created. Lastly, and I already alluded to this, you can be REALLY masterful at something, but that doesn’t mean people know you, you’re making the impact you want to have (assuming you do), etc. For instance, how many people known of Peter Ralston? That man mastered every martial art out there is DEEPLY enlightened and has a mastery of consciousness work. People don’t know him. Even plenty of spiritual teachers don’t know him. I live here in San Francisco 2 blocks of from the famous San Francisco Zen Center and no one knows who he is. I’m also a competitive runner and know many world class coaches who’ve coached Olympic medalists and they’re not successful in business. I hope this helps

Doesn’t Spira dynamics make the claim that people don’t move down the spiral? Not confusing map for the territory as there are always exceptions with maps and models. Just asking

Translation: Move to Marin County on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge in the SF Bay Area

Steve Jobs didn’t immediately understand this in the beginning. You can build a great product but if you don’t know how to market it, well... have fun. I would disagree on “everybody should have a life purpose.” Not everybody is equally ambitious and needs or wants the career of their dreams and that’s fine because for one, it’s already the case. I think what a lot of people on here fail to understand is that what you’re deeply passionate about can and most likely will change. For me, I took the life purpose course and it was REALLY hard because I wasn’t aware that the thing I thought I’ve been passionate about for the last 10 years was something that was starting to die away. Most masters tend to stumble into the thing that they eventually grow to love and we often overlook that. Sometimes that advice on having a “grand vision” isn’t really the best advice because if you look at what actually happens with people that achieve genuine mastery, they don’t have anything like that. The Buddha never had a vision of becoming as enlightened as he became and have the impact he had. Michael Jordan never set out in basketball with mastering basketball in the beginning, the man loved baseball more when he started (I’ve met him multiple times and got to shoot around with him at his camp a few years back). I think the life purpose course is helpful and it was so very much for me. However, the notion that everybody should have a life purpose is unrealistic and also just not true.

Right now my life really isn’t going anywhere. I’m 23 years old now, didn’t finish even my first semester in college, am working part time at REI which I absolutely resent, parents just got divorced and am living at home with my dad, and the thing I thought was my passion and my life’s purpose feels like it’s fading. At same point everyday I just break down because this isn’t what I thought where I’d be at 23. I don’t even want to talk to girls and date because I’m ashamed when I’m asked a question like ‘so where do you live?’ Or ‘do you live on your own? Or ‘what do you do for work?’ I’m tired of lying about my life but also the truth hurts of course. I live with someone who guilt trips me about how I should be disgusted with my incompetence to be like everybody else as well as for all the self help books I have. I have no support system and pretty much no friends I really hang out with and get virtually no hours at my already low paying job. When my mind calms I’m just left wondering who and what I am and I feel like I can’t move forward until I get this answered. My main passion (running) that brought me all these connections (becoming friends with Olympic medalists, too world class coaches, etc.) is starting to fade and though I get some pleasure from it, it no longer consumes my main fascination or interest. When I go for walks rather than runs in solitude on the trails here in the San Francisco Bay Area, at some point or another I sit down and just do self inquiry and as I imagine a lot of us on here may relate to, I’m left with more questions than answers. I don’t know how or why but I just feel like this is something I need to know at this point and I can’t really go on not knowing. I’m tired of the falsehoods and stories about who I am. I can’t see myself committing myself to anything until I know this for sure. I spent 10+ years involved in something that I thought was “the thing” and now I can tell that ship is sailing and I need to let it go. I just want to know who I am but at the same time, I don’t know where to go from here given my life circumstances. Thoughts on this?

To be cheap with investing in yourself. Also, he just came out with a new book called “Consciousness Dialogues”

Disclaimer: I have no issues with my health. I’ve run 4:13 in the mile and 31 for 10k so I don’t imagine myself having problems with health in terms of my lung capacity or any of that lol. That’s not to say I can’t learn how to breathe better or that I have perfect health but I think you get the idea haha So I’m REALLY struggling with my practice for the last year or so and I can’t for the life of me figure out what the solution is. The dilemma is pretty much 3-fold: Ankle pressure/pain - when I sit on the cushion, no matter what way sit (Burmese or half lotus, or any cross legged position in general after those 2 fail), I feel so much pressure on my ankles because it feels like I’m putting all my body pressure on top of my ankles. I position my feet such that my closes foot is touching my perineum. Hip (flexors) on fire - so as a competitive runner, one of my biggest weaknesses for me personally has always been in my hips. I bring up the runner part because with the amount that I run (50-85 miles per week... depends on where I’m at in my training block), if I’m not doing a lot of flexibility/mobility work on my hips, they eventually get so knotted up that I can’t run because they lock up. My lack of decent hip strength/mobility makes meditating really hard because I’ll be 5 minutes into a sit and my hips are on fire and I can’t even breathe deep and relaxed. Can’t breath deep and relaxed - So I don’t find, after experimenting and paying attention to what’s working and not working, that my issue here is a matter of either being frantic in my mind or sitting up too straight. I find that even if I’m not meditating, holding any sort of relaxed yet aligned posture fucks with my ability to breathe deep and relaxed. It’s easier (yet can still not be enough) when I sit in a chair. But me being a sub elite athlete that’s never really had injuries or true health problems physically other than being tight in a good amount of areas, I don’t want to restrict myself to a chair because I don’t get why I can’t figure this out and have to restrict myself. I also notice that even if I sit on the floor sitting up straight with both legs together straight out, I can’t breathe deep. My breath is shaky and shallow. I’m not even anxious or perturbed so I know it’s not a matter of racing thoughts causing that. Has as anyone here struggled with any of the following issues and overcome them when it comes to posture? Thanks!

I don’t want to get too far off my original post but that is an AWESOME picture. That is PERFECT. Feet squared forward, perfect extension, back is straight, the whole lot and it’s not someone that needs to pay a ridiculous chunk of money to someone that teaches them something so basic.

Cut the moralism

99% of people don't know how to squat with proper mechanics. People usually can't squat properly funny enough due to lack of mobility and range of motion in their hips. Will check out those links. Thanks

Brian from London Real. Has some stage yellow but right now with his thing on psychedelics he’s moving into stage green. You can tell he’s approaching psychedelics with dualistic framework. Nonetheless, you can see the transcendence from Orange

Look at Ken Wilber and what he calls the 3 forms of development: waking up (enlightenment) cleaning up (emotional mastery) Growing up (personal development) @Leo Gura also had an AMAZING interview with Peter Ralston, and one of the clips they talk about what Ralston calls “personal transformation” and why it’s important.

Disclaimer: i don’t want nor am I going to get too into my issue as to how I discovered this. i totally get now why this whole thing of... - unconditional love - surrender of blaming surrender of judgment - surrender of criticism - surrender of my entire life story - surrender to unconditional happiness - surrender to vulnerability - surrender to being wrong - surrender of ego to love ... is so tough. It’s the answer we talk about so much using that one little word that a the source of pretty much all individual and collective problems, “ego.” I’m trying to reconnect with my mom right now but I also have all these defaense up. But I’m noticing now that my very resistance to doing so and having to let go of all my defenses is showing me just why embodying these abstract things is so hard. Now I get why enlightenment experiences are so much easier than these embodiments.

I already mentioned that in the post that I’m aware that this is ego. I’m sharing my insight on why this can be tough for us ALL. Saying all of this is ego really doesn’t mean nor accomplish anything cause that’s still more concepts. My goal here with this post was more to kinda share that these “levels” of embodiment aren’t some easy thing. Having awakening experiences in a sense is much easier than overcoming issues regarding our character’s unhealthy/dysfunctional behavior or our shadow elements that we’ve accumulated through things such as trauma, turbulent adolescent years, etc.

you beat me to it

I don’t understand why you don’t just buy a windows laptop if you’re gonna load windows software onto it...

i did not see this coming...

I know @Leo Gura talks about some enlightened people whom pretty much the whole “your already enlightened,” but what teachers would be good examples of this? I guess the only one that comes to my mind is Eckhart Tolle but I’ve only seen a couple videos on him and it was awhile ago (I can’t stand his sweater vests...)

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Robert Greene

This is SOOOO green http://wwoof.net/

I'm curious on some opinions on this. Is it possible to still buy into naive realism post enlightenment? I love this particular clip in @Leo Gura's interview with Ralston as this clip has so many juicy hints and insights. One of the obvious insights though is that all because you've glimpsed your true nature, that doesn't always mean you grasp beyond just that. So I was wondering, can you really buy into there being a phsyical external world even if you've grasped your true nature? I can imagine that, as you one goes deeper in this work then that illusion would collapse because it would no longer make sense after a certain point. However, I'm just curious if naive realism can still pose as a potential trap after an awakening of who and what I am.

Orange, Green, and Yellow

Peter Ralston

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