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even though every animal senses the chair in a different way, there is still a commonality, all sense something. how can I know why there's something rather than nothing? any explanation i would give would be a belief, the answer is "i dont know".

Didnt you decide to be loving in order to increase the well being of yourself? that would mean that your well being is still your number one priority.

@InfinitePotential didnt understand anything, can you elaborate?

you mean that I have certain sensations, and I could interpret those sensations in an infinite amount of ways? If so, the question then becomes if there is a sensation at all, why cant there be a true "thing" that causes those sensations? without that "thing" there would be no sensations.

i get that, though there is a possibility that theres a table there. i also cant prove that theres no table.

what do you mean by "Strain"? when I raise my eyes, should I feel the sensation of kind of stretching? I dont feel any pain, its rather a pleasant sensation. at the start a while back it did hurt sometimes though. I feel weird when I do it, like something bad is going to happen (or cool).

I also feel sensations, sometimes in the back of my head, sometimes in my heart, sometimes between the eyebrows. I felt once when doing the wim hof method like my head exploded. this shit happens, any ideas you have about it are just ideas. if you dont want to distract yourself with beliefs, what the fuck is that "im gonna break my psyche because of some sensations in my head" belief? see your hypocrisy? Either study kundalini stuff or shut up and let go of the need to interpret those sensations. The whole chakras thing is just a useful model, you dont have to believe anything. it might help you achieve your goals of disidentification with the ego, or at least calm you about the speculations you run in your head about any sensations you have. Rare, rare, rare... its like dying when flying on an airplane. will you not fly it if you have a chance of dying? edit: ill give you an analogy for the use of the chakra system. say you want to build an airplane, would you study aerodynamics, physics, and all that stuff? of course, even though its just beliefs, there's no such thing as a "force" or "vectors" or whatever, but its helpful in order to build an airplane. You could build an airplane without all that knowledge but would you try flying it, not knowing whether it would crash? or at least knowing what's the probability of crushing? wouldnt you feel more secure if you knew that on some level it should stay in the air?

@Arman I am well aware of the glamorous shit new age people get attracted to like flies, but the key is to be aware of that. Maybe it works just for me personally to listen to content without concerning myself with the provider of it. I can weed out the speculation and remain with the golden nuggets as Leo likes to put it. I accept only what makes sense to me and what I can prove for myself, I dont believe in stuff I cant know for myself, like other earths, multiple lifetimes, divine grace or whatever. I dont fully agree, because you never know. Imagine stumbling upon leo's recent videos while being deeply orange/blue. you would just dispute whatever he says because you'd think he's a bad source of information.

what's the difference between personal awareness and source awareness? isnt it the same thing

I wouldnt start comparing channeling/no channeling because its pure speculation. as far as you can tell he can fake it, or have a mental disorder or whatever. all that matters is the content. waste of time to speculate

I watched the videos you're talking about. its true that psychedelics dont give you a permanent high, like yoga does, but he neglects the positive effects psychedelics can have, especially in western society. psychedelics can reveal to you a bunch of things you didnt know, which can change your life, even though they dont make you permanently enlightened. If I would have the chance to learn it directly from isha, go to their events and stuff I would, but its extremely expensive and time consuming. i think ill do it somewhere in the future but now i cant, so should i do nothing then? Maybe you can harm yourself if you half-ass the practice, but I think its highly unlikely. think of the people who came up with yoga, why didnt they harm themselves? I think its bullshit that you cant learn it from a book, sure maybe its preferable if you have a guide, but you also have your inner guide, which is better than all guides.

@Recursoinominado most vegetarians eat tons of pasta. I tried eating vegatarian without pasta and I had the worst belly cramps, diarrhea, extremely low energy. When I eat meat I have no problems that you mentioned. its not practical to be vegetarian for me, I tried.

haha, if I could manage that during normal consciousness. during a high forget about it

personally when I use cannabis, even a little I become a retard and have very bad short term memory.

@Feel Good I think those topics were banned because from the perspective of people who havent experienced mystical states (myself included) this seems too fantastical and speculative. If I ask myself genuinely whether spiritual awakening is a delusion the brain creates, my answer is yes. Including past lives, future lives, channeling, etc. That is not to say I dont pursue it and that im not openminded to it though. Sure the brain is a concept in "my" awareness, though I dont know if there is a reality outside awareness. Maybe there is a reality outside my awareness where a brain exists or maybe not, all of that is speculation from my perspective.

I think I finally decided to get a girlfriend, after a long time of doubting, I have a few obstacles I face and I need help to overcome them: not really an obstacle, but a question- is cold approach the way to go? from personal sightings of people doing it and from youtube videos it seems very assholish, selfish, you disturb women. It feels wrong to disturb girls in the middle of the day. maybe it might make them feel good, but not always. that leads me to- I dont know when and where is it appropriate to approach girls. I have a few places in my town and a few outside of town where there are a decent amount of people, my area is lowly populated and the average age in my town is 60 i think, so its a bit tough to find places with women my age. though in the places that i would guess there would be women my age when is it appropriate to approach? what if theyre in a group? there are rarely girls going around on their own, what if theyre busy doing something or in a rush to someplace? it seems inappropriate to start a conversation with a girl while shes grocery shopping. there are a few cafes so what i think the best way to approach is to make a few eye contacts with the same woman and then go talk to her. im afraid of my friends finding out that im doing this, because again, my town is small so theres a big chance i would meet a girl who knows one of my friends and i dont want them to know because its a lot not like me, im very reserved and not outgoing so the huge difference in personality might trigger some lightbulbs in my friends. i know it shouldnt be really a problem, but it feels uncomfortable thinking about that. I do have very good social skills and sometimes im very funny, but only sometimes. its like it depends on my mood and whether im relaxed and detached. i dont know how to forcibly detach myself and relax myself. i might be very awkward or i might be very extroverted. another fear is being awkward or assaulting some girl or making her uncomfortable by mistake, and then maybe my friends will know about that and they might not want to go out with me anymore, and i kind of need that group of friends because it makes my socials skills better. i saw leo's vid on how to get a girlfriend and one of the points was to push for sex. i understand where that's coming from because she wont care about me really before sex, though it seems very aggresive and selfish, i feel dirty when i think about doing that. i also have no idea how to do that, what if i go too far and it might be considered sexual harassment? i dont know where the limits are. im also a virgin, so "taking the lead" might prove very difficult for me. lets say I go on a "hunt" to a mall or something, try to talk with girls. lets say i get rejected by a few and I stay around to talk to more girls. what if the girls who rejected me see me talking to more girls or bump into me again? i seem very desperate in the situation. more importantly what if a girl sees me talking to some other girl, she rejects me, and i happen to approach the girl who saw me? she might think im some desperate dude hanging around the place picking up girls, so she will definitely reject me or even throw a hurtful comment, which will lower my motivation and increase the fear. also, if I get a girl's number, am I supposed to leave the place and not get more numbers? if a girl that gave me her number sees me with another girl she will ignore me on the phone. can i have a date right after i met a girl? is it ok to take her out of he group of friends if she has one? I think the biggest one is 2, i dunno if its appropriate for example to catch up to a walking girl in the street, also i would guess i would need to be more direct, because she's in a dynamic state so it will be weird and disturbing if i try to talk "around the point". and what if she has a boyfriend? do you have any crucial tips? are there any ways that i can get in trouble doing pickup? p.s. should i approach girls that i dont like, but are not ugly? i know by being picky i wont get anywhere but what if i dont have anything genuine to complement a girl on?

show him somehow the impact he made on you, thats ultimately what hes living for

a beautiful poem, thank you

@crushangel haha i know i answered already, but i have a different perspective. ideally you want to have a partner who shares similar life goals with you. how you put self actualization into the category of "life goals" depends on you. the video applies to women also.

are you sure? i think i just cant know if theres something beyond my experience. doesnt necessarily mean theres nothing. thats an idea, "location" is a concept

@YogiLogan also after the mahamudra i have to take quicker breaths because its exhausting, so the ujjayi has little effect on kp1 which cones after the mahamudra i think also during mahamudra, i should try to reach the feet and have a straight back right? and then when i chant ohm to flex the scrotum and the belly, right? my questions is should i put pressure with that flexing on the ajna chakra? like when you press and your face starts to go red.

@YogiLogan but in the book its written i should hold for 3 seconds after the inhale

@Feel Good thanks. that book is definitely on my reading list.

im in the midst of the life purpose course (for who bought the course- at the start of the life purpose assessment, where you answer a ton of questions). I have my values and strengths, I worked unimaginably hard on my values for a few months. since I finished my values and moved on to the next part, the life purpose assessment, I got stuck, I had extreme motivation issues and no passion to want to have a life purpose. right now I simply dont want a life purpose, its just a means to survive for me. I got about 7 years of guaranteed work and university, so i have a lot of time to figure out what my life purpose is. What I think is happening is that I have a lot of emotional blockages that I need to break through, I need to get a taste of what love is, im stuck at the bottom of maslow's hierarchy so i dont want life purpose "stuff" like contributing to society and being creative. Do you think its wise to halt the life purpose course for now and to focus on emotional mastery, socialization and relationships? i need an outside opinion on this, i think its not too wise, but to do the life purpose course takes a lot of emotional labor because i dont want to do it, i dont feel any passion when doing it.

i never get what travel means. do i go different places and talk to people? i dont know how to start conversations with strangers, especially in other languages, it seems nice on paper but in practice i havent the faintest idea how to do that. also life experience is so vague i have no idea what you mean.