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Does this subtle I thought function in the same way, the I thought of a non-liberated person does? Or is it just another thought to an enlightened person.

Okay I might have been exaggerating a bit But what I mean is that you need to put away most of the things you have ever learned and although everything in your body and mind screams for you to stop, you like keep going just on the hunch that there might be something else out there. At least for me, the first two weeks of meditation were torture..I was itchy, bored, and felt like jumping out of my skin. A small hint that I was on the right way only came like 4 months into doing this. Every normal person just like moves on and finds other things to fix what they perceive to be wrong, leaving only the ones behind who can't or won't do that.

In my opinion people who willingly walk on this path are either emotionally damaged or insane. I see myself as part of the former group, so if he did indeed kill himself I would say that vanish probably would have taken any model and used that as an excuse to do what he did. But I still think that people who talk like leo should keep stuff like this in mind. Back in the days when there was a guru-disciple relationship, the guru could verify how far the disciple is and then give them appropriate teaching. The antagonistic way that leo talks about the ego could be very harmful to a lot of people. And I've actually made a thread about this a couple of months ago. Stuff like this is why love and kindness is very important in our development and the more I practice it, the more I realize how much that is lacking in general society and even here. Nobody here is willing to acknowledge the suffering of their surrounding and their own because after all 'everything is infinity' while that may or may not be true, saying that may not be appropriate in every situation and most people here just don't seem to get this.

Because it's hard...Doing pick up is very hard but truly facing the underlying issue that makes you turn to pick up in the first place is even harder. Doing self help is hard but facing the very core of why you do self help is even harder. If I have problems with self esteem, with girls with working consistently. It's hard to face those problems but it is orders of magnitudes harder to face the root of all those problems, Now contrast the amount of people who do self help to the amount of people who do self help seriously and now contrast that amount to the general population and now you know why people don't deal with their subconscious.

@mostly harmless That was beautiful.

Don't take the myers-briggs test so seriously just do it for fun, by the way look up the origins of the myers-briggs test and research it's validity,

@MarkusSweden As soon as I saw your name pop up, I knew exactly that this is where you were gonna go...this reads like a challenge to cram in as many conspiracy theories and insults in one post while trying to keep it coherent. If you just look at a map, you will see that the regions the US destabilized aren't the regions where Israel are now building their settlements. Every single topic you mentioned in passing is a vastly complex topic that people spend their entire life researching...if they only knew that it was the jews all along.

inb4 somebody invokes sam harris or jordan peterson. Those people aren't really that informed about the intricate nature of Islam. If you listen to Sam very critically, you'll realize pretty fast that he removes our current situation from it's entire context and refuses to acknowledge just basic facts.

Stop beating yourself up, you are on the right path, being able to safely stop taking one psych medicine and do as well as you do while taking it is already a great feat that most people will never accomplish and you did that with 6. You are a beast. Whatever you have been doing has clearly worked so just keep doing that more consistently for a longer period of time.

@abrakamowse Only to bring about greater good. There is no relative good without relative evil, The notion of being good loses it's meaning when there is nothing but good.

Even the classical religions have solved the problem of evil long ago. If whatever you perceive to be evil is a problem, then that is a problem with you. But because the abrahamic god is all benevolent he can't be anything but good it is simply not in his nature to be evil, same if you perceive a rock to be soft and spongy then that is a failure on your part because it simply isn't in the nature of the rock to be soft.Therefore the reason you see an issue in the first place is because you are unable to see the whole picture from your limited mind. With that said at this moment I really don't believe anything and I'm not an agnostic either. I simply suspend judgment on everything I haven't experienced. Leo and the people on this forum like to talk about infinity, christians talk about the holy trinity etc. Unless I haven't had an experience that directly proves or disproves any of that I'm not really invested.

@Matt8800 I like keeping the mystery. You know that moment when you have some weird experience or sensation and when looking it up you find that it is actually a well documented phenomenon.

@DnoReally Most of the time there is a graduation paragraph which tells you when you can move on otherwise I just do until I feel like I got a grasp on the technique and don't need to think too much about it. Also I reread the lessons every couple of days to make sure that I'm not deviating bit by bit. And if you wanted to you could probably learn a couple of lessons at once because the first page tells you what requirements are needed to start the lesson.

@Matt8800 Nobody is telling you to have faith or believe, only to suspend your judgment until after a while of doing kriya or kundalini yoga. then you can still stop and make up your mind.

The main difference is that you can just do the exercises yourself and see.I dunno siddhis though. I mean Buddhists believe in reincarnation, deity yoga and Tibetan Buddhism apparently let you become a literal deity by channeling it's characteristics and praying to it and stuff. By the way siddhis are a thing in buddhism as well. My personal take on it is to not waste too much time thinking about what is real and what isn't. I just do my practice and as long as I am progressing that is enough.

@electroBeam My bad I was under the impression that you were using the same book, my apologies.

@electroBeam I'm not sure whether you are trolling me or not but in case you are not: 1.The book said to face east not west and though I'm sure that this is not that important, I think with many instructions in this kind of work the intentions matter most. It means to try your best to control the things you can, in order to have the maximum experience, and let go of the things you can't control. Now when the book says to face east and you face west instead, how much attention are you really paying? 2. You don't follow all the steps exactly because you even admitted that instead of a mantra you replace it with a visualization, the point of mantra isn't the content of the mantra itself. You could replace Om for Orange if you wanted to(probably) the important part is to fill your internal talk space up so that you quiet down the monkey mind. Now you are trying to feel and see things that you weren't instructed to but struggle to feel and visualize the things you actually should. Basically you made up your own exercise at the spot and wonder when you don't get the result. 3.You do 24 repititions of Kriya Pranayama 1 when you are clearly instructed to only do that when you can do the exercise and only after being familiar with it for months.

@electroBeam You should probably watch the video on Leos blog called 'don't half-ass yoga'.

There is an Ayahuasca retreat coming up and as it is quite pricey it would replace my planned dark room retreat. Can anybody who has experienced either help me set my expectations so I know which to prioritize?

@Salvijus Well I just paid the fees, I'll make sure to write a trip report.

@WildeChilde The only problem with that would be logistics, He would have to make the price something crazy so that not too many people would be interested and it would be worth his time otherwise he could fill up his entire day doing skype consultations and still be behind schedule.

To be honest I don't think the tour is a good idea in the first place especially because his viewers are across the globe. If there is a video released it will have the exact same value especially because Leo is so active in the forums and in the YT comment section. A way better idea would be to host retreats. It would be win-win for everybody. People who are dedicated could fly in, leo would literally get paid doing things he would do anyways + the talks he would give would now be in the context of practice instead of theoretical knowledge. Seems like such an obvious idea which is why I think that he has specific reasons not to do this...but a man can dream

I remember reading at some point that he will begin to refer to medulla as bindu and when he means another bindu he will specifically refer to it such as bindu visarga etc.

Not learning skills like speed reading is like refusing to learn how to run when you can only walk. If you can speed read you can choose to read slower but if you can't even if you want to speed up you can't.

@Leo Gura Then I may have misunderstood some things, because some of the practices are advised to be done at night before sleep and other lessons have a maximum amount of repetitions for a day.