Hello from Russia

@Widdle Puppy Note that the following is just my assumption about you and might not be true. I don't know exactly your situation and your mental state but I have the wibe that you try to cut out things just out of moralization. You have a belief that these things are "bad" for you and you try to act "good" by eliminating them. Deep inside your don't really believe that they are bad for you, you don't really "understand" why they are bad, you're acting on a belief, not on genuine insight. Such thing always backfires, because it's not genuine and true enough. You have to use your your willpower to fulfill your moralism. And that never works long term because our willpower is finite. What I'd advice is to look deeply inwards. The point is to move from Morality to pure awareness, to having a genuine insight for yourself. Do a hardcore self-therapy and contemplate each thing you mentioned. Why do you really want to get rid of it? Will it really make your life better? In what ways, how? Be super self-honest, honesty is the key. Unless you're brutally self-honest nothing will work! I hope It was useful

This is amazing

Fear is #1 and lacking certain know-how's is the other

Advice on how to build a contemplative conscious lifestyle while being part of the "material" world. How to make a living and do business in a conscious manner, how to relate to other people\deal with them in a conscious manner, especially when they are trying to harm\sabotage you in some way. How to balance spirituality and materialism in general.

@CreamCat Great post . Incorporating waking up at 4 am at the moment and it feels great. I also schedule 2 hours of consciousness work right in the morning which feels great aswell.

comments under first video is nuts

Do I understand correctly that with Kriya Pranayama you're basically imagining or trying to connect with your "energy" and moving it from bottom to top as you breath?

Title: How to build a contemplative lifestyle Most of us struggle from lack of freedom in our lives and this lack makes it harder to go really deep with this work. I bet Leo has some good advice on how to free ourselves and become independent as he did it himself. Some more business\marketing advice from new 2018 version of Leo would be great, especially how to build your business in a conscious manner. There are shit ton of books about real life success but they are all mostly written from materialistic\stage orange paradigm and they advice to run your venture and market yourself in the same fashion. It's hard to balance between abusing low consciousness of people around you and actually doing something in a high consciousness manner.

Is kriya yoga good for developing emotional mastery&self-governance? Or conventional meditation practices are better for this kind of stuff?

Didn't watch the whole episode yet but the timing is amazing, it is #1 thing I'm working on in my life right now and this vid seems like exactly what I need

From my feelings Russia is becoming more and more orange each year. Half of the country is deeply blue (mostly elders) and another half is deeply orange (usually younger generations). 5-10% of population is green I'd say. Government tries very hard to promote blue values. We have plenty of immigrants from middle east who also try to promote traditional blue values. Universities and Academia are pretty bluish too from my experience, although now they are becoming more and more orange as business gets more popular. You guys from America did a very good job importing your orange business culture to us. From what i've seen in the internet our younger generation and american younger generation are almost identical value-wise. The only difference is that we have way less of stage green than you do. Green people usually get shamed and judged if they are too green or too differed. It's not that bad, we are becoming a little bit more green aswell from social media and internet influence and as world becomes more global, but it's very tiny, blue and orange influence is still so much stronger. If I would do an estimate, I'd say we have 45% blue, 50% orange, 5% green and less than 0.5% yellow population. Big cities are highly orange (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg) and smaller cities are more blue.

I actually contemplated this question seriously and came up with an answer for myself. I do both, 80% of time - digital, 20% of time - real life version, all for different purposes. But I advice you to go find out for yourself. I find using phone not very convenient unless for writing some quicky insight. But maybe I just have shitty phone who knows

The most practical one is how to make the girl squirt. This is the 2nd most practical

Beauty is relative => fundamentally false Stop clinging to false beliefs

Scribd is a very good subscribption based service, you pay like 10$ bucks per month and get access to like 80% of books in the booklist, many of them have audiobooks

I didn't believe too until I experienced orgasmic electrical activation throughout the whole spinal cord on vipassana retreat during strong determination sitting . It was blissful as fuck. I believe I was experiencing some kind of a kundalini awakening. Energy was just flowing everywhere. There is definetely something

Yeah, keep going . It's okay to daydream a lot in the beginning of your meditation career, don't get depressed over it! Just refocus your attention on technique back again once you notice yourself daydreaming, I wish you all the best.

I double that . Also the guide how to find quality Wi-Fi or other type of internet connection in any city would be cool

Conversations with locals

Yeah, I agree, a quick guide would be super helpful. Stevens book is complicated as fuck. And Gamana's book in the contrary doesn't explain theory nearly enough

Yeah, that is personally why I don't think about committing suicide seriously. You may kill yourself but then there is a possibility that you will simply just start over again with all the bullshit that comes with it. At least in this life we already figured something out and now we have the tools to do something. Who knows if you'll be able to find these tools in your next life.

Title. Let's share the best methods&techniques you have for the benefit of all. As for me: I usually set goals\plans for each day\week in advance and also for long term - 1 month\quarter\year\10 years For long term goals I prefer to split everything by different facets of my life - Finance, Spirituality, Relationships, Fitness\Health, Life purpose, Self-mastery. I also have a special tab for my reading pursuits and for habits (Do you track them?). I usually write what things I want to accomplish in each area and make plans how I will do so. I also like to do random weekly challenges which is fun. For each day I tried to structure my day strictly but I was always failing miserably because some unpredictable shit was always coming up and ruining everything. So now I just try to set what I want to do in general. As for medium I used to write everything in physical notebook but then I moved to onenote\trello. Now I'm thinking about some excel cloud solution. If you have some good material on goal setting techniques besides Leo's videos - feel free to share. Especially if they talk about how to use software to do it more efficiently.

27 QUALITIES OF ALL SUCCESSFULL PEOPLE 1. Passionate a. Inspired on some level by life, almost on a spiritual level 2. Hardworking a. Abnormally hardworking b. Obsessive about how they work c. Almost workaholics d. Can’t stop doing work e. Strong work-ethic is absolutely necessary 3. Extremely Persistent a. High tolerance for failure b. Don’t take failure personally, don’t get depressed by it c. They plow forward every single time until they get to there goal 4. Iconoclastic a. Rule breakers, do not follow rules of the society, the organization, the family unit, the religious structure c. Flexible with the rules d. Able to think outside of box 5. Clever a. Abnormally clever, than the bunch 6. Manipulative a. Good at manipulating situations and people to get what they want past through (e.g. maybe good at manipulating bureaucracy, manipulating a government system, manipulating their family, manipulating their friends, manipulating people in their company, manipulating giant masses of crowds, the way that politicians sometimes do) b. Manipulation is a tool or tactic, not necessarily evil—it’s an ability some people have c. Need to be clever in your manipulations 7. (Highly) Creative a. Highly creative people b. Not just in the artsy, imaginative, or poetic sense (although that’s a great attribute to have) c. Fundamentally, you can create stuff (the ability to create), not just in the arts, but anywhere, in business, or anywhere else d. Successful people are creative people—they create lots of stuff e. Creative people generate massive value (i.e. impact thousands or millions or even billions of people, with their work, or with their ideas, or with their ideas speeches, or with whatever). You need to generate massive quantities of value in today’s world in order to become successful 8. (Strong) Training In Technical Skills a. Willing to train hard to develop their technical skills in whatever field they are trying to master and become successful at b. Deliberately, methodically practice a certain set of skills over and over and over again until you master it finally. They invest thousands of hours mastering technical skills c. Most people are mediocre because they have mediocre technical skills 9. A Value In Excellence Above The Mediocre People a. They really want to do excellent work, they take pride in their work, they have this sense of being the best at what they do, or doing something really exceptionally well that gives them a certain joy, and a certain satisfaction above the mediocre person 10. Vision a. Visionaries, they see a big bright picture of what the future should look like, for them, for their life, for their followers, for their business partners, for their customers; they see into the future. That’s a very powerful skill to develop 11. Leaders a. Because they have this vision, they lead people, they’re fundamentally carving their own path through life, they are on the cutting edge of their field, and they’re not content just to be followers, they break off on their own and do it themselves, their own way, and that usually means some new unique way that hasn’t been done before 12. Intuitive a. Intuitive, they know how to use their intuition b. They’re guided by their heart and by their gut, more than just by their logical mind, they’re right-brain thinkers, they’re holistic thinkers, they can take in and assess multiple variable in a kind of complex holistic way, and then they can get this kind of big picture of what need to be done, and sometimes it just comes as a gut feeling 13. Decisive a. Quick, firm, and very crystal clear about what they want 14. They Don’t Do What They Do Because Of The Money a. It’s not about the money b. Motivated because they want to impact the world, want to have a positive contribution to society, maybe because they’ve got a big ego and they’ve got a lot of pride, and they want to grow and expand and aggrandize that ego, which is not necessarily a very healthy drive, but that’s still that’s superior than being driven by money, alone. c. Most successful people love the work they do, they’re passionate about it, so it comes more or less comes naturally to them, not because of the money 15. (Highly) Focused a. Able to select one field or domain and invest years of time and build up a lot experience in that one field b. Like a laser beam c. Mediocre people are like a diffused light bulb, shining in all different directions 16. Ambitious a. Have a desire to be the best, to be at the top of your field, to be the one who accomplishes something really great and extraordinary b. Almost an ego thing (not necessarily the healthiest drive) c. You need that, to rise to the top 17. Have a Rapid Speed of Implementation a. As soon as they hear an idea, or they have a great idea, they go off and immediately start to implement that idea b. Have a bias towards action, rather than sitting and thinking (paralysis by analysis) 18. Opinionated a. Have firm and strong opinions because they have firm and strong values and beliefs because of course they are decisive 19. Have A Spine a. Stand up for themselves and their values, and their beliefs, and their ideas 20. Optimistic And Hopeful a. Fundamentally they believe in themselves, they believe that they can, and they believe that people around them can, and they believe that society can b. Different from depression—a lot of people are actually quite depressed, a lot of successful people kill themselves from depression 21. Courageous a. Willing to act in the face of fear b. Don’t let the fear paralyze or stop them or scare them away 22. Value Knowledge And Learning (In Some Capacity) a. It doesn’t necessarily need to be book smarts, it could be street smarts, it could be learning from your coworkers, or learning in a social environment, or learning from brute trial and error experience 23. Willing To Endure The Cost And They’re Willing To Make Sacrifices To Get Success a. Willing to sacrifice fun, socializing, sex, partying, drinking, doing a lot of entertaining stuff as much, spending as much time with family; their relationships could suffer. They select success over all this other stuff 24. Highly Self-Motivated (Intrinsically Motivated Versus Extrinsically Motivated) a. Fueled from the inside, nobody has to kick you in the ass to tell you what to do, you do it yourself, you kick yourself in the ass b. Can become a neurosis 25. Longterm Thinkers a. To be successful you need to spend at least 5 or 10 years developing some sort of proficiency or excellence in some kind of field 26. Pragmatic a. Practical, more so than idealogical or idealistic b. Willing to align to the realities of the marketplace, the realities of the political climate, the realities of the time you’re living, the realities of the organization you’re trying to create change in c. Willing to compromise certain elements of your ideology, compromise your integrity a little bit, in favor of pushing something through, not always will you get it your way, not always will the perfect scenario just materialize for you and this is exactly how it’s going to be; rarely do you get the “perfect” when you’re trying to achieve something big. Usually you have to cut corners and you have to make sacrifices there, and this requires a willingness to be practical versus idealogical 27. Work For Themselves a. They’re fundamentally advancing their own agenda b. The best leaders are a little bit egotistical, a little bit narcissistic, and they’re a little bit selfish, and these qualities turn out to be effective when you’re trying to reach the top

HOW TO BE ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN Women as well as men want everything in their partner, they want the full package. But one thing is to want something and another thing is what they can get. It's also useless to ask a woman what she wants in a man cause they usually don't even know it themselves and don't really look deep into science behind them. However, there are some fundamentals principles\assets that are known to attract women more than anything else, they are dealbreakers: 1) Confidense - if you don't have confidense as a man you're pretty much worthless to woman. A woman won't date a man who has lower confidense than her, this is just isn't gonna be a match. Being grounded 2) Emotional stimulation - women are emotional creatures, they want emotional stimulation. Humor, laughing, smiling is very important. Adopting playful attitude is key 3) Detachment - women want men to be detached from them (even though they will probably tell otherwise). Having strong sense of life purpose and direction in life. They are not attracted to woman being a center of life paradygm. They don't want "needy" guys. They will dump needy guys in a second. 4) Edginess\adventuress - they like guys to be adventurous. She wants a sense of newness. Guy needs to be interesting and a little bit dangerous. She wants something excited. She wants a man who is out there and does stuff in the world. She wants a man who challenges them. 5) Amazing sex - even though they don't admit it because of our culturing conditioning, women really love sex. Not so important, althought she would like it and it is what traditionally was considered as key elements: 1)Good looks 2)Financial security 3)Social status 4)Loyalty