Isn't a Mystic supposed to Do Nothing

[James123]

On 8/22/2025 at 10:37 PM, samijiben said:

Why the fuck does Leo spend so much time watching YouTube videos?

His whole blog is filled with YouTube videos that are hours long. Presumably, he is watching them. I sure hope that he is watching the content in full that he posts for his thousands of followers to watch.

But this raises a question: isn't a mysticman supposed to be doing a lot more of nothing? Ramana never watched YouTube! Horror video games? Makeup tutorial criticism videos? Pop culture bullshit? In the name of God?

I mean, c'mon, Leo! Get to work! Do nothing, man! It seems so obvious to me that an enlightened man must be doing meditation all day long, not out of a sense of obligation, but naturally. A wizard would not indulge in watching YouTube videos. A wizard would be honing his jinxes, brewing mystery sauces in his cauldron, cultivating a deeper connection with God...

And here Leo is watching fucking youtube!! Hours of it a day! I mean, surely some days he locks himself in his closet, but why not everyday! Is it not true that an enlightened man must act a certain way? Aren't there standards? Conditions? Expectations???

Something to ponder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After completely surrender, body moves. 

Not You.

[Eskilon]

10 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

Why does someone need to change their smoking habit or any other habit. Says you. Life is impersonal. The man was right. You're also attached to your ideas about the life and the world. One says smoke another says don't, both are attachments. No judgement either way is neutrality. That's natural.

Yes from the absolute perspective everything is neutral.

But there is such a thing as evolution and progression. And there are things that help you evolve more and learn and things that doesnt; the things that doesn't help are called -- self-deception.

[Princess Arabia]

1 minute ago, Eskilon said:

Yes from the absolute perspective everything is neutral.

But there is such a thing as evolution and progression. And there are things that help you evolve more and learn and things that doesnt; the things that doesn't help are called -- self-deception.

Story time.

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, Eskilon said:

You can use that line of reasoning to justify anything and not change.

Why change? Why should you not smoke?

[Eskilon]

54 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Why change? Why should you not smoke?

Why should you do anything at all?

[Carl-Richard]

3 hours ago, Eskilon said:

Why should you do anything at all?

Yeah.

Anyways. The injunction in the picture was "if you're enlightened, why do you smoke?", framing it as an attachment. But that is to mistake attachment. Cyclical behavior (which is the very basis of physical existence, where smoking is only one example) is not attachment. Attachment is identifying yourself with a behavior. If you're not identified with the actions your body takes, you're not attached. And if you are very identified with not smoking, that's attachment, hence the reply.

Maharaj smoked, Jan Esmann drinks pepsi, those are funny examples, but you can expect that all gurus eat (unless your name is John Cena - I mean Babaji) and eat roughly the same foods as they always have, that they wake up in the morning and put their feet down on the same side of the bed, brush their teeth with the same toothbrush, put on the same clothes, just as they did before enlightenment. Enlightenment happens while hitting the ground running. It won't stop the entire train of karma, of physical reality, dead in its tracks. It just loosens some aspects of karma, the more psychological ones.

Edited August 24 by Carl-Richard

[Eskilon]

16 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Maharaj smoked, Jan Esmann drinks pepsi, those are funny examples, but you can expect that all gurus eat (unless your name is John Cena - I mean Babaji) and eat roughly the same foods as they always have, that they wake up in the morning and put their feet down on the same side of the bed, brush their teeth with the same toothbrush, put on the same clothes, just as they did before enlightenment. Enlightenment happens while hitting the ground running. It won't stop the entire train of karma, of physical reality, dead in its tracks. It just loosens some aspects of karma, the more psychological ones.

Yes, this makes sense.

You can say its all karma, Alan Watts couldn`t stop drinking alchohol, Osho owned 20+ Rolls Royce etc etc. 

But theres another name to Karma too -- self-deception.

Edited August 24 by Eskilon

[cistanche_enjoyer]

You will "do nothing" for eternity after you're dead anyway.

Why not enjoy the nice things life has to offer you in this limited time you're here?