Leo Gura

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Meditation is the precise opposite of addiction. All addiction is the avoidance of the emptiness of Now. Addiction is the avoidance of meditation.

No. But addiction comes in many kinds and degrees. The kind and degree matters a lot. No. You are stretching too far.

That's a good start. It won't be enough, but a good start. You need to really appreciate the seriousness of your goal.

You should be preparing for a market crash, not guzzling AI hype.

Kriya yoga and/or hardcore meditation retreats. Serious mindfulness practice. Eckhart Tolle sat on a park bench for a year. That is the work no one wants to do.

Guys at the gym love being called rats.

That is not going to happen without heavy manual spiritual practice. The thing you want is so rare and so hard that the work it requires, no one is willing to do. You want the fruits without the work, which is a fantasy. Either get serious about the work or stop wanting the sweet fruits. It is like you are saying, I wanna be a billiinaire but I don't wanna work hard. Can't happen.

Like academia

@Grateful Dead Welcome back.

Drug addiction is the desire to always be high. That way lies ruin. So be careful.

That is not possible. That's a very wrong expectation. You cannot always feel good because how will you feel when a psychopath spears you with a pitchfork? Consciousness of God cannot guarantee you will always feel good. Anything that feels good means you can feel bad. And every emotional high must end because it had a beginning. Emotions are inherently unstable. Ironically, the solution is to surrender to the fact you will feel bad. Gurus do not always feel good. They have stopped caring how they feel. That means they feel bad and they don't care. You trying to escape or avoid bad feelings is an avoidance of Truth. Truth includes bad feelings. Basically, just stop caring how you feel and pursue your life purpose and creative work.

I originally used the word rat to mirror gym-rats. Why is gym-rat acceptable but science-rat no? Double-standards much? When I say science rat, I mean it like gym-rat. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a science-rat. Obviously a science-rat will not appreciate being called a science-rat. Is it the best idea to call them science-rats? Obviously no. But it is funny.

Science goblin has a nice ring to it. But people would still hold it against me. I accept that I need to be more responsible and have less fun with words.

Cute, but it is stealing.