Leo Gura

This is your error. You need a way to satisfy yourself sexually because you cannot always have the stars aligned with another person, even if you are in a relationship or married. Many times they will simply be physically unavailable. You need to realize that there is no difference whatsoever between having sex with another person and having sex with yourself. A sexual fantasy is as real as "real" physical sex. In fact, your sex will become much more potent and satisfying once you embrace the imaginary, purely mental aspects of sex. Don't buy into the societal norms and judgments which gives a negative connotation of fantasy or imaginary sex. Even if you have sex with someone physically, that desire will still probably not get satisfied or go away. It will only be a temporary satisfaction which will turn into a new craving in a few days. So it's not that much different than masturbation. A true sage has sex using the mind. Rather than suppressing your need desires, embrace them and allow yourself to have the love you crave. You will overcome craving more effectively through love than through denial. Own your sexuality.

Yes, that is a good start. Get very simple and direct with it. Try this next time you sit down for 25 mins: Take your finger and try to point to yourself. Notice carefully what the finger it pointing at. Try to clarify what that thing is. Notice, the finger never points at a brain. What is seeing the finger? As you do this, try to minimize thinking. Don't think about it, look at it. Clearly, thoughts come and go, so they cannot be essential to what you are. What is essentially you?

No, it's not that simple. It's just one brute force method that tends to work well for clubbing. It does not necessarily address the root issue of your anxiety. But you gotta start somewhere. Sometimes problems auto-correct simply through exposure and practice. If you've been living in your mother's basement, going out to lots of clubs and socializing will auto-correct much of your social awkwardness, since most of it simply comes from inexperience. Practice builds competence and confidence.

Trump is well-capable of starting a pointless war. Especially if he gets desperate.

What are you smoking? He said it a bunch of times in his Krystal and Sagaar video. He calls Sagaar and Tucker Carlson a white nationalist fascist and he even basically calls Krystal Ball that. He's way out of line there. Sagaar is not a fascist or a white nationalist. And as much as I hate Tucker, he's not a fascist either. Just because someone isn't a raving progressive does not make them a fascist or a fascist sympathizer. Vaush is an intelligent guy but he's too blinded by his progressivism. I know his heart in the right place but he lacks important nuance and understanding of conservatives. Sagaar is a decent and reasonable conservative. The problem with demonizing someone like Sagaar is that if you can't make peace with Sagaar's brand of conservatism, you basically can't negotiate or respect any conservative at all. As progressives it's very important that we accommodate reasonable conservatives, otherwise they will become radicalized. Politics requires compromise. You can't exclude and demonize 40%-50% of the population. That's going to backfire on you. You cannot expect every conservative in the country to convert to liberalism. It ain't ever gonna happen. Conservatives need to have a say in the direction of the country because that's how democracy works. Compromising with someone like Sagaar on immigration is actually a good deal. It will pacify conservative fears and lessen their radicalization. Sagaar's immigration stance is not a racist one. Unchecked immigration should not be the progressive position. It will turn off 50% of the country. Vaush is far too uncharitable to Sagaar.

LOL It's not a coincidence. Tolle named himself after Meister Eckhart once he got enlightened. It would be like if I named myself Leonanda or Leojiji.

She gave him a prime time spot over ten years ago! Which is the only reason you know about him. It would be pointless because that is not my target audience. Her viewers would probably find me offensive and I have zero interest in appealing to them. No, he's got good teachings. But I do find them milquetoast. Just not my style.

They are both dangerous in their unique ways. No need to turn this into a contest. I would actually say Trump is worse simply because he's at a lower stage of the Spiral. But then again, Trump is also so incompetent that he's not as bad as he would otherwise be. Sure, Bolton might start a war with Iran. But he would not, for example, ask foreign nations to interfere with American elections or refuse to leave office if he lost an election. Bolton has more integrity than Trump, which is a crucial factor. Without integrity you have a monster on your hands.

Tolle has been popular for over a decade. WTF are you smoking?

We've talked about it in the past. The problem with these books is that for you it is all hearsay. Unless you can directly experience it, it isn't true for you. Be very careful simply accepting plausible spiritual narratives. Adopting a spiritual narrative is not going to grow your consciousness.

This topic has run its course.

Hehehe... how convenient "I don't like thinking about my own devilry." -- said the devil

That's well and good, but that doesn't automatically give you the subtly and sophistication of understanding necessary to construct a quality government or be an effective citizen. You can think all is love, but then get duped by some con-artist.

Yes, and he capitalized on that. The media reports on far more than Trump's latest tweet. The media report many serious things and points of devilry and corruption. The news media is forced to be shallow because the people are shallow and have the attention span of squirrels. The news media has to compete with entertainment, YT cat videos, music videos, the sensationalist ravings of Alex Jones, juicy conspiracy theories, tabloid gossip, clickbait websites, etc. That is our collective situation. Don't blame that on some elites. Of course. But that's still better than a crippled and demonized media. Corruption is decreasing, not increasing.

That's what life is. Anything is possible, but I wouldn't count on it. The videos are merely a launching point for your own deep inner work. You will no more become deeply awake from a video than you will become a surgeon from a video. Practice is mandatory.

No, it's beyond a perception. It's Absolute Consciousness. No. To be enlightened is to become EVERYTHING/Infinity. Don't confuse this with a belief or an idea. The point of Absolute Consciousness is that it is crystal clear and Absolute. There cannot be fooling at that level. Fooling is a relative feature of a finite mind.

You are so blinded by the hatred of them that you fail to see that without mainstream media democracy would devolve into authoritarianism and rank corruption the likes of which you cannot even imagine. Mainstream media is what protects against Trump becoming a full on tyrant. You just take this function for granted. Most nations can only dream of having America's freedom of press and quality journalism. Trump's bashing of the mainstream media is precisely designed to undermine it so that he can be a lying tyrant. This is so fucking obvious, yet you're falling for it. In your eagerness to avoid the string of a bee you are jumping into the jaws of a crocodile. Trump's attacks on the press is one of the most evil things that he's done. And it has long-term consequences beyond his time in office.

Dude, the government is not that involved in people's lives. The government is not in control of when a mother decides to leave her husband for whatever reason because she has more freedom than ever in history. Same for the father. These are private decisions. One of the consequences of greater democracy is greater freedom, which means that people do whatever they feel like, even if it's problematic. The government cannot force couples to stay together. In the past, strong marriage was a survival necessity. That is no longer the case. And that will not change back, so you're fighting a war you cannot win.

You are demonizing points of view without being openminded or curious enough about really exploring them and seeing the world from different perspectives. Your understanding of the motivations and intention of the mainstream media is incorrect -- warped by the biases of your worldview. I suggest you muster the courage to drop your worldview and consider other POV in good faith, rather than judging them. Your judgment clouds your ability to be neutral and open enough to see a new perspective. This is not an issue of who's wrong or right, good or bad, left or right. It is a meta-issue of your mind getting paradigm locked. Notice that you have some personal axe to grind against the mainstream media. This is driven by your survival agenda. Which means you are unable to seriously see their POV. Which hinders the development of your consciousness and ability to love. You are shooting yourself in the foot. Try not to make this stuff personal.

You'll have to watch some of the videos 10 times to squeeze out all the juice. And even decades later you'll still be finding new nuggets of insight. That's just the nature of this work. Comprehension has many degrees and orders of magnitude. Understanding is bottomless.

By that logic you would really love it in Saudi Arabia. It's easy to maintain a strong nuclear family with force and oppression. When a woman cannot even get a credit card or passport without her husband's approval, yeah, she will stay in the nuclear family. She has no viable alternative.

No they aren't. They have just created their own ideological bubble. You can't escape ideology so easily as Krystal and Sagaar think.

Dude, you're getting out of line. This is not in the spirit of our work here.

Oprah made him king.

Everything and nothing are ONE.