Leo Gura

That's all fine and good. But are you conscious that you are God? It's all too easy to get lost in philosophy while missing the truth which is right under your nose. No book or philosophy can take you where you ultimately want to go.

Well, my style and communication are mostly on display for all to see. It's not really worthwhile to teach style to people because they need to find their own style and method which is authentic to who they are. It's a trap to try to follow directly in my footsteps. Rather you can teach and mentor people but do it in a way that most aligns with you. Develop your own style and method. That's how you'll really shine. The world does not need more Leo's. It needs you to be fully, authentically you. One of the biggest traps with having teachers and mentors is that you start to copy them too much. To really flourish in life you must eventually let go of your teachers and mentors and go your own way. Like a bird leaving the nest.

@mandyjw Let's also be real though, many women still love to sleep around. Attractive women have lots of sex.

@molosku I love your book metaphor. Very powerful.

What? They didn't include us? Now I feel unloved.

What I was trying to communicate to you, and what you still refuse to see, is that all of this is still self-survival. Self-survival is a much bigger and more sophisticated notion than simply putting food in your belly. Your entire worldview is part of your "self" and what must survive. This of course includes all your notions of fairness, justice, morality, good/bad, social justice, good government, equality, and so on. You are being a child. We are just doing the work here. Don't make this personal. Important lessons are being taught to you right here which you still have yet to understand. One of the most common problems I see with my students is that they learn a bit from me and then all the sudden they think they have all of life figured out and that now they know better then everyone, including me. This is self-deception 101. You have many years of learning left before you understand how deep all of this really goes. So far you have only licked the surface of this work. Notice that no one is personally attacking you here. All that's being pointed out is your survival patterns. What I was doing what robbing you of your justifications for your political position. Because all justifications are biased fabrications of the ego-mind. That is the lesson here. Realize that all justification are bullshit. They are not true in any objective sense. Justifications are manipulations of the mind. This can be a painful lesson to learn, but well worth it. Again, none of this is personal. It's just survival.

That's outside the scope of what I teach. I'm not really interested in teaching people how to become clones of me.

The name of your channel is irrelevant to its popularity. Achieving popularity is a lot harder than finding a popular name. It's about creating the right kind of content and marketing it in the right ways to the right people. If you get those 3 things right you could name your channel HairyMonkeyBallz and it would do great. Be careful naming things using your full real name because everything you put out will be permanently tied to you forever. It's very easy to screw up your reputation forever.

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That is more survival. You are doing survival. That's fine. But our work here is to become conscious of how survival biases our view of reality. Don't take it personally. I pointed out your survival to you and you took offense (which is a doubling down on survival). Totally understandable. But it has nothing to do with truth. It's impossible to transcend survival if you get offended about your survival being pointed out to you. There cannot be conscious politics without awareness of one's survival biases. What your post did was unconscious politics. Please don't make this about me. I am irrelevant.

@AdamDiC Did you have totally empty bowels? It would kill the whole trip if you didn't.

If it is a miligram scale, then yes. Assuming you know how to use it properly. Your plugging technique is also very important.

You definely need to use a scale to calibrate your microscoops. You have no clear idea how much you actually took. Your numbers could be way off. Some people are also just immune to 5-MeO.

You cannot atomize these things. They are deeply interconnected. That is the chief delusion men have, they want to treat sex and relationships as indepedent variables where for women it is not like that. You can have some quick sex and run off. She has to worry about dealing with a pregnancy. But of course you don't care about that risk as much as her. Sex for men and women is not symmetrical as men assume.

@Keyhole But also notice that the POV you expressed is based on selfishness and survival. A devil upset at devils for being devils. See how this works? How can you judge others for being selfish when your judgment of them is itself selfishness? Hence selfishness prevails and not much changes.

I've known several short guys like this who had great game. Game is what really matters.

@roar There are degrees of awakening you cannot even imagine.

There is, if you dare.

Well, you are mixing survival issues with God-realization, which is a bit unfair. You are too wise for your own good! But not wise enough not to hang yourself with your knowledge of enlightenment. So you are stuck in a sort of netherzone. Ultimate fulfillment is too big of a thing for you to worry about right now. I would leave some room open for enjoying basic survival and getting good at that. It won't all be for waste. It's all part of your growth. Learn to feed and cloth yourself before you go chasing dreams of enlightenment. You are right that whatever you do, life is about enjoying the journey, not the destination. This applies to earning a billion dollars as well as to spiritual work. It's too easy to pursue spiritual work joylessly. And don't forget: before enlightenment, the laundry. After enlightenment, the laundry. So you might as well get good at laundry.

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You don't need a book. Go experience some suffering. To clarify, your suffering must be mindful to dissolve ego. Mindless suffering can actually increase ego. Go do a 30 day solo retreat. You will learn suffering.

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Well, that's clearly a very unresourceful mindset. Do you want to spend your whole life thinking like that? Are you happy with the results that mindset brings you? If not, what results do you want and what mindset would create them? Do you see how your current mindset create a self-fulfilling prophecy? The thing you fear you end up creating by fearing it.

Of course it can. Like heroin or eating too much food. But if you're disciplined, you can put that money to good use rather than allowing it to make you lazy and indulgent. You're never gonna be sick of simply have lots of digits in your bank account. The problem comes in what those digits drive you to do, or not do, and what you're sacrificing to get those digits in the first place. If you have a lot of digits and it doesn't corrupt you, no problem.

Of course it depends on what kind of biz you're trying to make. If you're starting a new car company you might need $5 billion. But I started my first online biz for $2000-$4000. I don't know where you'll get a mortgage these days with 5-10% down. Those days are long gone. 20% is standard these days. And that mortgage will cost you an opening fee and 3-5% per year. You gonna make all that back from your dinky condo? Don't forget, a condo has expenses, utilities, property taxes, and association fees. I would either save that money for a rainy day or invest some of it into building your skills so you can get a better job or start your own biz. The best investment of money is in training. But also you should have at least $10k-20k in saving just for emergencies and wiggle room. Don't be spending all your money. You need the wiggle room to change jobs, move cities, get needed healthcare, etc.