Leo Gura

Creativity seems like a drive, like sex, but it is never satisfied. Maslow puts creativity as a self-actualization drive at the top of the pyramid. Although for very creative people creativity can be as fundamental as food. Creative people tend to be more insane. But sanity is overrated

One Simple Rule For Acing Life? It's a weird title

It feels like your mind gets into a groove. Theta and Delta can feel very deep, sleepy, dreamy, like the depths of one's subconscious. Alpha feels more meditative.

I don't think of it that way. It doesn't feel like a negative need. It feels more like a postive need to express oneself. Like life bursting forth with creative enthusiasm. There is this passion for creating stuff just for the sake of creation. I have found that some people just aren't into creativity. It has always baffled me because my entire life is dominated by creativity. Like 24/7 creativity mode.

@ivankiss So here's a riddle for you: how is it possible that science is able to manipulate "reality" so effectively despite the fact that it is stories and imagination? What differentiates science from pure fiction?

@Seed But you are also in hell, because of your imagination

@Seed There probably are such people. They would lean more artistic I would think. I am both very imaginative and ambitious. Which is a terrible combo for meditation. The best meditators are the stamp lickers, lol.

@Seed I consider those ambitious people. I guess you could also have that as a third class, since some folks are ambitious but not so imaginative, like the Wallstreet banker types. Obviously there are many ways to classify people. I was speaking of one distinction I have spotted over the years of dealing with people. I have run across people with very little ambition and they don't seem to care.

From what I have seen there are two types of people: ambitious people and unambitious ones. Ambitious people crave a life purpose to work on. Unambitious people are happy working at the Post Office licking stamps. Unambitious people seem to have no vision or concern for their impact on the world. It would make sense that such is the case since society needs a lot of stamp lickers and factory workers. But I think it is also the case that a lot of folks would be more ambitious and visionary if they were shown how and given more opportunity. The degree of income inequality and our medival education system destroy a lot of potentially ambitous people from flourishing.

That will not be enough. You're not appreciating the depth of the problem here. You were never born. Logic, science, and cause & effect are total illusions. Merely reflecting on this will not be enough. You must do an industrial-grade spiritual practice to change your state of consciousness because from your current state you are totally stuck, like a character in a video game world. Or, psychedelics. That would be the fastest way to blow up your materialist logical paradigm. Logically you can understand whatever you want, but when it comes to actually facing your own death, all logic will fly out the window. This is a profoundly personal matter for you. How willing are you to die to know the Truth? Because that is what we are talking about when we say nonduality.

It's not about hating or trolling. When cult dynamics are glaring, people are reasonably suspicious. If the things in the article are false, then fair enough. But that's an open question.

@Salvijus Don't be so dogmatic. Suffering leads to legit spiritual purification, growth, and even awakening. Suffering doesn't only seek pleasure. And ceasing to exist and nonduality "experience" are the same thing. Do not take things that spiritual teachers say as absolutes. They are partial points of view. Sadhguru is never telling you the whole truth.

Many people who awaken are driven to it by intense suffering and dissatisfaction with everyday life. Suffering is the greatest teacher. Once you suffer enough, you'll be ready to say: "I give up! I surrender!" Suffering DOES create seeking. But of course most people don't know about enlightenment at all, so they suffer without knowing the ultimate solution. Suffering is not needed to complete the hero's journey. It's just that in practice, if you have an easy life, you will get hypnotized by the comfort and probably never undertake the hero's journey to begin with, nor will you persevere past all the challenging obstacles. I've never suffered more than during meditation retreats. You have to be willing to go through some self-inflicted conscious suffering in order to awaken. Awakening is not the path of least resistance. It is like training for the Olympics. It comes with sacrifice. You must surrender your easy, unconscious life. There is a higher drive within the ego which seeks God. It's like a faint whisper amidst a sea of egoic noise. That faint whisper is what ultimately leads to awakening if you listen to it and act on it.

@GafaRassaDaba Try Kriya yoga instead. It's much better for calming the monkey mind. Yes, meditation can and (really) should be enjoyable, in the beginning it rarely is.

Yes, the biggest cities are usually much better. The whole point of a city is massively concentrate people. Which is ideal for dating.

Step 1: do the fucking practices Step 2: for 20-40 years

Why drink water from a dirty sidewalk puddle when there are yawning glacial lakes around?

I would not feel infinite love at the dentist.

Prepare your setting better. You should already had prepared snacks before hand. See, all of that moving around and playing around is distracting you from going deep into the trip. It's okay for now as you are just getting acquainted with shrooms, but serious tripping requires you sit still and focus. Falling alseep is not good. You've barely scratched the surface. Higher doses will get very twisted.

If even half the stuff in that article is true, it's a serious problem. Of course I have no idea if that article is true. You'd have to research further. As soon as I hear that someone is starting an unstoppable organization to awaken the world: that screams cult to me. That thing is gonna fly off the rails and cause more harm than good. Like I said, I see big red flags here. Her videos can of course still be helpful. Cults are often founded on helpful teachings. Can anyone actually verify if some of the stuff in the article is accurate? A properly woke person should not be engaging in such nonsense.

Don't hold your breath

Hmmmm.... lots of red flags here. I thought she might be better than that. Glad I released that Cult Psychology series. Lots of cultists wannabees around lately. BTW, can I interest you guys in my new line of enlightened hot-shorts? Guaranteed to activate all your chakras.

@Bobby All of Creation is made of distinctions. There is nothing but distinctions.

@Good-boy Even in a cave you won't get freedom from your mother, LOL