Leo Gura

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Yes, I have plans to make a video about how to be more creative.

Hmmm... I'll have to give some thought as to have best to talk about that because I don't want to flood the retreats with people.

Yeah... it is lonely at the top. Hence why meditation or consciousness work should be included in your plans.

Own it! Have the courage to follow your own path wherever it leads. And have faith that the right people will show up on it. Not necessarily your existing people. But the *right* people. I notice lots of folks get hung up on this point. They try to take their whole family and social circle on the hero's journey with them. And that will never work. You gotta let your family be themselves and you leave the nest. After the bird learns to fly, she doesn't stay circling the old-folks nest. She flies to new lands and starts her own nest. So start your own nest in the cabin in the woods

When you ladies actually meet an awesome guy, one who also knows what he's doing in the bedroom. You'll want him all to yourselves. Don't lie!

Of course! What else is to be expected from unaware people trying to maintain their own homeostasis? I cover this topic in this video: http://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-deal-with-criticism-trolls-and-haters When I went from being fat to being healthy, my parents told me that I should fatten back up. And my Mom still tells me this after 10 years of my being fit and her being overweight. Go figure. I recently changed my diet again to improve it even more. Mostly vegetarian now. I feel great. My Mom keep complaining it's unhealthy while herself eating garbage. Lol

@Frankie You can do both. Just select which one to focus on first. Then after a few years, which to the other. Since sex is a young man's game, there's some valid rationale for getting it out of your system first. Then you can focus freely on enlightenment. The only danger there is that you get lost in sex and never return to enlightenment. Or... go really heavy on enlightenment work over the next year or two, and then switch your focus to dating, if you still desire it. You might not.

Because a man's and woman's core social value is asymmetrical. The man's core value is in getting shit done, working his ass off in business or combat. The woman's core value is in reproduction and child-rearing (of course there are many individual exceptions.) To fulfill these core functions well, for the man it's preferable to have lots of experience, and his looks are largely irrelevant. Not so for the woman because men want the most nubile women. Women are biologically attracted to experienced men. Men are biologically attracted to hot young women. Is it fair? I dunno. But it's certainly been this way for thousands of years. And you clearly see this dynamic in Hollywood, or with powerful leaders in 3rd world countries, or with Wallstreet business tycoons. When a man has a lot of money and status, he generally prefers to get himself the hottest youngest woman he can. Of course women don't like this as they age, although they love it when they're young and hot and get all the attention and freebies.

Awesome guys! Keep the bios coming. I like reading them all so that I better understand where you're coming from and what kind of issues you need videos/courses for.

@TruthSeeker It was explained sufficiently. Awareness has difficulty seeing itself because it has no form or objective qualities, and the human mind is addicted to thinking in terms of visual objects.

If you're serious about getting enlightenment, it would be a good idea to go into a period of seclusion. Doesn't have to be a cave. Could be your vacation time, could be a holiday, could be a retreat or workshop, could be camping in the wilderness, could be reducing your full-time job to part-time. Get creative. In modern society, seclusion is in a sense easier than ever because foods, water, and shelter are cheaper than ever. And you could work at a job for 1 year, save up some money, then quit for a year and get your enlightenment handled. Then find a new job. Realistically you will NOT get enlightened without spending dozens or even hundreds of hours of time in continuous isolation. You need to be able to take 100 hours off straight and just sit there and do nothing. Without this, it will be very hard. Ralston told me he stopped keeping track of time after he did 5000 hours of contemplation. And that's only when he stopped keeping track! Lol. He's done WAY more I'd bet. You're gonna need INSANE amounts of time if you want to pierce to the very depths of Truth. The first enlightenment experience is much easier though.

It's hidden in the same way that water is hidden from a fish. You must have missed the part in the video where I explicitly said: Nothing is hidden.

@TruthSeeker The missing piece of the puzzle is your enlightenment! You're trying to understand non-duality by staying in duality! This cannot work. It's absurd. You're not going to make sense of this sitting where you're at. Become enlightened first, then return to your question -- if it still even makes sense to you.

The conception of enlightenment IS nonsense. But the reality of it is undeniable. Do the work yourself and see.

One good exercise you guys could try is the following: Select any object off in the distance in your visual field. Now, take your finger and VERY SLOWLY draw a line in the air from it to you. Stop at the point where the line terminates at YOU. Does it ever terminate at YOU? Then who in the hell is seeing that object?!

Society exacerbates the problem a lot. Many decades of bad conditioning have created a monster. And much of that conditioning has been seared into your brain between the ages of 0-15 years old, while your brain is gullible and soaks up dogma like a sponge. And now it's very difficult to undo.

If you're gonna do something like this, start soft-core, because if you go full out Bear Grylls without prior experience, your mind and body will likely just not be able to handle it and you'll run back home with your tail between your legs and a sour taste in your mouth. The realities of survival in the wilderness are harsh and stressful enough without a full day's meditation on top of it. Start with babysteps and build your way up.

@Guczo You should study epistemology to get a very clear understanding of the limits of science. Science does not make any objective assertions about external reality. Science is just a set of diagrams for how to manipulate reality. What that reality actually is, science has no clue and never says. And all the diagrams are ultimately false because the diagram is not the thing itself. Science does not tell you what anything actually is. It only gives you as diagram of it. Classic trap of mistaking the map for the territory. Most scientists haven't studied epistemology and aren't aware of the assumptions and limits of their own field. Don't be so sure about that. Be open to the possibility that all your thinking and all your knowledge is ultimately groundless speculation.

You are God! All these teaching are pointing to the exact same thing. Your existential nature as pure empty awareness (God). When you experience it, it will have divine flavors and you'll immediately go, "Ohhhhh!!! Of course! This is what all the religious people call God. Duh! How silly."

@Khin I got nothing against good Buddhist teachers. I'm sure there are many good ones. If they are non-dogmatic about their teachings then that's great.

Sex no, porn yes

@TruthSeeker There is no I as "TruthSeeker", as you presently think of yourself. So there's no solace for you. You don't appreciate how dangerous this enlightenment thing is. It will nuke you out of existence. The only thing you care about is you. And that you definitely doesn't exist. The True You that does exist isn't going to comfort the little you that thinks it's making these decisions of being a chimp or not. The danger with me telling you that you exist is that now that chimp you will say, "Oh! Phew! That's was a close call. I'm so glad I actually exist!" << And that's wrong. That chimp you doesn't exist. So you may as well go back to being a chimp.

Of course it isn't real! That's what non-duality is. Non-duality is basically idealism or solipsism in practice. There is no evidence whatsoever of an external reality. That's a fiction rendered by the mind. This is a RADICAL paradigm shift. This is not something you should believe. But actually realize for yourself.

@shouldnt What would you select if your success was guaranteed?