Leo Gura

@Extreme Z7 That's very good because it's concrete. Your second line is rather wordy and flowery. Boil it down to simple terms. What is the exact emotional impact you want your music to have on your audience? What is the most important feeling you want them to feel when hearing your music?

@Dan Arnautu What would you do if you had $100 million dollars? Do that now

No, they are not necessary. But you should be prepared to invest 1000s of hours in hardcore practice if you want to get anywhere close to the insights accessible on psychedelics. 1 solid trip done with proper protocol is equivalent to about 1 year of daily meditation practice for the average person. If we're talking 5-meo, 1 solid 5-meo trip is equivalent to 5 to 10 years of daily meditation practice for the average person. Those are rough estimates.

@Wes Thoughts See my video: Grasping The Illusory Nature Of Thought A concept is a thought. You'll need to become very mindful of what thoughts are (in your direct experience) before you can proceed further in this work. Note: it does not help to think about thoughts. You need to develop mindfulness/awareness over them. You have to step outside your thoughts, so to speak, dethroning them.

Of course the zebra runs away because his self-agenda is threatened. The point of emotions is to serve an automatic manipulation towards self-survival. When one becomes conscious, the need for unconscious manipulations falls away. If you like being a frightened zebra, you've got nothing to do. Just stay the way you are. But if you want to rise above animal behavior, you can do it, but it will require consciousness.

@5thPablo If you have no idea what it means, then what do you really got? The point of the life purpose is to give you a CLEAR sense of your goal. "I am going to the moon." << that is a clear purpose. Avoid vague abstract words like "love" and "passion". Use concert words which force you to decide what you're actually trying to do in life. "I spread love." << that's a BS purpose. It's so vague is means nothing. Keep working it. Keep asking yourself, "What am I really trying to accomplish in the world?"

@severedfred Yes, of course the life purpose is a thing which is discovered. The LP course helps you to lay the foundation for its discovery. You may not discover it fully amidst the course, but later on as you start enacting the process. Life purpose isn't just discovered once, it evolves a lot too. You start with a rough idea, and then you work that idea and it evolves in things you couldn't have anticipated a year before. But for that to happen, you have to start somewhere. It will not get discovered or evolve unless you're doing the work, laying the foundation. It's not about discovering it beforehand per se, it's about starting to take action which will bring about the discovery. Scientific breakthroughs happen to people who are in the lab doing their work. They don't happen to people sitting at home watching TV.

Meditation retreats are definitely no picnic. Get ready for the most painful week of your life (especially if you're a newbie). You will experience withdrawals as bad as a heroin junkie. But that's the Devil leaving your body

Why does Mario die in a video game when he gets hit in the head by a turtle shell? Does the turtle shell damage his brain?

@Joseph Maynor Ignore? Ignoring is what you currently do. What you could do instead is become conscious of how you're creating fear. (Hint: you are creating it!)

Of course, most people are lazy and unambitious. That's why they don't get anything done and have nothing to show in their lives: no money, no business, no career, no health, no consciousness, no knowledge, no skills, no taste, no nothing. If you wanna be ambitious, you gotta take everything into your own hands. Don't be waiting around for people to open doors for you. I try to make my work and my results as independent of other people as possible. Structure your whole life so that nothing holds you back but yourself. Don't wait on anyone. If you live far from beautiful women, pack your crap and move closer. I live 1.5 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. You could live even closer. I've had friends who live 200 yards from the best night club in the world Don't wait for opportunities to come to you, you come to them.

@Nervewracking That is actually an advantage. The biggest enemy to true contemplation is per-concieved ideas or beliefs you picked up from others. Sit and contemplate FROM SCRATCH! Ask yourself a question like, "What is life?" and just contemplate it for a solid hour. Notice how much you discover. All the answers a human being really needs are contained within. Not in books. Although books are still important.

@Joseph Maynor Images of the future which threaten the ego's agenda. Investigate your direct experience.

@Wes Thoughts Haha... how can your concepts be "very accurate" when you don't even know what you are or what reality is? You believe in a bunch of groundless things like: Physical reality (it does not exist) Brains rendering consciousness (nope) That you are a human being (nope) That you are confined to your body (nope) That you are separate from other human beings (totally false) That you were born (nope) That you will die (nope) That reality is made up of matter and energy (nope) That existence is separate from non-existence (nope) That time and space are real (nope) etc. All of those are patently false. The problem is that you're very deep inside a conceptual matrix which you unconsciously absorbed from your culture without ever seriously questioning it. Breaking free of this paradigm will require enormous effort. Using your concepts to verify your concepts is part of the problem. That only begs the question. You're not yet conscious of what concepts are. You're using them. But you don't realize what they are yet. Which is why you're struggling. Keep practicing mindfulness and self-inquiry. It will take you months and years of consistent practice to really get some traction. This matrix is deeper than you ever imagined possible. Psychedelics can speed things along. To put it very simply: everything you know about reality is wrong. You don't even know what a tree is. And yet, you feel like you've got it all figured out. That's the problem with ignorance. It cannot even imagine what it doesn't know.

@naive13 Of course, anything can lead you astray. That is the irreducible problem at the heart of epistemology. And don't forget, that your doubt that they could lead you astray, could itself lead you astray if you are wrong.

@How to be wise There is no magic pill. You must go through all the emotional labor involved. Do you really expect to achieve immortality for free? I've been doing it for about 3 years now, and I'm still doing it.

@Sage_Elias They certainly aren't good.

@Not a shaolin monk There is no you! "You" is a word which points to nothing.

If you're brand new, start with just gathering information. Realistically, you need to digest a bit of information before you get your bearings. Watch videos, read books, acquire the right theory. Theory is important to start getting your bearings and deciding what your first move should be. You can't make a good first move until you know what your options are. If you bought the course, that's a really good intro for newbies.

@kieranperez That's where it all starts. Totally normal. Just make a commitment to make babysteps and not quit. Failure isn't a problem so long as you keep taking babysteps and don't quit in frustration. Start with small habits like just reading a self-help book every day for 30 minutes. Don't go comparing yourself to me or anyone else. Most of us had to start in a shitty place. It's just been years and years of work. This work requires great patience and a long vision.

@Principium Nexus You're talking bullshit. Sit down, stop your thoughts, and see what results. It is possible. Many people have done it.

@Ilya You are not even 1% of the way to enlightenment. You are still stuck at the level of ideas and intellect. Drop everything and start from scratch. Back to the self-inquiry salt mines!

It's too direct to put into words. Things become knowing directly, without language or concept. It's like hyper-intuition. Nothing in particular is heard, seen, or felt. Deep truths just dawn on you out of the blue, and you know they are 100% correct. It's not a logical linear process, but a massively multi-parallel process. As David Hawkins once said: Not through logic.

No, only thought is thought. Notice that the world does not disappear during the gap between two thoughts. Maybe your thoughts are not as important as you think

You'll have to drop the belief that you are a small finite body.