Leo Gura

Your question is extremely vague. Try rephrasing and being 10x more specific about your situation, otherwise you'll get bad advice.

If you have to ask a question like that, then you're probably not ready to start. Business requires a fierce sense of direction and initiative. If you have nothing you're itching to create, then you're dead in the water. Serious business people are always on the lookout for new ideas to create and bring to market. Get in touch with your inner creator first.

Zen has modeled the stages towards full enlightenment as so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls You have a LONG way's to go, grasshopper, so make yourself comfy

What you are is even more primitive than space. Space is in the right direction, but even space is a function of mind. Space occurs within you. So then, what are you?

Emptiness is the quality of the True Self. The True Self is a field of empty, formless, awareness. This pure awareness is what you actually are. Meaning is an illusion created by the overactive mind. Meaning is meaningless and you don't need it. BEING > meaning. Being is true. Meaning is false, because it is actually being masquerading as something it is not. Meaning is ike the mirage of an oasis in the Sahara.

Setbacks usually cause me to re-assess my goals, cut all the fat, tighten my priorities, and get even more serious about my aims. The biggest setback I had was 2 years ago with my legal case in Toronto. I shot a video during that experience here: http://www.actualized.org/articles/staying-hungry I used that event to light a fire under my ass and I accomplished more in the last 2 years than possibly ever. Most of Actualized.org's success was built during this time.

Excuses!!! If I can meditate for 800 days straight, so can you. Noise is not an impediment to meditation. You can meditate while watching TV.

The question can be answered this way: You'd be very hard-pressed to meet a guy who's attained enlightened and regretted it. This question is kinda like a little kid asking, "Is sex worth it?"

If you're seriously interested in enlightenment, I wouldn't try to go for it through Gurdjieff or Ouspensky. Their methods and understanding is very rude compared to what's available. In the end, they were dabblers. For their time period it was nice, but 21st century spirituality has really advanced.

This book is definitely for "heart-centered" emotional people, not computer programmers, hehe.

@Dhana Choko Yes in that "you" can't directly cause the enlightenment to occur, but I really don't see this a being much different than say getting hired for a great job. You can't directly force someone to hire you. But you can certainly take the actions necessary to get hired, if not today, then next week. The practical danger with saying that there's nothing you can do, is that it makes people stop trying, expecting enlightenment to happen through some kind of blind luck. This is NOT how serious people get enlightened. Serious people undertake a serious seeking and eventually the seeking gets dropped and enlightenment dawns spontaneously. But that's not to say that serious seeking wasn't necessary. It's part of the total process. In general what happens is that once the person becomes enlightened he likes to say the whole journey was unnecessary, but I think that's a bit unrealistic and unhelpful to those who aren't enlightened yet. That kind of advice is good for people who have been seeking for 10 years and can't stop seeking. Then you tell them to drop the seeking because it's become an obstacle.

Just focus on your own objectives and what you know is healthy, and the rest will take care of itself. Unhealthy stuff and people will fall away naturally as you get more involved in your own work.

If you're looking for a pragmatic answer, the answer is, it's highly variable. Some people take decades, some people do it one weekend. I've met a lady who got enlightened in one weekend. There are so many variables: your openmindedness, the degree of your intent, the quality of guidance you get, your childhood upbringing, your genetics, and even pure blind luck! With quality guidance, high levels of intent, and lots of sitting, you could reasonably expect something like 2-3 years. But don't let that limit you. Whenever you actually sit down to do enlightenment, intent to become enlightened RIGHT NOW!

I'll talk about this in a video. Enlightenment is what allows you to start doing true self-mastery work, because for the first time in your life you realize what the Self is. The ego-mind rarely dies after enlightenment. The mind is so strong it sticks around for decades after, requiring much work to disassemble. I'll talk about the various types of enlightenment in a video too. These are very deep topics and not easy to discuss.

@Dhana Choko Well, you can also read books about people who've won the lottery. Doesn't make it a wise strategy if you care about increasing your wallet. People who are seriously enlightened have one thing in common: they all invested 1000s of hours sitting. It's silly to assume you can avoid that. There is WAY more to enlightenment than just getting enlightened. So your time will be well-invested. The real work only begins with enlightenment, lol. There are at least 8 different types of enlightenment to be had. Zen masters who meditate for 8 hours a day for 80 years still report new discoveries and insights. It basically never ends.

I've met cool people at spiritual/meditation retreats and workshops. Don't expect too many hot girls there though, hehe. That would be WAY too convenient!

It's shocking how dead-on this description fits me: http://personalityjunkie.com/the-intp/ Lol, check!

Yes, it's a common thing. Just be mindful of it in the moment as it is occurring and observe yourself acting like a chimp. Prepare to feel depressed and pissed off when you realize that enlightenment will be end of that chimp inside you who thinks it's cool or special or better than all the other chimps. That chimp is an illusion. The whole reason you're after enlightenment is a lie. It will never happen. The chimp cannot be enlightened.

There is one very important thing you can do, which is to sit regularly and cut out all the distractions in your life that keep you from contemplating your own existence. Just as in poker, you can't control if you will win the hand, but you can certainly improve your odds a lot.

Common traps: Taking any of your thoughts seriously Experiencing withdrawal symptoms or emotional upheaval during self-inquiry/meditation and taking this as a sign of something being wrong or you failing Looking for the true self as an object located in space Looking for the true self inside your skull Looking for the true self outside your skull out in the external world Trying to look for the true self without first generating a state of not-knowing Trying to answer the "Who am I?" question logically or verbally Looking for something mystical or hidden (nothing at all is hidden) Getting lost in your personal story, thinking it is you Trying to think your way into enlightenment Trying to fake-surrender your way into enlightenment Reading more books or watching more videos about enlightenment Distracting yourself from sitting down and doing the work Talking about or debating enlightenment with friends/family Confusing enlightenment with a peak emotional state during meditation Trying to become enlightened at any time other than NOW Thinking there is someone who will become enlightened (there is not) Assuming enlightenment will solve all your practical everyday problems like paying rent or your crappy relationship Thinking you've found a secret, rapid process for becoming enlightened Believing you do not exist because Leo talked about no-self Creating a spiritual identity as the hero on the quest to kill the ego Acting superior and judging people who don't know as much about enlightenment as you've read about. Believing that there is a way, technique, or method to become enlightened (there isn't) Tricking yourself by saying that you'll pursue enlightenment when you're older, after you're successful Thinking you're enlightened when in fact you've only had a glimpse Getting distracted into the "power realm" of spirituality, trying to acquire special powers Thinking that you've discovered all there is to enlightenment and nothing more remains.

It's normal to experience setbacks and backsliding. Just keeping slowly plodding ahead, especially what you've been doing has worked in the past.

They are cool but I've never used them with my clients. Yes, I sometimes lose motivation temporarily. It's not really about motivation so much as it is about commitment and persistence. You just choose a field to master, you decide to commit and never waver. The secret behind my motivation (honestly) is that I think I am naturally passionate about life in a way that I see few other people are. I can't really take credit for it. Maybe it's genetic. As I do more consciousness work I am starting to see that all my deepest motivation in life has a spiritual source. I have always been conscious of life's sacredness and awesomeness in a way that few other people are. How can you development this? Go have a few enlightenment experiences and all of reality will become sacred to you. Right now I go to bed at 4am and wake up around noon. But I will be correcting this. Yes. I don't remember his approach to meditation. Yellow? Not sure. Maybe, although he's got a bit of an ideological bent. Like he's crusading for science or rationalism. It's not a problem in practice. Coaching is not like a motivational speech. Good coaching is about helping your client become more consciousness of their life choices, which inevitably leads to more awareness of their egos. Awareness of the ego starts the path of unraveling the ego.

It's a great course.

For me the hardest thing has been getting better with girls and stopping caring what other people think about me. American, but generally I see all cultures as silly and deluded. Not much differently other than that I know that nothing else can ever make a human being happy besides Truth. My hard work during high school and college to educate myself Deciding to start my own business and becoming financially independent Living in modern times with such many modern liberties. I don't really coach people at ground zero. I would screen that kind of client out. I like to work with already-successful people. In reality I don't get to see the transformation. Coaching is more like planting seeds in people which may or may not sprout years later if they keep watering them. I give you way too many answer already. Time to think for yourself a bit. I don't know. Do you need one? What is true for you? Yes, I vote. Most things are distractions from finding truth.

Keep in mind there may be more than one cause. In fact it would be astonishing if it was that simple. There are probably dozens of different chemicals that could cause ADHD.