Leo Gura

I have a video: What Awakening Feels Like You cannot capture it in any picture so it's best not to try. This will only give you a false image. Words are better than pictures here. This is why in Islam it is forbidden to make images of Allah. But Islam is okay with using words to describe Allah.

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Exactly The rich tend to love the idea of every-man-for-himself because they are massively winning that game. Why have a social safety net at all if you're rich? It only harms your success by charging you higher taxes for a service you will never use. Yes, they lose because imagine what would happen if anyone in the country could go to any doctor in the country and get free service. The best doctors would be overwhelmed overnight with clients seeking the best quality healthcare. But right now all the best doctors charge the most money which only the rich can afford. Therefore Medicare For All would rob the rich of their elite doctors. Think about it. It's analogous to letting homeless people share your Rolls Royce. The the rich love more than anything else is exclusive elite treatment. It's all about locking out the riff-raff. The rich need to hide from the collateral damage that their riches creates and the damage it does to society. This is why they tend to live in secluded communities.

If the woman leads him on and makes it seems like sex will be happening, and then pulls the rug out from other him -- then yes, she's also behaving in a hurtful and asshole manner. Some girls do that and it is infuriating. Not because they owe sex, but just because of the way things are lead on. Ghosting someone after sex is very cold. It's obvious this hurts people. At the very least you could say something like, "Hey, I had a great time with you last night but I don't feel you are the right one for me long-term and I don't want to waste your time leading you on. Sorry."

Yeah, well, that mindset is very hard to embody in practice, especially if you are deprived of sex for a while. In practice the way most players develop that mindset is by sleeping with lots of girls every month, therefore they have massive sexual abundance to the point of not caring. But if you're not sleeping around with many girls, that will be very challenging to embody. It's physiologically difficult for most guys to just ignore a hot girl. Our nervous system is wired for it like sugar. It is likewise difficult for most girls to just ignore a high value guy. They are also wired for it like sugar.

It's better than demonizing it. But glorifying it is also not good. Just ask yourself, Would you want your daughter doing sex work? There's your answer.

I used to have a friend who was a professional chess player. He lived in the US and traveled around the country doing tournaments for pay. And he would tutor rich kids on how to play chess. From what I understand he made a very good living doing that. BUT! This requires that you are a really top-notch chess player. You gotta be exceptionally good at it. You have to be realistic with yourself whether you're gonna reach such a top-notch level. Do you have the right stuff to make that happen? Are you willing to make your entire life chess? You're gonna have to become obsessive about it.

Don't worry about it. It is a special account type for people who need special editing privileges in order to do their work.

It's not about owing a relationship. It's about basic decency. You are in denial that your kind of flippant attitude will commonly hurt people. Just ask her if she feels hurt. And she will say YES. But you seem to be in denial about that and blaming her for expecting too much.

The point is to learn to socialize and find yourself a girl you can fall in love with. And then if she leaves you, the point is you can find a new one.

Prostition is not high integrity. It harms those women more than any kind of pickup or ONS.

Without God you wouldn't have computers or internet

There may be strong cultural factors at work. Women are not as encouraged to pursue hardcore spiritual practice akin to a Zen monk. It's less socially acceptable for women to do that, and the ones who would do that are more masculine-skewing. Women are more people-oriented while men are more thing/fact-oriented. Women are more feeling-oriented while men are more truth-oriented. Of course both halves must be balanced out in a healthy and integrated way. But culture creates some strong pressures and norms. Hormones and biology does too.

Application will get you more results. Reading broadly will get you a big picture understanding, but little else to show for it. You gotta balance between the two. I like to first get a big picture understanding, and then use it to inform which narrow things I will focus on applying. Without a big picture it's easy to fall into the trap of applying things which are of little ultimate significance. How do you know what is worth applying if you don't have a big picture?

This sounds good in theory but in practice there are strong expectations with these things. From the guy's POV, just some simple easy sex is all win-win. But that's not how it is from most girls' POV. Obviously in the OP's case he felt he won and she felt she lost. It was not a win-win for her as you imagine. When deep intimacy is built, especially using spiritual lingo and techniques, and then converted into a ONS, this can be very hurtful. It leads the other person on.

It's a general truism. And there is a truth to it. You don't need to rigorously define the terms. It's not really a belief. It's just that without sex there basically is not enough investment from her to constitute anything that would be worth calling a "relationship". Sex is what makes things serious. Until then it's just games and no commitment. I don't have a rule about it per se. I just know from experience that you don't have a chicken until your egg is hatched, and sex is the hatching of the egg here. Many eggs don't hatch, so calling them chickens is jumping the gun. Yes, context matters. Boyfriend frame is more appropriate outside the nightclub. I'm not saying you should chase after the most girls. But even to get that one solid girl you gotta break some eggs and you gotta sleep with her. Yes, you don't want to treat them as special, but the fact is they are special in that they have massive sexual abundance due to their rare genetic giftedness. You can know this and yet not put her on a pedestal. It's hard to do because you have to train yourself to not care about her beauty, which is not easy because it's so obvious to everyone. You can't let her beauty weaken your poise. The more beautiful she is the harder it will be for you to keep your poise and cool. And once you lose your poise and cool, she loses attraction for you. This sounds nice in theory but unfortunately it's not true. The hotter the girl the more she gets approached by guys. If you were a really hot girl your phone would be blowing up with guys trying to get with you using whatever tricks they can muster. Offering you all sorts of free shit. Hot girls are used to being treated like royalty. They use this power to maximize their survival. If you had this power you would use it too.

There might not be enough leverage in only doing Medicare For All in one state. The point is to get economic leverage over the healthcare and insurance industries. It doesn't do much good to create a single payer system unless there are also price caps on healthcare providers. The bottom line is that healthcare providers are way overpriced because they run a cartel and have bought up the politicians. I'm not sure if Newsom is progressive enough to push that through. And even if he did it would not be nearly as effective as a national system. They are not left-wing enough to do something so drastic. They are corrupted by healthcare lobbying and conflicts of interest. If you and your family have excellent, overpriced health insurance that gives you access to the best doctors, what incentive do you have to get rid of that by placing yourself and your family on the same playing field as a poor black woman? Rich people have much to lose with Medicare For All. It would be a huge downgrade to their elite healthcare access. Hence the rich and powerful block Medicare For All from happening. It's like trying to convince a guy with a Rolls Royce to sell it off, give the money to the government, and use the bus instead. He hates this idea.

Because you might say that is "pure" consciousness. And because humans are so attached to forms that they can't see the pure empty consciousness at the heart of things. You could use that as a technique. But you could also do the opposite and meditate on forms. It goes full-circle in the end. You can traverse the circles from either direction.

Transcend and include. That's what you must do with science. You don't abandon it. Of course material developments help with spiritual development. If done properly.

Read the opening post. You expect all women to be as conscious and developed as you, when most of them are not at all.

In that case he used her for sex and was rather an asshole. It's very different doing a ONS based from some loud nightclub vs luring in a girl with all this spiritual talk. All the spiritual talk makes it seem like this is gonna be something deeper than a ONS. Spiritual talk is so easily weaponized to lure girls in and then break their hearts.

Nothing wrong of course. But the longer you drag it out the more energy you potentially lose since a girl will not be truly invested in a guy until sex. So the longer it takes the more likely you are to lose her. That is generally the how it works. Attracting the hottest girls requires much higher skill. Attracting average girls is way easier because there is less competition. Fair point. But it is sorta the case that plenty of women don't reward decent behavior in men very well. The whole, nice guys finish last. There is truth in that. The reward is not just sex, but the relationship itself. There can't be a relationship without the sex first. I have lost plenty of girls who I wanted relationships with but the sex never happened therefore the relationship never happened either. Except it doesn't necessarily come. Women are fickle and change their moods and minds easily. So dragging it out means you will lose some girls. That may be acceptable, but it can also be very frustrating because you get invested in it.

Obviously attraction is relative. Whatever your perfect 10 happens to be, it is that FOR YOU, not for everyone. Not everyone is looking for the same things. This actually makes attraction a bit easier. If you talk to enough people chances are really high that one of them will love you.

Of course it can be afforded. The issue is one of misplaced priorities.

Only if you got zero ego Imperfection = ego