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The secret of secrets by Osho. This book is amazing. Not only does it teach you how to meditate, but it shows you a technique that is specifically designed for people who have a severe case of Monkey mind. He says specifically that the mind is dynamic, and teaches you how to calm those fluctuations down specifically.

@Loreena you're a nobody @Shin inside is a social construct contrived by the government to convince us that the earth is round so that we would always feel hollow inside.

@Leo Gura But how do you convince people to work in your team with those type of values? I've been in the startup industry for a while. Investors only care about money. Employers only care about 'being big time' and being successful and famous and everybody loving them. And then you might say go find some spiritual high consciousness hippies to join your business And then what you find is that they are so hippy, that they can't be fucked making a business. The only way to do this is to somehow persuade greedy business people into doing a business of high values, by somehow getting a well meaning goal, and painting it with flashy dollar symbols, in hope of tricking everyone into thinking its going to make them rich, when its not.

The system we live in, is solely based building capital through money. It's not a very holistic and integrated system. In fact, it's based on separating one's attributes of wealth and success, with each other. Its not a system designed for the wellbeing of the environment, harmony, and being sustainable. But imagine if some one, probably a sage, ended the vicious cycle. What would the world look like? What would the new system be? And how would the sage end the cycle, and still pay his bills? Does anyone have any research on any societies that actually did have a system more holistic than ours? That would be a great read if anyone does.

Hey guys. I'm struggling with a very difficult issue I have in social situations. When I go cold approach at a bar and try and mingle with the other groups, I get negative responses from individuals about my company in being in that group. The responses I usually get involve: - the group isn't interested in what I am talking about -> but how can I figure this out? Because even asking the entire group questions like "what do you study" seems boring. - I struggle to find something interesting or funny to say. Authentically I don't have anything interesting to say in a lot of the situations, and when I try to find something to say, as Alan Watts states, it just makes my creativity even worse. - I have a fear that the thing I'm going to say, is going to be annoying, or boring, or obvious, and therefore decrease my likeablility in the group. - I always feel disconnected while cold approaching a new group, because for starters, the group already finds you annoying to just randomly join their group anyway, but also because the group tends to talk about their past experiences together, and things they are interested in, that I have no idea of. This makes it entirely difficult to join in on conversations, because you have no idea on what they are talking about. You can ask them generic questions about those experiences, but the responses are always lacking. I understand that a lot of the above comes from low self esteem and a requirement of inner work, but what are some materialistic PD style theory I can look up to rectify or reduce the external outcome of the situation? Thanks!

@Martin123 it is, but the socialist/left wing reaction to people being racist is synonymous to religious nuns slapping little kids for eating a candy bar, instead of loving them, and being kind to them, and showing them how the divisiveness is causing havoc in their lives. We are all ok with showing absolute kindness, and standing in unity whenever a terrorist attack happens, because we are all loving people, but whenever we encounter a conservative, we attack more aggressively than a bulldog does with a stranger. Infact, a loving kind left wing socialist, was reported in the news as to have tried to attempt to assassinate Donald trump. What's concerning is that, the individuals who identify with left wing politics largely aren't authentically loving and kind of the inside, they are charlatans, and that sort of deception is ruining our response to people who genuinely do believe that the pigment of one's skin makes someone different. Its similar to on here, how people pretend that the world is one, and they pretend that they know the world is one, when they actually don't. @eskwire An asshole doesn't choose to be an asshole. Its his brain chemistry. And you're not going to make him a better person by telling him to keep his racist intentions to himself, otherwise we will embarrass you, you're going to do it by convincing him that hes causing harm to himself. Because if you embarress him, he's still going to be racist, but sneakily.

@OnceMore Hey dude I have an amazing solution to your problem: Give explanations that are: - not serious - funny basically give explanations that give off a post modernist scent to it. Example: "Son, why the fuck are you waking up so early for?" "Mum, I have to confess, I think I'm in love. There's this bird outside, and it chirps at 5am every morning, and I just can't get enough of it" "What????" (as if you're schizophrenic) "Yeah mum, I've been hiding it from you all my life, but I'm into parrots, you know their wings are so sexy" Mum walks away in shock. To your friends: "Dude you never hang out with us late at night anymore" "I know, I'm such a horrible person. Hopefully the gods will punish me for such a criminal act" "haha... yeah but seriously, why aren't you hanging out with us anymore" "Look, the real reason is. Actually its a pretty boring reason, nevermind" "What is it?? You have to tell me now" "Well, no its nothing... I'm just afraid of the dark ok" "haha you're afraid of the dark, what a pussy" "Yeah I am. But in all seriousness, I just want to wake up early every night. I know it sounds absolutely crazy to you, but I'm weird, you know that, and I just want to keep being my weird self and waking up early. Go have fun though, you don't need me" EDIT: I sleep sitting down, I meditate for 2 hours every day, I have cold showers, I do a bunch of crazy things, and when my friends and family ask me about it, I just laugh it off and call myself crazy. Works like a charm.

idk, a massive, bulky comet smashing into the earth at 1000000 miles and hour produced amazing men like Socrates, Gandhi, an amazing mathematics system, and actualized.org

Great point! I make that mistake in romantic cold approaches too. Finding that out is the part where I get stuck. Because people usually are disinterested in talking to you about themselves. I'm talking about situations like university pub crawls. The common link between us is that we both go to the same university, but even that isn't good enough in 99% of cases(although the American international students are the best. Americans are great, they'll talk to anyone, infact I think cold approach is embedded in their culture). hahaha a group in a bar, sitting around a small round table, talking about meditation and the Buddha. This problem isn't just limited to me cold approaching new groups. Say there's a group of 10 people, and I know 1 of them(pretty well) the isolation is still there, because that entire group will all be close to each other somehow, and I'll usually be the odd one out, and trying to somehow come up with stuff while they are all talking about how Joe got drunk real bad 2 weeks ago is hard. Or they may be talking about some music band that I have no idea of, or something else. But people make friends, so I must be doing something wrong. I think I'm not good at small talk, but there's no resources out there for improving it. Good point. Though sometimes I run into the same problems stated above, even interacting with people in these clubs and societies. Do you think that another possibility is that I don't have enough general knowledge? Thanks!

Or maybe its because people aren't allowed to express their true feelings about things, even if it is divisive, because the 'enlightened' left side of politics believes that demonizing and calling everyone who has a different opinion as them, as racist, and consequently forcing people to repress their true desires is somehow the best way to deal with the situation. I would much rather trump be in the white house, than Hillary, at least now the American population can stop hiding their true feelings about things, and let it out, where everyone can see it. Things have to get ugly before they can get better. Hillary. Obama, and the entire left wing side of politics, were basically a massive dam, trying to hold in the water of racism/fear of terrorism, by neurotically not allowing people to be authentic, and demonizing them like little children who hear an opinion that they didn't like. Thank god Trump is in, now the American people are allowed to show their true colours. Because lets face it, if Trump didnt get in now, he would have gotten in 5 years down the track. @Arman There are some real benefits to VR, particularly in making people more empathetic, making people healthy, and connecting people from around the world.

I could say that I started spirituality from seeing a god while on mars one day. That's no less real that my actual history In fact, your memory is at most 5% accurate anyway relatively. It goes deeper than that. It would matter for some viewer, it wouldn't for others, based on their mental makeup, frequency, resonance, etc. Teal swan isn't even a real person in your experience, its just apart of the illusion, and all your beliefs about her are attached to that core belief like octopus tentacles. You could say that your belief that she exists, shes a person, etc etc etc is information. Its a puzzle piece. And that information may integrate well into one's web of beliefs really well, without the credentials, or maybe the puzzle piece for another person's mental makeup requires the credentials(that is to help get closer to enlightenment). Its not like a computer program: if(spirituality == true) { credentials(matter) else credentials(!matter); its more complicated.

@Annetta Teal is very metaphorical, you have to remember that. And her background doesn't really matter. Can you find any existential evidence that her background exists? Or yours? Youre basing your answer based on a fantasy that doesn't even exist? There are flaws with Teal, but she has a lot of amazing content. The 2 people in the video criticizing her, are clearly stuck in a paradigm. Particularly one where death is seen as demonic(why is death demonic?) and one where your imaginary background matters. Leo said 2 years ago that he had just begun his enlightenment journey, and even though he had just begun, he would teach spirituality to people. Reason is because of his lack of experience, he would resonate with people of the same frequency, and people would understand his teachings a lot better than Echkart Tolle. Life contradicts and overlaps in many different ways. Sometimes credentials matter, sometimes they don't. When Teal said that her patient should commit suicide, because she wanted to, that makes a lot of sense to me. I wouldn't advocate it, but there's no universal standards on what your opinions on death are. Favoring condemnation of suicide over advocating it as if its some universal law, is no different to ISIS wanting to kill everyone for their imaginary god. Funny thing is that, the 2 in the video say that people who follow Teal are ideological crusaders(which some are), yet they can't even see that they too are ideological crusaders, holding the belief that death is evil, that credentials matter, that judging other people's teachings is a good thing, that there's only one way to do spirituality(and its their way) that contradictions exist, that she is being literal when she says that she is an enlightened guru, that and a billion other things. Those 2 in the video are as sucked in by Satan as Teal is, yet they are sucked in by society's standards, and not Teal's standards.

When cold approaching, how do you deal with friends of girls who get jealous that you didn't hit on them, and only hitted on their hot friend? A scenario like this is very common: "Hey I love your jacket! What's your name?" "Anne, what'should yours?" Jealous friend: "umm shouldn't you be walking the other way" *I do what pickup people do best and ignore any bad situations* "Jake, did you just come from the same pubcrawl I just did, the college one?" Jealous friend: "umm we're not interested" "You mean the science one?" Jealous friend:"We'really going to leave now," *pulls arm of girl away*

@egoeimai women are less scared of you when they are in groups though. Common, classic pickup artist knowledge.

Bit hard to ask for the girl's number, if her friend keeps interrupting.

What gives you a drive to keep moving forward? - Money is just an artificial perception, and always will be. You'll never touch the essence of money in awareness, it will always be a pot at the end of a rainbow. - Likewise with good grades. Its just a perception, floating around in the background of your head, without any substance to it. - Hot girls are also just a hollow thought. You'll never touch, and bask in the essence of that feeling you get when seeing a hot girl, because its a hollow thought, without substance Everything is just a hollow, empty, murky pot at the end of a rainbow. Nothing has substance really, the future is just an illusion, 'getting somewhere' is just imagination playing out from a yet, deeper illusion. What is there to truly do? What isn't a pot at the end of the rainbow? What keeps you on track towards obtaining some hollow, empty goal? What drives you?

@Shin it actually is bro, without theorizing. Go, earn money, see how much fulfillment it gives you. And it's not just with money, its with everything.

@Prabhaker so what keeps you motivated?

@Vaishnavi thanks! Great advice

I've been struggling for almost all of my life, to somehow motivate myself to study more, I've tried the sadona method, the wave method, various meditative methods, but no real luck. I recently had an insight, and realized that the reason why I can't push myself to study, is because my brain just isn't cut out to intellectualize at the same level everyone else's brain is. - I get confused very easily. - I make a lot of silly mistakes. - concepts seem fuzzy in my head. - there is pain and suffering whenever I think of something complex. - its boring. Like I'm very good at learning things that aren't in an educational setting, but I struggle to learn stuff for tests. Are there any ways to change this that you know of? Thanks guys!

@Prabhaker Osho sounds bitter in that excerpt

Anyone else finds being in the present as being genuinely peacful, relaxing and fun? I'm finding that I'm starting to really enjoy the present moment, and in a lot of cases, would prefer to just sit and do nothing instead of doing work. Though this is reducing the amount of work I can complete, and is reducing my work's quality. The present in a sense is distracting myself from doing the work I need to do around the house and also for work. Anyone got any insights on how to deal with this, thanks!

yes I have tried picture learning. My problem is my RAM isn't big enough hahaha. I.e. my temporary memory.@jjer94 does diet affect learning in your xp? My diet could be better. Its mainly vegan but I have 1 meal a day on average, and snacks inbetween.

@eputkonen I know but you can more easily get sucked into things while doing that, which is ultimately painful. Like doing hard calc homework while being present is hard as.

@username its hard to explain, my mind feels pain whenever it has to conceptualize. Its a weird issue haha. I tend to make mistakes because I'm not good at keeping concepts in my head for a period of time. if I try and add say 20 + 35, my brain will forget the 20 before I even attempt to add the 35 haha weird qualitative issues. You're second piece of advice was really helpful thanks!