I don't take the notion "someone is enlightened" seriously.
This is a silly way to reduce infinite consciousness.
People who say such things have no clue how diverse and deep consciousness goes.
Also, keep in mind, I run a business here. I'm not a full time monk. People who typically pursue enlightenment are not simultaneously leading thousands of people in personal development. I have a life purpose I'm pursuing which takes up most of my time and has nothing to do with enlightenment. I also deal with serious health conditions while doing all the above.

Notice that you're actually not aware of yourself as "Endangered-Ego" until you focus your awareness on it. You actually forget your human self while you're going about your day, doing mundane tasks. But if I stop you and ask you, Do you know you are Endangered-Ego? You will say, of course.
It's the same way for me with God. When I'm doing mundane tasks, the notion of me being God drops away. But if I stop and ask myself, "Am I God?", the answer is, "Of course! All this is God."
I can sort of focus my awareness on various facets of God. I can look at a chair and notice the fact that a chair is God, or I can notice the fact that it is Love, or I can notice the fact that is Nothingness, or I can notice the fact that it is Infinity, or I can notice the fact that it is Me, or I can notice the fact that it is all those things simultaneously, or I can just see it as a boring old chair (which is how I typically experience chairs). It usually take a slight bit of effort to see a chair as God.
I can't lose interest in God. I am endlessly interested in it. If I just sit around or stand around in line, I can't help noticing things as parts of God. This fills with me endless curiosity and wonder. But I'm not constantly doing this because I got business handle. When I'm lost in the flow of doing business, I'm not aware of God, in the same way that you are not aware of your human self when you're in flow. So it does take some self-reflective effort to notice God. Even though God is always present.
Notice that you're not aware of your ass most of the time until you focus on your ass.

I would just be more conscious of the biases inherent in pickup culture.
The principles and techniques are good. The culture is ridiculously toxic, immature, and self-biased. Dis-aggregating the two can be challenging.

5-30 minutes is about right. Any more than that and you're showing her that you're a loser.
If she doesn't get attracted to you within 30 minutes, you've failed and it's time to move on. Realistically attraction takes 5-10 minutes to happen when a guy knows what he's doing.

Rest assured that those marriages will soon turn boring, sour, and dysfunctional.
You aren't missing much. Those people aren't happy. They're mostly living an illusion.

No, actually the badness is not inherent. That's the point.
If you feel pain consciously you'll realize it is not inherently bad. It's just a very deep unconscious bias.

There are 2 basic secrets to getting women:
1) Location, location, location. Be where the women are.
2) Delusional levels of self-confidence
Boomhauer pretty much has it down In real life he would be sleeping with hundreds of women while you guys are here clowning around and whining.
The only thing worse than being Boomhauer is being Bobby. And you guys here are like Bobby. That's your whole problem in a nutshell.

Two points:
1) A big part of spirituality is realizing how dysfunctional our modern lifestyles are, and changing how you structure your life. The Western medicine system is insanely unhealthy and dysfunctional on many levels -- for patients and doctors alike. So of course you'll have to question your involvement in that. In the end you may decide to transition to more sustainable and holistic types of healthcare. This will be hard for your ego to swallow because you've invested so much into this dysfunctional system while assuming it would serve you and your patients.
2) Check out Daniel Ingram's work/books. He was an ER doctor and a hardcore Buddhist mediator at the same time. He became enlightened while still working as a doctor. So it is possible. However, you have to understand that it will be extremely challenging. Most people will not be able to pull that off.
Enlightenment usually requires taking time off of work to focus on it exclusively. You should expect it to interfere with your work/business.
But something like a 1-hour per day meditation or yoga practice is doable alongside almost any profession/biz. Just don't expect huge results from 1-hour per day. You are not going to reach deep levels of awakening via such a piddly practice.

It's Absolute Truth.
Reality cannot be anything other than Absolute Truth.
The only point of Truth is itself, since Truth is the only thing there is or could be.
You can do whatever you like.
Stop treating awakening as if it is forced on you. No one is forcing it on you.
You are asking me to give you a selfish reason for selflessness. Which of course there isn't any.
Selflessness cannot have any selfish reason.
Yes, cause you are a selfish fuck
Nothing is ever bad. Bad does not exist.
I push you guys towards awakening because that's what I care about. If you don't care about it then stop following my work. Go jerk off or whatever. My teachings are not geared for lazy people who are satisfied spending their life jerking off.
I am a very ambitious person and all of my teachings assume you have an ambition to make the most of your life. If you don't, then stop watching.

How non-judgmental are you of all other perspectives?
The hallmark of Yellow is such a deep understanding of perspectives that your judgment of them falls away. You no longer see perspectives as good or bad, right or wrong.
Green is very judgmental still.
Can you appreciate why all the perspectives exist?

Hence why the wisest people become monks.

Lol
The excuses you guys concoct are stunning.
Shut up and go approach 5000 girls. This skill set requires PRACTICE!

No object has a stable objective form. Form is relative to your perception of it. When you're not perceiving an object is collapses back into Infinity. Every object is identical to every other object until you polarize/collapse/distinguish it with your perceptual system.
You can think of your perceptual system as a filter upon Infinity. You filter Infinity down into an elephant by distinguishing it from everything else. And if you stop filtering/distinguishing it, it returns back to Infinity because Infinity is what everything is when it is unfiltered and undistinguished.
What you're missing is a realization of total ontological relativity. All physical objects are relative. They only exist if you filter Infinity a certain way. You need to let go of the notion that physical objects have any sort of stable form or existence.

That's because you've barely managed to learn to stand on your skiis yet you're try to go down a double black diamond slope.
Go back and develop competence in basic self-help. After 5 or 10 years of that, you might be ready for some existential spiritual work. There's no shame in working on the basics of life. Go develop competence at survival before you try to transcend it.
It took me a decade or more of working on the basics before enlightenment became a real possibility.
Just because I talk about enlightenment a lot does not mean it is right for you at this time. I talk about very advanced stuff that isn't suitable for most people.

I think you are misunderstanding the Buddhist notion of suffering. What it basically means is that chasing material conditions and positive states is dissatisfying because they never last.
This does not mean you cannot meditate on the feeling of satisfaction itself. In fact, doing so is how you escape suffering.
Bliss and joy can be reached this way. Now, you can counter by saying that that bliss won't be permanent. Of course it won't. But I never said to get attached to permanent bliss. And it is still far better than what most people are doing, which is chasing dopamine hits.
Think of it this way: in every moment you only have one of two options: you can either be satisified or dissatisfied. Which will you be?

You should be going out 3-4 nights a week for at least a year, every week, with the goal of doing 1000-5000 approaches.
This is what is realistically takes to get results.

You should socialize just to push your comfort zone and gain more life experience but in the end nothing is gonna beat the spiritual pleasure of pure metaphysical understanding. So if you can be happy solo, that's actually a great gift.
But don't become a recluse. Gain some socialization and dating experience while you are young. It can be fun.
In the end you will find the highest joy is found alone, not with others. Don't let others gaslight you about that.

@StarStruck You shouldn't expect massive results if you just started game.
Massive results come after years of going out and honing your skills. The bottom line is that your skills still suck.
The learning curve for game is really steep. Stop stressing over it so much.
And definitely night game is an important piece of the puzzle you're missing. Only doing street game is gonna limit your growth and results. The serious skills are built with night game.

One of my best wings was a 5'4" Pakistani guy.
He got laid way more than me at 6'2".
What attracts girls is personality and boldness.
My wing would walk up to a group of girls having a birthday and make out with every girl in the group, one after another. Sometimes he would get slapped, but he also got a bunch of make outs, numbers, and dates. He would wrestle girls like a fearless mongoose does a cobra.

Think twice before infecting others with your toxic limiting beliefs.

My vision gets a bit wavy if I meditate a lot.
This is normal and even desirable. It's a neat effect and shows the fluid nature of consciousness.

I wouldn't even call that HPPD. That's just an expansion of your mind/consciousness.
I suggest you embrace it and enjoy it. A free trip when I close my eyes is something I would pay for. That's like a superpower.
Such things happen with people who meditate or do lots of yoga. The mind simply becomes expanded and more fluid.

They are similar.
But contemplation specifically focuses on asking questions and gaining answers/insights whereas introspection is a more general function of looking inward and observing the operations of your own psyche. You could also call introspection mindfulness.
To me contemplation is a more cognitive, verbal activity. Introspection is more about feeling. Although of course you can mix them together.

God is the perfect word. You just aren't yet conscious of what the God points to.
And that is a deficiency in Buddhism.
Except it isn't since your entire understanding of self and reality is entangled with language.
Of course the word itself could be changed to something like Teotl or Allah or Great Spirit. But the concept of God to which all these words point is fundamental and unavoidable.
Any teacher or teaching that is not telling you directly that "You are God" is not really telling you the truth.
All of spirituality can be boiled down to two simple lines:
1) You are God
2) God is Love
That is the most concise formulation of what you must realize to fully awaken. And if you don't realize these two, then nothing else matters for you have fundamentally misunderstood reality.

Go out and approach 5000 girls.
Also, it would really help if you realize your body is made out of God's Infinite Love.
The notion that you are ugly is literally the dumbest thing you could think.