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Beginner asking about Thoughts and Negativity
Beginner asking about Thoughts and NegativityFear generates results by sending you scrambling into action.
When you are walking through the woods and think, "There might be a bear around the corner" you are more careful than if you walk around thinking happy thoughts.
Also, the highly conceptual and ideological way modern humans live is far removed from simple examples like finding foods in nature. If your only job was to find food in nature like a rabbit, you would have very few negative thoughts. Most of your negative thoughts come from highly conceptual, ideological mental activity far removed from simple physical survival.
When all thoughts cease, there is no longer a "someone" within experience at all.
Obviously there is no one inside you producing nor watching thoughts. Thoughts simply arise within a field of consciousness. Thoughts ARE the field itself. It is not even correct to say that there are thoughts vs a field, or thoughts vs a watcher. You ARE thoughts. Everything is one. There is no watcher as some object. Watcher and watched are identical.
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Pickup is leading to frustration
Pickup is leading to frustrationBullshit
The best guys who go out constantly only sleep with maybe 30 girls per year. 30/year would be master pro level. And to get those 30 they approach 1000+
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Pickup is leading to frustration
Pickup is leading to frustrationLogistics is every practical mundane detail which is necessary to get her in a room where sex can occur.
If she is hungry and you don't feed her, she won't be in the mood to sleep with you. Yet if you feed her too much, she also won't sleep with you. If feeding her takes too long, she will be too sleepy and also won't sleep with you.
And a thousand other things like that.
If you want results you have to handle every single niggly detail, and do it quickly and smoothly.
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I will become a day trader
I will become a day traderOh God....
Your biggest mistake is actually assuming you will become rich from daytrading. What you'll discover is that you actually end up losing money and wasting even more time until your situation becomes truly dire.
The problem with leeching value as a survival strategy is not merely that it hurts others and society, is often simply does not work even for you. Greed and desire to take shortcuts often ends up hurting you the most.
The surest way to become wealthy is through serious hard work, not through get-rich-quick-schemes like this.
Daytrading is a get-rich-quick-scheme because it offers no value to the world yet demands high profits. And therefore it is fundamentally unnatural and you will be ruthlessly weeded out by evolution. Theft is a risky survival strategy. And don't fool yourself, what you're doing is a form of theft -- you're just not connecting the dots yet.
Stop listening to people who are selling you the idea that daytrading will make you rich. Those people don't make money off daytrading, they make their money off desperate suckers like you.
I understand you just want to be financially free. But financial freedom is not created with that kind of mindset. Financial freedom is very counter-intuitive. You have to relinquish your desire for quick and easy results. Rather than trying to get rich quick, you must adopt an attitude of get rich slow.
The proper way to get wealthy is to offer massive value to the world, to become genuinely creative. Not these silly games you're playing. Your greed and laziness with backfire on you.
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Psychedelic anxiety
Psychedelic anxietyThere should be enough pre-trip anxiety which shows a healthy respect for the substance. But it should not be uncontrollable fear that grips your mind. Just some mild hesitation due to your recognition of the seriousness of this work.
Overall your mood should be, "I'm read. Let's do this."
If you don't feel ready, you're not ready, so don't trip.
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"My" consciousness
"My" consciousnessOf course.
Physical objects like your hands are just a denser layer of imagination than the domain of your thoughts.
But if you were able to become conscious enough to break through into the physical layer, you could literally reimagine how your hands look. If you become conscious enough, your hand could become a monster's paw -- since the difference is imaginary. At which point you would be so freaked out you'd think you'd gone insane and you would beg God to give you your old state of mind back.
See, your sanity is your bottleneck. It's fear of insanity that keeps you human, otherwise you'd have already turned yourself into a kangaroo and hopped away.
What do you think a kangaroo is? It's you minus all attachments to being human!
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Pickup is leading to frustration
Pickup is leading to frustrationYes!
Flake rate is typically very high. Which is why PUAs tend to push for same night lays.
You should also get in the habit of screening. Screen for boyfriends, screen her desire to date.
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Pickup is leading to frustration
Pickup is leading to frustrationWAY way lower.
And logistics are almost never right.
Realistically close rate is less than 1 in 100.
If you are approaching girls and hoping for a 1 in 10 close rate, you are out of your mind dog.
Typical sales close rates are 0.5-2%
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Cornel West resigns from Harvard due to spiritual rot!
Cornel West resigns from Harvard due to spiritual rot!A fine example of integrity.
Although I agree, his mother's death is irrelevant here.
Just goes to show how academia isn't a place for serious intellectuals, philosophers, or spiritual practitioners.
Cornel West should just lecture on YT. Why the fuck does he need Harvard? That's some elitist nonsense he got tied up with.
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Pertinent Question on taxation on billionares.
Pertinent Question on taxation on billionares.I am not saying to print wealth.
It can certainly be distributed better.
If Amazon employees got double their salary, society would be better off. That you can't see this shows your lack of vision.
You frame this situation as though we would be stealing money from Jeff Bezos. But consider another frame: Bezos stole most of his money from Amazon employees.
You see, 500 years ago, a king would claim that all the money in the country was his. And when people suggested to change that system, the king righteously felt that they would stealing all his money. But the deeper truth was that the king got all his money by stealing it from the people. So the people took it back and killed the king.
No one gets a billion dollars by earning it. You get a billion dollars by stealing it. This is crucial to understand.
The logic you are using is exactly the same logic that was used to justify kingdoms.
You are assuming that a billionaire's wealth rightly belongs to him. But this purely a social construction.
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Pertinent Question on taxation on billionares.
Pertinent Question on taxation on billionares.$10 million is literally plenty of reward for ANY job on the planet.
You know what feels really shitty? Paying someone who works in the hot sun picking strawberries all day long $20/day. How about rewarding them? Why do you not care about properly rewarding 99% of the workforce, but you are so passionate about rewarding the top 0.01% who are already so highly rewarded that literally they cannot feel the difference when we add an extra billion to their bank account?
Do you see how fucked up your priorities are?
How about rewarding teachers, police, firefighters, soldiers, mothers, construction workers, fast food workers, Amazon warehouse workers, delivery drivers? See, you don't give a fuck about these people who are being exploited to make Jeff Bezos a billionaire.
Billionaires are a lot more analogous to kings than to the existence of money itself.
Money is a necessary and important technology. Billionaires are not necessary, like kings.
All this is true of slavery.
In the 1850s you'd be in a public forum shouting that our society is not evolved enough to abolish slavery and that we cannot function without slaves. Out of slaves, massive wealth creation, etc. We can even fuck them for free. How can a man live without having slaves to fuck? Our society cannot handle it.
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"DHV (demonstration of higher value)" versus "Natural game"
"DHV (demonstration of higher value)" versus "Natural game"DHV comes off as too fake and gamey.
Be fun and playful. Don't try to impress. And then on top of that, you should already be a cool and interesting guy by building out a cool and interesting life.
DHV should be a natural consequence of your yearly self-actualizing work. Once you got it, you don't need to try to impress girls with it. It will naturally reveal itself as she starts asking about your life.
Like, if a girl starts asking me what I do, if I just talk about it authentically, I will come off as very high value. She will be like, "I thought this guy is just playful and fun, but he's also got an amazing life! This is amazing. I want his dick right now!"
If anything, you could even DLV. Purposefully play down your value by telling her you work at Walmart sucking customer's dicks. This will come off much better than trying to impress her that you're a DJ.
"Girl... you think you want to be with some hotshot DJ, but I know what you really want. You want to marry a guy who works at Walmart sucking customer's dicks for minimum wage. I bet you didn't even know Walmart had such a position. Well, they do and today's your lucky day."
Humor is the fastest way into a woman's pants.
P.S. If you actually work at Walmart, then that strategy will not work so well. It works better the higher value your naturally are. If you were a DJ or a doctor, that line would work amazing.
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Coping with wage-slavery?
Coping with wage-slavery?I sit now before my computer covered in dirt, I'm too tired to take a shower. I spend my days slaving away in the hot sun and carrying heavy shit, in exchange I get like $750 every two weeks. I have no friends or ever had a romantic relationship, I live with my parents but I feel like I hardly know them and vice-versa. Trying to tell them about self help or entrepreneurship is like trying to tell a toddler about the rise of Hitler, they're uninterested and they find the television far more intriguing. It's disturbing how complacent and myopic the human mind can become after a lifetime of mediocre unconscious work, they're like zombies! The fucking television is the most diabolical invention man ever unleashed! After work my body and mind feel numb and hazy, but I fight through it because there's more important work to be done, I'm a CEO after all! At least that's what it says on my business card. I make a sale here and there but I wouldn't say my business is a success quite yet. At the end of the day I lay alone in darkness, my only companion the voice whispering 'I love you' through my headphones, sometimes its a man's, sometimes it's a woman's. Then its right back to work in the morning, to the scorching hot sun and asphalt, to serving and obeying people I dislike, to fighting the urge to knock someones teeth out. I honestly think a sane man's first reaction to being ordered around in the heat like a dog would be to gut the motherfucker who crossed you like a fish so no one else gets the idea they're your superior, but I'm a lover, not a fighter. Maybe I'll listen to one of Leo's videos with my earbuds or imagine I'm Augustus or Napoleon to pass the time! I always liked the idea of being a conqueror or an emperor. In a strange masochistic way I enjoy it sometimes, the stinging and aching in my muscles, the unforgiving omnipotent sun, the sweat bleeding into my eyes. It's a very peculiar high but most of the time I feel like jumping off a bridge.
What the fuck is this? This is what life is like in the twenty-first century? How the fuck do people do this decade after decade? I'm only twenty-three and I've had enough of this shit! The life of the average person is a mind-numbing bitter struggle only interrupted by mediocre media, hollow relationships, insultingly little vacation, and alcohol. How has the plurality of mankind embraced this way of life? It is humiliating! I feel like a different species or something because I'm the only one I know fighting for an alternative! How the fuck do you just get told what to do your entire life!? Doesn't this fucking bother you after a while!? Then people get married, have kids, and buy a house, MEGAFUCKING the entire situation, now they're guaranteed to always be a wage slave!
I HAD TO WORK ON THE FUCKING FOURTH OF JULY LAST YEAR!!! The day about, ya' know, FREEDOM!!! How the fuck do you cope with this shit because I feel like a losing my sanity more and more by the day!
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Coping with wage-slavery?
Coping with wage-slavery?You're simply more conscious than the typical human.
This is okay.
You just need to find the right niche for yourself.
Why are you working in the hot sun? Work smarter not harder.
Obviously the first step for you is to upgrade to a better job, one you can tolerate. Then you can chip away at the CEO thing. But for now you need to focus on upgrading your current line of work. Not all jobs are that shitty.
Again, work smarter, not harder.
If you're gonna be earning $1400/mo, at least find a job that's not backbreaking. You could work at Starbucks for that. You need to look for jobs that give you free time to study and work on your own side hustle. You can also picks jobs which are low-stress and low-effort and have other perks.
Who is the one that made you work in the hot sun? You! You chose that shit one way or another.
Don't worry, you're still young. You can change all that.
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Noticing Low Integrity Pickup Tactics from Leo and other "High Value Men"
Noticing Low Integrity Pickup Tactics from Leo and other "High Value Men"You simply don't understand how socialization works.
When people socialize and party, they drink. I don't. If it was up to me, I would ban all alcohol, but people enjoy it. I'm not there to tell them what to do. Girls drink in clubs and bars. Pickup works regardless of drinking or not.
Does alcohol make women (and men) looser? Of course. That's the point of alcohol in social settings. No one is forcing it on the women.
It has nothing to do with rape. Most sex in the world happens thanks to alcohol. That is not the same thing as fucking someone who has passed out drunk.
I prefer not to sleep with drunk women. But if she wants to have a few drinks, that's her choice. If she asks me whether she should have a drink, I would tell her no. And I'm certainly not buying her any drinks.
FYI, most dates involve a few drinks. Welcome to human mating 101.
There is also a big distinction between a few drinks and being pass-out drunk, vomiting all over yourself. Girls who are near the pass-out drunk stage are actually not easy to sleep with because they are too sick to have sex and are just a pain in the ass to deal with. It's also not good sex.
A) You misunderstand what pickup entails and is.
B) Yes, pursing sex requires that one behave differently than sitting in a meditation retreat. Sex is survival, and it is a game.
Ironically it is you who is being unspiritual here in that: 1) you judge all this social activity and think of it as unspiritual, creating a shadow out of it, and 2) you have the desire to control people by telling them how to behave and what not to drink.
Consider the crazy possibility that a spiritual person can go to a party and enjoy it and sleep with someone from the party. And there is no contradiction in that.
Doesn't sound like you've ever been to a party or enjoyed a party.
Is pickup some high integrity activity? No. It's socialization and horsing around. It's not serious. The integrity of partying is letting loose and allowing yourself to party. Try it sometime. You might even get laid. Girls don't like guys who have a stick up their ass and judge them.
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Noticing Low Integrity Pickup Tactics from Leo and other "High Value Men"
Noticing Low Integrity Pickup Tactics from Leo and other "High Value Men"This very much depends on you.
Stop worrying about the numbers and just get excited about going out and approaching on a weekly basis.
2000 will certainly get you some amazing times.
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How to not laugh at my own jokes?
How to not laugh at my own jokes?Self-amusement is the #1 key to attracting women.
You should laugh at your own jokes so much that you are having more fun than anyone else. Then the woman gets attracted because you are a boss, not seeking any validation or reaction from her.
Like I keep saying, attraction is a very counter-intuitive thing.
Whatever you feel, the woman was feel. If you feel good, she will feel good. If you feel awkward and shy, so will she.
You should even get good at laughing for no reason whatsoever. Just to laugh. Life is a fucking joke. You take yourself way too seriously.
Stop trying to act like James Bond. Start being a playful rascal. You'll get laid way more and you will feel happier.
And even in non-dating situations, people always appreciate a cheerful guy. Even guys do.
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choosing happiness by making up your own truths
choosing happiness by making up your own truthsTruth/Love/Esctasy is the realization that there is no difference whatsoever between anything.
When all difference is seen to be imaginary and irrelevant, you reach infinite joy. It's an ocean of Love so deep you shudder in a metaphysical cosmic Mindgasm.
Then you understand what true happiness is. True happiness is simply realizing that nothing is better than anything else. Period. That's when all seeking stops.
So long as you are under the illusion that one thing is better than another, you will always suffer because you will seek the better and resent the worse.
The ultimate Truth is that nothing is better than anything else because all things are equally wondrous. Ta-da! Your unhappiness turned out to be nothing other than bias.
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Is spirituality going to destroy entrepreneurship/life purpose?
Is spirituality going to destroy entrepreneurship/life purpose?Business is survival. Life is about survival. Even if everyone on Earth was awake, they would still need to survive and business would still have a place.
But even more importantly, business should be your creative passion, your art, which you would do even if no one needed it. So long as you're alive you are gonna have the problem of what to do with your time and creative energy.
God is creative. You cannot stop people from being creative any more than you can stop the sun from shining.
So the only real question is: what do you want to create?
Nothing is important in itself. Things become important if you want them to be.
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How do you deal with toxic Green?? Leo? Help
How do you deal with toxic Green?? Leo? HelpThis issue is not just about Green. This is the much larger issue of how do you deal with ignorance?
As you become more conscious you are likely to develop contempt for the massive unconsciousness of the average person. That's one of the many burdens of seriously developing yourself. You start to feel like a genius among apes. And then you gotta find ways to cope with that.
Best way I find is to stop trying to convince or change people and focus most of your attention on your creative work. Do not get too entangled with ignorant people and their BS. It's a huge distraction. Let them be ignorant. Focus on your work. And don't hinge your work on ignorant people.
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Is this woman awake?
Is this woman awake?Of course there is not a "someone who is moving up on a journey". That is a fiction.
But there are many levels/states of higher consciousness.
The loss of ego is not all there is to consciousness. That's just a tiny aspect of awakening. Just because you lose the ego does not mean you're anywhere near infinitely conscious.
I have warned you guys many times of these kind of oversimplified neo-Advaita teachings. The realization of no-self is one of the easiest and lowest attainments in this work. There are much higher attainments and awakenings.
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extreme frustration with self inquiry after many months of practice
extreme frustration with self inquiry after many months of practiceYou need to change your state of consciousness via hardcore concentration practice. Stop thinking about who you are and focus on building up concentration.
You can do that with mindfulness with labling or via Kriya yoga. I highly recommend Kriya yoga, it quiets the mind nicely.
Work towards stilling your mind and just sitting in emptiness with no thoughts. Your true nature will reveal itself naturally once your mind is still and highly concentrated.
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Leo - What are your thoughts/experience with nirodha samapatti/full cessation?
Leo - What are your thoughts/experience with nirodha samapatti/full cessation?That's the mindfuck. Death never happens. Death is a fantasy.
You are eternally conscious right now, you always have been, and you always will be.
Cessation of consciousness is imaginary. LOOK! You're imagining it right now!
You sneaky bastard!
There is no such thing as unconsciousness. All unconsciousness is imagined by consciousness. That's the ultimate trick. You can't be unconscious, you can only imagine you were unconscious in the past -- which is the Dream you weave.
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Is it normal to feel like THIS after you jerk off??
Is it normal to feel like THIS after you jerk off??I certainly didn't. My mind was quick as a super-computer in my teens.
Although now with increased consciousness and spiritual understanding, and after doing a bunch of heavy metal detox, carnivore diet, and with mental training exercises my mind is getting real sharp again.
One of goals is to develop a superman mind.
Jerking off has no effect on the clarity of my mind. Not jerking off reduces my clarity because then mind is wasted thinking about sex.
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Help: Hard to find Business ideas for spirtuality
Help: Hard to find Business ideas for spirtualityThere are so many ways to do a spirituality biz.
Start by doing a few months of research on what already exists and what other people have done. Search the web, you'll find tons of stuff. And think outside the box of being a guru.
Also think about the biggest obstacles you faced in your spiritual journey and what kind of problems people commonly face in spirituality. You can basically start a biz around any single common problem.
In general, in order to enter an industry you must first become an avid consumer of it. As you consume and explore the industry you will see what works, what doesn't, what's missing, and what niches are available. You need a lot of experience consuming the industry you work in to find opportunities and to learn from what has already been done.
I broke my way into self-help by consuming a ton of self-help and seeing gaps and opportunities. No one was doing self-help in the way I wanted it done, so I started my own channel.