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How Racism Works
How Racism WorksThat's because "hot" is literally defined by that which is in the top 5%.
So it's not that most women are not hot. It's that what's hot is the top 5% of whatever is.
If women were donkeys, you'd still be like, "These donkeys suck. I want a better donkey."
That's survival. Always looking for the most you can get for the least amount of effort.
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Public housing option - Why not build "commie blocks" all over the USA?
Public housing option - Why not build "commie blocks" all over the USA?Of course corporations are a source of government corruption and rig the laws to serve their survival.
But the problem is far deeper than that. Complex technology and massive scales of life (human society in the 100s of millions) requires massive infrastructure and collective forms of organization. We cannot just go back to living in little tribes in some hippie eco-village. The whole challenge here is that individual humans are not the end-all-be-all of life. Life has surpassed humans to include corporations, organizations, religions, social movements, cultures, governments, nations, and beyond. Massive complexity and bureaucracy is necessary to sustain things like nuclear weapons, gasoline cars, airports, highways, currency, the internet, GPS satellites, regulation of pollution & deforestation, regulation of endangered species, modern medicine, modern food, modern electronics, etc.
None of that could exist without corporations or giant bureaucracies.
You cannot build a modern home by yourself, or even with a small group of your friends. Modern housing construction requires sophisticated supply chains, regulation, infrastructure, factories, shipping containers, airports, railroad, power plants, mining, logging, and a thousand other things.
Starbucks does better than a family owned coffee shop precisely because it solves complex organizational problems like supply chain issues, warehousing, etc. and it delivers a very reliable, high-quality product which people love.
You must always take into account the problem of scale. Scale! Scale! Scale! is what people underestimate. It's very easy to run a small coffee shop that serves 100 customers. It's a whole nother design challenge to serve good coffee consistently to 1 billion customers. What worked at the scale of 100 does not work at the scale of 1 billion. It's a whole new creature. And we live in a world were business is done in the billions, not in the thousands. If business is not done in the billions, say goodbye to your car, your TV, your house, your phone, your computer, your internet, your video games, your fave TV shows, your GPS, your vacations, your books, etc.
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How 1 + 1 = 2 is not absolute ?
How 1 + 1 = 2 is not absolute ?Concept and imagination is made out of being.
1st order reality is being, 2nd order is concept. 2nd order is made out of 1st order, like how a Lego castle is made out of bricks.
You are confusing those two orders.
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On being a Conscious Incel - How do I confront and accept reality?
On being a Conscious Incel - How do I confront and accept reality?LOL
Yeah, if you wanna bang hot girls you're gonna have competition. Welcome to the jungle.
You really expect hot girls for free?
You are way too entitled. Attracting hot girls is a lot of work, and it must be that way because hot girls are valuable & rare.
So either lower your standards or up your effort.
I got 400+ rejections before I slept with my first hot girl.
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Insights into Absolute Love and Absolute Acceptance
Insights into Absolute Love and Absolute AcceptanceIn light of Leo’s recent video on love, I’ve been contemplating what it might mean that reality is Absolute Love and that Absolute Truth and Absolute Love are really identical. During one of my recent meditation sessions, I had an incredibly powerful insight into the nature of this love and wanted to share and hear feedback from the community
What is love? What is actually going on in my direct experience when I experience love? I realized that that 1 common facet about this phenomenon was that love has always been accompanied with an overwhelming acceptance of whatever it is I am loving. That is to say, when I feel love towards someone, or something, there is also a full acceptance of that object necessarily. In other words, it could be said that loving and accepting are two sides to the same coin. When scaling this insight up to the level of Absolute Love, this should mean that there is also a component to Absolute Acceptance.
And this is where things get interesting – First, a bit of philosophical infrastructure: We are reality. I am reality. I am the whole of my subjective experience, while also not really being any of it. Sight, taste, touch, sound, smell, mind, emotions, ego, etc. are all contents appearing within consciousness. Consciousness is aware of an infinite field of distinctions, all of which may be identified or dis-identified with. Both of these perspectives being equally valid and invalid. But even to say this is too much, because all that really is going on is Being. The unified field of phenomena and the empty nothing underlying their existential nature is the essence of Being. I am Being.
What “I” noticed while meditating was that regardless of whether the ego is accepting the present moment or not, Being is always accepting. This is critical to notice – Being is ALWAYS accepting whatever is. While ego may not be able to accept the potential pain and suffering reality can take on (war, rape, murder, torture, etc.), the true I is always accepting whatever arises. In this way, Being is in a constant, harmonious moment of Absolute Acceptance with itself. I am that Being. I am Absolute Acceptance. So even when it feels as though there is resistance to whatever is occurring within consciousness (suffering), this resistance is in fact an illusion; the True I is in total acceptance.
When we can tap into this total, Absolute Acceptance, and open our hearts to understanding the sacred nature of all moments (really one moment), the infinity of form that consciousness takes, then we can understand what Absolute Love really is – a form of divine Acceptance and Being. You are infinite, and Absolute Love; no form can be denied, to deny any potential would be to limit Infinity, limit Acceptance, and limit Love. All pain, all suffering is being Accepted by virtue of the fact that it is Being. You accept all suffering. You love all suffering whether you’re conscious of it or not. It is a total mind fuck.
Key take away:
- Being (aka YOU) accepts all that is by nature of Being's very nature, and full acceptance equals love. You are Absolute Acceptance, you are Absolute Love, which is really Absolute Truth.
I look forward to exploring this insight further.
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Were we enlightened as children ?
Were we enlightened as children ?You were never a child. You just imagine so.
There are no people here, just you talking to yourself.
That is enlightenement.
You are not fucking real! Anything that assumes you are, is imaginary. Your entire life story is a hallucination. History itself is a hallucination.
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How can one intellectually understand no self but not be enlightened?
How can one intellectually understand no self but not be enlightened?I here is a thought.
You are assuming I is real. That's the key mistake.
You are not real!
You ARE the misunderstanding.
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Clitoris via Pillow
Clitoris via PillowI know a sexual hypnosis technique where a girl can visualize and experience the orgasm of a man.
You can orgasm without even physical stimulation.
Sex is all about how you use your mind.
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How 1 + 1 = 2 is not absolute ?
How 1 + 1 = 2 is not absolute ?And concept is being
Zero of course is also a concept, but if zero is the only thing there is, zero is one. And if zero is one, then there is now a distinction between zero and one, which means there is two. And three. And four. And so on to infinity.
Ta-da!
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Leo what are the qualities required to become a successful playboy
Leo what are the qualities required to become a successful playboyGo out the club 3-5 nights per week, every week, for several years.
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Leo How To Surrender All My Personal Needs?
Leo How To Surrender All My Personal Needs?Do all the practices diligently and slowly you will transcend various personal needs.
Or you can also exhaust them to death. Like, go have so much sex you get sick of it. Or go earn so much money that you stop caring about money.
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Love reflecting love analogy
Love reflecting love analogyIt tends to work both ways. If you act in a loving manner at the 2nd order that helps move you to consciousness of the 1st order. And consciousness of the 1st order helps with acting more lovingly at the 2nd order.
Which is why in all serious mystical schools they emphasize right action and compassion alongside meditation.
But you can only go so far without consciousness of the 1st order. That is what most people are missing most. Compassion and action cannot ever substitute for lack of consciousness.
So the practical answer to your question is: become conscious of 1st order Love. Then you will know how to act. It's not possible to fake being unconditionally loving. It will only happen as a result of awakening.
The same analogy can be used for relative vs absolute truth.
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Why does sight stop when eyes close and sound stop when ears covered?
Why does sight stop when eyes close and sound stop when ears covered?Think of how an FPS video game works.
There is actually no separation between the player and the world. The entire scene is rendered in one seamless frame. The player is enmeshed in the world.
In fact, there really isn't a player. There is only the world, shaped in such a way that the illusion of a player is created (arms, feet, nose, blood, etc.). But all of that is really just part of the world.
Your life is no different than an FPS game, with no one behind the screen.
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Questions About Love? - Ask Here
Questions About Love? - Ask HereFear and deep habits of self-judgment.
Social survival is deeply wired into your mind.
More, deeper awakenings are required and some serious, industrial-grade spiritual practices like meditation/yoga/concentration.
Psychedelics will not rewire decades of bad mind habits. That requires daily practices over years.
Emotional mastery is the hardest part of this work. It's much harder than a few awakenings and psychedelics alone will not be enough for that.
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Overwhelmed with Bliss
Overwhelmed with BlissObserve yourself chasing positive states and notice how this subtle duality and attachment creates suffering.
Expecting constant bliss precludes true peacefulness since when your bliss dips you start to complain, "Where did my bliss go? How can I get it back?" Which is the very root of unhappiness: trying to escape the present moment.
It's okay to chase bliss. Just observe this dynamic closely so that you become more and more aware that it cannot ultimately work. Through lots of observation of this clinging you will slowly aikido your clinging into surrender.
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What Are The Best Ways To Increase Your Social Skills ?
What Are The Best Ways To Increase Your Social Skills ?@Shin Here are some ideas:
Improv class Toastmasters Pickup Go to mall on weekends, chat up all the department store clerks Meetup.com Online dating Sports Join a commune or ashram Music festivals, Burning Man, etc. I suggest Improv class. It's fun!
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Ranking Self Help Theorys!
Ranking Self Help Theorys!That's not going to work because techniques are designed to address different problems for different people.
You have to tailor them to fit your needs. Everyone has different needs at different times in their life.
Pickup might be useless to one person, but life-saving to another. Etc.
You should take an experimenter's approach, where you play around with different methods and theories and stick with the ones that resonate with you.
This field is much more broad and complex than the mind initially expects. There are hundreds of highly useful theories and techniques. Like a good handyman, your toolbox will have hundreds of tools, not just 2 or 3.
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I just got banned from a pickup forum
I just got banned from a pickup forumWhen I was serious about it, I was doing 20 approaches per night.
The most I did was 700 approaches in one month.
It took me 450 approaches to get my first girl.
Of course it's not just about quantity. Quality of approach matters A LOT. But for newbies, sheer quantity is needed to build up the quality, cause a newbie doesn't know what quality means yet.
The whoke key to pickup is you gotta find a place where you can quickly make 20 approaches per night/day. And you can only do that in very specific areas, like a big nightclub, or downtown area, or giant shopping mall, or busy beach.
Best places are:
NYC LA Venice Beach Santa Monica Miami Austin Vegas London Etc.
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Night out report
Night out reportClassic newbie mistake.
Your own mind will trick you like that and get you to believe that having fun with your friend is accomplishing something. It isn't. Fun is fun. But it's not enough to get you the skill set you want.
You must force yourself to approach 10-20 sets each night. No excuses. It's best to start approaching immediately upon walking into the club. The first girl you see, you approach.
Which is why when you get a bit more experience and comfort, you should hit the clubs solo. Solo you can really do some damage in the club. Hanging to your friends too tightly will not allow you to get laid. You must be ready to break off from your friend to approach girls, and bounce them to new locations. It is not enough to just approach a girl and stand with her in the same spot the entire night. Once she's attracted to you, you've got to bounce her as much as possible around the place and then outside the place to other places and ultimately to your apartment. Pickup does not work without leading and bouncing.
Solo is highly efficient. But it's emotionally hard, because when you're out of set you feel very alone.
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Consciousness Work V.s. Life Purpose (on The Distraction Video)
Consciousness Work V.s. Life Purpose (on The Distraction Video)@Anakin Your life is long enough to do both. Shoot for both, although not necessarily at the same time.
If you are ready for serious self-inquiry, start doing it.
If not, work on your life purpose. That process will set the stage for eventually getting into self-inquiry.
It's individualized in the sense that you might be at a different stage in Maslow's Hierarchy, simply unable to motivate yourself to do serious consciousness work. Just don't make a limiting belief out of what I'm saying. See my vid about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs where this issue is discussed in some length.
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Feel Lost And Empty
Feel Lost And Empty@RossE Life is exciting as fuck. There's too much to do an not enough lifetimes to do it all!
What is the point of all your development and spirituality if you're not becoming more conscious of the awesomeness of life?
Yes it's meaningless in the end, but you already knew you would die since you were a kid and that didn't stop you from living. So just pick a mission for yourself and get to work on it. The point is to DESIGN your life any way you want! Go be a skydiver or pornstar or whatever. Life is the ultimate sandbox MMORPG. Why do you need some sort of externally enforced meaning? Create your own! Be a creator! Be an artist.
The problem is that you haven't designed your life purpose.
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Best psychedelic for improving the mind - (pls don't say that's an oxymoron)
Best psychedelic for improving the mind - (pls don't say that's an oxymoron)I nearly posted this topic in the "Meditation, Consciousness..." forum which would have invited much disbelief and comments like 'why enhance something that is an illusion, unreal or that needs to die'.
Some reports on psychedelics speak of them rewiring the brain, or activating all parts in tandem.
It would be great to hear more on this topic. Particularly from anyone who felt that their thinking abilities were enhanced so that they could be more creative or become better thinkers generally. Could psychedelics improve memory, for example, because that factor alone would enhance thinking?
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2 Types Of Life Purposes
2 Types Of Life Purposes@How to be wise Not really.
Life purpose is about finding the kind of impact you want to make and your domain of mastery.
A big mistake is to think of life purpose as a single narrow project, like: building a wormhole.
That's way too narrow.
Nothing wrong with wanting to build a wormhole, but the fact is, you're putting the cart before the horse. You have no idea right now what is and isn't possible within your domain of mastery. Nor should you.
What you're really interested in there is physics, or whatever.
So isolate the essence of what about building a wormhole appeals to you so much.
And then you'll see that not only can you pursue stuff like building wormholes, but also perhaps even better things which you can't even imagine yet.
Why are you passionate about building a wormhole?
Hint: the answer has nothing to do with wormholes.
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Life Purpose - To Get To The Top Of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs?
Life Purpose - To Get To The Top Of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs?Everyone's prime directive is to be raising the quality of their consciousness. That's what human life is about.
The life purpose, as talked about in the course, is about how do you want to contribute to humanity? What do you want your life's work to be?
Personal development is something you'll be doing anyway. The question you should be asking yourself is what kind of career will be aligned with your deepest values?
Otherwise you'll be stuck working at Starbucks your whole life.
If you love personal development or consciousness work, then that probably means your career should be somehow related to that. But now you gotta think through the details. Plan it out. What value can you offer the world?
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Online Marketing, Ethics And Life Purpose
Online Marketing, Ethics And Life Purpose@cle103 Anything could be the starting point for a deeper purpose. You could be a thief or rapist, and that could be the starting point for your purpose. Life works in twisted ways.
This process requires that you search your heart and contemplate. Use your intuition, foresight, and consciousness.