Cody_Atzori

Like seriously, they can't be more evolved than an orange, right? But it doesn't seem right to put them at blue or below. Does anyone have an idea? Like where do ideological flat-earthers and conspiracy theorists fit on the spiral? And btw I have no resentment for flat-earthers I just don't know where they would fit on the spiral. In fact, my mom used to be a flat-earther, and I never hated my mom for it.

Would I delude myself if i kept affirming ‘I don’t exist’ as an enlightenment practice. Would I just be deceiving myself, or would it actually work?

I have a more practical and foundational question. After you learn a skill how often do you need to exercise that skill in order to maintain it? Or is the exercising unnecessary? Can I learn a skill then come back to it in like a year and still have it?

Leo should do a video. I feel like it's been one of the most difficult things to deal with on the self-actualizing journey

Is laughter/funniness an absolute? Or is it a separate thing/skill/idea? Or is the effect of the absolute is having a better sense of humor? Or is funniness/humor a label that the ego created & nothing is actually funny?

I’m a newbie to enlightenment and meditation and over the past few days Iv’e been using the Neti Neti. And now Iv’e associated myself with this constant awareness. However, isn’t awareness caused by brain, which means that I’m the brain, right? I feel that my biggest obstacle is my constant association with the brain. I mean everytime I self-inquire, I associate the brain as a thought or feeling but the fact that I have a brain and it feels like it’s the only constant Iv’e had from birth and if my brain is destroyed then I die. My brain controls my body, my brain experiences life, my brain is the centre of all experience, my brain is me, right? I’m so confused and I need help! On a similar note, wouldn’t my body be apart of me not a separate experience from me. In other words, my legs are apart of me because I can control them.

I'm 15 and from watching Leo's videos on high school advice and how to shop for healthy food. It seems like wheat is a no no, however trying to stop eating wheat when lots of my family meals are either pasta or sandwhiches, etc is difficult. They'll either call me anorexic or say I'm already healthy as I am. I'm annoyed because I don't know how to justify to them or myself why wheat is bad. Even my scientific brother disagrees with me, saying that white bread is unhealthy but wholewheat is healthy and cutting out carbs is a bad idea for my age. If I'm only taking Leo's word on faith, it isn't good enough. I need a good reason to say why I'm not eating wheat, because I'm skeptical myself if wholewheat is actually healthy and I'm good enough with my vegan diet, but I'm on the fence. My family are vegetarians, so being vegan is acceptable but cutting wheat out is unacceptable to them. What's my excuse for not eating wheat? Should I still be eating wheat, or certain types of wheat? What other carbohydrates is replaceable?

I usually wake up, meditate for an hour and self-Inquiry for another hour. But, is it possible to replace it with it with an hour of looking at my hand. Is it better? I don't have much time to include both, so it's either one or the other. Maybe I can look at my palm whilst self-inquiring, but I feel it gets confusing to switch between the two. What are your suggestions?

I’m a beginner to self-inquiry and for the last week I’ve been having a problem not associating myself with my body. My mind justifies it as if I’m not the body how come I expereince everything from the perspective of my body. If the ‘I’ has no location how do I experience everything from the perspective of the body. If the body is just a thought or a feeling, wouldn’t that be the brain/body going meta and just thinking about itself or experiencing the sensation of iself. Additionally, if the body is just a visual experience and can’t be me because it changes, shouldn't that be pruicley who I am, a forever evolving human being. I'm not trying to seem closed minded, but my mind is lost in the idea that I'm the body. Can someone please give advice on how I can transcend my assumption that I am the body, Or try to refute my justifications?

We must make this distinction that the type of happiness you’re after is eudaimonic and not hedonic. If you’re unsure what I’m referring to watch Leo’s video on the happiness spectrum https://youtu.be/pxyJiN4Z2Ds

Everytime I try to do holotropic/shamanic breathwork, I allways happen to resist the sensations in my body and get extremely scared. My mind is shitting itself everyone I start doing it. Do you have any tips to get my body/mind ready, or how I can get through it easier without my thoughts going crazy?

Just a question to ponder. Can animals become enlightened or fundamentally can't because their in stage beige? Perhaps some are, as they're alone their whole life and are more connected to reality without models, indoctrination or contextualisation. Or perhaps they can't fathom any significance of reality at all as they are too focused on their base need of survival. Leave a reply, I'd like to read your ideas

What nutrition books are recommended? (Something begginer since I'm 15 and probably won't understand all the academic, dietic jargon)

As an avid chess player myself, I've noticed Leo uses lots of chess references from his older to newer videos. I'm just curious to see if Leo did play and has no time for it now or just knows the chess references from playing casually, or is a the first enlightened grandmaster! Also if you do play Leo, we should have a game lol.

@St Clair Yes. I highly recommend it, as its not just fun but a very engaging brain strengthener. like meditation, it helps build your brain to become more wiser and alert. I'm not saying this is a replacement, but if you are habitually meditating and playing chess you'll become much smarter and mentally skilled. This is because meditation trains your mind to cease control and become more aware while chess trains the mind about adaption and logical desicions making. Meaning you're calm from meditation and able to think coherently from your chess experience. Here's a list of the benefits it's given me - Better memory - Better at visualisation -Better at making descsions -Better at mathematics -More skeptical of what others tell me -Think more independently and critically When you're able to calculate and visulaise moves on a chessboard, it helps you calculate and visulaise your desicions in real life and all its advantages and weaknesses. It's interesting because life can be analogized as a chess game. A battle against your higher and lower self. With every move being a habit, goal or experience you acheive. Your lower self will plant obstacles and traps in order to fuel it's low conscious desires and you need to calculate 10 moves ahead to see that if you go down this route you'll have waisted 10 years of tail chasing. So you need to be cognizant and skeptical. Taking the opponent's rook is like getting rid of a core limiting beleif. If your opening is weak, you'll need to recover in the middle game. Like If you waisted time in high school and collage, you're contrite will be in control and you'll need to be more tactical and offensive. There's no harm in chess unless you're literally playing and thinking about it all day. That's only feeding your autistic mind, which will become a neurotic addiction.

@Leo Gura thx for replying, youv'e cleared some confusion