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So basically there is this OSHO meditation centre nearby. I have been wanting to go there for quite a long time, but couldn't find the time or courage to knock on their door. I am pretty young after all. I already meditate for 30 mins a day. My question is: If I went to that OSHO meditation centre, would meditating there count as having completed my meditation session for the rest of the day? So that I don't need to meditate again in my home?

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30-01-19 I will be going to Austria with school in a few weeks. We will be doing all kinds of sports there. I am planning to do some alone stuff outside, if I am allowed. Maybe trying some Wim Hof techniques. I have gotten many insights recently. During meditation most of the time. I also just recently watched the video about contemplation and am planning to start a habit of doing it everyday. I re-heard the ''How To Shop For Healthy Food'' because I am planning to change my diet. I say 're-heard' because I listened to the episode on Podcast, even though I have watched it on YouTube before. I might visit that Osho meditation centre this Saturday. I had a chance to go last week, but I just couldn't. I got stuck with time and decided not to go. I realized that the mind is some kind of energy flow. Going through our heads. All the time. We can't stop it, but observing here is the key. I only actualized this recently. Take care.

Hello everyone. I think this problem occurs because of my mostly Blue youth. Now although I am technically still a child, I left those old Blue ways mostly behind me. To understand this, you need some background information first. I was raised up as a sunni/shia muslim (my mom is sunni, my dad is shia). Although both parts of Islam have differences, both also think that women are inferior to men. When I first heard about how this happens in Islam, I thought it was nonsense. I was 100% convinced that in Islam women are equal to men. Turns out... that could be true. I think if Islamic people would just modernize, they would see that all the Quran wanted was its believers to modernize and become more conscious all along. However, the believers resist it. Both in culture and in personal lives. I was grown up with the idea that women need to fully censor themselves because we men can be seduced too easily by them, that a woman's body is holy and that any non-believer who decides to show a bit of their body is probably a slut. I am not trying to start a discussion about whether or not the Islamic ways are the true ways. I just want this condition out of my head. It gets really had sometimes to see other women as actual people and treat them that way. I know they deserve it and I know that they are humans. It just can get really hard and I wonder how it can stop. Take care.

@Wyze Not a specific event, but the first time I was introduced to salafists in the Middle-East. I started doing some research, see how people live in ISIL territories and trying to make a plan to maybe fix it. However, more and more I saw of ISIL, more and more I couldn't stop but thinking that they were living the right way. The way Islam was meant to be. With Shariah and all. It is only because of this forum that I got out of that mindset. I discovered sufism, but haven't gotten a chance to read a book about it. When introduced to Spiral Dynamics, I could really have a good view of the situation in the Middle-East. I started doing some more research about ISIL and just observed. I have gained a lot of knowledge because of that. However, these subconscious beliefs still withold sometimes. For example: the belief that women are inferior to men.

Hello everyone. Recently I started diving more into this guy. He is from my country. If I ever got the chance to meet him, I am sure we would have a nice chat. When I looked up some stuff about him, I learnt a few things: - It turns out that the guy wrote a book about how you can become an ''iceman'' - He meditates, although I will admit that I forgot what type of meditation he does - The guy is incredibly focussed on energy within and love - He can play guitar really well OK this is all fun and stuff, but the guy is also in the example list of stage Turquoise along with people like Osho and Ramaji. So how conscious, enlightened, awakened and/or spiritual is he exactly? Does anyone know this? I am considering to buy his book and actually do his breathing methods, but I don't know if it would be safe to that while I still am very young.

Hello everyone. Today I went to the library to just look around and I recognized many different authors. Osho, Sadhguru, Freud and Nisargadatta Maharaj just to name a few. Of course I know most of what these people are about. Besides Freud, I still don't clearly know what that guy was about. Among all those authors and more, I discovered Joseph Campbell. I looked up the guy in this forum and apparently he is (technically was) stage Yellow. When I looked him up on the internet, I saw that the guy has a lot of experience with mythology. That is why I am posting this post. Would it be good for me to know at a young age what Joseph Campbell was talking about? Can I learn some practical stuff from him? Take care.

I struggled with loneliness throughout most of my life... and I am not that old or anything. What Leo teaches is how it can let us gain muscles in this field. His field. The field he teaches to us. He helped me to some degree with my loneliness. Watching those TED talks about loneliness made me feel even more horrible, so thanks Leo. He even said that he struggled with it too and that it is just a thing you have to fully experience. To its potential. Any suffering can help you, if you see how. I am currently reading ''The Anatomy of Lonelines'' by Teal Swan. There are many good practices in that book. I found that Teal mostly wants us to really understand the issue. See the roots of it. Of course, Leo taught this same thing. Just in a different way you see. He taught it in the sense of: ''feel it fully''. Because when you feel an emotion fully, it is only then that you shine light on it. Therefore seeing it dissolve. Seeing is the keyword here. Now Teal isn't fully wrong. Loneliness is an epidemic. Never have we ever felt so seperated in the world, even though we have gotten so many different ways to communicate to strangers/friends online. Explaining the ordinary human how they can grow with loneliness is like shooting a bullet in their stomach and asking them to feel it. Only people who are more aware understand what Leo means with that. Both sides have truths.

Hello everyone. I only recently started making changes to my diet and this popped up in my head. What about fish? Leo talks a lot about how you should eat a lot of veggies and when I asked for advice here, people told me that I shouldn't eat meat too much. But what about fish? In my biology class I learnt that fish is very healthy and that I should eat it twice a week. Now I call bullshit. In that same biology class I learnt how one should eat enough bread. Considering the perspective everyone on this forum has on bread, I don't think that is great advice to follow. Of course then the question is whether I should trust whatever stuff my government has put in our education system or an online forum. So, back to the main topic of this post. How healthy is fish for me, a teen? Should I eat it twice a week like my biology book adviced me to?

@bejapuskas No because an enlightened being doesn’t always have a full understanding of other aspects in life (such as nutrition)

@Michael569 Thanks for the advice. How much a week would you think is healthy to eat fish? Like once a week or maybe two times a week?

22-01-2019 Hello everyone. Recently I have participated in a guided meditation where I opened my chakras. Now I am not saying that they all opened, I think I need more focus for that, but I am sure that at least a few have opened. During the proces, I felt so comfortable. I felt so whole. Haha, sorry if I don't sound rational enough. I really liked the meditation. I have experienced non-duality during self-inquiry once before and today almost again. It is interesting how as soon as you realize, you are one. The realization alone is enough to make change. Maybe that could be how one's life changes. A simpler realization. Easy to attain, but the effect it has is incredible. Of course, as I have discovered earlier, thoughts also have big impact on our lives. Maybe a realization and a thought can be seen as equal. Or their powers are different. I decided that I won't make this journey too personal. Insights and books only! Take care.

Hello everyone. After having meditated for a few months, I decided to particapte in a chakra opening guided meditation. Everytime I needed to focus on one chakra and repeat a mantra, I really felt it. I could feel it. I am sure that at least some chakras have opened. The thing is though... is this all there is? Or are you supposed to do this every week or something?

Hello everyone. I know this might sound silly, but let me explain my situation. The last few days I can't read longer than half a hour. It used to be 1-2 hours each session. I feel very guilty for not being able to read. I tried forcing myself, but my mind keeps telling me: ''OK after this page I can stop right?'' Which results in me looking at the clock after having read a page. This problem occured when I started to read ''The Power of Now'' by Eckhart Tolle. I don't blame Eckhart for this, but getting through a small book like that was harder than it seems. Currently I am reading ''The Anatomy of Loneliness'' by Teal Swan and I am facing the same problem. Any advice? My personal guess: My ego doesn't want to face the truth that lays in those books, so it wants to keep me away from them at all costs. I mean I learnt a lot from Eckhart's book. Unfortunately it took longer than needed.

@Jkris I don’t have one

Hello everyone. I recently discovered that I love to reason obvious things randomly during the day. Like for example a hard choice I needed to make. I will reason it and rationalize it through the entire day. Sometimes it just randomly pops up after a few days. Any advice?

Hello everyone. Next week I have a test about America in the Roaring Twenties, the rise of fascism in Italy, the rise of stalinism in USSR and the rise of nazism in Germany (basically a test about the interbellum). Now I don't want to talk about all these things in particular, I am just wondering if I should look at these things from a SD perspective and how exactly I should do that. Is it even helpful to use SD when learning history in school? For some the answer might be obvious, but I am not sure. Leo, for example, said that all history you get taught in school is mostly not real and that you will recognize this if you fully study history. Of course he meant it in the context of ''details'', not like he meant that Hitler never lived or anything. If this is true and my history books contain a lot of lies, would it even be needed to use SD to look at them? And would it even be possible? When I try to put all the communists in the USSR in one stage, I mostly get lost. I mean Stalin was in a completely different stage than his fellow ''comrades''. The guy started industrialization by exploiting his citizens. If I use SD to look to these historical events, how would you recommend me to do it in a way so that I understand the historical events better? Use the Stalin situation as an example if you feel the need to. Take care.

Hello everyone. I got this, insight I think, yesterday during self-inquiry. As I was sitting there, doing the practice, I noticed how empty I am. How everything is so lost. Gone. Empty. I observed the observer, but the observer was of course a simple void. Endless. Then I opened my eyes and saw void all around me. Everywhere. It was so strange and I started to laugh. I laughed really hard. I felt so, one, with everything around me. The world was me and I was the world. We were one. I was a part of it, it was a part of me. We were one. The only seperation seemed to be my body. When I dived deeper into this, I couldn't get to anything. Any idea what I experienced?

@Leo Gura Wait, does this have to do with your ''The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures - Zen's Stages Of Enlightenment Explained'' video? Sorry I haven't been able to watch that one. I will inquire into this deeper. Thanks.

@CreamCat Do you even know what self-inquiry is?

At some degree this can really annoy me. For example when classmates come to me saying: "Hey man yesterday I had [insert negative situation], it was awful man!" Like dude... I don't care. Seriously I don't. No one does, including me. I mostly stopped sharing these kinds of things because I know how annoying it can be. Of course close friends and family are a different story, but even then I can still get annoyed by it. Why do people feel the need to share this stuff with me? Most people's life situations just aren't interesting for me. This also happens when I try to get into a girl. You know, trying to socialize with her and stuff. Before I know it, she shares stuff that I personally find really unnecessary to hear. Like what she ate yesterday or what happened when she went out with a friend of hers. I might sounds incredibly stupid, that is why I wanted to post this. I want to hear the different perspectives you guys have on this. Is it just that people are social beings, therefore they can annoy me like that with no problem?

Hello everyone. I am a very young guy compared to you guys, but I am kinda starting my own business. My friend, also young (and really good with computers), is learning me how to program/make a website. He is learning me literally everything. We call very often, share our screens and go to work. I have already planned out a lot of stuff that I want in my business. I made my own goal list because I thought it would be helpful for both my personal life and my business. However, I can already see that there are hidden traps in this. So far I have encountered these: Being too much in the future, making me unable to focus on the present (I have mostly dodged this bullet and knew that this was coming from the start) Not planning everything out Not having proper expectations Now I can already see new traps from a mile away, I just don’t see them clearly. Any advice?

16-01-2019 A week full of tests is waiting for me. I just finished studying. I have gotten many different insights from meditation and self-inquiry. Listening to Leo on ''Podcast'' (iOS) really helps me. Everytime I go to school, I turn on a downloaded audio file. I finally found a way to listen to Leo during the week! Although I will admit, because of school I haven't gotten much time to read. Or I am just too unmotivated. This Buddhist heart sutra is good stuff. I am currently listening to the self-deception series. After I have finished it I will listen to a podcast of Paul Chek. Porn addiction seems to kick back. I really need to watch Leo's video about that... In case you are wondering about my social life: It seems to be complete chaos. I have no clue what is going on and I am honestly fine with it. However, I do need to have experience with different types of girls (I mean being in a relationship with them).

@Nahm No I haven't.

Hello everyone. This is by far one of the biggest games my mind plays with me. Whenever I am meditating and make my head free of activity, all hidden layers of thought start to arise. It gets room and therefore fills it in with whatever it contains of. For example: A musical thought layer comes up and plays 3 songs at the same time. Now don’t get me wrong, when I just observe the thoughts they go away. But after a few second it keeps coming back. This can go on for the entire sessions (which is currently 30 min each day). Any advice? Take care.