Extreme Z7

Oh Shit, you're right! For example, whenever I play a video game and my avatar can't walk through a wall, that means that wall must be REAL! This changes everything!

It was a joke, dude. Not meant to be taken as serious advice. That should have been obvious with the exaggeration about Leo's videos being mostly composed of his face. (It also includes his neck, shirt, and black background.) All kidding aside, I actually love Leo's way of presenting his videos the way they are. No nonsense visuals or audio, just pure direct relay of information.

'Course there's the glaring aspect that you make 45 to 90 minutes videos (composed mainly of your face) and they make 15 to 30 minute videos of fun, colorful, and titillating stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that, or your face.

@Sagatarius Does it matter? If you're meditating seriously, that's all that counts.

@Sagatarius Paranormal Phenomena through meditation is incredibly advanced. Most experienced masters who have experienced paranormal phenomena or achieved supernatural abilities don't even want to talk about it from fear of being misunderstood or scaring off the ignorant masses. If you're just starting out with meditation, don't even bother with thinking about paranormal phenomenon. It'll just be a distraction.

I just said I wasn't getting rid of it.

I don't live in a cave but I barely talk to anyone anyway. Don't even use social media at all. I did fail to mention that I like to read books and comics on my smartphone but beyond that, it's useless. It's not causing me much suffering at the moment though, so I don't really have much reason to get rid of it. Besides, I may need to text occasionally.

Nobody needs smartphones nowadays. I only use my smartphone as a meditation timer and music player. I could easily replace it with a small timer and a Walkman.

@Leo Gura Don't forget New Age hippie

@Leo Gura You like dance music?

Ever heard of Temple Gradin? Autistic woman. Successfully got a PhD in Animal Sciences and accomplished her life purpose of inventing humane animal chutes. She might be an outlier, sure. But it shows possibility.

Yep. . .

What's stopping you from just saying "Yep. . ."?

I drew this for Halloween this year.

Nice summary vid. Junk ideological channel. They twist the facts in the end in order to push their theistic agenda. It doesn't matter if your premises are correct if you still pull some mental gymnastics to try to confirm your pre-existing beliefs.

@Fuse I'm about your age (20). Got bad addictions too. Less relating with feelings of inadequacy and more to do with dealing with work stress. I hope walking aimlessly about everyday will help you. I like to do it myself too, not as a habit, I just like to do it every now and again because why not? Maybe you could try to adopt that mindset too. Don't walk because you want to feel better, just walk for no reason. Let things flow.

Before Enlightenment: Chop Wood, Carry Water After Enlightenment: Chop Wood. . wait. . . why the hell are you chopping wood and carrying water? Go get a real job, dickhead.

You're already dead. The distinction between death and life is illusory. The aging process is something different, though. It depends, I guess, on what you want your life to be like. There's no reason why you should go through the process of aging. But then again, there's no reason why you should not got through the aging process either. Probably shouldn't get too caught up in this whole stopping aging trend, though. We should focus on contemplating our life and our death first and foremost.

Critical Thinking is more focused and directed towards a specific decision. Contemplation is more aimless and free. You don't know what to expect from it.

Dark Night involves more hopelessness in my opinion. Most depression is usually caused by deep but temporary strong negative emotions. The majority of people who get out of depression do so because they either tried to commit suicide but failed or they didn't take action at all. It's interesting how gun control can reduce the number of suicides simply because choosing a gun to kill yourself has a higher success rate than other methods.

Basically a summary of Nietzsche's concepts of 'The Last Man' and 'The Superman'. It's quite something.

I've been making satire comics recently And some other stuff

Silence

That's really good. Just making sure 'cause I had no way of figuring out whether you we're just using foreign languages as filler for your life or had an actual purpose for it. You could do with a more ambitious life goal, though. You'll be dead someday, ain't much room to be fuckin' about without a truly profound Mission Statement.

So much done on the exterior, the interior is ignored. Actually, you do seem to have some work done on yourself, it's just that it's mostly peanuts. Why are studying foreign languages daily anyway? Do you actually have a really big ambitious goal with learning those skills? Or is it just a hobby of yours? If it's the latter, then it's probably a distraction. I mean, what are you after in life, really? Just living the life you have now or are you pursuing a Life Purspose or Enlightenment? Meditation don't mean jack if you ain't using it to pursue enlightenment or to better your existential pondering skills.