Extreme Z7

Even though isolated contemplation is the more effective and more emotionally difficult option, doing both is probably the better option. Neither will hinder personal growth because the only hindrance to that is closed-mindedness and distraction. But don't forget all the hundreds of other ways to broaden your horizons on life.

@harisankartj Pretty sloppy wording there but I do mostly agree with you. But I still have a lot of unanswered questions.

I don't know, but I always assume that there is more

People want more for themselves because we all secretly seek becoming infinite and accumulation is just a phenomenon of that. The problem is is that ego, by definition, is severely limited and so it must continue to acquire in order to run away from the fact that it is infinitely far away from being infinite.

@Simon Håkansson Mindfulness/Meditation work is really what you need to solve this problem, dude. With enough mindfulness, you eventually become aware of the reality that winning or losing games does not matter at all. This doesn't mean you stop playing games though, I know I still do. But you start to get less emotionally attached to anything going on in these games.

@2000 Just try to be aware whenever you're getting lost off track and over time, your mind will not get lost off track so easily and for much less time.

I know. . . I know. . . I'm sharing sort of. . . click-baitey content here that you're likely much better off not watching. But I couldn't resist sharing another ideological nutjob with his own pet theory to how mystical traditions arise. Feel free to ignore this video if you have much better things to do with your time.

This is some really amazing shit, brah. . . http://tommynikon.photoshelter.com/gallery/Them/G0000wFa8xMPT8hw/0

Hehe, it's like you're turning into Robert Greene. . . or trying to compete with him. Something like that.

Isn't that somewhat tangentially similar to how the AI enslaved the humans in the movie "The Matrix"? I don't know, just an observation.

@Leo Gura Oh man, I can't believe I haven't asked this question yet. . . Anyway. . . uh. . Any thoughts on your book project you mentioned in your Why Rationality is Wrong video that you may or may not have been working on?

It's funny how it's an educational talk on "Bla Bla", literally.

I can relate. Even before I learned of psychedelics from you, I already had little playful ideas in my mind involving psychedelics (and rainbows too, for some reason). Now that I do know about it, my imagination is still pretty much the same but I am yet to actually take psychedelics for myself. Maybe I'll do a little "Before and After Psychedelics" comparison with my art to show the results when it happens.

I think you got a typo there. You probably meant "with a sense of hollowness and lack of fulfillment".

I got an article from a newsletter in my inbox today about a form of meditation I've never heard of before, Trataka meditation. It's meditation that focuses on calming the mind through the means of calming the eyes. It's pretty cool. Check it out.

I'm still a new recruit. But I'm interested. . .

@Arman @Anna Konstantaki Thanks, I guess. . . .

<01-13-2017> Turned 20 Today It's my birthday today. I know it's not a personal development topic so . . moving on, business as usual. I've been encountering the term 'illusion' a lot in the personal development content I've consumed today. I read it in some of Leo's posts today and also in this Sadhguru video. I've also been studying a lot of the board games that my parents have bought but barely played out of curiosity and found myself connecting the illusory nature of the games with my own so called "real life". And of course, I did another 1 hour self-inquiry/self-observation session and the term 'illusion' kept coming up in my mind. Maybe reality really is trying to tell me that it's not reality at all, it's all illusion. Business as usual. . . thanks for reading. . . see you tomorrow.

<01-12-2017> Using Pre-Mortem To Help Me Graduate I'm getting really close to something I've been waiting for for a very long time, graduating out of college. I'm not really that excited about graduating on its own, I'm just tired of all these college work that has been holding me back from working on myself and my life purpose for several months now. I decided to sit and do a pre-mortem on the remaining work I need to get done before I graduate. It's not too difficult but there is still chance of me messing up if I'm not careful. Also, I finished reading 'The Law of One' Book 1 today. I plan to start reading other stuff now and leave the remaining four books for another time.

I personally find it slightly depressing that we're happy that Leo's content is free when he provides the kind of content that should just be a part of school and mainstream culture in the first place. But I suppose we should just be happy that we've been extremely lucky to find one of the rare water sources that aren't contaminated instead of thinking of the fact the majority of the population is drinking dirty water. Should we?

I'd personally refrain from calling Tai Lopez's business a scam although I myself don't find his content very useful. I believe that his business is genuine and that his intentions are genuine but in the end he's a (relatively) shallow guru with some relatively shallow content. Even just the average kid who likes to make self-help material for a hobby does a better job at giving valuable information than Tai. Case in point, this guy's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUizzYFAqgwZxuHnEfNWHFA/videos

@Leo Gura How about if I define perception as "having content in direct experience"?

@Leo Gura Would simply not perceiving an entity be the same as it reverting to a state of nothingness? You know, the classic "if a tree falls and nobody hears it, does it even exist"?

@Mattylonglegs I don't walk around. I just stretch my legs while still sitting down on the bed.