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I am not dismissing it without understanding. I understand what you are saying because I have been there. Concepts are helpful in the beginning, but as you go further in this journey, it is an inevitable process that the concepts would have to be dropped, in fact for a lot of people (including myself), it would even happen naturally. To clarify this further, I take big breaks from the forum, and from time to time do check in out of interest. Once you have a big enough of awakening, you will understand what I am saying but not just on a mental level that you are doing now. My suggestion would be to add more sub-categories to this forum, like a beginner's section, intermediate and advanced.

The next step is to drop the concepts all together, too much conceptualization is a huge problem on this forum, and the fact that the owner + mods are contributing to it, isn't helping it. I been saying this for years, and things don't seem to change.

How about dropping those mental concepts? What is the point of continuing to talk about the "ultimate absolute level", "absolute", "relative", etc? And you still didn't get my point or what I meant by "ego" here. You can replace the word "soul" with "human", and it still still be ego - as long as person makes an identity out of it (majority do).

Ego = identification with mind, an illusion of separate self. Soul becomes another identity that the mind attaches itself to. To majority of people in this world, a soul implies a separate self, it is one of many things they identify as. This is one of the reasons why Buddha rejected the concept of the soul.

@Leo Gura Why not be more straight forward about it? When people refer to "individual soul", they refer to their ego, it's that simple. In other words, because there is no self, there is also no individual soul.

You are very naive to think that interfering in elections is something new. US has been doing for many years, yet when someone interferes into their's, they call foul and play the victim? This is the reason why majority of the world doesn't like US and Americans wonder why lol

There is another way of looking at it. Why was she "passive aggressive"? Did the husband change and became a different man that he was? Quite possibly he was a leader and on his purpose in the beginning, then lost it - and after a lot of "testing", she gave up. They also had a mismatch of roles - he took on the traditional role of a mother - who normally would be raising the kids and doing the housework. To me, this is a sign of failed leadership on a man, and having lost touch with his woman.

I am surprised that one of you get the simple truth here: The so called "nice" guys, are not actually nice. They engage in a "nice" behavior out of neediness - they do it as a way to manipulate them into getting what they want from women. In other words, they are not being congruent, grounded, or real. Women see right through it and it turns them off. The reason why they are attracted to so called "bad boys" is not because they are "bad", but because they have the qualities that they desire (congruent, authentic, grounded, etc). There is no need to be "nice", period. This does not mean that you have to be an asshole, or a mean person.

I miss typed the word, I meant to write scale LOL. @LfcCharlie4 And so what if that book is on Leo's book list? What makes you blindly believe it's a good book just because Leo has recommended it? I have gone through that phase, so in short - yes it is silly and stupid to compare LOC on a scale level, what's even more silly is author(s) of that book assigning so called "masters" different LOC. If you want the truth, you will drop the ego games, and comparison - you will also eventually have to drop the seeking. When you reach this stage, one day you will remember what I said (I don't expect you to understand this now).

Comparing LOC on a sale? Are you guys nuts? Why is this thread not locked? This is beyond stupid and silly, I would have never thought this content would pop on this forum, you guys should know better.

I been saying this for the past few years and will say it again: Leo is trapped in chasing insights, intellectually trying to understand "reality". He thinks that he is getting deeper and deeper - while he is actually not getting anywhere, it's an illusion and a trap of the ego identity that he created for himself. In other words, he has a blind spot which would be very hard to see and to admit - it would mean that he wasted a lot of time and would invalidate a lot of his teachings. When he booted Winterknight from the forum, he called his approach too "simplistic" and "reductionistic" - which is not surprising to see and where imo Leo is clearly wrong. As many have noted, an actual "awake" teacher would not have booted another teacher like that - but at least his opened many people's eyes who have previously have not seen these things.

You missed the point of my post. You can say everything is "relative", but there is still a difference when it comes to practical purposes of your life. In this dream so to speak - there is still a difference between your dog and the ideas that I mentioned above. I still see that so many of you are still mentally masturbating too much.

Are you going to say that the idea of demons and angels is also just a relative construction? What about Jesus being the savior that actually died for your sins? The list can go on. There is a big difference between waking up and seeing the your dog which is the other, and actual BS that is pure delusion (relatively to this dream)

You are right, and thus most "mediums" are thus caught up in the illusion of self and other. People that are more conscious don't bother to get involved in that stuff.

That's exactly what the addict to porn would say. There is no such thing as "high consciousness porn"

I couldn't agree more

Two hours talking to her platonically and not being sexual is a lot of wasted time. No, it's not because of her past, it's because of YOU - this is the hard truth. Instead of using excuses, actually start working on yourself.

Doing nofap and semen retention is one of the best decisions that a man will make in his life. Of course this is a threat to the porn industry. Porn industry is built on devilry and the unconsciousness of the masses. LEO should really make an episode on nofap, semen retention, porn industry, etc. It's so crazy for me to see so many self-actualizers on here being so ignorant on this subject.

There is nothing healthy about porn. Watching porn is like eating at Mcdonalds. Quit porn cold turkey and get on to semen retention.

You are not being sexual at all. In fact, you are wasting a lot of time on useless chatter that usually just friends do. You are also unable to read the non-verbal communication. You probably got friend zoned. If your goal is to just have sex, there is no need to waste this much time. You also over invested into her emotionally/mentally - you consider her far more important than she actually is to you.

It doesn't matter weather he is a "learned" alpha or not - at the end of the day he is alpha. My point, is that your definitions are clearly outdated, and this may mislead people on here.

No, his description of "alpha" is not accurate smh. You can find many examples of alpha with "high consciousness" and "low consciousness", and same for betas. Being alpha doesn't mean being a prick/asshole, etc. To me, being alpha means being a leader, being on your purpose, being grounded, having the ability to respond in any given situation, etc. In this day and age, there are different solutions available if your testosterone is very low. TRT is one of them and works very well. To me, LEO is actually an alpha. He is nowhere close to a beta. How did you even become a mod here?

Read the book "no more mr nice guy", and it will all be clear. In short, you are not being sexual enough within your interactions. If you don't want women to see you as a friend, but as a potential mate, work on becoming a dominant, and sexual man.

You are full of shit, and I can't believe even mods fell for your garbage. How can you say that something doesn't work, when you haven't tried it? I have personally tried both, fapping and semen retention, and I can tell you that the benefits that the people are talking about are REAL. Yes I tested it and verified it for myself more than once, and I am currently on semen retention. No, I don't count the days or do any of that silly stuff, it became part of my lifestyle. No, I didn't start doing it because of "depression". And no, deep inner work and semen retention are not mutually exclusive, in FACT they go hand in hand. The more consciousness work that I have done, the more the semen retention made sense. This is a great Youtube channel that explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DZ17jMfpKmi7xtaipPIvA/videos Taoists actually know what they talking about and there is a reason why even monks go celibate. LEO imo really needs to do a video on semen retention. It doesn't solve all of your "problems", but it helps so much.

I totally agree with you - it's a belief that they created for themselves. It has nothing to do with reality. It's their ego that thinks that it's doing something and getting somewhere by staying away from sex