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Hey guys, I just bought Mind Illuminated, for those of you who haven't heard of it, it's a book that teaches you meditation. I'm just curious if any one of you has read it, found it useful, and practiced the instructions it gives on meditation? I also think that it over-complicates it, but I want to hear your thoughts about it. Maybe just mastering Mindfulness with Labeling, as Leo teaches it, is sufficient and there is no need to overcomplicate meditation?

@Consilience @nistake Thanks for the feedback guys. Yeah, I also think that it will be worth my time to learn what this book tries to teach. Even if I change the technique in the future, the subtle distinctions that I think I'll learn with this will still be valuable I think.

Hey, I'm just curious about your ideas, where do you meet new and interesting people? I mean, one way of meeting new people is like cold approaching them somewhere. Outside of that, if you don't change jobs or if you aren't in university, basically it becomes much harder to get into new social circles. What are your ideas and possible solutions for this? I was thinking of going to the events where I would find like-minded people. Like meditation and yoga events, or holotropic breathing sessions for example, or stuff like that. Any ideas?

@StarStruck Yeah that's an idea Do you like dancing salsa or just doing that to meet hot girls.

@Matt23 Yeah, I haven't thought about that, thanks.

@Bando Oh yeah, becoming a teacher is a nice option, I became a teacher recently, but with a very limited amount of students, and that's why I didnt saw that as a medium for meeting lots of new people. New hobbies sounds interesting, if one finds workshop or seminar about it, yeah.

@Leo Gura What do you consider the core of all those addictions? I mean, the structure of a porn addict and an alcoholic should be similar, but the same people who get addicted to porn aren't addicted to some other things that other people get addicted to. I think the reason behind all those addictions include many things, including environment, how they were raised, how they handle emotions, all the insecurities and traumas should also play major role, how they view life and their place in it in general, etc

@Leo Gura Leo, what do you see as the reason behind nofap community? It has it's excesses, right, but as I noticed, porn didn't become an addiction for you. It clearly becomes a toxic addiction for many people, even for most of the people using it. I am not talking about masturbation, but porn usage itself. And the damage that porn addiction causes can be pretty bad from what I've seen. I guess it becomes an addiction the same way that all the other addictive things become addictions, like video games or smoking. And I guess there are some gamers who can play from time to time with no bad consequences, and there are people who literally ruin their life's potential with video games. I think it's same with porn.

@Leo Gura Yeah man, absolutely. Even your attraction videos and reading dating books from your booklist has helped me a lot. Thanks for that. I'll surely do further research. @RendHeaven Thanks dude, I'll delve into those videos as soon as possible

@Leo Gura Leo, you mentioned RSD videos couple of times already. Can you tell me where should I find those? Or you just mean stuff thats on YouTube? Or is there a seperate video course or something?

@Leo Gura Can you give an example of an impossible thing thought with supermind? Like what. What do you mean by new kinds of thoughts?

@Leo Gura Is that a course you are referring for a couple of years? The one about reprogramming the subconscious mind. Or is it something else?

@Leo Gura Dude Did you watch porn? Or just using your fantasy. Because there are people who get real disabilities from jerking off that many times while watching porn. PIED and shit like that. What is the difference between you and them? Why didn't you get those same disabilities. I think your diet wasn't also that clean in the past if we just attribute brain fog and mental and physical things to the combination of bad food and lots of porn.

@Leo Gura What do you think of cheat days? Like eating heavy carbs and stuff once a week or once every two weeks. With the goal of eliminating them in time. Its really hard to unhook eating habits cold turkey. At least in my experience.

Hey guys, I want to tell you a little bit about my situation and then hear if any of you face the same challenges. In 2014, I entered college to become a computer scientist. I liked that field more or less, I liked technical fields at school too and, I thought being a software developer was a promising career. 4 years ago I started working as a front-end web developer for a local company, And right now, I'm still working as a front-end developer but in another company (I've changed the company I worked for three times). My frustration began couple of years ago when I entered this field and started to work on real-life projects and delved into the programmers' culture. I didn't like it much, I thought I would give it a try a bit more and I would like it more and more but that didn't happen. I like some things about building software but, I think there are other things that I'm more passionate about... This brings us to art. So, since childhood, I've been drawing for myself and I've always had this passion for art. When I was a kid, I was learning adobe photoshop, adobe after effects, blender, cinema 4d, and stuff like that. I really liked the idea of becoming an artist. But I didn't know what were the possibilities. I have the same passion for art since then till now. So, I'm kinda stuck. I have a relatively high income with my software dev career, which pays rent, supports family, and stuff like that. But on the other hand, there is this hidden passion and hidden part in me which wants to be an artist and doesn't know (yet) how to transition. One of the options I think is to get a part-time job as a developer for a couple of years, maybe 1-2, and spend the other half of my time developing my art skills (which need lots and lots of daily practice to get better). I don't know yet what are the options for earning money as an artist (concept artist, 3D artist, or something like that), but as I'm researching, I'm sure that there are lots of ways, the main thing is to have a portfolio and skills sufficient enough. I was also thinking of creating a brand, and using my future developed art skills to create products or services that could help or inspire people in some way, I don't know the way yet. At this point, I only have a small vision, but I've been denying this for a couple of years now (because of financial fears), but I can't do that anymore. I'm 25 years old now and the clock is ticking So, I just wanted to hear your thoughts, have you had familiar cases in your career? How did you handle it?

@Leo Gura Do you see serious potential in weekly 60 minutes of Shamanic Breathing practice? Also maybe combining that with dreamwork and meditation as well. I also live in a country where I will get in lots of trouble for acquiring psychedelics. But I guess Shamanic Breathing especially will be sufficient to some degree to work on our emotions and inner demons, without psychedelics.

@Leo Gura Hey Leo, how is your carnivore diet going? Is it still helpful? Or did you move on to other things after your last update on your vlog? I find your health update vlogs very helpful for figuring out new ideas for my autoimmune disorders.

@Leo Gura If we suppose that tales about Jesus miracles and yogi siddhis are true, are they done through the mechanism that you are describing right now? Or is there another medium for that, and what you describe is an even higher thing than that?

@Leo Gura Have you tried it?

Hey, I noticed in myself that when I'm thinking about having an intimate relationship, the only reason why I want to pursue those are just fulfilling my survival needs. By survival needs of course I don't mean physical survival, but all the range of needs that we have and that we're trying to fulfill from external sources. But is it all there is? It's kinda sad, I am trying to think of reasons why would I pursue intimate relatioships if I had all the needs met. It seems like a secret agreement between two people, that I'll help you satisfy your needs and you'll help me satisfy mine. And we subconsciously seek intimate partners that we think are best suitable for satisfying our needs. What do you think, is there more to this whole dynamic? Like something outside survival. And what would an intimate relationship look like if survival needs are met and two people are trying to construct something together? What can be constructed? I guess the core of my question is what is conscious relationships and how to have those.

It was nice, but I think season 1 was better. What do you think? I've watched Zima Blue like 10 times

@Etherial Cat Thanks for sharing your thoughts ? But the sad part is that there aren't many people willing to do that in a relationship. Hell, I myself know how hard it is to be conscious, observe myself, and not get entangled with all that shit that ego comes up within a relationship. And it also limits the number of potential partners who will be aligned with your values, more or less. But sometimes (or even most of the time at this point), even I'm not aligned with my values, so... I guess one of the most important lessons from this line of thinking is: to stop being so judgmental

@Etherial Cat Yes, I agree. A relationship that is geared towards growing both individuals would be a conscious one. What do you think, what does it look like in practice? How can couples create a conscious relationship? Obviously, they need to be doing something to enhance their awareness of themselves at first, but what are the things that they can do together collectively? I think communication is a huge thing in that regard.

@Leo Gura So, what do you think will happen to an experience of a deeply asleep person, when the physical body stops functioning? Will he just change a form and go into a different realm that will seem as real as this one? WIll he instantly realize that it was all God all along and merge with itself? Or what?