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Would you say that in some way you regret Awakening because in comparison nothing comes close in terms of satisfaction in life? Do you feel like you lost something? Or is it all positive and I'm misinterpreting? I interpreted your post as sort of a warning for those who hadn't had Awakening experiences.

After Awakening, why do you care about that? So do you say that you might regret Awakening because of that? I haven't awoken yet but those peak human experiences always dissapoint me in the end because they all still seem shallow and not enough, leaving me with a feeling that there must be more to this life then those experiences. Won't Awakening show that there is?

Yeah, they are really heavily leaning towards everything AI.

100 days. Horny. I don't see a point in doing this. Maybe if you are a hardcore porn addict and beat your dick 5 times a day watching porn, yeah, you might need to ease up and give your dick some time to refresh. Do any of you experienced some spiritual or energetic benefits, as many claim?

@Leo Gura "Clip #307" and "Clip #306" pages have the same video.

Man, you really love your porn Share us your collection

Don't you see a difference between jerking off to a boob statue vs having access to tens of thousands of hd porn (from vanilla to all the disgusting fetish stuff) videos that people get addicted from teenage years and ruin their sex lives? Nobody is saying that lust is inherently bad. Lust is an important aspect of survival. In the end it's a problem of a lack of self-control and self-responsibility. But saying that watching porn is normal makes that problem harder for those people to overcome. Our ancestors also had food, but not triple MC cheesburgers and fries.

What's completely natural? Jerking off to porn?

It's an emotional regulation mechanism, an ingraned coping strategy. That's why it's unhealthy and very addictive. It's not a function of having a free time. Doesn't take too much time to be honest.

In what ways?

Yesterday's highlight.

Set goals and work on achieving them, actually do the work, this will increase your self-esteem because it will raise your sense of self-efficacy. Take more responsibility, in any way you can, over many areas of your life. Take care of your body. Figure out what you want out of life and start working towards that. Contemplate why do you even want to be percieved as "alpha" male? But essentially, challenge yourself daily / weekly / monthly / yearly and build up your life, do hard things, do things that scare you initially.

Maybe couple "But Leo"s also slip here and there

Yes definitely for me, not only more creative but also more able in other areas, like my ability to feel emotions amplifies, happiness and satisfaction increases, also motivations to pursue things like relationships, art, creativity, even spirituality, increases. When I'm in the rabbit hole of doom-scrolling plus some dopamine depliting habits, I feel like a zombie. And then when I get to what Leo called 0 sobriety level (a default state) even that's very noticable, not to mention higher states.

Also, it would be nice to tell about your Kriya practice in short, how it benefits you, and why you like it.

@Leo Gura Maybe you could also make one about conscious relationships, non-violent communication, that kind of stuff. Also, in one of the shorts you mentioned that the only way we know how to relate to someone is selfishly. You said that in an intimate relationship, we use other as an object to satisfty our needs, and we call that love and don't even know the alternative ways of relating. So, what's the alternative? Why should we even be in a relationship if not for selfish needs? I think that needs explaining.

You can actually undo that visited state, just delete that link from your browser history, that's it. Just did it, to double check 😅

Yea I noticed, thanks, makes it easy to go through the list.

Nice! Purchased it, excited to binge all the videos in upcoming days. I didn't really like going to Instagram for these videos only. So far the experience is good. @Leo Gura It would be nice if visited video link got higlighted in some way, so that I know which video I've clicked on and which one I've not seen yet. Yes basically that, a huge list of videos. Maybe Leo will organize them in the future, idk.

Mr.Beast style YouTube thumbnails, with overly-expressive emotions. Most youtubers are aping Mr.Beast.

Get the book "The Book Of Not Knowing", that should get you started. It's a deep philosophical book about questioning everything you normally assume is true, including your identity, thoughts, beliefs, and perception of reality. It’s less about giving answers and more about teaching you how to directly investigate your own experience and think beyond automatic assumptions.

Check out "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, it's really good.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-583 A recent video from Ralston complements this quote nicely.

I like how he frames the definition of a principle, that the principle is not about you, it's about itself. So for example, honesty, if you take honesty as a principle and trying living it, you'll notice that you'll have to be honest even if it goes against you in some sense. That's why it's not that easy to adopt principles willy-nilly, it comes with development and consciousness.

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