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Ahaha, Yes. Leo is love!

I needed to hear this too. Also getting a therapist. They are amazing, the of the most powerful yet overlooked tools I wonder Leo is like, big picture map, so you get a bunch of tools and ideas to feed your growth and then a therapist is like one of the tools that fits into the map. There are so many tools. Become a collector of goodies.

@catcat69123 Yeah, I've been through waves of this. I found that: 1. Getting a therapist online and having someone to talk to really helps me. I am pretty alone at this time in my life and having someone to talk to, and being able to share with her my thoughts, getting worksheets to develop, having a sense of accountability etc is great. Not even necessarily talking to her, but even just KNOWING I am taking action on my mental health helps. Having someone in real time I can be relatively radically open, and seen in the vulnerability helps me accept myself more too. 2. Focusing only on my locus on control. This whole "I need to save the planet thing" Can take a rest. I can only focus on my own life. By sinking my roots deep in over the next 5-10 years in developing my mind, body, mental models, skills, habits, beliefs, intuition, wisdom, practices, business, financial psychology and financial health etc life become a game of mastery and not this hopeless scary thing. 3. Starting to imagine that I am like a tree. Movement is an illusion. I am developing deep roots focusing on life mastery and, cleaning up how I feel etc and THEN real opportunities to help the planet will arise. And lastly.. Imagine if actually just take 30 minutes and chill, relax, lay on the floor, permission to feel okay. Right now. You actually can't feel okay even if the world didn't have climate change because of your current state. That is the issue. Don't trust you mind, trust your state. Relax, find inner compassion, love. Lay on the floor and do a body scan, breathing comfortably relax every muscle in your body. The everything now is always this everything now. This strange perception of experience in this void. Chilllllll, You Got this. You Got this!

I don't know, I've never felt the need to pay for porn. Don't beat yourself up. Take an hour to openly journal and contemplate about it, and any surrounding issues. Use love here. No reason to feel guilty, but acknowledge it and move forward. More love awaits you on the other side of this. Every realization of incongruence with our values is a diamond if we use it correctly.

@Waken Yeah, I sense a bit something going on. People seem to enjoy his retreats. They seem okay. I can't tell yet if he is very conscious. He is definitely not completely a Zen devil but I am not sure.

@impulse9 Yeah, I think he was into shamanism, he was a psychonaut and he was interested in inner alchemy, botany, nature, etc

There are many facets of your psyche and spirit to work on. Keep going! Reading, practicing meditation and inner smile etc.

Well, he actually does have this video where he mentions these things as possibilities of awakening I think it's simple that Terrence was not a non-dualist. Though, he had similar ideas he was very much into of duality imo.

Realizing our addictions is good! Good going.

You are consciousness. Collapse all the duality and what is left? I get that these conversation happen, but they are also annoying. I'd like us to recognize the difference between relative and absolute truth and the difference between pointing to something and what I am pointing to. I realize that there is a lot of work for all of us to make these distinctions and to be mature about them. "The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao" should be like, fundamental to talking about truth. paradoxically ahah I won't reply to any more dualistic jokes or whatever on this thread ahaha

Accept every part of you as divine (:

I started reading Osho and I have some books on the way. I am amazed by his ideas and his understanding of Yoga and Tantra. I really resonate with Tantra and I've gone to like 5 tantric festivals in the past year and I've only just touched the surface of this realm of mastery and spiritual explanation. What are you favourtie Osho books or lectures? Share them here!

@This You aren't the finger I point with either...

Yes, I am getting the Tantric bug. Working on integrating Yoga, Tantra, Taosim, Qigong, Reiki and shamanism and non-duality. I liked his description in the book of secrets of Yoga and Tantra being a yin and yang of sorts.

You are consciousness.

Through contemplation, you are basically using your spot light of awareness and mind to actually think about things. To ask questions, find answers, feel how you think about something. When we are not writing down thoughts we tend to just repeat the same thoughts again, and again and again. Anyone else have parents or know people who have had the same problem or argument line for line for the past 20 years? I see this in my parents. This is why we do this work I think in part. Not only to realize we are God and to take back our sovereignty but to break free from the mechanical prison that is the thought loops of people who never used their minds. Most people are mechanical because they never even bothered to question "am I a machine? How so?" By contemplating we create space and room for our thoughts to explore, problem solve. We are actually literally increasing our consciousness through deliberate practice. Each question we ask, each list we make, each source we reflect on.. We grow wiser, deeper and build out thinking muscles. We develop new ideas, have catharsis etc. When we think things through ourselves we come up against emotional labour. This is a sure sign we are doing something right. When we think things through ourselves, using our own words, ideas, feelings etc we are building new neural connections that are stronger, more robust and prone to creating new creative and deeper insights.

Okay, I understand his history a little more. He was looking for love. Sounds like psychedelics had some positive affect on his addictive behaviour. He started smoking tabacco, weed, and drinking chronically from ages 16-25ish. Sounds like he abused MDMA too. MDMA 2-3 times a week? Insanity. Interesting. He isn't even sure it is MDMA. Also addicted to Kratom, which he seems to have used recently. Strange.

I think putting as many hours as you can into developing experience is ideal. As long as you aren't like, hurting people imo. And if you do, learn from it and do better. To run a business there are so many hard and soft skills that need to be developed. Don't delay I say. Through work, the information you have here I can suspect that you will meet a positive serendipity.

I like doing morning pages, just letting whatever is on my mind write out on to the page. I find from installing this habit, writing in general and contemplation becomes easier.

But, they can use that experience and their failures for becoming wise, if they commit to it long term and self reflect. We all have blind spots and foolishness. I think a wise person is willing to admit, 'Hey, perhaps I am not wise and I have many self deceptions". There is a painful process once you start learning about wisdom when you realize just how unwise you are, have been and the work it will take to become wise. But, I think developing wisdom and a clear mind and heart is really foundational to building the good life. What was he addicted too?

Difference between EQ, wisdom, IQ and intelligence. Also how those who proclaim to be wise, really do not like those who are wise.

Also, most food is actually.. through one lens: sunlight. You don't need to lay in the sun, because food is full of Sun already.That being said, there are benefits of getting healthy amounts of sun and nature. Earthing is good too.

Find a balance. If you meditate, journal, read self help you will be a lot more effective. Just working and putting in hours wont get you there I think. Maybe 1 or 2 hours a day.When you wake up and before bed. You got this.

Yeah, sounds about right. Lets get this thread back on the book ahaha and taoist nutrition.