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Here’s a mind screwer. If morality is relative and not objective, then why spend any ounce of time in arguing that it is relative? Lol. Relativists debating is an oxymoron because if there is no truth value to moral claims, then your relativism is done, and even if there is truth value to Relativists claims, then it wouldn’t be relative. See that?

“Sometimes doing nothing very often leads to the very best of something.” — Pooh It actually is the answer lol. How are you gonna achieve the goal of being a great filmmaker if your life isn’t connected to the present moment? If you just focus on making the most of your life now and live it fully in the present moment, and you won’t have to worry about your goal. How can you make the most of this moment right now so it can lead you on the path of becoming a filmmaker? Become a disciple to what you love. See my post on Discipline is Ratshit- The Art of Blissipline for more. May peace be with you.

The only goal is to live fully in the present moment.

Unfortunately, this is a problem with all of morality. I feel like morality is neglected in spiritual circles. I don’t hear Leo or Sadhguru talk about morality too often, especially moral theories like utilitarianism, etc. I feel like happiness, meaning, and fulfillment go together. A truly happy life is one that is filled with joy, gratitude, and a sense of purpose. I think happiness can be more fundamental than meaning/purpose because meaning/person is something we develop over time. Think of a young child. I feel like that a child is not focused on purpose/meaning. They are focused on playing, having fun, imagination, and pure joy. I guess you could say those activities are meaningful to them, but I guess we have to clarify what then we really mean by meaning/purpose. What is the meaning of playing and having fun? A child has fun for its own sake and not for some purpose, mission, or destiny that want to accomplish. But i don’t know, I could be wrong. Hitler’s view was distorted and biased and very limited. It was very low conscious, and this was a reflection of Hitler’s consciousness, not very high. High conscious actions need no justifications. Higher consciousness is always inclusive and closer to selflessness and love. What Hitler did was selfish for the collective ego of Germany. Higher consciousness goes beyond the iceberg of Germany and merges to become one with Ocean. Hitler was in ego mode and not God mode as it was apparent by his actions. It’s a mixture of both I think. Consciousness is subjective but is also objective. It is subjective in the sense that we can create whatever kind of world we want. But it is objective in the sense that there are higher and lower ways to be in the world. For instance, life has no meaning. That is purely subjective. But if you want to live life and survive, there are objective ways to do that. A plant can be poisonous or it can be edible. It doesn’t matter what you believe about the plant. You can believe the poisonous plant is healthy. But you would be incorrect. That is the same as Hitler. He thought exterminating Jews was the highest good. But his views of good and bad, heathy and poisonous were flawed. Only a person of higher consciousness than another can know. Higher consciousness is relative to lower consciousness. Jewish people had higher consciousness because their consciousness was more inclusive of people whereas the Nazis was more violent and exclusive. It’s not hard for us to tell because we are of higher consciousness than Nazis (at least I hope lol). But then again, through conformity and manipulation, our consciousness can lower if we are not careful with what we are exposed to. The conspiracy theories of today show how much our consciousness can be lower and skewed. The employee will have a much harder time if their vibration is lower. The best way for employee to get out of wage slavery is by raising their vibrations. The actions and choices you make are a reflection of your emotional state. You can raise it or lower it. It’s up to you and the employee. When you become a disciple to what you love, you will find that that is the highest way to live. You actually don’t want to be in bliss all the time. You want to experience the whole range of emotions. But being in bliss is more about being in alignment with your heart and intuition. There is no mathematical proof for bliss. The only method is by finding out what you love most about life and doing more of that. But if you want something close to a mathematical proof for bliss, it is this: Inspiration + Action = Magic, or Be + Do = Have. But again the flaw with this is that emotions are being placed into a logical box. But that right there is as close as you will get to a method for bliss. Thank you so much for your contribution to this post and to my own personal growth. You are helping me to think and formulate my thoughts. May Peace be with you.

Correct. Nobody can truly know. But knowing does not need to happen to deliver the most value to the world. The best way to be of service and bring the most bliss to the world is to yourself be a model of higher consciousness and love. Look at my quote in my first post. “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee, it blossoms and the bees come.” What this means is that when you act on your highest inspirations and you grow yourself and develop to the highest version of yourself, you are able to serve others and help society raise their consciousness from that perspective. If you are at a low vibration you aren’t living up to full potential. If you were at a high vibration, can you see how this would be of the highest service to all involved? You can argue about anything, but it doesn’t make it true. The use of drugs automatically shows the kind of state of mind a person or society is at. Think of the most conscious person and one who really embodied their bliss. Would they really need drugs to escape their feelings and live in bliss? Remember, drugs don’t make one blissful. They are a temporary distraction and an escape from pain. A person who embodies their highest bliss has developed deep positive relationships with all parts of themselves. Drugs imply that this experience right now isn’t good enough. At least that’s how I see it. I have never needed drugs because I am high on life. That’s what true bliss means to me. The most conscious society is one that is high on life and on living to become the best versions of themselves. Following your highest bliss and blossoming into your best version of yourself are identical to me. This is identical as well to building a conscious society. ”Be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi

Yup! That’s exactly what I’m talking about! If our goal is to survive, there are certain foods we can eat and certain ones we can’t. If we want equality then there are ways to get it and ways to not, but concepts of survival and equality are arbitrary and relative to people and cultures. But it doesn’t means that morality should be ignored. I think Deontology is really interesting, and I think it is similar to utilitarianism. But deontology cares more about universal rules than it does about maximizing happiness and bliss for all involved. What I like about Deontology is that they care more about their actions than consequences. This morality is more geared towards the present moment of rightness and wrongness. The rightness and wrongness of actions are determined by how they hold up with our rules than with the consequences of our actions. However, this theory does not focus on happiness, bliss, and well-being as the foundation, and it focuses more on how our actions hold up to universalizable rules. One thing about deontology is that they treat people as ends rather than as means. I think a true utilitarian would be a little more like a Deontologist in this regard because our action are bound by karmic law, and wrong actions to get right results is a big flaw for utilitarians. Maybe I should change my title? Lol. I find problems with all of these moral theories. If I were to create my own moral theory, it would be a combination of deontology and utilitarianism. But I think rule utilitarians are closest to this combination. My moral theory would be to “act in such a way to bring about the most bliss and happiness to the world through universalizable actions.” With this theory, it assumes that if you focus on the process, then you won’t need to worry about the outcome. The process is about taking the path following your bliss and to inspire and raise the consciousness of others through your actions towards following your heart and higher self. It is about maximizing happiness and consciousness in the present moment through our actions and not through consequences per se. This theory will need more work of course. But the basic idea is that each moral action we take is in alignment with our higher self. It is a combination of virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and deontology. To be the most moral is to be most conscious.

Thanks for your response and insight! Morality is dualistic in nature when talking about how a self relates to an other. Amen. “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee, it blossoms and the bees come.” All you have to do is shine and water the garden of the world with consciousness and love. Morality is a complex topic that I feel does not get its share of light when compared to metaphysics and epistemology. Without morality, our metaphysics and epistemologies won’t be as strong because morality is like the foundation of our hierarchy of needs. Yet, it is surprising that morality is less discussed. I feel like people morality is dismissed a lot and deemed as unimportant to explore because “it is relative.” I mean of course it is relative. Everything is relative to something, but why does that mean that we ignore moral questions. I still think there is some objective component to how morality is acted out relative to the rules and principles we create as individuals and collective. Conversations about morality may spark disagreement, but that is a way for our minds to grow and be open to more perspectives to help us build a stronger morality. Moral objectivists who do not consider the perspective of moral relativists fall into ethnocentrism, and the moral relativists who do not consider the perspective of moral objectivists are also missing out on the investigation of deeper complex moral issues.

Memento Mori - Meditate on your death. I'm honestly surprised that nobody has suggested this yet. Meditation on impermanence, on your own finiteness as this human form brings immense gratitude that you are alive today. If you think death is morbid, then that will most likely be your attitude towards life. The only thing morbid is the attachments and attitudes associated with the idea of death. Memento Mori is the ultimate meditation practice. If you can conquer your fear of death, you have become a master of all fear.

The Alchemist

You are not trying to reduce or avoid suffering. You need to face it and expose yourself to suffering in order for you to grow. Without suffering, there is no growth. True suffering is chasing pleasure. True pleasure is facing suffering that is where you will find will, ambition, and growth. You don’t grow by sitting on the couch. You grow by getting after it everyday.

I have the opposite problem. I know what words to say, but sometimes I cannot utter them and have to find synonyms that I can say more easily. Its weird. I can say the words fine now, but the presence of others seem to be different. What helped me was to contemplate was courage really is and why it’s important. I realized that courage is action despite fear. Batman reminded me that fear is good. It is not about eliminating your fears, it is about using them to fuel your growth. That’s what courage is all about.

Without you, there is no truth nor falsehood.

Why is there nothing rather than something? Think about that mind screwer.

Discipline in the traditional sense of grinding through a task to get it done is not the true meaning of the word discipline. Discipline comes from the root word disciple, which means to be a student. Following your bliss is a lesson to learn from Steve Jobs, Joseph Campbell, Buddha, and yourself. Notice how much more alive you feel when you follow your heart and bliss, as opposed to forcing yourself to grind through and do something. What it means to be Blissiplined is to become a disciple or student of your highest bliss and purpose for life. Blissipline is operated from the flow state of passion, joy, intuition, adventure, playfulness, etc. whereas discipline comes from a grinding mentality of taking life too seriously. Notice the different energies associated with discipline vs. Blissipline. Isn’t it true that your best work comes from inspiration and playfulness as opposed to seriousness? This is why a sense of humor is vital. Humor is not just about making people laugh. Humor is a mindset that reminds you to enjoy the present moment. People who have a great sense of humor have a great life. Do you notice this? Humor is a reflection of that within. Become Blissiplined and never work a day in your life. Live entirely through being and put an end to all doing through Blissiplining yourself to turn your life into a playground of purpose and playfulness. Cheers. https://youtu.be/C_p8wo_UV2U

True. Each has its own way. I have a bias towards flowing over force, but this was not always the case. I used to be a forcer, hard-worker, and ambitious person, where I did things I hated doing to get what I wanted kind of like Rocky Balboa. I have found that forcing has led me to "diminishing returns." One day, I asked myself: "Why am I working so hard? Isn't there a smarter way of doing this more effectively and effortlessly than I am doing now?" To me, it is kind of like taking a dump. It is something we have to do whether we like it or not. We can either do it forcefully or we can just flow with it effortlessly. I question others when they say they thrive on forcing and discipline because I have an intuition that it will not work out long-term and this method is bound to crack. Force to me implies a battle and flow seems to imply unity.

This is gold. The main purpose of meditation I think is to turn your entire life into a meditation.

“When it is you, it is forced. When it is God, it flows.”

If it’s in alignment with the vibration of your higher-self, then it isn’t a trap. A lot of people fall into the trap of hedonism where they trade short-term pleasures for long-term miseries. Being in alignment with your bliss and higher-self is not hedonism nor is it a trap. Notice that the opposite is true. If your life isn’t aligned with passion, intuition, etc., then do you see the problem there? See my post on Discipline is Ratshit - The Art of Blissipline for a fuller detailed explanation of this.

That’s what meditation is about. Turning the mundane into the mystical. Playfulness is a state of consciousness, and you can get into that state by doing things that light you up. When you are in a certain state of consciousness, doing taxes can be seen as an interesting game. Don’t do things that suck. At a certain state of consciousness, there are things that suck. But in other states, what sucks can turn into what fucks. It is really about your attitude towards life. If you were aware that you could die at any moment, how would you use your time? Looking at your life as if each day is your first and last can help you set your priorities straight. Your happiness is the proper priority and not something to put on back burner. As the quote says “When it is you, it is forced. When it is God, it flows.” “The flower does not dream of the bee, it blossoms and the bees come.” Don’t worry about the bees in life. If you just focus on your blossom and alignment with higher self, you will attract the bees of opportunity, synchronicity, wealth, etc. I’m not saying it is always easy. It takes a lot of courage sometimes to be who you truly are. ”When the world tells you to move, you plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and you say ‘No! You move!’” - Captain America Cheers!

That is one way to look at it. I think the best way to function is by not having a strict routine. To me, that is slavery of living the same day over and over again. To me, functioning properly is letting yourself be the most authentic and playful by following your heart and intuition as opposed to following your mind. The adventure is lurking. It takes great courage to follow your heart and venture into the unknown out of comfort zone. Routines and habits are good as long as they are aligned with your heart and what makes your heart sing. Otherwise, you play productivity and achievement of society’s standards and conditioning over your natural creative and authentic self. People are always trying to improve and change themselves, which has a downside of not exploring and accepting yourself as you naturally are. This is with everything. However, following what lights you up is actually really easy and natural because that is connecting more with your higher self and who you truly are. All we have to do is look inside and listen to our hearts calling and then have the courage to act on our intuition. Notice the energy and vibration of these questions. The first one perceives your livelihood as a “work” and “grind” as a opposed to an opportunity to learn, grow, and blossom. If you are not passionate about your work, then here are a few things. Either 1. Find “work” that lights you up so that it isn’t even called work, 2. Bring more play, love, humor, etc. into your “work,” 3. Or you can grind and work at that soul sucking job for the rest of your life. What is more important than your state of mind? You can find answers to these questions through introspection, listening to your intuition as opposed to your “rational” brain. With your other questions, it is all about your perception. It is how you perceive and act in those situations that make you suffer. If some takes away your clients, you can either go do drugs and go to bars and kill your dreams. Or you can tune into what your heart is saying and have the courage to see this window closing as another door opening for you. Notice that that is your mind that is seeing that as a bad thing and not necessarily your higher self. Think about how your higher self would handle those situations then act in that direction. Nobody can insult you if you are really conscious and connected to your heart. You will laugh at those people so hard because they are spending their time and life in such negativity. Only people who are hurt insult others. You have to have that intuition for you to stay true to yourself. Your mind/ego is the one insulted. Drinking isn’t following my highest excitements. Drinking is escapism to me because people typically drink to get into a certain state of mind. My whole philosophy is to become high on life by following your fun and passions, etc. you won’t need drugs ever for your state of mind if you are following your intuition. But sometimes you can be a conscious drinker so I’m not taking anything away from that. It is really about looking inwards to find what your true intentions really are. Is it to escape something or is it to grow, expand, and become more of yourself? Notice the last question. You have 100% responsibility over your life. You can choose to have your whole day ruined by one moment that butt hurt your ego, or you can move on and keep acting on your inspirations. Spirituality helps you be in alignment with your intuition and higher-self. When you are able to deconstruct your ego, gain a superpower of not being controlled by it and by seeing your ego as a joke to laugh with. Find the fun-ny in everything. Go in the direction of a lighter feeling. Do you see the problem if your life isn’t aligned with your intuition, heart, passions, and higher-self? Hope all that helped! That’s my 2$

Good point. Correct. Discipline can be correlated with popularity, but may not always be related to pure satisfaction of present moment, which is what I am focusing on because the way I think most people define discipline is doing something you don’t want to do to get somewhere you want. I’m suggesting another way that even Steve Jobs may not have tapped into. What I am suggesting is living through flow rather than through grinding. I agree. The only achievement I care about, which really isn’t an achievement for me is living entirely through my intuition, flow, and inspiration. I use blissipline. I would say that not following your bliss would be more likely for one to use drugs. I mean why do people use drugs in the first place? There are numerous reasons, but one I can think of is because they don’t feel complete and they are not in alignment with their bliss and passions. They are chasing a feeling, and they chase short-term pleasure for long-term misery. When one’s life is aligned with their passions, heart, and bliss, they become high on life and hence don’t feel motivated to do drugs. Whereas, I feel like people who have disciplined themselves to do something they hate for a long period of time end up doing drugs the most. What do you think? Yeah. The thing with the energy of seriousness is that it is associated with grinding as opposed to flowing. The way discipline is typically conceived is to be in that grinding mentality, but grinding leads to more frustration. The more you grind, the more of that energy you will attract. The way that I find helpful is to shift my vibration or emotional state into a higher level to be in harmony with my heart and attract the energies I want. The energies of playfulness, love, inspiration, adventure, excitement, creativity, etc. are more associated with the flow state and being in harmony with your intuition and higher self. Most people overlook the power of flow. Flow is when you become integrated with your art. This requires a certain state of consciousness that cannot be achieved at the level of grinding. There is a certain state of consciousness that can be accessed in the flow state where all your “hard work” turns into effortless play. That is the Blissipline.

David Goggins is the real life Rocky Balboa. He is one of the few who really follows Leo’s One Simple Rule To Ace Life: “Always do what is most emotionally difficult.” On the other hand, he has a grinding mentality as opposed to a flow mentality.

Connor Murphy

After watching Christopher Robin, I have realized the importance of play and the insignificance of “productivity” and “achievement” because it is all about future-oriented things that are out of touch with child-like playfulness and adventure. However, I read David Goggins’ book Can’t Hurt Me, and I realize that both play/adventure and work ethic/potential are both important to actualize. David Goggins went to the work ethic extreme of grinding and hustling. But Leo’s Satisfaction Meditation video reminded me to flow instead of grind in that all of my activities I do need to be grounded in satisfaction, joy, love, excitement, etc. In addition, Leo brings up the importance of work ethic as well many times, and I am wondering what are some practical ways of developing a healthy, strong work ethic that is in flow with satisfaction? One of my other mentors, David Lion gives the advice of “always follow your highest excitements” instead of trying to grind through work. This has been my philosophy and has worked out well. I am kind of just wondering, what is the importance of work ethic and how do I go about developing a strong work ethic that can be aligned with satisfaction (in what I will call “play ethic”)? How do you resolve that paradox between work ethic and satisfaction? The main two things on your deathbed (if you have one) will be: (1) did I actually enjoy my life? (2) Did I make the most of my life and live up to my full potential? For me, enjoyment and satisfaction mainly come from not doing anything at all except what I feel inspired to do. If I feel like reading, I will read, but if I do not, then I will not. I think a big part of work ethic is discipline. Isn’t discipline “not wanting to do something, but doing it anyways?” If so, how do you resolve that paradox between enjoyment/satisfaction and work ethic/discipline? I tend to follow my feelings and heart in the moment as opposed to some arbitrary schedule. EDIT: I don’t really think I have ever had a “good work ethic” because most of my good work comes when I am in a certain state of consciousness where I am inspired and full of energy to do it, where I am playing, grooving, and flowing with my task. I am wondering if strict discipline/work ethic is helpful and how to develop a strong discipline to commit to reading, meditating, eating healthy, and doing a lot of things that I want to do. The thing is that part of myself wants to read every day, etc. but another part of me likes to go on hikes and adventures and play instead of dedication to reading, exercising, life purpose, etc. It is tough to be stuck in the middle of two parts of me wanting opposite things, if you know what I mean. Thank you!

Follow your own heart. Nobody knows you better than your intuition. Your intuition is synchronized with love, peace, joy, inspiration, and adventure. All you have to do is listen and act. It is so easy to get lost in your mind. All we ever want in life is a feeling.