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Narcisistic, no compassion, that´s what I mean by evil, don´t pretend to start a non-dual dumb discussion. Regarding last paragraph, I agree, young men need to cultivate masculinity overall

That is what I wanted it to say but you say it better.

Most hilarious guy on the internet haha I am addicted to his videos. Some of this advice are good and his masculine energy is inspiring but don´t take him as a role model, he is evil.

Why the hell would I want to make "a difference in the world" and "change society". That ideology is some kind of christian secularism where some perfect society is awaiting in the future. What I want is stop suffering and get existential answers, I don´t care about material achievements; I only purusue them because otherwise I suffer more, if I don´t have a job and stay in mom basement I suffer more, if I quit bodybuilding and loss my muscles my self steem reduce and I suffer more, if I don´t keep strong disciple I get neurotic and depress, and son on and so on. Elon Musk and that kind of people are deluded by materialistic religion, what they want is God but they substitute it for earthly goals. They will never be happy that way.

According to Leo, some of the most reputed teachers of these days like Shinzen Young, Peter Ralstom, Daniel Ingram or Kenneth Folk "don´t know what God/Infinite Love is" Who knows what God is these days apart from him? (it is not a rethorical question)

Noooo Enlightenment was my favourite forero

What he does not get is that the idea "there are not others, other are created by mind" is still an idea created by mind. Solipsism is an idea created by mind. Both solipsism (absolute subjetivism) and materialism are wrong since both are mind made.

I just check it, he has some Mystery 2005 vibes haha

-forgive yourself, for not be perfectly aline with your goals, nobody is perfect, it is ok -relax the thinking about duties and goals, you already know what your goals are, you don´t need to think about it all the time -just take action; and if you don´t take action don´t think about taking action, do it or don´t do it but don´t create stories in you mind about that

Psychological Types - Jung

Very easy question: acceptance vs repression the higher the maturity of the psyche, the more it accepts disturbing events and vice versa

Thank you very much ardacigin! I tought that pity is silence and tranquilty and not energy and awareness of thoughts, my phenomenology fits very much with the MCTB A&P description. Anyways whatever it is is definitely an improvement in my path, I have a lot of motivation to keep practicing!

Everything is appearing. So according to your logic we should not use any concept at all.

That is a falacy that I see a lot here. You trust you direct experience, ok, but once you "process" your direct experience you are already creating a mental story. And that is created using language and social conditioning, language is socially constructed. The present itself is a mental story. The idea of "you have never experienced death, birth, or non-existence" is a mental story. The idea of mental story vs non mental story is a mental story itself. You see? All this spiritual ideas are not direct experience but a new ideology that comes to replace your previous materialistic ideology or whatever. You don´t see a enlighten buddist master speak like that at least it is for practice teaching reasons, their worldview is like a regular person, direct experience does not change that, just spiritual ideas does. For example Leigh Brasington is a buddhist master that has get the higher achievements in spiritually and his worldview is basically what they call in this forum scientific materialism, they will tell you he did not take enought 5 meo dmt, for me that is bs.

@ardacigin very good info! I have recently been experiencing in my meditation what I think it is Arising and passing away. I experience my thoughts as physical sensations and I can see in real time how they go from one to another, it feels like I am not lose in daydreaming anymore but bravely aware of what the mind is doing in real time. This is accompanied by energy release sensations in my body like open the eyes like crazy, clench my jaw or head shakes; it feels very good and powerful. The image of Zeus or some greek god sumarize pretty well the experience: a lot of energy and fury + I feel like I am in control, no tought is cowerly hidden from me. My question is, do you know what stage I am in the TMI system? I read in reddit that A&P is stage 7 but I am not sure because my general meditation skills are pretty mediocre, before this I thought I was in stage 3 or 4 lol. I am very excited because finally meditation seems like it "does something". btw: I experienced this doing zazen (using the 6R from Bhante Vimalaramsi to not get involved in the hindrances a the begining) other meditation techniques with concentration object does not work for this to me

Dependent Origination is the most important -and advance- teaching of the Buddha. Buddhists teach that there is a dependent origiantion between craving and dukkah, and more widely between craving and the whole material world and emotions. It is clearly experienced during cessation, where, when the meditator comes back from that state, he experience how the whole experience field is created by his craving. So, as long as I understand, it means that we are creating relative world trough our attachments to it. Buddhists don´t use solipsistic terminology because they are only interested in pointing out the relationship between dependent origination and suffer, but it is something that is derived from the idea of dependent origination that they expose. Am I wrong? p.s: Leigh Brasington has recently written a free book about Dependent Origination, if you want to know about Depend Origination check it out: http://sodapi.leighb.com/

Tell me what you are saying has to do with the understanding of dukkah.

It is cause-effect. It is how mind undestand reality and how science work, this cause that. It was formalized for the Greeks. So you are telling me the most advance teaching of the Buddha is the same as regular people proccess reality?. No, it does not make sense. Dependent Origination means that phenomena is created by desire. You can see how craving origins suffer if you are awake and you can see how world is created if you exit cessation.

retirement US pension + living in Thailand I guess

What he teaches is very similar to TMI. Use the breath as an ancle and be aware of the mind and the same time. Nice!

how to hell did he invest so much money in creating an online selling coffe business?

Don´t ask anything, just look who is behind, look back again and again, you can use noting to objetualice the stuff you find and watch again.

there are a ton of books that state that

Avoid neurosis and overthinking, stay calm and keep doing the work bro, it is the best advice I can give you.

This guy is goat. Got arahatness, master of the jhanas, able to enter in cessation for days at will, able to see past lifes and find who his previous life was. Very inspiring.