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Hi Leo. Thanks brother for your work and this platform and taking care of all this . Its just getting worse I want to inform you even though I know that you know ..but its happening every 10 minutes or smth now .I don't know if its only for me .

I was raised hindu . Read Upanishad..Vedas ..bahava gita..etc it was mostly just beliefs and bedtime stories for me .like the belief in reincarnation (which is also present in Buddhism and Sikhism). But you've said it yourself. Leo's work is much more than telling you you are Barahman or the absolute. He guides you towards this realization in a unique way .

@Daniel Balan when did you stumble upon Leo's content and actualized.org? I stumbled upon him in 2018 and he literally transformed my life . Not much gain on the material aspect of things like earning money or stuff like that but he made me aware of things that i doubt anyone in mainstream society are aware of . And thats to me is more valuable than making money or acquiring tangible possessions.

I'm convinced that happiness (not pleasure) is the highest value But let's see what you've got to say . Thanks for your work Leo!

@Hojo do you smoke ? If not ,what's your vice or whatever? (If you don't mind sharing ).

@Hojo lets just not talk or argue about that since it obviously leads nowhere and keep the thread focused on practical advice to quit and so forth .thanks .

Its called addiction .

I don't understand what you are saying ,sorry .

@Hojo 😂

Why people cling to dead people who died thousands of years ago and are not even real historically or existentially(since past is imaginary anyways) is beyond me. I did enough rant about this point recently and I don't feel like it again.

False . Pleasure is also pointless despite being the only thing that truly matters for 99% of people. Imagine fucking Kate Upton while high on heroin and sipping pina colada cocktails forever. Few years of doing this and this very experience will becoming the definition of hell. When Buddha went to the woods alone without food or water to meditate was that a hedonistic action ? When Muhammad used to walk 15 kilometres every night to go meditate in a cave was that a hedonistic act?

Brother please strike some balance between seriousness and fun. I'm talking life and death issues here . Osho also says "smoke consciously and joyfully " .

The crazy thing is at the end of the day after the hustle and bustle it boils down to "JUST STOP". Same applies to Meth..to Cocaine..to pornography..to fast food ..etc But willpower alone won't work .I. remember when I was 20 yo and was addicted to jerking off I would distract myself with ice cream. I would put some mouthwatering ice cream in front of me without actually eating .and whenever i get an erection I eat ice cream because sugar reduces lust and libido . Some kind of method or trick is required.

I see . If you might engage me for a sec ..why are cigarettes made of CO and tar ? It's literally written on every ciggies pack in the world "Tar is a cancer-inducing substance ". So why they put it in it ? Why not just nicotine and something that smells nice and euphoric and that's it ? Do you recommend something specific? Like a certain shape or brand of the vape ? Definitely smoking burns fat .smoking numbs the taste receptors in the tongue which makes food taste like shit .

Love it . Enjoy 🍻

No shit. You are only going to know when you die ..if it even going to happen in the first place. Don't take death for granted.

If you truly 10000% certain that you've grasped solipsism to be irrefutabley absolutely true you wouldn't post this . You'd be in a 24/7 state of shock and suicidal existinital crises. Or maybe you will experience happiness that there are no words that exists to describe. But definitely you won't post to tell "others ".

@UnbornTao there is no separate self or ego . There is nobody in the driver seat of my body .I have no idea how my fingers are typing right now..classic no-self stuff.nothing new here. perception does not exist. Perception means there is a subject perceiveing an object. Like photons land on a tree and gets reflected into your eye balls then to your vision center in the brain . No such thing. You are NOT looking at the screen right now .you are the screen. All in all ..both points are absolutely disconnected from the topic of solipsism. Don't get cute and say "well there is no you to begin with therefore how can you be the only one "? You can do better .

Kindly explain the distinction +address the second comment underneath the one you just quoted.

One of a kind you are mate . Please keep posting more frequently. Your posts hit me like a train (that's a complement btw ).

It's not armchair philosophy. I'm not talking about fluffy hypothesis like quantum auto creation field or something like that..I'm investigating direct experience as is . This requires careful attention to what is actually going on vs what you "think " is going on . Your eyes lid the world before you .you are literally projecting reality out from inside your skull. You are the source of reality . Notice that Reality comes from inside your being and projected as external world and not the other way around . Again ..zero speculation here ..just study what is actually happening in your direct sensory experience.

Lol. You seriously going to offload the responsibility of creating reality to something external to you ? You go to sleep..existence goes poof...you awaken..existence goes live stream. Isn't that suspicious?

BTW guys anyone here has an understanding of what dreams are ? Not from the materialist paradigm as electricity moving through neurons but like fucking bizarre hallucinations floating in empty space . If there was a pill I could take that will make me not dream at all in my entire future life I would sacrifice one of my two testicles for it .

@UnbornTao dude stop talking like this .its weird .

@UnbornTao solipsism is true and false simultaneously. Others are conscious..but your consciousness is all that exists as far as you are concerned. Do you give a shit about anything or anyone but yourself ? Right now as you typing a response to me ,you are responding to your understanding not to what I meant.