Meliodas

Even if we were to do that and consider the worst case in all teachings , then i dont think there will ever be a good enough teachings . With the buddhist teaching you could invest 40 years and still not reach the ultimate destination , its still not that bad from normal human perspective . Maybe you have reached the highest state because of your genetics or spawn count or something and you have the privilege to say that a buddhist practice will maybe not take us to the highest state . But i think the worst case with psychedelics and your teachings could be more dangerous , it could scar people for lives if they have bad trips or if they dont reach your levels at all and end up becoming some demented freaks......

It seems like you are not against buddhism or any other teaching but only against the ideas these buddhists and others put into people's mind.

sadhguru comes from a wealthy doctor family , and his grandfather was like the richest dude in his village

I have heard own stories from my family which basically prove the existence of reincarnation. what are your guys views on it ? Watch these Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8uqzMV1hQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B27WRX0Auw I know that the parents of the children could be just lying to get attention , but if we put that narrative aside for a second and see what would be the implications of this being the truth?? In my family , my mothers paternal uncle used to remember his previous life till about he was 11 years old , he even went to meet his family and talk to them about it.(believe me or not , i am just telling you what i have heard) Basically , he has no reason to lie , moreover how would he know details of his previous life if it wasn't real ??

haha I get your Point , but this you know only when your awakened . TIll then life seems as real as it is , with limited identifications , fears , biases etc.till that point what would be implications of reincarnation? because after that point maybe this doesnt even matter

So i recently started working on my addictions , i have many but few are prominent. These are :- 1) Listening to music on youtube. 2)Reading and watching too much spiritual content. 3) playing video games . due to these addictions , I could seriously get no work done . So I watched Leo's Video on overcoming addiction and applied the technique , it was emotionally difficult and after a few hours i realized that was not doing anything because i didn't know what to do , so i spent time in planning and forming goals etc. I also planned to decide what to do next day every night before going to sleep , which i think will really help long term (although i allow certain degree of freedom). But right now because of years of addictive behavior , I am not able to put in more than 1 hr on work at a time , and after a certain time it becomes really emotionally frustrating to work more than 3 hrs . So here's the plan , i am planning on being consistent with my work rather than increasing the time I work , which i think will increase with due practice and consistency of a sustained period. Sort of Like in the gym , we do a weight until we become comfortable with it, then increase it . So i want to ask is this strategy good ?? and are there any suggestions you would like to give?

well the answer to this question depends on you : if the phd is really important to you and if you work hard , you will not mind getting employment at 27 because you like what you are doing . if the phd is not important to you , or you are not interested in the subjects/or plan on doing something else entirely after college , then doing a phd is not a good idea .

Look , believe it or not like I said I am not idolising Leo. I know very well that he is not perfect and nobody rarely is. But you should notice you are only talking about his personality. Be it Buddha or Leo , to only look at their personalities it is a fatal mistake . Of course as they are human they would have their own unique personality, which of course will have flaws because personality itself is subject to many things.(the times we live in , our family, environment etc.). Leo seems cocky , you are right about that one , but what to do with it ? I don’t think it’s a big deal . I only watch Leo and content for his insights , which I can inculcate into my own life and I don’t give a damn about his personality. For me Leo is just like another book, just for the sake of information…. we here are not for idolising or demonising, but for collective self actualization isn’t it ? Isn’t that the purpose of this forum ? So that we can help each other with self actualization. Leo’s value is not in his personality but his content and insights , personally that’s what I take away from him. when a man is showing you the moon with his finger , don’t miss all the heavenly glory for the insignificant finger of the one who is showing . about his healing thing : I don’t think that is a good reason to pin him down because personally I don’t think he has that kind of stability that he could pull it off right now at least.of course I am just assuming and I could be wrong . But consider my perspective.

This may sound like I’m in some sort of Leo cult or whatever , but I think that Leo recognises his blind spots well , even in his videos he talks about his problems sometimes. Moreover, it doesn’t matter if he admits his mistakes , what is more important is that he knows about them and makes a path correction, and if you have seen Leo for many years , you will realise that once he know , he surely makes a path correction

He may have issues in life which we certainly don’t know about , that may be the reasons about his videos inconsistency. about his healing: becoming conscious of a thing and applying that thing are two very different things ……. Leo becoming conscious of his abilities do not necessarily mean that he can use his abilities for such a purpose…..

I don’t think that’s right , most people say that in their 50’s becuz they never lived . When you begin to truly live fully , that’s when life actually begins I think……

Exactly, even already most people misuse it... They do psychs for entertainment purposes rather than real work

In sadhguru videos you have seen about psychedelics , he is mostly talking about casual people who just wanna have fun and waste life kind of guys . In one his books , where he is talking about various things he doesn’t talk in public , which he only talks about with close groups , he has acknowledged psychedelics . This book is not new though , the talks are from the period 1994 -1999

Why make a poll on this , I think it will just waste time , we should try to get to higher levels of consciousness instead of doing this . But do what you want lol

That is not actually a mistranslation, atma means dreamed up soul , the “The Self” you are talking about is called paramatman, lit. the ultimate soul , the Buddha said there is no you and me , there is only me.so when he said anatma he was not saying there is no self , he was saying in the sense of individuality most probably. But yes you are right In a way , most teachings of many people are distorted because translation is not done correctly. but I don’t know experientially, so I may well be all wrong lol

Ironically Buddha’s teaching were of anatma- meaning no soul or atma , but people(especially Buddhists) have started calling him a great soul. How mysterious it is .

sadhguru has one going , shambhavi mahamudra

I started all this work 4 years ago , and I am also very young , just 19.5 years old .when I was 16 I was sucked in stage orange and seeking achievement was my number 1 thing , i did very well in school as well , but in 2019 covid hit, and in these 3 years of isolation I personally grew alot , in some sense i became like a hermit . I still studied for tests etc. when i needed to and still passed them with straight A's(mostly) but most of my time was spent reading ,consuming content , meditating . In 2019-2022 I have read more than 120 books and i really started to take consciousness work seriously . Here is how I improved during these 3 years. 1) before doing this self development journey , i was a achiever , i was the best in everything in i did (although since i was 16 , most of those things seem pretty small and petty now) , got medals in academics and national olympiads of science. During this stage of my life I was a scientist atheist type of guy . change: after 3 years , now i realize the futility of science and it's problems and a big change which occurred during these years is that my strong desire for material possessions just blew out of the window , but I still realize the importance of survival and the need for necessary infrastructure for my LP and will not get stuck in wage slavery. 2)I have been meditating for 3 years now , and have had various kensho , small glimpses of something outside body or mind and that really motivates me to further increase and strengthen my practice . I am open to idea of psychedelics , but will not do them before i move out and have built a solid spiritual foundation 3) I became extremely open minded 4) the biggest change which took place was in 2021 , that year i realized that i dont know anything , and i dont mean it like in a flimsy way ,in fact this thought made me have one sleepless night where it was as if there was no ground beneath me and it felt really scary. i realized i have various belief systems, ideologies , confirmation biases but no truth and direct experience .This really transformed me experientially , from that day i have not given into any of my addictions(video games , TV) which i had prior to this realization and it was not that I tried to get rid of them , but i just never gave into them again. 5) Studied various sources of knowledge , including most religions like buddhism , sikhism , jainism , hinduism , christianity , islam , judaism and also things like advaita vedanta , non duality , the vedas , the upanishads and about various methods to achieve enlightenment . i watched 1000's of hours of videos online about enlightenment, self actualization , personal development etc. but i still understood that i didn't know experientially if any of that is true , but understood that it would contribute to me becoming more conceptually aware in the direction where i am headed. 6) Studied Science , recognized its beauty , but also its flaws 7)In end of 2021 , i also realized one more important thing and that was how to be non judgmental , and i am not quite 100% successful in that , earlier i used to sort of convert people to what i believed in , but after i realized that i did not know and what i thought my knowledge was , was really nothing but a mere perspective . I tried to step to others shoes and started to see that their beliefs ideologies are really sensible for them to have considering how they grew . I also realized how fortunate I was , i had the best education and no traumas or anything, even my body was mostly healthy. 8)My main goal of life is awakening , although i still have alot of petty desires like having a girlfriend and a intimate relationship but since i am 19 , i have alot of time to burn them off , the awakening is my GOAL for life. The only regret that I have (sort of ) is that I find no real 3d person with whom i can really talk to about this stuff , most of my friends are chasing material well being and/or playing video games , drugs , parties etc. My parents think i have become a nut case and they are probably in stage blue and think i am sinning of sorts by not believing lol. But i realize that maybe awakening would make this issue better (maybe worse! who knows).the other regret i have is that i never entered into relationships etc. but that is that I would really like to thank Leo and a million other teachers I still have only touched the tip of the iceberg , there is whole iceberg left still , hope you guys enjoy reading my progress and please give me some suggestions and tips on how to grow . Lastly , i really think covid fucked me up

This may seem like a silly post to most of you , since cutting hair is normal for 99.99% of you, but I was born as a Sikh, so in Sikhism cutting hair is not allowed/prohibited . So kind of a big deal for me . I tried to find people on internet who wanted to this , and I also found some on Reddit , but those people were ridiculed by stage blue people of my religion and were given advice about how people sacrificed themselves for hair and what not and you shouldn’t do this as you will never be able to attain god and what not. + those people who asked this question also wanted to cut their hair for silly reasons for having sex and getting girlfriends.(they are some nice perks tho) I want to do it because it for some reason takes away my freedom (not in any spiritual sense) because i think I could not try shaving my head because of this ideology (just an example) and it will keep me stuck and also because of religious beliefs I will never be able to try out the some things which my religion will prohibit and I don’t want that . I want to experience everything for myself and I want to see for myself what works for me and what does not and worst of all I don’t want to limit the possibility of experience just because of religion. I am interested in spirituality and meditate daily though unlike most of you , I don’t have many experiences which are mystical considering I am just 18 , but I don’t think that I could not find God if I cut my hair (lol) , …. because then why did some Buddhist get awakened (they are bald lol) and Leo also has no hair lol + I also don’t like that wearing a turban and having a beard has a stigmatised image in the society and I personally want to be free from that + I can’t manage my hair well actually What do you guys , am I don’t the right thing? I have tried to take this decision as consciously as I can , I have contemplated on it also , I have not thought of doing this just because of some really compulsive desire

@Raptorsin7 oh i didnt know there was another sikh in the forum.thats good advice tho and the thing is we cant help the family members getting angry , they are mostly stage blue i think . btw , have you had your haircut?

Let me tell you my story , I am an 18 year old and i had very good grades throughout high school and i can get the best of the best colleges , but few months ago , i chose not to take admissions in the prestigious colleges because of the heavy debt it would incur on my family . My family is not that rich , so if i had to go to a good college , my family would have had to take a huge loan from the bank , but i thought that , it would be a very bad financial decision for my family , so i decided not to take the loan . Now I am not in a really great college , and honestly the people in my college arent very motivated to do someting with their life and that doesn't upset me since i am intrinsically motivated and I hadn't even noticed until someone pointed this fact out to me . The thing is today one of my friends , who is very rich and he is studying in ucal berkeley , called me . He was all like "You have wasted all your talent , you could do so much " etc and started bragging about how his college mates were people from big family businesses and sons and daughters of some famous people , and how my college was dirt cheap and people there were unmotivated nuts and all . Since i am kind of embarrassed of my family situation , i didnt tell him . Then he started bragging about how people from his college were making more than a million dollars a year etc. I told him that money is not my highest value and i would be happy as long as i have enough to pursue my life purpose , spirituality and health and little bit of luxuries (maybe about >$150000/year salary US equivalent on the east coast) . I told him about how I want to pursue other things than money like relationships , spirituality and different types of health regimes etc and how i want to live my life purpose for fulfillment rather than earn like a million dollars a year. As soon as i told him about all this , he was like "Thats all nonsense , you will realise how much money is important , that is all nonsense , you should be more competitive and have higher standards " and he also told me that even a million dollars is small amount of money and how he wants to be a billionaire by the time he is 45 . Then i told him that i know money is very important , but his need for so much is just greed and what not . He then got very angry about how i was belittling him even though i could never see the happiness that money could buy and soon he started calling me poor and what not so I hung up . Soon After I got thinking and thought that i could go to best colleges and i did not and i got jealous . I am pretty sure that i can land a high paying coding job , since i already have a good portfolio . But still i got jealous listening about he is roaming around with the elites and i am still in a normal community . I am also jealous about how he brags about his college and how I have nothing to brag about . I want to ask , did i make the right decision ? was i right not to go to a good college because my family had to incur a huge debt , they are not capable of paying (and also other family and money issues)? would i have something extraordinary had i gone to a good college?

I am currently 18 years old right now . Do you guys think that i should start dating , i haven't dated anyone yet , neither am i rush to do it. I think right now I should focus on studies and building a career etc. The Reason I am asking this question is because i want to ask , if i dont start dating/relationships now , will it be too late after establishing a career , or should i start now ? the other reason i think i shouldnt date is not because i dont want to , i think it will distract me and i am also really introverted etc. So when should i start dating?

but isnt this the time to build the foundation for a good career etc ? Dating and learning pickup takes alot of time and energy investment , you cant really deny that , can you ? isn't waiting a good option? is there a way to manage both building a solid career + relationships , because most relationships i see around me require one of the partners to invest alot of time and money on the other person and it really bothers me and makes me think that relationships are a waste of time . One of my friends keep messaging her gf all the time , thinks about her most of the time , wastes precious money on her and in return she gives her sex , as tempting as it sounds i dont think this a good deal . that friend of mine is really wasting his time when he needs to investing time to build skills , dont you think so ?

When I was 11-12 years old , i wanted to be a billionaire , but now i think that isnt worth the time , because there are many other facets of life to be explored , and for 1 thing that i have proved to myself is that money (and the things money can buy) cant buy permanent happiness , they can only provide momentary stimulation and fleeting happiness . At the same time i am aware of importance of money . Money helps me pay the bills , it helps me create a infrastructure , so i can explore other facets of life , it me helps me travel , it lets me go to seminars , it lets me get knowledge etc. But i wonder what is necessary amount of money one would like to have in his life , for ex: maybe 1 million dollars , maybe 500,000$ or maybe even 10 million $ how much $$ is enough before one starts to fall into endless loop of getting more and more money? NOTE: pls dont write absurd figures which are way too high and say " lets suppose you want a aircraft for so & so , ergo you need to have 10 gazillion $", pls only write practical figures , if at all you write figures.