Natasha Tori Maru

That smoothing filter, my God. I may have heard wrong - wouldn't be the first time my brain inserted something I want to hear

I enjoyed it! They love their concepts 🫠 But great to see how they really fearlessly dove into any new insight Leo raised. Looking forward to pt2 +3. It was a good conversational format. I feel like a lot of viewers will enjoy this dialogue in contrast to Leo's usual video presentations.

I would be worried about meaning making and drawing conclusions. Miracles, magic, woo - it is the label we typically use for anything outside the realm of understanding for us. Notice that you may not understand how something happened - so you just slap 'solipsism' on it. But this is one of so many possible explanations... Solipsism is just a concept when used in this manner.

Oh! Thanks for the share - will watch Regarding Trump disclosing? I have to be realistic. So, I think nothing will come of it, sadly.

He spoke to context after the interview to clarify that 😁 I did notice the geriatric egotistical Trump had to come out and make a statement about disclosure. Didn't like the attention Obama got

I think some of Ralston's terms can be confusing. And our mind can make things VERY real. I am not contesting anything like that. What Ralston points to with his teachings on suffering are leaning into dissolving conditioning and healing. He would never term it as such, because he almost dies when someone frames his methods us such. He does not want to put any sort of 'aim' or 'outcome' in his students minds. All of us are working on our conditionings and dissolving them into ourselves as part of spiritual process. Wake up, clean up, grow up. This is the process of integrating Truth after realisation. After mystical experience. This is what his teaching about suffering is aiming toward, because when we see we cause some unnessecary suffering in our experience it is actually healing at the same time. Healing scars 'samskara' from the past. Remuneration. Memories etched into our primitive mind. The problem is 'stop doing it' isn't a method many can use. So I think much of some users dislike of Ralston is his brutal teaching methods that just aren't going to land for the typical person. Being yelled at to 'stop doing it, you are doing it' confuses many, and makes them feel like they are responsible for their suffering. We aren't responsible for our suffering from trauma in that, it is embedded in the animal 'brainstem' feeling part of the brain. It acts as a reflex. But it is possible to heal from this. After all, this is what therapy aims for. Self help. Dissolving conditioning. All of us must take responsibility for our healing. We cannot walk through life hurting those around us and claiming 'I have trauma, soz' I can see exactly why being told to 'stop doing it' is not going to work for most. It just so happens, it worked for me. It led to the realisation I was performing unnessecary suffering in my experience.

If anyone thinks Ralston teaches bypassing I suspect they have not read his books or understood what he is saying.

You describe the Sanskrit 'samskara' concept here. It is useful to know, the brain does not like 'new' problems. It wants what is familiar, certain. What is already experienced. Any new problem, conundrum, challenge forces the brain out of its survival 'comfort' mode. Whether that be the comfort of certain thoughts, fantasies, feelings etc. For this reason the human mind often moves toward the familiar, regardless of if it is good for us or not. This explains why we can be attracted to toxic people; it might be a pattern we previously experienced. And often the 'familiar' patterns are deep things learned from patterns of behaviour in childhood. With loves ones, friends, society. We return to these like a default. Working to change the reaction is work many cannot face. And in some cases, such as personality disorders, certain ways of being cannot be 'cured' (so to speak). I would like Ralston to comment on this. Because he projects his capabilities often.

@Hojo Brutal. Agree lol To be clearer - I think chatGPT is garbage. I think it is overused. Other AI LLMs I have found good use.

Gotcha 👍

@LambdaDelta Limitation is the biggest creative facilitator for me

Are the Jedi good or evil? Need to somehow work a video with Darth Maul makeup. The Darth Maul vs Obi Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn sabre fight scenes were SICK compared to the slow ass, turd choreography Disney vomit from the latest movies. The Jedi vs Sith perspective has always fascinated me. It is a great post highlighting how we can twist and perform all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify behavior. The Jedi love to taut 'Only a Sith speaks in absolutes' yet there are many instances the Jedi speak in the exact same absolute manner. The difference is their alignment with the integrity of unity/oneness/infinity.

@How to be wise Do we not know about groupies? Clout chasers? People love to get near someone famous. Sex opens that door. For men and women. It says nothing about the moral character or methods the 'famous' person engages in.

I hope I didn't express myself to lead you to think I made any such judgements as above - it was not my meaning. I did not intend to make any moral judgement regarding ego being good or bad. Merely that seeing through the ego, not deleting or subverting it, is one step to obtaining further clarity that leads to truth. I firmly believe you cannot kill the ego. Cannot kill something that was never there. As with all these topics, it is and isn't. There but not. At least, to my understanding

Do you think part of revealing the truth is in the removal, revealing, deconstructing or uncovering? If this is indeed part of the process (it 100% was for me) it appears there would be some who have more trouble seeing past their own nose (so to speak). Which, often, would be why psychedelics can get us over the first 'hump', seeing past the small self for the illusion it is. As an example - individuals with cluster b type personality disorders are going to have MUCH more trouble seeing through ego. Personality disorders are a different class of issues. From all evidence so far, they have genetic and structural elements of brain/body composition that present challenges seeing through the ego, clarity. They are rather gripped by it in a way others are not. That is not to say they cannot see past this to the truth. It is available. But they are going to have more trouble.

It does feel like Brendon's question is very basic beginner stuff. He may have asked this on behalf of an audience, and less for himself, to give Ralston space to address a common issue?

It feels like Ralston isn't (or willfully does not, so as not to create dogma) articulating much of his own internal process. He points toward that process being something the listener must find out and engage in themselves. Through trial, error, discovery. Process. Persistence. One thing about Ralston that gives me pause - I haven't heard him speak to individuals with real limitation. I raise this because it was something I suffered from on my early years; I would project a 'golden shadow' on others. Because I could do it, had done it, could get it, I was simply confounded as to why others couldn't. If they just stuck with it and tried they would be able to, eventually. A hard lesson for me was admitting some people just can't master some domains no matter how long they stick with something. I projected my own mastery and ability to reach expertise onto others. When they failed to reach my level I ended up very frustrated. He emphasises 'stick with it longer' as, possibly, his main differentiating factor. Rather than any sort of limitation others may be facing. It would be good hearing him speak on the nuance of individuals with personality disorders (a very different domain of limitation) or intellectual limitations. Perhaps he has? I haven't encountered it yet. Having said that, I haven't read his entire catalogue of works. And often, his stream of consciousness YouTube talks are very unstructured and unclear. Compared to his written works, at least.

Maybe the want the LLM sycophantic Leo 🤢🤮 Instant gratification on demand is what kids want these days. Can't wait 30 minutes for Leo, need NOW

Oh shit man, really heavy. My heart goes out to you (⁠o⁠´⁠･⁠_⁠･⁠)⁠っ Tbh when you are a bit more volatile on the forums I just assume you are in a pit of hell & suffering ❤️

Very tired and overworked 🥹 But only for a moment will I feel like this. So no big deal! You? Are you able to repost your original topic? Many good forum posts disappeared in the migration.

I haven't followed a lot of this topic so far. But all I can say is half the science on lifting is... I dunno. Some seems legit. Some just seems like it is steering people into focusing on the wrong thing. Just progressively overload and up intensity each workout. Always make sure you bring intensity. Increase in whatever domain you are aiming for. Done

What do you consider the qualities of a woman?

So far so good. Hopefully it wasn't a massive pita. A noticeable improvement! I'll post here if I notice any juju on my end. Blog is full cooked. RIP Thank you very much

Also on preliminary scan, looks like posts made within the last ~4 hours have been lost.

@Leo Gura if this was just completed in the last 2 hours, I noticed a change. Snappy loading now, rather than the long pause > load.