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A very experienced meditator can be completely aware in the presence of "distractions". Because every so called distraction is just a sound or a picture, which can be observed non-judgemental just as you can observe your breath. However the challenge becomes harder if the sounds and pictures have content. The mind wants to interpret it, hence its harder for you to be free of the mind. Two solutions now: 1. Cope with it, and learn to meditate with distraction. This is way harder and will mostly result in frustration. OR 2. Move out from your parents home. This will turbo-charge your personal development at your age.

Yeah cold showers have a similar effect as well. But this stuff is super impractical when I'm at work flirting with a hot co-worker or at a date. Not to get aroused in the first place is a viable option, but getting aroused is fun. This fun really makes it hard to stay away from sexual thoughts in such circumstances.

Maybe with 11 different, but sometimes several times with the same girl. Just now i was on a date and literally had to say I had stomach problems so i could exit this painful shit. Some girls know about this problem, but most think I'm joking.

Neural link will be a further step for science to realize that consciousness is not found in the brain. There are many other signs that this realization is going to happen in the next decades. The scientific paradigm will crash onto itself.

So metaphorically speaking im asking as a rather unexperienced chess player who is the best chess player in the world. And as an inferior chess player its hard to know just by observing other chess players who is the most advanced. The only thing i know is that consciousness can grow infintely. So who are the teachers, who have the most wisdom and least delusion? I often hear Leo say that most other teachers have not realized 1% of what can be realized through increased consciousness, but maybe he himself has not realized 1% of what can be realized. How could he know? Thats the main property of infinity. There is no end to it. This is not said to question Leo, I just want to know if there is someone else, who has had similar awakenings and wisdom, to learn even more.

I have this intuitive feeling that artists, who got famous in coorperation with their ego (like most rappers), cant really sing/rap about enlightment and awakening authentically. Usually they are so caged in their mind that even if they feel a certain pull to consciousness they usually struggle to make art out of it. I hope we see more examples like Jim Carrey, where the ego imploded onto itself and made room for awakening.

Whoa, didnt knew german rap can be this wise and intelligent Thanks for this amazing recommendation

@Moksha Thank you for your words. That means i'll stick to Leo for now. Lets see what teachers the universe will reveal to its self.

So I have been experimenting with different meditation techniques lately with varying results. But there is one technique I find super practical and useful, which has direct effects on your consciousness for the rest of the day. I call it the "assisted thought awareness practice". Here is how it works: You just sit down and meditate. But this time you have a journal or a piece of paper in reach. And every time you become aware of a thought rising up, you just write it down. It's important that you write everything down, which fills your consciousness with mental images. Everything. After 30-40 minutes, you end up with a list of totally random thoughts. There are so random and aimless, that you intuitively start to question the bullshit your mind throws at you. This also kick-starts your appreciation for just being, instead of mentally masturbating about the concepts of being. Also, every thought you wrote down seems to be "exhausted" and won't suck you into it more. This is especially useful if some thoughts are plaguing you. This practice could be best described as a clean mirror to the face of your unconscious mind. For the first time you see what garbage has been sold to you as "your thoughts", with whom you can't identify anymore.

I feel the same. I felt in love with "Worakls", "N'to" or "Joachim Pastor". Electronic music, with deep orchestral tunes. No words, no meaning, but the music tells stories for the whole night

@Matthew85 Sounds intuitive. I still wonder if this reality, which is experienced right here, is the infinite perfect form for consciousness to evolve, or if there is an infinite amount of other realities, which share this property. Both scenarios are just as interesting.

I'm laying here in bed in the middle of the night and wondering if this moment right here, will change after death. Or if it's never going to change structurally. With structure I mean if consciousness will also be filled again with the same illusions, like the same color spectrum, trees and flowers, humans or that feeling when you lick on ice cream. As it has been said here many times on this forum, that consciousness is not restricted to any form, it itself dreams up its restrictions. So why shouldn't it try out completely new structures to form? Like a weaker gravitational force or a completely different sensation to eating ice cream? To me this question is so intrigueing, because I like to believe consciousness will choose this actual structure right here over and over again, so our consciousness bubbles will get "recycled" when we (God) try out other bubbles of consciousness. I would love to live through Leo's life for example. His exact life. See how it its to be him. Or to be any other forum member here. Any concrete insights on this question?

@Sempiternity Of course. Eventually we all gonna know. But isn't it the point of this forum to gather truth from more conscious parts of consciousness?

That's a reoccurring problem in this forum. Most stuff has been said already precisely and unmistakable by Leo in his videos. So conceptually there is no answer I could give you which would satisfy you. Just trust the process that life will unfold it's beauty and intelligence right before your eyes if you live more in the territory rather than in the map. For me the concept (or map) or love being the ultimate reason and truth to everything transformed into the actuality (or territory) just by enormous amounts of consciousness. But consciousness is so incredibly intelligent that it hides himself from you, because discovering that territory is the most delicious thing in the universe. You know that, the universe knows that.

Its a powerful technique. Just become aware of whatever is appearing in your consciousness, and delete all mental constructs and ideas about this object. Notice how mysterious this object gets. I recommend Leo's video called "What Is Actuality?". He points towards the difference of your idea of an object versus the direct experience of the same object, which as you can discover differs a lot.

When you silence all mind activities, there are no concepts or explanations why you are here, and what you perceive. You look at your hand, but there is no hand. There are just perceptions, and awarness of perceptions. You just perceive. No labeling. If you practice this everyday, it will become natural for you to wonder about how anything can exist at all. This wondering will lead to appreaciation and love. I think thats what he meant.

Would be interesting to know if someone here in this forum actually tried datura or this mushrrom above. I imagine it to be a strong mental and physical horror trip. But who knows, maybe there are people, who have gotten some value out of them. But why take deliriants, if normal non-toxic hallucinogenics are just as abundant. Its like quenching your thirst with vodka.

Over the last year's I had mediocre results from meditating quite frequently. Maybe it's because I compare it to psychedelics. However, I really want to try the "sober" route for now. The major problem that keeps my consciousness from getting brighter is that I absolutely like thinking. Sometimes a random thought comes up and appears just as interesting as a good movie or game. I don't want to quit a movie or a game, when it's getting exciting. And every time I release that thought and focus on breathing again, I feel like I missed out on something, which could have developed my psyche. Following that thought can occupy almost my whole meditation session. So how do you guys, handle such "addictive" thoughts?

Shouldn't this mean reality would be completely random? After all it appears as if there is some kind of order to it. After all the big goal of consciousness is to evolve into absolute love/truth. For me this implies its bound to some sort of order.

Some top level inquiry there. I add another view from someone, who feels the same. Perhaps God is so absolutely unbiased that you can bend your definition of success to every degree you want. God will love this definition just as much. In the end we are all given this finite level of consciousness, so personal development won't end permanently in infinite God. Duality will be established again. So why think about the pleasure of playing piano in comparison to infinite truth and love. God wants you to make judgements and set preference in order for it to feel this duality.

Keep this spirit up. Dark times will come again. And thats fine. Make some commitments now, before your ego eats out of you again. Personal development is like the stock market, with many "irrational" ups and downs, but somehow it has always grown.

@allislove @Swarnim 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes before sleeping. Although the evening sitting turns into sleeping quite frequently. I had some better results with eyes open and looking at my hand, because my thoughts are very visual. Probably has something to do with the constant visual media consumption. Dropping expectations is a big one. After reading about and listening to God consciousness reports and enlightment stories the spiritual ego wants to make this enlightment stuff it's bitch. Hard to get around that.

Actually most people use this forum to challenge him here.

@flowboy Thats interesting. I mean the part of no ejaculating while still having an orgasm. Did this happen to you by accident, or was there a specific technique involved?

Leo also talked about how you could even get a psychedelic indused tinnitus. I have this condition since about 6 years, and my tinnitus even decreased since im meditating/doing psychedelics. However this "visual tinnitus" or visual snow increased with the trips. Interestingly during the trips its totally gone. Only after a few days it comes up again. Sometimes annoyingly bad, but sometimes just subtle.