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Facts. Intermittent fasting with black coffee (not more than 2 cups per day) + Low carb will shred fast. Weight lifting also increases metabolism. What I am doing now for a week is doing Intermittent Fasting for 6 hours, then bulletproof tea (tea blended with grassfed butter and coconut oil in 2:1 ratio), to semi-prolong the fast. I am having stomach issues which causes extreme acid reflux and bloating when eating. Just like Leo I found that plants have the worst effect on this. So Fasting and high fat works extremely well for me. I eat veg only in the evening but it causes the most pain of all foods except for maybe sugary foods which I have cut out completely, grains almost completely.

" The teachings is that self and other is a duality that can collapse." This i agree with. This is not what Leo teaches. He writes and teaches like the ego is real and imagines all of reality. "YOU invented OTHER! Silly." word choice is almost never unintentional.

How can a "bubble of conscioussness" even exist? Why do you assume such a bubble to exist, when it clearly does not? I thougt the only thing that exists are appearances, which according to y'alls logic would exists within the bubble. but the bubble itself does not have an appearance, so why assume it exists? Also, if this is the truth, seems very simple. So simple that I thought of it years ago as a possibility of reality, years before discovering Leo's work. Seems a bit to easy to think off for a 15 year old weed smoker sitting on a bench to think off, if it is the ultimate truth of all things and creatures nature.

Just as i am looking at a screen and keyboard now, there are many objects. if there are many objects why wouldn't there be many subjects, even if all imaginary. You are saying all subjects are imaginary except 'the one'. What bullshit. One God means oneness, not solipsism. you equating the two is completely ungrounded. Ill tell you exactly what I have a problem with. I know everyone in my dream is imaginary, and also in life. yet you tell me it is my "own" construction, like there is a seperate self in this context of discussion. Like you want the disfunctional psychological self suffering of the ego, to co-opt this story of imagination. You want the ego to think it is imagining all things, instead of having the ego realize it's own non existence, to then realize Consciousness, God and imagination. This is proven by your use of language, using very personal language and imagery which speaks to the ego. Even in the imagined world, no matter imagined by whom or what, It would be extremely deluded for any creature to say it is the only one present, and that all 'others' are just imaginary. the very notion, that I am sitting here with an experience, is actually untrue, even for myself assuming I am the endless solipsistic subject. Who are you to say, that you have an actual experience? You just assume you have. And you take this assumption to the ultimate conclusion of God and Solipsism. Any criticism of your theories you shut down as mental masturbation and not doing the work. This is honestly so fucking sneaky by you. I am imagining my own body, my own mind, I am imagining other bodies, other minds. So this "I" is just infinite and formless and does not have anything to do with solipsism. This I cannot be inside this body or ''mind" since it is being imagined by the real self. So what is your problem? Also, there is the question of your benevolence. You say this work is not about belief but this is fundamentally impossible in the way you have constructed it. Basically when you, Leo, look into your camera, talking about how "you" are the only one, solipsistically so, and not holistically, you are forcing people into either 1 of 3 options. option 1: you are malevolent, and do not believe your own solipsism talk. This means you are actively trying to harm and torment your audience. option 2: You are benevolent, yet completely insane and detached from reality. You take the non-falsifiable aspect of solipsism to its ultimate conclusion simply because you mentally can, and actually believe it to be true. option 3: You are benevolent and sane and are just saying the truth. People would never accept option 1, even though it literally might be true, supported by the fact that you talk to your audience about solipsism in a psychological thriller type of way, always saying "It's twisted as fuck" etc. Saying that the only thing holding together the illusion of life is your fear and denial of solipsism and death. YOU ARE LITERALLY THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD SAYING THIS. THERE ARE NO OTHER SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS WHO SAY THIS SHIT!!! (Like traditions all over the world have done with "God is Love") WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! LEO COULD ALSO TALK ABOUT IMAGINATION AND IDEALSIM IN AN INSPIRING AND LOVING WAY BUT HE DOES NOT! WHY IS THIS!? People also do not want to accept option 2, because you are so smart in other areas of life. So you force them to either deny a very smart person as malevolent or completely deluded, or to completely accept your shit. Hello Cult! I know everyone in my dream is imaginary, and also in life. Believe me I really have seen that there can be no reality but hallucination. but The way I see this is with complete equality, as a literal infinite dream universe. It caused me to realize the people in my sleeping dream are actually real! The human that I am is also a dream character. Yet you purposefully, nihilistically turn this around to make the people in life not real, instead of extending life to the dream characters. You want your audience to suffer and have anxiety about themselves, not trusting themselves. You have people believing they are scheming themselves endlessly with illusion of literally infinite power. How do you think that affects their self-love and self-confidence if you are constantly telling them not to trust themselves. You have done so much damage. This is the most twisted thing to say. It implies the very existence of YOU and OTHER even though they are literally words on a screen, to create this psychological thriller effect to ruin peoples lives. There is no original you imagining others, at least not in the "One Personal POV"/Solipsism way you say. That is purely imaginary.

Lol. If you still think you are the ego imagining things than you are indeed not awake. Do you realize there is literally no imaginer except for imagination itself? There is no core person which imagines all others. You are God precisely because there is no you to be God. There is only God. Zo the zoom call analogy is actually quite accurate. Where is the non imaginary core of your existence that imagines all other people? Why do you believe you are imagining others, and not that you are being imagined? Hello ego! Take some salvia and you will find out that this entire forums obsession/perversion with solipsim has just been a utter delusion.

Wrong answer. He literally already said it is all a dream of being finite. Now you are even saying that this description of reality (that being finite is a dream/unreal) is a story made by god. So what are you even saying here. Nothing at all, you are just trying to one up @Javfly33 while making the exact same argument as him. This is pretentious and stupid. You are completely negating any spiritual point being made about seperation and union, by just parroting some shit that Leo has said. "That is just a story by god" could literally be a reply to anything said ever. You are not making any point at all here.

Aka just saying the same stuff that Leo says to come across as awake in this forum. Dream on. If solipsism was really true why has not any religion or spiritual tradition talked about it untill now. But suddenly now there is a guy called Leo saying to other people that solipsism is real (which by itself is already so ironic its sad) and suddenly the people on his forum also experience this "truth". Show me people from outside this forum who think the same way. You are threading in dangerous waters with this post. More cult like behavior will not be accepted. Why do you just parrot the shit that Leo says? Because he is awake and now you are too? So basically that would mean this forum/community is the only one with the truth. That would be some major cult shit.

A lot of spiritual ego in this thread.

So if the stories about Shunya are true, we can conclude that a high degree of wokeness does not preclude extreme forms of ego still manifesting in the physical. More research needs to be done on this. We can not just presume the stories to be true.

@Leo Gura Shunyamurti states in his biography that he has done "deep and extensive entheogenic shamanic practice". (https://www.satyoga.org/shunyamurti-biography/ ) Do you, as a no-joke psychonaut, think he has had deep trips like you? how many teachers actually do psychedelics?

Some advice I can give: -Love all, trust few. You can still have compassion for people without trusting them or allowing them in your life. -Set personal boundaries and write them down. So you will always be sure what to do in unsure situations.

Hello Forum, I am in a very difficult time in my life right now. First I will lay out my background. I am a 22 y old white male from europe. I come from a loving middle class family where money was no major issue. Did not get brand clothes but 1-2 vacations a year, did get nintendo for my birthday etc. So you get the idea. By age 8 I had my first real traumas in the form of severe rejection and bullying by girls, and also verbal and physical bullying by guys. But I was blessed by always having loyal friends who stood up for me. In my country there are different levels of high school depending on a test you take in elementary school (there is no middle school) which basically measures your IQ. I went to a school where you had the two highest levels (there are 4 levels or so), and I was in the highest level part. In high school, In the second year I was also bullied by "friends", with whom I started smoking weed with. I have been an addict ever since. I was also rejected by girls however not bullied by them. I was actually considered one of the "cool kids" as time grew on. Many of my friends were very popular with girls and the hotter girls of my year were actually friendly with me. This reframed for me that girls were not just hateful beings but were actually just like me, even though I still had extreme fear of rejection and anxiety around them and was always thinking that they hated me. During my time in highschool I also became a survivor of sexual abuse. I will not go into detail besides from the fact that it was not in any way related to a family member and the fact that it was not rape. It was extremely traumatizing and life changing. Around when I was 18 starting my last year of highschool, already years later after that incident I was so fed up with being a virgin that I decided to visit a prostitute. I couldn't get fully hard and even though I fucked her a bit it was really schocking for me that I could not get a boner and that I felt so much fear and anxiety throughout the entire ordeal. Distraught I went home. I should add that I am a porn addict sice 15 although at the time I thought it was normal. I did finish highschool, and it has been 3 years as of writing this since i got my diploma. Like I told you it was the highest level high school so I can go to university. I have applied a couple of times but always quit instantly because of social fear, and hating the idea of college and getting a middle class job. I am afraid that will not work for me like it worked for my parents and that I will end up completely alone without a wife or gf. Plus I don't even want to work a job, my passion is music and I want to get rich off that. I have been following Leo's content and have been inspired by him to follow my dreams and create a self actualized life. And I am afraid that in college the whole sexuality thing will just get worse. Even if a girl would like me i would be so afraid of not getting hard that I would just avoid her or make some excuse, such a situation has already happened. I keep failing nofap and i keep failing with quitting weed. Both are severe addictions. Recently one of my very best friends wrongly accused me of stealing money from his home belonging to his mother. This came so out of the blue and was extremely devastating, of course i cut him off instantly. He also has extreme issues, including weed addiction but also alcoholism. The whole situation is just fucked up. This was a very short background of me. Thanks for reading.

@Nahm Thanks for your advice. By the way the above post makes my life sound quite grim, and it has been at times, but there is also a lot of love, joy and inspiration that I am happy and grateful to have lived through. I Love life and that I is why I just have to move past all the bullshit from my past.

Makes sense, but inside my own mind everything is also "absolute nothing". What ontological distinction are you making here?

How do you organize goals and progress in personal development? Would it be a smart idea to create a file for yourself similar to an rpg character? And to organize everything in personal development like skills and knowledge just like you would with an rpg character?

This is actually exactly the issue I am struggling with, also with Music/Other biz conflict. I feel your pain. On one hand you want to just work hard af on your music but you know it's a risk you can't necessarily afford since music can be very hard to monetize at times and is of course very unpredictable in it's success (at times). And not only does this survival bound fear drive you towards other means but also on the other hand, the love for the utility and convenience the money would bring for your LP, you would be able to buy equipment, rent studiotime, rent recording artitsts, the music industry oyster would open itself up a bit more for you. Like Leo said I guess it's just a matter of discipline and character, we have to balance it out ourselves. There is no black and white solution and we have to pave our own way to success like anyone else who has succeeded.

I have seen you use this word "Mysticism" in a way to describe a worldview before, it confuses me a bit. do you truly mean this: "belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender." (Definition of Mysticism on Google) Does the worldview of Mysticism also have to do with Infinite Imagination and the premise that reality is a dream? I once had a lucid dream where it became shown to me that the Universe is an Infinite palace of dreams, seams of dreams sown together appearing separate at times, while there is actually only one Infinite dream going on forever. Does this description ring any truth in your experience or is this just some New-Age bullcrap. Another question now that we are on the subject, do you think astrology & zodiac can have a real influence on your life as a person? It might be imaginary but so is your dick, let's not reductionistically shove all this shit to the side. (same with past lives etc)

My background, might be good to read since I'm new: ======================================================================================================================== This video really changed it all for me: Thank you Leo for this video, It allowed me to develop this vision for my life: I want to be rich because of luxury, freedom and survival value, and so that I can give a lot to the poor and misplaced. I want to give money to my family and friends so they can live good and reach their goals. I want to become extremely good at music and have my music change lives and creativity. I don't want to hate myself anymore. I want to love myself. I want to travel and explore the world. I want to explore consciousness with psychedelics and astral projection, maybe other occult things. I want deep understanding of the world, life and reality. I want to be very fit and strong, and be able to do physical-spiritual things like wim hof. I want to create a musical empire. I want to have my own video game company. I want to create mystical street art for my city I want to live a self actualized life and travel up the Spiral, integrating the healthiest parts of each stage. I want to heal from my traumas and become healthy in every aspect. To just have a healthy sexuality. I want to heal from my addictions. I want to fuck hot girls, egoic shit with friends of course, at least now im still young. I want to find out the Truth, although I don't want to do Mahasamadhi. I want to basically have the best life possible for me to create. These are almost all quite noble goals. However, there is one thing that I want to do which has turned out to be quite the ethical dilemma for me. Financial options have come to light for me, which can make me a lot of money. I will be able to quit my job which only pays me 1300 a month, and I will be able to finally move out of my parents house (rent is literally unpayable here), to only focus on music, the financial option, and personal and spiritual development. Right now that would be my dream. This financial option can make me rich, and I would be able to invest a whole lot of money into my music business. Right now I am afraid to not be accepted by the music industry or have a very hard time in it and only getting a small position. That even if I would have all the skills and products at a top notch level it would still be like winning the lottery if I don't have the capital to invest in it first. I would be able to live a financially free life, already providing for my family and friends without having to have succeeded in music first, which is always a tricky and unsure business. I am also afraid to be socially rejected by the music industry purely because of my traumas, almost every interaction with people i look up to is just fucking mental suffering. The caveat is that this financial option does not provide any value to the opposing party whatsoever. the opposing party is a big corporation. One one hand I want to fully go for it and take every opportunity to live my best life and reach my highest goals. On the other hand I value work ethic and providing value and trusting to universe to eventually give you what you want after patience, faith and hard work. This is the fork on which I stand. I want to actualize my life purpose and live my best life, and I have a opportunity to actualize it, however this opportunity fits in less with the high consciousness life, making me doubt it. But I am realistically worried that I will not be able to actualize my dreams without it, plus I want to seize every opportunity that the universe gives me as long as regular people are not negatively affected. Thanks for letting me air it all out. feel free to share your thoughts.

@kinesin believe me bro, this is not a question of some shitcoin/mlm/ponzi that I've been fooled into. That is not what this question is about. Yes, this is about the moral question of whether taking advantage of the system is possible in a conscious ambitious life. In my case the top/elite of the kapitalist system would be taken advantage of.

@supremeyingyang That is not related to the standpoint of my question. Consider my question abstract, as in outlined above.