Buck Edwards

Empowering leadership decisions through data. Full video here. https://youtu.be/f0T_wZC8jhc

A great talk on emotional intelligence.

Leo's video on being a strategic MF. Is everything alighned to what you want? If not, then you aren't on the right track. Your destination is only right around the corner when you're on the right track. So what should your purpose be? You might have a lot of conflict going on in your life right now. But that's okay. Life is about balance. The ultimate key is a set of keys and you gotta know how to juggle these like a professional juggler. The lock is a dynamic lock. It's gonna change every few seconds. You need to know which key to fit into this lock in the present moment. Leo talks being a strategic motherfucker. That's what you need to be. But to be a strategic motherfucker, first get your principles right. Your goals firmly aligned. Your virtues and disciplines in place. Now act accordingly. I know life cannot be too formulaic. You have to be adventurous. Once again only when it's really time for adventure. Other than that, any risk you ever take can easily be a nail in the coffin, take you miles away from what you wanted. Be on the lookout.

First, I want to clarify that I don't thinking studying can replace enlightenment work/meditation/ mindfulness. However, I suspect that studying can aid the process. To seriously study anything requires very intense concentration and willpower, similar to intense enlightenment work. Even though the two processes have a stark contrast in conceptual content, one being more thought oriented and the other more awareness oriented-- I believe that the two pursuits do not necessarily have to interfere with one another, as they can cultivate similar temperament, thus making the individual more suited to following both paths. I anticipate that there will be a strong backlash against rationality to those who are pursuing spiritual truth, but I believe in a harmony between rationality and post-rationality, a complementary relationship. I urge against simply abandoning it, rather exploring both rational and spiritual. I think rational thought can be a good way to avoid traps when seeking post-rational truths, so as to not mistake pre-rational thinking for post-rational truth. Also, being able to view things from the rational perspective helps model reality. You may believe that models are completely useless when you can directly access the Truth. However, I am suspicious. I think models can still be useful to those who have transcended to higher consciousness. EDIT: The issue is not so much the presence or absence of thought activity during meditation. Rather, the issue is the degree to which ones thought activity is driven, unconscious and fixated. The great majority of human beings are literally addicted to thinking. Even the most wretched substance abuser can go a few hours between "fixes," but most human beings cannot abide even for a few seconds without some sort of "thought fix." If there's nothing significant to think about, we fill the void with fantasy and trivia. Simply stated, meditation breaks the addiction to thinking. One is then in a highly desirable situation. When you want to have a complete experience of hearing and feeling (for example as you listen to music), you can do so without being compulsively pulled into thoughts which are not relevant to the music. When you want to have a complete experience of tasting and feeling, as when enjoying a bite of food, you can likewise do so. On the other hand, when it is appropriate to think, you find that your thinking abilities are vastly improved. This improvement in thinking stems from two causes. The first is easy to understand. The second is a little subtle. Breaking the compulsion to think simply means that the thinking process is no longer scattered by distracting forces. So when you turn your mind to some topic, you can penetrate that topic with great clarity and vigor. To draw a metaphor from the physical world, when thinking is no longer at the mercy of scattering forces, it becomes like a penetrating beam of coherent laser light. I'm quite convinced that this aspect of meditation makes a person a better student and problem solver and may actually raise ones IQ. Now for the second, more subtle way that meditation improves ones thinking abilities. Here once again a metaphor may be helpful. When a person works through a compulsive eating problem, they certainly don't stop eating. In point of fact they are able to taste and appreciate their food in an entirely new way. Analogously, when a person works through the compulsive need to have answers, the answers begin to come in an entirely new way. The thinking process becomes spontaneous and intuitive. Personal and spiritual insights well up effortlessly of their own. At this point there is no need to stop the thought process in order to be in a state of meditation because the thought process itself has returned to being part of the effortless flow of nature. Because this mode of thinking is so dramatically different than ordinary congealed thought, each of the major spiritual traditions has a technical term for it. In Christianity it is called sophia, in Judaism, chochma, and in Buddhism, prajña. TL;DR: Study of rational subjects doesn't have to be an obstacle to enlightenment. It can help, but not replace consciousness work.

THANK GOD dude. This is what I needed. I'm suffering in eternity and I wish to untangle all the cords. Get rid of my past karma for good forever.

Finally found a prayer on YouTube that is non religious and feels closer to heart Chakra. I felt blissful and relaxed after listening to it. It was creating motions in my brain. Just pure sacredness that is very rare to find. Wish I could compose my own set of prayers like this. 5 min guided morning prayer. Bliss out. Peace Malaga Enli.

I've noted your answer and feedback in my journal. Thank you!

We are a void that experiences itself through the human body. It's within human nature to not want the bad and only seek good, however most experiences are a mixed bag and in order to seek the good, we sometimes have to experience the bad as well. We ain't that lucky to have everything just laid out on a silver platter. (We are a void that experiences itself through the human body.) Just one person's perspective isn't gonna help you. Because we're all one big family. We all have something to offer. To infer that a single individual is enlightened of them all, is really endorsing the notion of a hierarchy in spirituality, it again alludes to notions of spiritual bypassing and spiritual narcissism, the messiah complex, the ultimate rabit hole of spirituality, you'd do better if you learned from a group of spiritual thinkers, each marinating their own perspectives and bringing that wealth to the table, try not to falling into this trap, the other trap being blind worshipping and completely surrendering your faith and belief to one leader/guru and this has the potential of not only staying ignorant of other multi-dimensional perspectives but also being ripped off and broken by the person you firmly trusted(happened to me), when the mask of the spirit guide comes off, it can be a terrible feeling of betrayal, lastly don't judge a book by it's cover, lot of people pretend to be spiritual although they must have probably hurt someone in their personal lives and done nothing of the sort they preach of. Only mega solution being is to keep all eyes and ears open to whatever and whoever, soak in the good and forget the bad, your best chance in the maze. Goodluck bro.

@ChrisZoZo a lot of people are just spiritually bypassing even if they follow Leo. Don't take anyone too seriously. Take everything with a grain of salt.

To be honest I don't think such people lurk on forums.

Compilations of different spiritual practices in light of recent awakenings.

One of the cleanest posts I read.

This is something I need to work on.

Exactly.

Haha funny.

I wanted to know the relationship between karma and pain body.

Yea the framing can go wrong in many ways, although the template or motive is about fulfilling each other's needs.

My advice is to take women a bit less seriously. You're trekking a dangerous road, something that I do myself. Putting so much into the opposite sex is playing with fire.

Haha cute. You angry bro?

@Michael569 bad sleep, no supplement, junk. Food. Xero exercise doctor.

Doing Kriya consistently, been practicing the beginner Pose for 80+ days, 10 min... get to Pranayama ASAP. I'm wasting time with all that beginner pose stuff. Pranayama is where the results lie. haven't found many reports on the long-term results of Kriya Yoga. Big claims but not really clear explanations of what changes. Be you, be happy, be awake, be enlightened. Good things come to those people who wait. Who dare. Who want. Who work with commitment. Don't give up. Even in the absence of appreciation. Be awake be enlightened If you're good, everything else is gonna be okay. Smell the flowers when you wake up in the morning. Things aren't as bad as they used to be? You see? be enlightened

Lately I've been into some cosmic stuff. Anything cosmic. Be it music. I literally dance to cosmic stuff. I am imagining myself as a bird with outstretched wings ready to fly. I'm looking into things that bring me closer to spirituality and away from materialism. All I can say it works. I'll also upload appropriate media (stay tuned) that goes hand in hand with my cosmic spiritual ideas.. More to come. This is Enli's Cosmic Realm. My cosmic world. Enjoy Enli.

Actually Leo's whole forum is asleep and Leo is awake. Wakey Wakey.

During the last session, The shackles of the mind were released. The conditions have been broken. It's amazing how much beauty has a reality around us, but we can not see it through our conditions. Everything was beautiful, vivid, amazing. My eyes were full of joy, life, innocence, happiness and gratitude for being alive. I felt the mind slowly sinking more and more in the present moment. I laid out on the lawn and looked up at the sky, it all became so obvious ... It was so obvious that I am not the body ... that it will soon die ... It's an amazing paradox. There is no such thing as human life ... We are a void that experiences itself through the human body. Woaaah .... I understood that there is only an organism and a consciousness that is perfect. I decided to go home. All the time I was accompanied by the beauty that I admired. When I saw the sunset, I almost cried. This can not be described. So this is real reality? Does it have so much beauty in itself? It's hard to believe it ... I sat in my training room, turned on the music and immersed in myself. I had some internal insights that were amazing. I experienced fractions of Samadhi's states when I was the whole moment, unidentified with my ego ... What a bliss ... For a second I felt the absolute of consciousness and tears came to me. It was indescribable.. I went to the mirror and looked into my eyes - shining with happiness, innocence and an inner child. Eyes of joy. I decided to go outside. As soon as I opened the door of the house and saw everything, I could not believe in amazement. How all this is magical ... Amazing ... Mysterious ... The streets looked like on another planet ... This is another thing that can not be described ... All lights, stars ... our life is the greatest gift you can get, the biggest a form of love, just a question of whether human can notice it ... I thought about my life. Important Lessons. Life is a present moment. Our human life is just a joke. We are a void that experiences itself through the human body. You have to accept death and live life to the fullest while our body is able to. Life is the greatest gift you can get. The largest form of love. The emptiness that accompanies us has a huge amount of happiness and joy. Pure Hapiness is effortless when nothing is left but a calm mind. Beauty is everywhere. The entire universe is a manifestation of love. It is sad that through the filters of the mind acquired by his human experience, man is unable to see the truth.