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kind of contradicting with the Concentration vs Meditation - How To Develop Concentration video

happy birthday leo, thank you for everything you've helped us all overcome lots of difficulties.

Each side had some good insights, but the Neoplatonists were right about more things than the Pyrrhonists. It helps that Plotinus was a careful reader of Sextus Empiricus and responded to his objections to dogmatism. In case you want some further reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/ Could you give us your insights on this leo?

Interesting ~ 'pineal gland starts to produce the neuro-hormone 5-MeO-DMT on day 6-8' if it's in a dark room retreat http://humansarefree.com/2015/07/dark-room-meditation-for-accessing.html I wonder what kind of diet would suit this, Or how do we go around being exposed to light cycles if we want to pee or eat? Do we fast it out? quote 'There are white retreats, yellow retreats, and black retreats. White retreats are normal. Yellow retreats are normal except that the meditation sessions are done in darkness. Black retreats are done in total darkness 24/7. That's hard to pull off with bathroom visits, meals and such. Maybe a yellow retreat is in order to start where you just cover your windows and turn out your lights during the meditation sessions. That's a lot easier to arrange. Plus you don't have to worry about trying to find your toothbrush in total blackness!'

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. J. G. Ballard To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. Marianne Williamson Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Bodhidharma Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

This guy truly has authentic love for life and people around him

Mysticism : learning the hidden truths of religion while ultimately being one with god through the universe or having various mystic like experiences? While enlightenment is more of something that can't be communicated but realized as a perceiver? Am i completely off? let's discuss

@Emerald Wilkins There are still problems with unconditional love Like one could be a doormat to the world. As one may not be able to live in peace without being used. It's still unbearable to love all of reality as there is a lot of stupidity, negative traits, cruelty etc. We still need to imply some rational steps instead of all that mental masturbation of being it is. As being it is can still be all of the above you mentioned with no problems what's so ever in either way so why even bother looping on it? It just loops in circles with whatever paradigm we use. Since life is technically a cherry pick of the presence nothing can ever be wrong as it's pure existence.

@Leo Gura does self-inquiry count as a meditation? I've googled it seems like it is but i'm just making sure how so? The mind is still creating noise during that state so how on earth is it a meditation?

What would be the best focus for your body? Some say it's best to meditate while empty so your body focuses on meditating and awareness only instead of halving it's energy to digest. While others say it's best to meditate with 30-50% of our stomachs full. What are the forum's thoughts and experiences while being mindful of your hunger levels, do your sessions differ because of it? It's quite subtle and hard to tell as i've only thought of it recently when i've been trying wif hof method months ago is when i noticed the breathing exercises were being blocked by anything i ate. It did not feel powerful as it was on an empty stomach. I never really eat 30-50% full as i eat once a day for auto phagy benefits. (Hence i'm pretty full most of the time)

@BeginnerActualizer hunger can go away over time, i feel no hunger everytime i wake up from bed the next day if i have a protein based food before sleep

@Alii practicality still exists, non-duality zen devil or so still exists even if it were an illusion, leo said so himself of various paths and the ignorance that occurs even after enlightenment it isn't the final answer as their's still a lot of filters whether culture or judgments or conditions involved. The direct experience is still an on going brain function. Anything you don't see is no longer in the direct experience but the practical world goes on, can we really control results all over the world from our consciousness of having our eyes closed? It seems too absurd. Why would a being create something that feels so imbalanced and unfair. I find my existential nature too random. Is this the really best we could come up with? Infinity..This isn't even everything but it still feels annoying being stuck in a low processing body that can't answer importance of various levels.

The ability to grasp our reality happens due to our perception of our brain since we are equipped with the current physical body our so called 'cpu/ram/hard drive'? I may be trying to look at more in a rational sort of way, I just want someone to clearly knock out my confusion of how i grasp this. How do i get a more accurate understanding of this. I've tried consciousness work i feel like it's more of a brain muscle exercise which adds more perception but isn't the ultimate answer to life. I can't seem to connect with reality as a hole. My mind keeps questioning, If i am everything and if everything is me and nothing at the same time. Why does reality have certain levels of depth when it comes to practical life? Why are there different levels of importance and a hierarchy of stuff. Even though we are conditioned by auto mated rules. (yet this is always our own self deception and our own projection) I just find it hard to stay positive about anything anymore, is it just me having an unhealthy ego? Yes i understand we can cherry pick at life. But in the end i am no greater nor less than an ant as we are all from the same source.. The pinael gland or more so our brain muscle is mainly responsible for getting a higher so-called perception but this perception is just again an illusion generated by our current body / cells, doesn't feel like the final answer from upgrading the physical system that we're in. As i meditate and try to notice where does my thought arise from and how? I just keep coming up with the same answer of these cells that randomly create or pull out strings off the brain, and i/we as people usually just grab them and flow without be conscious of the auto pilot subconscious mind playing us. As we think it is us that is in control, but awareness is more like sand as it slips away. Life has no purpose, it just is. I feel like I or we are a terrible god at times, hey we could've designed something better you know. Then again i'm conditioned and these thoughts are from a mere human psyche which is still the same divine pieces that were created by the unity so why does it feel wrong and right at the same time. I'm quite in loss for words clinging to reason, When it's quite simple of life's reason is to live and experience it nothing more or less. Everyone has different perception and levels of their awakening chakras you could (these namings just resemble how clearly one can see reality or what phase are their glands are at, yet we can't really identify with how much bloodflow or brain muscle/white/grey matter is there) So it is ultimately determined from the hardware with how much of this new illusion is seen? Seems like we're getting no where at this rate of being uncertain again. Is truth really beyond the hardware of the body can we really experience it instead of being played by the same hardware to be seen as truth of a new illusion? Pineal gland/Cortex/hippocampus/amygdalla grows overtime when we meditate as it builds more gray matter in our brain hence the perspective shift overtime due to longterm commitment to grow it to the point where our way of seeing reality changes due to upgraded sensors/upgraded awareness/conciousness. Which is why the dogma still exists under any culture or zen/yoga/hindism/buddhism type of meditation as the ignorance is still present with the upgraded brain thinking it sees clearly when it doesn't. It just forms a newer self-deception that's what the mind is good at. It just copy pastes what is around it, mirrors the world not realizing it's on an auto pilot of limited free will.

Maybe chem engineering reaches a stage where it can re-arrange any atom/molecules into anything, That would probably mean using every waste we have turning it into 3d printed food or materials. I can see an age where we actually torrent blueprints to get print out even oldern type of tech/material or even food. A cam that actually records a new type of file format that has complete specs edges in and out scan of any object/place that it may replicate into a 3d printer with perfection. Photographing a 2120 pizza from joey's or some McDonald's burger and actually printing it at 2200 as if it were the same restaurant of your homeland back then, Quite something. Dna computing / Quantum computing / Wetware computing being perfected allowing us to enjoy dark/black magic like tech that is beyond us right now. Feeds the ego with lots of entertainment as it's lazy. Perhaps even writing complete scripts of games/movies/series/anime with various themes within seconds of using certain algorithms etc. a 100 years? Maybe 200 or even 800 who knows. These are all possible. Back in the day Mark Twain wrote about the internet before it was made. He wrote that you could talk to a box and someone on the other side of earth could talk back in that box and it's possible for them both to hear each other at the same time. Everyone said it was impossible, Guess what this box is right now? your typical phone or computer. Same thing with this box recording moments and later playing it. Like your typical camera. All this sounds crazy to us right now but it's mathematically all possible. However he did predict it wrong, He said that only people with high art and scientists will have access to these and we all know that's not true as a high percent of the internet is porn viewed by people being far away from being scientists or even being artistic. Man and cyborg can be mixed, why not? We are already seeing signs of it happening today a guy losing an arm or leg having a mech hand or leg detecting his nerve signals. Is already happening as wetware computing exists even though it's in it's early phases. Genetic Engineering will also play an interesting role in the future for sure, Modifying human capabilities to be more intelligent or have higher capacities to process things around them, having maybe even higher awareness than the current humans would definitely be something, I can see us being split to 3 types of societies, pure breed (natural), half breed half engineered and pure engineered humans. It's quite unfair to compete in a society where you don't really have advantages as your perfected or enhanced human that may not need rest or eat often for fuel and are not affected by eating unhealthy toxins, can compute much faster or have an insanely high learning curve or understanding as it may be ahead of 1.5% DNA or even 5 or 10%, a 2/3/4 digit ahead of evolution done so early would be interesting to see as that is what a greater society than our current state probably have. Advanced robotic tech is interesting too, Scraping out old layouts and re-engineering a whole country to optimal spaces for high well being functioning society sounds nice.

@ULFBERHT I've tried wif hof method months ago, I felt like there were no benefits of it if i were to eat right before doing it or somewhere around an hour or 6 hour range, It's best done on an empty stomach like a long fast, perhapsa skip morning and done at mid day would show you the most benefits give it a try. @Marc Schinkel How about getting one of these instead

I feel like I'm backsliding like crazy ever since i got tinnitus last month, all my positive affirmations are dying slowly, I am unable to sleep well, I don't feel well rested after my sleep i just feel like complete crap, i stopped meditating as i fear it may increases my tinnitus duration due to keeping the brain healthy which in order leaves the tinnitus longer. The reason i got tinnitus is due to brain supplementing on nootropics, which probably grew some auditory neurons which is a form of brain malfunction. I'm just waiting it out as it dies. No idea how long it takes to die according to the ENTP specialist that checked my ears and gave me a full pitch test check, She said my ears are completely fine with no damage whatsoever. I feel like i shot myself in the foot even though I've researched the supplements for months before taking them. Guess my genetics weren't compatible. Not only that but i also messed up my liver/kidney/intestine got myself Hemorrhoids by overdosing on black cumin for months.. (i thought i was on a safe dose but i wasn't) + I'm deficient on vitamin d, got high cholesterol due to eating 4 eggs a day and i'm allergic to sleeping drugs as i my body can't handle them for some reason, they cause me to feel like i'm about to experience a heart attack as blood doesn't flow quite well with them. I barely get any sleep at night it sucks. I've been feeling suicidal lately which is something i never saw coming, I always thought i found a reason at life once i was self actualizing on my journey trying to get optimal results in my life in every way although by being extra health conscious which backfired due to bad judgements on bio hacking really fucked me beyond my expectations. I've cycled to leo's free content 3 times, I've recently got several self help books too 15+, Bought the life purpose course which i can't really partake in due to university right now and as well as the tinnitus is causing me to not have a proper clean mind state, Maybe i'm just playing the victim again as i'm not really taking responsibilities in my life blaming my crappy health which i caused. I really feel lost slightly.. I guess i just have to keep positive and keep going as worrying or fearing won't really help me now will it.

@jse I've been doing everything on this video up till late December, I've stopped exercising since i got hit by a car as i walked down the street, and i've still got this pain in my left leg, Thought i'd let it rest although the pain goes and comes randomly. I don't mind living with it although the problem being always positive is difficult with common brain fog through out the day, it's really hard to tame my head to be positive all the time as the mental clarity isn't there. My awareness It just dies when i don't see any results and i get agitated and annoyed when i don't get any sleep quality. I wake up several times a night even when i just start to dose off. It feels terrible.. Thanks for the vid, i Know i'm still whining but i'll give it a try i'll try to be more positive and practice healthy habits. Time probably heals everything i'll get used to it eventually. I feel like my ego is not getting over it i'm not accepting it which is probably i can't get any rest as i want my health back instead of adapting through with the brain fog and no sleep or low sleep intake.

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@jse All i have right now is confusion as my brain just comprehends life really slow compared to the past as there's very low mental clarity, I have days where i sleep 2-3hours. I have days where i sleep 4 or 5. I have days where i'm just wide awake all night and i may drop asleep for an hour or 2. I have difficulty speaking. I have difficulty understanding. I can't even find the words while in a conversation. I can't express myself neither can i understand or solve things at times, My thought process stutters. I just have major brain fog most of the day. I just really don't see how I'll ever shine out of this. I feel like my brains burning. I don't feel good, all i feel like i am just a whining kid that's fatigued and can't rest. Thank you for your kind words either way it made me smile and i hope it's temporary even if it's not it won't be so bad as i don't really exist do i.

I just want my health back. This sucks i feel like crap all day, I feel like i'm in a different body compared to the past, How long is this going to last..? I just want this tinnitus to go away.. I just want to sleep in peace without hearing 5 different tones constantly being there. I just want to meditate in peace with more mental clarity then observing an ego that's always sleep deprived, sad and annoyed about his health. I wish the internal bleeding would stop, I'm tired of daily pooping blood and feeling cold and fatigued the whole day.. due to blood loss, I guess it's going to be permanent as i've been feeling like crap for months now.. I really hope it's temporary, I hope this body somehow manages to patch things up. I just just wish for my average health that i've had.. I just found a reason to live last year and now it's already taken away from me due to my health. I wouldn't mind it if i had no reason to live but having a sudden sense of wanting to live for the goal that i've set to myself and falling into illness is just absurd timing ironically. I miss the feeling of how it felt liking like while holding a map knowing where i want to go in life. As i began explore deep into self help content. But it's just insanely hard to do anything at this point that i just feel like suiciding at this point. I feel so weak I miss my most basic physiology need. I really miss sleeping in peace. I miss reading going through a book in a day. I miss binging 8~12hours of Leo audio at the weekends. I miss determination sitting. that last for 16 hours. I miss so much of it. I feel like i lost a lot of power and i am no longer taming the ego as it just isn't equipped with being more aware anymore as it just keeps whining like a victim that wants it's sleep and average health back.

@ElenaO Your desire to narrow down your sight/lens to commitment and improvement has it's side effects. Notice how you projected/judged that 'there is no place for games or watching tv :D)' Quote Then again ironically i did judge you for off a single post it would better be if i just accepted the situation and moved on as there is nothing wrong with it as life is neutral. As acceptance is truly key when it comes to unconditional views/unattached views vs justifying with ego. I did point out however that it was just based off a single text and i did read through a few of the earlier posts but i was skipping through the content wondering. Hence not really putting much effort into this. Don't mind me as my projection could be wrong, Just try to examine it yourself maybe. If you feel like your fine then, I'd say play skeptic a bit longer as it does help seeing things overtime on how you feel about your certainty lies. Either way do whatever floats your boat.