Daphne

Hi Leo could you please make a video about suffering and how it can benefit and be used in spiritual work?

this music opens my heart <3333

Yes! Im with you

lately ive been having lots of tingling sensations throughout my whole body.. mostly when i'm reading about spirituality, watching leo's videos, meditating, doing yoga, being aware it has almost become something i can 'turn on' like a sense when i want to.. is this because my body awareness is getting bigger? what would happen if i develop this 'sense' more? could it maybe be a healing power? prana? i'm not sure.. what do you think? my english isnt the best so please be kind

thank you @Telepresent that could defenitly be! however i also experience this feeling like energy in my body that i can shift and focus to a certain point. it feels almost like shifting water inside of me, i can decide the 'amount' and speed of it also. kinda hard to explain but this makes me think it could be more than just dopamine rushes?

Hi there, Everytime I try to contemplate on a certain topic my mind comes up with the same type of answer.. In one of Leo's video's he said you can NEVER be certain if something is real or what is Truth. So how can you ever know for sure? I can come up with lots of answers in lots of details but ultimately I don't know if it's really true. So it feels kind of useless to me? Everytime my mind comes up with: I dont know?? Because my (maybe lazy) mind comes up with a quick answer like that I find it hard to really contemplate deeply. Is this confusion 'good' or is this my mind trapping / tricking itself ? I don't see how contemplation is going to grow me because I feel like I can easily answer everything this way. Are more of you having this issue? Help would be appreciated

why exactly are you feeling like you're losing it again? what is changing in your life right now? how did you deal with it before? there are always going to be bad and good times, you have to find a way to deal with them, learn and grow. try to find the motivation to learn from the negatives and find the right balance just accepting the way things are can also help a lot. if you're not willing to accept, you have to make a change

Hi there so I was thinking.. Sometimes people talk about very advanced or advanced meditators but when are you really? How can you or someone else say that they're advanced? Based on time? experience? If so, why does time matter? what is the difference between beginner and advanced? I mean while meditating.. will thoughts still arise but only less? my english isnt the best but I hope you know what I mean?

Hi Leo, In your video about your enlightment experience you talk a bit about the 10 ox herding pictures. Can you make a video where you explain all the pictures on a deeper level?

@Kacper Wielunski Yes I've seen it already! Very interesting I'd like to hear even more about it

Thank you for your reply. I was thinking.. Ever session is always completely different, its never the same so in a sense you cant be advanced. There is no 'you' and really no time. So every experience will always be a new one..? idk I cant really explain it.. sorry I guess I will have to go find out for myself what an advanced meditator could be

Besides meditation, what do you do? Tips are very welcome

Hey everyone, Since the beginning of April I've got a new job. At first I was so happy getting the job but now I feel like it's too stressful for me and I can't handle it. I come from a background with lots of anxiety and stress and I feel like this job is bringing it all back again. I need to work too hard (harder than I can) and I don't enjoy it at all because all I think about is how I preform and the mistakes I make. I don't know what I want in life. People always say that you need a job to make money and sustain your life but I don't feel this way at all. I don't want to work untill I'm dead. At least not this kind of job. I want to go away and live in nature. Money is not really important to me. What do you think I should do? Please be honest. I'm still in the 'test month' of this new job. Also feel free to ask questions. I'm not that good in explaining myself, also my English isn't the best. Lets say I should go for what I really want.. Live in an eco farm far away from society, in another country. How do I actually make this happen? It feels impossible.

it feels so double. On this one side I feel like I could learn a lot about myself if I continue pushing myself in doing this job. but on the other side I kinda know its not what I want and it wont make me be my best self. This job is draining so much of my energy that it feels like ive got nothing left to self actualize. Its making me think too much in my head and I feel like it wont bring me any closer to peace of mind. all my life I went around pleasing others and kind of go with the crowd but deep down I know im not that kind of person. im not looking for a quick fix although I do admit that i can be a bit lazy.

Sorry to disturb yall but.. It would be great if the following comments would be on topic again..

@drelamore may be the weirdest movie ive ever seen!! Some scenes were scarier to me than every horror movie out there.. I liked the ending a lot though

24 here!

(grammar and spelling can be wrong) I have a relationship with him for almost 7 years now. I grew up very destructive and kinda depressed. Nowadays I feel much better and I want to focus on making my life not as destructive as before. Allthough my partner still is. He smokes weed almost every day and every friday we get drunk with friends. I really want to stop it because it makes no sence and I feel like I'm getting dumber by the week. The problem is is that I still love him. I dont want to break away from him. I know I would hurt him so bad. And I also want to be and grow with him. We broke up a few times but always got back together, we have the same friends, same lives... But I feel like I kinda grow out of it and this relationship is getting somewhat toxic for me. Have you ever been in a situation like this? What did you do?

Hi reader, Welcome to my journal. I've meditated a few times before but not regularly. 3 days ago I made the commitment to meditate, 30 minutes a day, for the rest of my life! I will stick to this and it will change my life for the better. In this journal I will keep track of it all. How I'm feeling, what I'm learning from myself and how I'm growing. Hopefully this will help me stick to meditating daily. Also, it will be good for my English which isn't the best so spare me please. Feel free to read with me.

today was awful.. Dont bother to read! I broke up with my boyfriend after we've been together for about 6.5 years (on and off).. i did meditate.. But I felt like I did nothing at all because I couldnt focus and even cried during.. there's not much more to tell. Im way too tired. But im gonna say it again: I did it. Even on the day that I had to make the hardest decision of my life so far. now im gonna rot away to eventually grow, bye

So today I did the 'Do Nothing' technique for the first time. It felt a bit weird to meditate with my eyes open and without music. I was struggling to keep my eyes open and my blinking irritated me but I pulled through. I let my mind go and time went by pretty fast. I didnt expect it to go so fast actually. I noticed how much I try to control my mind and the things I do. When I first got an itch during meditation I was fighting myself really hard not to scratch but now Im not fighting anymore. It will pass. Wish I was comfortable with the itching though but that will take a lot more experience I guess. Ok so I completed day 5 and I feel positve and confident. Lets not get over confident. For me it takes a long time to build a habit and I find it extremely hard to stick with things. 2 more days and I completed 1 whole week. I can do this.

Carbon Based Lifeforms!! Especially the album Interloper.

Just finished my session of the day and I must say it was interesting. The past few days I was feeling kinda good throughout the day and many things did arise while meditating. It felt like I had to work hard to reach the state I was aiming for. Exept for today, I felt awful the whole day. I almost didnt meditate because my motivation to do anything was so low. But I did it and.. I was so peacefull and calm. The 30 minutes went by pretty fast and now I feel kinda sad again. Im getting tired of myself. I feel dumb. More and more im getting mini insights throughout the day. A few times per day now the thought pops in my head: you were asleep again. But when I think that I get a bit angry at myself because when I think Im asleep I dont really wake up. I dont know what it is to be awake. I want to though.. Hope I make sense.. Today was kinda depressing.. BUT normally I wouldnt meditate on a day like this so its a good thing I now did. Makes me feel a bit stronger. On to the next day!

I used to follow the news a lot but nowadays I find other things more interesting I guess.. It sort of slipped away, same thing with watching TV what in my opinion is 99% bullshit most of the time..

@Matej If you want to know more about the health benefits of not eating cheese and milk, things like that. I recommend you watching the docu Forks Over Knives. Easy to find on Netflix but also YouTube I guess.