YoungSeeker

Have you tried lucid dreaming? How to induce a lucid dream? I tried 3 nights already but I still can't have a lucid dream.

The mind is so sneaky. I became so aware how it fools me all the time. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Why do we let the mind rule our lives? It says me I need this and that. Couple of days ago I was so tired that my mind just turned off. I was happy although I was tired as hell. I wasn't boring, shy. I thought I'm like that my whole life. But I wasn't like that. The mind said me I'm like that and I just believed it.

How Leo transformed your life? What growth did you get from his work? In which ways he helped you? What problems did he help you to solve? Do you like his content?

Have you read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach? What do you think of it? That novel would be really interesting to people pursuing Enlightenment. So if you haven't read it yet go and so

Is it possible? It seems to me like it isn't. You can avoid the most common regrets people have on their deathbed if you put a lot of effort into it. These are things: not spending enough time with your family, giving a fuck about opinions of others, not accomplishing your dreams, not being yourself. You can avoid these most common regrets if you focus on those but you can't avoid everything. You won't die at peace until you operate from your current way of looking at the world. There's always more we want. That's the reason we aren't happy now. Because we tell ourselves that we need more. After accomplishing one goal there's another one that instantly appears. So how can you die without regrets then?

That's what I mean. The question is: will we ever realize that this mindset doesn't work? not logically but really. I hope we will. I believe in us. I hope it won't be too late.

I don't. But also I don't have the courage to die.

I have some strange feeling that we can take control over our lives. That we can be in control. Not the mind, not the ego controlling everything but "real me". Is that my ego fooling me or it can be the case? In enlightenment circles they teach us that you control nothing. Not even a single thing in your life. I "believed" that for a long time but now this strange thought crossed my mind. What if we can be in control? What if? We always put responsibility for our mistakes on someone or something else but what if we're the ones to blame? What if all suffering we have in life was created by us? What if we have the power to change things? I think that you can't control your life but you can be in control. It's paradoxical and sounds stupid but that's what I think.

A lot of times it seems to me like we are all robots and have the same kind of software running in our brain.

If you take 5-meo in addition to 10 hrs of meditation then yes. Just a single pill won't solve all your problems in life.

I just can't go back to sleep until I leave that desire to become lucid in my dream. Only when I say: "OK, it doesn't work. Tonight I won't become lucid, maybe later" Only then I can fall asleep again. They say it's easy but it doesn't work with me that easy. I'll keep trying then. Maybe it all because I don't have very healthy sleep habits.

I'm starting it because in one topic I posted that in his recent videos Leo seems crazy to me sometimes. Because his ideas too advanced for me. So I feel a bit guilty. I'll be the first but hopefully not last to share my story. Leo helped me to start my daily meditation practice. I've been meditating for about a year now. Before watching his video about meditation I was looking for information about meditation and I couldn't find anything helpful. For about five years I was going back to the idea of starting meditation practice but they always tell you that for meditation you need some special pillow under your butt, quiet place, special music and so on. Because of all these advice that made things too complicated I couldn't start meditating until I watched one of Leo's videos. Leo took me on this personal development journey and I became very interested in all that. Previously I couldn't stand all these personal development books. It was kinda weird to me. But now I'm really interested in psychology, personal development, enlightenment. I became a personal development junkie as Leo would say. My life changed a lot since I first found his channel on YouTube. Dude is doing a great job. I'm afraid to imagine how my life would be without getting into personal development. I got rid of depression, a lot of pain from my past. I became more positive. My life became so much better. That's just briefly about changes in my life. One year of meditation practice is the biggest accomplishment to me. All thanks to the Bald Wizard. Just kidding. Peace.

I just wanted to give some food for your ego But if your ego doesn't want it then you are advanced

Don't hide stuff. Hiding it is counterproductive. You need to experience all you think about. You'll get a depression because of doing so but from that depression you'll get some powerful realizations. But if you hide it you won't get how wrong it was to laugh for example. Don't be afraid of ego getting stronger. It will get stronger anyways. The faster it grows the faster you'll realize how everything wrong with the ego. You think that something's funny and if you don't laugh it won't change anything. Maybe others won't know you laughed but you'll know.

It feels like a lot of our desires are coming from the outside. That's what I believed for a long time. It seems true. Society tells us we need family, nice car, nice house, money, tells that you need to be a good person... But if you really think about it then you'll realize that it's coming from your own mind. The mind is assigning meaning to everything. If you saw an ad and they told you to buy this and that you'll think that this desire came from the outside. But there's no real meaning in the product they promoted in this ad. Your mind gives the meaning to it and tells you: "Go and buy shit".

That's true. But also it helps me personally to ask people what they think. That way I can see that people are going through the same things I'm going through. Motivates me a little bit. But of course finding the answer isn't the key at all. The key is to grasp how wrong it is wanting to get this answer so badly. But you gotta start somewhere. For us, less advanced people, just talking about this stuff, making beliefs out of it is the only way we know. We'll go beyond all that but only when we're ready. it's not at all. we are very open-minded people in here

That's a good question. I thought about it too. Sometimes I get angry with ego and think I need to fight it as if it's my enemy. Other times I jut accept the ego and it feels like being stronger then when I'm angry. Maybe the key is to accept and in a sense "love" the ego?

Me too. In his last videos he looks crazy sometimes. But that's only how my mind perceives it because of not being developed enough. Eckhart Tolle looks crazy sometimes too.

I think that building your ego is similar to earning money. When I hear people saying that money don't make you happy I agree with them but right after that I go and try to have some money. I won' get that money don't make me happy until I earned enough myself. The same with ego. Ego should grow until you realize how wrong it is. And when you had enough it'll stop. In order to make things better they should get worse first.

Why do I have more nihilistic thoughts now? the more enlightenment work I do the more nihilistic I become. 'Life is pointless' and similar thoughts are always in the back of my mind. This is a feeling of deep sadness. Is it like a stage you go through on your enlightenment journey or it's just me?

I don't really believe in this control idea anymore though because yesterday I had this kind of "rage attack". It was really bad. And I thought: "Where is your control now?" I don't even know where those feeling came from. I believe I had this anger yesterday because of holding this idea of control in my mind for the last week. And probably that's how ego got me back. All this idea of control right from the start probably was ego's game with me. That's the conclusion I came to but I'm still open to solving this problem. I'm not completely done yet

Nobody answered they are in control. That's strange. I thought it would be the most popular answer. Maybe that's because we have people here who know a lot about enlightenment theory. Maybe results would be different if we ask random people on the street. But what if not? What if results would be the same? What if we have no control because we just assume we can't possibly have it? I don't believe it but it could be the case, you gotta be open-minded.

Strange enough when I first watched this video I was actually happy that I found something like that. Of course I turned it into belief system at first but I wasn't depressed somehow. I was really exited about it. Very strange

@Harvey the more you build your ego the faster you'll get to realization how everything wrong with it and then you'll go beyond the ego.

And finally. Where is the boundary between you and the outside world? Your skin is the boundary? What if not? Is there a difference between you and outside world or it's all the same? I think that we'll find the answer someday. If we don't have it then we're not ready yet. I have this feeling that everything just comes when the time is right. So we'll just wait for this time to come. Patience that's what we need. That's true. All these "spiritual" teachings become more popular and world's awareness grows drastically.