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@LRyan this is what i did... abstractly speaking: i cut the umbilical cord by myself and threw my past in the trash can practically speaking: i got a job, left my parents house and started a rigorous zen practice. right now, i'm on my way to become a zen master, an yoga teacher and to raise my own family on the grounds of Love.

@AlexB review your reasons to be with someone else. the set of reasons that works for you has to have a huge amount of elements in common with the set of reasons that someone else has to be with you. if your set of reasons doesn't go much further than sexual satisfaction and financial conformity, then i can already say that you're still in trouble and need to work REALLY HARD on your spiritual purification. you need to be brutally honest with yourself. every single lie counts to ruin your life.

i only use facebook and i unfollowed all of my friends. i follow some useful pages related to meditation and local yoga events.

exactly. i didn't mean joy as a bodily pleasure. i meant joy for simply being without resistance.

that's your judgment. what i see in every single true master is that they do everything with complete sincerity and presence. meditation becomes delightful. silence becomes a real joy.

hatha yoga

@Alex90 it can be found on the sutras... even siddhartha gautama still meditated everyday after realizing truth. why is that so? because meditation IS enlightenment. dogen zenji said it beautifully: practice and realization are one. enlightenment is not an intellectual understanding. there can be intellectual understanding before enlightenment for it opens the mind for the possibility of no-mind. there can be intellectual understanding after enlightenment, which can be understood as insights that make our life easier. the ego wants to say i am done with this. i am already enlightened. but saying it is contradictory because there can be no i saying i am enlightened. in a practical way, enlightenment is the practice of coming back to deep peace of mind. when we say that we're practicing meditation, we're actually practicing enlightenment.

she knows it. learn how to deal with your shit. grow up. and be thankful because it's your chance to have support to break out of this filthy habit.

laugh because you can be happy right now

@Evilwave Heddy good call! @Loreena then i invite you to make someone proud to be with you. i invite you to inspire people with purity flowing through your thoughts, words and actions!

no. porn teaches you to have a distorted perspective about sex. this problem happens because you're trying to inflate your ego with your own satisfaction and with your performance. you won't be free until you decide to connect deeply with your partner.

fundamentally, no external source can help you. blame others. blame the human race. blame the planet earth. blame reality. do whatever you want to do before you decide to be 100% responsible for your own life. ONLY THEN you may start to grow up.

@Ariel do you want someone else to guide you through your life? someone to make decisions for you and to assume the consequences in your place? leo, just like any other sincere spiritual/truth seeker, is simply pointing out the things that have been working for him. he talks a lot about purification, which is the REAL work to be done. i, myself, do not watch tv since i was 14 y/o. but i use the internet to help me understand more about healthy habits; am vegetarian. but i eat fish with my fiancée sometimes. i'm not an extremist; do not go to night parties to get drunk and socialize with toxic people. but i do go out with yoga practitioners. i and my fiancée meet A LOT of interesting people who teach us A LOT of things as we teach them as well; i congratulate (and thank) anyone who engages in the purification process and talks about it publicly, because true spiritual practitioners are SCARCE. i did not buy the life purpose course nor his book list. i've watched some of his videos and then i found this forum, where people with real needs show up. here i feel like the wisdom i've attained through my suffering can help others to release their own sufferings. there's nothing much to explain. do you have the courage to engage in a purifying process?

yes, BS. this kind of material always points to facets of unconscious ego conditioning like jealously/possession, greed and hatred. they never fail to characterize people with weak spiritual practices. i'd say start a meditation routine, be conscious of all your toxic behaviors and drop all of them. it may be a life long task.

that's a good start

@The Monk @Erlend @Martin123 @RossE @Malelekakis join a zen sangha start yoga classes go to festivals related to healthy food practice permaculture practice biodance

before you post whatever you want to post, i'd like to say that the spiritual path towards liberation has nothing to do with stories, assumptions, beliefs, theories, hypothesis etc. the spiritual path actually comes down to what people avoid doing because they prefer to intellectualize things instead in order to feel more special, more spiritual than others. the trunk of spirituality, no matter when or in which religious/cultural context it's practiced, can be resumed in the following items: healing yourself forgiving yourself (and "others") coming back to peace of mind being 100% responsible for your own life stopping being afraid of the fear of death not comparing people (you included) having domain over your body (healthy sexual, nutritional and physical habits) being able to experience true compassion

yes. you have to hack yourself and this is no easy task. you need attention from others because you're trying to maintain the illusion of self. basically, you have a socially accepted self image, which you've been buying from society since you started to speak. and you live on trying to strengthen that self image with what people think of you. this process drains your life energy. and when the external opinion doesn't match the attributes of your self image, you get angry, anxious etc. the truth is the fact that the self image is just a set of illusory thoughts. it's not real. whatever you think of you is a lie. whatever people think of you is a lie. you suffer because you want to fill infinitely creative emptiness (the innate lack of inner self) with a bunch of lies and you want them to be true. it's a complete ignorance about Truth. drop your self image and be completely free. this is nirvana.

virtues. dignity, patience, listening, healthy sexual drive, healthy mind/body, simplicity appreciation, proper working effort, the willingness to practice goodness. no. society in general approves disgusting values. children haven't been taught how to deal with their emotions. parents are too distant and too immature. women crave for money and men crave for sexual satisfaction.

i do. and i know what it is. but it's not just 3-5 years. and it's already been happening for over 50 years. it has been (re)brought to our planet by a brazilian avatar called mestre gabriel, still largely unknown. it's a "new" religion, called união do vegetal, that's spreading around the world EXTREMELY FAST. mestre gabriel teaches us a systematic way to use ayahuasca in order to change humanity's patterns of thinking about fraternity and environment. it's somewhat like leo wanted to do with 5-meo-dmt.

@Loreena fixed it. thanks!

@Principium Nexus http://www.satnamfest.com/

it's just as realistic as i am feeling the keyboard on the tip of my fingers as i am typing right now, thinking of a way to describe to you the amazing feeling of realizing BEING at this exact moment. being present and sincere right now is the only way if you don't want to be full of regrets in your deathbed. there's no other teaching. give yourself a moment to think about it because it's one of the most powerful insights that you can allow yourself to have. do it. you're on the right track. this has been the way i live for 2 years and i am happy enough to say that i am the happiest person that i've ever known. i want to share this book with you. read it slowly, preferably one chapter or sub-chapter after a meditation session. it teaches you the main principles of living spiritually connected. i repeat. read it slowly. it's life changing. it's your medicine.

@Venus i have completely healed myself from depression. if you're feeling depressed, i assure you it's one of the most important moments in your life. it's time to face some lies you keep telling yourself. i am going to enumerate some causes of depression. depression can happen due to accumulation of years of frustrations. we grow up in a fear based society so almost everyone, and sometimes everyone, around us is running towards ego satisfaction. and that's all they can teach us. it's not because they're mean. they're just ignorant so they keep on building up their own frustration explosion. notice this happening to you and grow out of the mud. let go of the greed for social approval and sexual satisfaction. depression can happen because you don't have the feeling that you're working for your own survival. being able to stand on your own feet is extremely liberating. you're Life itself. be your own pillar. depression can happen due to lack of connection with the body. forget the socially approved body shape. but it is mandatory that you feel comfortable living with the body you have at your disposal. this aspect can be diagnosed by the aversion from dancing.

certain things must be found by oneself on one's own thirsty search.