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@Dodo It is far easier to live a healthy, mindful life of right practices than not because of all the suffering involved. Suffering is all self created & imposed. It takes a lot of work & effort to support an ego. Holding on to habits and therefore negative views is like carrying 100 pounds around 24 7. When you begin to let these things go, life becomes very easy.

@John Iverson how is it created by illusion?

@Joseph Maynor i mistook you as serious about this stuff Jo. Is my intuition so poor?

From the gynocologist who pulled me out and said "it's a boy!". i was like wtf you mean "it"???? and my pd journey had begun! love you guys! ??

@Joseph Maynor Do shrooms again now that you have incorporated recent insights. Make the trip theme letting go of Joseph. Do something physical and vision in a repetitive act of letting him go. I think the timing is good for you, potential insights wise.

@Damir Elezi yes.

@Afonso no. i can only come from my experience of course, but i think you are completely underestimating the sheer volume of practices and time in front of you, if u are pursuing this.

@Damir Elezi do cardio for 50 minutes. then meditate. this works for me. i meditate into nonthinking and then allow, and the creativity in unencumbered by opposing thoughts / patterns.

@Jani fair enough ?. thank you. i learned here as well. you sound well ahead of the 19 yo median. keep on rockin ?

@Joseph Maynor Thank you! Even being a dick is a good way to go imo. At least it speeds up the process. Better to be a total asshole and create misery & self imposed problems & get shloads of feedback than to be so timid you never make any progress. It's all relative.

@Joseph Maynor There's no tolerating you bro. You're fuckin beautiful. Your vulnerability, honesty and straightforwardness are decades ahead of most. I'm very happy for you with your progress and I love how you enjoy each epiphany without it inflating your ego. I for one am impressed.

@Joseph Maynor The word reality gets whatever meaning the user intends. Everything is relative. Tell me if this helps....Your mind is the same as everyone else's. Not similiar, but the same substance. The difference comes from the experiences, perceptions and interpretations that substance encounters as it walks and talks as a person. IMO, it would be faster to meditate and study superposition. Again, IMO, you'll eventually see that the imagination within all of us is the substance of the universe/reality that is not a specific thing like a physical chair. It is what your body and brain and mind are 'made' of. It is also what your dreams and aspirations are made of, and it's the only real thing (Disclaimer; it's not really a thing) When it perceives itself, the perceived is so convincing, it seems like the perceived is real, when in actuality, the perception is real. The experience is real.

superposition is the fabric of everything. it is the wifi. individual minds are the computers so to speak. the self is just software created by the Computer, which is created by the fabric.

@Nichols Harvey You are wise in not believing me. One of the best ego traps is expressing verbally what I've learned and giving references of others who have not learned it. This reveals it has not been realized, only learned. It may be clever observation, but it reveals a lack of practicing and building momentum. It shows where the focus actually is. Clever camouflage. And, how old am I? What gender am I? See, you are doing the same thing as what I'm describing. Thinking you know and realizing are not the same. If the ability to focus was truly developed, the title would note 'creating a better work environment', and then the content would be about creating, not the current work environment and shortages of coworkers.

@Jani There is a state of mind you can obtain in which none of the negative perspectives you described exist. I would not expect you to believe me, and I hope you don't. In your current state, your mood & perspective seem to be dependent or at the least, influenced, by what other people think of you / getting validation, recognition, respect. These are the facets of the hamster wheel. That's all ego feed. It's not helping you in the long run to feel good about that stuff in the short term. Get yourself to a place where you see that for what it is. Contemplating what others think of you is a waste of time. Praise & blame are all the same. When how you feel is only determined by you, you'll be running a company, not working for one. Please don't believe me. Believe in the practices.

@2000 @TJ Reeves TJ nailed it here. One point I think is worth adding...be sure to meditate and then establish your intention in a longer term visioning way. I have found the muscle development analogy applies to this too. I have been pleasantly surprised by what I get from a workout when I first focus on why I'm doing it, which muscles each excercise will expand, that all of it contributes to a much higher conditioning, which allows me to spend more time practicing and less time sitting around tired.

@Adam M I'm at a place where I see/ feel that complacency coming. What works for me is learning something new because it changes my understanding of things I've already learned. Currently, I'm learning to sew and tailor clothes. I'm not interested in it, and that's why I get benefit. It's a practice of practicing something without being inspired to do it. It keeps the preference & emotion factor away as an obstacle. Also, when I feel it coming, I go away, alone, for a few days to spend a lot of consecutive time doing the practices and being creative. Consciousness to me is sort of like blowing up a balloon...if I want it to pop, I have to expand it. While I'm not expanding it, it has a slow leak. A few days of blowing is necessary to push through the leak.

@Violet Great to hear your career is going well. Seems like (IMO) you are looking for happiness & fulfillment from a corporate career. "You're still young, that's your fault". Practices have no substitute. Only the practices will lead you to the place of satisfaction and simultaneous expansion. It is a delicious harmonious state.

@Joseph Maynor Living vicariously is not a real experience, it's regurgitating one's own experiences in an illusion of conflation.

@Noname Thinking is helpful if it inspires adherence to the daily practices & leads to an individuals discovery of the non-thinking state. Otherwise, thinking is preventative to progress.

@Anna1 I'm feeling so transparent! You are intuitive, and so right. I struggle with this big time lately. My oldest son is 23. A hard age imo. He puts me on a pedestal, and I tell him he shouldn't. It's not a be like me thing, it's a be less of you, and you will become so much more of you thing. I am becoming more aware and mindful of it, but I too often forget to meet him where he's at. Once in a while though, I love that look on his face when I touch on something close enough that he hears it, and far enough that he wants it. Life is so fucking sweet & precious.

@Anna1 You are right. What I said was from what I am now. When I think for a second back to being younger, your sentiment and logic ring true. It's an interesting phenomenon, how anyone, especially Leo, holds no punches and basically is saying do the fucking practices, but as said in Lazy Eye, "So clear but so unheard". Why is that? Why is it so hard to hear? Best I can make of it, is that it's because the objective reality is so overwhelmingly convincing. Like watching / playing a virtual reality game in the year 3000. So good, we'd argue it's real.

@Anna1 Yes, that is what I said. There are so many words through this post. It is a far more simple thing than the context here. If you say I and mean a human by your name, you are not enlightened. If you live, go by a name, "are" a human, but your "I" is awareness, everything - then you are enlightened. Honesty supersedes, all else is just words and meaning can not possibly be known and so are fruitless. All the books and teachers are hamster wheels with carrots. Unnecessary and typically hindering. There is someone who meditates properly and someone who doesn't. It can be expedited, but otherwise can be obtained very simply, over time. The hero's journey however, is entirely different and it seems that's where so much confusion comes from.

The end is what you mean by "I".

@Himanshu love this post man. im in agreement, God, everything, superposition, the one... it seems to me our imagination shares the same properties in a literal observable way, and all are one in the same. I know Leo says we are more just computers, but I don't feel like a computer and from what I can tell, my computer doesn't feel at all. Perhaps one day I will attain that level of wisdom. I have seen that all is nonmaterial oneness, but I was seeing none the less. It is strikingly bizarre how science verifies & utilizes the levels of matter and makes computers, quartz crystals, satalites, etc and we still ask ourselves if that substance is within us.