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I don’t want to get too far off my original post but that is an AWESOME picture. That is PERFECT. Feet squared forward, perfect extension, back is straight, the whole lot and it’s not someone that needs to pay a ridiculous chunk of money to someone that teaches them something so basic.

Cut the moralism

99% of people don't know how to squat with proper mechanics. People usually can't squat properly funny enough due to lack of mobility and range of motion in their hips. Will check out those links. Thanks

Brian from London Real. Has some stage yellow but right now with his thing on psychedelics he’s moving into stage green. You can tell he’s approaching psychedelics with dualistic framework. Nonetheless, you can see the transcendence from Orange

Look at Ken Wilber and what he calls the 3 forms of development: waking up (enlightenment) cleaning up (emotional mastery) Growing up (personal development) @Leo Gura also had an AMAZING interview with Peter Ralston, and one of the clips they talk about what Ralston calls “personal transformation” and why it’s important.

Disclaimer: i don’t want nor am I going to get too into my issue as to how I discovered this. i totally get now why this whole thing of... - unconditional love - surrender of blaming surrender of judgment - surrender of criticism - surrender of my entire life story - surrender to unconditional happiness - surrender to vulnerability - surrender to being wrong - surrender of ego to love ... is so tough. It’s the answer we talk about so much using that one little word that a the source of pretty much all individual and collective problems, “ego.” I’m trying to reconnect with my mom right now but I also have all these defaense up. But I’m noticing now that my very resistance to doing so and having to let go of all my defenses is showing me just why embodying these abstract things is so hard. Now I get why enlightenment experiences are so much easier than these embodiments.

I already mentioned that in the post that I’m aware that this is ego. I’m sharing my insight on why this can be tough for us ALL. Saying all of this is ego really doesn’t mean nor accomplish anything cause that’s still more concepts. My goal here with this post was more to kinda share that these “levels” of embodiment aren’t some easy thing. Having awakening experiences in a sense is much easier than overcoming issues regarding our character’s unhealthy/dysfunctional behavior or our shadow elements that we’ve accumulated through things such as trauma, turbulent adolescent years, etc.

you beat me to it

I don’t understand why you don’t just buy a windows laptop if you’re gonna load windows software onto it...

i did not see this coming...

I know @Leo Gura talks about some enlightened people whom pretty much the whole “your already enlightened,” but what teachers would be good examples of this? I guess the only one that comes to my mind is Eckhart Tolle but I’ve only seen a couple videos on him and it was awhile ago (I can’t stand his sweater vests...)

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Robert Greene

This is SOOOO green http://wwoof.net/

I'm curious on some opinions on this. Is it possible to still buy into naive realism post enlightenment? I love this particular clip in @Leo Gura's interview with Ralston as this clip has so many juicy hints and insights. One of the obvious insights though is that all because you've glimpsed your true nature, that doesn't always mean you grasp beyond just that. So I was wondering, can you really buy into there being a phsyical external world even if you've grasped your true nature? I can imagine that, as you one goes deeper in this work then that illusion would collapse because it would no longer make sense after a certain point. However, I'm just curious if naive realism can still pose as a potential trap after an awakening of who and what I am.

Orange, Green, and Yellow

Peter Ralston

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Just got back from the San Francisco Zen Center that I live a couple blocks from and a group of us after a sit went to dinner. I was discussing some of my recent insights and one guy sitting across from me starts interjecting how consciousness doesn’t exist and how we can’t know what reality is and all this. I tried pointing out that those were just assumptions and all that but of course, that just made it seem that I’m preaching more theories which comes off as though I’m contradicting myself. This guys has been “practicing zen” for quite some time now and I think this just goes to show just how much of a trap mental masterbation is and also just how hard spirituality can be to teach to people in a non intensive way. I can really see the value now of jut how important having a masterful enlightened teacher can be for certain people that get stuck thinking like this who can cut these egoic shananigans. Lastly, I really gained an appreciation of just how hard it’s gotta be for @Leo Gura trying to communicate these insights through such an indirect medium like YouTube and from language alone and try to get people to grasp that what he’s saying is not to be taken on faith or denied by clinging to your comfortable certainty. So yeah, hats off to you man.

So I have my life purpose thanks to @Leo Gura‘s course and am in the planning stages of starting and all that good stuff. Here’s what I don’t get though... doesn’t my life purpose and passion and my vision mostly dictate why my niche is in terms of who my audience is?

As long as it needed to take Yes he posts what he wants but that doesn't mean he just flings out videos. He found his niche and his own circle within the personal development marketplace. He talks often now that he was always more interested in deeper aspects of personal development, which is what his content is all about now. However, that took time to be able to set himself up to be able to have a large enough audience who would a.) listen, and b.) have himself setup in his business in a variety of different ways where he knew he could talk about these things since most people in the modern world aren't open to these kinda discussions that Leo talks about. So he had to establish himself before he could get to where he is today. If you look close, you'll see that those success videos Leo started with early on in his YouTube career was really merely an only a strategic move. I feel like I actually answered my own question explaining that ^ Lol

Watching or playing football is just more of consciousness itself?

@John Lula yes because that’s all nonsense and mental masterbation on what enlightenment is lol

I was going to make a post about how he tried calling Leo out lol I talked to him on Instagram and he said the same nonsense

San Francisco, CA Mix of very heavy Orange and very heavy Green. Usually just very Orange in their metaphysics and rationalist way of seeing the world but also can be very Green at the same time. Most people who think of SF as this hippie kingdom, that has been going away as SF is growing more and more each month and year as the tech bubble that it is.