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If you sail the high seas there is no obstacle too great, no law too powerful to overcome, take what you can and give nothing back.So go out and find the One Piece.

Because in my case it's a low consciousness addiction of course I do it sometimes even if I actually don't want to..I'm not horny but there's just this urge there. And I don't like how it makes me relate to women purely as sexual objects but that's a different topic.

@Sashaj I'm cutting that out as well.

@Leo Gura I've been dealing with that lately and have been working in cutting out the shit. My problem now is: What the hell do I do after I've done my routine(meditation,yoga, workout, reading, piano, studying) and just want to relax?

@LaraGreenbridge Can you link the video?

Both are right depending on how you see it. If I'm playing a game and I'm moving a character on the screen it wouldn't be wrong of a bystander to say:"You fool there is no character, no game world, only pixels." From your perspective you have been playing this game and leveled up this character to level 60. Who is right?

@Emerald Exactly what I was thinking just said way more eloquently... but the saddest thing is that there is a lot of truth in what they are saying but that truth is exactly what keeps them stuck hating women.

@BuddhaTree Never said they where the same thing. I said that they aren't mutually exclusive. You can be aware but still have thoughts, actually that is the case for most of us, unless of course you are already deeply enlightened.

This encapsulates my issue with the mgtow movement. If it truly is about being independent from women or the social pressure of being attractive to women then the above sentence isn't something that should even register on your radar. People of the mgtow movement seem so deeply influenced about women that all they talk about is how women are a bad influence. They made a whole identity that only exist in relation to women. I sympathize with the idea of unwiring yourself from that pressure by consciously distancing yourself from women but then I'm just gonna do it and move on with my life no reason to make a big deal out of it.

A couple of things I'd like to point out. 1.Being aware and not thinking aren't mutually exclusive. For instance you can be aware of everything in your awareness which includes thought. 2.Mental activity isn't the enemy and you trying to fight it will just cause more mental activity. I would suggest you being torn between just being aware and meditation is mental activity. 3. Finally focusing on your breath is the same as being aware just that you are narrowing what you focus on so imho I don't think it makes that much of a difference but don't quote me on that.

You did not lie when you said you were going to be honest, that's a really cool quality to have ! My own two cents are just a quote from Ken Wilber: All perspectives are right and partial. So maybe that helps with the question of who is right and who is wrong. Maybe even if you don't want to adapt her perspective can you put yourself in her shoes and feel what she would feel and see that it is completely legit to feel that way? Maybe communicating from that standpoint can be helpful?

If you aren't trolling I feel legitimately bad for you

Oh by the way I checked the segment and they refer to donald trump as a "MEME wizard" not as a "spiral wizard" which is funny on many levels imo. A MEME wizard in this context is more like what @Emerald is saying. Meme wizards are like leaders who embody their stage and thus attract people to them.

How about. that time when he accused 5 black and Latino kids of rape and called for their execution and paid money from his own pocket for ads to bring back the death penalty. And when there was actual DNA evidence that proved him wrong he said they should go to jail anyways because they "didn't exactly have the past of angels" ..which in typical donald trump fashion was completely made up. None of the kids were ever arrested before that.

I am not really qualified to answer that but the basic routine is pretty standard, every technique he uses is in every other kriya book. The innovation here is that kriya is used as the foundation for self-inquiry.

get his book kriya yoga vichara, it's amazing. The gist is to do basic kriya practice to still your mind completely and from that point doing self-inquiry.

Tbh I'm probably doing you a disservice with my inadequate summary because the most important thing is the context the book gives you but here goes: 1. Acknowledge the feeling/resistance, notice where and how it is. 2. Ask yourself: Can I welcome or at the very least allow this feeling? 3. Ask yourself: Can I let this feeling go ( as in is it possible for me to let it go) 4. Ask yourself: Am I willing to let this feeling go? 5. When am I going to let this feeling go? The answer you give to each of those questions isn't that important. The point is to show you that you actually have a choice.

I struggle with the same thing, yesterday I discovered the sedona method from Leo's book list. It's kinda amazing how something so simple can make a small but noticeable change.

1. In order to clone something you need to make distinctions. You can't make any distinction if you are literally everything, there is nothing to contrast it to. 2.The material paradigm states as far as I am aware that everything arises from matter, that matter is the most fundamental building blocks of reality but there are also emergent qualities that can arise that aren't matter. Few people would argue that thoughts and emotions are literally made out of matter...now that I think about it this is actually a huge assumption to make.

@Hello from Russia How so?

Threads like this make me respect Leo the most. He keeps doing what he does although people keep ignoring the most fundamental things he says and latch onto completely arbitrary things. It really doesn't matter what Leo said or didn't say or whether he is right or wrong by saying that. The most fundamental thing that Leo stresses is having direct experiences of whatever is in front of you and that principle can't ever be wrong. How the f-- is Leo supposed to know whether college is the right thing for you or not?

It's actually pretty interesting I used to be the exact same way until I really fell in love for the first time. Suddenly I felt all this stuff and was like:"Oh this is what it feels like to genuinely miss another person."

@blazed You don't actually understand what he said. He is saying that at the most fundamental level loyalty is manipulation. There is no loyalty that isn't manipulation. You seem to be conflating commitment with loyalty. I can be very committed to the rules of a game (ie. making sure to uphold them) but not be loyal at all (ie. being open to the changing of rules or even being open to dropping all the rules for instance when I'm playing with a little kid). I can be committed to a life purpose but I can also change or drop a life purpose if there is legitimately a better life purpose for me around.

@Leo-Tzu There is no way you can make that claim because 1. We don't really know in which direction research will go meaning cooperative AI or completely independent AI. 2. No offense but you just don't know enough about this topic to be able to say that... I mean ALWAYS is a awfully long time...that would mean that it is categorically impossible for AI to be more intelligent than humans are, and that is something you would have to prove somehow.

Not how AI/ Machine Learning works. The entire point behind having an AI is that you don't actually have to code any algorithms.