Leo sometimes talks negatively about success...I AM SORRY

[Rasheed]

                                 Leo sometimes talks negatively about success...I AM SORRY. I care about success. 
I do not want to meditate, 12 hours a day. I would rather meditate for 1-2-3 hours, do personal development and then master my craft, be successful and inspire other people around me, that they can do something great in life, they can also feel same passion that I feel. I cannot relate to these gurus, and 60 year old white dudes, talking about awakening, in slow tempo. Why they are not, famous enlightened athletes, entrepreneurs, rappers, not gurus + I do not wanna be enlightened rapist, like some gurus + enlightened guy who works in unconscious shit + Yes, it is meaningless and hallucination, but in practice, it still “matters”...Sometimes I watch documentaries of people who have done something great in life, and I get tears in my eyes. I care about doing same thing too, instead of circle-jerking, against some 60 year old guru, who talks slowly, and is close minded to his own shit and does not do personal development

[Leo Gura]

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/authors/eckhart-tolle-net-worth/

https://autojosh.com/meet-osho-rajneeshthe-indian-sex-guru-who-had-93-rolls-royces-in-the-80s/

Looks pretty successful to me

[allislove]

@Leo Gura hehe, now I am wondering about Sadhguru ??

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, dimitri said:

@Leo Gura hehe, now I am wondering about Sadhguru ??

 

 

[kireet]

even if you do not have million of dollars , you must know the Truth ..... the millions of dollars do not give satisfaction and you further Enter into a never ending cycle Of chasing . Chasing success is not bad , but you must have the big picture perspective of what you want to do . Attachments lead to more psychological ailments when they are lost or have gone out your controls . Real Spiritual Gurus are not rapist . They are closed minded to certain aspects of modern  world , but that does not mean They do not know the stuff they are talking about .  All athletes and celebrities are mostly fucking unconscious people with a lot of distractions in their life . They have psychological ailments , depression , drinking problems .etc.if they are successful and famous it does not mean they are perfect. (Exceptions are there )You are chasing success and material enjoyment, which is only good if done up to a limit , if one day you do become really massively successful , you will realise that ... it was not worth it .

 

Edited June 24, 2020 by kireet

[mandyjw]

You get to define success for yourself. That's the beauty of it. Success is meant to be inspiration of what's possible. The possibility of it adds a charge and excitement to life. But if it's something you need and you actually think more about the opposite of success rather than success itself, then it's better to just give that shit up. 

[nistake]

Let's try this on for size: You can be enlightened and successful/inspiring/rich/famous at the same time. How about that?

[Preety_India]

 

Who tells you that you can't be spiritual and successful at the same time. That's some stage Orange kind of thinking. 

Success in the absolute sense is what you male of it. 

 

[allislove]

@Leo Gura I imagine some nice island where Leo has a big house where there are a lot of people doing psychedelics research. 

The first in the world "University of Love" lead by Leo Gura, feels good to me.

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, dimitri said:

@Leo Gura I imagine some nice island where Leo has a big house where there are a lot of people doing psychedelics research. 

The first in the world "University of Love" lead by Leo Gura, feels good to me.

Timothy Leary beat me to it:

https://www.inman.com/2019/02/15/timothy-learys-trippy-lsd-den-hits-the-market-for-1-5-million/

[Thewritersunion]

@Leo Gura It’s time for a volcano house 

[Display_Name]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/authors/eckhart-tolle-net-worth/

https://autojosh.com/meet-osho-rajneeshthe-indian-sex-guru-who-had-93-rolls-royces-in-the-80s/

Looks pretty successful to me

Damn I knew Eckhart blew up into semi-mainstream with help of RSD, had no idea he was this loaded

 

ballin

[mandyjw]

4 minutes ago, Display_Name said:

Damn I knew Eckhart blew up into semi-mainstream with help of RSD, had no idea he was this loaded

 

ballin

RSD? No. It was Oprah. 

[LfcCharlie4]

You can have both, but absolute happiness only comes from true Self-Realization. 

Then everything else is simply an expression of this happiness, love and understanding. 

I don't think Leo is anti-success, I think he just advocates conscious success with things like his LP course and using your talents for good, which when done properly will bring you lots of material success, which it's great to enjoy! 

The point is success alone will not bring lasting absolute happiness, BUT it can be very enjoyable and a great way to spend your life when done consciously, after all life is a game to be enjoyed, spend it how YOU want to, not how Leo wants to, we're all unique beings after all. 

You could definitely be an enlightened athlete or musician, and I'm sure over the next few decades we will see more and more of these beings in all walks of life helping to transform their own fields in the best ways possible, Sadhguru talks about the beauty of Sport a lot actually. 

Spirituality for centuries has remained in the fringes of society, we are only now so lucky to have Non-Dual teachings on our fingertips, 30 years ago you had to order a book and wait weeks just for than nagging question to remain unanswered, now we have an abundance of teachers and teachings at the click of a button, as a result more and more people will become interested in this work, and more and more 'normal' awakened beings will emerge from all walks of life, it certainly is an exciting time to be alive

[JosephKnecht]

2 hours ago, nistake said:

Let's try this on for size: You can be enlightened and successful/inspiring/rich/famous at the same time. How about that?

Can you have Everything and Nothing at the same time? 

If Everything is Nothing, and Nothing is Everything, then what is time? 

[allislove]

@JosephKnecht illusion, that's why ?

[JosephKnecht]

6 minutes ago, dimitri said:

@JosephKnecht illusion, that's why ?

Time is an illusion?

But if you give up the illusion, will you have Everything or will you have Nothing?

Are you going to be successful when you have Everything and need Nothing?

Are you going to be successful when you have Nothing and don't need Everything?

[nistake]

@JosephKnecht That's all well and good, but this is not really helpful from OP's persperctive. He's clearly not in a stage in his path where he could appreciate these kind of non-dual "advices".

Edited June 24, 2020 by nistake

[allislove]

9 minutes ago, JosephKnecht said:

Time is an illusion?

Yes, time is an illusion, in the same way as everything else, illusion in the sense it's not what you think it is.

But if you give up the illusion, will you have Everything or will you have Nothing?

"give up" the illusion? Do you mean you realize who you are? Everything is nothing, nothing is everything, this.

Are you going to be successful when you have Everything and need Nothing?
Are you going to be successful when you have Nothing and don't need Everything?

What is successful?  It's all good any way, can't go wrong, really.
If you want to live happily you better realize who you are, when you realize who you are - you don't "need", you just "want".
"Inspiration 'replaces'  motivation"  as one wise man once said.

So, you can have whatever you want, since you create your own reality.

 

Edited June 24, 2020 by dimitri

[JosephKnecht]

56 minutes ago, nistake said:

@JosephKnecht That's all well and good, but this is not really helpful from OP's persperctive. He's clearly not in a stage in his path where he could appreciate these kind of non-dual "advices".

I know. I am not telling him anything.

I am only asking questions. Planting seeds. 

Everybody deserves the success they seek.

I am sure he will find the success he is looking for.