Hi, I'm Leo on Actualized.org.
In this episode, it's personal development work
I will talk about three levels.
I'll show you what it looks like
your progress through self-realization.
"Great wisdom seems stupid." - Lao Ce
Personal development work is not the same.
There is a spectrum. And according to my interpretation
there are three main levels. And at each level
you can spend years,
while you go on to the next,
and the next one.
And that helps a lot, no matter
which level you are on to recognize
that these levels are there
and you are teaching personal development
secrets, philosophy, or techniques
they address different people at different levels of their journey.
This is very important to understand because otherwise
You get confused. Because sometimes it happens that
a piece of advice or a technique that's one of the ways
is different or even contradictory
with a piece of advice or technique
it's about the lower end of the road. Do you understand?
And now at Actualized.org, we're going through it
towards more advanced materials.
So I don't want you to get lost and confused about it,
if you are still at lower levels.
And it's very important that you classify the material
- whether it's from me or not -
in this basic model that I am going to give you now.
So here's the model, it's very simple:
Basically, I say there are newcomers,
this is the first level,
then there is the intermediate,
and finally there is the advanced level.
These are arbitrary, I invented them,
but I think this model helps.
What do I want to do? I want to tell you
what it looks like to do personal development work
at the rookie levels and then at the most advanced levels
and then you find out what the intermediate is.
Because it's a mixture of the intermediate
for the novice and the advanced.
It's somewhere in the middle.
It opens the eyes very, very much,
and it can be very important because
what I see when I present more advanced materials
the people who follow and the rookie
level,
they cannot comprehend it.
And actually they get confused,
angry,
it may seem like I'm contradicting myself
or saying different things at different times.
So I'm gonna fix this now.
Let's talk about the rookie!
What are the characteristics of a rookie on the road?
Well, it looks like this,
and this is a generalization,
but it looks something like this:
The rookie is basically coming from a deep shortage in his life.
There are holes in themselves that need to be filled,
whether it's relationship, money, business, fitness,
because she's depressed,
or something similar.
So here comes the rookie.
And he needs results from that
from work.
So he is interested in the result.
He really just wants to feel better.
Because you probably feel bad enough about your life.
You may also be dissatisfied, sometimes with a tendency to commit suicide,
can be depressed or nervous,
you might be afraid of a situation in your life,
And when I say he, I mean both genders.
I say he (male) because easier
I have my brain on it, as if I were using it on a woman.
So don't think I'm missing out on ladies.
The rookie likes to blame his environment
for what's wrong with your life.
So depressed because you are not in a good environment.
Something external.
Or he's upset about something outside.
And having money problems is just the environment again.
And since the newcomer thinks that a
solutions are in the environment, that's what you're looking for.
He is looking for techniques and methods
which provides an external solution to these things.
So if, for example, you feel like you don't look
well enough, looking for an external solution:
so he asks the question - "Leo, how could I
to make myself look better? "
"What can I do?"
"Buy better clothes,
cut my hair nicer,
to have plastic surgery,
should I use face cream?
What are the ways to do this? "
It doesn't really consider the internal solution
to this problem.
This is just an example, you can use this
money, relationships, or whatever.
If you have a connection problem, it's sure to be external -
maybe you need a new girlfriend or a new husband.
And if there's a problem with the kids, it's purely outward
problem, so kids, for example
not good enough at school,
or kids can't behave
somehow. External problem.
How do we create an external solution?
Well, maybe I can make new rules
I can condemn it
I can take the key of their car,
or something similar.
The rookie is negatively motivated.
That's not why the rookie is in this job
because it would make you feel great
from educating yourself.
And because of things that expand your awareness.
Or to find the purpose of your life,
and add to society in some way.
The rookie doesn't care about these things,
whereas the newcomer comes from a painful state,
and he only cares about the pain going away.
Not interested in high performance.
He only wants to get to the basic level.
Just to be about average in life.
The novice is not interested in changing his belief system,
or your self-perception, your identity.
The rookie needs a solution that avoids it
a change of faith or identity, at all.
He wants to keep these up.
So you're not looking for internal change at all,
or internal growth.
They are only interested in things or solutions
in the outside world.
It doesn't bother you to think
how happiness works, or
how the business works,
or how relationships work,
or what is behind depression,
how emotions work,
or what we are,
or what the reality is. These things
don't care about the rookie.
All he needs is a solution that will eliminate his problem.
Even the idea of ​​grinding it or removing it
your self-image, it's actually all that
against him.
Primarily because you are in a personal development project,
because he wants to build his self-perception.
That's the point in your thoughts.
The rookie is very typically not interested in the truth.
He doesn't even understand why anyone might be interested in the truth
just for the sake of truth.
The rookie doesn't care what the reality is,
or how reality works.
The rookie is only interested in the result.
And if you care about the truth, that's just it
to a degree fit into it as long as his identity
serve.
It's like, "Yeah, I need the truth Leo,
but only to the extent that it confirms
my ideas about the truth. Because I already know what
the truth.
No need to discover, no need to examine
and question it. Because I already know. "
The rookie is very typical of his own mind
takes it very seriously.
He really thinks his thoughts matter.
Or that they somehow coincide with the truth.
Because you haven't done the critical realization yet,
between thoughts and awareness.
He identifies with his thoughts to the extent that
that they are his reality.
And he doesn't even realize I'm not saying that
that some of his thoughts are not good,
I say everyone's thoughts,
the whole mind structure may be superfluous
On this way.
And it can be a big obstacle.
So the rookie is not aware of the difference
between awareness and thought.
The rookie is lost in theory.
So any time I present some philosophy
or giving advice or insight, especially
when deep and advanced, then
it only takes the idea and creates concepts.
And he doesn't even realize that he's creating concepts.
And there's no alternative to that.
He doesn't base the things that come to him
in his own direct experience.
So there is no difference in the novice's mind about the theory
and direct experience.
This is very, very important.
You have to understand that the things I teach you,
especially the most advanced things,
they are all based on direct experience.
I'm not just sitting there thinking I'm good
tell you things.
I'll do that, but I'll tie it
these things are direct
experience.
And when I do research, I always look for someone
his ideas are bound by the direct
experience.
The best information, all direct
they come from experience.
And if you want to understand them, it's not enough
just to understand them,
you also have to experience them.
And a lot of very advanced things
it takes inner work to experience it.
And as long as you haven't worked for it, you have no direct experience,
until then you can't say you understand.
You're gonna fuck yourself.
And a rookie doesn't really understand that.
A rookie resists action.
Listen to the novice for self-help advice
great, especially if it's video or audio
is in shape. You just sit back and listen
for a long time, and like, "I'm learning good things now,"
I agree with this, I do not agree with
I build my model from the world,
now so good and hard inside,
I feel they understand everything. "
But of course this is just an excuse not to act.
The idea is that the rookie gets some advice
shared with him and the next day
or do it the same day,
many, many, many hours,
with hundreds of hours of action,
with thousands of hours of action,
this idea scares me.
He doesn't really want to feed.
When you think about it, with fear
fills his body.
And that's a big problem.
Because when you get advanced advice and
you do not act because
it stops your growth.
Because you will have a precedent for the advanced
of what people have discovered,
but you didn't discover it, so it's very, very frustrating
because what you know doesn't meet
with what's real to you.
And yet you don't want to do that
the meeting should take place,
because you have all kinds of blocks, and
your internal resistance.
And, of course, instead of working on the blocks
and inner resistance and you would do
what do you do? You hide the problem more
information and more advice.
You watch more videos, you listen to more audio,
you read more books,
and this is a great way to get away
out of action.
But at one point you realize it doesn't work
you have to move yourself,
one day you say, "wait
I have too much information
and that's the first
moving emotionally many challenges
it will be reserved for you.
So you postpone this as much as you can,
six months, twelve months, a few years.
It will be too painful to procrastinate any longer.
The novice is unaware of some basic concepts
in human psychology
one of which is the ego.
The rookie doesn't really understand what the ego is,
why is it important
and how it affects us,
and how much suffering in his life.
In fact, when a novice thinks of the ego,
completely misunderstands it, and usually
takes care that the ego is something worse,
do not recognize that it is the self that is the ego is wrong
it is the ego itself.
So the ego is proliferating without
would be aware of himself.
Not aware of closed thinking,
and how narrow-minded it is.
And how much it hampers growth.
When I talk about extreme open thinking,
then he says, "yes Leo, let's move on,
there is no need to be extremely open
talk about thinking,
it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter, let's move on to practical things.
The rookie had not yet realized how much openness she needed
to be able to find it fun
the most serious wisdom,
not to mention how much you need it
experience the.
The rookie is not aware of what
we call it social distortion,
that affects him.
So the rookie hears advanced advice or wisdom,
and compares it with its environment:
with friends, family, teachers, school environment, colleagues.
She looks at what she saw on TV, in magazines, in politics.
He compares this wisdom to something that is a whole different level.
And then you do not accept the advice because
says, "Leo, this is not real.
Look at the reality! My reality says
that this is not possible. It can't work,
because look at all these people, they don't live like that.
And the main conclusion the rookie draws is
that society is a healthy kind of psychology
shows.
As if the average person is an example of self-realization.
But that's not the case at all.
And the things you learned in history, or biology
from human beings to humanity
how it evolved, this is the idea that
we once lived in the dark middle ages.
And how we got out of it with the Renaissance, and
then came the European Enlightenment,
and now we are here in the 21st century.
And science rules the universe,
religion was defeated,
and we have a good education system
which teaches us what is right and what is right.
We live in a golden age.
The newcomer does not see this whole line of thought
that we are living in the deepest dark age.
Humanity lives in a dark age.
In terms of awareness, and in terms of self-development.
In the deep-deep dark age.
So you can't look around,
and you can use it as a reference point.
Because you're completely wrong.
If your goal is to reach your highest potential,
as a human being that engages me,
that's what we're talking about here. About self-actualization.
The novice is not aware of what spirituality is.
There are two traps you can have about spirituality:
one that is completely rejected because it is scientific
rational atheist, and spirituality something frothy
nonsense.
So you fall into this trap,
or in the opposite trap,
when he says, "spirituality,
yes, i'm a super-spirited person.
And I love spirituality, and it's kind of fake
spirituality.
Without working on spirituality.
The rookie does not yet understand what real means
spiritual work.
And how contrary to his ideas.
The novice is not interested in spirituality.
He says to himself, "Leo, I'm a very practical person
this spiritual stuff comes to some people,
not for me. My life is very practical
ways I want to improve. Secular way.
And that's fine. I have no problem doing that.
That's great. Do this!
But maybe there is a little more you can discover.
The rookie is typically very impatient.
Use every abbreviation you can.
So when a rookie hears about something
a psychedelic, you can take a pill,
and can have an enlightenment.
And he says, "Leo, why do I have to do a lot
the work of enlightenment you are talking about?
Why should I meditate? Why should I do all this hard work?
I just take a medicine and suddenly I get enlightened.
I'm just mushrooming and that's it. Look how fast it goes.
But the rookie doesn't understand that this won't bring it
to him the true enlightenment.
And this is just an example.
The rookie cuts everywhere.
It shortens your relationships,
in business, health, fitness,
treating your depression and everything else.
Instead of working on your depression,
if you hear from a doctor about a new drug,
which is supposed to help people a
treating depression, says
"forget everything Leo says,
I'd rather take the pill! A lot easier!"
I also observed the newcomers to things
I want it for free or cheap.
The rookie doesn't really invest in knowledge,
or self-development.
The novice is not interested in buying books,
to pay for a course,
to do a seminar,
which can cost up to a thousand dollars.
The rookie doesn't need all this,
he needs the cheapest he can find,
what you find free,
does not recognize the value of wisdom.
That someone is able to spend a thousand dollars is something
philosophy, this is unimaginable for a novice.
And the rookie takes this philosophy for granted when
they give it for free.
He's absolutely certain.
He does not recognize the transformative power he can exert in his life.
It's just like a little idea
just a little idea for him.
The rookie has too narrow a focus.
And he says, "Leo, I just want to fuck the girls,
and run a great deal. That's what interests me. "
That's the case with the guy.
If it was a girl, she says
"Leo, I just want a good family!
Nice family, good relationships. That's what interests me. "
Or say, "Leo, you just care about that
to cure my insomnia and
my depression. "
And that is a very narrow focus
to the work of personal development.
You should really expand this!
Because you miss a lot of things like that.
And you won't be effective in your tight focus,
because you miss a lot of important things.
You ignore things like
philosophy, psychology, metaphysics,
and all these things that help you do that
on a mission to achieve these things.
You have to broaden your perspective, you have to be interested
to history, to science,
and other things.
But the rookie is not interested in these things.
They take these as distractions,
"You're Leo offtopic, it's just blabla. You're not helping me build my business,
you're not helping fuck a lot of girls,
you're not helping build my dream family. "
Because the rookie doesn't look ahead.
You can't see how these little pieces connect with each other.
And how to build a snowball effect.
The newcomer also rebels against abstract concepts.
When I show an advanced philosophy,
this philosophy seems to be abstract,
and not practical. Because the rookie doesn't know
how to get from the abstract to the concrete.
You can't get to an abstract thing
to the practical steps in your life,
to accomplish this abstract thing. "
And write a comment that:
"It's all philosophy."
The newcomer thinks he knows what the reality is,
what is the truth,
what a god,
and what you are.
These things are never questioned by a rookie.
The novice knows these things perfectly,
because after all, we live in the 21st century,
and science has shown us everything worth knowing.
So we just look at science,
what we learned in high school or college.
And that is all. We figured it all out.
So the rookie doesn't look at these
things from the starting point.
With an open mind.
The rookie loves to argue and quarrel.
When I present an idea,
suddenly the newcomer's inner skeptic comes out.
But that's not as skepticism as it is
practiced by the ancient Greeks,
it is a neurotic, defensive skepticism.
He's a skeptic who wants to be a good lawyer.
When you go through every situation,
and you are looking for the pitfall in what
person says.
You buy things very literally,
you don't mean the meaning behind the words.
And how you would do that
embeds the intellect in direct experience,
and show it first hand.
So the rookie is not interested in this.
The rookie is interested in becoming an ideologue,
because it's easy for him to sit back
and carry on armchair philosophy. And he looks at him
to the things they show him
and says, "This won't work,
I read something that contradicts what you say,
and here you contradict yourself,
and what this person says is contrary to it
what you say. Who do you believe?
What if you're wrong, Leo?
This is what I mean by ideological action.
You want to defend your views,
instead of taking the advice
and transform your life.
What self-development is all about.
It's not about faith, it's about
transform your life.
The rookie has great needs when a
it is scientific proof.
He likes to say "Leo,
if what you say is true, show it
scientific evidence! "
"I want studies and evidence,
refer to your sources! "
"By the way, how would we know you're not just figuring out
these things?"
So he is not looking for evidence in his own life,
but he just wants to prove his own
thoughts.
That's what really interests him.
The novice has a black and white mindset.
This means that when I introduce an advanced concept,
the rookie looks at him and twists it and makes it empty.
Completely exaggerated to ridiculous levels.
And you think that's what Leo says.
There are no delicacies for him,
for an idea like this
non-attachment. or enlightenment,
or happiness.
When I present these, the rookie
he doesn't want to try and study what I say
and see what it really is,
because it's a complex thing.
Take what I say and run away with it.
The rookie is easily offended,
thinks that teaching is about the teacher,
if you listen to some advanced teaching,
either from me or anyone else, no matter
watch this when you consider this one about me!
Many of the things I'm talking about aren't really about me,
but a lot of people think he's talking about me.
"Leo, where are your sources? Leo, you are arrogant!
Leo, you are egotistical,
it contradicts what you said other times,
and if you say I should be happy unconditionally,
Leo, show your life!
And unless your life is perfect,
I will not do what you say.
It's a classic defense the rookie does.
He projects his own insecurities and things to the teacher,
because that way you don't have to do the hard
emotional work.
Any advanced personal development teaching will force you to
to face the depths of your mind.
Look at it and examine things you don't want
to look at.
And of course, instead of doing this,
easier to criticize.
I'm not a master at many things I'm talking about.
I don't need it.
Enough to get there.
I work on it every single day of my life.
And I'm working to be a master at these things
that I'm talking about.
And I hope you do the same.
And how much the recruits are offended,
if I know right away that they are newcomers.
Or when I call them indifferent.
Because the problem is you don't know what you don't know.
the newcomer says, "Leo, you don't know me how
can you say such things about me? "
But you see how you ask your question,
the kind of questions you ask,
and the emotions behind them,
the words you use,
every time you use "me".
Whoever has gone further than you can clearly see that
where are you at your level of awareness.
How tall or how low it is.
This is very obvious when you have passed these levels
and you get closer to the advanced levels.
But if you're a rookie, you don't know these things.
But you seem to be doing just that
as if they knew you.
In fact, the person does not know you.
He knows the level you're at.
And you know you can't escape the level you are at
the level determines you.
And since he was already at this level, you know him
level traps.
So you can point to them.
But as a rookie, of course, you don't like being pointed out.
So you do, you project it to the teacher.
And the last character of the rookie is that
fall into the trap of simplicity.
This is a very deep thought, let me explain.
So I said there is a novice level, an intermediate level and an advanced level.
The rookie says, "yes there is an advanced level, I recognize that.
But I think it's a very complex thing. "
For a rookie, the levels come from the complexity.
The most advanced level is the most complex than in math.
Derivation is a difficult thing when very complex, you have to sit down and calculate the rest.
Some advanced ideas are like this, but most are
advanced philosophy is very simple.
It's that simple. that your mind is falling over it,
and ignore it.
And you don't do it.
This is one of the biggest mistakes a rookie can make.
You underestimate this.
When I introduce something advanced, he says
"Leo, it's that simple, it's stupid."
"It sounds childish."
The ice cream truck returned.
He was on the last video too. Do you hear?
It is a trap of simplicity.
Because the mind is most easily deceived by
that he says "oh yes, I already know that".
"Leo, let's move on to the real thing."
This happens.
So the novice is incapable of grasping the deepest wisdom.
Society keeps developing in its inability to comprehend,
handle it. The deepest philosophy,
that the wisest people have discovered.
We are not at this level yet.
That's why I said we live in a dark age.
And society doesn't understand that,
the rookie doesn't understand that.
The rookie doesn't know he can't grasp the
deepest truth.
And this is not a matter of will.
If you're a rookie, I'm not saying that with will
you can reach advanced states.
In fact, you don't know.
You can only grow yourself.
You act when I ask for it through my content,
you can do the deep inner work to advance yourself,
to the intermediate and advanced levels.
And then when your awareness goes up, you will be able to
to tolerate and use the deepest truths of humanity.
But now you may be in a position where you can't do it.
The rookie hadn't been shocked by how little he knew.
The newcomer thinks he knows a lot.
And you think that when you go through the process
you will always know more and more.
He is gradually adding more and more things to his mind.
He didn't realize there was a lot of work to do
to get to the advanced level,
the abstract.
Removes things from your mind.
It's much harder than adding things to your mind.
And one day the shock comes at how little you know.
How many things you thought were true,
it's simply not the case.
It could be a cold shower.
It can be emotionally awful for some people.
And it prevents progress to more advanced levels.
A lot of people are jumping from rookie to intermediate,
but it does not go from intermediate to advanced.
Because you can't handle switching like that
it must happen.
When you go from intermediate to advanced
that is no longer a gathering,
but often going backwards.
And that can be very confusing and scary.
And you don't even approach it.
So what are the characteristics of advanced work?
First, radical open thinking.
I can present you with thoughts that
there is no time for that.
There is no room for space.
Maybe the universe doesn't exist.
Maybe you don't exist.
Maybe history is not what you think it is.
Human history.
Many such things.
What the normal mind cannot seriously understand.
Or if he sees it as something fantasy,
conspiracy theory or similar.
But that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about extreme open thinking,
but also that we have our roots in reality.
So not only do we figure things out,
that maybe we all live in the matrix.
That's not what I say.
That would be another extreme that the rookie would run into.
So radically open minded that when
you examine an idea, you check its credibility
in your own life.
Without criticism and judgment.
You can work on the concept in your life, you can act
Seeing if it's authentic or not.
Even if the idea seems like a crazy idea,
or impossible.
Can you do this?
An advanced student does.
An advanced student rejects all social norms.
So what society says to him,
what his friends are doing,
have to get married or have a job,
have to live a certain way,
you reject all such things.
The feature of advanced work and advanced student is that
practice a lot and apply what you hear.
Practice, practice, practice.
Really apply theory.
He does a lot.
And this act is not outward,
but inward.
Many actions: meditation, meditation, shadow work,
insight self-examination, inward progress.
Digging deep, digging and digging inward.
And it's thousands of hours sitting alone in the couch.
Only you and your inner demons.
You face your inner demons.
That rookie almost never does that.
That's why it can't really grow.
An advanced student also accepts
that all his problems are made by him.
No liability,
and finger pointing and looking for external problems.
The problems are all in me,
and I look to find their source.
The advanced student has a focus on truth
instead of goals. I'm not in the process of doing that
achieve goals to have more money
or better relationship. The advanced student is in it for the truth.
Because of reality.
He wants to know what reality is, true, direct
through experience.
Not through ideologies, beliefs, hearing,
but through direct experience.
He wants to embody it.
He wants to embody what is true.
For your own sake and not for doing something tricky
have more sex or have a better marriage
or similar.
Advanced students focus on awareness.
There is more work to do to raise their awareness
as they realize that thoughts and mind
they won't bring him the growth he wants
but they restrain him.
The advanced student rejects the mind.
Whatever comes to the mind simply throws it away.
Not important, let me focus on awareness
no matter what comes to my mind.
Because I’ve been with the mind my whole life,
and most of all he got into trouble.
As an advanced student, I have to let go of the mind.
And it's a tricky thing to do.
And at least I think so,
that an advanced student has been meditating for at least a few years.
Because if you haven't meditated for several years, you haven't
your direct experience of advanced work.
And I'm not saying that meditation is
the only form of progressive work
there are many advanced techniques,
and I will share these with you,
in the future, as I have done so far.
I see that after two years of daily meditation
you already have an insight into the power of consciousness,
against thoughts.
And then you opened yourself,
you have quite direct experience
and you can start to take seriously some of the advanced stuff you have
they show you.
And since not too many people have two years of daily meditation
in your purse, some of the things I will show you
you will find deaf ears.
It's not a matter of will.
It is a matter of true internal development.
Advanced work requires self-examination and questioning of the ego.
This is the basis for advanced work.
You say, "Leo, what's an advanced job?
you make it mystical. "
You are not mystical just questioning
who you are, what you are, and why you are motivated
to do the things you do.
Why do you create every single emotion?
You create all the emotions you have.
And why did you create them? Each
negative emotion. Why did you create it?
You question it and look deep into it.
The advanced student refuses to succeed,
and to meet your needs.
He is no longer doing it for success.
He saw that success was empty.
He realized that success would never get him there
where you want to go in your life.
This does not mean that you do not go to work
and he became a monk.
Still successful to some extent,
but he doesn't commit to that rookie idea
that everything is a net success.
I'll be successful and retire to a tropical island in the Bahamas.
And life will be sweet.
You have surpassed that illusion.
Nor does he take his needs seriously.
Maybe you are not in an ideal relationship,
maybe unique,
wants a girlfriend, but that's not the most burning thing
in your thoughts.
Larger fish can be fried.
Or maybe you're not earning as much money as you want.
Maybe you could make more money, but you see,
that it doesn't get you what you want to be.
Larger fish can be fried.
That doesn't mean you're not working for money,
or never having a girlfriend.
Only others have priorities.
The advanced individual does this for a lifetime
with commitment.
Personal development is a lifelong commitment to her.
He makes development for development.
He wants to grow, is interested in how he can transform himself.
He doesn't want superficial solutions.
As a result, he becomes quite patient.
Your expectations are calming down, more realistic,
does not want immediate results,
looking far on the road.
Five to ten years on the road where he finally sees what this job will do for him.
And he's excited about it.
The advanced student is doing serious study,
personal development materials.
Not just personal development with materials,
not just psychology,
not just with techniques that are certain
solve problems in your life,
but is pursuing broader studies.
Studying philosophy, studying history,
studying religion, studying spirituality,
studying science, learning logic,
he is studying epistemology.
These are all things a rookie doesn't want
not even touch.
Because they don't seem too important.
But all this enriches the advanced student's reality model.
And that gives her inspiration.
It gives him valuable wisdom and knowledge
how to direct your life in the direction you want it to go.
An advanced student can cope
the problem of simplicity.
Can take simple advice,
and can apply and clean it completely.
Able to clear simple abstract concepts.
You can create an action plan that you can for months
or years to follow.
And it includes this simple abstract thing.
The advanced student is aware of the deepest
work is the most challenging one emotionally.
He swallowed the pill of emotional labor
and it doesn't run anymore. The most emotionally exhausting
he gets excited these days.
Although suffering through it, he knows
it's all emotional work
actually purifies her,
and steers him in the right direction.
This is a sign of progress.
For a newcomer, emotional pain means failure.
He thinks he has failed.
A novice thinks that when you sit down and meditate,
and his mind goes wild, he thinks he is failing,
the advanced sees it as the best opportunity for growth.
The advanced student is open to it. to question his belief system.
And not just on the periphery, but at the root.
It challenges your faith in reality, in life,
death, humanity, morality,
about politics, science, religion,
about spirituality, about yourself.
All of this is questionable for him and
he has a kind of excitement about his belief system
changing.
The advanced student realized that his belief system was holding him back.
The rookie doesn't recognize this yet.
The rookie must protect his belief system.
And finally, I would say the advanced student
okay with the contradiction and paradox.
When a rookie experiences a contradiction,
use it as an excuse to refuse.
And he's not doing it.
It scares you.
If the advanced student hears something contradictory,
he is at peace with the disorder. He keeps it and doesn't get it.
And there is a kind of crazy joy in personal
paradoxes of development.
They are fine for him. subtlety
you will find them.
This subtlety develops when you pass the intermediate level.
So that's it. These are the two characteristics that I will give you:
the novice and the advanced student. You already know what these are,
but the reality is that you're probably somewhere in the middle.
Somewhere in the intermediate level.
Or closer to the newcomer.
Very few people reach the advanced level.
And that's fine. I'm not saying that
being a rookie is bad. Or terrible,
or I condemn it. Just make them aware
I want to know where you are.
And be aware of where you're headed.
And direct yourself to the right expectations.
Maybe to recognize some of the traps you have
fall as a rookie. Let me give you some advice
if you are a rookie!
It's okay if you're a rookie.
If you're a rookie, focus on meeting your deepest needs.
You probably want to do this.
When I present a video I'm talking about
to live in the forest and focus on enlightenment,
you probably won't like it.
Not that you can't do it,
but you are probably not mature enough
to handle this.
So you need success.
Have basic success in your life if you have never been successful.
If you are a guy who has never had sex but is thirty.
Then you probably want to solve this problem,
instead of living in the woods.
And if you're a woman from an abusive relationship
being in abusive relationships for years,
then maybe you want to work on that
and establish a normal relationship,
instead of meditating and enlightening.
Yes, create tangible success for yourself
that's okay. Try to go through the needs,
that is. Love, recognition, good looks.
Sexuality, lots of friends, lots of money, go through these if you can.
Just don't get lost, don't get lost!
Come back when you're done!
Focus on developing habits!
However, a rookie cannot practice advanced things
what I am saying is because he has no good habits.
Basic things:
meditation habit, exercise, healthy eating, learning, reflection, visualization, reinforcement.
I'm talking about very basic things.
Get these right!
Subtract some misleading things or addictions from your life,
like TV, social media, internet, porn
things like that. Video Games.
To make room for you to use it
the more advanced things you hear.
Beware of advanced topics!
I try to draw attention to it in the future
for advanced topics, this is a more advanced topic.
And you need to think about that at this point
"Oh. This is an advanced topic,
maybe I don't have to focus on applying it.
I can listen to it and maybe learn a few things,
I foresee where I am going, and this preliminary is important.
But just let me focus on building my business,
or repair my relationship,
to cure my depression,
and I'll come back to that.
And if you want, just skip the advanced videos!
Be more open when you hear advanced topics,
realize that if you are at the lower levels,
and listening to progressive things,
may seem crazy,
may seem ridiculous.
Don't draw the conclusions so quickly,
criticize, label, judge,
just realize that your mind is doing this!
There's a reason he's doing this.
Realize that this is a very deep road.
Personal development is a super deep way.
It is a journey from birth to death.
This is life here, we are talking about how to be
completely human.
There are people who have dedicated 40, 60, 80 years to this
from their lives. I'm not kidding.
Extremely tough ways, not one hour a day.
Twelve hours a day.
And these are the people who bring forth the deepest wisdom.
So if you want to understand deep wisdom,
don't expect to do this as a rookie.
Be Excited About Advanced Work!
That's why I like to talk about advanced work in the rookie job
in the middle because you really need both.
This is because the rookie will solve problems
not very inspiring. Advanced things should inspire you!
So I'm talking about advanced things like that
enlightenment, because it presumably gives hope
work even more. So if you are depressed
it will not only cure your depression but also
then you are moving towards something very, very positive.
It is not very inspiring to heal a
depression, then you're just normal.
Just because you're doing advanced work, don't think
that there are no new areas of your life,
where you can get rookie advice.
I know people who are enlightened,
but they don't know anything about the business.
So they need newcomers to the business,
but they were enlightened.
Same with relationships.
You can be enlightened and you don't know anything about relationships.
So you need some advice on relationships.
Either how to have sex or how to lift weights in the gym.
So in practice it is good to have all kinds of advice.
And I don't want to strip my advice
the most esoteric, mystical teaching you can get.
I like to talk about such topics
I'll be about them in the future.
But I also like traditional advice.
I like to have some fun with you,
I like to make a video about the Enlightenment,
and I'll be out next week
a video of how
let's have a huge sex.
I like this because whoever watched the Enlightenment video thinks:
"My God, Leo, it was so good at enlightenment,
but now you're talking about sex, this is pure stupidity.
Why do you contradict yourself?
But this is not really an advanced mindset.
Advanced thinking recognizes that there is no problem
and the contradiction between enlightenment and sex.
There is no problem that if we want to be enlightened
and neither is it good to have sex.
So when I put videos in that order,
I'm gonna screw up your mind a little bit.
And so I break expectations.
They think that if I want enlightenment
that means no more schools, no more work,
no more business, no more money
no more food, no more sex, nothing.
And that's not the case, not at all.
I never said that.
Yes, you are not going to insist on these things.
But non-attachment does not mean you refuse them.
Not only do you not deny, but it does not mean that you do not take them to a master level.
Become a sex master!
Become a sex god!
No problem with that.
Until you use this as an excuse
not to be the master of your true nature,
and not to dissolve all your inner demons.
Usually the problem with sex
that you get lost in sex and never
you are examining your inner demons.
Or you get married and never call
your inner demons.
So your sex life will be bad,
and your marriage will be bad,
and your business will be bad.
So it is important to examine the inner demons.
And liberating you to live a life
whatever you want.
And although I sometimes talk about what it is
to live in a box as a theory,
but I do not advise you to have your life
live in a cave or box.
Go and enjoy what life has to offer!
Just do it in a very conscious way!
Do it in a way that you can really enjoy!
Not as many people do:
there are great things around them,
and they can't enjoy them,
because they are not masters of their minds.
So yes, get excited about the progressive work!
The latest material I work on,
will be a very advanced package.
Within a couple of years I'll talk about it
may seem ridiculous and absurd to you,
unless you grow up with me.
You have noticed that as I develop,
my advice is changing,
I develop every week
some of the things I talked about a year ago,
is no longer up to date for me.
I either grew up or got a new look.
And it will still be because it is one
a very long and very deep road.
So take action!
Do your homework
what you have to do here!
If you do the lesson and act,
when I talk about advanced things
you can understand those
and it will be very valuable and joyful to you.
Instead of now for some people,
when I talk about advanced things and they just get angry
and questioning life, themselves, everything,
and go back to their suffering existence.
That's not what I want.
I want you to grow with me this way!
I want to be inspired by opportunities,
that exist to transform yourself as a human being
and what you can develop into.
So I'm not just showing you techniques
on Actualized.org, but I'll show you
what is possible through me doing it too.
So I do the things I'm talking about,
and I want you to do them too.
Otherwise you will not understand them.
And, man ...
the wisest things are so very joyful
but you have a wonderful understanding of the deepest philosophy
what is possible.
This is an exceptional experience
that's all about it.
I want you to get here,
develop so far, I don't want you to miss this.
So you have a homework.
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Subtitle: Sol Metta