Becoming a sage

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• The greatest human beings that have ever lived were not entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, political leaders, CEOs, artists, self-help teachers.
  • They were sages and mystics
    • People like the Buddha, Christ, Heraclitus, Socrates, Mahavira, Pyrrho, Marcus Aurelius, Rumi, Yogananda, Gandhi, Sadhguru…

• To get the most juice out of life you’ll have to become a sage

A sage is not:

• An ideological crusader
• A cold smart intellectual or academic who knows a lot but has no mastery over himself

What does it mean to be a sage/mystic

• High quality of self-mastery
• A commitment to truth, consciousness, goodness, and love
• A radical turning inward

How to become a sage – You need a vision * A vision is more important than knowing how – Set your top value as truth and understanding – A radical turning inward is required * A rejection of culture and society * Freeing yourself of materialism * The purification of your body, mind, emotions, and habits – Developing a strong energy body * You can take emotions coming at you without being affected – Massive theoretical reading – Seek uncommon knowledge * You need to sift through a lot of bullshit – Raising of awareness * Concentration, meditation, etc. – Being creative – Be a big-picture thinker – Develop unconditional love – You want to help others raise their awareness as well

Advice for young people

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• The spectrum of life experiences is wider than you think
  • Life can get extremely bad
  • Life can also get extremely good
• Life is multi-dimensional
  • Life is enormously complex
• To live a good life you need to figure out both how life works and how you fit into life
• You have to be true to yourself
  • Figure out life for yourself
    • Don’t just repeat someone else’s life
    • Ask yourself what you’re here to do
• Spend more time reflecting and turning inward
  • The mind doesn’t want to look inward
• You should master your mind
• Your greatest enemy is yourself
  • You need to take responsibility for your life
• Your mind is projecting and creating reality
  • Your thoughts, belief system, and emotions are all creating the reality that you see
• Take the process of learning and understanding very seriously
  • Start questioning everything
  • Become curious about everything
• Have something in your life that you’re deeply passionate about
  • Work on your own terms, not someone else’s
• Desire is more important than knowing how to do something
  • Constantly ask yourself “What do I want?”
  • Without passion or motivation, you’re just going to go with the flow
    • You’re going to get the status quo
• Meaning is created by oneself
  • Really there is no meaning
    • This means life will only be meaningful if you decide to make it so
• Reality is subjective
  • It’s not really objective
• Get in touch with your feelings and intuition
  • Spend a lot of time feeling (emotions, senses, etc.)
• When you’re suffering, have the courage to feel into that more deeply
  • Don’t suppress or numb out the negative things
    • Face your problems head-on rather than trying to avoid them
• Make a commitment towards radical self-honesty
  • Always be honest and truthful with yourself
    • Take truth very seriously
  • You won’t be able to maintain your lies to others without lying to yourself
• Life is deeply counterintuitive
• Be proactive
  • You want to be in the driver’s seat of your life
• Develop mastery in something
• Understand how people are different
  • People have different psychologies, looks, genetics, temperament, etc.
    • It can be said that we live in different realities that intertwine (mind creates reality)
• You’ll need to spend a lot of time deprogramming
  • You’ve been programmed by your parents and culture for most of your life
  • Your parents (and cultures) dysfunctions have been transferred to you
• One can assume that one has a moderate amount of trauma
  • When you’re young you’re especially vulnerable to trauma
    • The younger you were when the trauma happened the deeper in your mind it is
  • Basically, every time you weren’t approved of or loved, you got trauma
• Don’t take health for granted
  • Health gets harder when you get older
  • Learn about proper nutrition and exercise
• Reality isn’t a physical system, it’s consciousness
  • You understand consciousness by experiencing and being conscious of it
    • Be more conscious and raise your level of consciousness
      • The more conscious you are, the more you understand how things really are
      • The less conscious you are, the more you’re in a daze (sleepwalking through life)
  • You’re meshed into reality, you aren’t separate from it
    • You aren’t in reality, you are reality
• Life is about two forces
  • Fear vs love
    • Really fear is just a lack of love, not its opposite
  • Selfishness vs selflessness
• Direct experience is king
  • Experience is all that you have of reality
  • Everything real, you have experienced
    • Reality is experience
• Get serious about life
  • Figure out what life is, why you’re here, what it’s all about
• The biggest obstacle to you doing this is culture
  • The beliefs and ideologies that culture has programmed you with
    • You’ll need to deconstruct all of that
• Your youth is your most precious resource
  • Don’t squander your youth
  • Between the ages of 15-30, your entire life can be made or lost
• Commit to challenging yourself
  • Don’t look for life to be easy
    • The easier you try to make your life, the harder it’s going to be
    • Don’t look for the quick-fix solutions
    • Develop a strong work ethic
• Set a high standard for yourself
  • You tend to get in life whatever your lowest standard is
  • Aim beyond basic survival
  • Commit to never doing mindless work
• Don’t overplan your future
  • You want to be adaptable
  • Let your passion guide you, but leave room for exploration
• Be careful not to get stuck in a rut
  • When you’re in your early 20s-30s don’t tie yourself down to any commitments
  • Change the city you’re in every 5 years
• Don’t imitate others
  • Force yourself to be authentically you
  • You’ll be tempted to imitate others
  • Don’t get your information from the mainstream sources
• Don’t get distracted by petty human stuff
  • Gossip, politics, victim mentalities, ideology, etc.
    • Ground yourself in something beyond that
• Don’t overload your schedule with a lot of commitments and obligations
  • Don’t tie yourself up
  • Leave time for yourself to meditate and contemplate
• People in society will try to trick you
  • Don’t take people’s words at face value
  • People are ignorant and looking for shortcuts
    • Trickery is a survival strategy
• Stop trying to get love from others or from things
  • You think you’ll get love by making others fill your cup
    • You want to be the one filling other people’s cups
      • Fill your own cup by developing yourself through spiritual work and creative work
  • You buy a car, a house, and do some drugs because you get a feeling of love
    • Stop expecting these things to give you love
• There are many different stages of development for humans
  • Not all people are on the same level
    • There are superhuman levels of development that are possible
      • They see reality differently
  • The levels are totally different ways of looking at, and being in the world
  • You should study the stages
• Reality is perspectival, relative, and subjective
  • Reality is perspective
    • There is no objective reality, there are only perspectives
  • We cling to our own perspectives and denounce others’ perspectives

The most serious and common traps

The trap of ideology

• Falling into belief systems and defending them
  • With religion, politics, philosophy, spirituality, science, etc.
  • The belief systems are like the operating systems of your mind
    • They govern what kind of apps you can install

Being hyper-logical

• Overanalyzing everything leads to problems
  • This can be seen with science
    • Studying at a distance from reality doesn’t work when you’re a part of it yourself
  • Logic is easily abused to justify any ideological or belief system
  • Emotions are more powerful than logic

10 things you don’t know you want

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• There are deep and advanced things worth pursuing that you aren’t even aware of
  • The things you’re actually pursuing, usually you don’t even question why you’re pursuing them
  • When you hear the things you really want, it will sound like you don’t want them

• Your entire life strategy is based on what you want, if those wants are wrong then you could be wasting decades of your life
  • You need to question your wants

Things you don’t know you want

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