03-20-2016, 08:23 PM
(03-20-2016, 06:53 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote:(03-20-2016, 06:34 PM)maxx55 Wrote:(03-20-2016, 06:08 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote: Cool post. Have you read "The Power of Now"?
I have not yet, but I fully intend to. I think someone gave me that book a while ago.
It's also not until recently that I realized it's important to proactively read books like that. Before I just thought "Oh, I'm going to read that book. I heard from Tyler/Julien/Preston/etc. it's good". Now I see I should always look for it and continually read.
Maybe. I read it twice already, and I'm starting it again.
I stopped practicing entirely because I found that being present and enlightened did little to help with seduction.
I even experienced nirvana or enlightenment when I was practicing it regularly. It's great but doesn't solve any problems or accomplish any goals, unless your goal is to be enlightened.
I guess I thought back then that enlightenment would bestow some magical powers to me or something, but of course it does not (aside from the presence and social boost it gives).
I think it's summed up best in this old Zen saying:
"Before enlightenment: Mountains are mountains and waters are waters.
During enlightenment: Mountains are no longer mountains, and waters are no longer waters.
After enlightenment: Mountains are again mountains and waters are again waters."
Or as a Zen Master said when someone asked him what living with enlightenment was like, he said "Oh it's just like every-day, ordinary experience, except about 6 inches off the ground."
I get what you're saying. I can say for me, in my experience, I know it was all the hate towards women and people who I saw who were successful with them, my desire to literally want to kill some people, the desire to make a girl feel what I felt when I was in my "chode days", the want for revenge, and the desire to prove to myself that I can get a girl to prove to myself that I am a man worthy to live is what held me back. That was why I was unsuccessful. I was literally only attracting circumstances that would affirm that shit.
NOW, I have understanding. Now, I know that I can accept my circumstances and create something new. And I know from experience that being in high vibration is the best place to live. Period. At least for me
