Leo Gura

@Koeke Relax and focus at the same time. Maybe try the do-nothing meditation technique for a while. At some point in your spiritual work you have to learn to just surrender and let nature do its thing. The ego is not going to bull its way into heaven.

It is highly dangerous and worth suppressing for materialists Danger is always relative to whatever one identifies with. If one identifies with materialist science, well, then lots of stuff becomes dangerous.

A concrete life purpose as discussed in the Life Purpose Course is a specific manifestation of Love through the prism of your personality structure. Love is universal but how it manifests through you in your life is a very personal and specific thing. So to develop a life around your life purpose will be the highest manifestation of Love for your avatar. But you must be concrete about it. Since everything is Love, the question then becomes, In what ways will you share your love with the world?

@Patrick Lynam No It won't help you at all.

Purity is key. Use test kits to weed out the junk. Only buy from reputable sources.

Appreciate that people have different levels of ambitiousness. For some people, living in a cabin in the wood is the right path. For other people (highly ambitious people) that is not the right path. They need a more active lifestyle. Stop arguing about which path is best for everyone but instead find which path is right for YOU. You can be enlightened and ambitious, or enlightened and unambitious. Depends on your personality. Personally, I'm very ambitious. Which makes enlightenment harder. Its a lot easier to get enlightened when you have no ambitions.

That's enough.

Indeed, awakening is required. Just what do you think Oneness means? You think you are going to realize Oneness and still maintain that you did are not doing industrialized killing? It's all you baby! Whatever horrors you see in the world are the very horrors you created. You are not gonna be able to blame anyone else for it.

That's a concept. Actually there is only existence.

Non-existence is a concept, which is existence.

I am done arguing with mules.

No!

1) You can go experience what it is like to exist as a chair for eternity. This is not a theoretical point. Go do it and report back your results. Stop speculating about it. 2) What you are not taking into account is that even though consciousness is of course not limited by the brain, it is when we are talking about a specific creature. A specific creature is God having limited itself to that creature's morphology, genetics, and capabilities. So while God is all-powerful and all-intelligent in its purest, highest form, that is not true when God incarnates as a cat, mule, or human. Each of these forms has very serious limitations on its abilities. So while God can do calculus, a mule cannot. This is a temporary limitation of the mule's brain and genetics. This is not a permanent situation, but so long as God keeps acting as a mule, God will be limited to what the mule's form allows. And a mule's form does not allow many things, including calculus and God-realization. God is unlimited, but NOT when God is being a mule. "Mule" means limited.

A human is an idea within the Mind of God. It's not the human Mind which realizes God, it's God's Mind which realizes itself. No, it is Truth realization. Go realize what God is. You speak of things you don't understand. The chair is your own Mind.

One of my university professors was a world expert on Descartes. I had to study Descartes in depth. Descartes makes some very subtle arguments.

A chair is also God. But a chair does not know it. Nor does a mule. Nor do 99.9% of humans. Just because something is God doesn't mean it is God-realized.

Cause they clearly has no clue what God is any more than they understand that 1+1=2.

Of course. One's conduct is irrelevant to God-realization. God-realization is a realization, not anything more. Like if a mule realized why water flows downhill.

I'd like to see a video on the toxic world of no self-help.

You are never going to logic your way through this.

Become God-realized and then I won't need to tell you.

This is a common misunderstanding of Descartes. If you actually read and contemplate Descartes Meditations you'll see that the argument is not, "I think, therefore I am". The argument is: if thoughts or any perceptions are arising at all, they must be arising for me. Which means I must exist even if the thoughts and perceptions are a deception. The one thing which cannot be a deception is the I AM. Even if I think I am not, I still AM. Descartes was not saying that thinking causes I AMNESS. He was saying that thinking arises within I AMNESS. There cannot be thoughts without I AMNESS.

That might work. Sounds like a YT video: Live Mule Awakening

Cute, but your logic won't make a mule God-realized. Show me a God-realized mule and I will bow my head to you.

It's just a difference in emphasis and formulation. There is little meaningful difference once you have some awakening.