Leo Gura

I would prefer to go vegetarian for ethical reasons if it didn't disrupt my life too much. Of course taste of the food is a factor. Meat probably tastes better to me. But that could be retrained. But for example, I don't like eating fruit all the time. It becomes too sugary and gross. I don't know how people pull that off for long periods of time even if it gives them enough energy. My body doesn't tolerate a fruit only diet.

It's not true acceptance if in the back of your mind you're accepting it only so that you can avoid facing it. "I accept that I have gay desires as long as that means I won't ever have any gay sex" << that's not acceptance! True acceptance would be: "It's okay if the only kind of sex I have in my life from now on is gay sex." Acceptance requires that you face the thing you don't want to face. Not hypothetically, but actually. That doesn't mean you actually have to have sex with a man, but you do have to face and accept the prospect of it until the point where it doesn't bother you.

That is your relative judgment. Definitely not. I don't have time to kiss every animal I eat. Definitely I try to buy organic and free-range as much as possible, but even that is not always possible and those labels aren't to be trusted anyways. Most free-range stuff isn't really so free-range as they make you believe. Survival is a naughty business.

Closing since this is a duplicate threat to this:

Yeah, what I'm saying is impossible to imagine from your current state of consciousness. You'd need a radical change of state. Yes, time and even cause & effect collapse in nonduality such that the impossible becomes possible. Yes, you can clearly recognize that you are the entire universe happening all at once. This is nondual awakening. No, it's not any analogy or explanation. You are the whole universe happening as we speak. Just as one example, I once became conscious that I wrote every book mankind has ever created. Not only did I write all the books in the universe, I am all of them too. The pages of every book is made out of my consciousness. And this goes for everything in the universe. I am everything that could ever possibly be. All of this is direct absolute truth. Not explanation or thinking or theory. It is not even perception. It is more true than perception and more true than mathematics.

He who smelt it dealt it Did you know the Freud was deathly afraid that his father would catch him masturbating? Is that really the guy you want to take advice from about how to be a healthy and fully-integrated human? Sure, but it's all overblown. Your mother and father and sex are not that important. Unless your mother or father molested you, it's not a big deal.

Just try it. You ever read that book by Dr Suess, Green Eggs and Ham? Lol. That's you now. The Letting Go video would be great for you here.

The ultimate truth is that male and female are both just aspects of your infinite self. You can have male and female orgasms. Both masculine and feminine energies are running through you and you will become most powerful once you integrate them both and experience life from both POVs. Imagine how powerful you would be if you were totally comfortable with your sexuality no matter what it was. That is true strength. To worry or fear about being gay is weakness. This is why Self-Love is the ultimate strength. It requires total fearlessness. So this is great opportunity for you to train yourself to be strong. A strong man is able to have sex with another man. A weak man is not. Your culture has this all backwards.

No it won't, you will enjoy it. Let go of the fear. Sure you can accept it and enjoy it.

Dude, look at the silliness of your position. If you desire to be fucked, that's YOUR DESIRE, YOUR WANT. The problem is that you are denying your own wants. The solution is to accept your own wants. It is your right to deny your own wants or embrace them. Imagine if I came to you and said I want to eat ice cream. But I don't want ice cream. I hate ice cream. Don't I have a right to hate ice cream? I'm so unlucky to want ice cream. You would call me insane. The problem here is simply that your culture has brainwashed you to believe that men aren't supposed to enjoy getting fucked. But all that is, is cultural brainwashing. You must question your own cultural norms and assumptions until you realize that they are completely arbitrary, groundless, and even dysfunctional, as in this case. Your culture tells you that men shouldn't enjoy getting fucked, yet the truth is that many men in your culture enjoy it. So what is the point of following a culture which is so clearly untruthful? You'd have to be crazy to buy into such a culture. Then again, you were brainwashed into it from birth, so it feels like it shouldn't be questioned.

You are all bodies, all beings, all things. If you woke up as a kangaroo tomorrow, you'd still be asking, "Why this kangaroo? Why not something else?" And so it would go until you went through every being and ended up right where you are right now. Someone has to be in your shoes. So here you are! Actually, no one is in your shoes. No one is in everyone's shoes, looking through everyone's eyes. The bottom line is, since you are the only being in existence, you have to be in all places at once. So you are in this place right now. Every place is as important as any other.

@Dylan Page Yes, the ground is Nothingness/Consciousness. The home base is YOU! But it's empty. There's nothing there. There is no better grounding than Absolute Truth.

Hahaha! Yeah... been there. Been there... Nice trip. That's God for ya. The mindfuck to end all mindfucks. Welcome to the True Religion

@Baotrader Yeah dude... just stop with the psyches. You ain't ready.

Yeah, it really depends a lot on the culture. It won't fly so well in under-developed countries with traditional cultures like the Middle East. If your friends are stage Orange/Green or Green, it should be okay. But low Orange and below will be a problem. Blue will be a big problem. Homosexuals basically don't exist in Blue cultures. Because they are demonized and even killed if they come forward. Blue forces a repression of homosexuality. It's a total denial.

I'm no expert on it, but the whole theme of interpreting human actions as a desire for sex, sexual organs, hidden perverted sexual desires, and all the mother/father stuff is just way too overblown. A being's actions are not primarily about sex, they are about self-survival. Sex is a tiny part of that. Psychoanalysis doesn't understand this and of course it doesn't understand spirituality, self-transcendence, nonduality, epistemology, or metaphysics. Freud projected his own sexual perversions onto the world and saw in the world a reflection of his own neurotic shadow self. But just because Freud was that way doesn't mean we all are that way. In fact most of us are not. I don't find Freud's theories useful for personal development or self-transcendence. There are much better frameworks. Most self-help frameworks are better. Go grab any random book in the self-help isle of the bookstore and you will get better and more useful advice for improving your life than by reading Freud. Any book on my book list will be far better.

Sure, he's great. Although still not as nondual as I'd like.

Your death WILL be the discovery of it. Don't worry, you can't die without it. What you call "death" is none other than Infinite Love!

Love I know it doesn't make sense to you now. But maybe one day it will. Terrible things are not a refutation of Love, they are a confirmation of Love's infinitude. You just have to really widen your scope on the world.

I agree we need to distinguish between progressives and neoliberals/centrists. But how it's done is also important. It's important to recognize that lots of people are neoliberals and centrist liberals because that is their level of development. You can't brow-beat them into becoming progressives. Almost by definition progressives are the rarest ones on the political spectrum. So while it's important to not confuse a neoliberal for a progressive, attacking neoliberals and centrist Dems is problematic because you just can't convert all Dems into progressives. There needs to be coalition and some mutual acceptance. My problem with Jimmy Dore is that I feel he's too aggressive. It's like red meat for progressives but it won't work to build a coalition. Being a rabid dog is not a good way to go. Bernie is very progressive but he's not so rabid and obnoxious about it, which allows him to attract people who normally wouldn't call themselves progressives or socialists or whatever. A very important principle for you to learn is that of meeting people where they're at. This will come up for you over and over again in life if you're going to be an advanced human. A lot of people will not be as advanced as you, and your solution to that cannot be to obnoxiously attack or "otherize" them. Remember that these are all your brothers and sisters. That is the real challenge. It would be so much easier if we could otherize half the population and lock them up in Montana. But we can't.

Why doesn't it make sense? Unconsciousness leads to suffering.

Unconditional Love definitely has a feeling to it, too. You're simply missing a mystical experience of Love. Try contemplating what love is on a psychedelic. You're disconnected from Being, and thinking about love in the abstract is not going to be enough to reconnect you. You need a direct experience to jolt you awake. You might also want to optimize your brain health, mental health, nutrition, energy, etc. to make sure that some chemical imbalance or energetic block is not obstructing you. Get blood work done. Check for vitamin deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, etc. Dial in your health because it is the foundation for everything else. For example, if you have too much lead or mercury in your brain, you may not be able to feel love the way you otherwise could. If you can't feel anything, that shows me some deeper underlying chemical or health issue. Or possibly some energetic blockage. That is not normal. Start researching your symptoms.

That even taps into a Turquoise way of thinking.

Time too is a mindfuck Mindfuckery all around.

Your problem is self-judgment, self-hatred, and self-fear. The solution is, of course, Self-Love.