Leo Gura

@krockerman The moment you realize your human being is imaginary.

You can aim for that, but it is not possible in practice. Life cannot exist without death. This becomes especially problematic at the collective level. Even if you stop killing at the individual level, in collectives there will still be choices made which result in the loss of life. Remember, life is not only limited to human life. There is animal life, plant life, and even microscopic life. Your body has to kill bacteria by the thousands every day just for you to stay alive. This question of killing is a lot more complex than people think. Of course I don't recommend you kill humans. At an individual level you should be able to avoid it in decent parts of the world. But my point is, just because you avoid it doesn't mean you can now call others who do it evil. You must see why killing is necessary for some. As Neale said, nothing is good or bad.

@Mikael89 And it never will make sense to you until you have some profound, reality-shattering awakenings. So I will no long bother explaining it to you. You must do the work. I spoil you with way too much explanation. It makes you weak and lazy.

In the end, the only thing you will ever discover are deeper aspects of yourself. There is nothing but SELF here. But there are an enormous number of aspects of Self and degrees of comprehension of Self. I doubt that self-inquiry will be sufficient for most people to reach all those aspects and degrees. Healing and purifying the body & mind is important for most people I feel. Self-inquiry is great, but there is also more to this work than merely awakening. My approach to this work is extremely broad. Far broader than any orthodox teaching you'll find in Buddhism, Advaita, yoga, or any other school.

Russia's a mix of Red, Blue, and even Orange. The reality of any country is far more complex than any one color. You have to consider specific regions, cities, peoples, and parts. The overall corruption problems, oligarchy, and Putin's totalitarianism is why I put it at Red. Culturally and religiously there is a lot of Blue. In the business sector there is some Orange but also lots of Red mafia style business.

Information Theory has mathematical formulas for calculating randomness. Randomness is actually pure noise. Noise is the opposite of information. Of course randomness/information is a duality imagined by the Infinite Consciousness.

@Schahin There may be random aspects of God which exist outside of this physical world. But this physical world is not random. In a truly random world there would not be much interesting going on. Sure, God could imagine such a world, but so what? It's just one boring dream in the mind of God. See, if you're a great writer, you don't write books of random letters. You could, but it's a waste of your time and genius. Maybe you do it once, but then you move on to greater things. You have the power right now to write a book of random letters. Ask yourself why you don't do it.

You can look around the room and love any object you notice. Or love the room as a whole. It doesn't really matter whether you do it or don't. The room is still made of Love. You can even hate the room. You don't have to notice love or feel love for Love to be the substrate of everything. In the same way that you don't have to think about atoms or feel atoms for atoms to do their job. If you see an atom in a microscope, that's a bonus, but it doesn't really matter from the universe's perspective. Which is why you can deny Love, and it doesn't bother God one bit. The denial of Love is itself but one more instance of God's Love!

@Schahin You're never going to understand God through any kind of dualistic logic as you're using. God is way beyond all that. Take a psychedelic and see how all your logic melts.

@Schahin It's far more epic than you imagine. It's all possible paths because time/space are imaginary. This novel is not just one tale. This novel includes every possible story that could ever be told. And again, these stories are not linear. They are co-written by an infinite number of authors. It is TOTALITY!

@Mikael89 You are quoting authorities without direct consciousness of what is being talked about. This will not work. You are misunderstanding the people whom you are quoting.

Reality is the dream of an infinite intellect. Imagine a writer thinking up a novel. Except this novel is infinitely long, infinitely complex, infinitely deep, and every character in it plays a role in writing it. Since the writer is infinite he splits himself apart into an infinite number of sub-writers to accomplish the job. And here you are! Ta-da!

@Extreme Z7 Have you not learned to expect, by this point in this work, that reality is fundamentally paradoxical and at odds with itself?

There's not much connection in my mind between the two.

Fair enough. I could have been a bit more technical in my discussion of suffering. Suffering is a deep topic. There will be a video on suffering in the future, as it's an important topic.

@nowimhere I would suggest plugging it. Smoking too much can overwhelm him in a negative way. Someone with PTSD & depression you gotta be extra careful with.

@Mikael89 That you see hate in it is the hate you project into it. It takes a special kind of ignornace to view life -- the greatest miracle -- as hate. Look at a butterfly. How can you call it anything but Love?

Hehe, yeah. You see the problem? Look how you're beating around the bush rather than going straight for the simplicity of being. Drop what you were thinking about and look at your fucking hand. That's being.

You are not appreciating yet just how relentless survival is. Survival dominates EVERYTHING in life. It's almost impossible to see beyond survival. Almost. I suggest to you that you do not deeply understand survival, and that should invest more time observing it and contemplating it in action.

Look at your hand. That hand is an example of being. You must ground this work directly in what's right in your experience. Not abstractions. Being is the "stuff" that everything is. That "stuff" is consciousness.

He's a very nuanced thinker. Which is a breath of fresh air.

Yes, indeed, populism (aka, democracy) is a good thing. The problem is when right-wingers get a hold of populism. They turn it into ethnocentrism, a la the Nazis in WWII. Trump's populism is a fake populism because of course he doesn't give a shit about fixing systemic income inequality. He's using populism to create a culture war. This is a perversion of populism, which is supposed to be about increase democracy. But the culture war against the SJWs has blinded the right wing so much that they cannot see that democracy is being undermined. While the right wingers satisfy themselves on hating the SJWs, they overlook how the rich are just using this distraction to get richer. The right has misidentified the problem as globalist elite liberals, when in fact the problem is the systemic inequalities of the capitalism status quo. But right wingers cannot see this because they are traditionalists who blindly defend the status quo even if it harms their economic self-interest. The problem is the status quo needs to change. But conservatives, by their very nature, do not like change. They want to keep things as it was in "the good old days". But because society evolves we cannot ever go back to "the good old days", and they were never really good to begin with for many people. Conservatives create a fantasy/myth of the good old days and deny the reality of a rapidly evolving society. It's no accident that many conservatives deny evolution. They really don't like change. They want the safety of the past. But this cannot happen in an ever-globalizing world. We cannot go back to living as individual isolated nations. The world is too interconnected via technology & trade. The solution is to embrace change and take conscious control of it, rather than letting it unconsciously blindside us. What we need is proactive government, but we aren't getting it because conservatives have demonized proactive government as "big government", "communism", "government overreach", "world domination by liberal elites", etc. What we need is FDR style government that makes massive investments in domestic improvements and big picture coordination, similar to what we had for the space race. Government can do amazing things like moon landings if they are properly funded and given a clear vision. This requires good leadership.

You will have to be proactive and take responsibility for making it practical. Academia is not known for their practicality. You need to have a vision for what you want to create, beyond just getting a degree. A degree means shit. What do you want to create for the world? That is the key question. I think psychology is pretty decent. Of course it's scientific. It's a science! People do serious research in that field and that's important. But if your goal is to improve your own psychology, for that you are better off studying self-help on your own. Of course it would be highly valuable to scientifically study & validate various yogic truths. We need a lot more scientific research into spirituality.

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If you are a woman and by cat you mean pussy, then yes.