Leo Gura

Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei meditate while running 20 miles per day.

I was exactly in your shoes at your age. First thing I did was drop 65 pounds. Then, later, I started learning about how to attract women. You need a lot more socialization experience. You need to put yourself into social environments and practice socializing, not only with women but also with men. At 18 years old you're not supposed to have sexual experience.

Dude, just drop it. No one cares about your dick size but your ego.

Yes, but what are you gonna do with your life after awakening? Life purpose only starts to get serious after awakening.

It is not ideological unless you turn it into an ideology. I warned you from day 1 not to turn my teachings into an ideology. You must use my teachings consciously. How you use them depends on you. Many warnings have been issued. It would be a good idea to clearly distinguish in your experience what it means to act ideologically and what what it means to act consciously.

On mushrooms I once became conscious that I created all the dinosaurs. Not what you were asking, but eh... Weird shit happens when you trip enough times.

You are very young so you got plenty of time to work all that out.

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Love! Every devil needs love. See my video: How To Love Yourself

Please don't cite me "spontaneous insight". You have no idea what hell Tolle went through to earn his so-called "spontaneous insight." He spent 2 YEARS living on a park bench just to integrate it. Your logic is like saying an Olympic champion got his gold medal in a 30 minute ceremony.

No! You still aren't getting it. You are using an imaginary notion of a "behind the scenes reality" to ground reality. Your are fooling yourself when you do this. You are anchoring reality in a fantasy. You might as well believe that there exists a behind the scenes space kangaroo who runs reality. There is as much evidence for space kangroos as there is of a behind the scenes brain. THERE IS NO BEHIND THE SCENE! There is only a groundless scene.

Your are splitting hairs now. In practice you will not get insight without time and deep experience. If this wasn't true, people would not do meditation retreats or become monks. The core hypocrisy is this: meditation retreats are treated as necessary and important, yet psychedelics are demonized and dissmissed as ineffective. This is a clear double standard born of self-bias.

@Burstyourbubble Notice that your mind is closed on this question. You are interested in truly questioning your reality. You are more interested in being right. Your sense of rightness is, of course, imaginary. But since you deny this, you're now stuck forever until you decide to open up.

Getting sick of the merry go round is just another word for practice/time.

And this brings us right back to the issue of time and experience. You can't get the results The Buddha got without the practice time he put in. Unless maybe you're a spiritually gifted freak. Or maybe you can do it faster with psychedelics. Who knows?

You answered your own question. If both require space between, the space in between cancels itself out. It's not so hard to take 100 people, split them into 2 groups, and pay each one to do 5,000 of either psychedelics or meditation. And then see who is more conscious in the end.

@ardacigin Here's a really interesting point which a lot of meditators are in denial about: When you compare psychedelics vs meditation, you're making a biased comparison. You are comparing 5,000-10,000 hours of mediation with 50-100 hours of psychedelics. A true comparison would be to compare 5,000 hours of meditation with 5,000 hours tripping, or 50 hours of mediation with 50 hours of tripping. It's very misleading to criticize the limited transformative power of psychedelics when you are comparing a few psychedelic trips with a master mediator who's done 10,000 hours of practice. The true test is to compare apples to apples. Which of course no meditation teacher does. Because of how bad it would look for them. Meditation is terribly inefficient. The only way to overcome its inefficiency is with a full-time professional commitment. And even then, you will not ever be as conscious as with 5-MeO-DMT. The problem is that doing 5,000 hours of psychedelics is unheard of in our society. So no one really knows what it would result in. People are too scared or too closedminded to run the test. Because a visionary leader is needed to pioneer a new spiritual path as the Buddha did with Buddhism. There is a huge difference between following an existing spiritual path like a sheep vs pioneering a brand new one for others to follow.

@Burstyourbubble You are getting aggressive and defensive with your lack of understanding. Notice this. You are being guided here towards radical truths which you do not yet fathom, which you are in denial about because they are very threatening to your way of life.

Yes, that's what they would say, but their position is incoherent and circular. What is your behind-the-scenes reality grounded in? You're not questioning that deeply enough. You cannot ground reality in the brain because the brain is already part of what you call reality. This is classic question begging. It's like saying God is true because the Bible says so. And why is the Bible true? Because God wrote it.

You don't need to go to some alien planet. Animals on Earth already sleep different amouts at different times of the day. Some animals only wake up at night. Some animals even sleep through the winter. This has nothing to do with what time is per se. Regardless of what time is you can sleep whenever you want.

Reality is groundless. If you try to ground it in anything, like a brain or atoms, you still aren't getting it. Oneness cannot be grounded in anything but itself because oneness can have no other. Brains have no absolute reality. They are imaginary. Just like all form is. It's very simple, you cannot ground form in another form. That is delusion. Discover this for yourself. Brains are a relative duality which we use to speak about relative reality. This concept works, but only up to a point. If you examine it deeply enough you will hit upon a self-reference paradox which results in a strange loop. That's your clue that you've reached the limits of that concept of "a brain". The strange loop is this: if the universe in happening in brain, then where is the brain happening? In the universe? You can't have it both ways. On the one hand you say that the universe comes before a brain, on the other hand you say the whole universe happens in a brain. Which is it? Is the brain itself happening inside a brain?

Trees and campuses are hallucinations. All form is. You're just changing the way you hallucinate. Which is fine. But a great hallucination is still a hallucination.

You must let go of Christianity. If you care to discover God, burn all your Christian beliefs.

Learning, of course, is imaginary. I am ranting against nothing.

@ardacigin Those are some good points. There can certainly be a trap in only hitting peaks but not enough sober embodiment. The peak of a psychedelic like 5-MeO is so extreme it's very hard to embody it even if you meditate all day. You are never going to hit that same level of consciousness sober. You proabably couldn't live regular life while in so much consciousness.