Leo Gura

I've never kicked someone out for having a victim mindset. That's not the issue here. Edit: oops, left out the "never".

@4201 This is the point in the conversation where a Zen master slaps you hard across the face.

Someone please make a deepfake video of Sadhguru rapping. Want bitches, yes or no?

@Mondsee That's like saying, "My parents molested me as a child, but now I've overcome it and I'm grateful for who its made me." Good for you, but most molested kids don't get over it so easily. This is not a matter of judgment but a matter of creating paradigm lock in a child's mind. Which is as big a problem as molesting a child.

@4201 You are lost in mind. Sit silently and observe the consciousness of the present moment. You have to train yourself to drop useless mental activity.

@Chumbimba That's perfectly fine.

Well, to be fair, these can be tough judgment calls and my judgment calls are relative. But then again, this whole forum exists in the relative domain and someone has to moderate it. It's never a pleasant decision to ban someone. I would rather not have to ban anyone. But as I get too permissive people take advantage. Over the years I've found that it's almost impossible to reform a problematic user. I guess that's why society invented prisons.

Yes, no problem.

No because once such a person is identified I have found that there is no correcting their behavior no matter how much I reason with them. The whole point is that if such a person was open to correction or reason, they wouldn't be identified as needing a ban in the first place. Such people are not aware of what they are doing and cannot help themselves act how they act and think how they think. Any time a person is a banned, the response is always the same: they blame me and they always have a story about how they are right. After that, there is definitely no reasoning with them.

Running this forum has made me appreciate how difficult of a job police have.

@4201 You are not aware. That's the problem. Thinking you're aware vs being aware are two different things.

This is bad advice. Do the opposite. The rest is pretty good.

Enlightened antelope has telekinetic abilities, of course.

@MAYA EL Then you don't need to be on this forum.

No, I wouldn't mix those two notions. Masculinity/femininity are different ways of interfacing with reality. Have you never heard of a she-devil?

No, Ultimate Reality is right here, right now. Infinity is right here, right now, always. There is nothing but Infinity.

I would rather just accept and love myself as I am. Be careful demonizing sex.

Let. It. Go.

Just want to remind everyone to be aware of how self-bias distorts all of your logic, arguments, and justifications. Just notice this meta point before you get losts in endless selfish debate. Notice the function of debate: survival of the self.

Think of it this way, if not paying taxes became widely adopted, your society would devolve into barbarism. As bad as the corruption might be now, remind yourself how much worse it can be by reading in the history books of how bad things were in the past. Yes, by not paying taxes (even to a semi-corrupt government) you add to the devilry.

Having a bad trip also doesn't mean schizophrenia. Lots of people simply have bad trips and have no clue how to process or interpret what happened. So they might reach for a label like "crazy", "schizo", "psycho" or whatever. Doesn't mean much. I'll tell you this much: if an ordinary person experienced some of my recent awakenings out of the blue, without years of conceptual foundation and inner work, they would surely think they went insane and they would check themselves into a hospital and ask for meds to get back to normal. That's how radical awakening can be. I smile and laugh about it only because I've done so much work to understand and embrace it. And even so, it doesn't always leave me smiling and laughing. Sometimes it's scary and hard.

No, it is possible. But the trick is, have you actually done it? And a higher or different level will not invalidate the core things I teach about the Absolute.

As you engage in the grand circle jerk of judgment, at least once in a while remind yourself, "Evil doesn't exist. All judgment is delusion."

And what if pigs were unicorns who pooped bars of gold?

@Red-White-Light Do the work! You are just making excuses. I'm gonna start kicking people off this forum who clearly aren't doing the work.