Leo Gura

Love without consciousness of the Absolute will not work. Your ego will co-opt it. Dismantle the self and love will result. By shooting for love, you'll likely end up with ego. The problem with shooting for love is that its easy to bullshit yourself into thinking you're being loving while deep down the ego is pissed off because it is unable to sustain true love. It's the same problem as trying to be good/moral while still unenlightened. Religious people try that all the time and it doesn't work. They end up being more evil. This is very counter-intuitive stuff. So watch out. If you really care about love, forget about love and sit down and do what the Buddha did. Then you will have love.

Be careful not to confuse Love with certain ways of acting or even being. True Love is so radical it does not care which way a person is being. Any conditions you set on how love must be is not true love. Unless you are able to see Hitler as an expression of Love, then you're still not getting it. Love is not something you can do. You must reach an appropriate state of consciousness, at which point everything appears to you as love. So any of your plans to be loving is not going to work. You must become enlightened first. You cannot act or fake your way into true love. If you seriously pursue enlightenment, the end result will be true love. Otherwise not. Survival is going to co-opt love for its purposes.

You can't really define it like that. It's not that I have no fear of death, it's that my relationship to death has changed. Again, it's subtle shift. You do not become Terminator. The body still instinctively doesn't like the notion of death because it will not survive the process.

We just had a long thread on solipsism. Search for it.

Don't waste our time with such things.

Someone please give Sadhguru some DMT

Letting go of theocracy is a real challenge. At least your country ain't Saudi Arabia.

@Pouya That is called mysticism.

Science is a conceptual, symbolic, relativistic, and dualistic enterprise. It cannot overcome this ever because all language is dualistic amd science cannot be done without language. Try it. Beyond language is mysticism.

All of your knowledge is groundless, relative, and ultimately delusional. You do not actually know what anything is. Read what the ancient skeptics wrote. Read Outlines Of Pyrrhonism.

@Pacific Sage That may be true but what I am saying goes deeper. It is an abstract point about frames of reference. "Bad" only exists relative to some frame of reference you establish. How else can you determine when to call a thing bad? You need some criteria. Whatever criteria you choose will be aribtrary. You might say death is bad. But that's only true assuming you don't want to die. If you want to die death now becomes good. You might say, but who wanta to die? That is irrelevant. The point has already been made. It is an abstract point. There cannot be bad as an Absolute.

The epistemology and metaphysics of science is a very complex topic. There is no silver bullet against science. The devil is all in the details. Many books could and have be written about it. The core problem is that science does not question its own foundations. How do you know science is capable of accessing Absolute Truth? After all, this has never been demonstrated by science. And how would you demonstrate it anyway? By using science? Do you see how that begs the question? If science is incomplete or flawed then you cannot use science to validated science. You need a meta science. And a meta meta science, and so on to infinity. Science actually has no foundation because reality is infinite. The ancient Greek skeptics showed 2000 years ago why no human knowledge is possible. But the scientists ignored them. And they are in denial about it to this day. You cannot convince a scientist that science is a dream. Because scientists hold science as a dogma. Like religious people. You will never convince a Muslim that his idea of Allah is a dream. Because his mind is not open to such a possibility. He is not interested in searching for Truth because he thinks he's already found it.

I think you missed the point. I didn't exactly say people like suffering. I was just making a point about frames of reference. Torturing a puppy is only bad relative to the assumption that suffering is bad. From the Absolute perspective, suffering is not bad.

We cannot allow mentally unstable people to run loose on this forum. The Mods are not therapists.

We have a few new Mods who came online recently and they are still learning the ropes. Being a Mod is not easy, it requires a light touch, and I am working with our new Mods to make sure they understand this. Sometimes they may step over the line because there are no clear lines within reality. This is the nature of the game. But overall I think we'll be good. Policing people is never easy because they take it so personally. No one ever wants to admit they are in the wrong because from their POV they never are. Relativity 101.

Existentially we are all equal. But this is pickup/dating. Within the dating game you gotta build up confidence. If you feel like you're inferior and less cool than others, the girl will smell it off you like stink off a squashed skunk. You have to feel entitled to the girl. You will only be able to attract and maintain girls who you feel entitled to. As soon as you start to feel, "Oh man, I'd be so lucky to have this girl", you've already lost her. Your attitude must be: "This girl would be lucky to sleep with me because I'm such an awesome person." And then make that true. Turn yourself into an awesome person. This isn't just about BS-ing yourself or her. Your confidence must be grounded in the fact that you truly love yourself and recognize your own awesomeness. It all boils down to building a high self-esteem. How could you not be awesome? You are God after all! LOL. So start acting like it. P.S. And God is always alone

Nicely said.

It cannot be easily formalized. Low quality is a nebulous thing. When I see it, I will moderate it. The Mods are mostly enforcing standard forum guidelines. The purpose of locking low quality threads is reduce distraction. It's all too easy for people to come here and become keyboard jockeys, wasting their own time and those of the Mods, myself, and all of you guys. No serious spiritual school would allow such distractions. This forum needs to maintain a certain focus and quality level. Otherwise I would rather just shut the whole thing down.

We lock very few threads. This forum will moderate low quality posts and posters. You don't appreciate how bad this place would be without moderation. This place is not 4chan, where you get to post any random nonsense. If you want that, go to 4chan. Experience what that is like.

I have already endorsed Sanders on my blog.

This thread has been reinstated.

That's the beauty of it: you are free to do whatever you want. It's called liberation for a reason. There are no shoulds in life. All shoulds are relative. But don't forget, all actions have consequences. So you are not free from the consequences of your choices.

There is nothing but direct experience, so you have no other other but to trust it. Name one thing which isn't in your direct experience? You cannot. The problem is how you are misinterpreting your experience with egoic distortions.

Some of those locks were made by me. And so was this one. I am taking action to clean up this forum. People are being banned and low quality threads are being locked.

Do the work and stop with the silly questions.