Leo Gura

No! That is so backwards. You are condemning all teachers of enlightenment as somehow inferior, when it is actually the opposite. They are exhibiting the highest Love, making sacrifices for you. There is nothing wrong with not teaching or living in a cave. But there is also nothing wrong with teaching and living in a city. People have different callings and paths. There is no one superior path. You pick the path which most aligns with who you want to be. Don't expect everyone to follow the same path. Don't expect everyone to follow your path.

A) I have no problem with Sadhguru. He is clearly doing God's work in a masterful way. B) With that said, you can still easily gets bamboozled, not by him, but by your own mind's worshiping of him. It's precisely because he's so good that you will tend to become dependent on him as your spiritual daddy/authority, which would create a subtle duality in your consciousness and prevent you from thinking independently and walking your own unique path. C) I have gotten guidance under many real gurus. After I get my guidance I go my own way. I don't hang around to fawn over them, nor do I expect them to do my work for me. I also realize the partiality of any guru's teachings. The better the teacher, the greater the problem. See that?

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This is God's sandbox. God doesn't need anyone to validate his work. His work is to please himself and be himself. His creation is his own gift to himself. How else could it be? It's not that there are no other people. It's that all people are yourself.

This has never been about the money. It's about helping people understand reality. You might as well ask, why didn't Jesus or Gandhi retire and live in a cabin in the woods? They had much higher callings. Do not confuse these callings for ego. That would be a big mistake. God does its work through conscious people. How else do you think Goodness happens?

JP is a thing simply because most of American society is at stage Blue/Orange and refuses to evolve up into Green. So JP provides them the perfect justifications and rationalizations for why Blue/Orange is the best and why Green is evil and dangerous, so that people can feel comfortable not growing higher. JP is an anti-Green devil, and like all devils, he himself does not understand what he is doing or why he is doing it. He thinks he is doing good. But his ego is distorting the good that is in his heart, thus leading millions of people into devilry. This is a textbook example of how devilry works.

@Sauvik You are God. You get to create whatever you want. You can create a personal heaven or personal hell. Up to you. You have infinite freedom and power. Whatever you decide will be what gets created. How else do think God works? You think God can ask his neighbor what he should create? You think God can open some book which tells him what is right, what is wrong, what is meaningful, what is valuable? God has no one to ask but himself since God is all alone. God literally makes it all up from thin air. Ta-da!

Pentacostals and evangelicals do group spiritual experiences too. Clearly it works to some degree. But will it really make you deeply enlightened? That's the real question. Or will it make you worship Sadhguru? Take some mushrooms and you don't need Sadhguru or any guru.

The key is not the small town itself, the key is being out in nature. Nature is conducive to spirituality as it is uncorrupted by the stench of ego.

There is not one strategy, there are many You could focus on gaining financial security first and then go hog-wild on spirituality. Or you could do just the opposite. It really depends on what your heart wants and what you can handle. It can be very painful to force yourself to work on mundane financial stuff when you are itching to be creative or spiritual. Then again, if your financial situation collapses, that might force you into slave labor and out of your spiritual quest. Again, depending on who you are. The most spiritually gifted people will never be stopped by financial concerns. But that's not most people. You have to be realistic about what you're gonna be able to handle. If you want the most direct path to the highest human life, drop everything and go balls deep into spirituality. But that's very hardcore and too difficult for most people to pull off. Most people won't be able to handle it. Hence there are more gradual approaches. Personally, I focused on locking in financial freedom first. But it was pretty painful, to be honest. I would not wish that kind of pain on anyone. But it sure beats being a wage slave.

@Surfingthewave Are you sure it was awakening? What did you become conscious of? We can't just accept on face value that what happened to you was actually awakening unless you explain it in more detail.

It is easier to get enlightened out in nature than in a busy building full of people. There's a reason yogis meditate up in the mountains and forests. Nature has a tranquilizing effect on the mind. But don't make this an excuse. You can practice spirituality anywhere. The problem with rural areas is that the people there will be more closeminded and rednecky. Don't go telling them you're God, or they might hang you. City-folk are more tolerant and open, but more lost in the materialist race rat.

You're missing the bigger picture. Your understanding of what life purpose is is far too small. Life purpose is not a materialistic thing, life purpose is the highest spiritual thing! Your spiritual love IS the source of your life purpose. Stop pitting spirituality and LP against each other. You just need to upgrade your LP to reflect your new spiritual values and orientation. Life purpose is an expression of your soul. It has nothing to do with money or career per se. How is your new spiritual awareness going to impact the world??? You're not here to sit around listening to birds chirp for 60 years. You are here to be a creator. What do you want to create?

This sounds like every man on Earth! Fear of commitment and intimacy. If he's not willing to give you the proper relationship you want, then move on to someone else. Trying to force a fit is going to turn out badly for both of you. You can't force a mule to drink water. He has to want it. You need to own your agenda more. Be clear with yourself and with him what you want. If this scares him off, then it was never going to work anyway. If he was really into you and was serious about relating with another human being, he shouldn't be scared off. You can't fix men. You gotta find a man who already shares your values. One of your values is relationship while it sounds like that's not one of his values. You need to decide for yourself, not against yourself. Don't bend over backwards for him. He needs to be clear about what he wants out of this. Relationship requires a conscious decision. Both parties have to be willing to invest time and energy into it. It can't be a casual after-thought like, "Okay, we'll try it, but if there is any inconvenience to me, I'm out." No! No! No! It cannot work that way.

Dude, you're whole paradigm is backwards. I have no desire to steal girls from anyone, nor do I even care much about dating or sex. It's just not a high priority once you become conscious enough. Sex and money are the preoccupations of children who have not yet discovered what life is really about. PUAs are childish devils. You cannot be a PUA otherwise.

@Beard Absolute is already the collapse of the relative. When you are in Absolute consciousness it's as if the relative never existed. When you are in relative consciousness then there's a clear difference between relative and Absolute. But that's because you're imagining the Absolute, you're not actually experiencing it. The whole point of an Absolute is that it has no opposite. Opposites exist only in the relative domain. You need to distinguish between absolute vs Absolute. These are very different things. Absolute with a capital A is the actual thing itself, not an idea, word, or concept. Any time you think of the absolute you're thinking of the lowercase a absolute, not the uppercase A Absolute. Uppercase A Absolute cannot be thought at all nor can it be contrasted with the relative. Uppercase A Absolute is NOT the opposite of relative.

@Shaun You are misunderstanding what "everything is perfect" means. It does not mean that you don't take action to avoid catastrophes. You don't jump off a tall building and while you're falling tell yourself "everything's perfect". That would be foolishness.

Don't forget the systemic, ecological, and societal aspects of food. Stage Yellow and Turquoise will not just care about their personal nutrition but nutrition as a global system. Which types of food should we be growing? How do we grow it in a sustainable way? What is the impact on global warming, the economy, developing countries, the rain forests, the coral reefs, children, etc. Which foods are most conducive toward elevating the consciousness of mankind? How does food intersect with education, business, government, science, spirituality, etc.?

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When traditional prayer works it's due to law of attraction and intention. Your intentions DO affect reality. Intention is very powrful when it is practiced consistently and consciously. Whatever you intend with emotion and conviction will tend to become true. Because your will is a splinter off God's Will. You literally have the power of God within you. The more conscious you become the more of it you will be able to tap and manifest. It's not a miracle. It's because you are God, and reality is a giant Mind.

I am not good at pickup. It was never that important to me nor my forte. My forte is in understanding reality and mind.

Good stuff. Generally in the right direction towards Truth, you just need to trip a lot more and contemplate the results of your trips more. Each trip gives more clarity and raises further questions.

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It depends on what you mean by prayer. There is false and true prayer. False prayer is praying for God to give you stuff. This is dualistic and delusional. Although even it can work. True prayer is realizing that you are God and putting your heart into embodying the Truth. This can work wonders. Most people pray mechanically and dogmatically, not consciously and nondually. You have to wonder, if you were fully conscious that you are God, would you pray to yourself at that point? Prayer subtly implies that you think you are beneath God and separate from God.