Leo Gura

Truth or an absolute is not held at all. It is just what is. Isness itself is an absolute. In fact, the absolute is all there ever is. The present moment is absolute, but ego is not conscious of this. To be simply conscious of the present moment is the closest you can get to the absolute. Or take a psychedelic.

@mandyjw You vs me is a duality

1) An absolute is not a belief. You can hold a belief in an absolute, but that would be a belief, not an absolute. 2) An enlightened person is identified with nothing. Thoughts arise, just like birds chirp when you walk outside. It's not a big deal. You don't need to kill the birds, nor do you need them chirping all the time or in any particular way. You are detached from the chirping such that it's fine either way.

Life's a trip and the journey is the destination Psychedelic vs not-psychedelic is yet one more duality.

@ajasatya I've met more strippers who are into meditation and spirituality than bankers

Technically they can. But usually they ain't. You won't find a lot of yogis on Wall Street.

Well sure. It's not like Ken has a monopoly on this stuff. But as a general rule of thumb, I would never trust a professional academic's level of awakening or metaphysical understanding to be the highest. The wisest and most conscious people would never be academics. This doesn't mean academics don't have some valuable contributions to make. They do. But their understanding will not be too high or all-encompassing and they will miss very important facets of the big picture. To understand the highest stages you must look for visionaries and geniuses.

@bmcnicho Sounds like you are right where you ought to be given your age and lack of life experience. I was/am very anti-conformist like you. Nothing wrong with that. It's just a part of your personality. It might mean you should be a leader, a boss, a solo artist, or just off doing your own thing. This is great. In this case you will have to build yourself up and lead yourself a lot before others start to follow you. Don't be afraid to carve your own path in life. Maybe consider starting a business within a field you are passionate or curious about. A traditional cookie-cutter college major or job is probably not right for you. You need something more custom, more your own. Autistic is also okay. Just part of your personality type. You just need to find a career/purpose which leverages that. The best way to pursue truth is via yoga, contemplation, philosophy, self-inquiry, and/or psychedelics. So I would build experience will all the above and see how that feels for you. If you really value truth you should love all that. Try to think about what kind of career would be most aligned with your personality and the value of truth. It's basically that simple. Don't beat around the bush. Nail your top value.

The core of awakening is being conscious of your true identity as Nothing. If you identify with being a body, mind, some human life, or any form whatsoever -- you ain't awake. What are you? If you have to think about it or search for it, you ain't awake. An awake person knows what they are immediately, directly.

@ValiantSalvatore I don't understand how what you wrote relates to what I wrote. What is your point? Shinzen teaches a narrow version of his vipasanna/mindfulness system. He does not talk about stages of development.

Spiral Dynamics breaks down around Turquoise. Ken Wilber's intergal model works much better at mapping stages above Turquoise. The problem is that you cannot understand anything above Turquoise unless you become very awake and experienced with spiritual practices. Which the creators of Spiral Dynamics are not. So it is above their head.

@Lynnel Good work! Still just the tip of the iceberg.

It's a sign that you are moving in the right general direction, but it's unclear when an awakening will come. The awakening may still be far off if you've got a lot of energtic blocks and stuff to work through. That stuff that's coming up needs to be worked through, processed, and ultimately let go of. Sounds like you're doing okay. Keep working at it. Let the energy take over you. Act it out for a bit in a safe manner and then it should leave you. Some sort of intense physical activity should good for acting out the energy, like boucing around on a trampolene, etc. I think the key here is to act it out rather than trying to bottle it up. So if you feel like speaking in tongues, or flailing your arms, or yelling, do it. Lock yourself in a room with a punching bag and let it all out. Do so safely.

The game is not other than itself.

@Vipassana Not in those ways.

Some of us knows

@Druid420 Let's see how enlightened you feel after someone pisses in your soup

@khalifa I have a video on my blog demonstrating the technique precisely. All your questions are answered in that video. Search for it.

Not an awakening but kriyas. Normal stuff. Try shaking it out with something like Osho's Dynamic Meditation.

You need to immerse yourself more in the field and do a lot more research. As you do lots of research you will naturally start having new ideas, you will start seeing unfilled opportunities. It's very hard tobsee these opportunities without immersing yourself and lots of diverse source material. The secret to creativity is lots of diverse source material. You say you want to run seminars, but how many seminars have you attended yourself? If you attend 20 seminars I can guarantee you will have some good ideas about how to create some new kind of seminar. The reason you are stuck is because you lack relevant experience. So go get more experience.

Sounds like he is afraid of commitment. See, a lot of men fear commitment. Men value freedom. Then as they get entangled in a relationship it feels to us like we are losing our freedom and we get doubts. That is very common in men. It sounds like he is not mature enough to be in the kind of serious intimate relationship you want. Trying to change him will be like pulling teeth and will probably end in disaster in the end. You need to get better at screening guys. Is the guy aligned with your values and what you want? Trying to tame a player is not going to end well for you. Look for men who are more emotionally mature. Players are usually not.

@CreamCat Just be careful that in your desire to transcend human rights and equality you don't create some monstrosity. The devil loves to use transcendence as a way to avoid facing reality.

@Druid420 Give it some time. After a deep trip that after-glow can last for as long as a week or two. Then usually comes a crash back to duality. So wait and see how things go. Even if you crash, there was still growth, so don't fret too much over it. Keep doing the work. There's always more to become conscious of.

@Quantum_fluctuations Very good! Very good! Now you are ready to seek the real Truth. See video: How To Deal With Confusion Do not forget that a position of agnosticism, indecision, or doubt is STILL a position, so be very careful that you don't hold it as true or absolute. What remains after you have doubted everything, including your doubt? Take a look. Have some hope that your situation is not hopeless. Genuine understanding is possible.

That is not going to happen. It wouldn't be real progress if it could be falsified so easily. That is like saying, if I learn math while on birth control, after I go off birth control will the math still work?