Leo Gura

The problem is that the ego does not know what true happiness or love are. The ego's selfishness and falsehood is precisely what prevents true happiness and love. Happiness and love are super counter-intuitive. You can't trust the ego's definitions of them. Because it is true. If you don't have the truth, you've got nothing.

That is a bannable offense.

That is merely due to lack of proper theoretical foundation, lack of self-inquiry, lack of meditation skill, incorrect dosage, and lack of consistent tripping. How silly would it be if NASA sent one rover to Mars and then said, "Okay, we're done. But we're so confused about Mars." To understand Mars requires hundreds of missions. One mission doesn't mean jack. It raises more questions than it answers.

@How to be wise Because happiness is a limited human thing, while Truth is universal. Truth is much bigger than happiness. Truth is there even if you're not happy. Truth is the only thing you can count on in this evanescent world. You should want the Truth even if it means it will cause you great suffering.

Psychedelics will definitely not wake society up auto-magically. Psychedelics do not eliminate the work, they thrust you deep into it. And most people have no foundation for how to deal with that. I do not push psychedelics on everyone. I recommend them only to serious self-actualizers, which is less than 1% of the general population.

Now you understand why 99.9999% of people aren't enlightened. For most people it takes decades to work that stuff out. This is the bulk of spiritual work. Breaking down that ego, which is more stubborn than a rented mule.

I have a video planned on this exact topic so you'll be able to verify your understanding then. But unless you've had a massive enlightenment you will not understand no matter how well it is explained.

Stop spreading libertarian tripe on this forum. This is supposed to be a place of higher widsom, not egotistical dogma. If you take Ayn Rand's ideas seriously you do not belong on this forum.

As leader of this place, yes, I make such decisions every day. This is not CNN where ignorance is given equal weight as truth in the name of neutrality. Ultimately if you don't agree with a spiritual teacher's guidance you should find another teacher. The guidance is sometimes given sternly, without room for debate, because the spiritual teacher has a greater depth of understanding than you. He's doing it for your benefit even though your ego may not like it. It's in poor taste to think you know more than the teacher. In that case, why be his student? And this is not to say the teacher is always right.

As Einstein showed, there never was such a thing as time. Time is a relative concept. People still don't get the signifigance of Einstein's theorems.

LSD is outstanding. For me it is second best to 5-MeO-DMT. But people will have various opinions because psychedelics affect people differently. Psychedelics are not as simple as people think. You don't just pop a pill and get the same result. Results vary ENORMOUSLY depending on many factors.

If it has to be explained, you don't got it. And no explanation will help you get it. This is the most profound question you can possibly answer. You have no idea how significant the answer is. It will derail your whole life. They call it rebirth for good reason.

Leo is a fantasy. Like Santa Clause. It would be wise to stop believing in it.

I didn't under sell it. Your mind was just full of stage Orange judgments and demonizations of Green. Now you see more clearly. Green is a great stage. Turquoise you cannot even imagine yet.

There is a very definite explanation. But if you knew it, you'd cease to exist and be enlightened. The ego-mind cannot answer that question because it requires the realization that ego-mind is a fiction. Which means you die at that precise moment. So the cost of answering that question is your death. Still want to know?

@EvilAngel Make sure you do it on an empty stomach. Otherwise bring a vomit bucket.

No, you are merely stripped of fantasies and childish hangups. You become more authentic. Yes, seeking ideals is a big trap in this work. Eventually you're gonna have to surrender all of your ideals for the Truth. Ultimately this work is not about becoming a great person or even being happy. It's about discovering what is life and how it works. When you get to the rock bottom of it your perspective on life will change so dramatically that you will even cease to think you were ever born. If happiness comes, it will be a byproduct of a deep understanding how life works.

This issue has been clearly answered.

Sounds like a move up from Orange to Green.

The day robots do all the work you have been made expendable.

I wish to be a closedminded douche. Change my mind.

The Absolute in none other than all arising contingent phenomena. The Absolute is all that exists. If you can see it, it is the Absolute. Your toilet is the Absolute. If look at your toilet real closely, for a long time, you will realize it is God. That's nonduality. Nothing is hidden or separate.

Of course one can get stuck intellectualizing, but the Truth is also not as clear as most people imagine. The Truth is massive, vast, paradoxical, freaky, and so multi-dimensional so it can easily be glimpsed and misunderstood. Hence the scriptures and teachings have value. A good teaching will give you a framework for understanding the Truth and points out common traps. Very very few people access the Truth fully and clearly in one leap. It usually takes years of stumbling around and piecing things together. The problem is that people turn the teachings into ideology without any direct experience or very limited direct experience.

Psychedelics do not work on undeveloped fools.

@SoonHei Careful, psychedelics are not necessarily identical to enlightenment. Psychedelics can take you into all sorts of wacky dimensions of consciousness. You have to distinguish those from nonduality proper.