Leo Gura

That's redundant. If you are infinite that already includes being all creatures at all times. You are EVERYTHING!

No. Why would that be necessary? God is being all creatures at all times. But from your POV you only see your POV. Just like how an online videogame server works.

@Black Elephant Great article. It will definitely work with practice.

It's a quality problem to have. Eventually you'll probably get so over-stuffed with self-help theory that you will need to detox from it. Eventually, to deeply awaken, you'll have to let go of the desire for hoarding theory. But right now you might still be at the point where more theory is helpful to you. You'll have to play it by ear.

I'm seeing a lot of misunderstanding going on here. Watch your projections and assumptions about enlightenment. Enlightenment is simply consciousness of the Absolute Truth. No particular behaviors or lifestyle correspond with this. Behaviors and lifestyles can vary greatly. It is possible to be deeply enlightened be still be manipulative, abusive, addicted to things, etc.

@Roman Edouard What you're discovering is that your mind plays in active role in constructing reality. Reality is not like how materialists think it is: an external static object. Rather it is a dynamic mindscape. How you use your mind makes an enormous difference in how you experience reality.

Of course you should try to maintain as high a consciousness state as much as you can. This is transformation, this is growth. You will change and people around you will start to notice it and they will usually not like it because they expect you to be the old self. Become your new self anyways. Change requires the old dying to the new. A metamorphosis must happen. You are the caterpillar turning into the butterfly. Other caterpillars will not understand your new butterfly form until they do it themselves.

@gilded_honour The bottom line is all criticism is delusion, coming from ego. In a high state of consciousness you will not be criticizing anyone. In the same way that you will not be doing violence in a state of high consciousness. This does not mean people aren't being dangerous fools. There are plenty of dangerous fools in the world. But criticizing fools is itself a delusion because fools cannot help being fools. The more proper attitude is to have compassion and understanding of their state of ignorance.

@inFlow Good work. You saw the Ox. Now to catch and tame him.

@kieranperez Ralston can definitely focus like a motherfucker. A normal human cannot focus like that without rigorous training. That's what concentration practices are for.

Yes and Yes. Yes, it will override the left hemisphere. Yes, there is no brain.

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You need to go deeper. The shallow version of these insights can feel empty and hollow. The deeper versions of these insights are full love, beauty, joy, and radiance. Deeper! And also remember The Dark Night Of The Soul. You might be going through that phase. It will pass.

There are times when I work a lot. There are times in life when you need to work a lot. But this should be done strategically, in bursts, not as a chronic habit in an attempt to avoid spiritual work (which is what Elon Musk is doing -- avoiding spiritual work). Work will NEVER make you satisfied. If work made people satisfied then Elon Musk should be the most satisfied guy in the planet. And yet he is clearly miserable. He has turned work into a neurosis. I find that if I work too much I start to feel like a robot and I lose my creativity and passion for life. The times I am most creative and connected to life is on my days off.

I use the word contemplation somewhat differently than he does. He explains his version of contemplation in his book. It sort of includes concentration, meditation, and wondering. It requires extreme concentration. So extreme that it does not work for me. You need concentration so strong you can bore a hole through a brick wall.

"Oh God! I wish I worked more." What no one said on their deathbed, ever.

Youths are the ones who do most of the killing.

500 years in the future they will be looking back at this thread to learn how masturbating oxes became a religious technique.

This means nothing. You are still totally lost in concepts. It does not mater what you believe, the fact remains that you are under the delusion of being a self. Thinking you are not a self is not the same thing as actually not being a self. It is the difference between thinking you are a millionaire and actually being one.

@Angelite Be careful not to discount what modern government has produced for you. Even the worst modern governments are far far better than anything that existed 500 years ago. Never forget that 40% of ancient Romans were slaves. People take modern government so for granted.

@Pilgrim If it was easy you wouldn't wake up. You would become lost in The Land of the Lotus-Eaters. By trying to make life easy, it actually becomes hard.

That is what democracy and multiculturalism are doing. Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel?

Lol, you can't falsify truth! You're still not getting it. Enlightenment not an idea or a belief. You are God. I'm not saying that poetically or metaphorically. It is the case. You created the entire dream you call this universe. And now you're acting like you didn't. You cannot falsify this because it is true. All you can do is realize it or not. Enlightenment is not a sensation. And cause does not exist. Your mistake is that you think you can think your way out of this problem. But you can't.

There is no such thing as "peaceful". What is good for you is bad for someone else. Even the Buddha cannot take a step without killing life. And without a survival drive those robots would all be easily destroyed by people.

The whole point of a good democracy is that it protects minority rights. In any other system the minorities would be killed or enslaved.