Leo Gura

When has it not been a mess?

The cake is a lie

@Quicksilver 3rd world countries definitely come with more dangers, since they are by definition less conscious, less openminded, and operating more from base survival needs. A Washington Post journalist was dismembered in a Turkish embassy recently. So yeah... watch your ass in underdeveloped places.

Eliminate all wheat, rice, potatoes, and refined sugar from your diet and you'll lose weight easily. Also reduce your meal portion size by 20%-30%. You want to leave the dinner table with a slight feeling of emptiness in your stomach. Never stuff yourself full. You don't need to starve. You can still eat delicious high energy foods like meat, oil, butter, and fat. Don't make this a diet. Make this a permanent change to how you eat food from now on.

My dad lost many tens of thousands of dollars daytrading. It's an idiotic pursuit. The stock market is deliberately rigged against you by giant hedge funds with insider information. You are playing a rigged game against the house. Stock trading is basically legalized gambling. But you know best.

@Jeff Zhang Trump does not put America's interests first. He puts his own interests first. That is the problem. And it will lead to his downfall.

@Inliytened1 But Love is the proper word. When you encounter it you recognize it as Love! Not something else.

Well, for one thing, we vote and China don't.

@andyjohnsonman This was explained in my video: Why Brains Do Not Exist Science and the brain are themselves part of the entire hallucination you call reality. Ask yourself this: Where is the proof that all of science as a whole is not a hallucination? If the universe is a hallucination, so is science and so are all methods of proof.

Their sages are shamen and medicine men. Their names were never written down in history books. If you travel to South America or North American tribal lands, you will find great sages. Ever read Carlos Castaneda? That's how shamanism works.

As I've told you guys before, the best teachings are the opposite of mainstream. Why would you assume the best should be everywhere? To be everywhere a thing must be the lowest possible common denominator and appeal to mouthbreathing fools.

@Inliytened1 No, Love is a distinct facet of the Absolute. And when you become directly conscious of that, you will have a much deeper understanding of where the human emotion of love stems from. This is very advanced stuff. So stay openminded and be ready to investigate the issue. There is something about love that you do not yet understand. Find what that is. If you dare.

Free will vs no free will is a duality. God is nondual.

Merry Christmas

Do not mix psychedelics. And do not take MDMA regularly. It will permanently ruin your brain chemistry.

Be careful with get rich quick schemes. They often go bust and leave you worse than you began. Trading stocks and currency is super dangerous. Because fundamentally you aren't offering any value. You are just trying to be a leech. So karma will get you.

Guess what? You can be killed at any time by anyone anywhere, regardless of what stage you are.

Suffering will only end once the Ox has been fully tamed. And this will not happen instantaneously as you hope. This is why I say the 10 ox herding pics are so important for you newbies to study.

People use similar words in different ways, which creates confusion. My next video will elaborate on how to do self-inquiry.

This thread is starting to get out of hand with these ridiculous questions. This is why Zen masters do not answer stupid questions. Because the ego-mind will create an infinite supply of them to avoid self-inquiry.

@sword See my blog video: All Understanding Is Metaphoric

@How to be wise Again, you must be careful how you define these words. We are not talking about a human emotion here. We are talking about existential love. There is no such thing as the brain in the Absolute sense. But a donkey does not have the hardware to have an insight about the true nature of existence. Likewise an autistic person may not have the hardware to have an insight about the true nature of love. Or he has the hardware but simply hasn't accessed that insight. Sadhguru clearly has a grasp of existential Love. He actually proves my point.

Yes, I disagree with Ralston on that point. As do most sages. My guess about this discrepancy is three-fold: 1) Ralston's style is very austere and cold. That reflects his personality type and brain type. He's described himself in the past as being somewhat autistic. So he might be less connected to love than others. His brain may not give him access to this dimension of reality. 2) If we're talking about the pure Godhead, it is technically unqualifiable. Nothing can be said of it. So calling it "love" would be a qualification which Ralston would not want to assign it. I can appreciate that. But at the same time I have directly experienced that Consciousness = Being = Love. 3) The word "love" can be interpreted in several ways. Sometimes it designates an emotional state. Other times is designates an existential truth. Obviously in this case we're not talking about an emotional state, but an existential truth. So Ralston is right if by love you mean an emotional state. But I think he's wrong in ignoring the existential facet of love. Love with a capital L. I know many other sages and masters who agree with me that Love is an existential facet of the Absolute. And my own direct experience validates that. It's a bit puzzling that Ralston relegates love to merely an emotional state. Love is existential. It's a fundamental quality of Being. For me Love is Absolute, not relative. Love is more than just a feeling. It is Unity itself. And Unity is not a feeling.

They are two sides of the same coin. But the ego-mind prefers order because order is necessary for its survival. By the very fact of being alive you must prefer order.

@rounder Falling back asleep is very common until you gain tons of practice and some deep enlightenment experiences. Eventually the awakening "sticks". But there are also various depths of it. Very very few people reach the deepest depths of it. There are depths that even awakened people have not reached. The deepest depths are totally unimaginable and only attained by tiny handfuls of people.