Leo Gura

It is something you do. Try it right now: just let go of the tension in your right hand. Notice you can do it. Stop overthinking it. With psychological issues, you cannot let go of a thing you are not aware of. So in that case you must become aware of it first, then let it go. Letting go of psychological issues requires repeated letting go. Once does not work.

@Edvard Don't think for a second that your egotistical bullshit is fooling anyone here. You are full of shit and it's obvious as day. If you are going to be here, open your mind and be ready to learn from those who are way more experienced than you.

Anyone here fascinated by optical illusions as a kid? I hope so. There's something deeply disturbing about what they say about our sense of mental reality. Here are some of my favorite ways to think about how the sense of self can be false and yet appear so real: Is the white triangle real? Is the white star real? Is the white square real? Is the 3D cube real? Is the motion real? Look closely! Are the horizontal lines really slanted? Look very closely! Are the blinking grey dots real? Is the motion real? Look closely! Not as difficult to trick yourself as you thought, huh? Wait... You? Thought? You thought? ...now there's the real trick!

@Sockrattes You do not understand yet what Infinity/Absolute is. It includes your silly DMT aliens and everything else you can imagine. You have not fully awoken yet.

Okay, enough wasting time. Back to work.

Namaste

@Amanda R Batista Lol, you are speaking about ego as if it's a pet of yours. You don't have ego. YOU are EGO! What you're asking is, should I love myself or hate myself? Either way is fine. Up to you.

@kieranperez Surrender your desire for functioning within society. Surrender everything.

Awaken to Absolute Truth and you will know.

This It will blow all of that away. Pure consciousness

@Enlightenment That is because they have not reached the deepest levels. They have not accessed Absolute Infinity. They do not understand what existence is. It's very hard to reach Absolute Infinity through meditation. Take 5-MeO and you will see.

@Mikael89 Enough of your horseshit. Stop polluting this thread.

@Viking I have good news and bad news. Good news: suffering exists to help teach you your lesson. Bad news: you'll have to suffer to learn your lesson.

Eggcellent!

Of course is does! Buddhism can get very dogmatic and religious. Which is why we're having this conversation. It's dangerous to assume that Buddhism is somehow pure and immune from dogma or corruption. In fact, I would venture a bet that the majority of Buddhists are dogmatic and corrupt. No one and no thing in this work can be trusted. All authority is delusion. Direct experience is the only source of Truth.

That's overly simplistic and naive. Not all teachings are the same. Not all pointers are the same. Yes, the mind can corrupt even the bestest of teachings, but many teachings are already fundamentally corrupt and dogmatic to begin with, and do not encourage integral thinking. Integral teachings are rare.

@The Don Of course You've been told how many times. You are just not serious about doing the work.

Yes, indeed it is horrifying. Which is why most people avoid it like the plague. Because after enlightenment, you are gone, dead. You surrendered your entire life. It's hard for a dead man to suffer since suffering is the avoidance of death. Once you are infinite, nothing can harm you. The body can die and it does not bother you.

@Barry J Not all teachings are a religion or dogmatic. Some teachings are integral. Buddhism tends to be exclusionary.

@Genghis Khan You got it! But there's more...

There is a lot of wisdom within Buddhism. The problem though is turning it into a dogma or believing it without direct experience. No teacher, no teaching can be trusted in this work. Because you do not know what is true or who is true. You must independently verify every teaching and cross-reference it against other sources. There are also many different kinds of Buddhism, so how do you know which one to follow, which one is true? You don't and can't without independent verification

Lol

@kieranperez It's not your shadow. Your heart is just closed and you are stuck in your head.

Post-modernists want to turn our prisons into Ikeas.