Leo Gura

This is the dumbest logic I've ever heard. By this logic, you shouldn't own anything because everything is made by someone else to make money. Homes are a far safer investment than commercial real estate.

@11modal11 No, no, no! You're misunderstanding enlightenment.

No. Like I said, certain kinds of concepts are very useful for avoiding traps. Green falls into many spiritual traps. Yellow is in a better position to pursue enlightenment than Green. Green is still way too tribal and Tier 1. You can pursue enlightenment at any stage.

There is no thing that creates thoughts. Thoughts arise within emptiness. Everything arises within emptiness. You cannot "experience" emptiness with the senses. But you can be conscious of it. Because it is consciousness. Emptiness is self-aware. That's what existence is.

"Get more lap dances." -- Rupert Spira

Well, if you don't want an LP, then why you taking the course? That's like enrolling in a business class and saying, "But I don't want to run a business." Don't do things just because I tell you. You must be intrinsically motivated to do them. Follow your passion. Not my words.

That's what you were before you were born

That is not Truth. This is Truth:

Yes "Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening all at once." -- John Archibald Wheeler It's not possible to explain. You must experience it.

@martins name You cannot learn Sadhguru's yoga through videos. A serious student will travel to learn from the best.

Yes The exception being that you will need some degree of conceptual understanding to avoid the traps common to the spiritual path. Concepts are both your key out of the prison, and they are the prison itself.

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Go to Yelp and search for a yoga studio near you. Or try Sadhguru's hatha.

A healthy ego is something like you see in Barack Obama. An unhealthy ego something like you see in Donald Trump. An unhelathy ego is very insecure, clingy, greedy, closed, manipulative, dishonest, and well... self-centered. A healthy ego is the opposite. Braden's work is a great way to move from unhealthy to healthy ego. But it will not lead to ego-transcendence. That requires deeper teachings.

Alpha, although the deepest meditation for purposes of nonduality is not measured by a single wavelength but a phase sync of alpha and theta. You won't find an audio to do that one. You have to train your mind to sync the peaks of alpha and theta, which requires an EEG machine, which is too complicated to go into here. Theta beats are good for purifying trauma and shadow work.

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Firstly, the universe does not exist inside a brain. The notion of "the brain" is itself part of the notion "the universe"! So the universe cannot exist inside a brain because that would be like saying the universe exists inside the universe, which is just silly. The universe exists as a hallucination, nowhere! Not in any brain. Reality occurs nowhere, nowhen. Reality is an impossible object. Secondly, the past is a concept. There is no such thing as the past. There is only the eternal present which the ego-mind misinterprets as past and future because it is deluded. Everything in reality has already occurred, simultaneously. Thirdly, with your talk about McDonalds, you are speaking about the relative domain, which is the domain of Maya, the domain inside the dream. Inside the dream you must play by the dream's rules. In this dream, the rules are: if you eat McDonalds (which is an illusion), your body (which is an illusion) will deteriorate (which is an illusion) and you will die (which is an illusion). When the only reality is illusion, illusions feel very "real" because you have no other point of reference. Your death feels like a very serious event precisely because your life is an illusion! Ta-da!

@Psyche_92 Yes, this is a huge problem. What plan could you make to restructure your life so that you have significantly more time for self-actualization work? This will probably involve making some radical structural changes, like re-thinking your entire career. This will involve some tough choices. And that is precisely how growth happens: tough choices, strategy, and emotional labor. You must be strategic and position yourself long-term so that you have more free time. If that means you spend 2 years re-training yourself for a new job, for example, then that's what you must do. When I was in your shoes, I decided to quit my career and start my own business just so that I had the free time and money to do what I needed to do. It took me a 3-4 year detour to get my first business stabilized before I could really dig into my life purpose. Working 10 hours per day simply will not work. It's a terrible strategy that you must now figure a way out of. Not only does it preclude self-actualization work, it will destroy your health and well-being in the long-term. Work smarter, not harder. After years of strategically laying my groundwork I now have the freedom to not work for 10 years without any financial problems. That's what good strategy will yield. I could retire and go meditate for 1 year straight without any worries, come back, and still be richer than when I left. This situation did not happen by accident! I deliberately designed it this way because I realized a long time ago that freedom was the #1 variable to living the kind of life I envision. It's very hard to self-actualize when you are a wage slave. See video: How To Be A Strategic Motherfucker. I'm real serious about it.

@TreeJeff You basically got it right. The realities of real-world politics and government are extremely complex, messy, and difficult. When you go to apply Spiral Dynamics in the US political system, for example, all hell will break loose. All your lofty Yellow ideals will the tarred and feathered. You will be called a pedophile, a charlatan, and worse. And even if you succeed in getting elected President or Senator, or whatever, since you are not an absolute monarch, your power to change policy will be extremely limited because you have to work with all the other parties in power, who will not be at Yellow, and will look at you like a leper. It doesn't matter what color stage you are at, or even if you are totally enlightened like the Buddha himself, if you were President of the US you would have to make incredibly painful choices that would involve the deaths of hundreds or even thousands of people REGARDLESS of your choice! This would be true even for a fully enlightened Turquoise leader! This is the part about governance that laypeople do not understand: simply because of the scale of a country like the US -- 330 million people -- most decisions will result in deaths of tens, hundreds, or thousands. Just by deciding to remove regulations on car pollution, you will kill people. Just by deciding to fund an infrastructure program, you will kill people. And so on. A Yellow leader understands all this. So does a Turquoise leader. Yellow and Turquoise leaders are mature enough to understand that their actions will result in many deaths, which is why they would take their job very seriously and work very hard to make the best decisions possible. They would also know that their decisions could save tens of thousands of lives relative to a Tier 1 leader. Being Yellow, Turquoise, or enlightened does not mean you will be a flawless leader whose policies please everyone and hurt no one. People will get killed and hurt under the watch. They will even get killed and hurt by your highest ideals and most noble policy changes. Those are the harsh reality of governance. Which is precisely why we need highly conscious leaders in power, not people like Trump, who's actions will result in harm to millions as he approaches policy in an ignorant, simple-minded, and narcissistic manner. And BTW, the people will also hate you because they are at Blue, Orange, and Green, and you as Yellow will not satisfy their bloodthirsty tribal desires to attack the enemy color. So as Yellow, even if you succeed, at least 1/3rd of the country will think of you as a traitorous devil. Still want to be leader?

I have warned you guys against idealized notions of enlightenment many times. You are setting yourselves up for disappointment and some rude awakenings with all this "true enlightenment is perfect" stuff. Don't be surprised when you see your "truely enlightened" guru pissing in your soup.

@Hamilcar You can realize the chair doesn't exist. I've done that You smoke enough DMT there won't be any chairs left and you will fall through the floor

@pluto You have an idealized version of enlightenment. This notion of "unconditionally loving" is a pipe dream. In practice, people are still people and they still have many petty issues, including shadow issues, bad habits, and cultural conditioning of which they are unconscious despite their enlightenment. And on top of all that, there is still development, which is a separate thing. You might be loving but undeveloped. Enlightenment does NOT make you a moral person. We have discussed this issue to death. Being a good person is a lot harder than enlightenment.

@pluto You are confusing enlightenment with stages of development. A person can be truly enlightened, but undeveloped. And vice versa. Technically, enlightenment is accessible at any stage of the Spiral.

In this video he sounds more Orange/Green to me than Yellow. The whole problem is that you precisely CANNOT agree on facts. There is no such thing as facts. All facts are dependent on your interpretation and stage of development. Every color lives in its own reality and has its own facts. Blue facts are not Orange facts are not Green facts are not Yellow facts are not Turquoise facts. Without understanding this crucial point, the complexity of this problem will be underestimated, as Obama underestimates it. Stage Blue will not accept Orange & Green "facts". So what do you do then? How do you deal with a Blue person who believes black people have inferior IQ and Muslim people are terrorists? Designing with the entire Spiral in mind is no easy thing.