Leo Gura

@tentacion What more is there to say? I have said it many times already very plainly: there is only one thing in existence: consciousness. The entire universe is one mind. Take a psychedelic and see for yourself that this is true. But you have to stop thinking of mind as happening inside a brain. Rather, the brain is happening inside a mind. The conventional definition of mind must be expanded. To say that consciousness is all that exists is identical to saying the universe is one giant mind, the mind of God. There cannot be two substances to reality because you'd need a third substance to seperate the first two, and so on ad infinitum. The substance is always ONE, regardless of what you choose to call it: awareness, consciousness, God, energy, etc. If your picture of reality has more than one substance, it is dualistic and wrong. @ground Stop speaking of things you clearly have not experienced.

Like I said, you don't know because you are not awake. Forever = eternal = prior to time = infinite time Zero time and infinite time are the same thing. Again, because you have not yet has a direct experience of God. God is not limited to your present limited experience. God is not solipsism, as you think. As far as God is concerned, it is EVERYTHING. But you still don't understand what that means because you lack the direct experience of God. The only solution here is to have a direct experience of God. You're not going to understand it using your mind, arguments, or proof. It is not necessary for me to see every object in the universe for me to know that I am every object in the universe. You are assuming it is. That is a false assumption. It is possible to become conscious that you are all things that have ever lived or will ever live. For example, I once became conscious that I was the dinosaurs. I did not have to become a pterodactyl to do that. Yes, all of this sounds impossible.

@SoonHei No, you're still not getting it. There is no you! The you who thinks it is reading this sentence does not exist. You are a fantasy. Reality is happening without you. The idea of "a you" is being attached to that reality to create the illusion that it is happening to "a you". For a minute right now, try to totally eliminate any sense that reality is here for you, or is in any way related to your body. Eliminate the sense of yourself entiry. Look at the room you're in an imagine you were never born, but the room still exists exactly as it is. Eliminate every ounce of you-ness from experience. If you are still saying the words, "me", "I", or "my" you still aren't getting it. Those words refer to nothing. Or just take a psychedelic and it will be so obvious. Stop wasting time on ineffective methods. Psychedelics answer all questions.

You are inside a hallucination. You are busy trying to accomplish things in this hallucination without realizing its a hallucination. The mind spins this hallucination. You would be far more effective if you realized you're in a hallucination. Think Neo in The Matrix vs some fool slaving away in a cubical like Elon Musk. Musk is great at being the busiest rat in the maze hunting for cheese. Is that what you want to be?

Infinity cannot be different.

There are no sides. There are scientific projections which predict 1-10 ft of sea level rise which will leave millions homeless, or there is propaganda paid for by corporations with vested interest in denying such studies.

@Geromekevin You still aren't getting it.

@purerogue Read the scientist and government reports.

@Beeflamb Sounds like you've barely scratched the surface of nonduality. Try 5-MeO-DMT to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

@purerogue Millions of people will die, but okay.

@purerogue And maybe if you were slapped upside the head it might be good for you.

I have warned you guys. But you refuse to listen. The Buddha wasn't talkin shit on a forum but starving himself to death in the forest.

@Elisabeth That's good progress, now figure out what that abstraction really means in concrete real-world terms. You should be able to frame your impact statement in such a way that a child understands what your impact is on the world.

This issue is answered in the course.

It's just like deep sleep, unless maybe they don't give you enough gas.

@Serotoninluv Nowhere is your true nature

Lol, that is the ox. And you are it.

"Illusion", "reality", "existence", "God" are themselves categories. It all collapses into Absolute Oneness. Within this Oneness nothing can be distinguished. It is pure undifferentiation. It contains all things. Like how white light contains all possible colors of light.

@traveler Why make it so complicated? The situation is simple: Either there is Truth or there isn't. If there is Truth you want to know what this Truth is. Pursue the Truth regardless of whatever. Truth is Truth is Truth. If knowing the Truth is wrong then you shouldn't want continue living. Let nothing stand in the way between you and Truth. Period. Truth can only be found if it occupies #1 priority in your heart. What use if family if it means giving up Truth? Can you see that without Truth nothing else matters? Nothing matters if you cannot distinguish it from falsehood.

@LastThursday You are not. The deeper question being asking here is, What is reality? That question can be answered, but it's one hell of an epiphany. Don't expect it to come easily. If you still believe in a watcher, you haven't realized no-self yet. Everything is nowhere and nothing.

@Antonius Better to have too much knowledge than too little. You just have a lot to implement.

A) Spirituality is full of traps no matter how you slice it. B) This problem is solved through studying diverse sources and having maps like the Zen ox-herding pictures and Spiral Dynamics. The greater danger with the way you are presenting enlightenment -- as total mastery -- is that people will always fall short of the fantasy, including yourself. Which then produces guilt and suffering. What you are really talking about is totally emotional mastery, and that is VERY different than enlightenment. It is significantly harder and a lot of people can become very frustrated chasing that. This sort of all-or-nothing approach is counter-productive and fills newbies with fantastical ideas of becoming perfect human beings after awakening. The fact is, you will awaken long before you become a perfect human being. Because these are independent variables. By all means pursue mastery. But make a distinction between it and awakening. If your definition of enlightenment excludes Ramana Maharshi, Shinzen Young, Osho, etc. you might want to rethink your definition.

Firstly, many gurus are not at stage Yellow integral cognitive development. Secondly, it is against the guru's business and marketing self-agenda to expose you to 100s of diverse sources. It is in his business interest to create a captive audience, a monopoly. Thirdly, exposure to 100s of diverse sources was almost impossible before the internet age. Be careful not to take this for granted. These days you guys are spoiled rotten with 100s of sources.

@Arhattobe It is problematic to conflate the realization of Absolute Truth with the development and perfection of the human body/mind. These are two very distinct things. By making this conflation, as you say, no one is enlightened, because your definition of enlightenment has become an idealistic fantasy. There are many lines and stages of human development alongside many states and degrees of consciousness. Nonduality can be grasped at many depths, it has multiple facets, and the realization of all those insights will not automatically make you a perfect human being. The way we use the terms enlightenment/awakening on this forum is to mean: the realization of no-self, God, Infinity, or Absolute Oneness. That life is a dream. This can happen and you can still have all sorts of fetters, bad behaviors, and psychological stuff. In fact, that's almost guaranteed. We do not use the word enlightenment to mean, "The total purifcation of karma and mind", or total mastery. Total mastery is a pipedream for most people and will take you 30+ years of industrial-grade practice. Enlightenment occurs when one catches the Ox. Not at picture #10. This is why the ox-herding pictures and Spiral Dynamics are so useful.

The solution to emotions is to observe them mindfully. But of course this takes years of practice. There are also emotions of the higher self which pull you up to spiritual pursuits. But they are often drowned out by negative emotions like fear, anger, envy, greed, lust, etc.