Leo Gura

Self-inquiry and hardcore retreats are the same thing. The two most powerful technique are: 1) Psychedelics, and 2) Hardcore solo retreats. That's what I've said for a long time. For self-inquiry to be effective it has to be done in the middle of a hardcore retreat.

Fascists gonna fash.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

That's not how Awakening works. You cannot predict it nor egoically will it to happen. The more you fantasize about having an Awakening, the further you will get from it. Your ideas of Awakening are not it. So be careful. It sounds like you are creating fantasies of it. Your mind needs to be laser focused on your direct experience, not dreams of being Awakened. Ideas of Awakening are not Awakening. I know this is not what you want to hear.

Don't kid yourself. Psychedelics are important, but they are easy compared to weeks of nonstop meditation.

Yes. But if you're just starting out there is no rush. Psychedelics is it's own deep domain and you can't do everything at once.

There's not much difference between bad faith and ignorance.

@Rafael Thundercat You better be fucking joking.

Because all truth is related.

I am open to that. But it still requires consciousness of Truth in the end.

I can't answer that because consciousness is not a quantity. A few grams of mushrooms worth of consciousness.

No. It's not hardcore. It's an excuse and a dodge from doing real work. The self will make any excuse to avoid self-annihilation. Being lost in illlusion is framed as spiritual or noble or "my truth". No. You're still just being selfish and unconscious.

That's a dream. Because you refuse to take psychedelics. You refuse to do the work required to understand the deepest truths. That is your choice. Realizing that the physical world is a hallucination requires insane levels of consciousness. Seriously. That level of consciousness is unimaginable.

Why do you assume that there is any dream but yours? Do you have any evidence whatsoever of other dreams? None. Yet you believe it. Why?

Being lost in survival is not hardcore truth, it is everyone's condition. Be careful not to romanticize how people lived in the past. They mostly lived like animals, not sages.

@Schizophonia You don't have enough experience to be making your claims.

Do you have any idea how hard Bill Gates worked? He worked nonstop for decades.

I only know of her what I saw in that one video. In that video she said many valid things. Andrew Tate is deeply problematic and not of the quality of Sadie in that video. How many 10s have you dated?

Psychedelics are 10x more effective than therapy at that. People just misuse them.

Yeah, but I wanted to be fair. As a father of that child you also have to do a lot of work. So children are a distraction for men to. As a father you also can't just run away to cave. Yes, the man can run away, but technically so can the mother.

You understand how dreams work, yeah? The dream is not directed by you per se, but you are imagining the whole thing. The whole physical world is a dream.

As if what? Awakening makes you not part of Earth and Nature? This notion that Awakening is an escape from mundane reality is silly. Awakening is direct contact with reality. Everything we do in this work and with Truth is about deeper contact with reality. We are not trying to run away into a cave. That is a cartoon stereotype. The guy living in the cave is as much in reality as the girl raising 3 children. More even because he is not distracted by mindless automatic survival. The only point of the cave is to focus you on reality. To minimize distraction and drama.

That's just not going to fly. Enlightenment IS connecting deeply with the world. What New Age women mean by "connecting deeply with the world" is not truth, it's fantasy. There can be feminine notions of truth, but it still has to be about Consciousness and Truth, not just doing yoga for sport. The bottom line is that you have become conscious of what reality is. There's no special womanly way around that. You don't have to live in a cave, but you do have to do the work to deconstruct illusion.

@theleelajoker If you truly cared about truth, you would find the way. That's the magic of caring. Do you think I was born with the ability to find truth? The ability came from caring. Of course there is a ton of bad social conditioning people have.

That's good. But notice deeper why you are suffering at all.