Leo Gura

Real vs unreal is a duality. Nonduality = all distinctions collapse into a unity. At this ultimate, Absolute level of consciousness, there is literally no difference between anything. There is not even a difference between real and unreal. Practically, you should make a distinction in your mind between level of consciousness vs level of development. Enlightenment work is about raising your level of consciousness. Personal development is about raising your level of development and changing your life around. Both are very important.

Absolute Infinity has no opposite. It is total. It already includes an infinite number of other realities. There is no "more" than Absolute Infinity. Like so: Anything you can think of (and everything you can't) is already accounted for by Absolute Infinity.

If this was strictly true, no human being could ever have become enlightened ever. But your point is valid practically-speaking for the vast majority of seekers. Hardcore seekers can accomplish enlightenment without any tutelage or theory. But if you are on this forum or watching my videos, that ain't you.

@cetus56 That video is a nice attempt, but that approach will always fail. It is not possible to have a scientific theory of everything because a theory is precisely not everything, and neither is science. Reality is not a code or a language or an equation or a model of any kind. The only proper theory of everything is: Infinity. But that's not a theory. That's actual everything (and nothing) Any attempt to capture the Truth in symbols will always fail. The Truth cannot fit into any kind of box because the box itself is an infinitely small part of the Truth. What science is trying to do can only be achieved through spirituality. And it was already achieved 5000 years ago. The problem is, people still don't get it.

@Serotoninluv

@lhamilt18 It's true, being is unknowable.

@lhamilt18 Do it which ever way resonates for you. Some people are more heart-centered, some people are more intellectual. I am pretty intellectual so I love asking questions and exploring how the mind works. I can see that some people will not like that approach to spirituality.

@Serotoninluv Both ways work. What I find works best for me is to do lots of questioning in my everyday life, long before the trip starts. Then when I trip I don't really demand any answers or even set much of an intention, the answers will just naturally flow to me because I have been so curiously asking questions for the last month or two. Whatever you are genuinely curious about, you will likely get answered. If you are not curious about anything, you will likely get no profound answers. Because hey, you don't give a shit, so why should the universe cast its pearls before such a swine? In my experience the universe rewards pearl-connoisseurs. A person who wants nothing from life will get his wish met.

In the ultimate end, yes. But that's a long ways to go for most people. It is important not to be in too big of a rush to reach that ultimate place because there are lessons which will be missed along the way. As an analogy, the ultimate end of going to school is that you will exit school. But it would be a big mistake to exist school in 3rd grade or to tell people "Stop going to school because the end-goal is no-school". You gotta exit it by passing through all the grades. Then you will be truly free. Eventually you will transcend all questions and answers, and just be. But to get there, you will have to start asking some deep questions and seeking some deep answers.

@NoSelfSelf I notice that many naturally spiritually-gifted people -- because their consciousness comes to them so effortlessly -- just take it completely for granted that this is how all human being are. Which greatly overestimates the abilities of ordinary folk. From an enlightened-master's POV, his consciousness does not seem super-human to him. But from the ordinary folks POV, it is. Psychedelics make this very clear because they expand consciousness so dramatically in such a short period of time, and then drop you back down just as fast. Which creates a great sense of the degrees that consciousness comes in. By doing years of slow, gradual meditation work, people can easily forget just how unconscious they used to be and just how much they've grown. For example, I often catch myself taking my last 5 years of growth for granted. Sorta just assuming that all people are like me, and that even I was like me 5 years ago. But this is an illusion. I've grown enormously. It's just become my new normal to the point where its hard to even remember how unconscious I used to be. The average person is nowhere close to being able to see infinity. I still struggle seeing it sober even though intellectually I know I'm smack dab inside it all the time.

Not quite. To become conscious of: What am I? What is another? What is love? What is God? What is existence? What is reality? What is consciousness? What is language? What is a distinction? What is intelligence? What is ego? What is suffering? What is happiness? What is a thought? What is emotion? This is the essence of enlightenment work. And all of those are metaphysical questions. And they certainly CAN be answered (not necessarily verbally or intellectually). The biggest problem for most people is that they don't take such questions seriously. They are not genuinely curious about them. They do not seriously wonder. Which is why I shoot videos like What Is Consciousness, Understanding Absolute Infinity, What Is Intelligence, etc. Those videos are my attempts to get people to start wondering about these questions. Enlightenment is purely a metaphysical pursuit. Just not in an intellectual or belief-based way. True metaphysical understanding comes through expanded consciousness, mindfulness, holistic thinking, and hyper-intuition. That Buddha quote is being misapplied here. When we talk about metaphysics, we are not talking about petty questions like whether the bow string is made of of fiber or bamboo thread. Just the opposite. To wonder about any of the questions I listed above is to leave aside all the petty human questions related to survival and to follow the path of the Buddha. The Buddha was a metaphysician of the highest order. Of course, it's very important that you avoid idle speculation on the above questions or grand theory-building. Your contemplation must be grounded in direct experience. It does no good to sit around speculating about what God is. You must seek God directly in your experience. And all of these questions become super-important inside psychedelic trips. They are like keys that unlock the various doors of divine wisdom. The answers to the above questions are the MOST relevant to your liberation and happiness.

@non_nothing The key to do nothing is letting go of all control. So you just sit there and every time you notice an attempt to manipulate your experience arise, you let it go. And you keep doing this over and over again until you are completely surrendered to just the present moment. Surrender all techniques, surrender all desire to manipulate thoughts or change your experience in any way. It's a wonderful method. But sometimes it also produces lots of monkey mind because you're letting go of all control. This is normal. The monkey mind will eventually subside. But Kriya yoga is still far superior. Do nothing becomes amazing after a few months/years of Kriya yoga.

@NoSelfSelf Maybe you are taking your level of consciousness for granted. There are also many levels of depth of seeing infinity.

Just practice relaxing. Practice makes perfect.

On that point he is wrong. He hasn't become fully conscious of infinity because his physics background is in the way. Reality is actual Infinity. In fact, that's the only thing that exists: infinity. Every other object is just a consequence of infinity. Reality is infinite both as a whole and as every part of the whole. Infinity contains within it an infinite number of infinities. This requires a radical, super-human level of consciousness to realize so it's not surprising that very few people realize it. Even those people who are into spirituality, meditation, and nonduality rarely reach Infinity.

@youngshinzen Lol

There is no cure for closedmindedness.

The point is to see the marvelous beauty of every moment. Being is its own point. There is nowhere to get to it but here and now. Take a psychedelic and see for yourself what that means.

Next time you trip, put away all distractions. No taking notes, no computers, no smart phones, no reading. Recording and documenting your trip interferes with you fully diving into it. And don't think so much. All that thinking is getting in the way. Just go on the ride. Drop the expectations like, "Leo told me this will be profound, but it isn't. What is wrong?" That's all a distraction.

@David Turcot The nature of infinity is that the whole is the part and the part is the whole. What you believe is false. If Truth would only be present in deep sleep, it would not be Truth, it would be contingent. The whole point of Truth is that it's ALWAYS the case. Stop arguing and open your mind to the guidance being given you. This is not a point of debate or uncertainty. You are simply mistaken.

@Outer I don't find it nearly as insane as the materialistic paradigm you keep defending.

@David Turcot Keep contemplating, grasshopper.

God is Nothingness. But what you're missing is that Nothingness is identical to Somethingness. Thus, everything you see before your eyes right now is God. Somethingness = Nothingness. God = Everything. This is the essence of nonduality. All distinctions collapse such that everything becomes Nothingness. Nothingness is NOT a blank void. Nothingness is precisely everything you see around you. You are holding Nothing as distinct from Something. Which is a duality. When that duality finally collapses, you will realize, "Oh shit! Everything was Nothing the whole time! There is no difference between existence and non-existence, life and death, reality and fantasy."

Channeling is a very common phenomenon. You can learn to do it yourself. Hundreds of how-to books have been written about it. But you must have a radically open mind. If you think people who a different than you are deluded, then you're really stuck.