Leo Gura

How did they let Trump and his cronies slip through?

@herghly Yes, eyes shut the whole time. You will easily internalize the instructions after a bit of practice. If you have an uncertainty about some technique, check the book BEFORE your begin your session, and then also AFTERWARD. That way you will quickly memorize all the techniques.

@Slade Your routine is one thing. You do it all at once. But you can run that same routine more than once per day. A routine takes 30-60 minutes. So if you want to run it 3 times, that will be 3 hours. Start with just mastering 1 cycle per day. You can always do more later.

That's not going to cut it. "Helps you to live a fulfilling life" is the agenda of the ego, which will be undermined by Truth. So you're gonna have to choose where your loyalties lie. Because you (ego-mind) is not really interested in Truth, you are interested in self-preservation. So you interpret what I say negativity. It's negative and nihilistic because it jeopardizes the ego's agenda. It's not really negative. It only appears that way to you. Which is why spirituality cannot go mainstream and must get corrupted. Because hardly anyone wants spirituality. They want the IDEA of spirituality which will be compatible with their egoic lifestyle. But that is not spirituality, that is self-preservation. Hence all spiritual truths get corrupted. You are asking me to corrupt the truth to suit your ego.

Not only is there no subconsious mind, there is not even a conscious mind. "Mind" is a conceptual invention. You have to understand that when we speak of "mind" or "the body" or "the brain" we are talking about a certain conventional level of reality. This entire level will be shown to be unreal, in the end. But it is still a useful way of talking. For example, atomic thoery tells you there is no such thing as a "dog", there are only atoms. But "dog" is still a useful way of thinking about reality at the ordinary level. How you choose to carve up the world comes with a corresponding set of powers and limitations. And that is okay. The key is not to get rigidly attached to one set of categories. And not to mistake the categories for reality. When we say "reprogramming the subconscious mind", we mean a certain thing within a certain context. You cannot take that phrase and start applying it to the context of metaphysics. It was never a metaphysical phrase.

Lol, such is life. A delicious strange loop.

@UDT That's not dealing with aging, that's dealing with establishing independence and self-efficacy. Dealing with aging is when your body starts to give out and it dawns on you that you've been taking youth and health for granted.

@egoless You're not going to get far in this work if you insist on such a crude and black-and-white way of thinking. Nuance, nuance, nuance...

This is a very subtle topic. It will not be answered well in a thread. I'll shoot a video about it in the future.

Yes, just let go and be open.

There is no subconscious mind. Nothing is hidden. What you see is what there is.

I know you guys love to split hairs about this stuff. Like I said, the things which I said are so extremely subtle that no conversation about them is possible. What I am pointing to is beyond the understanding of most human beings, including so called enlightened ones. Tread carefully. No appeals to authority will work at this level. Only direct experience. There are many degrees of enlightenment, despite the fact that it is all one thing. If you refuse to accept that, then you will become stuck at whichever level you're at, justifying it to yourself as "there are no levels." Yes, of course there are no levels. But there are also levels.

Materialism is the default paradigm of the human mind in our present era and culture. Materialism really just stems from daulity, which the default OS of human beings across all cultures and times. As one becomes more conscious, one moves towards nonduality. The last step Chalmers is missing is transcending theoretical idealism to actualized nonduality, until one's nonduality becomes so profound that even the distinction between duality and nonduality falls away.

@Monkey-man Why is heads called heads and not tails? Why is your butt not your head and your head not your butt?

@StephenK That's right, all knowledge is actually BEING. There isn't even experience. There is only being. The Absolute is beyond all language, knowledge, or logic. But it is there! You are it. Any further questions you ask is you staying stuck in the mind and failing to understand that being is incommunicable. Therefore the only right next step is to shut your mouth and sit silently.

No The human mind sees the world through dualities: small/big, short/long, skinny/fat, dead/alive, ugly/beautiful, finite/infinite, animal/man, man/machine, etc. That doesn't mean every duality is good/evil.

Master real yoga

@vanish Easy there grasshopper. Watch that ego kicking back into overdrive. You've only BEGUN this consciousness process. Don't turn into a Zen devil.

Well... except for that diamond Rolex Poor Osho. It was so hard to be poor back then.

No, I was saying, how would know you've reached the highest stage of awakening? The whole problem is, you can't know. You might think you're at the highest, but you could be wrong. I've experienced so many degrees of awakening at this point that I'm having to stop saying "This is it!" because as soon as I say that, the next week or month I find something deeper. This is a very tricky issue because every awakening feels like it's the deepest and nothing could be deeper. If you think you've reached the end, you're probably kidding yourself. There exist superhuman levels of consciousness which cannot even be conceived of by most ordinary meditators or enlightened teachers. There seem to be states of consciousness so great that they may not even be reachable through natural biological means. States so great that they could not be spoken of at all. This is why spirituality becomes so contentious. It's very hard to compare the states of various people. Especially if you've never achieved those states yourself. The point is, you cannot make these comparisons while keyboard jockeying on this forum. The only way to really know is to become a fully enlightened master and see how far you are able to get. Otherwise, you've got no chance of figuring out what is "the end". Everyone will of course tend to disagree about what "the end" is, because no one is going to admit, "I haven't reached the end." Consciousness also breeds arrogance. This topic is beyond the scope of what most people here can fathom. It requires decades of careful study and hardcore practice. This is way beyond the realm of Neo-Advaita teachings or YT videos or experiencing no-self.

Of course paranormal abilities are real. They just don't work according to materialist's expectations. Which is precisely why materialist science excludes them from their domains of study, creating a self-fulfilling blindspot. In other words, paradigm blindness at its finest. That's what happens when you ignore epistemology while at the same time engaging in epistemic pursuits.

Running a high consciousness community is very challenging, especially when you get hundreds or thousands of people involved. The leader has to be extremely responsible and conscious, and even then, things will likely get out of hand behind his back, or after he dies. A community's interactions are a direct reflection of their individual levels of consciousness and ego. Collective ego is a very tricky thing to manage. Political factions will break out, and the leader has to know how to deal with them appropriately. Every spiritual community tends to splinter. This is true not just of spiritual communities but all communities in general. Nations have to crack down on splintering. Hence the American Civil War for example, and the stuff going on with Brexit, Spain, etc. The challenge is maintaining unity without becoming a dictator. That's something even this forum faces. It requires stage Turquoise consciousness to pull off well.

I feel a stretch. Not sure how you can't feel it stretch. If it's short, you should feel the stretch even more. Try manipulating your tongue in whatever way necessary to feel a stretch. Emphasize the stretch rather than the tongue's position in your mouth. One Om per chakra. Oms in Kriya are very quick.

@Dino D The problem is, you still assume you exist. For all of your talking and emoting and theorizing -- you still fundamentally assume there is a you. But there isn't. And until that is understood, nothing will really change. "OHHHHHHHH!!!! There is no ME!!!! Duh!!! OF COURSE!!!!!" No Self No Self No Self No Self No Self No Self No Self ....

Universe/mind is a duality. The ultimate Truth is nondual. You cannot grasp nonduality via dualistic distinctions. You can try, but all you will get is paradox and strange loops due to the self-reference problem. You are the universe trying to ask itself, "What is the universe?" If you don't know, who else can tell you but yourself?