Leo Gura

God is a disincarnate formless intelligence which thinks reality into being through its infinite intelligence. You, as God, literally thought yourself into existence. How is that possible? Because you have infinite power and no restrictions other than those you imagine. It's a hell of a thing to realize. I haven't talked about what intelligence is yet. I will in the future. Intelligence is not what you think it is.

@herghly I have not. What's I love about Kriya is that it's supposed to be a private practice not done in groups. You can always rent a motel room for a week and do your Kriya.

You are a philosophical zombie right now. You just think you're not. There is no one inside you "experiencing" anything. Ego has misappropriated Absolute Being, claiming Being for its personal experience. Qualia is actually Absolute Being. There is no one who experiences qualia. There never was. That's a trick the ego is playing on you.

@MarkusSweden It's not really possible to get without some altered state of consciousness. The ego-mind is too powerful to let you see it. It's got a lock on your notion of reality. Requires either a very still mind, like a perfectly calm pond, or psychedelics.

@who chit Sounds like a solid practice. Breath of Fire should really spike it up if you want. I guess it's really similar to Yoni Mudra.

That's the whole trick, existence is nothing! So it's not a quality. But it exists, as nothing. There is no alternative to existence.

@who chit And fear comes from the ego-mind. The less conscious one is, the more fear one has.

@Stefano Provenzi I have not delved into it at all. There are hundreds of different yogas and I would need 10 lifetimes to study them all.

@now is forever There is still a problem with calling something "deconstructive" because there is an implicit assumption that deconstruction is bad. And whether something is decontructive depends on your self-agenda. Hitler's Holocaust was constructive from his POV. And the meteor wiping out the dinosaurs was constructive for many species, but destructive to the dinosaurs. When you judge whether something is destructive, you are effectively saying, "That is destructive TO ME and the status quo that helps my survival." There is no such thing as Absolute construction or destruction. The death of one universe gives rise to another.

Yes, I've since had even more powerful trips, and I've even found a more powerful psychedelic than 5-MeO-DMT.

Only on the weekend

Yoga rewires your nervous system. So you don't have to willpower your way to enlightenment.

You are overlooking a very important point: that "you" is an illusion. After enlightenment, you're not identified with being human any more. Your identification shifted to Nothingness and therefore Everything. So there is nothing to improve because you are the whole universe in all its possible forms. How can you improve infinity? Infinity includes every possible state. So there's nowhere to run. Moreover, the concept of "improvement" only makes sense if you assume time exists. And at higher levels of consciousness, it doesn't. You become so present to the NOW that you cannot even conceptualize a future in which something could be better or worse. And of course the concepts "better" and "worse" are just judgments of the ego-mind to begin with.

I think they stole most of the idea from the novel, Neuromancer. Neuromancer explicitly has a "the Matrix" in it. From Wikipedia:

Lol Man, you really love your judgments, don't ya?

The following analogy might help you guys. Survival is like living life inside The Matrix. Truth/Enlightenment is like escaping The Matrix and realizing it's all a virtual simulation. Then, once you've exited The Matrix, you can re-enter it, but this time you're aware that you're inside a virtual simulation. You still have to survive if you want to stay in The Matrix, but your survival is different than ordinary survival. Ordinary survival isn't self-aware, whereas now you are surviving in a self-aware manner, and you can even bend some of the rules of The Matrix, stopping time, dodging bullets, etc. But if one of those bullets hits you in the head, you're still gonna die. At least your avatar will. Can you see how a question like, "How do we fight terrorism?" is a distraction from breaking free of The Matrix? Terrorism is part of the virtual simulation. If you get too wrapped up and angry about terrorism, you're losing sight of the bigger picture, which is that EVERYTHING you see is just a video game. You're getting lost in the video game world. You're confusing the video game world for Truth. Nothing is good or bad, because it's all just a video game. Imagine if Mario, from Super Mario World, started to take his life seriously. That would be a problem. He would be too afraid of jumping on a platform, cause for him it would be life and death. He would think he only has 1 life. He would become angry and bitter at all these evil spikey dangerous turtles walking around. He would become blind to the fact that he and the turtles are actually all part of one unified simulation. And so the whole game would turn into a nightmare. All just because he takes himself too seriously. Mario would start a political talk radio show where he rants against spikey turtles for corrupting the fabric of Mario World. He would call for a border wall to block the spikey turtles from entering Mario World. He would recruit other inhabitants of Mario World which align with his self-agenda to bolster his cause. The turtles would do the same. The two sides would demonize each other. And then you'd have an all-out battle between the two. Neither side realizing that it's all just a virtual simulation.

@Samra Nice!

Sam Harris certainly hasn't "completely transcended the ego".

You can know suffering without holding it as "evil" or "bad" or "wrong", or judging it. Yes, there is a lot of suffering in the world. But it is not evil. And it necessary. And it is largely self-inflicted due to lack of consciousness. So if you really want to reduce suffering, it would be wise to stop judging it.

You are very much affected by others. "Survival" here means a lot more than just foraging for food and building shelter. You are a deeply social creature. You could not survive without other human beings. You are almost totally dependant on other human beings to keep you alive. Human survival is largely social. Which is why you care about your self-image so much. Which is why you'd be embarrassed to walk outside naked in the middle of New York City. It very much affects your survival. And which is why you might be scared to approach a girl and ask her on a date. Your survival is on the line all the time. Every action you take all day long is basically you grappling with survival. Every thought you have is you manipulating yourself to increase your survive. Notice the truth of this. That's a survival question, which has nothing to do with Truth or enlightenment. The question of "How do we build a good society?" is really the question of "How do I increase my odds at survival?" There is nothing wrong with building a better society, but it is irrelevant to Truth. In fact, it's a big distraction from pursuing Truth. And if you try to build a better society from a position of survival, you will inadvertently cause a lot of suffering to people, because you're acting out of self-preservation, not genuine greater good. Notice, that it is also possible to jail a person without calling him bad or evil. You could jail him with compassion and genuinely help him to heal. I am not saying we shouldn't have laws and jails. Laws and jails are necessary in a large, complex society. But what isn't necessary is the judgment, demonization, and self-righteousness that goes along with it. That's fine. But that's an issue of survival. You can be enlightened and also be engaged in survival. But you're not likely to get enlightened so long as you're preoccupied with survival.

@The White Belt Yeah... I forgot about that. That would be a cool series on paradoxes.

That's because he hasn't actually become conscious of what God is. Whatever awakening he has had, it wasn't deep enough. There are many degrees of realization. And he still has a long way to go. His rationalist paradigm is keeping him from full surrendering to God. Realizing no-self is not the same thing as realizing God. God sits deeper.

@The White Belt Well, life goes on. There's not much choice. Either you choose to kill yourself or you choose to keep living. If you choose to keep living, then you might as well enjoy living. In which case, you might as well set some goals for yourself that you feel will please you and help the world. And then you discipline yourself to work on those goals and enjoy the process. That's life in a nutshell. Even though I know it's meaningless, I still have certain things I want to get out of life, and certain things I want to create. The creativity is for its own sake. Start doing the things you find most fascinating/beautiful. Or, if you can't do that immediately due to financial limitations, then make a strategic plan to work towards that goal. Ideally, every day should be you doing your art and enjoying the process and enjoying life. You'll need a strategic plan to actualize that. But first you need to find your life purpose (the thing you find most fascinating/beautiful). Yes, it's challenging. Some days are difficult.

In the next few days.

You should study enlightened masters more. The really enlightened ones say exactly that. This is actually one of the most essential features of enlightenment. You are not deeply enlightened unless you realize that all meaning and value is a construct of the mind. "Evil" is an evaluation, and it is always a fantasy. There can be no peace in you unless you realize that meaning and value are things your mind creates. There can be no true love unless you are able to love the selfishness of others. What do you think Jesus taught you? Unconditional love. Which means, you cannot see evil any more. Notice that as soon as you make a judgment or evaluation of any kind, you are automatically disconnected from Truth.