Leo Gura

Don't worry, before that happens, AI will make all of us humans obsolete We will become monkey's in our AI overlord's zoos.

That is also possible. It is a bit suspicious that the universe is 14 billion years old but the Earth is 4 billion years old. It seems like that gap should be much bigger.

I did not experience infinite suffering. It's just clear to me that I will reincarnate and experience the universe from every single possible perspective, as every living being, from an ant to a bird to Hitler to Trump to an alien. Right now I am experiencing the universe from the perspective of the person reading this sentence -- YOU! But that is just something Leo's mind cannot access because to be "Leo" is to be locked into Leo's POV.

Well... technically reality is eternal and infinitely old. But it seems like our particular universe is 14 billion years old. But there are probably an infinite number of other universes.

I have a great speed reading workbook on my book list. You can increase your speed by 5x using that book. But you'll have to do all the exercises in it. It's a bit of chore to learn.

What the devil secretly craves the most, is to be God. It is just that he is going about it the wrong way. Here's real-world example. Research has shown that up to 55% of all heroin addicts and alcohol addicts were really just looking for an experience of God. But since they didn't know how to have the real deal, they instead turned to heroin and alcohol, confusing it for an experience of God. When they finally experience the real deal, they stop being addicts. The 12-step program is based on this insight. This is generally true of all human beings. Everyone is basically looking to become infinite, but the ego is confused so it goes about it in the oppoosite ways. It tries to become infinite through acquistion of material stuff: food, sex, money, children, cars, clothing, fame, success, technology, scientific knowledge, religious tradition, luxury, power, etc. But none of this will work. The only way to become infinite is to drop all material methods and realize God is what you are. Rather than fighting God, die to God. Be infinite! That is the counter-intuitive move which the ego fails to see because it is too scared. The devil's dirty little secret is that he is too afraid to die to God. He isn't able to take the leap of faith required. So he becomes an arrogant devil instead. He says, "Fuck all this talk of surrender! I will never surrender! Fuck you God! I don't need you. I will be my own God instead!" The desire to become infinite is baked deep into everyone's psyche. It is just being dsyfunctionally manifest because of one's ignorance and selfishness. Baked into the desire for life is the desire for ego-death. Life and death go full-circle. They are one and the same thing! But good luck getting the ego to see it.

Empires fall because they are dictatorial and egotistical. If a system is built on ego and falsehood, it will ultimately collapse. White supremacy and racism, for example, are collapsing.

@robdl The two are ultimately identical. Ego is God.

This thread goes against everything consciousness and Acrualized.org is about. It is just ego and fear. Treat other races, ethnicities, and cultures as you would treat your own children.

There is no need. But there is a want.

Why does anything exist at all?

@lmfao You should practice some form of Loving Kindness meditation. Or open your hear chakra. Or take some pure MDMA and experience what infinite divine love feels like so you know what the goal is.

A mindblowing new video about Quantum Mechanics and Nonduality is coming soon. But it will be a day or two late later than usual because this video is long and will take a lot of time to shoot, render, and upload. Just giving ya'll a heads up. No, I haven't been hit by a bus.

It can be helpful in about the same way that Myers-Briggs can be helpful. It's a tool. I wouldn't make it your only tool. It's certainly not the deepest tool available.

You understand, right?, that all sameness and difference is relative? 1) You could say that no two things are alike because every object is totally unique. 2) You could say that all objects are alike because they are all the Absolute. And anything in between. Depending your inclination. Which is true? Both and neither. All human cognition relies on false equivalence. Otherwise you would not be able to recognize your mother from one minute to the next, because obviously that's a false equivalence. Your mother is changing every nanosecond. So stop equating the many characteristics of two experiences of your mother with one, in this case, "your mother" What I was obviously pointing out was a common feature for you to see: Western and Middle Eastern cultural brainwashing.

Maybe Nonduality also includes ego, anger, and suffering. You can be enlightened and still be angry, or act egotistically, or suffer. What changes is your awareness of these things. Suffering ends when you are willing to suffer anything. That doesn't necessarily mean the feeling of suffering goes away. You just stop resisting, stop wanting to change it. The difference is this: Person A is suffering and wants to stop the suffering. Which in a paradoxical way prolongs the suffering. Person B is suffering and doesn't care. Which in a paradoxical way ends the suffering. Happiness is just total acceptance of whatever is happening NOW, no matter how terrible is it. Imagine that someone is sawing off your leg, and you are like, "Okay, cool. So be it. I will enjoy this." << That is true happiness. You don't resist it. Lol, sure. It even includes the giraffe you have in your head

Of course Infinity has ego and it is embodied. That's what you are! Otherwise, how could these things appear? Whatever is appearing, that's what Infinity is manifesting as. The turd in your toilet is Infinity. Infinity is YOU! Not just the divine you, but all the stupid, unconscious you. Hitler was Infinity Trump is Infinity Infinity is embodied as every possible thing. And it is identical to ego. Ego vs non-ego is just another duality! Embodied vs disembodied is just another duality!

The book explains all this.

If you're still confused about all this, I would refer you to the work of David Loy. He reconciles all the apparant differences between Buddhism and Vedanta, etc. in his books and papers in a rigorous scholarly manner. See my book list for specific recommendations.

Hehehe... It's not clear to you because you haven't experienced the Absolute. No-self is just one facet of the Absolute. No-self is identical to Absolute Infinity and Emptiness. Infinity and Nothingness are identical. And of course there is no self, there is only the Infinite Self, which is Nothing, and Everything. You are God. God is Nothing. The end. There's no confusion here at all if you actually experience the Absolute fully. Buddhism = Vedanta = Yoga = Christianity = Islam = Judaism = Quantum Mechanics There is nothing to reconcile when your understanding is totally holistic and inclusive.

You are the one arguing semantics. It's perfectly clear that the Buddha was teaching Absolute Infinity. That's all there is. Absolute Infinity is Brahman. Atman = Brahman. Form is emptiness, Emptiness is identical to form. The reason you're getting confused is because total nonduality is unspeakable, unthinking, and incommunicable. To talk about it, you have to make distinctions like dual vs nondual, atman vs brahman, consciousness vs unconsciousness, form vs emptiness, self vs no-self, x vs y, this vs that, right vs wrong, true vs false, etc. But all of that is duality! You are getting tangled up in relative distinctions and stylistic differences between different mystical schools. Drop that and see the commonality, not the petty differences.

Actually, no. In that video the word "consciousness" is being used slightly differently. You have to understand that the word "consciousness" is a very loaded word. Sort of like the word "God". It can mean different things in different contexts to different people. Your understanding of this word will evolve and deepen significantly over time. Eventually you will come to realize that consciousness is Nothing. In my video about High Consciousness Vs Low Consciousness, I didn't go so deep. There I was using the word in a more conventional sense. I wasn't talking about Absolute Consciousness there.

People generally misunderstand what the word "consciousness" means. Consciousness is not mental activity. Consciousness is Nothingness. It is the "substance" of everything. This confusion happens because of the subtle assumptions of the materialist paradigm. Absolute Consciousness is what Buddha taught. It does not depend on the sense organs. The stuff that depends on the sense organs would best be called perception or experience. Yes, perception and experience is impermanent. Don't confuse consciousness with thinking or experiencing.

@Samra God YES! We need education reform so bad. These test-based systems are terrible. It's like a form of child abuse.

Name one perspective which is complete, encompassing everything there is? Other than the Absolute (which is a non-perspective). You will notice, there is truth to be found in almost every perspective. It will be a partial truth, but some truth nonetheless. For example, look at the world from Hitler's perspective and see what truth you can find there. There will be some. Don't think of perspective as an individual belief like, "The sky is red." Perspective is much bigger than one true/false belief. Perspective is more like a worldview or a philosophy. Stage Blue is like typical conservative American thinking: clear right/wrong, absolute good/bad, Christian morality, Bible is true, God is an authoritarian father figure, society has rigid rules an hierarchy which must be obeyed rather than innovated upon. Go to church, pray, serve in the military, defend the Constitution, be nice to your parents, don't have sex before marriage, gays are going to hell, Islam is wrong, never do drugs, never question your elders, never break the rules, rise up the power hierarchy by following the rules, respect your superiors, know your place in the social order, sacrifice for your tribe, be loyal, be a patriot, salute the flag, etc.