Leo Gura

You have been told a million times to begin self-inquiry. Yet you ignore the work and keep asking, "But how?!" Well, good luck with that.

@Edvard The one playing word games is you. If it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't mind dying or suffering. But you do mind, because you are self-biased. The metaphysics matters enormously. The only reason you seem to exist is because your metaphysics tells you so. Change your metaphysics and you cease to exist, and so will suffering. The problem here, is that you're assuming there is such a thing as an objective metaphysics. But there is not. Which means your mind can make up whatever nonsense it wants and count it as reality. Which is precisely how you came into being. If you were truly objective, there couldn't be a you. You exist as a fragile fantasy, which is why you suffer so easily. Every sharp corner threatens to pop your bubble of delusion. That's all that suffering is. Your game is to avoid every sharp corner to protect your little bubble, and enlightenment the deliberate bursting of that bubble once and for all. No fantasy bubble, no more problems.

Hehe, of course you can't seem shake it off. That's what makes you, you. The self is an extremely tenacious illusion. As it must be, since your very life depends on it.

@Alien This is actually a non-trivial point: There is no substitute for consciousness. The only way to be conscious, is to be conscious! There is no shortcut, there is no alternative. You must be conscious directly, not through some materialistic process, technique, or trick. Because consciousness transcends and underpins everything else. To try to use something else to get to consciousness is backwards. Instead, use consciousness directly to get to everything else. In other words, don't wait for pain to bring you consciousness. Bring consciousness to your pain. You can always have a thing without consciousness. But you can never have consciousness without consciousness.

No one doesn't realize it. That's the absurdity of it. You assume there are whos, but there aren't. Ask yourself, "WTF is a who? How could one possibly exist?" Notice, it can't!

@blazed There are infinite perspectives. If you weren't your perspective, you'd another, or none at all. It's sort of like you're asking, why is a tree a tree and not a rock? Because if it was a rock, it would be a rock, not a tree. And what determined which thing a thing will be? It's absolutely infinite. All things have been, are being, and will be. That is the wonder of God.

Yes, this is a pervasive problem for mankind. Because very few people think about life from scratch for themselves. They just go along with the herd, which means you are indoctrinated by the lowest common denominator of your culture and era.

Maybe. You wouldn't be the first person. But also, not necessarily. You can just sit and contemplate and figure lot of shit out purely in your head. It really helps to contemplate your own death. I have an episode by that very title. By contemplating your own death, you get clear about what you want out of life. You're taking life totally for granted right now. If you became really conscious of what life is, you would have enough motivation for 50 lifetimes. Soul-searching takes work. Because it is abstract work, people tend not to recognize it as work, and so never actually do it. And then they wonder why their life sucks. How many hundreds of hours have you spent soul-searching? Take a week off and go spend it alone in a cabin in the woods thinking about your life. That's where real work happens.

THERE IS NO YOU! There are only appearances identical with nothing. You are nothing. You are not bound to anything because you don't even exist. Eating, sleeping, jumping in front of a car -- that's not you. That's appearances appearing. Stop assuming you're an appearance. Check direct experience. P.S. "the screen" you are talking about, is nothing. It's a not-screen.

@John Iverson You've got the whole thing backwards. 1) You don't exist. 2) Neither does anything else. The only problem is that you are identified with appearances and consider them "reality". That is all. Try flipping your model upside down. Walk around for a day telling yourself, "Everything I'm seeing, is what death looks like." You are walking around inside of death right now. You're just calling it "life". The truth is, you are already dead. You just don't realize it. Just because appearances arise, doesn't make you alive.

Only if you are more conscious while it is happening

Lol See, that's the problem right there. The ego is manipulating to get its same old self-agenda through. But the point of evolving to healthier forms of motivation is that parts of the ego must die. The old self-agenda must die. It's a tricky thing. You have to surrender your old ideas of what is right, good, and proper for your life. And that's a scary thing. You cannot do that if your #1 goal is getting shit done or maintaining the status quo. Your #1 goal should instead be: truth and authenticity. You have to face the hard question of whether running is something you do at all. And why? Why do anything? Why not just eat ice cream all day? Yes, you will definitely sacrifice results in the short term. That is the nature of all consciousness work. It is not about results. It is about truth and authenticity. To put results above truth is to put the cart before the horse, and is what ultimately leads to all human problems. It's hard to strike a balance between the two at first.

@znet The ego is like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

@Stephyk8 Yes, it tends to be a male-dominated field. But you can find more feminine versions of it as well if you google around.

What he means is that you need proper instructions.

Great work right there. That's how deep you gotta dig. We very easily forget stuff like that once we're older. Much of this LP discovery process is getting back in touch with those kinds of long-suppressed, long-ignored passions.

Yoga There are many kinds of yoga. Kundalini yoga Kriya yoga Sadhguru's yoga etc.

Just about finished rendering my newest video. This one will have lots of pretty graphics. Excited to share it with you guys.

@rush If someone told me 7 years ago that I would be well paid for sitting around, reading books, meditating, taking psychedelics, and doing philosophy all day, I would have laughed in their face. What market could there possibly be for that???

That's why LSD comes in packs of 10

You are making this some grandiose thing. There is no leap of faith. Just live your life with passion and joy. That's all self-actualization is saying. What is the point of living a life you hate? That is just stupidity and laziness. When you realize this, and you get serious about living a good life, you will discover that personal development and raising your consciousness are the best tools for that. And when you raise your consciousness high enough, there you will find God. All your current ideas about God are wrong, and so were Kierkegaard's.

@Max_V What you will eventually discover is that even "awareness" and "consciousness" are misleading terms. The closest word is Nothing. Reality simply "knows" being by being. The problem with terms like awareness and consciousness is that imply a human agent or a mental process. But that is NOT how reality knows itself. It knows through being. To be true, is to be known.

@Serge Careful not to get carried away with your radical models. Don't confuse nonduality with anything-goes. It's the opposite of that, actually. You want to become hyper-aware of the narratives your mind is building about reality, and drop them as much as possible. The fact is, most of the stuff you believe, you have zero experience of. It's very easy to abuse this work and hurt people. So be very careful with your theorizing.

@John I'm not sure what you mean. You find your LP, you set a strong vision, and you work towards it as best you can without quitting. You only quit if something even better comes along. Emotions will come and go. There will be good times and bad times. You just keep at it. Success in business is no easy thing. People grossly underestimate that. The marketplace does NOT just pay you money for your work. You have to fight for it.

@egoless Stop making nonsense posts. You are distracting not only yourself, but other people with your monkey mind.