Leo Gura

Yes, it's all fun and games until it actually hits you. Then it's a whole nother matter.

Gonna lock this one, since I think we've beaten this dead horse long enough.

No, I don't mean internet trolls. I mean the trolls of fairy-tale lore. Again, this one requires some radical openmindedness. Here's some food for thought: Upon further research I was unable to find any corroborating sources or additional stories. Anyone here from Iceland ever hear of such stories??? It would be amazing to know what specific lichens they are. This is supposedly what it might look like: P.S. Don't go eating random lichens! Some are toxic and will kill you.

A) Nothing is necessary. Having an impact is of course meaningless in the absolute sense. B) Don't confuse different levels of advice. When I say "Make an impact" this not a nondual truth. This is pragmatic advice for ordinary people. C) If you take a look, the most enlightened people, even though they realize that all action is meaningless, NEVERTHELESS devote their lives to making an impact. Because that's what a high quality human being is wired to do. Think of making an impact as eating or crapping. It's something the human being does, which if you ignore, you'll be sorry. D) Making an impact is not some mandatory thing. I'm just pointing out to you what kind of life you will enjoy living most. People simply don't think through these things. Your psychological needs do matter when it comes to your happiness. E) If you really don't want to make an impact, don't. But even that is an impact. You cannot not have an impact. The question is, what kind of impact will you want to have? A conscious one, or an unconscious one? F) If a guy makes 1500 videos about something, that's quite an impact he's making. G) Life purpose is a conscious CONSTRUCTION. Life purpose is not something you "find in the world". It's something you decide to create in the world. Not for any reason. Simply because you want to create something.

@Shakazulu Strong Determination Sitting would be a good technique for that. To become dispassionate, you will have to spend 1000s of hours observing your passions as they arise in the moment, and also resisting and surrendering them mindfully.

What??? Why do you want to create something which has no value in your eyes? Remember, value is always a projection of the human mind. Nothing actually has value. Including gold, money, family, love, business, science, enlightenment, or anything else. The question of value always just boils down to what you enjoy and want for its own sake. If you enjoy art, make it. If you don't enjoy art, don't. People who become artists simply enjoy the process of making their art. It's really that simple. Of course that doesn't mean it's easy.

Most of you guys are just speculating. I don't hear anyone here speaking from a direct consciousness of the absolute nature of reality. I'm starting to regret telling you about psychedelics because it just makes you skeptical of me. I've told you what reality is. It's a radical thing. If you don't like how it sounds, oh well. That is that. These are things a Zen monk with 20 years expereince can still fail to grasp. You have almost no hope of grasping it unless you commit your whole life to this, are spiritually gifted, or you do some very serious investigating using psychedelics. Good luck

Lol, if it didn't disappear, in what sense could you go to sleep? It would keep you up all night Stop treating reality as an abstraction. Reality -- as far as you know -- is only what is experienced right this moment.

It seems that way from your current paradigm. But after you encounter the Absolute, you'll realize you were wrong. Everything is absolutely relative. You guys are failing to grasp the significance of that. There is no standard by which to say that something is real or unreal. To put it another way, reality itself cannot know what is or isn't real! Any standards you have for judging reality are arbitrary and groundless. They only seem solid because you hold them to be so. The whole point of enlightenment is that you become conscious of EVERYTHING. There is no room left for something to "hide". There can be nothing outside Infinity. But don't believe me. Discover it for yourself. Don't underestimate enlightenment. You guys keep doing that.

Actually, when I look around the room, or go for a walk, I am starting to be actively mindful that all is a hallucination. Took a nice 30 minute walk outside last night, and it was quite remarkable. All the trees, the lights, the stars... just hallucination. All of it is void. Just beaitful. When I look at my hands these days, I know they are a hallucination. Which makes them all the more remarkable. As you become more conscious, this will become your living reality. Certain truths, once they are really understood, cannot be unseen, even though the peak experience goes away. The point of psychedelics is not the high, it's the understanding you come away with. The whole point of spirituality is to experience everyday life as a hallucination. That is what you're working towards. That's what peace and happiness are. When you know that everything is unreal, you feel detached. It's an amazing thing. Like being a child again. Freedom from life, freedom from death. I have seen that there is no external world. That would be a duality. Don't ask me how I've seen it. You can only see it a high states of consciousness. That's what the Absolute is. There is nothing that could ground an external world. Reality is far more ingenious than that.

@dead man walking It is simply impossible to imagine Nothingness. You are trying to imagine God. All ideas you have of it, including your ideas of "everything" and "nothing" are not it, not even close. If you want to understand, the best thing to do is: A) Self-inquire, B) psychedelics. The problem with the human mind is that it just cannot resist trying to imagine God. But the more it tries, the more wrong it is. You're not going to get much better than the descriptions I gave in my Absolute Infinity episodes.

@Joseph Maynor That is why we each must walk our own unique path. No path is right or wrong. It's Allah's will no matter which fork in the road you take. Ignorance needs room to play itself out. Which is fundamentally why we must be tolerant of all people and why nonduality wars are silly.

Nothing in this work is obvious. The grass is wet = the grass is wet. Nothing more, nothing less. Notice the rest is monkey-mind. What you're calling "evidence" IS what you're imagining to be the "the world independent of perception". You're looking too far. The world IS the flux of perception. Look! That's what it is! Stop looking for something else. The reason you do that is because you secretly do not want to admit that the world is mystical. You keep looking for a mechanism, not realizing that the mechanism is simply its being. BEing is all there could ever be. It is itself. Period. A = A It's so obvious you're overlooking it.

@Joseph Maynor The ultimate lesson you could learn from the scaffolding is: "Okay, time to go live in a cave for 5 years." The problem is, the mind doesn't want that lesson. It wants something easy. So here we are! Welcome to easy Were the work is slow, the mental masturbation great, and the results meager. But hey, it's easy!

Yes, for course, a master would never talk about Trolls, cause you'd call him fucking crazy. Masters withhold a lot. But that is not my style. I like to spill the beans and let people deal with it. I like to be provocative. Calling it "nothing" gets one reaction out of people. Usually a nonchalant reaction. (Because the signficance hasn't been registered yet.) Calling all of reality a hallucination gets a totally different reaction out of people. Usually one of "What the fuck???!!!! Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!" They both mean exactly the same thing. But the problem is, it takes a long time for people to make all the interconnections and trace out the absolutely mindblowing consequences of nonduality. Yes, it's all a hallucination. How else could you transcend death? How else could you attain eternal peace? Only by realizing all is hallucination. If there was anything real, you would be a slave to it. There could be no liberation. The word "hallucination" is actually very precise. A hallucination is defined as an appearance without substance. That's what everything is, appearance with nothing behind it. That is mysticism 101. Or idealism 101. If it is palatable, it's because you're still steeped in the naive realist paradigm. It's a really hard one to shake. Of course the ultimate nature of reality isn't even a hallucination. It would be most accurate to call it: undefined. But "hallucination" gives a better sense of what it feels like. Of course all words are merely metaphors. Each one of you could have different metaphors you favor.

@username Socrates did have a good point. All this theory I share with your guys practically just ends up rotting your minds. You end up thinking you know much more than you really know. Theory without practice is a very dangerous thing. If you rejected Actualized.org right now and just went and sat in cave for 5 years doing self-inquiry, you would be much better off in the end. But how many of you are willing to do that?

A) Many spiritual master DO talk about it in this way. B) Those who don't, often don't because they know if they did, your ego would have exactly the same negative reaction exhibited in this thread. Do you guys understand why spiritual masters aren't direct with you? Why they play coy? Why this stuff is kept esoteric and secret? Because you will burn them at the stake as witches if they told you the truth of what they know. Not to mention that you wouldn't attend their retreats, buy their books, or fawn over them like an Ekhart Tolle groupie. The Truth, as it turns out, is a very radical and threatening thing. Yes! Even to YOU! There is a big difference between understanding nothing and understanding Nothing.

No!!!!!! It's you who doesn't understand. Those examples are of your own creation. How would it look like if someone treated life like it was a hallucination? Like this: Chopping wood, carrying water. There is absolutely no difference. The only difference is that you're conscious that the substance of everything is nothing. Stop being racist against trolls. They are sweet creatures, undeserving of your scorn

It doesn't matter what I believe. I've experienced nonduality.

@Maxx A horse is a horse of course, of course. No one is claiming it's a unicorn. It's just a hallucinated horse. You asking questions and being perplexed about why a hallucinated horse doesn't behave like a unicorn is a problem of your own creation. You imposed that ridiculous assumption, and now you're confused about it. Of course! Stop doing that. BEING implies no particular way of behaving. You can realize that reality is a hallucination, and go right back to walking your dog, opening your mail, chopping wood, eating Cheetos. The TRUTH is irrelevant to life within the hallucination. That's the whole point of LIBERATION. You are liberated to do whatever you wanna do. And survival in this hallucination has certain demands like food, water, shelter, sex, etc. If you really wish to entirely transcend the self-survival instinct -- for shits and giggles -- you can. Become so enlightened your body falls dead. Then your wish will come true. That's what Mahavira decided to do, and countless others. He just went into the forest and quietly starved himself to death. The hallucinated horse will fall dead no matter what. Because all hallucinations are temporary. Hallucinations behave exactly as human beings behave! They spend most of their time struggling to survive, because they don't really exist. The reason you struggle so much is not because you are real, but precisely because you are unreal! The problem here is that you're failing to make a paradigm shift. You're still trying to evaluate the nondual paradigm from the dual paradigm, which obviously looks silly, as you've pointed out. Empty your cup first.

@Juan Cruz Giusto It's no accident you don't agree. That's the only thing separating duality from nonduality. You are grossly underestimating this thing called "enlightenment".

@Maxx David Hume answered your question best: This is basic basic stuff guys. Come on. I thought you were more advanced than this. This should be Kindergarten stuff for you

All distinctions are illusion! Hello??? What do you think NONDUALITY means? Lol ONE, as in not two. Not distinct. Everything distinct is relative!

I see a lot of folks here triggered by this notion of "hallucination". Good... that means your web of belief is being disrupted. Definition of hallucination from Google: "an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present." That is PRECISELY, EXACTLY, LITERALLY what all of reality is. Something which is nothing. Stop arguing about nonsense and go self-inquire (or do some 5-MeO) and see for yourselves. Hallucination = Illusion = A Dream = Maya = Idealism = Infinite Mind = Enlightenment = God = I AM = The Self = No Self = Nirvana = Buddha = Christ = Shiva = Shakti = Void = Reality = Truth = Absolute = The One = Nonduality = Duality = Being = Infinity = Consciousness = The Dao = Mu Ya'll got some silly notions of enlightenment. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." -- Edgar Allan Poe

That is right. Socrates supposedly opposed written works because they were too dry and rigid, possibly misleading people with theory. He preferred one-on-one exchanges so he could adapt this questioning to yours. It does seem he was a self-inquirer. Not sure how far he got. The best evidence for his possible enlightenment was the calm and collected manner in which he took his execution. After drinking the poison, he started to feel it taking effect in this body. He closed his eyes to die as all his friends watched in horror. Then he opened his eyes suddenly and said something along the lines of, "Oh, friends. Can one of you please repay my debt to this town's person? I owe him one chicken. It would be a shame if my death robbed him of what he is owed." And then he died.