Leo Gura

@Samuel Garcia Dude, you just got started. You haven't put in anywhere near enough work into this process to make any kind of conclusions like you're making. I've been doing this for years and I can only connect to being like 1% of the time at best. Being able to connect to being and shutting off your mind is the hardest thing in the world. You're not putting anywhere near enough effort into this. If you have a serious case of ADHD, you might want to research and troubleshoot a bunch of physical solutions: proper diet, proper exercise, proper breathing, proper lifestyle, quitting all addictive media, bodywork, energy work, brain training, getting blood work done, checking your vitamin levels, fixing hormonal imbalance, detoxing heavy metals, experimenting with dozens of supplements, yoga, pranayama, Reichian therapy, psychedelics, etc. There is so MUCH to do! You haven't even done 2% of this stuff. Unless your mother was an orangutan, it's impossible not to be able to self-actualize.

It's that time of the year again! The book list has been updated. Lots of amazing, mind-blowing, life-transforming books in this update. Really, one of my favorite updates. Many of these books were simultaneously profound and a pleasure to read. At least half are available on Audible for easy listening. New books on: Consciousness/Enlightenment Absolute Infinity Metaphysics Paranormal Psychedelics/Shamanism Politics Systems Thinking Zen Poetry The Brain and brain training How to access: Just log into your existing Actualized account, go to My Account >> Book List. All the newest additions are clearly listed on page 1. The update is free for everyone who purchased the list in the past, and all new purchases. This update brings the list up to over 200 books! This is the theoretical foundation for all self-actualization work.

@Afonso It's a great start. It's very high-level. Now you want to brainstorm ways of concretizing it. What kind of systems/frameworks juice you up most? Why? What can you do with them? What impact do you want to have in this field? What's the point of developing frameworks? Do you care more about developing them, or studying them, or using them?

Your understanding of Buddhism, and Trump, is lacking

The plain reality of psychedelics is that you NEVER know what you'll get next. Every trip is different. You gotta go into it with some bravery and optimism. If you can't muster that, then hold off until you can. If you're feeling depressed, wait till it passes.

This is just silly. You're using kindergarten egoic thinking here. Ain't none of your human values universal. They aren't even planet-wide. They aren't even species-wide. They aren't even city-wide. They aren't even family-wide. Just because you become physically sick at rape, doesn't mean others do. You're really just speaking of yourself. But deluding yourself into believing you're speaking for the whole universe! It's insane! You don't kill ants because you have a desire to hurt ants. You simply kill ants as a by-product of being you. Likewise with rape. It's not about desiring to hurt others. It's about being a self. Your self happens to not like rape. Other selves do. Not sure how you intend to become enlightened clinging to all your human desires like that.

@electroBeam Yes, I said already that you are free to do whatever you want. Which means you can have morals. They just aren't grounded in anything. All that having morals means is that you have made some choices about how you want to play the game of life. And you live out those choices. That's all. Nothing more. Enjoy your rules. Just don't expect other people to follow them. Why should they? You made them up for you. And they will make up the opposite ones for themselves.

@Snick Yes, that's the right understanding. Even better when you can be conscious that Hitler is literally you. Then the compassion becomes real juicy.

@electroBeam Yes, they are deluded spiritual seekers. Dogma and concept is rampant in all spiritual teachings. As it must because spirituality cannot be transferred with words. Which is why Zen masters tell you: when you find the Buddha, kill him. Everything you think about spirituality when you first start the path will be proven wrong if you go deep enough. Because ego cannot understand true spirituality. Ego can only understand egoic spirituality. But we gotta start somehow. So don't worry too much about it. You just do the best you can to avoid all the ego traps and dogma.

Be careful not to let your ego use anything I've said here to justify its selfish ways. That would be ignorance. Nothing I've said here means anything.

@Mathew Pav Nice! A few points about 2-CB I've researched: Excellent for crazy intimate sex, I'm sure you can see why. Probably amazing potential for Tantric sex. Rectal administration is the ideal ROA for 2-CX compounds and mescaline. Requires 2/3rds the oral dose for same effect.

What's most important to realize is that all those "good" people who act moral and judge the rapists, terrorists, and Hitler's of the world, are going to suffering deeply for it. They incur bad karma. Because their judgments perpetuate ignorance and separation from God. See, none of you guys here are rapists (I hope), so that's not really an important topic. But plenty of you here like to judge rapists, thinking that your are superior to them, and you're doing proper spirituality. Well, you're not. That is the practical point of this whole discussion. Drop your superiority complex, and problem solved! Simple.

It hasn't changed anything. I've always realized that I am free to act like an animal. Doesn't mean I go around throwing my own feces at people. The more deeply I suffer, the lighter I tend to tread in the world. But for no reason. Not because I am good or because it is right. The more I become conscious of my own ignorance, the more tolerance I have for the ignorance of others. Murders, rapists, and thieves cannot helping doing what they do. It's not their call. It's God's call. But of course, don't tell them that! They will misunderstand it.

Here's some fun reading for ya about what goes on in Tibetan monasteries: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/what-lies-beneath-the-robes-are-buddhist-monasteries-suitable-places-for-children-adele-wilde-blavatsky/

Just think this through: If you're a male monk in a monastery and you haven't had sex in 5 years. How horny will you be? How much will your body crave sex? A LOT! A LOT! A LOT! So you'll be easily tempted to go rape someone. Even if you're enlightened. Temptations are not really in your control. Also, note, there are some cultures in which rape is considered perfectly normal and appropriate. For example, certain Middle Eastern or Mongol cultures. They will kidnap and rape women, and then marry them. Part of their culture. It's been done that way for thousands of years. That's how you get yourself a good wife there.

No reason at all! You can hit yourself on the head with a hammer just for shits and giggles, just to see what it's like. Reasons don't matter. Reasons are things egos create. To say that "Humans have no good reasons to rape or murder each other, therefore they shouldn't", is very myopic and naive. Your mind will come up with thousands of good reasons. Even if you're enlightened. The most enlightened people in the world are still subject to their cultural programming, social norms, ignorance of many things, and closedmindedness. Enlightenment does not make you immune to mistakes.

No. Enlightenment means absolutely nothing. It's total freedom. If you want to give a fuck, you can! You can be an enlightened moralist. You can go preach about how everyone must be good. It would be totally groundless, but you're free do whatever the hell you want. You can go save all the poor kids in Africa, all the whales, and all the butterflies. It would be pointless and meaningless, but you can do it. They call it "liberation" for a reason. You are not liberated unless you're free to rape and murder whoever you want. Enlightenment means total liberation. Now... you'll say, "But why would I want to rape and murder anyone?" Well... who knows? Let's leave our options open. Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't. That would be a totally personal preference thing. But if you would, you wouldn't call it "wrong". Because "wrong" is an idea, nothing more. Now... you'll say, "But wouldn't it be bad if everyone went around thinking this way?" No! It would be meaningless, not bad. Because reality is meaningless. Regardless of what happens, it's meaningless. Meaning is a human invention. Could you build a civilization upon this? That is irrelevant. That's an ego question. Now... you might say, "But Leo, I don't like this. This is stupid." Well... who gives a shit what your ego likes? Welcome to reality, where nothing you want or think matters, except in your own mind. You're welcome to be a moralist. But only by deluding yourself. And don't think that you can be a moralist at peace. You will be deeply disturbed. You will not have Nirvana as a moralist. Because you keep insisting on delusion, keep insisting on clinging to your self, keep resisting God. And whoever resists God is a devil. So all moralists are devils. Of course they deny it. All devils deny they are devils. Which is what makes them devils. Being a devil is not wrong. It's just stupid. It's not even stupid. It just is. God is free to do whatever it wants. And it does. Everything possible before enlightenment is possible afterward. There is no difference between enlightenment and non-enlightenment in that sense.

Every teaching, every school, every method, has it's pros and cons. There are no safe methods to enlightenment. All of them are fraught with dozens of traps.

I'm making it complicated? You're the one making all those complicated distinctions and rules about right and wrong. My version is extremely simple: Absolute Infinite Nothingness. Total freedom. Anything goes. It couldn't be simpler or more beautiful.

Hehe, they cannot be killed! They are literally immortal for all of eternity.

@unknownworld Yes you can say the same. Which is why wise people don't debate but self-inquire. And the really wise ones don't bring this topic up in public at all. I have said too much. The wonders of God shall remain known only to itself.

@Dodo The glass of Nothingness is so full it's infinitely overflowing More than your heart can ever stand.

Guys, everything you're talking about is egoic human stuff! That's all well and good for life as a human, but it has nothing to do with Truth and enlightenment. You're totally underestimating how fucking radical enlightenment is. It's the total end of your life and reality. TOTAL! TOTAL, TOTAL, TOTAL. Nothing you cling to will survive. And all this stuff you're talking about is monkey-mind human bullshit. Investigate for yourselves. Please don't take my word for any of this. You must derive these insights for yourselves. This is not a belief system.

So your ego thinks. There's nothing obvious here at all. Those are all RELATIVE EGOIC judgments. All distinctions are groundless. That is the essence of reality and liberation. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Not even close. But at least I understand it conceptually. And I have experienced it for tiny whiles. A lot of folks here seem to be adamantly opposed to the mere idea of it. Which is a problem because it's gonna hold you back. You're clinging to paradigms of Judeo-Christian morality. That's not gonna fly in this work. I want you to grasp the full-Monty! Absolute groundlessness! The core of all of reality. The deepest essence of God. It's a beautiful thing to behold. It will make you so humble that you won't want to step on a fly. And yet, at the same time, you'll swat that fly to death in the blink of an eye when it annoys you. Such is life. Twisted to perfection.