Leo Gura

They're enlightened but don't know it. Just like you

No one really knows. At this point I would revise my estimate to above 100,000. There are thousands of monasteries & ashrams across the world that churn out enlightened folks from all major religious traditions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, and Hinduism. It also depends on how you define enlightenment. A lot of people are semi-enlightened. A lot fewer people are "fully-enlightened".

I learned that I have a very low tolerance for fruity, new-agey community activities. Like group art projects, etc. I learned that I'm extremely judgmental and critical of people. I learned that I prefer to do my meditation/enlightenment work solo. Well... take a look at various religious traditions. Even the few enlightened folks that occur within them are will quite dogmatic and have a limited perspective. Hell, take a look at Zen. Very traditional and rigid, even though it produces lots of enlightened people. Dogma is VERY tough to escape. Much harder than merely getting enlightened.

Yup, it's definitely important to organize if you're a serious student of this material. I want to create a small product at some point which will explain and show my organization scheme in detail. Wish I had more time to get all this content created.

@Pelin No, that's not what is meant by selfless action. Selfless action is literally action without believing you exist as a self. You can kill someone selflessly. It's NOT about the content of the action. And it has nothing to do with "good" action. All "good" action is selfish. Because good only exists for a self. When you abolish the idea of good & bad, and the idea that you exist as a self, THEN action becomes naturally selfless. This is not anything that "regular" people are capable of it. It takes lots of inner growth to execute because your ego runs you in so many subtle ways. Basically, if you're trying to be selfless, you're actually being selfish. So in conclusion: be mindful of your self. Don't worry about being "good".

Yes, the reprogramming your subconscious mind course. I hope to have it out in the Fall.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. So, yes! But there's more to this journey than just having an enlightenment experience. There's a whole consciousness maturation process. A mind at stage Blue or Orange or Green is likely to misinterpret enlightenment and use it dogmatically. So your aim should be to shoot for enlightenment while at the same time advancing up the Spiral stages, into Tier 2. Yes, I used the word "should".

I like this quote I read at some yogi's retreat. It said: "A Samadhi beats an orgasm every time."

@abrakamowse Yes, sometimes it's helpful to just sit in silence and not try to do anything, not try to analyze, not to to inquire, but just sit and enjoy the moment. Too much inquiry can leave you stuck in your mind. Enlightenment usually comes in a totally relaxed state, when you aren't trying. But that is only possible after 100s of hours of failed straining. The failed straining is necessary for most people. That's what creates the ultimate surrender. You cannot fake the surrender. It has to come from utter failure.

"This is no path. But only a fool doesn't walk it." That's my favorite response to this topic. Yes, there is no you. And yes, there is no way. But there is still a lot of work to be done, and if "you" don't do it, "you'll" stay ignorant.

No, you don't. The tree is already there outside the body. And you are it. There is no going outside the body. You are ALREADY outside the body! The problem is you keep telling yourself you're inside the body. Undermining that belief is all that's required here. There is nowhere to go. There is exactly what there appears to be. Nothing is hidden.

For you, I'd recommend a 6 months no TV, no videos of any kind, diet. No Youtube (except for 1 self-improvement video per week). Stop watching fucking politics! It's total poison to your mind. If you want to avoid YT altogether and still listen to the Actualized.org content, just download the audios through iTunes. Then you don't have to log into YT at all. If you do this, your life will totally transform.

You'd have to define what you mean by "intelligence". If you mean IQ above 80, then no. If you mean a certain kind of intuition for sniffing out truth, then yes.

There's also nothing you can do to win an Olympic gold medal, or to make a million dollars, or to touch the tip of your nose with your index finger. So keep it in perspective.

@Annie Here's a very direct approach to solving self-sabotage: simply be very mindful of yourself WHILE you're engaging in the self-destructive behavior. Don't stop the behavior. Do it, BUT remain aware of how it is hurting you. Don't try to stop yourself. After a while of that, the behavior should auto-correct.

Yes, walking meditation can be great. It works well after lots of sitting meditation. Walk very slowly and feel into every sensation deeply. Feel every footstep as though you're walking for the first time in your life and have no idea what a footstep is. As you walk, wonder: What is a footstep? What is that sound? What is the ground? What is weight? What is the body? Etc.

I've never heard of a seminar about life purpose. I rarely hear anyone talking about life purpose, much less about how to actually find it and realize it. Which is why the course was created. You can find stuff like biz seminars/workshops through Google.

Nothing wrong with a quality B12 vitamin supplement. Also, if you're going vegan, you still gotta watch out for eating crap. Just cause it's vegan doesn't mean it's not total crap nutritionally speaking. A vegan pizza (as pictured above) is still terrible for you.

@quantum Yellow career is covered by the life purpose course. Green or yellow friends you can find it university, meditation/consciousness retreats, seminars/workshops, etc. Yellow people tend to be intellectual. Don't be afraid to start an Orange/Green job. You can convert it into Yellow with time. You're not likely to just start with a Yellow job. Yellow is something YOU gotta bring to the table. Don't expect others to bring it to you.

You're gonna have to hit this from a lot more angles than just one video or one technique. You have to take it upon yourself to break down your whole mental model of self and reality. Question, question, question. This is not a mechanical process. It requires conscious questioning and REAL wondering.

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Yes, it's so obvious that you're missing it in plain sight. Notice that any object you perceive is actually OUT THERE, it's not literally inside you. It takes place exactly where it is, namely, out there. Which means you're out there. Otherwise, how could you have access to it at all? You have to completely throw away the standard scientific model of how perception works. That's not how perception really works. Notice that you have no awareness of rays of lights bouncing off things and entering your eye. That's a fiction. That's not actually happening. Do you literally see trees inside you? Is a tree inside you? If not, then where actually is it? What's really happening is BEing. Stuff is just BEing. The body is being. The tree is being. The voice in "your head" is being. Takes careful sitting and looking to start to notice this. Keep at it. This has nothing to do with manipulating your experience. Just observe your most ordinary experience. If the tree isn't you, how come it exists at all? For it to exist, you have to be aware of it! It's right there out side the body! So what is it if it's not you? Before you were born there was nothing. Then you came into existence and there was the whole world. When you die, you believe the entire world will end. So you already acknowledge the entire world is you to some extent. Keep investigating that. Also ask yourself why you believe you're you at all. What if you just made a mistake and got attached to a bunch of sensations called "my body & my mind" when you were born, but all of that is just one big mistake? How do you know what you are supposed to feel like? How do you know you're not supposed to look like a tree? How can you trust your frame of reference? Have you been a human before? What if a human is actually supposed to be experienced like a tree looks? Keep questioning like that. Undermine your own certainty in yourself. After all, that thing you think is you isn't actually you! It's like you were born, saw a vacuum cleaner, thought it was you, and have lived that way your whole life, not really noticing that your original selection of vacuum cleaner was totally arbitrary.