Leo Gura

@AleksM Okay, once again I have reactivated the old system. Hurry up. This is your last chance guys.

The forum is getting a little bit of improvements. The biggest of which is a new bookmarking system. The old bookmarking tool was quite bugged. I'm not sure if anyone used it. The new bookmarking tool looks very similar, but has no bugs and gives you additional options. To bookmark a post, click the "Bookmark" text link under any post. You will then have options for categorizing your bookmark, adding notes, and the option to make your bookmarks public or private. All your bookmarks are stored under: Your Username >> My Bookmarks People can see a list of your publicly visible bookmarks on your profile page. P.S. The old bookmarking system has been removed, killing any bookmarks you may have made. If you had any important bookmarks there which you really want back, I can temporarily re-active the old system for you to transfer your old stuff. I'm not sure how many people were using it. So let me know if you really need it back. If I reactivate the old system, you will then have about 1 week to transfer any bookmarks you want, after which point it will be gone forever. The new system is much better. I'm excited to have folks using it. Notice 11/21/2017: The new bookmarking system has been temporary deactivated so that people can retrieve info from the old system. DO NOT make any new bookmarks right now, because this is the old system. Notice 11/23/2017: The new bookmarking system has been re-activated. Notice 11/24/2017: Once again the old system has been reactivated so people can save all their old bookmarks. This is your last chance. The old and new system look similar on the surface. How you can tell them apart is: the old system's bookmarks are stored in: Your Username >> Bookmarks while the new system's bookmarks are stored in: Your Username >> My Bookmarks

I have described it to death. But what good did that do you?

@The White Belt By your silly logic enlightenment would be impossible because there would always have to be someone who discovers it first, without any teachers or books.

Okay, the new bookmarking system has been re-activated.

@Mr Being Can't you have that discussion in the Life Purpose sub-forum? Just try to have it without posting course content. Many people have been asking questions there without revealing too much.

Here's a good-looking course on Sacred Geometry by a Freemason: http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/sacred-geometry-classeslevels-1-3 Someone try it and post a review.

Of course. For most people there is no way at all. Which is why so few are enlightened. If suffering is your path, that's fine with me.

Yes, of course. Infinity plays the role of many fools. It's hard to create a universe without fools. God himself couldn't do it

On his deathbed the Buddha said: "Listen closely my disciples. I have strived so hard to overcome death, but I have failed, because I did not have access to internet."

@egoless You are over-generalizing. I bet you haven't even met 5 enlightened people in your life. Rather than speculating about nonsense, go do the work. This sloppy way of thinking and speculating about reality is the whole problem. You are wrapped up in mental fictions.

A fool will only learn through suffering. The reason most people do anything is because they want to escape suffering. Anything from losing wieght to buying a new computer. The key to life is to be conscious enough to motivate yourself into action without life having to kick you in the ass. I was never depressed. I do this work because it's the most beautiful thing to do. For me, understanding reality is the greatest reward of being alive. Nothing else compares. And this has nothing to do with escaping suffering. You need to learn how to change from negative to positive motivation. Otherwise your life will be miserable and mediocre. Doing the bare minimum is not how life ought to be lived. Living to escape suffering is just so boring. If that was my life, I would rather kill myself. You have this INFINITE creation to take part in, and all you can imagine to do is live to escape suffering???

I would never be accepted in the scientific community. I would be called a psuedo-scientific, creationist quack who is trying to use science to backwards-rationalize his religious dogmas. That's not a game that can be won in that way.

Stop all this nonsense and go self-inquire. You're wasting time.

@Nahm What's interesting about Life Below Zero is that even though those people live isolated, their lives are basically identical to the average mediocre lifestyle: 24/7 survival mode. Surviving in NY or in Alaska is the exact same fundamental thing. Survival is relentless, no matter where and how you do it. Those people are still clueless about nonduality. Yes, being out in nature is nice and refreshing, but nonduality is far superior, and it doesn't matter where you do it. You can do it in a giant city.

@AleksM However you like. You can maybe just save the URLs? The new bookmarking system will have XML export of bookmarks, so that in the future you can download all your bookmarks easily.

Mainstream science is a cultural construct. That's what I'm talking about. Of course individual scientists can vary from the average. Yes, of course there are a handful of wise scientists around. Although surprising few. Even David Bohm didn't really grasp it. I know of very few scientists who really understand the nature of reality, metaphysics, or epistemology. Science is simply NOT that kind of activity. Science's focus is elsewhere.

I don't even recall what I said in that episode. I shoot and write down so many insights they are impossible to remember logically. Everything gets integrated into my mind, but I can't necessarily recall it in an instant on demand. Yes, I'm sure many more things could be added to that list. All my lists are just tips of the iceberg usually. I could make those lists 100 items long, but the videos are long enough already. Always. All my advice is to my current self, past self, or future self. I am not above you guys. What you see in the videos is just my thought process, which is always evolving. Every video I shoot becomes outdated the very next day for me, because just by shooting it and reading your guys comments, I already discover my errors and ignorance on the subject, deepening and refining my prior insights. We shall see how things unfold. I am just a vehicle of infinite intelligence. I will do what it beckons me to do. Sure, if that helps you feel warm and fuzzy After enlightenment your genitals wither away Currently my morning routine is nothing fancy. I'll probably improve it in the future and post a video about it. Psychedelics & contemplation. Of course it's a good idea. You will go super-deep. It's really the only way one should trip. And my "meditate" I simply mean: sit and observe without moving. No techniques. Just be conscious and fully alert without distractions. I listen to and read everything under the sun, from nonduality to evolutionary theory to brain science to cosmology. I have dozens of favorite teachers, but I am loyal to none of them. I'm sort of a nonduality slut Not very deeply. I don't see the point of getting deep into the scriptures and such. That would be a distraction. A general understanding is good enough for our purposes here. You can easily waste years studying that stuff without actually becoming conscious of what is being talked about. Yes, I would like to do a dark room retreat at some point. Hard to find the time. I have done float tank once. I didn't find it helpful. In the time it takes me to drive there and shower, I can already be tripping balls at home. Noises and sensations are not something that bothers me in meditation. They are all good things to meditate upon. If anything, I find the float tank to be a distraction because of the weird sensation of being in this foreign capsule of salty water. I don't see the point of it. Yes, I do want to travel to India at some point.

@Monkey-man That's probably an authentic indicator of your LP. The problem is that you're going about it wrong. The desire is genuine and good, but preaching to friends and family is an ineffective strategy. You don't want to teach to people who don't care about your teaching. You want to teach to people who are primed and care deeply. So then the issue becomes: How do I find those people? And that's where you sit down and strategize like a motherfucker to find them. None of my friends or family care about enlightenment or personal development. I don't preach to them. I preach to you guys. There are millions of people who will listen. But you have to get off your lazy ass and find them. Don't expect them to just land in your lap. A teacher is a leader. You lead by sharing a better vision of the world with people until they buy into it. For that, you need a better vision. See my How To Be A Leader video. And as a leader, you will have to work very hard before you get people listening to you. You have to offer something a great value. Which is where a clear sense of life purpose comes in. You will not get far in this project unless you're clear that it's your life purpose. Because the work will be too great. The only way to survive the work is to have a sense of mission about it. For me, teaching is my LIFE's mission. It's not a question of, will anyone listen? It's a matter of: I will do this even if it kills me. With this kind of attitude, you will find a way to get your message heard. If you're just toying around, it won't happen. You're not going to become a popular teacher by accident.

@Parki I warned you not to take Iboga. Why don't people listen??

FYI, those of you who I see keep arguing this notion: "If you say you're enlightened then by definition you're not enlightened because an enlightened being would never say such a thing." are wrong. You're confusing humility with truth. Saying you're enlightened is no different than saying that you understand that 1+1=2. You either understand it or you don't. If you do, there is no problem saying, "I understand that 1+1=2." Now of course it would be silly to run around the street shouting at people, "I UNDERSTAND 1+1=2!!!!! I AM SPECIAL!" If you did that, that would be a sign of something being off about you. But there is no problem to admit you understand 1+1=2. One who is enlightened knows he is enlightened. He doesn't need to be humble with himself. Knowing you're enlightened isn't egotistical. It's just a consequence of enlightenment. Of course, with all that said, just because someone thinks or says they are enlightened, doesn't mean they are. They could easily be fooling themselves. But one thing I would suggest you guys do is stop debating who is or isn't enlightened. It's just not a good thing to debate because the only one you can really be sure about is yourself. And if you're debating about other people's enlightenments, well... that a pretty good sign that not only are you not enlightened, you're a newb. You cannot truly know whether someone else understands that 1+1=2. But you can certainly know if you do. It's not rocket science. Don't get caught up on the uses of the word "you" here. This is a just a function of our dualistic language. Of course there is no "who" who knows. The reason that gurus don't announce: I AM ENLIGHTENED! is because: A) they don't really need to, B) it tends to create the notion in their follower's minds that enlightenment is just another trophy for the ego to grab, when in fact enlightenment is just the realization that there is no ego. And FYI, Jesus, The Buddha, and many other mystics have said they are enlightened. Just using a different phrasing than "I am enlightened". That is just a modern English phrase. So by your logic, they were all not enlightened. Which is just silly.

You guys are underestimating the HUGE role that culture plays in all this. The reason such things perplex newbies is because they don't grasp yet that all their morals and standards are arbitrarily set by the culture and era in which they live. You think smoking or murder is bad. In reality, nothing is bad. You still have yet to grasp the sigificance of that. After a recent deep enlightenment experience, I actually started caring LESS about damaging my body, because I look forward to my death, because I know death is the most wonderful thing there is. See, the ego turns everything inside out, upside down. A lot of healthy behaviors are actually cultural and egotistical. Many people go to the gym because deep down they are really scared of death.

@AleksM Yes, the paradoxes will be addressed. I have a juicy topic already lined up on things going full-circle. It's a really profound and beautiful topic which I've been collecting deep insights on.

@Monkey-man Sadhguru is not contradicting what I said. Yes, in a sense, when you are max conscious (enlightenment) you have max control over your mind and body. You have to understand that the same words are being used in different ways to make the same basic point. Consciousness makes you aware of how infinite intelligence courses through your body and mind and causes everything you do. At that point, you literally are God controlling the body like a puppet, and you're conscious of it (unlike now). But in another sense, you still have no free will, because you understand that the entire universe inter-causes itself. Every molecule in existence is acting on you. And at the same time, you ARE every molecule.

Haha, nice try. But you've only scratched the surface of things bud. Keep contemplating. Inner/outer is a duality. All dualities are illusory. I have a very firm grasp of the relative vs absolute. I speak of many relative truths. But from the absolute perspective, realtive/absolute is also an illusory duality. You have yet to fathom the degree to which the mind contructs reality. One day, you may discover that it does so totally. You are misunderstanding Ken Wilber. Him and I are not in disagreement. He is just making a different point. What I am talking about isn't Green or Yellow or even Terquoise. It is his ultimate stage: Clear, Absolute, Nondual. At this level, Spiral Dynamics completely breaks down. All of existence collapses. There is only infinity. Wilber's quadrants are relative conceptual distinctions which ultimately all collapse. Don't take his quadrants as some ultimate metaphysics. There are no quadrants within consciousness. That is just a handy conceptual tool for talking about what we call "ordinary phyiscal reality". Wilber wrote a book called No Boundary. You have yet to understand what "no boundary" actually means. It's fucking unbelievable. The physical universe does not actually exist. But it is convenient to speak of it as-though it did, because most people have never experienced nonduality.