Leo Gura

Nice insight! The ego's hate is just a sort of twisted expression of love. The devil is a preversion of godliness. When you comb out all of the devil's twisted preversions, he becomes God!

Amen Emptiness is actually the most profound and "meaningful" thing possible. It's a paradox.

Actually, this is probably not true. There is a higher power working through you, even if you are full of ego. A divine intelligence is guiding you, which is why you are attracted to enlightenment in the first place. If not for this divine intelligence, there would be no hope of awakening. Your desire to be a healer is probably genuine deep down inside, it is just hampered by your lower chakra, fear-based, self-preservation instincts. What you need is simply spiritual purification, purging all of your lower chakra baggage. It is like you are a light bulb that has been covered over with so much rust and grime that only a few rays of light are radiating out. As you clean off the grime, you will shine with the infinite, eternal, unstoppable light of God. The ego will be annihilated in this light. And then you will become a great healer. But start with babysteps. This whole process will take years. You are right where you need to be. Follow your heart, it is filled with divine intelligence and will show you the way.

Opening the heart chakra is wonderful stuff, but it is not enlightenment. There are many facets of growing yourself which are great and wonderful to do, but are not enlightenment.

@Phill Some of us know what death is, because we have died What you seek and don't know it yet, is AWAKENING. When you understand fully what reality is, you understand what death is. Death does not exist.

@phoenix666 The pursuit of meaning becomes a very sneaky high-level trap. The search for meaning is directly the avoidance of emptiness. Because in truth, all meaning is illusion, and BEING is meaningless. The ego hates this. But the good news is, once the ego is shattered and total nonduality dawns, you will relaize that BEING is far more profound and superior to meaning. BEING is what you see on psychedelics. Now imagine if your whole life was like that. Your life would be so empty, it is infinitely full. And from this position of total selflessness, you can do anything and help anyone with ease and joy. Your intention to help people is great, you're just going about it too shallowly. If you really want to help people, awakening should be your top priority.

Why is it Leo's obession? Lol You guys really gotta look into this thing called projection.

@phoenix666 Your issue here isn't addiction per se, it's just an unconscious, highly socially-conditioned lifestyle. You are stuck in the rat race. So of course stress would be normal with that. Your entire lifestyle is materialistic and fear-based. That's understandable. You are just trying to survive. But it isn't how you would choose to live if you became deeply conscious of what reality is. I am not saying to drop everything and quit. I am just saying that as you become more conscious, your lifestyle will change to be slower, less forced, more healthy. And then the stress will be less of an issue. Underlying this entire pursuit of survival is a deep sense of inadequacy and fear of emptiness and death. All of that seems like it's normal and "just how life has to be", but that isn't true. You can learn to live conscious and healthy. But explaining how is too much for a forum post. That requires a lot of research and trail and error to figure out.

Oh, some fun gossip about David Deida. I once went on a date with Tony Robbin's copywriter. She knew all the dirty secrets. She told me that Tony Robbins had to physically kick David Deida off his cruise ship because he was getting handsy with Tony's wife. Lol Oh the delicious irony of it all...

That's only because they don't know how to use them properly. I have successfully use psychedelics to become conscious of every facet of nonduality. Total nonduality, beyond anything humanly imaginable. So much nonduality, that I see most enlightened masters now as not fully realized. David Deida, for example, is not fully realized.

That's like being a tyrant and asking yourself: Why the fuck would I want to stop being a tyrant?

Well, you are experiencing it. You're unconscious of what you're experiencing, but you are experiencing something. So then you got nothing left to do but kick back and enjoy your pina colada at the beach. You have no interest in Truth. You will live and die in delusion. Enlightenment is the realization that you have always been dead. No one was born. Nothing is happening. The confusion about this comes from that idea you have of death as being "lights out." That is not death. That is your materialist idea of death, which turns out to be wrong. Death cannot make sense from the materialist paradigm. It only makes sense once you're dead. No self = death The Buddha was a man who sat under a tree and meditated for so long that he died. But then his body kept on living and teaching for another 40 years. How that is possible you cannot understand so long as you are alive. To awaken, is to awake up from life, in the same way that you can wake up from a bad dream to realize it wasn't ever real. See my video: Life Is A Dream

@phoenix666 But look deeper. Why can you not just still comfortably with the stress? Why are you running away from it? Notice that if you sit down with any negative feeling, there will be a kind of agitation there, and it will feel "lonely" for lack of a better word, facing it. Just having a bunch of stress in your life is not the same thing as addiction. If you just have lots of stress, that's already a symptom of some deeper problem in your life, and chances are really good that that deeper problem is only a problem because you are afraid of facing emptiness. Example: You are stressed about finishing all your school work because deep down you are afraid of failing school and ending up with nothing -- AKA emptiness. Example: You are stressed about pleasing your husband because deep down you are afraid that otherwise he will leave you, and you will end up all alone -- AKA emptiness.

Yes, but behind this stress is something even more real: emptiness! You can't stand stress because it feels too bleak and empty to face all alone, so you want a companion for that emptiness. The reason it's hard to tolerate that stress very mindfully is because there is an emptiness to it. The mind is always looking for movement and agitation because otherwise the stillness is too much to bear. It's too "real". So you seek escape from the suffering of emptiness into pleasant emotions. Because your mind is addicted to stimulation. The value of understanding a problem at its root is that you stab the hydra in the heart rather than merely chopping off one of its many heads.

Guys, careful not to treat Kriya yoga as a quick enlightenment fix. That's not at all how it works. You need to be in this for the long-haul. Questions such as: "Do you see a light yet at your 3rd eye?" are the totally wrong attitude.

@Applejuice Those are all great questions. The only way you can find out is by doing your own personal investigation with direct experience. No matter what anyone tells you, it will just be hearsay and stories from your perspective until you directly experience it for yourself. If you are serious about exploring the outer limits of reality, you should watch my episodes about epistemology very carefully and apply the principles taught there. The #1 principle to all serious investigation of reality is: be radically open minded to anything and everything. Don't judge. Seek to verify every claim with personal direct experience. You'd be amazed at how far that one principle can take you, if you bother to apply it seriously, and you are genuinely curious to know the TRUTH. Asking about such things on an online forum, or debating such things with people, shows a lack of seriousness and a gross underestimation of the nuances and complexities of reality. It's okay to ask, but don't expect any serious resolution of your existential questions via an online forum. The things you are asking about cannot be spoken of or even thought about in many cases. You need to start to appreciate the depth of this communication gap. You can start by reading all of the 5-star rated books on my book list -- especially in the Consciousness, Epistemology, and Paranormal categories. That will give you an good theoretical foundation to follow up on with direct experience. To answer all of your questions will probably require 10-20 years of serious spiritual practices. Just so you understand the depth of what you're asking about.

An additional point of clarification: Some of you guys pounce on each new technique I share as though it was the silver bullet to solve all of your problems. That is the wrong attitude. Doing a self-help technique once or twice and expecting something miraculous to happen is the wrong attitude. I never said that this technique will produce enlightenment. That is not its goal. This technique is not a replacement for meditation, yoga, or self-inquiry. Deep psychotherapy can take years and costs tens of thousands of dollars. So if this technique can speed up that process by even a factor of 2x, all in the comfort of your own home, that would a huge thing.

Maybe you care about understanding what reality is. That would require your death.

Then how do you explain that Sadhguru and Peter Ralston both have daughters? And Shyama Lahiri (founder for Kriya yoga) was a householder with kids? Careful with making broad-sweeping narratives about enlightened people. It tends to be as problematic as making general statements about any group of people (black, white, Asian, gay, women, etc).

Drinking urine, AKA drinking Budweiser.

@WildeChilde Both ways work well. Eyes closed is great when you want to focus on labeling sounds or body sensations or thoughts.

@JustinS Hehe... amen

@0ne Because you are an illusion. And your very life depends upon you not realizing it. You're not yet fully appreciating the significance of breaking this illusion. We are talking about breaking reality and the end of life.

Not necessarily one place. And different techniques resonate for some while not for others. What happens when you get stuck with only one technique in your toolbox?

Who's to judge what is and isn't earned? You think your "hard work" is of your own doing??? You think somehow it isn't a gift from God? You think you stumbling upon yoga or meditation was your own doing and not a gift given to you? Such egotism! Be careful acting as though you have a choice in how things unfold. You don't. "Earned" vs "unearned" is an egoic notion. Everything is the manifestation of Infinity and could not be otherwise. Be grateful for any higher consciousness you come across, however it comes to you. Otherwise, it's like you're spitting in the face of God for giving you a gift. (Of course, you're free to do that too.) P.S. While you're at it, you may as well stop meditation, self-inquiry, and yoga, because those are also "unearned". You stole those techniques from other people who invented them the hard way. You are just riding on their coattails like a lazy bum, looking for a shortcut to God, too weak-willed to carve a unique path through the jungle of delusion for yourself Your entire life is unearned.