Leo Gura

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  1. @Svartsaft Some more meditation would purify you of this reaction against meditation
  2. @Martin123 Growth involves change. That's what you're seeing. So don't be too surprised. With growth comes confusion and not-knowing. Get used to not having that comfortable feeling of "I understand reality and my role in it." That turned out to be a lie.

  3. 5-meo-dmt Video

    Leo Gura replied to cirkussmile's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    No, no, no! You have no idea yet that what you call "reality" and "your life" are all just silly hallucinations. You have no idea yet how powerful 5-meo is. It's beyond any experience and anything you think is possible for reality to be. The bottom line is you will NEVER, EVER understand unless you try it. And if you ever do try it, you will instantly understand why people dedicate their entire lives to walking the hard path.
  4. Yes, enlightenment and generally personal development is about getting out of your left-brain dominance. Especially for those of us in the West who've been indoctrinated into a left-brained culture. I'll be talking a lot more about this in the future. It's an extremely important and practice piece of information. We can actually use this knowledge to re-program the brain and trigger more enlightenment experiences and raise our consciousness.
  5. @vikisss1 What is Spiral Dynamics? It's a model that traces the development or evolution of consciousness.
  6. Folks, please remember to keep your posts thoughtful, non-personal, and avoid turning this discussion into an ideological debate. Otherwise this thread may end up getting locked.
  7. This is an emotionally charged topic for many. Folks, please remember to keep your posts thoughtful, non-personal, and avoid turning this discussion into an ideological debate. Otherwise this thread may end up getting locked.
  8. @Shan You can discuss in the "Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship" sub-forum here. Just try to avoid posting material directly from the course.
  9. @Martin123 You can swallow, lol.
  10. Yes, nihilism is a good counter-point. Several problems may arise however: 1) Confusing nihilism with reality or the nondual point of view. Giving people the wrong impression and leading them to think that nonduality is a philosophical position. 2) Have you actually thought through the radical implications of nihilism? Really think it through. Try to actually embody it. 3) Many people are turned off by it, so it's not good from the perspective of marketing.
  11. @Aamir King Why do you think SDS is so effective? You should be smart enough to realize that it's because it's emotionally hard as fuck. NO MOVEMENT AT ALL! You sit there until your head explodes in agony. It's gonna feel like full on torture. If you have circulation problems, just sit in a chair with legs uncrossed. Try sitting in a chair without moving for 2 hours. Your mind will come up with every excuse and fear in the book to get you to quit prematurely. Your job is to not get tricked by it. If you don't like this, then switch to a less hardcore technique. There are many softer techniques. SDS is really for masochists. FYI, some Zen monks can sit like that for 5 DAYS STRAIGHT! So whatever problems you think you have during a 1 or 2 hour sit are laughable.
  12. Again, there is more to enlightenment than enlightenment. You sure are insistent on bashing everything with your one hammer. And be careful about assuming who's experience here is more limited.
  13. @GTITurbolover "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." That's why it doesn't make logical sense to you. But actually, what's illogical is boiling down all of life and reality to a simple-minded, one-dimensional thing. Enlightenment and spirituality is VASTLY more complex and nuanced than you ever imagined. As it ought to be, given that we're talking about the nature of an infinite reality and how to navigate it masterfully. If this topic was so cut-and-dry and one-dimensional, there wouldn't exist the enormous diversity and complexity found in all mystical and spiritual traditions around the world. You haven't studied enough diverse perspectives yet on spirituality. Which is why I warn people to be openminded and to never become loyal to any one teaching or teacher. You will develop a lopsided understanding of reality if you do that. Even if you manage to attain enlightenment.
  14. Like I said, their enlightenment isn't very deep, and there's A LOT more to this than merely enlightenment.
  15. This is not true. Enlightenment isn't nihilism. If anything, an enlightened person cares MORE about what's going on in the world because they have compassion and love, and understand the nature of ignorance and suffering. It's possible to deeply care, but in a detached -- non-egoic -- way. If you can't look at a small homeless crippled child and cry, your enlightenment isn't very deep. And if you don't care about anything or anyone, then your enlightenment has gone really awry.
  16. When you awaken, you will laugh at this. The person you have now (you) is so much smaller than the person you will be (You). Hang in there and as the suffering arises on this path, try to enjoy it. Nothing is really being lost. Just illusions falling away.
  17. That's what happens when the mind is closed. A sad, sad thing.
  18. Yes, but not in the way that you imagine. The craving has to be spiritually purified rather than suppressed. Also notice that being a horny dog isn't too psychologically healthy.
  19. You get a thrill out of having an ego too. Does that stop you from suffering? Drug addicts get a thrill out of heroin. Sex addicts get a thrill out of sex. Money addicts get a thrill out of money. But at what cost? Be careful trying to gauge a celebrity's happiness level from the outside. Imagining being someone else always appears more fulfilling than it would actually be if you became them, because you only imagine the material surface, not the emotional reality.
  20. So, this here is generally the trap of materialism. Which is... buying into the idea that external circumstances can fulfill you. It's really hard to overcome this intellectually. What you can do is try to live out materialism and see that it never actually succeeds. For example, you can go be in 10 relationships and realize that it's still not really what you're seeking. Also you can try contemplating this question: "How will having abundant deep relationships change -- in any way -- the present moment?" If you contemplate that, you should realize that it won't. You'll still be left with only the present moment. And the present moment is always empty, no matter how much you try to fill it with "stuff". The "stuff" is always temporary.
  21. @BeginnerActualizer Although animals don't have a human-like ego, they still have a sense of self. Without a sense of self, the body could not survive. Fundamentally, organisms must differentiate successfully between self and environment. An animal is an organism. An organism is a self-survival machine. That's it's job: to survive. So of course it would instinctively avoid death. Notice though, that animals fear death in a much different way than humans. They fear death only when their lives are directly threatened. So it's part of an immediate survival response. Whereas most humans fear death conceptually by creating fantasies, stories, and worry. Animals don't worry about death. They just avoid it.

  22. Self Manipulation Necessarily Bad?

    Leo Gura replied to Sprinkles's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    It's bad when you do it unwittingly to escape reality or your emotions (which is almost always the case for you). You pay for it 100 fold in ways you don't even know yet.
  23. I wouldn't get too sucked into Gurdjieff's teachings. They are not nearly as effective as more modern teachings if what you're after is enlightenment. Jumping around different teachings is fine, as long as you're jumping between great, direct teachings. And if you seek esoteric powers, that's a whole nother rabbit hole.
  24. The entire self-inquiry process is a process of radically opening yourself up to not-knowing anything. You basically sit down and say, "Okay, let's assume everything I think I know is wrong. Now what is absolutely true?"
  25. @SamEuphoria93 A) Self-inquiry is not meditation. B) Self-inquiry will aggravate you more than anything else. That's it's job!