Leo Gura

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  1. Spiral Dynamics

    Leo Gura replied to Shane597's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    In relationships that's quite easy to gauge. Simply look at the level of drama between you two. If there is drama or lots of manipulation or lack of honest communication, then your relationships aren't very evolved.

  2. Coaching Neurotic Parents

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

    Changing family is the hardest. They're often too proud and superior to listen to "their child" lecturing them.
  3. Those who believe the world is devolving should study some history. Study the ancient Romans. Study the Mongol invasions that razed cities and slaughtered people by the millions. Study the extermination of the Native and South Americans. Study the Spanish Inquisition. Study slavery. The barbarism of those times would make modern day dictators looks like saints.
  4. Be more clear about your objectives. Are you seeking enlightenment? Or career/life success? Seems like what you need more of right now is some basic life success, not enlightenment. If you're gonna go for enlightenment using this kind of isolation and focus strategy, then ditch nonsense like games and internet. Those will screw everything up.
  5. @Matthew Lamot Man... You got a lot to learn. Some humility would do you good.

  7. Age And Wisdom

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

    Experience of course. And also emotionally reactive behaviors tend to mellow out with age. So people behave less rashly, less impulsively, and just generally chill the fuck out. So they do less stupid stuff.
  8. The real difference is that kids don't yet have an elaborate ego structure, full of dogmas and thousands of concepts. So life is much simpler and freer. No one is saying being a kid was the perfect state and that you should return to being a kid. Being a kid is a phase of development, and you're NEVER going back there. As an adult, life will be different, even if you dismantle the ego and achieve full enlightenment. But there are some lessons you can glean from looking back at childhood.
  9. @Matthew Lamot There is much more to this than mere enlightenment. Enlightenment is really the easy part. The hard part it then dissembling all the structures of the ego-mind to live in a liberated way. Becoming conscious of all the tricky ways in which the ego operates.
  10. @How to be wise Good, keep hitting your head against that wall till it breaks. (Your head I mean. Cause the wall ain't going nowhere.)
  11. @Names are labels Just be careful not to get seduced by the emotions & experiences. Expanded states of consciousness are temporary and are NOT enlightenment. Go for the TRUTH: What are you minus ALL experiences?
  12. @Grue And then the time comes to kick the weed, cause you don't need it. If you want to explore consciousness, there are much better and less addictive substances than weed. The problem with weed is that it becomes a lifestyle for many people.
  13. Consider the possibility that consciousness constructed the concepts of "brains", "chemicals", "unconsciousness", "electricity", "physical", and "matter".
  14. Meditating outside is great. It's easier to get enlightened looking at nature than sitting look at a wall. The expansiveness of nature itself will reveal God to you. It's hard to see God in a white plaster wall. I attribute my first samadhi experience to the fact that I meditated outside in a very beautiful natural place. Of course it's not necessary, but a nice bonus. I recommend doing both indoor and outdoor for variety, and so you don't develop a one-sided preference.
  15. @How to be wise The desire to use awareness to manipulate reality to become more successful just goes to show how unaware you are.
  16. This!
  17. What's so absurd about it? The self-actualized individual Maslow describes is simply an emotionally and cognitively mature human being who is growing himself. Usually not enlightened, but far beyond what most people do in life.
  18. No, Maslow was not enlightened. He merely studied people who had peak mystical experiences. It's one thing to talk about the transcendence of self, it's another thing entirely to actually transcend one's self.
  19. @30secs No, because the point of religion is to distract you from Truth. That's it's function. That's the function of all ideologies. All the major religions are already built upon enlightenment. They are the distractions unenlightened people created to avoid becoming enlightened. The only paradigm shift that can happen is you deciding to throw all ideologies away, sitting down, and discovering Truth. Everything else is a distraction.
  20. If you study early Christian mysticism it's clear that many of them pursued enlightenment (AKA God) seriously and successfully. Monks and nuns are supposed to be pursuing enlightenment. That's their sole purpose in life. And some of them attain it. But this tradition is mired in a lot of ideology and politics which tends to get in the way, so many of them don't attain it as they get lost in dogma.
  21. Yup, personality is innate. But also acquired. Every organism, whether human or not human, is unique and behaves in unique ways. It's partially genetic and partially environmental. A human being raised in an African village will have a different personality than one raised in New York city. The aim of the game is NOT to remove one's personality, but to see through the falsehood of the ego. Personality != ego.
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  23. Eckhart Tolle

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

    It's the exact same perspective. This perspective is called nonduality/enlightenment. What's really life-changing to actually experience enlightenment, not to believe in it or to think about it. Actual enlightenment will totally blow your socks off. So work towards it. You cannot do what Tolle talks about without actually experiencing enlightenment.

  24. Empty Social Life At Home

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

    Go to bars & clubs, meetup.com, Toastmasters, and other groups/organizations. It's easiest to make friends when there is a common theme or interest, like if you get involved in golf, bowling, tennis, soccer, public speaking, meeting girls, church, meditation, yoga, chess, hiking, fishing, etc.

  25. What Is A Thought?

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

    @Sky The spider is also just a sensation. It's a sensation first, and a spider only a distant second, after the mind has had a chance to interpret the sensation and give it value. In fact there is no spider there at all. All it ever is, is a sensation.