Leo Gura

@Salaam You can vibe all you want. Nothing wrong with that. Just realize it's a phenomena which is distracting you from grasping truth. Don't get seduced by pretty emotions.

@SaynotoKlaus You misunderstand the life purpose course if you think that way. It's totally open. You can & should use the course to develop whatever purpose and values you want. If you want to use it to become a professional baby killer, you can!

Imagine for a minute the depth of what you're really asking. Imagine you have no ideology what so ever. That means you have no beliefs what so ever. Here are just a few things this means: The past doesn't exist and never happened The future doesn't exist and will never happen You have zero justification for anything you do You cannot speak and make any definitive claims or rationalizations Nothing has meaning whatsoever You are not a human being or even on object Others do not exist You have no personal history or life story You were never born You cannot be motivated towards or away from anything You do not know who or what you are You have no idea what life is and what you're doing here You have no idea what will happen next Science, history, metaphysics, medicine, technology do not exist You have no laws, no morality, no governments The universe does not exist Your entire notion of life & self is completely crippled to the point where you are unable to physically function. So now you can start to appreciate why people kill over ideology. On the plus side, you'd have truth Who's down for truth? No? No takers?

@Heart of Space There is a much deeper problem with the endeavor of logical reasoning and proof. The notion of "validity" is a construct of the mind. It has no absolute nature. It's relative to an ego. Moreover, it can ONLY occur within the context of language, which is all relative and arbitrary. The mind had to construct the possibility of language before there could be the concept of "validity" or "reason". There is no such thing as validity, reason, proof, or justification. All of that is taken-for-granted arbitrary assumptions. Try to eliminate the notion of language whilst at the same time holding something as valid or invalid. It won't be possible. Those are all projections of mind.

Pneumatic Tubes? Lol What do Pneumatic Tubes have to do with personal development?

Yes! Brain = mind. No brain, no ego, no mind. But enlightenment is outside all of that! Your distinction between neurobiological and phenomenological is bogus. There is no such thing. There is only one substance: awareness. Everything else is illusions within awareness. The problem is that enlightenment might not be an idea or anything you can experiment on. It sits outside of any experiment you could possibly run or any idea you could possibly have. You can screw around with ideas and experiments for a million years, and you still will never come one step closer to enlightenment. When you say "enlightenment", what you're actually talking about is all possible existence & non-existence of reality and non-reality. P.S. Hopefully I won't have to leave

Read the Quran. And read or listen to the historical story of Muhammad. It's good stuff to the enlightened mind. The core of Islam is enlightenment. You are the infinite Allah.

You cannot recognize awareness with thought. But only with awareness. There is NOTHING more primary than awareness! You cannot reduce it to anything else. It is the rock bottom. So don't try to redefine awareness in terms of something else. Instead, redefine everything else you know in terms of awareness. Because there exists nothing else but it. Everything else you think exists is an illusion.

My pleasure. Stay with it and enjoy the work. There is nothing more meaningful you could be doing. If you've been asking the question: Who am I? You might now want to move onto the question: What am I? If you now know Who you are, what is that who? Look deeply into the matter. Nothing you see, hear, feel, or think is What you are. Become the Nothingness & infinity that you are.

Know your purpose, know your values. Trust them and stay authentic to yourself every day. That's pretty much the recipe for an awesome life. The opposite is a recipe for a disastrous life.

A few hairs on the ox's tail Good! But don't fool yourself. That ain't enlightenment yet. It goes WAY fucking deeper than that. Things you can't even imagine. There's still 1000s of hours of contemplation to do!

It seems to be a spontaneous phenomena that may arise from a mystical or religious experience. It occurs for psychedelic users sometimes, so it's not an exclusively Christian thing. There's really nothing important about it. Just a distraction from the really deep insights you should be after.

Cool. No problem as long as you're not selling them to people. Depressed, no. Anxious, a bit sometimes. Yeah, negative emotions are getting their ass kicked every day. It's like becoming Teflon-coated. Nothing sticks for very long. Many of the authors in my book list. Deep video coming about psychedelics soon.

@Christian Do both! Affirmations can easily be misused. Or they can be used well.

Yes, of course! Real enlightened people ARE both Buddha and Zorba. They enjoy life! They do not take themselves or life seriously at all. This idea of an enlightened person being an overly-serious Zen monk is a myth. It's just an excuse unenlightened people create so that they can say, "Oh, I don't want to be enlightened because it's a drag." In fact, an enlightened Zen monk will have way more personality and range of emotions than the average American.

No! That's the whole point! You do not control awareness. Try it.

No! Not nearly enough. The things you learn in the new course will totally revolutionize your life in ways you never imaged possible. You will wonder how you ever lived without it

I got a new video about psychedelics coming out soon. It will be a good one.

Those are all good questions you should sit down and ask yourself, in silent and deep contemplation. The work is done when YOU generate YOUR own answers.

@cirkussmile That sounds like something that might get you fired more than leading to a raise. A boss does not want to know all his mistakes. He wants YOU to create more value for the company. And he's not likely to view criticism of him as you adding more value to the company. Because he's of course going to get defensive. Focus on being a creator rather than a critic. If you're going to play the critic, you are best off working for yourself. Because if you supposedly know how to do everything right, then you should have no problem starting your own company and running the show. In which case, you no longer need this job. Don't forget that it's very easy to criticize. What's difficult is making shit happen.

There exists an older thread that addresses exactly this question, and people posted their opinions and experiences. Try doing a search. It was in this sub-forum.

@Mat Pav Good! Be sure to put your money where your mouth is

No, enlightenment and life purpose are synergistic when done properly.

I cannot speak to your situation. Only you can know what is best to do there.

Of course when you take away all the drug addict's drugs, he will feel a bit sad.