Leo Gura

Acceptance is one thing. Ending your formed life is entirely another.

Of course these are huge decisions which severely limit and shape your whole life. You mus be very intelligent in making these decisions, which is where most people screw up.

Authenticity in the domain of politics is a very loaded and tricky notion. No politician is allowed to be truly authentic, otherwise they would never get elected and the public would turn on them. Politics is not a domain for authenticity, honesty, and truth because the entire political system is built on lies, fantasies, and corruption. Look at cases where politicians accidentally let slip something truly honest. They are crucified for it by their political opponents. You can't be truthful in politics because your political opponents will immediately weaponize it against you to kick you out of power.

That pure formlessness is not a permanent state since you are alive. That's what being alive means: you have all sorts of forms happening to you. You are alive. To be alive is to be dreaming. To be alive is to be committed to dreaming. Even "enlightened" people are dreaming.

There is some suffering from not finding the right woman. But also that suffering is self-created. Most of that suffering comes from buying into the idea that you need a woman. It much depends on what you want out of life. Obviously if you want a family, if you want socialization, if you are extroverted, then you will suffer more from not having those things. This depends on your personality type. I am not actively dating, but if it lands in my lap I will not say no. I don't invest time into pursuing women at this point. This of course means I barely get women. But I might invest time into that in the future. My prioritizes change every year. Right now women are not my priority. The reason I don't invest time in pursuing women now is because it holds less meaning for me than it used to. It's very obvious to me that no woman will ever satisfy me. I've sort of deconstructed the fantasy/illusion of women. It is clear that they are just cheese in a rat maze. I still desire them, but I am also disillusioned with them. I am not opposed to relationships but I also don't spend much time dreaming for them. - - - - - - - None of this is to say you guys should copy me. I encourage you all to go burn through your karma and pursue your natural desires until you exhaust them. Don't try to act like a monk when you are full of unsatisfied desires. Being a monk should come organically, not be forced. Monk mode comes organically later in life once you've played out all the human games.

It depends. Both possibilities exist. If you go into the formlessness very deeply eventually you will reach a point of complete annihilation where there is not even bliss, love, orgasm, or anything -- just a total blank. It is such a high degree of Unity that you can't even call it Unity. It is so united that it has no distinct qualities. It is Unity but you cannot call or think it "Unity". It is Love but it is a Love too deep to even be called "Love". Just to think of reality as "Love" or "Unity" already requires a degree of separation and form. If you have complete formlessness you cannot even regard it as "formless", because "formless" is a form. However, you can also be conscious of formlessness while being in a state of form. You can think formlessness. You can comprehend it as Love. So there are multiple ways here. The common mistake is to try to reduce it to just one way. That's the error of the Buddhists.

What do you mean by "it"? The most advanced understanding of Consciousness cannot be modeled. Human growth can be somewhat modeled and that's what Wilber has done. I am at a point in my understanding that I don't use models to understand Consciousness.

Of course it matters. But you won't know which is best for you until you try. 4-AcO-DMT should be top of your list to try. It is the most potent of them.

You are asking for something impossible. Ken Wilber's insistence on mapping and modeling eventually becomes the biggest weakness in his work.

No, God is Good and God is Love. People are wrong and God is right.

His FreeTours made him tons of money. They were a vehicle for selling bootcamps. Bootcamps are like free money.

And the skunk thinks his smell is actually quite pleasant and beneficial for the world.

Because that's what lower consciousness creates. And God isn't just high consciousness, its the entire gamut of Consciousness. God holds space for all lower forms of consciousness. The lower the consciousness the more sadistic it is. Sadism is part of Consciousness.

Obviously the guys in the dating subforum should not be thinking about this. But being a monk is about being above society. The popular concepts of monks has been so watered down and misunderstood. Why do monks become monks? Because they finally realize that mainstream society is a madhouse of perverts and fools. But see, mainstream culture never tells you this. It acts as though monks are just these kinds, nice guys so never judge. No! Monks judge that you are totally full of shit and you are diseased perverts. But see, mainstream culture can never admit this about itself. Christians are so stupid they don't even understand that Jesus was a monk, why? Because he understood that the lifestyle of religous people is a disease. When you become deeply conscious you realize that mainstream society is a cancer.

But you compartmentalize in your mind the existence of your state from the ethnic cleansing needed to create it and also sustain it. Why noth both? Because the injustice from the taking of the land has created a hatred for you that will not die and will not give you peace in your nation. You expect the taking of the land to just be forgiven and forgotten, but that's not how humans work. Not to even mention that your top political leadership wants even more land and they run the show, not you.

You can be around normies as long as you don't have to live by their corrupt ways. But if you are too close to them long enough they will rope you into their corrupt ways. Which is why the wise live at a safe distance. Sick people always rope you into their sickness because they do not know health.

Pain is a form. Formlessness has nothing in it. Obviously there cannot be any pain in God's purest state. The annihilation of form is how absolute purity is acheived. Nothing negative or bad can exist if nothing specific exists. All evil is specific. Absolute Good is nonspecific.

Yes. You will be just Truth/Existence without any content. You do not need to lose perception, you can just become conscious that all perception is occurring within Truth/Existence. Truth/Existence is the emptiness you are refering to. You are refering to the conditon of Truth. Truth exists regardless of content or form. If you eliminate all perception and the entire universe, what would remain is just empty Truth. What you haven't understood yet is that what you call perception or awarenss is about the condition of Truth. Truth exists at all times. Truth is what illuminates perception and gives awareness. Awareness is not what humans think it is. It's just Truth. Truth is everpresent. Truth is Absolute.

God is unbiased in the formless sense. But if God is incarnated as a living organism then it is biased against pain. God can have biases, but that means God is taking on some finite form. God wears many masks. Each mask is a bias. God can be unbiased but then God is wearing no mask and then God cannot be seen. If you want total nonbias then you have to accept total formlessness.

Corruption is not a moral issue, it is an issue of lack of consciousness and untruthfulness. Everything is Good from God's POV. Not from the human POV. Politics is discussed from the human POV. Corruption is a problem for humans.

I was reading detailed accounts of how Saddam Hussein's secret police would torture prisons. They would take the prisoner's small children, lock the children in a room with a glass window, throw in a hive of bees, and force the parents to watch through the window as the children ran around screaming while the bees stung them to death. If you think you understand suffering, think again.

What you're missing is that if you have no self then literally there is no bad. Bad only exists for an attached self. God is so conscious that bad cannot exist from its POV. You're still looking at things from a selfish POV, which is why you are confused by it. Bad does not exist for a rock.

Of course! I posted about this on my blog years ago.

The logic here is much more existential. Israelis literally need to kick Palestinians off the land in order to have a Jewish nation. It is critical to understand that for understanding this conflict. It is a zero-sum game for them. Israel cannot exist without ethnic cleansing. Once you buy into the idea that Israel needs to exist, you accept the ethnic cleansing project.

It is easy to be authentic when you hold no power and no responsiblity. Venting online is very authentic. But it's a freedom people in positions of responsibility and power mostly do not have.