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  3. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    17 hours ago, zurew said:

    Because that means that he cant ever be wrong or self-deceived even though we have clear examples showing otherwise.

    I have never claimed that I can't be wrong or self-deceived.

    I have entire videos explaining this, and yet you still make it up otherwise.

    You see in me what you want to see, for good and for bad. If you want to hate me, you will find reasons to hate me. If you want to love me, you will find reasons to love me. As always, you are constantly constructing reality.

    It is boring to have to explain such basic things to you.

    It should be obvous to every single one of you that I could be wrong about anything. And it should be obvious that so could you.

    Now stop derailing this thread. If you are not posting about the retreat do not post here. If you want to criticize me, open a new thread.

  4. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    25 minutes ago, Gigsi said:

    Do you mean this as a universal truth that anyone can directly realize with enough consciousness work

    Yes.

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    How can i tell the difference between a universal insight and my mind’s interpretation of its own realization?

    The Universe IS your Mind.

    You have to realize that you are the final arbiter of truth. If you cannot self-validate truth then no one else can for you.

    How do you know that 1+1=2 is true? You have to take stand on it. There is no way around that.

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    Also, something I keep hearing, my girlfriend and many spiritual people seem to demonize anything that comes from “the mind”.

    1) They are stupid.

    2) They take mind as only conceptual. Mind is also the physical world.

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    But if, as you say, Mind is reality, I find it hard to see what’s truly outside of mind, or if that distinction even matters. How do you see this?

    Nonduality means all distinctions collapse. The boundary between world and mind is imaginary. All boundaries are imaginary.

    "Outside" is imagined by Mind.

    There is not anything unless you imagine it. If you imagine an outside it will seem like there is an outside.

  8. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    The point of a first date is to see if you two have chemistry. At least 50% of first date result in nothing. You are not obligated to like her.

    However, as a rule, you should always deeply scan a woman up and down immediately upon seeing her and make a binary decision whether she is attractive enough for you to sleep with. And if she isn't then don't try to date her.

    Go to a busy mall and just practice quickly making this decision on random women walking by. Practice until you get good at identifying your type of women. Don't approach them, just practice making the yes/no decision quickly.

  9. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    What you are starting to realize is that you are a cosmic Mind imagining reality.

    That is God.

    God is physical imagination. That means whatever is imagined hard enough becomes physically real. And there is no reality outside of your imagination of it.

    Mind IS reality.

    You ARE reality.

    And of course you are imagining people out of whole cloth.

  10. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    @lnfinite There isn't any kind of point other than whatever you want.

    For me the point is understanding reality. But that isn't anything normative. That's what I personally want. Most people do not want that.

    There is no normativity in Awakening. You don't have to do it. It doesn't matter whether you care about it or not. Nothing at all can matter. It does not matter what you do or how you live or of you die or if mankind dies.

    NOTHING AT ALL MATTERS.

    There is no value, no purpose, no meaning, no point, nobody, no thing.

    Is the point of life God-Realization? NO!

    But if you care about understanding reality then yes.

    You do not have to care about anything.

  12. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    41 minutes ago, VioleGrace said:

    I also don’t feel like I’m doing any deep emotional work like leo said it would induce.

    It's not guaranteed to induce it. Some people don't have the work to do.

    The best thing I do is drive around late at night in just contemplate the experiences.

    You don't need to over-complicate this. You are acting like 5-MeO is supposed to be a school teacher giving you homework assignments. That's not how it works.

  15. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    49 minutes ago, Emerald said:

    You have stated OFTEN that 'Once you get to a high enough level of development, interacting with people doesn't give you anything.' And you have called yourself "above it".

    It shows that you value solitude and isolation... and you don't value collaboration and community. And you position solitude and isolation as the thing that superior people "the adults in the room" do.

    So, even if you never say verbatim "Isolate yourself and never collaborate." there's plenty of young guys on this forum who look up to you that will go, "Leo has transcended his need for social connection and community. I want to reach the level he's at!"

    Then, they just convince themselves they don't have that need because they're trying to model themselves after you... and isolate themselves and put themselves in a more vulnerable position because of that where they're not getting those basic human needs met.

    And there's a lot of potential for further social stunting because this community echo chamber really glorifies social isolation and lauds being "above" the need for human connection. 

    Most of these young guys are already nerdy guys who struggle to socialize. The last thing they need is someone to say, "The most developed people don't even value human connection and don't have need to socialize."

    They can simply be like, "Actually, I'm not a guy who struggles with social connection. I'm just like Leo... above and beyond the need for social connection, as other people are like children compared to me!"

    So, even if I take for granted that that's not what you're doing... (which I don't, as it's clear to me that connection is a basic human need. So, I see people who say they've "transcended" the need to socialize like I see Breatharians who have apparently "transcended" the need for food)... your anti-social self-back-patting will certainly influence a lot of guys in the direction of isolation.

    Again you exaggerate what I said.

    And you ignore all the times I tell people to go out and socialize.

    If anything there is a cultural stigma against introversion, solitude, and monkhood. To even talk about being a monk automatically gets people like you coming in and saying how dangerous it is.

    I explicitly warned people not to copy me but to pursue their organic desires. I said this because I already know that people like you want to accuse me of creating isolated, socially dysfunctional men. See, I know all your tricks.