Leo Gura

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  1. Posted

    Well what do you think will happen when you're dead? You think love, gratitude, humor will exist? They will be gone forever. Just like when you go sleep each night, the entire world disappears. And it's not depressing at all. It's peaceful. Absolute peace. It's only depressing when seeing through the filter of ego. The problem is you've been avoiding contemplating death. You're distracting yourself. You're not facing it. And the truth is that it's coming. It will happen before you know it. So you might as well face up to it.

    But also, whatever genuine gratitude or love is currently in you, is not of the ego. It is of the Nothingness that you really are. Ego only limits it. Notice how you killed off the love and gratitude you were feeling at the breakfast table by activating ego. The ego got lost in thought stories and so the love was replaced with fear, confusion, and depression.

    When ego is seen-through, gratitude and love are the default states until the body dies.

    The real question is: How can unenlightened people laugh, love and be grateful?

    And the answer is: They can't! Not really. Because they have to spend every waking minute of their life worrying about protecting the ego from death.

  2. Posted

    Do not look for mainstream scientific backing for such methodologies. Science is lagging 100 years behind. It will take a while for them to catch up.

    Wikipedia is NOT a reliable resource for verifying the validity of self-help techniques. You're taking the scientific method totally for granted here. Scientific studies are expensive to do. They are rarely done unless there is commercial viability behind it or it's part of the mainstream academic agenda.

    A lack of studies does NOT mean you can conclude that the un-studied topic is bunk.

  4. Posted

    The illusion of ego is more than just thoughts. If it were only thoughts, it would be easy to stop.

    The ego is a mixture of verbal thoughts + visual thoughts + body sensations + emotions + deeply held and unconscious existential assumptions. Imagine all that stuff super-glued together, then covered in rubber cement, then coated with 10 layers of paint and 10 layers of glossy varnish and 5 kinds of glitter, then feathers, inside a gift box, inside plastic wrap, inside a shopping bag.

    That is a more realistic picture of ego.

    Your job is to sort that whole mess out into its separate components.

  7. Posted

    12 hours ago, Rashad said:

    When and how did you discover Enlightenment?

     

    Already answered.

    2 hours ago, Lorcan said:

    What point in your life did you feel the most lost and had no idea what you were going to do with your life.

    When I was considering quitting my game design career in Boston. Hated that city, hated that situation. Almost became a criminal to break free. Almost.

  8. Posted

    16 hours ago, Tariq said:

    I'm pretty sure that the islamic ideology doesn't correspond with that.

    According to the quran, a human being is completely different from god himself, he was made from clay and that clay was itself made from nothing, not some part of god.

    did I miss anything ?

     

    God is Nothing.

    You gotta learn how to read between the lines of religious teachings and sayings. It's all metaphor for reality. Don't get lost in the details and images.

    A wise person can read the Quran and use it to get enlightened. A fool will read the Quran and entrench himself only deeper in foolishness.

  11. Posted

    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? ;)

  12. Posted

    @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.

  14. Posted

    On 4/14/2016 at 11:26 AM, Flower said:

    Yes, But does this not assume that brain= mind, so that ego is situated in brain structure?

    So does ego exist only at the neurobiological level, what about the phenomenological aspects of ego?

    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.

    On 4/15/2016 at 9:10 PM, MarkusR said:

    @Leo Gura Well, since it is my passion I may as well join the scientific conquest to come into contact with this fact. It is not that I am waiting for science to prove enlightenment it for me, but to realize it as well  as bring it forth into science with my own ideas and experiments. (hopefully)

    P.S

    Leo this forum was an awesome idea! The entire community is amazing. If you ever decide to leave for your own reasons I think we would all appreciate if atleast this forum were kept alive, maybe hiring someone else to run this place while you are gone. :)

    P.s P.s

    It would be cool to think that after a while you would probably become some sort of urban myth or legend in this community.

    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 ;)

  16. Posted

    26 minutes ago, JustinS said:

    @Leo Gura

    Do you mean we cannot control awareness but only to recognize (with thought) our already full timeless awareness. 

    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.

  17. Posted

    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.

  20. Posted

    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.

  21. Posted

    On 7/25/2016 at 1:23 AM, 30secs said:

    @Leo Gura

    I'm your big fan, I printed a logo Actualized.org on my black t-shirt, is it okay to you? if not, just tell me then i'll throw it away:)

    Cool. No problem as long as you're not selling them to people.

    On 7/25/2016 at 11:59 AM, Growf said:

    Do you still get depressed and/or anxious? Is it easier to deal with it now that you're on the path of self actualization?

    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.

    On 7/25/2016 at 1:31 PM, Richard Alpert said:

    People you follow / admire / respect?

    Many of the authors in my book list.

    7 hours ago, Growf said:

    What is your opinion on DMT? Interesting or distracting? 

    Deep video coming about psychedelics soon.

  23. Posted

    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.

  25. Posted

    On 7/24/2016 at 8:26 AM, Elton said:

    @Leo Gura but leo isn't the content in the life purpose course enough and the recommended books in the course and the core principles enough?  And your videos on affirmations and visualisations and the forum public journal and the forum itself and your weekly videos That we will need a whole different course?  

    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 ;)