Leo Gura

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    @Pelin No, that's not what is meant by selfless action. Selfless action is literally action without believing you exist as a self.

    You can kill someone selflessly.

    It's NOT about the content of the action. And it has nothing to do with "good" action.

    All "good" action is selfish. Because good only exists for a self.

    When you abolish the idea of good & bad, and the idea that you exist as a self, THEN action becomes naturally selfless.

    This is not anything that "regular" people are capable of it. It takes lots of inner growth to execute because your ego runs you in so many subtle ways.

    Basically, if you're trying to be selfless, you're actually being selfish.

    So in conclusion: be mindful of your self. Don't worry about being "good".

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    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    So, yes!

    But there's more to this journey than just having an enlightenment experience. There's a whole consciousness maturation process. A mind at stage Blue or Orange or Green is likely to misinterpret enlightenment and use it dogmatically.

    So your aim should be to shoot for enlightenment while at the same time advancing up the Spiral stages, into Tier 2.

    Yes, I used the word "should".

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    @abrakamowse Yes, sometimes it's helpful to just sit in silence and not try to do anything, not try to analyze, not to to inquire, but just sit and enjoy the moment. Too much inquiry can leave you stuck in your mind.

    Enlightenment usually comes in a totally relaxed state, when you aren't trying. But that is only possible after 100s of hours of failed straining. The failed straining is necessary for most people. That's what creates the ultimate surrender. You cannot fake the surrender. It has to come from utter failure.

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    1 hour ago, Dustin Dustbin said:

    At a minimum I must go outside of my body to perceive the tree.

    No, you don't.

    The tree is already there outside the body. And you are it. There is no going outside the body. You are ALREADY outside the body!

    The problem is you keep telling yourself you're inside the body. Undermining that belief is all that's required here.

    There is nowhere to go. There is exactly what there appears to be. Nothing is hidden.

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    For you, I'd recommend a 6 months no TV, no videos of any kind, diet. No Youtube (except for 1 self-improvement video per week).

    Stop watching fucking politics! It's total poison to your mind.

    If you want to avoid YT altogether and still listen to the Actualized.org content, just download the audios through iTunes. Then you don't have to log into YT at all.

    If you do this, your life will totally transform.

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    @quantum Yellow career is covered by the life purpose course.

    Green or yellow friends you can find it university, meditation/consciousness retreats, seminars/workshops, etc. Yellow people tend to be intellectual.

    Don't be afraid to start an Orange/Green job. You can convert it into Yellow with time. You're not likely to just start with a Yellow job. Yellow is something YOU gotta bring to the table. Don't expect others to bring it to you.

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    On 6/3/2016 at 6:33 PM, Dustin Dustbin said:

    I find it very difficult to escape the perception that the awareness is anywhere else but inside of me.

    Yes, it's so obvious that you're missing it in plain sight.

    Notice that any object you perceive is actually OUT THERE, it's not literally inside you. It takes place exactly where it is, namely, out there. Which means you're out there. Otherwise, how could you have access to it at all?

    You have to completely throw away the standard scientific model of how perception works. That's not how perception really works. Notice that you have no awareness of rays of lights bouncing off things and entering your eye. That's a fiction. That's not actually happening. Do you literally see trees inside you? Is a tree inside you? If not, then where actually is it?

    What's really happening is BEing. Stuff is just BEing. The body is being. The tree is being. The voice in "your head" is being.

    Takes careful sitting and looking to start to notice this. Keep at it.

    On 6/3/2016 at 6:33 PM, Dustin Dustbin said:

    I've pulled energy from trees into my body but if I could understand how I was already the tree this step would be unessesary.

    This has nothing to do with manipulating your experience. Just observe your most ordinary experience. If the tree isn't you, how come it exists at all? For it to exist, you have to be aware of it! It's right there out side the body! So what is it if it's not you?

    Before you were born there was nothing. Then you came into existence and there was the whole world. When you die, you believe the entire world will end. So you already acknowledge the entire world is you to some extent. Keep investigating that.

    Also ask yourself why you believe you're you at all. What if you just made a mistake and got attached to a bunch of sensations called "my body & my mind" when you were born, but all of that is just one big mistake? How do you know what you are supposed to feel like? How do you know you're not supposed to look like a tree? How can you trust your frame of reference? Have you been a human before? What if a human is actually supposed to be experienced like a tree looks?

    Keep questioning like that. Undermine your own certainty in yourself. After all, that thing you think is you isn't actually you! It's like you were born, saw a vacuum cleaner, thought it was you, and have lived that way your whole life, not really noticing that your original selection of vacuum cleaner was totally arbitrary.

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    @DizIzMikey Sounds like you gotta get your house in order before you go biting off enlightenment. Take care of the basics, build some good habits, figure out the issues with your wife, create some free time in your life, get away from toxic people if you must.

    You're not going to be effective at enlightenment work until you create a proper environment in which to do it. It's like you're a soldier in a WWI trench fighting the Germans and trying to get enlightened at the same time. You'll just drive yourself nuts that way.

    Plan a course of action. Gather your resources. Be strategic!

  24. Posted

    It's great that you guys are having mystical experiences, but also notice that nonduality is not just some ecstatic state.

    It's very ordinary.

    Look outside your window right now. Notice a tree. Notice that that tree is literally you. What else would it be? Your body isn't perceiving the tree. That is patently false. Your body and the tree are both perceptions. Perceptions do not perceive other perceptions. "You" and the tree are both being perceived by an unlocated infinite empty awareness -- the true you. This awareness is NOT inside you. You are inside it! Investigate this closely. It's super-obvious.

  25. Posted

    Yes, sit yo ass down and now actually begin the work. Congrats on completing step #1 out of 10,000 ;)

    You don't know the truth. You have a bunch of stories about enlightenment, which one day you will come to shockingly realize are mostly BS.

    Still... a high quality video or book once in a while on this journey can be critical. You just gotta be very careful about not using information as a distraction from the work itself.

    And don't forget, there's much more to this than merely Awakening. Practical knowledge is still... well... practical! And what you probably really want even more than Awakening is life-mastery.