WaveInTheOcean

- A modern day call to shifting from spiritual consumerism to returning to human kind… heart inspired by Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s, The Invitation, by Taylor Rose Godfrey Also: "Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak. Perhaps to know too much makes it difficult to speak; the mind knows so little, it is possible for it to speak." - Osho The fullness of life begins at the edge of my comfort zones. "Redemption is about making things right, not hating what’s wrong. When we make things right, we become the change we wish to see. When hating what’s wrong, we stifle our inner power by begging someone else to be the change. Perhaps, instead of pointing fingers at what others do and at what others aren’t doing about it, we embrace a newly-inspired thought: “What can I do to make things right?” Only a greater good equally serving the well-being of all may manifest just by asking and acting upon such a simple question. Whether it's a donation to organizations already laying the ground work of positive change, gathering signatures to pass new laws, visualizing a new reality that equally benefits all, donating your time in support of your favorite charity, praying for the inspiration, direction, and resources to be of greater service to humanity, offering course corrective experiences of inclusivity to those around you, or even loving yourself as the one eternal heart existing in all beings, there is always a difference you can make -- right here, right now. Instead of waiting for a way to resolve an issue with one bold leap and no matter how tiny of a contribution it seems to be, each action step always furthers the efforts your heart yearns to create. This is the heart of self-empowerment." All For Love, Matt Kahn"

whose peace? wanting to silence the mind / making it shut up is kind of liking trying to straighten out chaotic water in stream with a flat iron; it will only make it worse. you gotta accept the mind's business. let it be. it is there to serve you, after all. just observe it. let go of having to change the present moment. by accepting it fully - surrendering, letting go, breathing through it, you shall slowly begin to see there is no need to change anything. it's already calm What is not calm - right now in your exp - is your lust to change the present moment. i have found that the less i try, the better i feel. maybe you're trying too hard. have faith and trust in the proces. in order to be free, you first have to be captured captured = free free = captured

before something new can grow, the old has to go away so I think you are both in some way =) <3

To accept pain is to transform it into Love. Alchemy. To run away from pain is to suffer. Death is the only Truth we can all agree on. Accept it. You are dead, just like an engaged couple in a way are already married. Don't run away from yourself anymore. Look inward. Death implies Life, just like the background of a painting makes you see the foreground. We westerners focus WAY too much on the foreground (life) and ignore the background (death). Ignorance in its purest form. Absolutely nothing lasts permanently. We all know that -- intuitively, on the inside -- but act, outwardly, like the opposite is true; that we can make things that last forever (our life, for instance). Denial. Fear of death. Running away from the Truth: ourselves, our death. Take a coin. Can you define 'heads' without simultaneously defining 'tails'? "Take the sentence: "The inside is the outside'... This sentence seems contradictory, but it's really not. Inside implies an outside; outside implies an inside. The word 'inside' only has meaning relative to 'outside'. There is no such thing as 'just the inside' of something. Inside only has meaning relative to outside. You are only 'who you are' relative to 'that which is not you'. That 'which is not you' defines 'who you are'." (- Credit to @Mason Riggle).

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom - The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." - Socrates There seems to be only one truth we can all agree on: death. But what is death? "meow" says the cat. "death is the Day of Judgment" says the Abrahamic religions. "death is non-existence" says the atheist. "death is rebirth" says Buddhism. "death is unknowable" says the agnostic. "I don't know what death is" said Socrates. "I have never personally, directly experienced this 'death'-thing, so if I'm being totally honest with myself, I don't even know if death is real, just like I don't know if there are monsters under my bed while I'm sleeping. Heck, I can't even remember getting born, so maybe even believing that I was born on xx.yy.zzzz is equivalent to believing that the tree - that allegedly fell in the forest - made a sound of its own" says the open mind. "death is an illusion" said/says the mystics. Human life might just be God's way of trying to convince Himself that being awake (aware) is better than being asleep (ignorant)... Human life might just be The Universe's way of trying to convince Itself that non-existence is better than existence... But perhaps She should seek out a way to "merge the two"; as in to exist but in a dream. Lucidly dreaming, it still all feels real even though I am perfectly aware I am just dreaming. They say ignorance is bliss, yet ignorance leads to fear (of death) which leads to suffering (hurting the self through hurting the other). Wisdom lies in becoming acquainted with death. Thus, fear is transformed to calmness. But to become acquainted with death - die without dying - one first has to let go of all fear. How does one let go? Well, before one can exhale, one first has to inhale, right? Thus, carelessly - and without any conscious effort - your body makes a deep inhalation for you; and slowly, but surely you start suckling, contracting more and more; then holding on tensely while desperately trying to empty the wine bottle of life as you silently run away from the truth (yourself, death). Eventually, all this just leads to more and more fear and tension. As your ego grows and builds, the more the truth will haunt you in the back of your mind, slowly but steadily getting closer and closer: as if you were in the foreground of a silent film running away in agony from a gigantic tidal wave in the background. In the end, you will burst, explode and dive straight down to hell, where your soul will burn, kick and scream while it is getting purified, healed and cleansed in the purgatory. You are finally letting go. Dying. Exhaling all the fear, anger and shame; saying no to your ego (selfishness), saying yes to your soul (selflessness). Complete ego death. Transcendence By the end of this terrifying exhalation, you now hold your breath very cautiously, before deciding what to do next. After a brief moment of eternity, you decide you have no choice but to inhale again, this time, hopefully having learned the lesson, deciding to breathe with conscious effort, deliberate care and intentional soul-love (instead of repeating the wandering around drunk and asleep in ego) - - dreaming once again, but now lucidly, acknowledging your potential for devilry (ego), and seeing that what you once thought was hell (death) is actually Heaven (Life with big L). And instead of letting your soul adulterate by becoming drunk on the never-satiating pleasures of life, you helplessly choose to become drunk on the mind-bending, magical nature of reality: an eternal, unbounded, enigmatic dream emanating from the Fountain of Infinity, formlessly ever-changing shape while constantly spattering fathomless drops of dreamed-up worlds into a bottomless ocean of Cosmic Consciousness. When you become so empty on the inside that everything around 'you' becomes fuller than full; when you let go trying to force things and needing to change every moment, having your will all the time; when you stop getting in your own way and let your deep, mystical, wise intuition guide you with ungrounded faith, always being in a state of flow; when you start listening, seeing, and feeling, holding space instead of taking space; when you look a stranger deeply in the eyes without any judgment, just smiling and communicating to him that he's accepted as he is, forgiven, understood and not alone; -- that is Love, that is God seeing Herself, looking at Himself... through you. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/

It doesn't bother me at all! I like to talk. I like to reply. You're welcome. ❤️??

What are English words? Imagination. You see how it's all just a dream? Infinite imagination. You are all simultaneously: - the finite dream-character ('poor little me') (a dreamed up thing) - the physical world (a dreamed up thing) - the dreamer (God) (the undefinable source of it all) - the dream itself (Consciousness) (the structure, fabric and context of the dream) - 'the dreamed up things' (Love) (the contents of the dream) There is nothing outside this. This is it. It's Infinity in infinite ways & for Eternity in eternal ways.

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To try to deconstruct pain could be a subtle way of running away from it.

Thank you guys ??♾️?

You exist. Should be proof enough. "But it's just the physical activity of my brain that makes me exist". Yes, exactly my point. A trillion trillions bunch of dead carbon atoms arrangered in a special delicate hyper-intelligent pattern that makes you feel like you are a 'person' stuck inside a head, that makes you exist, alive. If that isn't proof of the magic (Godness) of reality, then you're the one being religious, living in denial, not me;) ?? If the taste of hot bittersweet coffee, the taste of a delicious pussy, the taste of dreamy music, the taste of the crystal-blue hypnotizing sky, the taste of the gigantic infinite ocean, the taste of a mesmerizing lively rain forest, the taste of the enomorusly absurd mountains, the taste of a soft woman's lips when you kiss her madly in love, the taste of deep deep relief when you puke, piss, shit, the taste of Oneness and Cosmic Consciousness when you meditate deeply, take 5 g shrooms, smoke DMT, drink ayahuasca in a Tippi with others, when you do Breathwork, when you dance like a psychopath to a rave deep house underground concert on 100 mg MDMA, when you melt together with the love of your life in tantric sex..., If ALL THAT isn't proof to you that reality is absolutely insanely magical, Love, Infinite & Eternal, then dude, wauw, you are stuck in your own head.

Reality is imaginary, yes. What is imagined is real. Everything is imagined. Imagination itself IS reality. To divide the 'Whole of Consciousness" into "real-" & "not real-" 'things' is the job of the conditioned survivalistic finite ego-mind. The heart / soul / God always intuitively 'knows' that it's all One. The heart knows so much that it cannot speak. It can only feel. Feeling is closer to Truth than thought. Of course. "Knowledge is just a rumor until it is felt in the bones." In the summer, yes! ???☀️☀️☀️

You keep replying to me with logical language-questions... Let me repeat: It's real-unreal. Unreal-real. Reality is Everything and Nothing. It's neither real nor unreal. It's:.... *plays a note on the piano* and we won't give it a name. It's just pure experience itself, we could say. And you could call that God, Consciousness or Love. But best not to call it anything. Everything we can say with the mind misses it. Better to speak with the hearts: silence. ❤️ It's God ofc. Everything is just God. "But what about x y z?" Just God. "But..." It's just God, bro. God. God. God. Consciousness. Consciousness. Consciousness. Love. Love. Love. Play. Play. Play. Lila. It's inherently playful, all of it, don't you see? The point of life is life itself. For the fun of it. Excitement. Lila. Joy. Love ❣️ Infinite. Imagination. Imagination. Imagination. Infinity. ♾️ Eternity ?

It is a metaphor. A dream because it seems real but isn't. It isn't real but it is. Paradox for the ego-mind, obvious to the transcended mind. We gotta go beyond language here (or before language you could say). Drop it. Surrender the mind. Everything with language is just a game.

"I realized a long-time back that these are delicate Truths that should never be forced on anyone..." QFT <3 "Also - ya seem to have an idea in your mind on how an "awakened one" should act. But God can do whatever it wants - if it wants to play around on a forum why not? All of reality is God's playground..Seems like you are still creating a duality in which God should act a certain way and not some other way. " Sure, thank for pointing it out. I'm just having fun here bro. That's at least what I tell myself. I'm here only for selfish purposes. It's nice to write my thoughts down. Helps me breathe. <3

I don't disagree. I'm just pointing out it can also be a trap. Leo's youtube-channel & this forum has been of immense help to me. But sometimes, lookin' back, I can also see how it has been - at times - a gigantic trap for me, which as in some ways contributed to my depression. (Replacing direct experience with concepts, thinking I could live life in my head). (Forcing myself and my ideas onto others) (Forgetting to be humble) (Forgetting to swim in my divine innocence). Nothing is so good it isn't bad. Nothing is so bad it isn't good. Consciousness is Consciousness is Love is Love is God is God. Absolutely speaking. That's what Oneness points to. Everything is Consciousness. It's neither low or high, it's Consciousness. People who we say are 'low conscious' are just poor souls (God) who are so asleep in ego, who have so many rigid belief systems they can never get out of. If you tell them to raise their consciousness I doubt you are helping them. They have to DROP ego. LET GO. SURRENDER. If I may guess, I think some of the things @Leo Gura should look into are: - why he insists on being so masculine. He doesn't talk much about surrender. - why he likes to talk about abstract concepts, such as God, so much. Is is just self-masturbation ?:D - if he really is remebering to LIVE LIFE instead of just getting stuck in his head/concepts - if he is really rembering to be humle toward other poor souls (himself) - if he is really remembering that everyone, including himself, are 100% innocent - if he is not using psychedelics to run away from himself (death/true full awakening) .. some kind of sneaky innocent addiction/gluttony (denying this ofc). - denying own needs - thinking he is completely self-sufficient and doesn't need other people in his life, eg. a partner in crime / wife - lack of humility - being too perfectionistic / hypercritical of others/himself / sneaky ways of actually being hypocritical - all the above perhaps stems from a belief that "I am not attached to anything" while in fact he is in sneaky ways attached to old, somewhat self destructive patterns of behaviour which feels "optimal, safe" due to trauma from childhood. Not my busy ofc, I'm just speaking mostly from my own direct exp. I see myself a lot in Leo and vice versa, and I love the man. But I can also see how I often have taken his way-of-living / his words and incorporated it/them into my own life, which has been both a good and a bad thing. Now sure, I don't know Leo very well, since I only know him through this forum and his videos, so take everything I just wrote with a biiiiiig grain of salt. After all, I am mostly just speaking to/about myself. <3:);)

You know how people interpret this "raise your consciousness"-jargon ??? They think "Oh so I have to become smarter, read more, study more, meditate more, become a better meditator, become a better psychedelic explorer, take more psychedelics, go to more retreats etc." ... you think they ever awaken by doing this? Some do perhaps, out of sheer luck, or out of a deep desire for truth, or most likely because of deep suffering (which makes luck favor you, or/and which makes your desire for truth higher). But 95%+ of your followers will never wake up watching your videos, taking psychedelics, desperately trying 'to raise their consciousness'. The mind has to be dropped. That's all that has to happen. But it takes Love, not 'raising your consciousness'. You are your own trap Leo. Bless ya. "... And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak. Perhaps to know too much makes it difficult to speak; the mind knows so little, it is possible for it to speak." - Osho How much have you suffered, Leo? In the your whole life. How close have you been to suicide, like Eckart Tolle, for instance. Without enough painful suffering, their is no real carrot for God to fully wake up from sleep/His slumber. << Selfishness/ignorance/being-asleep/devilry/drinking "Life's bottle of wine" (taking pyschedelics often for instance) // "trying to be good" // "trying to always raise one's consciousness" >> is very fun and exciting, and almost nobody (no of God's dream-characters) seem to want to fully let go of it (let go of ego) in order to wake (fully) up. Self-deception 101, say you're doing things out of charity and love, when really, you're acting from a place of ignorance, sleep and selfishness. Maybe the video "Why God forgives all Evil" was a video you made to yourself to justify being asleep a little longer? :-D “If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen." - Alan Watts The biggest most mind-bending and wild and crazy trip (for me right now) is Life itself. Smoking DMT has (almost, not quite) become boring.

you are beautiful <3

"you see, in actuality God and the ego are one and the same. " yes, absolutely speaking they are. But you don't tell that to a stranger on the street. In fact, you have to tell them that their soul (who they truly are) are trapped in ego (false self), and that soul (God, Love, Consciousness) & ego (selfishness, devilry, addiction, survival-programming, social conditioning, evil, ignorance, fear, being asleep) are polar opposites. That's what you tell people. Not that Ego and God are One. It's so obvious that ego and God are identical that you don't have to say it. It's like telling a fish that it is swimming around in water. "Yes, doh, tell me something I don't know." The fish will just be scared if you tell it that. People are SO MUCH ASLEEP IN EGO (survival) that in order for them to progress towards awaken, you have to make them understand that ego is bad and that their soul is good. People/society never land in "golden mean" instantly. We go from one polar duality to the other polar duality, and then eventually, we l(can maybe) land in the middle (the state of non-duality, which is always the case, sure, but which 'we miss' almost 24/7 due to social conditioning/survival/fear/ignorance). That's why people who are very much asleep/selfish/in-ego first have to go to the other extreme of having a spiritual ego (i.e. supressing ego, loving spiritual concepts like God/Love/Consciousness, really trying to be a good unselfish human, meditatiting, taking ayahuasca, reading books, eating vegan, listening to matt kahn or w/e they have to do to go from ego->soul). Then in the end they can land in the middle (true awakening) where they see everything is completely identical and one, i.e. Ego = God & God = Ego.

You can't wake people up, dude. They can only wake up themselves. All you can is: breathe listen forgive respect love seek to understand accept give space rather than take space (and much more) "The flaw with words is that they always make us feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment. For this reason, a warrior seeks to act rather than to talk, and to this effect, he gets a new description of the world where talking is not that important, and where new acts have new reflections." - From Tales of Power, by Carlos Castaneda

no no. dude. you are it. I'm asking you to define yourself. Omnipotence sure, but still, we are using language here. When I say "how can you define yourself?" I'm inviting you to - either try do it with language (reply to me as you did, you fell in the trap! <3) - or just sit in silence . Sure, beyond mind, beyond thoughts, beyond (before) ego, everything is possible ;-) <3 "I am, but I haven't figured out what I am yet." Sure, and it cannot be done with the mind. Let go of mind (ego) and you shall see there is no need to figure anything out, cos it is already figured out ;)) <3

You are speaking from the absolute perspective now, which often isn't very helpful for the person (soul hidden behind ego) who wants to awaken:D No, actually, oh enlightened 1, you are conflating the absolute with the relative now. From the abolute perspective, 'Reality' (Oneness, God, Consciousness, Love, Absolute Infinity) is neutral. 100% neutral. It is neither beautiful, perfect or terrifying. It is Love. It is Infinite. Which is neutral. 10000000% neutral.;-) God is all things, but also no things. This cannot be understood with mind. Mind has to be dropped to 'get it'. Because in actuality, it isn't something to 'get'... It's just beliefs/survival-programming/'mind' (ego) that has to be dropped. Totally dropped. Transcended. Let go. Accept. Surrender. If you don't have deep desire for truth, you won't get it. Ever, never. Simple as that. Anyway, where were we? Oh yes, your conflation.:D Well, from the absolute perspective, yes, God is everything (and nothing). Indeed. But totally, simply, absolutely (even relatively) and down to earth: Reality is Reality is God is God is Consciousness is Consciousness is Love is Love. PERIOD. AND IT IS NEUTRAL. IT IS EVERYTHING & NOTHING. PERIOD. ( ;D;D;D<3 I FUCKING WIN <3 ) But it is ego to say "Oh, how terrible, I realized I'm completly alone as God" . ... Just purely down to earth, relatively speaking, this is the ego speaking. It's the soul (God) speaking through a yet-not-transcended-ego. When the ego is fully transcended, there is no need to write silly things on a internet forum about how terrible or lonely it is. Because it isn't lonely. It isn't terrible. It's everything & nothing. So everytime you say it's "x or y" or say it's not "z or c" you are speaking from ego. That's why the most enlightned ones don't speak of it. It's pointless to speak of. Either they: - commit mahasamadhi (conscious suicide, which is "easy" when you are fully conscious; you just stop breathing, no biggie), - or they sit meditating all life, away from society - or they go and participate FULLY in life without talking about spiritual ego-concepts such as 'God', 'Love' or 'Consciousness' (they could speak about these things, but then they do it in a practical way to help people to awaken, not in the way Leo (& others on this forum, including me) are doing it with some of this silly totally-stuck-in-concepts-self-masturbation videos/talk ((("Why God forgives all Evil" -- roflmao what a waste of 2 hours to watch this crap ... ;D btw im half joking, chillax mods, don't ban me:D))). When you are fully conscious, there is zero difference between Hitler and Jesus. Zero. It's all just God/Consciousness/Love. Zero. Zero. Zero. Oneness. That is what it is. To say "Hitler and Jesus are One, Identical, Zero Difference" is a good funny line to drop to people to see how they react. If they smile back at you or just blink with the eyes, you know their ego is probably very transcended. If they agree with you but start saying meaningless words to put more concepts onto it to justify it, well their ego is somewhat transcended, but still very present. If they disagree with you, they are pretty much asleep. If they, like my mom, start calling 911 to get you hospitalized, they are very much asleep. If they start discussing why either Hitler or Jesus were superior, they are totally asleep. Btw, sure, relatively speaking, I'd much rather be Jesus than Hitler. And sure, relatively speaking, Jesus were much more awake than Hitler. But, absolutely speaking, they are One and The Same Thing: God. Consciousness. Love. Oh, I'm jerking off now as I'm writing this. Self-deception, spiritual ego, 101, telling others that you know you have a spiritual ego, to in that way raise your spiritual ego even higher. (One-upmanship. You can never not play - ... or can you?) It's probably best, ego-transcendence-wise, to just leave this forum for good and go either commit mahamasadhi, meditate 24/7 or ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN LIFE! :DD So many people on this forum, including Leo x 1000000, me x100, Someone herex99999999999 are so stuck in the Enneagram type-5-trap of "Replacing Direct Exp with Concepts" . The most obvious way they are this is when they deny it. "Oh I'm not, I'm very much aware of the distinction between direct exp and concepts and I am living life" ... then 1 week later shoots a 3 hour video explaining in great detail "Why God Forgives all Evil." You're a very, very funny man @Leo Gura. I love you, you've given me so much through your videos. It's inspiring, but you're also a trap. Your own trap. True. But after that it becomes neutral. It's only radical and tears-incuding, scream-inducing, flooring, when there is still ego left. When the ego is fully transcended, it becomes ordinary (yet still magical of course, but you don't have to cry, or scream or talk about it anymore). Love ya all <3

I love your quote in your signature. I live my life in a dream; the constant threat of a rude awakening keeps me on my toes.