Inliytened1

Thank you for picking up the pieces, as usual. Youre always there, in some annoying way

The effect on someone is a pure result of their OWN pysche!! Nothing more. If someone is damaged then they may misinterpret these teachings and are thus warned not to listen. Are you deaf to all the disclaimers to the mentally ill or unstable?

It's the same practice in my view. Inquiring into the nature of reality and self is meditation and also getting in touch with actuality is meditation. Both are the same because at the root of realizing what you are is Actuality. Have you sat and just stared at your hand for hours on end yer? Don't think- just be in touch with the actuality of your hand.

Indeed I did know. And you knew that.

This is excellent. All you have to do now is realize it for yourself You have all the pieces to the puzzle. Now become the puzzle But yeah - this shift in consciousness is profound because Pure Consciousness was always there. You were always Absolute Consciousness. But you limited yourself via a shift in your state of consciousness. You're current state of consciousness is that of a finite self - with other being anything not you. When this evaporates, with a shift in consciousness, then there is just pure consciousness. But the shift must be total. This means the collapse of the self and other duality. This is a duality and an illusion that can be peeled away. The problem is that this is death. If you have strong attachments to this world the ego will not go softly into the night. It must be by the element of surprise. So the words in these ancient texts are true, but validating them is another matter. Long live the blessed Buddha.

You are complicating meditation. Meditation should be two things. It should be sitting and dwelling in what is actual - free from the mind. And it should be self inquiring. Only these two.

More accurate would be to say that on the ego's return it immediately commences its pursuit of self deception. You had become God. You had become Truth. But the ego cannot allow that. It must bring the dream back into existence and solidify it, for its own survival. This is no different from an awakening via meditation. Although, a natural awakening and a natural ego death, is more powerful than any psychedelic trip. This is because it was not accessed with any cheat code. It was accessed by being actual. By Being. This brings a bliss that taking a psychedelic can only dream of. It also will be forever glued to the memory of God in human form on the return. Far stronger then what God allows to be glued to the memory of the one who trips.

Yes - and to add to that, I would say that well validation lies as a responsibility of the listener. But first an open mind is required. Most come in close minded to begin with - and thus they point out a reflection of their own bias. I don't find any of his public teachings to be irresponsible- for the record, Meaning Gura. He gets irresponsible here on the forum- but that is simply his human nature coming out. With such deep material the responsibility lies with who takes it in and at what level they are at to absorb what is being said. It does not lie with the teacher.

@r0ckyreed it's ridiculously easy to trick them up. The problem is they dont really want to know. They want to remain glued to their beliefs, and you cannot rip them from them. You can only coddle them.

I really hope you aren't heeding guys like osho and Sadhguru.

Awakening is ego death- and coming back. So when someone says you ain't awake - it means you ain't died. It's Absolute and finally. There are no degrees. God is God and omniscience is Absolute. There are no degrees to omniscience. You can understand reality In a flash but you can forget it even quicker. The fool believes there are degrees to grasping God. There cannot be because God is beyond the human grasp. There is only becoming God. But enlightenment is very real, even if we are only left with the memory. God becomes God for a short time - the rest of his time is spent being that which is other than God. It's much more spellbinding. To God, being God is boring. It is much more enticing to be mortal.

@AlexNonymous6 this is an excellent post and I really commend you for the level of awakening and oneness you have experienced. It is something beyond what 99.9 percent of this foolish population will ever understand. But know this - had you gone through the final awakening you would know that others are a figment of your imagination and thus they must be glued to the dream. If all others woke up you could not linger and persist here. Your dream would dissolve. You must have something real and concrete here - something that you can hold onto - and thus you dream that others believe in its realism. This further solidifies its realism to you. You cannot dare fathom how deep this goes, or how deep as God you will go to fool yourself. If you take anything away from Gura - know that his lectures on self deception are probably the most essential.

Putting into percents is another mistake. You either wake up from a dream or you don't. There aren't percents of this. There are different things you can learn about the dream you are dreaming - but awakening is Absolute.

No they are not. If you think there was some alternative motive in that episode you are mistaken. There was not. It was simply to teach that death, along with your soul, is but a thought in the mind. In fact - it is a thought in the mind of God. Death- by you - has never been experienced. It never will be. A soul, will never be shown to you anywhere- because it does not exist. A self that does not exist cannot die. Thoughts can die, but what are they? Perhaps They never were anything. Perhaps what was never anything cannot be something.

Only because you came back Yes that is correct. Which is why total insanity cannot exist. It is the same as death. Leo's definition of insanity is your mind going into a completely different reality. That is something different then my definition- which is a loss of the sense of self.

You haven't experienced insanity until you experience depersonalization. Everything else is child's play.

Well, sadly - you've bought into a bunch of neo-advaitan BS. There is one who awakens. That one is equal to no one. Because it is all things. But it awakens - and it is you. It has both human and non human qualities.

Well, sadly - you've bought into a bunch of neo-advaitan BS. There is one who awakens. That one is equal to no one. Because it is all things. But it awakens - and it is you. It has both human and non human qualities.

Well, sadly - you've bought into a bunch of neo-advaitan BS. There is one who awakens. That one is equal to no one. Because it is all things. But it awakens - and it is you. It has both human and non human qualities.

Well, sadly - you've bought into a bunch of neo-advaitan BS. There is one who awakens. That one is equal to no one. Because it is all things. But it awakens - and it is you. It has both human and non human qualities.

No imaginary means it's made of mind. It's the stuff of dreams. It's not made of matter. This is real though, because there is nothing other than that.

I don't know why he removed it. It was the perfect finish for an epic run. If his videos don't awaken you, nothing will. And yet- he himself did not awaken. He it non-dual states, yes - but it was like accessing a bunch of cheat codes. He didn't do it. Drugs don't do it. End of story.

Awakening. But real and imaginary are identical. You mean physical and objective - meaning something beyond the current experience.

@Holykael its imperative that you realize your wisdom is no where near as a character to God's Infinite Wisdom. God isn't making you finite to punish you. He wants you to realize that the greatest gift is to transcend your own finitude and selfishness.... .Do not jump so quickly to think he programmed you with an inability to awaken. But even if you don't - you can look and be inspired by the paraplegic that still has a a love and a zest tor life. And see how selfish you are. It is selflessness that God wants you to see. You can look beyond your own shortcomings and realize that is in those that make you perfect. God holds out the hope that you may one day rise above selfish desires and realize that that is not what life and love are about. That will be the ultimate gift to yourself.

Good stuff. Indeed you are talking to yourself. But remember, when you speak of your own character - note that there are many characters that have it way way worse than you. People with debilitating illnesses or paralysis- things of that nature - making for a seemingly miserable existence. Yet through the light of God and Love they still find happiness. You can too. GOD wants you to realize that you are in control of how you view your life. That control is Absolute. So if you sulk in your misery, that is what you will get back in return.