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Great post! - If anyone has a good poem or wants to write a few just post them here Beautiful work.

How would one even know who to accept into such commune? Would they need to bring their Yellow or Turquoise ID cards in order to be admitted?

@LfcCharlie4 ??

You will come full circle in this work. From form to formless and back to form. The ego must collapse to become formless. This is ego death. Then you will return to form or the ego. And then you will become conscious that you were formless the whole time. Form and formlessness are identical! Here the ego can be mastered (as you say tamed) but still embraced and loved. That is where the work begins. Self Love is all inclusive. It is Love for your ultimate nature - the royal Self, and love for the small self. All is One and the small self is a part of the large Self.

Yeah there are enough to last a long time...?

@TRUTHWITHCAPITALT agreed....its the only way i read books these days - but that is mostly due to convenience..not all books are available on audio so sometimes you will need a hard copy.

That is a heck of a lot of projection... No..i was merely speaking from the Absolute perspective...you are creating stories in your mind and projecting them onto me. And as long as you hold Truth as "someone else's teachings" you will never awaken.

To add to what @TrynaBeTurquoise is saying.look at like this; Belief is duality. Direct experience (pure raw direct experience) is non-duality. Non-duality does not need duality - it already encompasses it. It is only when it divides itself that duality is created.

Yes ultimately it is all One. It's consciousness. But you are still confusing direct experience with belief. You need a mystical experience to grasp this - we cannot explain it to you in words.

Indeed...another way of saying it is often people confuse Truth or Being with their personal direct experience. "I had this direct experience"...but Being is pure raw experience itself -- there is no I experiencing it.

This is what i was gonna say as well but you beat me to it. This is the Absolute.

When i stumbled on spirituality it was merely by accident and i began doing self inquiry merely out of open minded curiosity. But even if you do believe that you might find Absolute Truth - that is not the same as saying Absolute Truth is itself a belief. What is said is not to mistake Truth as a belief. You can believe you might find something if you seek it - that is fine - that is something relative. Belief itself, within the realm of form, is not being shunned. It is that Truth is not a belief. See the difference? And actually Truth is so counterintuitive that many often say to find Truth you need to drop the seeking. When i found it i wasn't seeking - i was just curiously exploring with an open mind.

@Schahin its both. That is the paradox.

@Bill W think of it like this. Direct experience is just a set of words we use to point to Being. It's not even Being because Being cannot be grasped with words. So you are misconstruing what Being is because no one can really explain it to you. This is how teachings of Truth can be misunderstood. The best way to describe Truth with language is to say... Being is just.... Throw up your hands and stop right there because anything else is going too far.....

@Schahin i can tell you one thing - awakening is actuality - it is right now. It is becoming conscious that you are the now by being the now. And what you are doing is thinking. This is the problem! You are getting in your own way! Quiet the monkey mind! When you get glimpses don't get lost in trying to analyze everything - just bring yourself back to the present moment and keep it there... It happens when it happens Love you brother!

You're still not getting it. Awakening is the collapse of the student / teacher duality. You are both the teacher and the student. You will no longer obsess (not you personally) about a particular teacher at that point and whether they are narcissistic or not. Who cares?

I'm diggin' it ??

Correct...belief is within Truth and is a part of it. Absolute Truth is prior to it. It is isness. Only a mystical state will reveal this. A belief is relative.

You don't realize it but you are proving my point.

Truth is Truth. It is not about one particular teacher. There have been many that teach Truth. Truth is Being. These guys, as you point out, have not had direct experience of Being before. They still think its a belief. It's a shame, frankly. They don't know what they are missing. Their close mindedness will trap them from ever experiencing pure Being. But it is what it is. Once I had direct experience of isness I realized its not about Leo, or any teacher.... It's actually about You. in Actuality there is no Leo, or Rupert Spira, or Eckhart Tolle, or the Buddha, Christ, or any of them. It's just You/God. They are projections of your own mind. This is something that these guys will never get close to grasping - in fact if you said it to them they would demonize you.

@Preety_India thats right because you are attaching them to a particular identity. Aligning with Truth requires one to not cling tightly to any particular identity or perspective but rather to be able to jump between perspectives. That is how they can grow, change, and evolve. That said just because you label a person doesn't necessarily mean it will trap them but is indeed a low conscious act on your part and it could since the person may be fairly undeveloped and therfore vulnerable. As for what @Nickyy was saying - Reality (duality that is) as you guys know, is a absolutely relative. All there is are perspectives. It is completely subjective. And i think that's where he is going with this. But there is also Absolute Truth - and there is aligning with Truth. The more conscious one is, the more selfless they become - and the more aligned with the Truth they become. If someone wants a girl for their physical appearance only (i did for many of my early years) they are still very unconscious as it is purely about themselves at that point. But i think that's pretty obvious anyway. I see@Raptorsin7 point as well, which is that if we allowed those posts to go unchecked then people may see it and think its cool or wise to do that. At the same time i think these things should be pointed out before locking and if the individual becomes belligerent or the post has run its course and is serving only unhealthy purpose then it should be locked. So everyone makes good points.

Congrats my man! ❤?

@VeganAwake sounds like your ego has overwhelmed you......Oneness was never in question there was a different point i was trying to make...no need for personal attacks.

@VeganAwake hi bud. I love you but i think you might be missing what's being said.... do you truly grasp what duality is? Let me ask you this - can you go out into nature and enioy the sunset? Can you marvel at the tree outside your door and observe with amazement the beauty of its design and the color of its leaves? Can you gaze into the stars and fall in love with the moon? Do you smile at the magic of the very room around you? That is duality! If the answers were yes then it doesn't matter whether you say it exists or not. Language is limited anyway. It only matters if it becomes a trap to you -whereby you dismiss everything in the name of non-duality. Because every "thing' is duality. A "thing" is finite. No "thing" is infinite. When you dismiss 'everything" as an illusion - yes - its substance is nothing - but be careful not to rob yourself of your own creation because nothing is simultaneously everything. Collapse that final duality.

@erik8lrl Absolute Love --- isness itself Need more awakenings around here to Absolute Love. When you actually become it (you already are of course but in it's purest form) you're body will shake and tremble with uncontrollable bliss and Love as the essence of your Being fills you completely to where you implode with Divine Love :❤