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@zeroISinfinity cool i hear ya bud Sometimes a break is exactly what is needed. Balance is everything.

@rorghee it takes work but its technique that led to my awakening and it was that very video that i first found that started me on this journey. The idea is for you to look inside and find peace within yourself. Addiction is the fear of emptiness. And as ego's we want to fill this void with external materials. But counterintuitively it is Being that will ultimately fend off addiction but it takes hard work. So when you face the emptiness head on the addictive feelings pass. You have to keep doing it and it will get better. It could actually lead to enlightenment too if you are also doing self inquiry techniques.

@zeroISinfinity that's pure Ego talking. Pursue both. Pursue your egos personal agenda for survival but do it gradually increasing your consciousness until your levels of consciousness are so high that it will ultimately bring you a much more profound level of happiness than you would ever get pursuing money and women (just using these as examples) without spiritual growth which is wisdom. It will give you a more holistic sense of personal growth and actualization. Oh and you can still have to the smoking hot blond but you will also understand that looks really mean nothing in the big picture

@CreamCat God is an infinite fractile frozen in time (outside of time and space). So You already did it..Your doing it now and it never even happened all at the same time. These are not just Leo's words you can become directly conscious of it. Total mind fuck. Just like this moment right now is eternal.

@SQAAD Yeah, OCD has been called the Doubt Disorder. What are you describing is OCD to the tee - and their are mild forms of it such as what I have which allows me to still be highly functional - provided that I became self aware of my OCD and can go Meta on it when i identify it. It's soooo very sneaky though that it will morph into different shapes and forms in order to sneak itself by you so that you are not aware it's OCD and you get lost in concepts and illusion which is what OCD wants you to have. There is self deception and there is OCD which is much worse and frequent, although symptoms can come and go. I still have mild symptoms but i'm able to identify it so quickly now that it has lost most of it's control over me. It will still sneak something in now and then. But work on the technique of realizing these thoughts are irrational, some call them synthetic thoughts (not thoughts coming from you) although after getting into spiritual work i realized that is kinda the deal with all thoughts...but these are just magnified. So practice the technique of recognizing the triggers and recognizing when the thoughts come - go Meta on them and tell yourself in your mind that is this OCD. You may have to repeat this to yourself over and over until it passes, or Meditate using the Do Nothing technique, which may cause anxiety at first since you are working on having the thoughts and emotions move through you until they pass, much like an addiction. Medication can also help too relative to the ego - and here's why i bring that up. Awakening/Enlightenment is pure Certainty, it's one of the most wonderful things you can experience as a human being - actually it is the most wonderful. Your OCD and anxiety will completely melt away during this experience. So you should practice the techniques and spirituality work because it will help with your anxiety/obsessive thoughts. (Notice I do not want to stigmatize anyone by sayin they "have OCD" as that is purely a relative thought. In fact in order for you to overcome "OCD" you can't think of yourself as actuallying having it, because then you are getting lost in concept. You just have to be present and self aware when it comes up and then move on back into the present moment. The key with obsessive thoughts is it is pulling you away from actuality and the present moment into delusion. So the more you ground yourself in actuality the better you will be.

@Buba immoral thoughts and/or thoughts of doing something completely irrational was the bulk of it (what was interesting is a lot if was what my own subconscious considers immoral.

@Athemnajar have you tried Benzos or other meds? Self awareness of when the obsessive thoughts appear, identifying them, and then dismissing them as synthetic thoughts is a good technique. OCD is self deception on steroids. You have to constantly go meta on it but the more you do this technique the better you will get. Same with any emotions the thoughts cause..such as guilt. None of it is real and its all illusion. I've had Pure O for years but now i just lump it with self deception that everyone has..we just have it worse. See Leo's series on Self Deception as well.

@SQAAD do these obsessive thoughts just pop up out of nowhere or from certain triggers? You might have OCD which i know a lot about. Its self deception on steroids. Realize that these are thoughts and let them pass. They have no meaning and are not real.

@Leo Gura i smell a troll here...

@SQAAD it's not unnatural it's just the stage of evolutuon that most of the population is in. If you study spiral dynamics you will get a better understanding of this.

@MM1988 can you tell us about previous relationships in the past 24 months and why you think they fell thru?

@Aakash uh uh uh remember can't do that ..you are creating a duality between sanity and insanity !

@pluto8 this is my take. No one is perfect..and that includes Leo. He is a super busy guy making 3 hr episodes loaded with deep wisdom on a weekly basis plus many many other things. He wants to be a major part of his own forum on his own channel but I'm sure there are times where he really doesn't have a super amount of time to craft lengthy responses so they will be short and "appear" a certain way to you. He is also having to be on the constant lookout for trolls and true Devils otherwise devilry could undermine the entire forum. So just adapt the ability to see from another person's perspective and don't take things so personally. If you mean well things will work out and come full circle..remember the divine Will. We cannot see an infinite amount of moves ahead from our finite form but there is a reason for everything. God doesn't play dice.

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@Shakazulu sorry to hear that but yeah this is the Divine Will at work here. Still doesn't make it feel any better to the Ego.

@Pouya even if you are awakened you really cant force it on people. Many people are too close minded and grounded in their own dogma to be open to it and you really can't change that. You just have to focus on your own work and be raise your consciousness so high that it doesn't matter if others around you are not as conscious. My wife is that way. One day hopefully she will just come to me on her own and want to explore spirituality.

@Angelo John Gage the Ying Yang symbol

@Shaun You would be pure consciousness/GOD/Being at some point you would emerge as a new form - a new finite idea/possibliity. As God you would be all of existence which includes everyone else, but just in a formless state not in each of their individual formed states. Everything is happening and it's NOT at the same time. So they exist and they don't simultaneously.

@Rilles well at least we can confirm that the coffee table has a sense of humor. It needs work but its there

@sausagehead have you watched Leo's video what is perception? That is very profound and will explain a lot. But think about this..how can an object exist if there is no one "perceiving" it? In other words remove the perceiver or in other words extract yourself out of when looking at the coffee table and what are you left with? The object has been universalized so to speak. It's Being. You are touching on the essence of all of reality here. You ARE Being...therefore in a sense you ARE the coffee table...but this only becomes apparent with awakening. So yeah to answer your question for now see what is being pointed too and focus on your spiritual work. if you practice long and hard enough you will become directly conscious of this. Being is infinitely intelligent and infinitely loving..it's what you are..you true self with a capital S.

I've been giving this a lot of contemplation. This is in reference to post eniightenment in which a new duality is created. The spiritual realm, or formlessness (Being) and the form. The 2nd part of the journey, as Leo has pointed out in his Self inquiry episode as well as his most recent episode on dualities Is to achieve a permanent non-dual state by embodying both the dual and the non-dual simultaneously. In other words being fully conscious all the time in your everyday mundane life of Absolute Truth (Non-duality) and that you are God. That everything is Divine and that you are everything. Achieving this state however is easier said than done. You can be fully woke but easily fall back into your dualistic perspective as you go about your everyday life. As was the case for me recently. This takes work to fix. And it is more nuanced than that. When i first awoke the spiritual realm was Total. As that began to fade over the next few weeks i was walking around with one foot in the spiritual realm and one foot in the ego, metaphorically speaking. I was me, but everyone and everything i saw i was completely conscious that was God itself looking out and experiencing itself. And that i was in the mind of God which i created. It was pure bliss because a part of me was still in the spiritual realm..it wasn't just me consciously telling myself this as a concept. And yet i was still me. That state was IT! That state of fusion! That's where one needs to be permanently! For a combination of Ego backlash and time eventually brought this state to an end and over the past few months i have beek kind of wandering around..doing the work but not enough to get me back to this state. So this is where i am in my journey and I'm going to be doubling down on my work to get back there. I just wanted to get Leo's and anyone else who is at this stage's input on this if you can share if this is the state you are referring to. You see there has to be a fusion - not one or the other. Because with just the spiritual realm that is death itself - your ego is totally dissolved at that point. Cannot be in this state alone permanently without death. Amd when you come back your back in the ego and then you have a duality. You have to be in both simultaneously.

@Leo Gura that is a huge point. Think of pyschedelics as a boost to awakening they won't bring it about by itself For that you need to be embodying Truth in your everyday life. And by that i mean in your actions. Message me for more as i can't fit a lifetime of preparation into a single post.

@mandyjw @Nahm LOL. Mandy I think you meant to direct that to Nahm?

@Nahm i actually felt imy chakras come alive (Being) coming on after i posted that. Love is the answer always.

@Nahm All is definitely well I am still working on my humility so i apologize if i came on strong. I gotta say the most humble guy on this entire forum is Serotoninluv. Props to you man - you are truly an example for everyone on this forum and i mean that sincerely. Nahm your'e pretty cool too Haha. But i respect all your opinions and let us all find deep Wisdom and happiness in our journey. On that note i will also add that this is a very special place to be and I'm honored to be here among all you guys.