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@Fountainbleu Leo is on a retreat.

@Fountainbleu yes. This is a very tricky thing. Very tricky and a deep topic that has not yet been covered in Leo's videos. Not yet.

Yes..you should use the meds for now. It will help to alleviate the chemical imbalance in your brain While on them though...ground yourself deep within spirituality and pursue enlightenment. Only this will allow you to go off the meds. The meds are actually an illusion -- because remember the materialist paradigm is itself an illusion. There really isn't a brain. But within the content of the dream in which we exist the meds exist and therefore will help. They will only take you so far though..at some point you will want to enlighten yourself and after that you will be able to get off the meds.

@noselfnofun I could not agree MORE. I actually became enlightened listening to his earlier videos on enlightenment. Afterwards I had mystical experiences that lasted about 2 weeks. I remember a few times listening to his videos triggered the experiences after the initial enlightenment.

@Highest you can't even be conscious and aware of it for that is finite. Infinity cannot be spoken of or thought of. Every thought you have of it isn't it...because the thought is finite. You have to BE it. You have become one with your true self. Pure being. Pure consciousness. You ARE GOD. It's that simple.

@Highest it will bring a man to his knees and make him cry like a baby

@Highest guess what...You ARE God. You as your true self is simply pure ISNESS. Now realize that YOU are God (YOU, in fact are me and everything else) in your direct experience ...and that is really something.

@Anton_Pierre That is wisdom itself. Wisdom is awareness of your true nature while in your small self - the ego. It is true that pure being cannot study. It cant do anything accept be. That is your true self..isness. Pure being. In order to do egoic things you must split non-duality into duality for the sake of illusion..so that the ego can exist. Wisdom is the ability to be self aware that even when in a dualistic state your true nature is Oneness and that in order for you to experience infinity you must create the illusion of duality. When dual you will be dual but self aware that this duality is but an illusion. Make sense?

@TheAvatarState its YOU. You ARE the actuality itself. You -- the real you..behind the illusion - ARE being itself. You ARE consciousness. Once this really hits you that is enlightenment. Not the theory of it but actually the actuality of it! Becoming directly conscious right now that you ARE right now IS enlightenment!

No...look at what you just said. You are this body..thing..object..consciousness..etc You are only consciousness not all the other stuff You still need to do some serious self inquiry to become enlightened But you are coming from the right place. You are coming from a place of open mindedness and that's a big start. Focus on self inquiry.

@Aakash thats the paradox. You nailed it. Dr

@How to be wise Leo is holding onto his ego. I hate to say this but so are you. If you let go you will be no more. All we have is ego and pure being. Pure being cannot post here. Only ego can post here.

@Leo Gura I didn't get the vibe that he was intentionally trying to infect others with ignorance, but that he was merely pondering. I could be mistaken of course. @Eric Tarpall That's what a paradox is. It will blow the finite mind. Your finite mind will never be able to grapple with consciousness.

@Shadowraix Indeed, and he IS that same thing, just as you are. He just is not conscious of it from his own ego's perspective.

@TheAvatarState Yeah, i became conscious of that while contemplating this post last night - that you were being humble by asking this. You are a super intelligent individual - i know that from talking to you prior. And I know that you have had glimpses. Since the majority of the time you are answering questions on this forum, Just the fact that you showed humility by this post and actually asked a question on this forum will push you into enlightenment (if not now at some point soon) Do do not fear, it will reveal itself to you when the time comes. Looking back, for me it was a lifetime in the making. For me the past few years contained deep suffering - over what I will not discuss here - but it matters not. But i do believe the deep suffering, combined with open mindedness, the ability to be humble, and the lack of any particular belief or dogma, can lead to awakening. You are well on that path my friend, and you will find it. But remember, for me it took near 50 years. You are what, in your 20's or early 30's? You have wisdom already well beyond your years, so it will probably reveal itself to you a decade sooner than it happened for me.

@Leo Gura Agreed - always more content to learn - and even if you have had one awakening there are so many facets of awakening that there is much to experience (actually to be and become conscious of) there as well.

@TheAvatarState absolutely - you are basically at the point in your spiritual journey where you just need to BECOME it. I like one of the references Leo made I think it was the Leo hits rock bottom one - where he was like - even if you say consciousness is "nothing" you are going to far...It's just....."IT". I'm usually like, it's "just..." and then I feel the isness, i don't even say it. So yeah, it sounds like you need a true awakening or if you had one you are realizing the rest is content within "it". (and i said too much)

When i had my enlightenment experience it was almost as if I had despersonalization disorder - but that it wasn't actually a disorder it was BEING!. So maybe you got a glimpse and the glimpse is still there, and may be there for a few more weeks until you return to normal. When you become your true self - Being - you are no longer your small self so it will feel very depersonalized, but that's in a good way. Your ego will try to creep in there and give you anxiety because that is the way it keeps hold of you and prevents you from enlightenment. So yes it will pass.

@EvilAngel That's pretty funny - i tried that yesterday, it doesn't work too tell well for me after the first 30 minutes....at first it will help calm the mind down and actually can be pretty effective at that so long as you don't lose too much focus/awareness...but once you start getting just a little too much alcohol in your blood you lose that laser sharp focus and sensitivity and that will prevent you from really making gains with your meditation. At least that's my experience - so i don't mix alcohol with meditation LOL.

@Belay kelemework Belay, it appears you have not experienced enlightenment therefore to you will not truly grasp what is being pointed to within Leo's videos (and can't be understood by language because "it" (being) is prior to language. Let me ask you a question...you believe in your God right? Well - where do you think your God came from? Who made your God? I want you to start to see where your paradigm will collapse. You will run into the infinite regress problem. What you fail to grasp (which is enlightenment) is infinity itself. When you understand infinity all of this will make sense.

Well think of this way guys - after you have "awoken" you become conscious of non-duality; of oneness. So there is no one else BUT you...but then, there is also no where else to go but the "dream"...the "matrix" and/or whatever you wish to call it. There is only this - content-concept on top of being. So, most people who have awoken realize they need to go back into the dream, and "play" in the dream. To do this, you're basically "pretending" that the dream is real, and therefore it actually is real. So keep in mind that the only reason you are here is that God tricked himself into thinking that there is duality - so basically you are going back into the trick, but this time taking things much LESS seriously. It's like living the dream, literally. So basically you can relax, take things really light and enjoy the dream - because as long as you are "playing along" it's real. You need to be able to flip between the dream and oneness at will - to jump between perspectives. But most importantly you can keep oneness in the back of your mind at all times so that you can apply the wisdom to your "dualistic" life and vastly improve your life. But moral of the story is life is what you make it - if you wanna make it dualistic, then it's dualistic! Of course, those of us who are enlightened know that's not the essence of God, but its still a "part" of God in the sense that he/it thought up the concept and content. I dunno, maybe I'm rambling. But another way to look at it is to say, well, there is no way i can be inferior anymore because I'm too "short" or too "tall" or not good looking enough. Because deep down there is only being and there is only you! So Oneness should be a bigtime help for inferiority complexes!

I think its super beneficial to go back and listen to them multiple times too - so you guys should never not have content available, there is always something new to glean even from an episode you already listened to. For those of you who already had an awakening and it has become memory due to ego backlash listening to the content multiple times will keep deepen your enlightenment and shorten your time between mystical experiences. You also have to make sure you are doing the consciousness work as well!

@Aakash Good luck to you too. Indeed being is all there really is - everything else is illusion/content/concept Initially becoming conscious of this (enlightenment) led to some bigtime ego backlash when I realized that i never really existed. But these days I take things much much lighter, as if in a dream (which is actually what it is), and I enjoy the dream. I also enjoy just "being" the most, and I don't search for peace outward anymore, I find it within myself - as that's all there is. Good luck friend!

I was staring at my hand completely grounded in actuality (being) when the doubt of God completely subsided. I gazed into infinity itself and realized absolute infinity is why there actually is God and as i became fully conscious of this i burst into tears. I became conscious of the paradox of how God is impossible yet possible.

@noselfnofun Very good observation. Personally I do believe you do need to be at a certain level of personal development, which often comes with a lot of suffering, in order to achieve it. At least that is what i have experienced in my own life. However that said, everyone is different, and everyone has their own perspective so I do not think you should limit yourself into thinking that you are not ready for enlightenment yet. This path has to be walked alone.