BlessedLion

@Javfly33 this is the same point Ralston makes. My argument though is that it IS love. It’s undeniable that the structure/purpose/and core of God is Love. God does have emotions, everything we experience is possible to be felt by God. Nothing was left out in our experience. And it is the “same” as human love. But metaphysical. Human love is like a small taste of it but it’s of the same family. Kinda like grapes to wine. I don’t understand or agree with the notion that it’s somehow different. I mean why not call a spade a spade, it’s LOVE.

I hope I am misunderstanding. Because I find it very depressing that he would deny Love and Compassion from God. But this is what he says quote for quote. Am I wrong in my interpretation?

I refuse any teaching or teacher which does not incorporate Love into their work. This is why I walked away from Ralston, and I’ll do it with Sadhguru too. Just don’t have the time or energy for any school that doesn’t incorporate Love

You are already God. Whole and complete. you have no obligation, need, or way to do life “right” you’re sole responsibility is to experience life how you wish to create it. There is no wrong, evil or bad. You can’t fuck up its a matter of what you wish to create as God. That said, creating love and a passionate life is a great icing on the cake of already being whole complete and Free. You create your life purpose, then enjoy it knowing it’s completely meaningless and unnecessary

Wow. So compassionate and understanding. “you don’t see reality like I do so I’m cutting you out of my life” 😂😂😂

Very profound sharing. Thank you. So beautiful and way to find this love for life in your unique way

That’s fucking badass man, I usually do the same but with spiritual pursuits. it’s cool to see that same mindset and context put into making some cash, so you can have more freedom in life. Plus just getting after it like that and saying fuck all the distractions is so satisfying. Get after it 🔥

@Hojo That’s a slippery slope to quitting an addiction but I see your point. Regarding this post. The guys reasoning is fucking wack. But also porn is damaging to your psyche , masculinity , and spirit. Not that it’s “evil” but high conscious sex or sexual retention is so pure and potent

Solitude in nature doe

. It’s better to be independent, and in my case that’s just needing very little and living in cheap countries.

I literally don’t need psychedelics anymore. You can raise your consciousness to the point that it’s like a clean trip 24/7 Yoga Meditation Community

@Leo Gura Can you speak more on that?

I’m just so thankful for his work and help in my awakening. You take his material, and of course your own study and practice, to the fullest, you literally end up in God Realization. The state that sages and mystics have thirst for and searched for, tortured themselves for, for millennia. This is beyond YouTube, it’s mysticism. You are all mystics. If you’re struggling, double down, keep going. Find a community or a school that’s dedicated to awakening, it helps a ton. You guys don’t realize, but you can volunteer at these kinds of places and work for food and board, so all you have to do is focus on your practice. Money is not a barrier. Stop limiting yourself. The book list, LP course, videos, psychedelics, meditation. Without Leo’s guidance this would’ve been way trickier and confusing. Im grateful for all my teachers, mentors, and guides. The universe beyond blessed me in this arena. The greatest teacher however, is your soul, your heart, your longing for God. This will guide you til your last breath. Listen to it. Anyways, Thank you brother.

Regarding point 2, actually you’d be surprised. Many of the people in these communities are really conscious, they just don’t fit into societies psychosis so chose to live in Stage Green communities. And why not? the pace of life is slow, everyone is happy, fit, beautiful, and has some baseline knowledge of spirituality. You can meet some very developed people and even awakened people. I consider myself a hippie in many ways, but not like a lazy hippy, I’m super focused and disciplined. Insanely dedicated and intelligent, but my lifestyle is in sync with nature, dance, sex, and relaxation and God of course. If that makes me a hippy then sign me up I’m happy as fuck! 4- I scored an amazing job in tech out of college and spent 6 years only saving and investing. Eventually I realized I had enough to live freely in certain parts of the world. So I wake up when I want and dedicate my time to spirituality. It’s fucking amazing. my advice: save and invest like nobody’s business. 5- totally agree. I think it’s a good rule in general in life to actually not depend on anyone for anything. The second you depend on people, they own you in a way

Agreed. I was talking about this tonight and I think people usually do psychedelics way too early. Psychedelics should be done only after a deep foundational ground in spiritual work and purification of the mind through meditation books right living and yoga. Imo no one should to 5MEO until at least after 3-5 years of deep sober spiritual work

How else do you show up to the Ashram? Fully enlightened? Lol

Great points. 1- I’ve actually met women on meditation retreats, you wait until it’s over and just talk to them. You don’t have to “hit” on them, and they usually have a lot to share and obviously you have similar values 2- if you really want to meet spiritual women, it’s VERY easy, you just find places that have a spiritual vibe or community. Tons of this in Costa Rica, Austin, Mexico, Bali, India, Thailand. These places swarm with women, ratio is usually much more on female, and they are starving for conscious men. Work remote if you must, these places are also great for your mental health and support your practice. 3- true but you can have a life purpose more or less aligned with serving truth or healing 4- you’re right about the financial freedom thing, that’s a definite barrier, but you can still bring mindfulness into your day job. I was lucky enough to break free from work. If you’re serious enough, you can volunteer and do karma yoga work at ashrams and yoga schools. You live and eat for work, and are surrounded by community and yoga girls. 5- for sure. That’s one reason I’m hesitant to teach, but I’ve heard it’s a massive catapult for your practice

Again, why this need for extreme suffering for someone to be spiritual?

Sorry, I meant spirituality is the cake. Those other things are the icing.

Some people genuinely just have a call to spirit. Everybody is pretty nuts, it’s just a matter of how well they can hide it. It’s not like normal people have good mental health, discipline, functional relationships and fulfilling careers Spirituality is the icing, without it, all those other things are quite trivial and empty. They don’t create true happiness

You will brother. Your heart is already ignited. It’s all God, even if you take a break, the calling will come back Much love on your journey ahead

It’s because todays man is a child

It’s interesting, it seems like so many people are losing their zest for God these days. I live in a spiritual community and met 3 people who dropped out of the silent retreat happening this week. They simply didn’t feel it was aligned. Today I met a woman in cafe who said she woke up the other night and simply dropped her spiritual pursuit. Couldn’t even do yoga or meditate after. Now this Not sure what’s going on but I think many people pre maturely jump into spirituality. It’s good to recognize the authenticity of your pursuit. Im similar to OP in the sense I had an existential crisis at 23 which catapulted me into the path. I’m now 30. The difference is that I went all in and haven’t looked back. My fire for God is stronger than ever. I don’t even need books or teachers God speaks to me in thousands of ways throughout the day. OP. this could also be a trick, to go “burn your karma” but you get stuck in the rat race for a while. imo it’s best to conquer the spiritual truths when you’re young and have time and energy. I was so set on finding God that i saved all my money to be able to fully pursue it. now, I don’t give a flying fuck about dating, success or status. It’s a joke to me. funnily enough I have tons of sex with God realized gorgeous women, my finances are stable and I’ve found my life purpose, which is to teach God realization. It all ties together. They don’t have to be exclusive. dating? Meet spiritual women who enhance your practice life purpose? Serve God so if you have that calling stay with it. But if you truly feel it’s not genuine then go back to the delusion, realize it’s empty and disatisfactory, and come back. Spirituality is the most satisfying exciting loving thing to do. Sometimes I feel like people dropping around my like flies (off the path) is simply a test. I laugh, I’ll die before I fall off the path. if it ever gets dry I’ll stick myself inside a cave until the fire is lit again. i don’t even need psychedelics anymore God realization is a waking state.

Here is his take from a Q & A on his newsletter; Question; Peter, Thank you for your answer! It's clear. I love it. Charles Berner would be very happy to see the purity of your transmission. I have another question: You say love is not an enlightenment question, because it is a human invention. Yes, what we call love is a psychological construction, BUT, isn't it a prefiguration of the reality of what we truly are? ("prefiguration" is not the good word, sorry, but it is near to what I want to say). Do you think love is only from and in the dimension of illusion and has nothing to do with the Absolute, our absolute nature? All the things you enunciate, I totally agree (mind, emotion, language), but love (I don't speak about emotion), isn't it what we really are, finally? The direct experiences I had were love. At least, I recognize this state of perfection, of union as love. Is it only my definition? If we take love as an object of enlightenment, what happens? Thank you Reine Answer: Reine, You can call it whatever you want, but it is necessary to know it is not what you call it. Why choose the word love? You must have some beliefs or predisposition to think that way. If you are talking about a love that isn’t love, again, why call it love? If you recognize a state of perfection or unity or being one with everything, etc., this is still a state, it is not consciousness. People so often confuse the state that arises when they have an enlightenment with the consciousness itself. This is not a deceitful attempt on their part, it is just a mistaken one. The mind will do its best at that moment to make sense of this consciousness breakthrough and form some idea or state that matches the influence this breakthrough has had on the mind. But it cannot actually match the consciousness because there is nothing there and no state at all that is this consciousness. If you ask what is love, you have to focus on whatever you experience as love, yes? Is that universal? Is it an experience? Does it ultimately transcend experience? You have to tell the truth, but most people who ask such a question already want it to be a universal state, they already want it to turn out to be some particular way, don’t they? This is not open from the beginning and so isn’t really honest. You say you got this after your breakthrough, if your consciousness was real and it was YOU, your true nature, than what you say is rather irrelevant. If you came to me and said you got you are love, I would have a hard time with that if there wasn't a clear consciousness there that was beyond love or anything else. If there was, then it doesn't matter that you call it love, but I might ask you at that time, why? And then listen to your response. If you are conscious you will know and can say why, if it is a conclusion or a state you were overwhelmed by then you won't be able to say or you will resort to your mind or beliefs and start making an argument or explanation. This then shows you aren't really conscious of the truth. It is so hard for people to get beyond overwhelming states that occupy the bodymind and sweep them away in unprecedented ways. Such states as feeling one with everything, universal love, getting the perfection of everything, not finding a location to self and feeling free of limitation, getting a hit on infinity, and so on. When they have such experiences arise, people conclude these must be enlightenment because they never had anything like it before and they sound very spiritual and transcendent, and might fit with some belief system they've heard about. It does suggest a great deal of focus and contemplation where the mind has let go and opened up, creating a completely new perspective and experience. But it is not enlightenment. This is not to say that beliefs in a spiritual system and images of what enlightenment should look like can't also deny the truth when it is presented. Once I was teaching in France, and a woman, the wife of an ex-apprentice of mine, made dinner for us and sat next to me as we ate. I didn't know her, and was just having fun chatting normally with people at the table, when she began asking me questions about consciousness. I would respond and then return to the meaningless chatter with others. I have no recollection what I said really, just that I responded honestly to her questions as best I could. Later, she told me she had been living in a Buddhist community in India for something like 8 years but when she had a conscious breakthrough the community and teacher denied it, because she wasn't "ready" or "advanced" of some such. In other words, it didn't fit with their belief system and hierarchy. She saw their limitation and ignorance and so left them to become a mother and give up such pursuits. Until, she says, she met a man at dinner that give her a new perspective on it and so began working on consciousness once again. She went on to later translate The Book of Not Knowing into French. I recommend you take a look at that book. Has tons in it that might assist in your work. It's in French and is being translated into German right now, but I’d suggest you read it in the original English if you can, translations are always a little off. Good luck

The shit i read on here is just so lame and victim mindset that i wanted to write a quick post. Consider that you don't know anything about women and their innate wisdom. Consider that they are not the problem, they are not shallow and you only perceive what feeds your story of you "being a desirable male, but they got it backwards". I get that you are bitter, nature can be a bitch, but you are not smarter than nature, and if nature is saying "your seed will not continue" consider why that is. You don't have to get pist, because it's not written in stone, you can change things so nature wants you to procreate. What do women want? Leadership (positive leadership) Confidence Authenticity Presence for her Strong communication skills For you to have a good vibe, be cool, be calm, be kind Imagine that she is just a human like you, with a depth of emotions and a desire for safety. Instead of projecting your loser-dom onto her, feel into her heart and see her for the beautiful gift she is. Women are proof of God, and they should be treated as such. Get over yourselves.