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I 100% stand by my comment as an expression of how I actually felt. But, I recognize not all things should be expressed openly. Even with my long history here I guess people can still provide me with warning points. There is a feeling of it not being fair, and a feeling of understanding. Giving me warning points is totally your choice. I have been on this forum for years, I’ve been a mod. Leo occasionally swears in the way I did in that post. As a mod I have reached out to people and spoken to them before applying warning points. Pointing out their mistake or error and allowing reprieve. @SincerityYour Choice to mod how you are. Speaking to me was always a choice and you never did. I stand by my choice of words in that context. It’s a rare use of profanity. But you want to give me warning points? That’s totally fine. You don’t offer course for correction?

If I am to return to the forum I need to change my approach. No more exchanging with others with regards to drama. It’s a waste of time and a distraction. Let them figure it out for themselves. I don’t have much to say here. I am imperfect. This is for sure and have lots of inner work, contemplation, and healing journaling to do. It’s overwhelming actually how much I can be doing. So many things to do and improve. But, all in time. I’ve seen a lot of growth over the years. As I mature I see more areas for growth in all major areas of my life. I score low right now in my High Performance planning in many key area of my life. I also see that I am focusing my energy in particular areas of my life which make addressing everything right now at once is impossible. I will talk to my coach Monday about ways I can be more disciplined with my schedule. I am fairly productive right now. I know I need to get to a higher level of focus, distraction free work, dealing with boredom if I am to get to a higher level of success. I am making progress in my courses. But, not enough. I am letting blocked time slide too much in some key areas. Anyway, I was journaling heavily. Doing some Qigong. I am up late. Time to turn in. I think I’ll always have room for improvement. I made a lot of progress this week I can be proud of. I also see areas where I need to lock in. I am also aware of balancing my plan with my needs and life circumstances that come up. But, I also think I need to say no to more things, and block time more skillfully. Be more focused on referring to my schedule not doing what feels best.

This guy is a really good Qigong teacher. His movements are really purely Qigong. Now that I have a stronger Lower Tan Tian, and my Qi sensitivity and quantity has increased it makes doing these practices very energetic and enjoyable. It’s hard to know how much people really know coming from these traditions steeped deep in meditation. I feel a lot better after this. I will study under this man more. He is really amazing. I think I will start with his Shi Ba Shi style Qigong course in a month or so. As the sensitivity increases as well as the quality and quantity of your Qi during the practice you can start to feel how to “pack” your qi and strengthen the Qi body. In this video he showed me how to expand, and how to pack with more clarity.

@Carl-Richard I’m not here Moaning about the forum and Leo. The darkness is your perspective

Questionable ontological categories. Metaphysical claims. People have a contextual understanding of seer and seen. Within Maya is appears dualities exist. Dualities only exist on a relative level within a unified infinity. Within the unified field of experience there is the appearance of duality. Duality exists, but only because of a non-dual unified existential truth and universal intelligence.

Bryan is for sure pursuing meaning and significance. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GmQ81TPLH/?mibextid=wwXIfr

@Carl-Richard You are dark.

This is probably true. I still get motivation from him around my health and fitness. Losing weight, running, improving sleep… all feeling better .

@Natasha Tori Maru You say that as if she didn’t consent?

@Osaid No you created one 😄 If reality is one it’s one always. This isn’t hard.

Profound video. I don’t know if I can live up to this but it’s important to consider.

@Joseph Maynor Hmmm, well, you’ll have to decide I don’t know what you mean by attack. There have been people here actively accusing Leo of being a cult leader, many mods and members. This video destroys cults, belief, etc. A cult leader could not and would not make this video.

If you being abused here (which I doubt). You should probably leave. If this community, Leo, and his videos are not helping you or supporting you and you feel this way you should leave. Take a break. Always free to come and go. But, it’s obvious to me you guys don’t watch his videos. I know a lot of you have admitted this and then you wonder why this is so confusing. His epistemic responsibility video for example answers so much of your guys criticisms, and clears Leo’s attitudes towards these things.

@LordFall Don’t stress about it. Carl has been like this for years. Mods are individuals not yes men.

@Osaid If you think there is a difference between seeing and seen that’s a duality. This isn’t hard!

Relax and be well my friends. You don’t need to solve everything right now. All is well and already successful.

The vaste majority of the quotes shared in the opening post are not offensive to serious people. I can see how the first one is intentionally put first to trigger the reader and make the rest seem worse than they are. If death is infinity then obviously it would make you more conscious than a living human… why is that an issue? Other than that these are Leo’s views, opinions on other teachers and his own understanding speaking to individuals who we don’t know what they were saying when he responded or whether or not those people understood their points. I speak to you guys and read your comments. Leo is more right than you guys on the matters he speaks on… His epistemology as a whole is stronger than any of you here. And, it’s stronger than those teachers he listed in the comments in the opening sections. Not to say those teachers don’t offer things Leo doesn’t. But…. Leo’s work is overall stronger. This suggests he has a deeper, broader and more robust understanding. Some of you guys don’t even really know what Non-duality is, yet you’ll preach it. Some of you don’t know what the function of Buddhism is, yet you get upset when someone says it’s not God Realization. There is so much messiness here but you can’t even see it and when Leo points it out you cry fowl.

@Osaid Seeing is a chair or table if that’s what you’re seeing. You are sneakily creating a duality between consciousness and the subject within it. They are one…. That’s nonduality…

@Hojo Hi, I am the universe…

“It includes all, and therein, it cannot be said to be any of what it includes. Such is the non-dual nature of "it".” I would add and sort of correct to say, it includes all, and is all, therefore it’s nondual nature allows for the appearance and experience of dualistic qualia… Because it includes all, and it is all, even when you see a chair and a cup and a feeling of sadness… it’s all the same thing. Shiva, as the Non-dual Shiva Tantra would teach is the non-dual nature of Love and a cup and how they are identical in absolute reality. There has to be a oneness, a non-dualness/ nothingness which is infinitely intelligent to have anything in daily human life. Nonduality if it’s true includes all the various things you have experienced in your life. Also, nonduality not being any of what it includes implies two…. And what would separate them? Nothing!!

@Osaid What you say sound logical but that’s not what non-duality is. If reality is consciousness it’s the most conscious thing in existence by definition. If infinite didn’t include finite things (which there paradoxical aren’t even your pinky is infinite) then it would be finite not infinite. Non-duality doesn’t imply not two. It’s also a mental construct you have. I am in a room for example and I see a bottle and an iPad. The non-dual nature of this is that the iPad and bottle are the same thing, just appearing differently. Non-duality in daily human life is the sort of duality through artificial divisions. I mean, you admit you see more than one thing around you. In the oneness of your consciousness. From the Tao came the 10,000 things. This is essentially the Non-duality is the precursor for anything else. Reality has to be One and united. Has to be God, and it’s also happen to be an infinite mind. If you assume the mapping of non-duality you have is correct why is it riddled with paradox?