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You don’t wanna be a Jabba The Hut, you wanna be Luke Skywalker and taking action. Not the Luke Skywalker who did nothing on an island.

I am talking about losing all of your senses. Senses are what we could say our only connection to reality. Heck, our senses are reality. What does it even mean for something to exist if it cannot be perceived through the senses? It’s like the invisible gardener argument. If you are blind, you can still think and hear and etc. Imagine being born in a sensory deprivation tank with no exposure to any of your senses including language and thought. How would that experience be different than deep sleep or nonexistence? What could be aware? If you have not experienced anything, how can you be aware of anything? I’m sure you get my point.

Why? I “did” nothing for 5 hours straight and accomplished nothing. You might as well do something you find meaningful. Doing nothing for 30 minutes is good but any longer is a waste of time.

True. But it is still harder to smell a Buddhist turd, whereas a Trump turd is much easier. Buddhism is a human thing that denies it’s a human thing.

Straw man. Blind people can hear better than you. Blind people’s other senses become much more sharper. Do your research. How else would you define death other than the complete loss of your senses? If you cannot see, hear, or even think, how would that be different than being dead? Losing your sense of sight is a form of death. You can never see the world again like you once did. Color blind people experience a death of color. Everything you call life is experience and when you lose all senses, you lose experience. And by the way, yes, in a certain sense, blind people do not live as fully as people who can see. Imagine all the opportunities and experiences you lose because of that impairment. You cannot even play sports like tennis or football. Being deaf, you lose opportunities to be a musician. However, there were people like Beethoven and others who were able to make the most of their impairments, but they still lost something within their gains. This stuff should be intuitive and obvious. I don’t know why this needs to be explicated.

1. There is no evidence that you wont die. I define death as the loss of your senses. So, there actually is evidence of death because I am already aware that my senses aren’t as sharp as they once were. Logic and experience, our only two ways of knowing anything, will tell you this. Becoming blind, deaf, tasteless, thoughtless, etc. is no different than death. The glue that holds it all together is The Force, God, Gravity, Consciousness, or whatever you want to call the I Am. Existence isn’t a house of cards, it is fundamental. It is the ground on which the cards are built on. Your identity is the house of cards. The ground is your consciousness/existence.

Don’t get distracted. Statues are FOS. Buddhism is FOS. Buddhism and statues are about idolizing others who have awakened instead of awakening yourself. You cannot awaken without ambition and focus on your goals. Nice pictures though. For a religion who is about detachment, followers of Buddhism put a lot of attention into statues, authority, and the idea of meditation and enlightenment. But nobody really wants to do the inner work. They just wanna buy statues and meditation pillows and go into lotus pose without realizing that none of those activities get you any closer to the goal.

Why does God allow evil? The simplest answer is love and free will. Evil is the intentional action of harming another living thing. There is no freedom without the option of doing both good and bad.

He’s been back and has never left lol.

If there were other minds, then they would be different because they aren’t connected. Think about twins who share the same body. They have different minds and the same mind simultaneously. They can read each others thoughts, but one mind will move an arm and the other one will move the other side of the body. They have to work together. So in that case it isn’t either same or different mind, it is both. Now think of split brain person. One part of their mind does one thing and the other another thing. The mind is split and isn’t connected with itself. You could think of the Universe has an infinite split brain. But don’t think all the parts are the same because they aren’t connected. They were connected but aren’t anymore. The same with you being born. You were your mother. But now, you are your own individual mind no longer tethered to your mothers cord. If there are other minds, they would be different. The question is are the other minds whole minds or part minds. If we all share a part-mind, then we would be the same and different at the same time. But if we are whole-minds, then there would be nothing to share but the common reality we are communicating and living in.

Don’t dismiss logic so easily. If you say that your POV is Absolute Truth, then how are you rejecting Solipsism? If you rely on direct experience, there are no other POVs. It is only your logic that tells you that others exist. Notice that. That is why you can’t trust your perceptions. Even though all logic is based on your perceptions, it is a higher mode of perception that can think and analyze perception. But how do you know you have awakened other than you feeling like you have and being convinced? How do you know your awakening isn’t a self-deception? In my awakening, I realized there is no difference between the two. Don’t dismiss the camera analogy too easily. The videos you record on your camera are taking place in your camera, which takes place in reality. A camera just like your brain is a filtering process of consciousness. If your camera or brain gets damaged, you lose connection to reality. When your camera breaks, it “dies.” You can’t experience reality without a body/brain. Please notice that strange loop. When you are dismissing solipsism, you are trusting logic more than your experience lol. You ain’t gonna find another experience in your experience. Logic is gonna be an inference at best that there are others who experience like you do. There is no inference in direct experience. Inference is a conceptual/logical faculty lol.

If truth and false are the same, then that means awakening vs. deception are also the same. And so is wisdom and foolishness. But isn’t it foolish to not make distinctions? Isn’t it false, untrue, and foolish to think that a wise person is no wiser than a fool and truth is no more than falsehood? Why do psychedelics if all that does is drive you deeper into Falsehood since you state going into Truth is going into Falsehood. There need to be distinctions and dualities made. Otherwise, you can’t escape and solve this maze. It’s like the rat saying there is no difference whether I escape the maze or stay and eat the cheese. In that sense, why are we here? What are we seeking? But feelings are biases, they aren’t Truth. Feelings come and go but the Truth is the way reality has always been. To say that an Andrew Tate and Trump support is as wise as Leo Gura is a mistake. There is a duality there. Nazis are not as good as Buddhists. That is objective because good is defined as spreading kindness and respect to others. Nazis kill and Buddhists don’t, which makes Nazis less good than Buddhists. Only a fool would conflate the two. If you can’t separate reality from fantasy, psychologists will diagnose you with a psychotic disorder because in order to function is to be in alignment with reality. Conflating reality and fantasy together is not the same as being in alignment with what is true.

Think of the brain being like a camera that filters consciousness. When I take a picture or take a video, there is a camera required for that image and video to exist. That image/video is a subjective representation of objective reality (AKA consciousness/existence/universe). Of course there’s no right way of perceiving reality. You can do it with a telescope or microscope or naked eye. It’s all reality.

I would agree and have confirmed it all except for what you say about brains and solipsism. Brains and solipsism are unknowable. We cannot know for certain that reality right now is or isn’t rendered in a brain. However, we have evidence of other brains but not much our own. Because if reality is occurring in the brain, then I can never study my own brain because the brain I see in the mirror is a representation of what my brain is creating. The claim that the brain does not exist is like saying there is no camera that took the picture. It’s absurd. The Universe invented the brain to have a human experience. There is no human experience without a brain. But what is interesting is that you claim that the brain isn’t perceiving reality but you claim that solipsism is false and others are conscious. You can never confirm this because like you said, what is in front of you is all that exists. You can’t see your own brain now head, so it doesn’t exist. Apply that same logic across the board and you will reach solipsism. This conscious field right now is all that can be known. There is no way I can know if anyone is conscious but myself. But I believe others are conscious because it helps me function in this social world to maintain my human existence/survival. You contradict yourself when you say the apple exists as its beingness without a need for a brain. But your ideas of timelines and other consciousnesses are not taking place where the apple is. The apple and another human is just your consciousness. The apple does not have a separate field of experience and neither that human. Your mind is drawing these lines of a rock has no experience whereas the human bodies I see walking do. If you think others are conscious and have a brain to perceive reality, then so do you by that logic. Hence, the contradiction. I hope I made that contradiction that I am seeing clear to you.

I kindly disagree. I think focus shift covers more of the original video in-depth and gives a good summary. The clips take out one section of Leo talking rather than putting it into context like Focus Shift. Notice how the Actualized Clips doesn’t cut to other sections of the video. It is just a highlight of a video rather than a summary of insights like Focus Shift. Everyone though has their own cup of tea and drinks it too.

But isn’t it Trump and Satan? I thought God was the same as Truth. It would be unwise to say that Truth and falsehood are the same. That’s what the Devil will say. That would mean that awakening to Truth is a fantasy and would be an Absolute Falsehood.

Bioshock.

What is a question, and what question God would you like me to ask?

I don’t know. Maybe to find and rewatch the clip that you really liked rather than having to flip through the whole video. It’s like rereading a chapter rather than the entire book. I liked Actualized Clips. I think it is just an algorithm problem right now that some day it will switch around in favor.

It’s not possible. Reality is infinite and understanding is always finite. The part cannot grasp the whole because the whole will always be greater than the part. This should be obvious. Omniscience doesn’t exist at least in this finite human form. Anyone who says they understand all of reality should be able to demonstrate understanding and clear articulation of all mathematical equations, mental health disorders, how electricity works, how AI and computer coding works, etc. All of those are part of reality and you will never understand everything in this lifetime period. Please read The Book of Not Knowing and check out Leo’s video on The Power of Not Knowing. Leo already admits that total understanding of reality is impossible. He admits that the only thing he knows is that reality is infinite. That’s all we can know.

OP makes a good point and is asking good questions. If everything is a hallucination that would mean hallucinations are also a hallucination which makes everything real. Hallucinations are occurring in existence/reality.

Death is imaginary. The self is imaginary. Lol.

Studies show that religious people in general are typically more happier. This could be because nonreligious folks may be more pessimistic, which makes sense when you realize everything is a lie. Ignorance is bliss in that sense. But there could be many other factors as well such as community involvement gives people more sense of a purpose.

No character in your dream can awaken. There are no enlightened beings.

I have been thinking about this thought. How do Buddhist Monks live any different than from being dead? They spend their whole lives confined in a monastery sitting and counting their breaths. The few monks who leave to meditate in a cave are also not living any different than from being dead. Meanwhile, there are those who are traveling the world, following a purpose to improve society and make a difference. They are improving themselves, facing conflict/stress, are actively overcoming their fears, and are living ambitious lives. One of my first thoughts when watching Leo Gura is why is he not spending his life meditating in a cave if that lifestyle is so important for enlightenment? Why is he wasting his time by teaching and running a business. But that is when the thought came that the people who take up a monk life are actually fooling themselves because they are existing and not truly living. They actually believe that if they spend their entire lives meditating that they will reach so-called enlightenment. The thought never comes after 10 years of practice that maybe enlightenment and the whole monk life is a self-deception and a way of lowering a man’s ambition. But who am I to judge, the eastern culture values the man who abandons his ego, not the one who builds it. Why do we desire to abandon our ego if the point of life is to develop it? Why would the Universe create an ego in the first place to only want to go back to the Source? Why not enjoy the game life is and work on maximizing our character and growth while we are alive rather than pissing it away seeking an enlightenment that does not exist. There comes a point when one must stand up and take action and not spend most of their lives on a comfy meditation cushion. The Jedi meditate, but they do other things too that make them men and women of action and service. There is more to life than formal sitting meditation. Learn to meditate while doing hard work in the moment. If Buddhist monks can meditate high consciously in a monastery, why not carry that over to meditate in a business and life purpose? These are just my thoughts here about the self-deception of enlightenment and Buddhism. I hope it is helpful or not. Don’t get me wrong. I do formally meditate. But 10 minutes is all I need. The rest of the day, I am striving to following my ambitions as mindfully as I can.