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This is blindness touted as open-mindedness. You don't go verify a cult leaders claims about reality to figure out it is a cult. That is a red herring. You simply look at the behaviour. Same goes for narcissism. ----‐------------ guy: *kicks puppies* me: that guy kicking puppies is narcissistic follower of guy: if you studied his work you would know that God actually personally told him to do that, and you have no way of proving otherwise ------------------ Like ok, you can believe his claims or epistemology, but it's irrelevant to the topic and doesnt change anything about what he is doing.

Sometimes even if the other person doesn't seem to care I'll still say something so other people can read it. I think I've said everything I wanted to, though.

I think everything is objectively pretty clear. It's just a common tactic here to backpedal super hard I guess. That moment when Leo was like "I said I might be wrong so actually I'm right" was pretty insane. EQ is being able to tell when someone doesn't actually care about the topic, though.

Apparently there is lol

Yeah, maybe I am being selfish, but I called the fact that I was gonna be selfish and wrong. So that means I was actually right all along! Muahahaha. This is a 1000 IQ move. You need to read his upcoming book The Art of the Leo to understand it.

The only reason we haven't seen him transform on camera yet is simply because we're too closedminded, guys. We just gotta chill and like trust him harder, or something.

Awesome

Meditation has no function, so it's not a problem. You might benefit from Ramana's method of inquiry: Focus on the feeling of being yourself or being aware. Whenever a thought or experience occurs to you, simply ask "to whom is this occurring to?". Then to answer the question you simply bring focus back to your present self which is aware of the thought or experience. The feeling of being yourself. Stay there. If another thought arises, simply ask the question again. Keep returning to yourself by prompting the question.

Lol there is no real corruption. You can't mess up being present. All of that is happening presently. You are introducing the idea that you are not allowed to daydream or do this and that, but it is unnecessary. No matter how hard you try, you wont ever actually stop being present. That's eventually what is realized. Meditation is like falling asleep. You simply let go of everything. Even the notions of effort or becoming more present or more spiritual. You do this until you reach what is most fundamental to your experience. Then you stay there. Simple.

You are this awareness. Because you are it, it's not something you can attain or become better at. It is also eternal, since there is never any point in time where you would stop being yourself. The only matter is to start noticing this until it becomes obvious. Focus on anything which is absolutely certain in your experience. Your breath. Your heartbeat. A table. Or even just the fact of existing. Anything. Notice that it is not the future. Notice that the future is the notion of something other than that. Then simply keep focus on it, and the unreal will vanish.

The one that experiences the future is unhappy. Are you that one? Without using the word "future", where is it? What does it look like? Texture? Taste? Smell? It doesn't take any time to be present. It also doesn't take any time to think of the future. It's a "trick" of awareness. The one that is aware doesn't go anywhere. Actual happiness isn't about controlling or predicting the unreal (future). It's about being what is already real (present). Happiness is non-conceptual. Meditatively, it's clear.

Totally.

He is simply responding to your own idea of ownership. Reality is an amazing projection.

Some guy starts attacking you because he thinks he owns the Mona Lisa and you said otherwise. Proof of ownership?? Not really.

Anthropormorphization. "Territorial behaviour" is a more apt description. Unless yelling proves ownership?

You're the one who has ownership ideas if you're trying to take its tail. haha

If it stopped protecting the food, then it would become very evident that the food wasn't owned by the cat to begin with. That's the point of protecting it. One person thinks the food is theirs, the other person thinks the same. Who is to say which is right? There is no right answer. Therefore it must be protected. The idea of ownership is unique to thought. You can protect something without thinking it is yours. In modern society, we enforce it through laws and copyrights. The cat does it through physicality. None of it actually proves ownership existentially.

Lol yep. If you tell a cat "give me your material possessions", it makes no sense to the cat. Because it never thought it had any possessions.

You need at least 100 trips to realize that Leo is more awake than you. This is also ultimately what the Buddha realized under that tree. True story.

Yeah, the past projects itself into the future. "I experienced this, and so I will experience it again later". "I have a meeting scheduled for 6pm tomorrow, so I will experience a meeting tomorrow". The present thought "connects" the timeline together, so that you may perceive it and think about it. You can logically go through this as well. Without the present moment, you can't conceive of a future or a past. Time is a concept that depends on the existence of the present. Without the present, there is no perceivable timeline at all.

It's amazing because I came up with the exact same visual analogy, except I never thought about zooming into the middle line. That's creative. The way I saw it, is that it initially seems there are "two halves", but in truth each half is defined by the exact same middle boundary. So there aren't actually two halves independent from each other, they are both created by the same line. When you take the middle line away, both halves vanish, because they are a product of the same line. This is actually exactly how thought (the illusion of multiplicity) works. For example, "up" never exists without "down", and vice versa.

If you like playing games, then you attract people who like playing games. Until you don't wanna play anymore. Indeed, alignment is important.

You can definitely care without worrying. I wouldn't even say they are the same thing. You can pick an item from a restaurant menu, I don't think that is worrying. That is not true. It is a misunderstanding. There is no benefit to believing you will experience the future because no one experiences it. The benefit is still part of the belief. In fact, there are even tribes which do not include the concept of the future in their language.

Lol. After a while they will have to start thinking differently. Like when they observe quantum mechanics. I actually think all the "crazy non-dual stuff" will be quite normal later on in science.

I tend to agree. Science is just observation.