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@Alan Reji It's just a game we play. Like children love to play pretending to be someone else.. Play long enough and you'll forget that you were only pretending. When a child plays being a pirate, there is no real pirate. The child doesn't have a pirate nor actually is a pirate. The "pirate" is nowhere to be found... Likewise, your ego is nowhere to be found. I mean, don't just take my word for granted, go look for yourself. Try to find your ego. No need, like everything else

"Emotion" is a thought. "Perception" is a thought. But when in meditation thoughts have subsided, there won't be any emotions, or perceptions - this doesn't mean that your consciousness will be empty and there's just nothing going on, but you will experience emotions, perceptions and thoughts without labeling them as that. There will simply be...that! And after a certain point, you won't even call it "that" anymore. "Thought" itself is just another thought. It's like someone who has managed to fool you into believing that he could lift himself up by his bootstraps. You will function even better than before. Yes, you can't do it. Just let it happen and be patient.

@blueplasma Neither, since they are identical Consciousness is what is. And so is love. Imagine you would never say "no" to anything. You would never exclude the existence of anything, in other words, everything that "wants" to be, can be and is. Imagine to accept everything 100% as it is. Imagine to be 100% selfless. Imagine to embrace everything so much, that it is literally indistinguishable from yourself. Can you see how I just gave you a description of love? Notice, that this very same description I just gave you, is also a description of the universe. Consciousness is the ground of existence. Within consciousness, everything is. You could not have anything without consciousness. You can even make a quick little experiment to validate this for yourself. Imagine a "thing" but no consciousness to be aware of that thing. Would this be possible? Would this thing exist? This all embracing selflessness that is consciousness, is the same as existence and also the same as love.

Leo talks about learning from the mistakes others have made before you and that you can learn from that, instead of having to go through all those traps yourself. But is this really possible? I'm not quite sure how this form of learning is as "valid" let's say as learning from experiencing your own mistakes. Because then you really know, you felt what went wrong and therefore really have a deep connection to the error you made. But when learning from other people's mistakes, this connection doesn't really exist, so how can you really learn from the mistakes of other people?

Rather, the present moment is 100% an identity - so much so, that it's not even an "identity of the two". "Nothing lasts" has two meanings

Keep it to a minimum. Don't rant. It's not cool. When we talk about consciousness, reality or whatever, it sounds completely normal and at times even boring. But to "normal" people it doesn't. Their ears are not at all used to hearing such things and of course it will make them think that you're either just woo woo at best or totally insane and deluded at worst. Even with people who are close to you, keep it cool. The thing with actually crazy people is that they don't know how to or sometimes even can't live in two worlds at once. They only live in their world and don'T know how to play the game of society and everyday human life.

@King Merk Very good. Many people neglect working on the basics and it takes a lot of wisdom to know when to stop and take care of other important things. Wisdom is the ability to set the right priorities. Don't think that you're somehow "going back" or "regressing". On the contrary... You can always come back, consciousness won't run away Good luck!

@machiavelli I advise you to stop it. They are not into this stuff and you will most certainly not convince anybody of anything by posting such things. You're exactly like a priest of some sect who yells out all kinds of outlandish things in the middle of the street. People just don't like this sort of behavior, and for good reasons. You need to learn when to stop talking about such things. To them, you seem crazy and deluded, what did you expect? Let people live their lives. After all, they don't try to drag you into their stuff, so why would you do it?

Yin Yang I know that all of you know this one, but do you also know what each dot in the two monades and the words "Yin" and "Yang" originally mean? The dots mean that the white implies the black and the black implies the white - i.e., both always already contain the "seed" of each other. Give birth to Yin and you simultaneously get Yang and vice versa. "Yin" means the north side of a mountain, where there isn't any light, the shadow side. "Yang" means the south side of a mountain, where the snow reflects white light from the sun. The literal meaning is "bright-black".

This is what is called Indra's Net and it shows the interdependence of everything in the cosmos. Everything contains everything else, like an infinite web covered with dew drops contains itself as a fractal to infinity.

Show me "two experiences". There is no such thing. Whatever there is, is. And there cannot be "two". Being doesn't exist as "two". There are no two "is". "Multiplicity" is not the same as "separation". Because truly, nothing can be separated from anything else, or it wouldn't be. Everything = Everything You can't have anything but everything. All words create the appearance of there being something. "Something" is seeming division from "itself". Exactly. Nice analogy. There wouldn't be the necessity for HD one to experience HD two, if they were identical. But because identity of two things already excludes there being two things, there is only one experience, seeming to divide itself into many. There is only consciousness, but no one who is conscious.

I think it's a really nice answer. Considering the fact that he didn't have any mystical experiences, what he says sounds relatively good and it's definitely going in the right direction. To be honest, I even find it a little bit sad that his mind is so much in the way of him really understanding these things. You can see how he would really like to understand what he's saying and what he has long suspected deep inside... That there actually is a transcendent element to life. He even knows that consciousness is fundamental (or at least he very, very strongly suspects that, only his academic background kinda keeps him stuck in a materialistic world view) but he doesn't yet know how. I still wonder what would happen if he saw Leo's analysis video. And what he would be like if he overcame his shadow (oh the irony, he as a psychologist and admirer of Jung doesn't recognize his own shadow)... I owe him a lot and I have empathy for him. He is one of the few people I wish would gain the insights they desire in their hearts.

Yes exactly, why did you even ask me??

@RMQualtrough I feel like you're a bit too much caught up in ideas and conceptions. What about the idea "house"? Is that a false idea?

@Godhead Oh but that's still relatively harmless.. And to be honest, I'd rather have someone tell me that they're a multidimensional pleiadian serpentine high priest than that they're "enlightened"?

@RMQualtrough Yes. You can't unite anything that wasn't divided in the first place. Even to speak of "cessation" is already saying to much, because cessation implies division. For there to be the sense of "unity" (/nonduality) there must at least be the possibility of the illusion of division (thought). Your feeling of being an individual, of being cut off from the universe, of separation in any way shape or form, that feeling is the exact same as nonduality. There is no difference at all. Precisely because there is no real division, there can exist the illusion of division. You wouldn't know what you meant by "reality" unless you also knew what you meant by "unreality"(/"illusion").

Can't wait for "enlightenment" to go mainstream and people on Instagram declaring themselves to be Buddha almighty

@RMQualtrough Sorry, but I'm not sure how all that relates to your initial question or to what I wrote. Try to introduce only as few variables as possible into any explanation/conceptualization.

@RMQualtrough "Thought" is a thought. Thought is a kind of self-sustaining illusion. So is "mind". Because "mind", i.e. "thought" are identical. Mind is thought, thought is mind. Thought / mind are somewhat like this: Would you say there is a triangle? Of course not. There is no "it". Only the appearance of there being any triangle. You are as much of a "self" as there is a triangle How could the triangle seize to exist when it wasn't real in the first place?

Holy shit Leo just released another video!!

Hey you guys, I'm thinking about starting to detox my body from heavy metals, but my main focus is on mercury. I have an amalgam tooth filling (didn't have enough money at the time to get anything better) so maybe the load is a bit heavier on my body than on people without this sh*t in their mouth? Do you have any good sources on detox you could share with me? I know Leo wants to make video on it but who knows when that's going to be. Thanks in advance?

You guys don't f*cking get it. Aren't you kinda tired of this? 90% of the solipsism debates here are absolutely nothing but mental masturbation. You don't exist. Solipsism is not a thing. "Other people" don't exist, there are no "other bubbles" and "you" don't have any bubble either. Consciousness is not this 3D bubble that keeps changing its content. Consciousness is without any boundary, it is not solipsistic (at least not in the way you think it is), and if you would become conscious of what consciousness is for only one second you would see through it immediately. If you recoil at the notion of being alone in the universe, that's only a problem so long as you think that you exist. I mean, what's really the problem with solipsism anyway? Why are you afraid of "it"? And what is it that you're afraid of and who is afraid? To be alone in this universe, trapped inside a bubble that is mostly limited by your visual field? Isn't that the real bogeyman here? You want "other people to be real/exist", right? But what the hell do you even mean by that? I'll tell you what you mean by that and what you want, you want there to be egos, located inside other people's bodies/sculls, just like you think you are located behind your eyes. The dream analogy is good. But if you think that "you" encounter "other characters" in the dream, you still haven't understood. You are the dream, there are no characters, there is no "you" and there is nothing "other". So long as you think you exist as an ego, solipsism will scare the sh*t out of you and take a toll on your psyche, until you either see through it or stop caring anymore.

If I may add my two cents; Please try to see the bigger picture here. The things that are happening with and to Actualized.org and especially within the community are the result of the development of Actualized.org as such. Don't regard what has been happening (Connor, SoonHei, cult accusations, etc.) as incidents that simply pose a problem to an otherwise stable and indifferent structure, no: these things are the first steps of the (more or less involuntary) transformation process of Actualized.org which will have to occur. Yesterday, I wrote: This I think is the major obstacle, the integration and (partial) overcoming of which will result in (some) transformation of Actualized.org. You can't teach higher mathematics to a 5th grader, yet that's what 's been happening in Actualized.org. And of course, the fifth grader tries to understand, thinks he understands, but doesn't understand and then creates problems for himself and others when he tries to apply the teachings. The reason for why people misunderstand so much of what Leo says, is mostly because they simply aren't at a point in their development where they even can have any proper understanding. But the problem is, that they don't know it. When you watch Actualized.org on YouTube, you will find videos ranging from "How to make a woman squirt" to "God Realization". Can you see the problem here? The same people who want to make women squirt are suddenly listen to Leo talking about life being a dream, other people not being real and what not. You can't expect them to understand any of this. They will become solipsistic, nihilistic and in extreme cases suicidal or end up in a psychiatric institution because instead of carefully deconstructing their mind, they shatter it. Please keep these things in mind when you engage in discussion here. This isn't about who's right or wrong, this is about solving a tricky problem which needs to be solved, because people have been harming themselves and others. Try to remember this and don't attack anyone personally.

I want to talk about two perspectives and two other very, very important points, which create a lot of problems for many people who feel that they are stuck in these perspectives and they don't know how to get out. If you feel like you have a problem with solipsism, take your time to read this very carefully, it might help you, if you can get a glimpse of what is meant. I address some of the most sneaky and deceptive illusions you can get yourself into and because your mind is blind and biased, you might not know how to get out again. The problem I want to talk about is: confusing space with consciousness. Space is consciousness, but consciousness is not space. This confusion is, next to the confusion of ego, the major contributor to and source of solipsism. If you think the whole universe is "the bubble" as Leo likes to call it, you have confused space with consciousness. Notice, that "bubble" is a geometrical/spacial term. And if you think that you are this bubble or that you are trapped inside this bubble of consciousness, I unfortunately have to inform you, that you don't know what consciousness is. Consciousness is not limited to this unfortunate little confusion. Consciousness is not "the bubble". In fact, there is no "bubble" as a spacial thing "in which" the universe occurs. The visual field is infinite. Only because left and right to your visual field there aren't any colors or shapes, it doesn't mean that somehow there the domain of "something" (e.g. the bubble/"universe") has ended. It doesn't end there. It doesn't end at all. Also, you are not inside the bubble. Or somehow "behind" the visual field. Or inside the bubble "as" the visual field. You are not limited to the visual field, for two reasons; A) because you don't exist as a separate entity B) because "inside" can't exist with an "outside" If you think you are "inside" the bubble and you are the bubble (and nothing but the bubble, as everything that exists) you have fallen prey to and extremely tricky and unbelievably deceptive illusion: You have projected yourself (ego) onto space, which you have confused with consciousness. You say "there I am", pointing to the bubble. But what you don't know is that this is not you. You have merely projected yourself from inside your head onto "the external world" and now call it "inside your head", which is why you feel trapped. This is a relikt of your prior beliefs that A) you are inside your head B) there is an external world Consciousness is like space, but it is not space. And if you have ever become conscious of consciousness itself, you know exactly what I mean. But if you think that consciousness is made of colors, sounds, etc., you don't yet know what "it" is. Consciousness is not like the rest of appearances which occur "within" consciousness. Also of course, consciousness is not "outside" of itself either. Do not confuse direct experience with being true. Yes, it is the Truth, but it isn't necessarily true. Because "true" is a state of interpretation. Whereas Truth is not "a state". To think that everything you think you experience (and mind you, you often don't even know at all that you think something about something, your mind is completely blind to itself) is true, will lead you into complete and utter disaster. When Leo says "direct experience is king", he doesn't mean to take everything you experience for granted and think that it's true. But people think in too simplistic ways and therefore fall into the trap of believing everything they think they experience and don't even see that it's just their thoughts.

There are no "other bubbles" just like there isn't "your bubble". You guys are confused, maybe you should stop speculating so much. Because that's what this is, pure speculation. Sit your ass down, do the work and find out what is actually meant by "there is no other". Because in non-duality, there is no "other", neither is there any "self" as in "self and other". "You" are not who you think you are, and "others" are not who you think they are. You are not inside your head, neither is there anyone home in "other" people. You are as much "you" and others are as much "other" from you as the south pole of a magnet is "other" from the north pole of that very magnet. There is just the magnet, it's one magnet. Same way with consciousness, there are no "two consciousness". There is just consciousness. People have no separate, individual, other existence. Equally, you don't "have" any separate consciousness which you could call "my bubble" apart from "your bubble". Say "other" over and over and over and over and over, really go deep down into what you mean by that word, until you realize that it's just a f*cking word and there is no "other".