The0Self

Suffer less by noticing it more.

There is no body and no movement. Or, there is only body, which is only movement, which is stillness. Body, trees, air are just empty phenomena; the same; everything/God/Love; not anything. There are no rules for what can seem to happen during an experience of realizing God, or being in a highly conscious state. If rain is falling, it isn't raining -- there is no "it" that could be raining; only rain. Etc. No self means no center in anything -- no it; no I.

@Potato People King Yeah. My girlfriend's reaction was just to roll her eyes. I, on the other hand, had a proper laughing fit over it. Her roommate eventually moved out because she suspected my girlfriend of not loving Jesus enough, simply because she didn't talk about him all the time.

Completely agree. Totally drop the notion of not wanting to appear overly nice/kind. Hell, you can even try going overboard with it, IF it feels good to you. Having a style of overt, easily recognizable relentless kindness can certainly work, as long as it's done for its own sake; isn't being used in a shallow attempt to get what you want from people, or cover up insecurities, etc.

lol I had a gf once who had a super Christian roommate. One day, I went to her place and every Dalí painting in the house was covered with taped construction paper. The roommate taped up every Dalí painting because she thought they looked demonic! Lol, what a delusional psycho.

Happy -> crying -> joyful -> awake -> love.

Existence doesn’t exist. Existence is existence. Maybe listen to “just a kiss” by lady antebellum. It was life changing for me. Probably not for you though. (I never cried so hard in my life.)

Fish oil is hilarious; it’s the ultimate crapshoot. Search for its benefits and you’ll be overjoyed. Search for its dangers and you’ll be overjoyed. What a substance; probably super safe! ?

Meditation troubles, I can understand. I can give a whole lot of advice on that — more than practically anyone can imagine, actually. Sexual troubles, though? Foreign. I was incompetent sexually, then I slowly became competent, after awakening. After that it was just second-nature I guess. Nothing that can be taught. Everything after true awakening is just dream stuff. I am a fairly good looking guy though, so results may differ. In fact, regrettably, I am a really good looking guy (8-9+/10), confirmed by many dear girls and many dear gay friends. Even so, that should tell you something. Even good looks don’t matter. Not one bit. Maybe none of you suspect this, but very good looking guys get rejected if they’re overly neurotic, overly sensitive, or overly thoughtful. It happened to me. I can’t even explain to you the existential anxiety I experienced freshman year of college. Holy crap if I wasn’t as experienced with psychedelics, I might have killed myself. When you awaken, though... it’s all over.

This is the best vid from Leo so far imo simply because he entertained the idea of watching the practical vid on psychedelics. The first time I realized I was God I ended up in a mental institution. I couldn’t contextualize the experience because I had no spiritual chops at the time, so I assumed reality was a simulation and I was the computer ? That was about 5 years ago.

It was practically a figure of speech. I might as well say what you got now is like the consciousness of an ant. But I know that'd be a misled conclusion. I'm here. I assume you're here. We're it. I am you. It's boundless. This is everything, which isn't anything. Bunch of bullshit words, but whatever. I've experienced heaven and hell, in full infinite beauty and horror. You've experienced heaven and hell I'm sure. You can't imagine it now. Neither can I. Yet, this is heaven.

While this is basically the gospel truth, and resonates with me 100%, this is just how I am naturally, and I am not sure how it would play out if someone were to fake it. I'm sure they can though. I wasn't always like this, but I can tell you with certainty that the reason I am this way (not giving a fuck, but also giving more fucks in a sense), is due to spiritual practice. Non-seriousness arises uncontrived when you realize you are literally everything and thus need nothing. I doubt this helps. Idk why I even post in the relationships section. My experience in becoming successful with women (I used to get rejected quite frequently) required no twists and turns, no trying, no methods, no practice, and no deliberation whatsoever. Once I stopped doing all of that, suddenly I was basically magnetic to women. My parents tease me about this change. My friends tease me about this change. Women seem to think I'm a player. I am nothing of the sort. When you go from wanting something so badly, to just simply not caring about it, that thing comes to you like it's nothing.

@Chimera Perhaps watch it on psychedelics at some point if you can. Selfless you has no agenda; no possibility of being hurt by anything. Selfless you is all there is, and has no preference for any ego over another's.

Since there are infinite levels of consciousness, there are no levels of consciousness.

It seems a common mistake with this is truly dropping effort entirely. Until a very late stage, you still want to maintain a single thread of effort: remaining vigilant to notice active intentions that you have conscious control over, so that you can drop them as soon as you recognize them.

Creepy: Deliberate movements; being neurotic and/or quiet; stuff like "Hey, how... uh... how are you? This music is loud, huh?" Not creepy: Girl goes to get a drink and looks at you, you have a fairly high amount of social energy and are clearly there to have fun, grab the drink before she can get to it, give it to her, and after she takes a good long sip, you say "I did put a roofy in there, you know." She looks shocked and you look clearly unserious, but then put on a fairly serious expression, and say "no seriously, I roofied it..." (if you are too convincingly serious you'd probably blow it, lol...) There's a kind of art to this kind of exchange that involves pure intuition and unintentional practice. What does she usually say to this when I do it? "You're cute..." It isn't what you say, it's how you say it, and the energy it comes out of.

You say you may have a red shadow and are uneasy about being dominant. If you have that side in you, let it rip. If you mean you judge that aspect in others but don't posses it yourself, look for it in yourself -- most hetero guys have it somewhere; at least a little bit. (not the negative traits and red shadow -- the dominant impulse) Besides being confident and powerful-seeming, these dominant guys probably just subconsciously appear to women as more authentic, in a way. Since these women may assume that even if these nice guys want women in a deeper way, they only want the deeper aspects of a woman provided they also get sex... And you know what? They're actually right -- I mean... pretty much every hetero guy would totally be put out by a relationship with a woman who never had sex with him. If you simply can't muster up dominant sensibilities because it just feels SO wrong, then give it a rest. Not every woman wants a super dominant male. Just love and be comfortable with yourself. Kind but assertive, caring but unaffected, loving but blunt, witty but unknowing, knowledgeable but humble (etc; don't take anything too seriously). Above all, be self-loving, unserious, and fun/playful. There's work, and there's play -- dating is ALL play. It might be hard to hear, but when you're so okay with yourself that you don't even need a woman, it will be quite a bit easier to attract a woman.

This makes your mind not want to be mindful and realize you aren't meditating. Try going "oh wow! I am not meditating!" This way, the realization will happen more often and quickly, until it happens so quickly that the moment it happens is synonymous with the instant you get distracted, meaning distraction never occurs. The Witness is quite an advanced state. Unless you can meditate indefinitely with your attention on one main object, forget about The Witness for the time being. Perhaps read/listen-to The Mind Illuminated (very, very helpful) -- it doesn't even mention The Witness until 2 whole stages after intentionally entering Jhanas becomes feasible.

X is all there is. You can call X whatever you want. NOW seems as good a term as any.

Looked at the title and was like, uhh, that actually is a little too much open-mindedness for me lol.

Physicality -> Consciousness? Physicality <- Consciousness? Both are suchness; what is, appearing to arise from each other. Interdependent; the same voidness, seen as 2 from 2 different perspectives. It's the perfect design for a believable reality.

Since there are infinite levels of consciousness, when you do get there, you've still only just begun.

No matter how far along the way you get in figuring it out -- even infinitely far, with infinite consciousness -- you've only just begun. At least in Godel's models.

Well, there is no real separate self, so all words pertaining to it are just a story, but anyway... There might be an identification there with someone who thinks they aren't God. That's just what's apparently happening. No problem. What is? What is, is what is. What is, is what some of us call God. If you are, you are God. God is everything, including the apparent experience of being someone who has "forgotten" they're God, or imagines oneself to be other than God. If there were something other than God, then God wouldn't be God by the definition we're using here: all there is. The only means for discrimination and discernment is limitation -- God limits itself infinitely, in order to be and experience everything. You have a front row seat to one of those limitations -- your life -- since after all, you are God. To realize this directly generally requires meditation and/or psychedelics, and time.

Contemplation can be done in quite a few ways. Here are 3 of my favorites: 1. Allow everything to be as it is. 2. Ask a question, and do not attempt to answer it. Adjunct: Ask which questions would be most fruitful for the above exercise -- do not attempt to answer this question either! 3. Hold a word or phrase in awareness, and allow it to disclose a deeper meaning, without intentionally using your mind.