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Here is probably the simplest and easiest tutorial on how to become enlightened. By enlightenment, I mean the state of being characterized by pure nothingness, the absence of suffering, and total abandonment of the ego. In this state you realize that you are pure infinity, nothing, eternal, god, omniscient, and that you already knew the truth all along. I estimate it will take anyone between 3 to 6 months to complete by following these steps: Preliminaries: The unawakened state, or dreaming state, is caused by the ego. Definition - Ego: The concept of self. The component of the human mind responsible for making a distinction between the human and the rest of the world. The ego is a survival mechanism The mind uses the ego in order to make survival decisions This does not mean the ego is necessary for survival, strictly speaking The ego distorts the human mind's perception of reality, thus making it appear as though the human is distinct from the rest of reality. In order to awaken, we must deactivate the ego 1. Disarming the Ego - Do Nothing Meditation Eliminate distractions, set a timer, sit in a comfortable position, close eyes, take 3 deep breaths, relax body, keep movement to a minimum. Say the mantra once in your mind "If you notice an intention, drop it." If you notice an intention to do anything: "I need to answer an email", "I need to go grocery shopping", let it go. Your mind will continue to think even though you have no intention of doing so. Let it. By not doing anything, you are not activating the 'doer' in your mind. This makes the ego inactive. Practice for 1 hour per day, in two 30 minute sessions. If you notice yourself getting sleepy, make sure to sit up straight. If you have trouble relaxing, try to fall asleep. 2. Disabling the Ego - Be Nothing Meditation Eventual Do Nothing Meditation becomes easy. You can sit and do nothing with little to no effort. At this point, drop the intention to do nothing. Upon dropping all intentions, including the intention to do nothing, the 'doer' mechanism completely shuts off. You may experience an abstract anxiety, like standing on the edge of a cliff while blindfolded. You feel there is danger but don't know from what. Don't worry about this fear. Practice this until you can be nothing easily. At this point, notice that you are enlightened. Notice that you are the only thing going on, that you are omniscient, that suffering is impossible, that you are eternal, and that you always knew this. You cannot understand the truth. You can only be the truth. You are not a thing. You are not a concept. You are not something material. You are not something spiritual. You are neither something, nor nothing, nor something that is both something and nothing, nor something that is neither something nor nothing. Embark on that path that is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end.

I have had success with the BEDS-M Method: B - Burn The Ships - Make yourself fear not getting your work done. I personally have a thing going with my friend where I pay him $50 if I don't complete my weekly objectives E - Environment - Eliminate distractions from your environment. Put your phone in one spot in hour house and leave it there always. Disable history on YouTube to disable recommendation algorithm. If these interventions don't work, take even more drastic measures. D - Distraction Cheat Sheet - Whenever you get distracted or procrastinate, write down what triggered that distraction or procrastination, then eliminate that thing later. S - Schedule - Create a schedule for your day. Give every minute a job. If you want leisure time, make sure that's in the schedule M - Minimum Viable Goal - If you can't do your work, just sit down at your desk and open whatever you have to work on. If you can't get up from the couch, just turn off the TV/Close your phone. Find a tiny tiny goal that will get you closer to your real objective and do that. You will be more likely to start your work once you take the first baby step. Just keep working at it. You will find something that works for you eventually. Lack of discipline is not a moral failing, it's a lack of self understanding.

Interesting perspective here. This is probably the reason why psychedelics work so well in terms of expanding consciousness and helping us to see the big picture. I personally have noticed that the more goal oriented, busy, and disciplined I become, the less my mind seems to randomly come up with mystical insights.

That's different from what Leo keeps saying. He says that aliens inhabit our planet as distinct beings from humans. He also says the simulation hypothesis ridiculous. Yet you seem to think you agree with him.

I mean you will definitely have an awakening, but in my experience it's harder to to figure out what's going on with psychedelics. With DMT trips for example, you are blasted into infinity so fast and then taken back out that you can't really say what's what. Enlightenment is better when it's unexciting. And then after the trip you *might* be more conscious, but it's really a toss up, and then you will just be compelled to follow my formula anyway to clear things up. "The more advanced the teaching, the less complicated it is" - Ryan Kurczak My guided is intended for beginners. It's still pretty simple if you ask me. 2 steps. Sooo the easiest method is the hardest method? Also taking your statistic literally, (100-99.9999999999)/100*8300000000= 0.00830014812 humans alive today can follow it, or (100-99.9999999999)/100*117000000000=0.11700208801 humans who have very lived.

I think I disagree with Leo's combative, accusatory presentation style. I think he also could use a little bit more physics and mathematics training to make his critiques of those fields more compelling. I also think that the whole "We have been visited by aliens and/or they are here right now" idea is kind of loopy. I can't say for sure that it's wrong, but Leo seems absolutely sure that it's right. I would like to know what psychedelic gave him that 'direct experience'.

I have thought doing this but I have other things I want to do more lol. It is definitely a sad truth that everyone wants to criticize men but no one wants to help them. The need is definitely there. Unfortunately, if you want help, you must help yourself. Luckily, there is an entire industry built around that. If you want a positive framing of masculinity then here are some places I have found good content: 'The Way of the Superior Man' - David Deida Actualized.org Stoicism (Not the reddit/manosphere version, the original version based on texts like Meditations and The Epicurean) Alex Hormozi Jhon Anthony Lifestyle (The best pickup artist, also not misogynistic) Novels like 'The Way of Kings' by Brandon Sanderson, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card, and 'Red Rising' by Pierce Brown Other things that have improved my self esteem and helped me develop and accept my masculinity: Finding good friendships (Both male and female, but male friendships are the best) Exercise. Any form. Apologizing less Prioritizing personal hygiene Mental health practices (meditation, journaling) Standing up straight, acting from my gut, sturdy Coming up with a life purpose for myself and perusing it (I'm trying to become an AI/Robotics engineer) Romantic relationships (NOT BECAUSE OF THE SEX, but because I loved and felt loved)

This podcast was such a pleasure to listen to. Leo was very good at explaining his points and the hosts were very open minded and eager to understand.

Today I watched the performance of American figure skater Alyssa Liu, which was breathtaking. Liu has become an instant celebrity, owing to her winning the US's first gold metal in 24 years for figure skating, her charisma, her beauty, and her unique hairstyle. What caught my attention, though, was they types of comments about here I have seen on the internet. People seem to be most interested in the fact that she returned to figure skating after a temporary retirement, had a tragic backstory, and was skating 'just for the love of preforming'. I believe that she loves to preform, but she obviously has done those triple spins tens of thousands of times, which can be attributed to nothing other than thousands and thousands of hours of practice, probably mostly alone. She must have wanted to win. However, her determination and hard work have been heavily subverted in favor of the new narrative: internet culture now focuses on her personality, her looks, her story. People are not satisfied with her being a magnificent skater. They want her to be an angel. An ikon of glory and personal fulfillment. They want her to be the princess in the fairy tale, the shining star that everyone looks towards. They have turned her into a myth, and it has hardly even been 2 days since her victory. We do this because we idolize the individual above everything else in American culture. Individual success and happiness is the highest value, so our most successful and happiest individuals are those who receive our admiration, and recognition. We turn real people into mythical heroes in order to turn the world into one of shining individuals rather than the collective. I think that our narcissistic culture manifests in how we prop up and glorify celebrities, how we love superhero movies, how we look up to and aspire to be like start athletes.

It may be wildly cliche on this forum, but I think I have a unique angle on this idea that makes it worth sharing. In this essay I will clearly illustrate that reality is imagination in plain language using your own direct experience, no psychedelics or meditation expertise required. This insight recently struck me from a new angle while practicing mindfulness meditation. During mindfulness meditation the goal is often to focus our awareness on some object of perception or imagination. This can be the breath, the pressure between two fingers, or an imaginary object such as a crystal ball or lotus flower or something. I stuck with the breath because I could never hold a clear picture of a crystal ball for very long. After refining my attention over the course of a few weeks however, I started to experience my breath as much vivid and 'there' than before. In a way it became more 'real'. Immediately, I was reminded of many crystal ball meditation proponents who claim that the perception of the ball stabilizes and becomes more vivid with practice. I would never have guessed that the same thing happens with observing breath. As it turns out, even focusing on the breath is using imagination just as much as visualizing a crystal ball would be. As you breathe, you experience your chest expanding, the air rushing through your nostrils, into your nasal cavity, down your throat, into your lungs. However, there is no "air rushing past" nerve. There is no nerve that sends a signal when the chest is expanding, and another one that sends a signal when your chest contracts. Instead, raw sensory data comes in from nerves all over your lungs, diaphragm, nose, and throat. These signals are very low level. Your brain must then interpret these signals and build those higher level perceptions (chest expanding, air rushing) using a predefined mental model, otherwise known as imagination. As a result, most of what you experience when observing your breath is not coming directly from sensory neurons, and the mental image of breath can become more vivid even if there is not an increase in the quality or quantity of sensory neurons in your respiratory system. This realization about the breath led me to a disturbing question: if my breath is imaginary, what else is? The answer, it turns out, is everything. All of our senses work this way. Our brain interprets raw input and constructs our experience of reality. We don't experience the raw input of our senses directly—or rather, we do, but what dominates our experience is our brain's interpretation of that input. Consider vision. How does your brain take action potentials sent from photoreceptors in your retina—this stochastic, messy noise—and turn it into what looks like a real, three-dimensional environment? The world you see is not the real world. It's a controlled hallucination, a construction built by your brain using information from your eyes plus your intuitive understanding of how three-dimensional reality works, how light works, and so on. We take the environment our brain creates and mistake it for reality itself. The same applies to hearing. You can focus on the raw sensation of sound, but even this is already an interpretation. Your brain must take action potentials from the hairs in your cochlea, which respond to pressure waves entering your ear. Your cochlea performs a frequency analysis by examining the spacing between these pressure differences, then converts them into frequencies. But you don't experience frequencies—you experience meaningful sounds. Your brain tells you: that's a fan, that's a door closing, that's footsteps. When someone speaks, the sound signal gets directed to your language processing areas, which parse the sounds into words, which then get sent to your higher-order reasoning centers so you can understand what's being said. At every step, your brain is constructing meaning from noise. Consider proprioception and touch. Your brain maintains a mental picture of your body, and you overlay sensations—heat, pressure, roughness, pain—onto this mental model to give each sensation a location. You don't experience raw nerve firings; you experience "my left shoulder hurts" or "my hand feels cold." The mental body map comes first, and sensory data colors it in. In every case, our brain follows the same pattern: it takes sensory input and turns it into an interpretation. That interpretation requires enormous amounts of imagination. What's being imagined? A mental model of reality. Our senses provide the raw data that colors in this model, like a picture in a coloring book. The outline of the picture—the fundamental structure of our experienced reality—is imagination. The sensory input just fills it in. As Peter Ralston points out in The Book of Not Knowing, we imagine everything, and our entire sense of reality is built on concepts. You can see this principle at work in children and animals. Watch kittens play—they pretend to hunt, chasing a feather on a string or a ball of yarn as if it were prey. Human children do the same thing. They invent hundreds of unique characters with distinct personalities and complex relationships. They create entire worlds in their coloring books or with their toys. They love video games precisely because these activate their imaginations. Ralston's insight is that when kittens grow up, they don't stop hunting—the behavior just becomes more practical. Similarly, adult humans don't stop imagining—their imagination just becomes more applied, more integrated with everyday life. Think about what you know about the world. These days, perhaps 95% of what we know doesn't come from direct personal experience. We learn it in school, through books, the news, YouTube, social media. We build up a picture of the world, and most of it is imaginary. We have to take information and construct a mental picture, even though we've never actually experienced most of what we claim to know. Most people have never seen Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin in person. No one alive has seen Adolf Hitler or ancient Egypt. No one has ever seen a living dinosaur or witnessed the Big Bang. No one has seen a black hole up close or visited another star or set foot on an exoplanet. Most people have never seen direct evidence of atoms—if you asked them how we know atoms are real, they probably couldn't explain it. They believe the story because it's a reasonable explanation and they've heard it repeated enough times. (I'm not denying atoms are real—I'm just pointing out that this too is part of our imagination.) When you really examine it, most of our "reality" is imagined. It's something we've constructed from information we get from other sources. And notice how reality itself changes depending on the mental picture you build. You hear about a new car model and suddenly you see it everywhere. You learn a new word like "presumptuous" and suddenly you hear it constantly. The cars and the word were always there—your mental model just didn't accommodate them before. Now it does, and your experience of reality shifts accordingly. All the information we receive—from our senses, from other people, from the news—gets filtered through our imagined reality and used to continuously construct and augment that reality. This is how the human mind works. This is why imagination is the bedrock of reality as we experience it. Here's something worth sitting with: the whole idea of "reality" is itself imaginary. The notion that all our experiences and everything we know comes from a unified source that exists outside ourselves—that's just another concept, another product of imagination. The idea assumes a fundamental division: there's "me" (or "us") and then there's "reality out there." But this division is itself a concept, perhaps the first and most fundamental concept. We need it to have all other concepts. We start with the assumption that there's a world outside us, and then we can reason about it abstractly rather than just taking our senses at face value. To have an idea about something, you need to separate yourself from it. Your mind creates a division between you, your body, and reality. Of course, we know there's no real division between the human body and reality. Both are governed by physics, made of atoms. Your brain follows the same laws of physics as everything else. But we still create this distinction because it makes thinking easier. We imagine an "outside world" separate from our "inner ideas," and we try to build an accurate inner picture of the outer world. We assume the outside world exists beyond our imagination. But here's the thing: we can never verify this. We can't confirm that there really is an outside world that exists beyond our perception and imagination, because perception and imagination are all we have. Everything is imagination. To say that there is a reality—a real world out there—is an assumption, something taken on faith. It's a quirk of how the human mind works. We can never know whether we're just imagining everything or whether there really is a reality out there. And perhaps there's no meaningful difference. Even if there is a "real" reality, we have to imagine all of it. Our consciousness never comes into direct contact with this supposed outside reality. Even to pretend it's real doesn't really make any difference to our experience. What we call reality is imagination, and what we call imagination is reality. They are one and the same.

Through all of my past relationships, I have attempted to explain what spirituality is and what it means to me to my partners. They always either don't understand or don't even consider the possibility. Not that any of my partners have been rude or dismissive about it, but they just never get it. I know that there are women out there who are interested in spirituality and in consciousness. My grandma was one of them, and I think I get my spiritual inclinations from her. My grandma and grandpa had a deep conection, largely fostered over their shared love for philosophy. I want something like that, someone who knows that our love is a manifestation of God's infinite love. From a very young age I have wanted such a deep relationship, and despite having had great and fulfilling relationships, I have never been able to truly share that part of myself with someone else. Anyway I'm single (23M) so DM if interested

Depends. You got a picture of this 'infinity'? Got to see if she is my type first

I think that everyone has a different definition of 'awake', and Buddhists generally don't meet Leo's high standards. To Zen Buddhists, being awake means to see through the illusion of the self and understand existence as pure void. To leo, being awake means an infinite awareness and direct experience of reality as pure consciousness, and eventually the understanding that you are god. These two experiences seem to be distinct to me, although some would argue they are the same. I personally have had this void experience that your monk was saying he had. I was able to achieve it after a few months of "do nothing" meditation. The point that all experience is just void. There is no real substance to reality at all. If you get skilled enough at meditation you can turn off your mind's reality making function and then you just experience pure nothingness while still being conscious, and absent of a sense of self. Check my "Why Reality is Imagination" article a more detailed explanation of that. All of reality is just ideas, and the self is purely a concept. It's not real. I also recommend Fred Davis on YouTube for a good explanation and guidance towards awakening.

I would say this qualifies as a mystical experience, but usually these type of "bright light" experiences are just a sign that you are beginning to progress, but there are much deeper mystical experiences. Those are the ones that change how you view reality and your perception of yourself. That's what spirituality is all about. Many people have mystical experiences at young ages. I would argue that it is very common but most people forget these experiences when they get older. It is common to be reminded of a time in our deep past when we these certain mystical experiences. Mystical experiences occur naturally in humans and especially in children.

Infinity=Recursion

@Judy2You're right about this. I've spent some time in a Buddhist monastery and I met many like-minded people, but they don't allow women there, and the definitely don't allow gay people there. I am severely lacking in yoga knowledge so joining a spiritually oriented yoga group would kill two birds with one stone. @ButtersHaha yeah, it's sad how few people never step foot into this world. Much of having a good relationship is just finding the right person. It's funny how rare spiritually minded people are.

I think abundant mindset is basically another way of saying positivity. I recently applied to graduate school, and I have had to spend lots of money on applications and GRE and stuff. I will have to worry about tuition soon. However I am not anxious. I know that there will always be enough money to achieve my goals. I will get scholarships, get loans, start a tutoring business, or get research funding to pay for things. I just know that the money will be there. Therefore I am not shy about going to school and following my dreams. My abundance mindset is how I'm able to try to make my vision happen without hesitation.

The funny thing is that one of the things you come to understand through awakening is that you knew you were God all along. You were just pretending you didn't know. It is impossible for God, and his self knowledge, to be incomplete in any way.

People's explanation for the origin of reality usually falls under into the category of the domain they spend the most time think about and studying. A physicist will tend to believe that reality is physical: a spacetime manifold plus quantum field with SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1) symmetry. Niel De Gras Tyson often likes to say "you and everything you know of is stardust". He is an astrophysicist. What do astrophysicists spend all their time studying? Elon Musk says that reality is a simulation. He is a coding wizard and a talented engineer. He likes to say "the probability that we are base reality and not one of many nested simulations is exceedingly small". That sounds like engineer speak if I've ever heard it. You often hear neuroscientist say that reality is a controlled hallucination created by our brains. They spend all their time studying our brains and their phenomena. Leo says that the universe is a mind, and reality is consciousness. Guess what topics he has dedicated his life to studying? I have talked to mathematicians who will claim that the universe is "literally math". I'm not saying that any of these people are wrong per say, just making this meta point on theories of everything that people tend to have. This is related to my other recent article"Why Reality is Imagination".

HAHAH I just barely made a post on this. Be prepared to have this same insight over and over agian.

@Dodo Nice work

Nah you right.

I wanted to share an interesting video I came across today. It's from Fred Davis, one of my favorite teachers. I think that this realization goes very deep, and it ties into the foundational point that the universe is a mind that is trying to understand itself. We as humans are consequences of the laws of physics playing themselves out. Given enough time, hydrogen in a vacuum will begin to develop language and ask questions such as "what is love". Humans are simply another emergent phenomenon from the laws of physics. We often see that as time goes on, love tends to increase. As our societies get more advanced we tend to have less cruelty and more acceptance. This is primarily because we become smart and we understand more about ourselves and the world around us. The universe has quantum fields so that it can have quantum particles. It has quantum particles so that it can create protons and neutrons. It has protons and neutrons so that it can create molecules. It has molecules so that it can create organic proteins. It has organic proteins so that it can create cells. It has cells so that it can create animal life. It has animal life so that it can create humans. It has humans (or another intelligent lifeform) so that it can understand itself. The laws of physics are set up to create greater understanding of the universe and thus greater self-love over time. Confusion decreases, love increases!

Wow, this is an interesting concept, and it partially lines up with my musings on the nature of time and space. Are you saying that the time component of the metric tensor being in the upper left corner means that it has some priority in the calculations? I didn't know that there was any real significance to the order in which the components of the tensor were arranged. Although I think it's interesting that time and space have opposite signs. Do you know why that is? I have often thought that there is no such thing as time, there is only the eternal present moment which is everchanging and continuous. That's just what my personal spiritual experiences have informed me of, and I have the suspicion that there is no real 4D spacetime manifold, but representing it that way mathematically gives us an elegant way to talk about relativistic dynamics. If there is no such thing as time then there may also be no such thing as space, although that's something that I have not thought about as much. Space may just be a relationship between discrete points in some abstract graph like Stephen Wolfram says. I have heard of symmetry principles in Norther's theorem and the Dirac equation, but I have never heard of vacuum oscillators. What is that? Is it something to do with string theory?