Natasha Tori Maru

You've got some testicle on you, I'll give you that ❤️

@theoneandnone Just through the forum - but Carl and I have experienced multiple completely unexplainable synchronicities. Posting the same things at the same time. Thinking the same thing - often at the same time, and then ending up with synchronised posts. Encountering similar occurrences in reality that cross over into online interactions. We often describe similar events in reality where we have picked up on thoughts from others. There has been no pattern to it. It just seems to crop up randomly and happen between us with no intent behind it. Now I just sort of wait, with mirth and benign curiosity, for it to happen again

A mutant more like it Seen any spiders lately? Last 4 nights I have dreamt of spiders - one dream in which you and I were creating mechanical titanium spiders. We were working on creating an articulating arm with gear system for lifelike arachnophobia deliciousness. Leo was behind a window yelling at us to remove our shoes....

*Awareness 🫠

'In the body' is the evil bit I could say - I perceive all external reality internally via sensation. So, what is external reality is really all internal via perception. So I am located wherever my awareness is currently. I suppose this is my loophole out of the 'in the body' bit!!!

Oh my gosh, are we surprised? Below a clip getting into the nuts and bolts (sorry about the presenters drone) - and another clip closer to the source - 2 students that were expelled speak on their experience. I felt some may enjoy the unravelling of the grift. https://youtu.be/xyV34eMdmIY?si=4ZPts2L-ttg147ta

It is an interesting concept and I do think on it a lot, because it is lived experience for me. I bring my dog to the office with me and she hangs here while I work. I enjoy the break from work while I play with her - and I realise this is because she removes me from the thoughts and dealings of the work day. Occasionally, I cannot play with her as I cannot disconnect from the stress of tasks. But I can force it if I tell myself that stress and world does not exist - if I do not pay attention to it. Effectively brainwashing myself to be present in the moment. Only me and the poodle exist - and the ball tossed between us.

I think I considered it as limiting my frame - narrowing down the scope of what I am dealing with using imagination as the 'barrier' that acts as deception. Thus facilitating 'play' via imagination. BUT! This would depend on if you determine self-deception as always having an unconscious element. And there are cases where deception is conscious - but only acted outwardly through action rather than an inward perception. I suppose that ends up being the difference between deception and imagination

@Leo Gura You need to teach how to activate self-deception after students have learned to deconstruct it. Instant make-believe activation into play mode through deception mechanism - gotta learn the system before you can break it

@Leo Gura 🎯

I have peace - which is beginning to feel like happiness. I think there has been some sort of reframe of what happiness is for me, as I have come to accept and allow all. Or, attempt to. It is not what I initially felt it to be. Within myself and my own practice - there was some hidden conflation of happiness and pleasure. I do say above 'I have peace' with the caveat of: I have peace, when I allow it. And don't deliberately trigger myself into turmoil. But the process of triggering emotion and coming into conflict is superb - it is revealing what I do not accept, allow and claim within myself. So in effect, it highlights where I am creating a duality which pushes me away from unity. Oneness. Love. When I feel rejection, revulsion, anger, frustration - there is a piece of this within me, yet to be claimed and integrated. So the peace I feel after coming into friction with reality is unifying with happiness through the process. Peace and happiness are being overlapped and unified in the face of integrating what I reject. Pushed into one. It is one of the reasons I value the forum as an assistance to spiritual practice. In real life this effect is catalysed through facilitated interaction, on the forums through conceptual battles

@Franz_ contemplation and self enquiry Look into the nature of who you think you are. Are we thoughts? Are we bodies? What makes you 'you'. If we are not thoughts - what is it that is aware of the thoughts? What is it that is perceiving a feeling or sensation? Might be a nice place to start 🌱

I see, I see. I suppose then it would become: What proportion of the population that is open to trying them, would be dissuaded by using being criminal? Compared to the stress on systems that society must maintain to process them in incarceration. There will always be those who are open and curious and seek drugs as an experience. Making it a crime will not stop them. Maybe a half measure would be decriminalization of use for some classes of drugs.

I do not think you have had any experience with serious addiction. People with serious addictions do not operate like normal individuals - their entire being is erased and supplanted with 'seek drugs to avoid pain of withdrawal'. Punishment, hard words and lectures around personal responsibility do not work, as to them, it is tantamount to saying 'just stop eating food'. Serious addicts have brains that have been totally altered and need a different system to assist them. As opposed to say - you or I, who are functional adults. Once the addiction has set in, their personality as you knew it is replaced by something else. My experience living with serious addicts. Associating with them and living in a suburb with Chinese triads. The largest heroin and ice centre for dealing in Melbourne. I implore you to consider that you might not fully understand the topic of addiction and its pathologies. These peoples brains have been permanently altered. Using is not a crime here (Australia) - but dealing and distributing is. I think decriminalizing use in the US is sensible - will relieve a lot of the stress on your systems. Prisons, taxes, and the criminal system in general. Resources could be diverted. I think dealing and distribution should remain a criminal act. Editing to add - I used to be more aligned with your opinions here - until I had personal experience.

@Leo Gura You probably need an executive assistant Some people enjoy it - others cave hard and turn into arseholes. The most important part of that role would be how well they work with you. They also represent your brand to others. A measure of kind politeness + candid conduct Just my experience

@Rigel @Schizophonia @Nemra We love a good snot rocket ay?

@theoneandnone No need to apologise - no harm no foul! More some housekeeping. Solipsism is a big topic here so feel free to keep bumping the shit out of one of your threads. Tons of users want to hash the topic out

@Yeah Yeah Yeah of course I have seen that episode But as you can see that was deleted - and I do not know of any other video from Leo formalising the insights as a teaching. I may be wrong - just what I have come across so far.

I just counted 4 threads on this topic on this subforum created by you - can we try to consolidate this? I understand you are grappling with a belief. I don't see a need for so many seperate threads

Does Leo teach solipsism? Or was the video removed?

Listened to this yesterday and didn't think to share it here - cheers 🙏 I enjoyed it

In the winter, no matter what - my nose runs. Picture perfect health. It's gonna run. I am that heathen women blowing snot out onto the pavement. Zero fucks. Because wiping my nose on a tissue just doesn't cut it for the stormwater drain that is my nose

Some users ask and request for advice. Others just vent or present ideas. Casual chit-chat.

@Someone here not you also, your analysis could be wrong. As much as you read posts, gather data and reply - you are still filling in some gaps. I have 4 brothers - I seen that shit. It is all consuming. You haven't had to clean your brothers room only to find the little shit has been skeeting on the drapes so much they have legit turned to plaster. I am a mod. Yep. ???

Funny enough circles have been the bane of my existence this week - giving donuts indeed. First, the landscape architect added all these piss of circles to the design - blew the cost into the next dimension. Then, the set of plans I was tendering off had carpet and vinyl circle inlays - spent 2 hours working out areas for that mutant design. Then I freaked out walking my dog because my stupid brain perceived a circular puddle as being a HOLE in the ground - I thought she was gonna fall into some mysterious sinkhole abyss. WTF universe