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Someone wise in this from said, that there will always be new methods to do spirituality. So this is what I found: Most of you surely have a Spotify account or a similar music-listening app, where you have all your favorite music listed up. You have specific music genres, which you favor more than others. Also notice that there are some genres, which you have never really listened to (and would never think of listening to). But now I want you to listen to music, which you absolutely don't like and see what happens. What part of your psyche rejects the music? Contemplate why your psyche is causing suffering with some noises, rather than other (your favorite) noises. Also try to see if you really dislike the music itself, or rather the audience, which is most commonly associated with that music. I struggled with the latter a lot. I personally noticed, that I felt surprised by how understanding and almost appreciative I felt, when trying this exercise, with an open mind. I guess you can get a little sneak peak how God's love functions, if you find beauty and understanding in every music. At last: here is my example list, which music I found awful, but tried listening to with an open heart: German gangster rap Turkish Basar music High School Musical Songs Overly emotional love and romance songs Radical political music God loves it all - endlessly and equal

You can never be directly conscious of unconsciousness.

So to be clear I agree with 85-90% of what you say Leo. I have had similar awakening experiences in the past, and I intuitively feel that most of what you say comes from a genuine "truth-seeking" attitude. However, I have one major question regarding your most fundamental statement: "Everything is Love". I totally see that everything from thoughts to feelings and "material" objects is consciousness. There cant be anything other than consciousness. I even got the insight that consciousness has no boundaries and is free to do what ever it wants, therefore is infinite. So logically the main goal of consciousness is to love itself infinitely. Because what is there else to do. Thats how far my empirically grounded understanding of your teaching goes. But why is consciousness EQUAL to love? That would mean that love and consciousness are not PRIOR or AFTER one another. But clearly consciousness is the fundamental source of love. Your teaching says that both are sourcing each other, because they are identical. But when i sit here in my chair and experience all kind of consciousness, there is no way I feel/see love before consciousness. Language is probably not suited to clarify this, but is there a fundamental necessity for love to be equal to consciousness? If so, why?

Enough has been said about crazy intense states of the God head in this forum. Most of you guys (even Leo) don't live in the God head for most of their conscious time. So I want to deepen my understanding of the point when egoic mind "clicks" into the God head. Most of the time it's a random non-predictable moment. But how does this work? And most importantly how does the God mind "clicks" itself in the egoic mind back again? It so mind boggling. It's like you've fallen for a magic trick a thousand times and the magician finally agrees to show you how the trick works. The trick is so simple that you laugh at your ass of at your own stupidity. But then somehow the magician performs exactly the same trick and you completely lost your understanding how the trick worked again. This is so frustrating for my egoic mind. How to you cope with that in the egoic mind?

True. I could listen to them for 24h straight

Wow. The brain is just a little cloud.

So Leo mentioned in the podcast with Kurt Jaimungal that he is writing a book. Presumably about fundamental epistemology and non-duality. So I'm asking directly to Leo here: Are you comfortable sharing any information about what you write and when the book will be published?

Totally reasonable. However most meditators or not superhuman monks, so they occasionally slack off the meditation entirely if they are too sleepy. So this might be a fair method, when meditation won't be done otherwise. But granted, the ultimate goal is without anything besides your mind.

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I just rewatched your video "An Advanced Explanation Of God-Realization", and asked myself this: If im infinitely powerful and omnipotent, could i just abandon boredem of pleasure? I totally get the point that infinite blow jobs and infinite pleasure of any kind would seem meaningless after a while. It would lose its worth. But why couldn't i just forget that i had infinite pleasure for eternities now. Why couldn't i dream myself again and again into that moment when pleasure feels new and fresh again. Have you tried that?

I have a 6 hour road planned for sunday. Lets hope the universe will give us this talk till then

This just amplifies my question. You are the best example of how God can forget about everything. You only have reference to your life. The line where you memory vanishes is probably where you imagine your third birthday to be. Why doesn't God put this line 10 seconds ago and bathes in infinite love. There would be no boredom. Everything was new.

To get straight to the point I really struggle to flirt with super attractive women without experiencing "blue balls pain". By this I mean a very annoying pain in the stomach and groin region, which can only go away with an orgasm. Otherwise the pain increases forever. This also happens without having an erection. The pain increases with every sexual impression I have. Especially if there is body contact involved, which is the case in most flirt situations, which lead to something more serious. So every casual, flirtatious situation, which doesn't lead to instant sex, ends up in physical pain. This is especially annoying if I don't even want to have sex right away. So do you guys have similar experiences and is there a possible solution to this fucked up mechanism? I try out every solution...

A very experienced meditator can be completely aware in the presence of "distractions". Because every so called distraction is just a sound or a picture, which can be observed non-judgemental just as you can observe your breath. However the challenge becomes harder if the sounds and pictures have content. The mind wants to interpret it, hence its harder for you to be free of the mind. Two solutions now: 1. Cope with it, and learn to meditate with distraction. This is way harder and will mostly result in frustration. OR 2. Move out from your parents home. This will turbo-charge your personal development at your age.

Yeah cold showers have a similar effect as well. But this stuff is super impractical when I'm at work flirting with a hot co-worker or at a date. Not to get aroused in the first place is a viable option, but getting aroused is fun. This fun really makes it hard to stay away from sexual thoughts in such circumstances.

Maybe with 11 different, but sometimes several times with the same girl. Just now i was on a date and literally had to say I had stomach problems so i could exit this painful shit. Some girls know about this problem, but most think I'm joking.

Neural link will be a further step for science to realize that consciousness is not found in the brain. There are many other signs that this realization is going to happen in the next decades. The scientific paradigm will crash onto itself.

So metaphorically speaking im asking as a rather unexperienced chess player who is the best chess player in the world. And as an inferior chess player its hard to know just by observing other chess players who is the most advanced. The only thing i know is that consciousness can grow infintely. So who are the teachers, who have the most wisdom and least delusion? I often hear Leo say that most other teachers have not realized 1% of what can be realized through increased consciousness, but maybe he himself has not realized 1% of what can be realized. How could he know? Thats the main property of infinity. There is no end to it. This is not said to question Leo, I just want to know if there is someone else, who has had similar awakenings and wisdom, to learn even more.

I have this intuitive feeling that artists, who got famous in coorperation with their ego (like most rappers), cant really sing/rap about enlightment and awakening authentically. Usually they are so caged in their mind that even if they feel a certain pull to consciousness they usually struggle to make art out of it. I hope we see more examples like Jim Carrey, where the ego imploded onto itself and made room for awakening.

Whoa, didnt knew german rap can be this wise and intelligent Thanks for this amazing recommendation

@Moksha Thank you for your words. That means i'll stick to Leo for now. Lets see what teachers the universe will reveal to its self.

So I have been experimenting with different meditation techniques lately with varying results. But there is one technique I find super practical and useful, which has direct effects on your consciousness for the rest of the day. I call it the "assisted thought awareness practice". Here is how it works: You just sit down and meditate. But this time you have a journal or a piece of paper in reach. And every time you become aware of a thought rising up, you just write it down. It's important that you write everything down, which fills your consciousness with mental images. Everything. After 30-40 minutes, you end up with a list of totally random thoughts. There are so random and aimless, that you intuitively start to question the bullshit your mind throws at you. This also kick-starts your appreciation for just being, instead of mentally masturbating about the concepts of being. Also, every thought you wrote down seems to be "exhausted" and won't suck you into it more. This is especially useful if some thoughts are plaguing you. This practice could be best described as a clean mirror to the face of your unconscious mind. For the first time you see what garbage has been sold to you as "your thoughts", with whom you can't identify anymore.

I feel the same. I felt in love with "Worakls", "N'to" or "Joachim Pastor". Electronic music, with deep orchestral tunes. No words, no meaning, but the music tells stories for the whole night

@Matthew85 Sounds intuitive. I still wonder if this reality, which is experienced right here, is the infinite perfect form for consciousness to evolve, or if there is an infinite amount of other realities, which share this property. Both scenarios are just as interesting.