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@Leo Gura, in your experience, would you say that awakenings happen because your changed state pushes you to realize something without your will? For you, how do awakening and contemplation affect each other? Which one actually depends on the other?

In a way, you have to marry her parents and brothers first in those countries. 😁

Makes sense. I have to understand my situation better. Yeah, I also think that there will be things that would oppose pursuing that, at least for me. I'm not even a fan of chasing money or the thought of being some popular or famous person. Not even a typical leader. I have tasted the forbidden fruit. So it has become way harder to not think of awakening. Mmmm... It seems spacing my goals is the smartest approach for me. I need to reevaluate and self-reflect.

@Leo Gura, having gone through ups and downs in your life while pursuing pure understanding or truth, do you think it's possible to maintain these pursuits while having a career that diverts most of your attention from them?

@Lyubov, I thought it was crazy of me to think he was not funny. Not even some of his friends are generally funny to me.

Yeah. Many people do that. However, I meant that you know the difference between truth and falsehood more. Why? I think you are more aware of what you observe than other people. What's interesting is that if falsehood wasn't true, truth wouldn't have been truth in the first place.

@Daniel Balan, but it seems that you know what truth points to.

Hey everyone. Do you think that psychedelic visuals or other sensory experiences could deeply affect your understanding of reality, or do you view them as you would in your normal state?

@Someone here, I don't know about you, but I'm glad that I did take a risk to travel and try it at least once. It is worth a lot even if I understood a tiny bit of that experience. Now, it's a bit disappointing that I won't get into that state naturally but it sure is a huge motivation to change my situation.

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You are so wrong about it.

@Someone here, why don't you save money and travel to do psychedelics?

🙌 @Leo Gura, that video makes me tear up every time.

@TruthFreedom, you could have responded to me saying that I'm (me, not you) wrong without changing the topic and wasting your time to make fun of me.

@TruthFreedom, at least you don't fully believe she exists. That's a progress. But still, your transitions are not good yet. It needs a lot of work.

@TruthFreedom, but remember to eat them how your mother taught you and not believe that you are eating them so you don't get surprised why you are hungry.

The transition wasn't smooth. Try to work on improving it next time but without believing that you are good at it.

@TruthFreedom, what is indirect is what you believe in; however, that belief is experienced directly. Believing in something won't make you experience it directly, as in, your experience will only have that belief but not the actual thing. For example, believing that you are sick is different than being sick. Notice that you either have to have experienced what being sick is or see other sick people to be able to believe you are or could be sick.

@TruthFreedom, beliefs are in your direct experience. If you believe in something, you are directly experiencing that belief. What's indirect is the thing you believe in.

I think that the reason why God is thought of as a separate being is that survival requires people to think of the world as materialistic. Atheists are more honest about that than religious people. I think that religious people are actually materialists lost in spiritual beliefs.

@PurpleTree, If he's special, then that makes him not special. 😁

Another important point of the video could be that knowing and not knowing shouldn't be taken for granted if you claim to know or not know things.

I agree. Those proofs should be viewed from that perspective and not as if they're outside and separate from that observation. I think it's easy to miss that. By default, people would consider themselves to be outside from the observation, yet without it, they couldn't know anything.

An important thing to notice is that all of the "proofs" in the video are based on observation. So there is an assumption that based on observation we can come to a conclusion.

Got it. You don't like it.