Preetom

Beautiful. Thank you!

Have fun

Amen. Freedom only 'looks' like bondage

@FoxFoxFox One of the things I've struggled (and still do to some degree), is the notion of ''Many facets of Reality'' advocated by Leo so often. The whole story of how he has tuned into dozens of different facets of Truth through dozens of psychedelic trips, and how one must also have those dozens of realizations or else it is not enlightenment. Sometimes, it does sound like there are 'actual' parts of Truth. This sounds very inconsistent because while there is the constant hammering on of ''EVERYTHING IS ONE" but when it comes to Enlightenment, you must have to realize like 30 different truths? No hating here, but it's like one is making all these imaginary ceilings called ''facets of Truth'', so that one can reach it; then making that as some sort scale to measure one's enlightenment. Is it about how many fireworks one can have?

Exactly! It's just that after waking up from deep sleep millions of add-ons, names and forms get superimposed almost instantly and that pure being gets 'lost' within few moments. Maya is just God with makeups

@i am I AM The evil demon was just a way of speaking. Here I'm questioning the content of any thought. How can you know if a thought is true or not? Who/what mechanism controls this category?

@SoonHei I'll pose a question to you. Have you noticed the groundless/hollow nature of objective knowledge yet? Have a thought experience. Take a scene from your memory where you were this 'shitty person'. Now flip that entire memory and imagine that you were a ''loving person/angel'' in the same scene. Do you see that both the stories of shitty person and good person are equally groundless and cannot be proven whether it is actually true or not? This really questions memory itself. How do you know that an evil demon hasn't implanted a bunch of previous program called memory in you?

@winterknight I wanna thank you a lot for emphasizing the science of desire and emotions so much in your teachings. Recently, it's been my experience that self-inquiry itself is the easiest and most joyous thing there is. My very being is Self-inquiry/Self-attention. But stomaching the 'Truth', that is the one and only hard thing. No wonder all desires, beliefs and emotions will have to align themselves to finally accept the Truth as it is.

The girlfriend, the one who has the girlfriend, the very mechanism that makes this question possible, the very cognition of illusion - all of it is a simultaneous illusion. None of it has self-awareness. That means their existence isn't absolutely verifiable.

see ya 500 years later!

(Out of sight, out of mind)

Nooooooo

@okulele Thanks for the reminder. I second this! The best gift one can give oneself is alert, loving attention.

Going full circle where the Baker, the process of baking and the baked are all ONE!! Where is the fooking baby??

@Tony 845 No. There is no enlightened people in NY or CT. Enlightened people are either dead or live nowhere and everywhere.

Where are YOU going on that bike so swiftly anyway? Hunting some grandmas?

Infinite good came out of every grandma ever raped

How come the sand I throw passes over to the other side but not me. Not fair!!!

at least send me some cookies from the other side. don't be so greedy

We live in 21st century they said We live in the most advanced civilization they said We have conquered everything they said We are out of dark ages they said

of course. please bless me

After actual enlightenment (not the new age bullshit one where everyone is already enlightened), there is no thinker of thoughts and no doer of actions. The body-mind gets progressively purified by this truth realization according to it's karma in it's own pace. Just like before enlightenment, awareness seemed to take on the finite qualities of the body-mind; after enlightenment that role shifts. The body-mind starts to get permeated with the infiniteness of awareness. Now this process may or may not look like 'development' to onlookers. But this is not something the body-mind 'does' as an agent or ego. Ratnakara was the most notorious bandit of his time. Through sadhana he realized the Self, reemerged as the sage Valmiki and wrote the epic Ramayana. A villain is never villain forever. Any judgement we make on an enlightened being(or anyone for that matter) is our own deluded projection.

When I use the word 'ego', I never mean it in a degrading or pejorative term. That's the conventional notion of ego. The ego I mention is a technical term which is synonymous to a distinct subject/experiencer/perceiver that knows or experiences other objects. This object knowing consciousness is called ego. In other words, ego is what we take ourselves to be. Ramana Maharshi called this ego as the primal I-thought. Nisatgadatta Maharaj called it the sense of I AM. This ego's very mechanism is to know objects other than itself. Thus it is objective knowledge. It can't afford to know itself. It can only survive by knowing other things but itself. So the very instruction of self-inquiry or any direct path instruction is to make this ego shine it's attention on itself, rather than letting it shine attention on other objects which it is doing 24/7 in waking and dream states. In deep sleep, this ego shuts down temporarily and thus all the objects it knows subsides along with it as well for a while. Then again after some time, this ego springs back up due to it's latent tendencies to know/experience other objects which is waking or dream states. And so this cycle continues. What is called conventional 'physical' death is only just another round of deep sleep for ego to rest for a while and then spring back up again with a new body to start experiencing objects again(just like the ego takes on new bodies in every dream. Even our waking body is new every single day, never exactly the same). What I am saying is that this very object knowing consciousness aka ego IS suffering. It is an optical illusion. The pure Consciousness we are, never knows anything other than it's own presence/being. It has no subject-object duality. So whenever this optical illusion of object knowing ego arises out of pure Consciousness, it carries this chronic inherent suffering in itself so that it can merge into it's original source again. Just like an extended rubber band carries inherent reflex to revert back to it's original form if it is given a chance. This suffering/search for happiness/dis-satisfaction is the constant call that the the ego feels within itself to sink into the source of God. This is why ego=suffering. Yes the cessation of all subject-object duality. In other words, cessation of all objective knowledge once and for all. All the 'buts' put after this cessation of ego are thoughts. We have no way of knowing how it is gonna turn out, except for going to that placeless place ourselves. So better not have such notions if you are serious about self-realization. Let's not put the cart before the horse. Just remind yourself the power of re-contexualization. The ''self+body+mind'' complex you talk about is a way of seeing. It cannot remain the same if it is re-contexualized. Notice how all your body, life, world experiences get re-contextualized into a 'blank state' in deep sleep. Does that shift happen instantaneously or does it go through a step by step process that you are aware of?

@Cortex : How Much Pleasure Enlightenment Gives You? @Leo Gura : here is a sneak peek