Preetom

@Harvey When you tell a story, you need many other stories in the background (or foreground) to back it up. Hope you can appreciate that

''Just like space exists inside and outside the jar, So does the Absolute exists inside and outside, with and without the body'' -Ashtavakra Gita ''Awareness doesn't need a body or mind to know itself. It knows itself by being itself. Just like the sun doesn't need a mirror to reflect it's light to light itself up. The sun illumines itself just by being itself, through itself. At night when we see objects with the help moonlight, it actually informs us first and foremost about the Sun's light. Because the moon does not have light on it's own, it is Sun's reflected light. When we forget about the Sun(god), we mistakenly think that it is moon's (ego/mind) light that is illumining everything'' -Rupert Spira Hope you got your answer. God is independent from brain/nervous system. But it is God's light, that illumines brain and nervous system. Brain does not own this light of knowing. This light of knowing is dimensionless, infinite, objectless. It is neither big, nor is it small, nor has it any part. This is exactly why if you get to know that 'knowing' part in your tiny little limited mind, you know God's knowing in it's totality. It IS God's knowing from the first place. That's why all genuine teaching says ''LOOK WITHIN''. Know the essence(the knowing) of your mind, you know God/Infinity by default No need to go on search for some Xth dimension or chase some mystical goose

Enlightenment is discovering yourself as Unborn. And you wanna get enlightened and be back over and over again to do this work from scratch? Don't confuse the actual work with rants and chit chat. Today's episode was more about giving people a shock. If it set fire under some people's ass to do this work more seriously, then I think the video has done it's job. Also start appreciating the concept of anthropomorphic. It will help a ton along the way regarding projecting stuff. Notice that any reaction you had while watching the episode was YOUR HUMAN EGOIC REACTION. Why do you assume that God would have the same reactions? That's the very definition of anthropomorphic. We as egos with brain and nervous system projecting our limited outlooks on That (God) which has no brain and nervous system. We do this ALL the time..from finding meaning, values to every rationalization and justifications. We impose the human perspective on everything we see.

@moon777light Subtract or see past the name and form. Is it still so scary and unacceptable?

Its all stories fellas. You refer to thoughts and expect something else? wow..

Okay let me search around a bit again

Btw this works too

It's a fantastic video. time to get back to it again!

This was Leo's mushroom trip inspired video. From this timeline, he started introducing psychedelics

I do consciousness yoga. Being aware of being aware

@EternalForest I think this is it. It starts with mediocrity and how society has become so easy. Then he goes through bullet proof principles/strategies for building a good life. Worth watching again. Thanks for bringing this up!

@Shiva while reading your post here, something came up. See if it sounds coherent or not. From your post, it basically means that in order for a 'purpose' to be discussed, there has to be numerous assumptions first. Only then purpose can be mapped meaningfully. So the purpose of a purpose is to basically support those assumptions. It's an effort to give a sense of Truth to those assumptions. And so it is not about what's ACTUALLY True or about going into an honest inquiry for Truth now. The purpose of a purpose is basically to provide justification for the unquestioned assumptions upon which it is made. Does that sound about right? @Bryan Lettner

@Bryan Lettner The idea of purpose is something that is invented by ego to rationalize something which it can never know. Ego can't stand not knowing something. So it conjures up this fancy idea called purpose and thus believes that now it's in control and now it knows when actually it still doesn't know shit but pretending otherwise

Try finding or remembering or imagining something that is NOT here and now What is it that is scared? Is the sensation of fear itself scared? How can that be?

When all else is said and done, just sit down and explore the void

THIS!! The distinction between topic and off-topic is arbitrary and the collapse of that distinction is Inevitable

1) Nisargadatta Maharaj (For the ultimate rags to riches story. From being an illiterate, poor, cheap cigarette seller to being the absolute reality, the God of all gods) 2) Rupert Spira (For reaching the pinnacle of living understanding to a complete satisfactory level) 3) Leo Gura (For researching and bringing out least known potential treasures into mainstream) 4) Ramana Maharshi (To be one of the leading guys to cut through the jargon of unending hindu scriptures and prejudices and go to the heart of the matter unapologetically ) 5) Swami Vivekananda (for displaying the iron will of mind) Plus several other musicians and artists for their respective works

@Serotoninluv I understand the dilemma of concepts that you explained. But nevertheless, could you elaborate of this a bit more? Is there anything left after that? Could you elaborate on this? What was this new relationship like as opposed to the conventional relationship?

How does awakening feel like roughly? Do you still see 'objects'?

@Baotrader I'm actually getting used to it and finding solace in it. It means that there is really no 'actual' consequence to anything. That's a huge load take off the back. At the end of the day, it is all transient like last night's dream. But this can be translated in many ways. Don't take this utter seriouslessness of Reality so seriously

The following post was found as an Youtube comment by someone named David Rogers under one of Rupert Spira's video. Reading through it, it just felt right "Trying to find consciousness in the confines of the brain, is like trying to find the Radio Presenter, within the radio". Those struggling with the 'perception' that our consciousness is located in our bodies - imagine radio signals; they are everywhere. The (localized) radio "picks up" the signal and feels alive. It only 'seems' to experience the signal in it's locality, so wrongly thinks that IT creates the broadcast. But the localized radio exists within the field of radio waves. That which makes it a 'radio' is the field of radio waves. Without the radio waves, the localized radio is dead matter. But without the radio, the field of radio waves cannot express nor experience the wonders of sound. So the field needs to utilize the localized radio (or perspective) to dance it's dance of sound. Similarly, our consciousness is perceived to be localized because that is how consciousness has it's experiences in this realm. The body moves around - how can we think that formless consciousness moves around, contained conveniently in a body that is full of holes!! Our body moves in consciousness. Hope it helps with the contemplation to disidentify from the body-mind Btw this is the video if you're wondering

It was a challenging book to read for sure. I read it years ago. Time to get back at it

In order to talk about various 'nuances'..

Having any identity, intellectual position, manipulation for survival, individual and collective ego

@SoonHei That's probably the neatest insight about addiction recovery I've ever come across. Thanks for sharing! About the spiritual ego, all I have to say is that investigate and notice if this 'knowingness' is personal at all. The ego personalizes Awareness which is the main dilemma as Leo put it so nicely, '' You've taken God and you have recontextualized God as yourself''. It is the ego thought that believes that it owns this awareness. But notice that, all vestiges of personality are 'known' equally. What is it that knows my present experience? Is it located? Where is it? is it an experience itself? Contemplate and see how the 'personal' witness dissolves. And about authenticity, it's really messy to discuss it from fragmented state like love, honesty, happiness etc. These things are recognized in oneself in it's true and purest form. So it's better not to conceptualize or trying to fake these things. You can't trust your present thoughts. Notice that if you are addicted to food, eating feels authentic to you. The mind rationalizes it as natural. This is exactly why overcoming addiction is so hard. You have no friends here. Your very own mind and body is working against you. To me the true definition of authenticity or any true action is that which leaves no trace. Like a perfect fuel, it gets burned completely. But notice that almost none of our actions is like that. We always get buried under rationalization, justification, suffering, denial, reaction, guilt, shame, worrying etc after almost everything we do. We are 'conflicted' all the time. This is why you are recognizing something as addiction and trying to overcome it. If you could snort cocaine without leaving any psychological trace whatsoever, then that would be truly authentic. This level of authenticity, you can't fake it or reproduce it on command. It comes as a byproduct of self realization.