Preetom

If you are not aware of yourself then everything is ego trip. The answer is always DISTRACTIONS..ego's most favorite defense mechanism.

Yes absolutely. This is what I find really confusing about love cult. I have nothing against love but many people project love as something different as if it's a different reality. I mean Truth and Love are they two reality or one. It's so deceptive to talk about love because normal, deluded, ego bound people like us have layers and layers of mental concepts about love which is nothing close to absolute Love. With my limited imagination I sort of imagine that if we ever tap into that absolute Love, we wouldn't even call it love (hope that made any sense) @Faceless

@Faceless Informally it means severe criticism or reprimand. I see it as stating the truth without any bullshit and without beating around the bush

@Faceless It's been a while I've witnessed such precise Roasting of delusion. Superb replies 100/100

Yup. Thats the very function on Maya. Creating an infinite chain of meaning, name and form out of absolute nothingness. It's very function is to turn the impossible into possible (creating something out of nothing)

Thoughts are subtle objects having 2 distinct parts. 1) The actual 'feel/existence' of a thought. Either a sight or a sound. Just a neutral object only existing/being. 2) The story/meaning aspect of that thought. The part which only points towards another groundless meaning, which points towards another groundless meaning...ad infinitum. This part can be the mother of all delusion/maya

I can think of 2 approaches. 1) Take everything as a hypothesis and put an educated faith on the path and your ability to accomplish that. Just like learning physics from a course/book. You must put some faith that this book will at least teach you something which you can then use to think for yourself in this subject. You can be skeptical about Physics but if your skepticism prevents you from learning anything about Physics all of your life (because you can't trust a book/teacher/course), then you've totally missed the chance of having some understanding and maybe start thinking for yourself in that department. 2) Observation. Pure, uncontaminated, non-manipulative observation. If there is one thing we can place our 100% trust, its observation. Its the most direct, purest way of knowing/being. And the wonderful thing is there is no loss in observation. If you just sit and stare at a wall for 5 years, who knows you might even get enlightened haha

@WindInTheLeaf If you start reading Jed Mckenna books, you'll start to see that most of the 'spiritual' gurus are anti-guru. In fact they are like the last wall which you'll never pass and get enlightened

The whole ultimate point of meditation (if used for Truth seeking/Enlightenment, not for relaxation or lifestyle choice etc) is to go deeper and deeper and actually inquire and banish the shit out of the fictional story that you are repeating called 'me me me'. Then the true self will reveal itself. So yeah..in this sense meditation is THE MOST SELFISH and EGOTISTICAL action you can undertake because you are solely observing and unraveling the very self (ego) around which every moment of your life revolves and you are focusing on nothing else. And yet paradoxically true meditation is not regarded as an action in the first place.

Thanks everyone for your inputs!

"Your words and thoughts don't reflect your real values, your actions do" Please suggest me how to actually change my values. From Leo's old videos, we see that he was addicted to junk food, TV and moderately addicted to video games most of his adolescence and teenage years. How can a dopamine junkie like that be a meditating Buddha? How the values were actually changed? My current 'real' values are mostly around bodily pleasure, immediate comfort, entertainment, inaction/lethargy (though in my mind I wouldn't admit these values but my daily actions reflect these values clearly. I tend to lie to myself about self-actualizing/getting enlightened). Most of the time the body/mind acts like a mad elephant that just won't listen. It would say right on my face, "fuck your noble projects, I want immediate comfort now". You get the idea. It would be great if you guys could explain your value shifts with examples and techniques which made it possible for you. And please don't swing no self no value etc non dual theories in this thread. I'm already doing self inquiry everyday. I want practical advice for optimal functioning. Thank you.

@Max_V I'll just leave it here. Don't forget that true growth may not come in a form you've expected. Some of the deepest growth can happen behind your back when you're not thinking about growth at all! All the best in your journey.

There is nothing wrong working on the human perspective. Just don't mix the absolute perspective with a relative one. Assumptions and justifications of one perspective/state become null and void in another. And try to see the fact that the strong energy charge you are feeling right now is the very same energy those criminals tapped into to commit this heinous act. Its the same one energy/truth being expressed in infinite ways, from the most evil action to the most selfless ones. It all depends on the purification of the energy and the perspective of the expression. The best course of action would be to ask yourself these tough questions and contemplate.

Ask yourself from whose perspective things are regarded as evil. How you see yourself (identify as) is the root of all evil. From your point of view, anything that rubs you in the wrong way is evil. Rape is only evil from your bias. If you were or only had animal consciousness, then rape would be the only way to go in life Evil exists as long as you exist as an identity.

Time is an experience/concept like all other experiences

Ability to discriminate between Real and Unreal

@Spinoza The dream has to turn into a nightmare to grow a distaste for it, right? And about ignorant people being happy; if you're living in a developed country, have decent regular food, education, health services etc. you're probably the highest happiness standard of at least 100ks of people worldwide. But the irony is, only you get to see your own shit, no one else. ''The grass always looks greener on the other side''

I think most of our brains (those being in self actualization bubble for few years, independent thinkers) have rotted already with rationality, materialistic paradigms beyond a point of no return. Its almost impossible to study and rigorously practice a traditional religion because we wouldn't be able to place an innocent faith on any religion. At best, these information and mild contemplation on various religion can intuit that all religions have the same core Truth. It can lead to a softened view towards others. While we keep going with the direct path of self inquiry/yoga

I've had dreams where spontaneous self inquiry started. Quite mind blowing stuff!

A couple of days ago I realized how closed minded and contracted my motives and desires are. I've decided to pray for everyone everyday twice. Let all beings experience and live in Infinite intelligent, abundance, well being, ease, flow state-synchronicity, existence, consciousness, bliss that is ALWAYS, ALREADY lying in plain sight. After all, from whom am I hiding all the goodies? With whom am I competing? Will this petty mindedness be something enjoyable at death bed? I was in this delusion that by being the gatekeeper of this infinite abundance, I'm saving all the goodies for myself. But in reality, my own mind is only getting petty and selfish day after day; getting unable to experience real, authentic, expanded happiness. So for now, my definition of Noble is that which expands your mind like an ocean and beyond...to a point it knows no limitation and lack. The way it is being expressed in my life right now is by praying wholeheartedly and slowly developing a conviction to selfless service. ''The belief in lack is the cause of suffering'' - Bentinho Massaro

Why aren't dozens of people already bashing and trolling his 'enlightenment'? Is it because they pussied out after reading such hardcore details? Jokes aside, Congratulations for making it all the way. Would love to hear more about the transformations happening after the major insights. This is particularly interesting because this insight was really hard earned. Not a one time psych breakthrough (btw I'm not rebelling against psyches) @vanish

@Samra Woahh!! That looks so majestic Thanks again for the good work. Please express your own vision when you're done with our requests here haha. All the best~

I can testify this from my own experience. Everytime I hit some sort of absorption/resting in awareness through self inquiry, I feel sharp sensations rushing up the spine. This actually shakes my whole body and distracts me, leaving me unfocused/imbalanced/back at square one. I'm pretty sure If I could be in that absorbed surrendered state for some time without any break, a nirvikalpa samadhi would naturally occur. Its as if the body won't let the Truth to be revealed..

Leo = Universe!!! Learn to improve your non duality language game, brother

@Ether One way of looking at it could be as simple as we will never know Another way of looking is that there are countless relative and one absolute reality simultaneously 'being'/existing. One never touches or interrupts the other. What happens in dream stays in dream and Absolute realizes Absolute. The higher one's understanding grows, the more one accepts all the possible facets of reality. Thats the true essence of surrender. Just like ant can distinguish sugar from sand, a swan can distinguish milk from water, an enlightened being can distinguish Truth out of what seems like Chaos. The seeker reaches enlightenment through negation of the world but doesn't destroy the world after enlightenment. He let everything appear and disappear without any resistance. If you wanna talk non duality and say there is no such 'thing' as ego/universe, you are maybe right. But these sure 'appear' to be real. After all, neither is Consciousness/awareness a 'thing'. There is no 'thing' in the first place but yet everything 'appears' to be lol