Gianna

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  1. The creator is a joker because it made the most obvious thing, impossible to understand.
  2. Incredible! Thank you!!
  3. @Preety_India Ahh, I see. This makes sense! Thank you so much!
  4. I'm going through a stressful time right now with a client. This client is a part of the work I am trying to get out of, it is not within the business of my Life Purpose which I recently came to after taking Leo's course. However, I am trying to think long term, realistically. I know that I am going to need to make money from other means before my life purpose starts producing income. But anyway, this client I have been working with for over a year now has been pushing me far out of my scope of services the entire time, completely taking advantage of me. I've only recently became super defensive against them– pushing back, rejecting work, drawing lines. My mind has been lashing out, causing havoc, being dramatic, condescending, etc. But I really do believe that I need to have self-respect, set boundaries, set the right tone for myself (i.e. not sell myself so cheap, get taken advantage of, etc.) I'm wondering if I should fire this client even though it is my highest paying client and the majority of my income. If I do this, I could open up room for working on my life purpose or a potential new client who I do not feel enraged by. Or, if I should just push through, do the work because I've already set up a system with it, save money, and then.. idk? What do you guys think? Is this client a dragon I need to slay? Or is firing a client irresponsible because it is not thinking long term? I'm not pushed up against a wall with finances or anything. I'm thinking of this client in terms of a dragon because I want to slay my attactment to this source of money. However, it also takes a lot of energy getting a new client if I needed to. But who knows maybe one would just come to me. But I don't want to be doing this work anyway!! I want to actualized my Life Purpose.
  5. @Preety_India Amazing! Thank you!! How do we know if we have trauma? I know this sounds weird. But when I think of what I considered as my trauma, I think, "well, that was just my life." I guess I just think of being traumatized as stemming from one event. Whereas mine was years of my life. I have overcome some things on this list, through tough acknowledgment/self-honesty. But they still linger. Why do they still linger? If we find ourselves dealing with old negating coping mechanisms, does this mean our trauma is unresolved or is this ego backlash? Are you ever fully cured of your trauma? I know raising consciousness helps because I have experienced what @Yog was mentioning. But I can't tell if raising my consciousness is giving me ego backlash or if I never really overcame my trauma.
  6. @Leo Gura I hope you feel better ♥️
  7. The Evolutionary process of Maya.
  8. I was listening to the series What Is Love for the second time. In part two, Leo talks about how God loves everyone and accepts everyone because God is selfless. I can't help but wonder how God is selfless if God is the only thing that exists. How can you be selfless if you have nothing else to be selfless for? Help!
  9. There is a great quote in Victor Frankl's Mans Search For Meaning that I always turn to when thinking about Life Purpose. It states: "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by becoming responsible." I read this quote while having enlightenment ideas in the back of my head. So I thought, "What are the unique circumstances in my life that could serve as answers to God (aka Myself) to the question: what is the meaning of this life, of this particular journey? What is it ultimately for? What or who is it trying to serve? What are the particular idiosyncrasies, talents/skills/abilities, interests/passions, resources, experiences, knowledge, etc., etc.? What message could the combination of all of these things send to my higher self? These are the questions I consider when dreaming up my life purpose. What are your guys' interpretations of this quote and how do you think it relates to LP and/or enlightenment?
  10. @Bodhitree Categorizing your studies is great! But saying that you will only learn from 'enlightened people' (not saying this is what you're saying) is extremely limiting.
  11. I feel that my enlightenment journey is so scattered and everywhere. I have deep insights, but they come and go so quickly I am not sure how to chart my progress. Does anyone have any good advice on how to structure or stay organized during your enlightenment journey? I have written down all of the 'Many Facets of Awakening' from Leo's episode. But how do you guys practice and work towards awakening daily, when not knowing what type of enlightenment you will have? I guess I have no intention with my meditations so I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything. What are your guys' daily routines?
  12. The first minute of this song! Let me know what you guys think!!!
  13. Where do you guys get your body energy practice? Leo mentions in one video how he would make another video on this topic (feeling body energy) but I'm not sure if he ever has!
  14. No matter who writes the book, the book was written by an ego. Whether coming from an 'enlightened' person or not. Some egos are less ignorant than others. But, all egos are egos. If they are claiming to be enlightened, they may be less ignorant than others especially as it pertains to enlightenment, but they are still egos at the end of the day. This is why, I don't think it is best to limit your learning to "only enlightened people" which is basically what you are saying. I think learning from someone who has gone through a great deal of suffering- like suffering through a concentration camp as V. Frankl had- is deeply valuable. Someone who has developed the humility, love, and ability to see past their ego through enormous suffering is something worthy of learning from. I would say, Victor Frankl, being a concentration camp survivor, is definitely one of those people.
  15. these interpretations are incredibly beautiful! I am going to write them down in my journal as affirmations.
  16. This is also restricting and limiting in that it gives people the idea that their 'destiny' will fall into their lap without much effort. Super dangerous.
  17. This is very true. This is why I plan to keep up with studying enlightenment, but maybe not so much in a structured or orderly way. I agree with the others in that trying to stay organized might be counterintuitive. But I do believe I should at least stay conscious of enlightenment in this pursuit and ideas that have been passed on to me. I feel that some people have bits of awakening experiences without truly understanding what it is they are.
  18. Ah! I want that. How!? My meditations don't lead me to mind fuckery.
  19. Ohhh my goodness. Okay. I see where I was thinking wrong now. I was thinking that God was all things simultaneously so there was like reminisce of God in everyone. But what you're saying is that God can't know at all that it is God in order for it to understand what it's like to be one thing. God can't partially be God and partially be some other thing. "God has to actually BECOME those things" fully and entirely for what it is– its form, its limitation– in order to TRULY understand what it's like to be that one thing. God has to surrender its identity entirely (i.e. selfless) to understand what it's like to be something. God can't be anything else while being that one thing because then God wouldn't be that one thing– it would be that one thing plus or minus some other thing that wasn't true to that thing. Wow. I knew God was Selfless but now I understand WHY. Which leads me to understand why God can't be anything. Holy shit. I finally get it. The idea of The Self with a capital S is what was not letting me comprehend the selflessness component. But now I see. Thank you Leo!
  20. How can you feel selfless if you are one? So your answer is that you can't feel selfless if all feelings are one. You can only feel selfless if you make the distinction between self and selfless. Is that right? It's funny because I thought my initial question was before distinction because it was about the nature of God: how can you be no-self (i.e selfless) if you ultimately are The Self, The Ultimate Self, God, The Godhead, Consciousness– isn't this a Self? A Self of all things? While combining all dualities as one, as The Self, God, this is not self-less– this is the Ultimate Self, this is God. Yet, in working reality, because reality is dual this is where selfless comes in. Because God, in reality, never considers itself or acts as a God. It considers itself or acts as all things, which is selfless in reality. A selfless way of being. It just because this episode was about love that made me think of God as a being. One that can feel, one that can love. This ultimate being made me conclude, "well if God is a being, a being of all things, God is The Self" God is the Ultimate Self which is not 'self-less' it is The Ultimate Self! But as you point out, this is prior to any distinctions. After distinctions, you have selfless.
  21. Very interesting! This gives me a new understanding. So, it sounds like we create this thing in the first place in order to feel anything at all. Is this right? Otherwise, why would we create something in order to not feel it? We need to create it to experience it, learn from it, love it, and then let it go.
  22. This explanation makes me think: "Okay. God is selfless because God doesn't consider itself God. God considers itself all of the things in which it has created; therefore having no self of its own (e.g selfless)." It's hitting me! I wish this "understanding through feeling" thing @allislove brought up lasted forever. Can we get to this point!?