Anton Rogachevski

I suggest you to go deeper my friend. That's quite a rash assumtion about the nature of reality. How do you know?

@SoonHei Very insightful. I can see you are excited about it, and it's pretty awesome! Keep posting your valuable insights. Cheers

In my last vision I saw that demons are actually fallen angels. Humans are angels who forgot their nature, and the deeper the darkness of unconsciousness the more demonic the Angel turns. Deeply ingrained destructive patterns of behavior are totally demons. My trip report where I had the vision. Cheers

The best video about tao would be a no-video. "The Tao that can be named is not the eternal tao. Check out my post about the nature of existence for a modern look upon Tao. Also good luck to you! Cheers.

Sounds like you are on a good path, Imporving your relationship with yourself. I resonate with a lot of what you talk about. It's hard to find friends that are also as serious with this work, people like you are actually very rare, which is good news, cause you are super evolved. I'm going to these groups, and even though they might not be really advanced (stage green), the sense of union and shared goal is healing the loneliness and allows me to learn about forming healthy realtionships (which I totally need.) Good luck on your path, Cheers.

Seemingly yes, actually no.

Prayer and the idea of “talking to a hidden entity in the clouds” have scared the rational mind, and so it was dismissed entirely as something that’s not even worth checking. Let me tell you right now, that if you hadn’t learned to pray by now, you are missing so much. Prayer is the part in spirituality which deals with emotion. If you’ve studied modern perspectives of spirituality long enough, you’d seen that there’s no much reference or a sense of importance to emotion. “Just a passing sensation.” The deep pain and loneliness one feels are a lack of god. By finding a loving a god, one can heal his emotion and experience happiness. Actually a person's need for serenity is the need for god. A human is looking for serenity in many things since his birth, but he's actually looking for god, without even knowing. The real problem here is a misconception of the idea of god. God = Void = The ground of being = The Universe = You Maybe you have heard that in the past, but you’ve never thought that “talking to god” is even a possibility. You have judged this action as dogmatic, or “Something those deluded religious people are doing.” and so you’d missed an important aspect of nature and mind. You’ve closed you mind to a powerful tool that might help you tremendously in coping with life and bring your spirituality to the next level. You always hear the words “Surrender and Let go”, but you were never told to whom you should surrender, or who is going to take the wheel when you let go. So let me tell you, you surrender to god’s will, and god will take it from here. This is what’s called a “Leap of faith.”. In fact your personal will has no power here, only God’s will is present, your little resistance or what you call “control”, is only a disturbance of god’s will. This is the ancient way of explaining “No Self”, and it allows you, through a very practical process of learning, to gradually embody this very principle in your life. You decide to surrender you will to god, because you can’t actually do this. You may humbly ask god for help in doing this. You can ask god for help in dealing with emotional problems, and ask for guidance. Believe it or not, but you will get help! It’s quite shocking to discover such a simple, yet powerful tool. Also you might ask for help in removing character defects. All it takes is your willingness, and to help god help you. Meditation is said to be the second part of prayer, So in praying you ask to know god’s will, and in meditating you attempt to “hear” god’s will. The modern version of prayer is Positive Thinking, and I think you can see why. Having a positive prayer is nothing but a positive thought that’s bringing peace to your life. One could say that “god” is the unconscious mind that’s hearing your words and is trying to assist you, and so prayer is the ability to work with both the conscious and the unconscious parts of your mind. I’ve learned this in my groups, and you are most welcome to try. It’s the most simple act there is. Just talk and ask, someone is listening!

Thank you for the useful reference and support. I'm now reading about it here: https://vedanta.org/2010/monthly-readings/prayer-as-a-spiritual-discipline/ Cheers!

The practice of gratitude is also a form of prayer. But now you know who to thank.

Hi there, It's a very good and common question. I would say, don't talk at all. Be a flower and shine unconditional beauty, and all will be done for you.

Rupert Spira, Matt Kahn, Alan Watts' old lectures are gold. Also there's no other source as awesome as Leo's. Never seen anything more advanced and broad.

Go deeper. Spiritual meaninglessness means consequently infinte possible meanings. If I may be so rude as to suggest a possible solution: Your focus right now should be entirely different: learning to see positively, the best way is practicing gratitude diligently and sincerely. Also learning emotional mastery to know deal properly with negative emotions - this alone will transform your life to the core. Sedona method is king. (Leo has a video about strong negative emotions) I wish you well, Godspeed

But why do you use words, they are meaningless... Are you mad at dogs for barking? Then why are you mad at humans for being arrogant?

Upon learning to walk, an infant falls many times.

@SOUL wow. I totally lost you there. I can't make no sense or connect it to anything at all. I guess you developed supernatural mind gymnastic abilities, and it's simply beyond my level.

@SoonHei Thank you for sharing dear friend, I love the basic way in which you describe your insights, you are on a good path. I hope to keep seeing more of your material. What would you say is the relationship between appearences and you? What are they to you? Are they seperate, are they you? Cheers

I very often hear that in the process of inquiry one must seek that which is constant, yet upon reading a commentary on Tao Te Ching I stumbled upon this: "The ordinary, mundane Tao (the one that can be easily Told, or talked about) is unchanging, static, and permanent. The True Tao is Elusive and Ineffable, is in its very Essence Perpetual Change. In the Tao, nothing whatsoever is fixed and unchanging." And so how can it be both changing and unchanging, or neither? So the true self refereed in almost all teachings is the mundane Tao?

@VioletFlame Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing here.

Well, the ego is the personification of our self's desire to identify with itself so even though it's not much more than a conceptual construct it is a manifestation of the many impulses, urges, ideas, beliefs, thoughts, desires and mental paradigms. And so it's the impulses that dellude. The innocent little ego is the devil's scapegoat. Therefore any statement beginning with: "My ego" is basically delusion.

I liken the ego to the self's advocate......it wants us to attach and works to attach to the construct and content of self to justify itself. Since it's an idea in the first place, how can it "want"?

There's no beforelife nor afterlife to a thought. Yep ego is just an idea. You are not it anyway. And the real you never lived, nor will die. I presume the thing you want to keep are the memories, which are just an accumulation of recordings in the neurons. They are only significant to you right now because you are attached to them. You call them "My" memories, and so you feel as though a part of you will go if they go. But in fact the attachment is just an act of fear, fear of the void, emptiness, of ultimate death. Fear not, for it is already the case, embrace darkness, and you will be free of fear. Love fear and allow it be a part of you. Then you won't care for some old files in the mind's hard disk to be lost. It's just images, not you, nor are they yours. When you are born again, you won't remember, but you will get new pictures, on your new "hard disk". It will be marvelous because you will get to experience all the emotions like for the first time.

@ivankiss Great to hear. It's just a common trap, in any case it's good to be aware of it. In a sense there's truth to the fact that thought is free, and one can play with it, and form the reality in which it's comfortable for him to live. It's a great post-rational insight - It frees you, and allows unconditional positive regard. You decide what's right for you, and no one can ever change that, you put your opinion at the top, and become self honest about things. It's really been healing my soul, to be free. Thank you for reading and being here dear friend, Hope to see more of your material here, And I'm sorry if I hurt you in any way with my arrogance. Actually our deep mutual contemplation beared fruits today, I had massive insight into the nature of thought (post it as soon as it's ready)

Careful with confusing enlightenment for - "pretending not care about anything." One cannot think his way into liberation. "You can't wash blood off, with blood." (old zen quote)

This is the sanest thought possible. This proccess has been described as going crazy in the past. Let go! Allow yourself to lose your mind completely. Surrender to not-knowing.