Anton Rogachevski

Because to not see the incredible nature of reality in front of you, can only be resulted from these causes. Otherwise you would be awe struck, you would cry "Thank you god, thank thank thank you!" There would be deep bliss and pure oness. The only thing preventing you from seeing it is deep unconscious sleep within maya, which results in full attachment to thought, and therefore your attention is taken from direct experience. The problem is that you call your suffering ordinary. You think it's inherent to existence, but it's far from truth. Suffering is caused only by delusion, it's unnecessary.

@QandC In a sense a "bad person" is simply unhealthy, and is a result of a faulty system, or a fault in the genes. If you are good, you are lucky, if you are bad your are unlucky. But it's also a process in which everything is striving for balance, and it's inevitable. One might say: God's will. A healthy person would be kind of like that: Authentic, humble, integrated, high emotional intelligence, worked for many years on his flaws, or grown in a very healthy environment. Or simply put Developed.

@F A B If you even ask such a question you are either depressed, or you are deeply within suffering. If you saw the "fantasy", which you so confidently talk about, you would be in awe on your knees crying. And so there is something to do! It's to stop suffering and have a blast! Cheers

@MM1988 By real I assume you mean "Is it worthwhile?" - To that I would totally say yes. Also it appears your expectations of "How is it gonna be?" might be a bit exaggerated. There's not gonna be a mystical light shining out of nowhere, spirituality is being very honest about your direct experience and not confusing stories for reality. You are welcome to read more if you like: https://antonsjournal.home.blog/2019/01/01/existence-explained/ Also spirituality is a "hoax": https://antonsjournal.home.blog/2019/01/13/the-meta-lesson-in-being-a-seeker/

My amazing family bought me the LP course. What could be a better gift?

Going to groups of spiritual development and listening without judging.

This will not make sense without having a mystical experience. Keep researching deeper, and go on a journey to see this for yourself. Good luck fellow traveler! Cheers

First realise there are is no better "Authority" than your direct experience. Be connected to the actual at all times, and compare any belief that seems to contradict that. Cheers

Hello there! What you talk about is Unconditional Acceptance of what is. Meditation might help, but you need to keep being mindful of any resistance you have to what happens. Once you saw the resistance, be with it until it fades. The more you do it, the better you will be at this. And things will start to fly though you like nothing. Good luck man! Cheers.

Good luck on your quest! Your motivation is nobel, and I really hope you make it. Btw Leo's got about 10 videos about perspectives, totally check em out. Also watch his Spiral Dynamics miniseries.

It's all about your relationship with yourself. And it goes way deeper into the way you treat the devine nature in you. Wearing nice clothes says unconsciously: I respect your devinity, you are welcome here. It can be seen in temples in the way they are decorated and cleaned. Just take a look inside a catholic church. Your body is a temple.

@purerogue This might help your contemplation:

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

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?