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Desire only creates more desire. Desire longs for desirelessness. Pleasure and pain come together, if you go up you will go down. Most hedonic pursuits are just scratching the itch. Practically speaking you don't need to be dry, but pleasures should be far down in your list of priorities.

Don't let that stop you. Don't limit yourself. Become the person that achieves it, transform yourself into someone that will make it into a reality. You cannot change your past but you can change your future and it all happens in the now. Become clear now, talk to yourself now. It is in the now that mature conversations happen in yourself. Watch Leo's video of Life advice for young people:

Probably the most underrated video of all time. This video makes the difference (not to gime him authority again but to go meta about the whole business)

@Clarence Why it seems you worship Leo? You are God! There is no Leo, no more "you", no more I; yet existance is. Do you talk from direct experience, really? I feel you like when I first started awakening. Brilliant but still far off, fascinated for Leo giving me my first breakthrough after all my life searching for truth and then watching his video what is Truth. I saw but there is still sooo much. Take your time, breathe through the process, enjoy the ride my friend. There is nothing to show. Be yourself, awaken yourself, everything will fall into place I assure you.

It seems like a rude awakening. Being conscious is the first part, feeling the second and healing the third. Have a vision for your life, dream and go for it, live for it and die for it. You take the decisions in your life, you set the direction in your life and you are not gonna let anyone decide for you and you'll go to the deep end for it. You are clear and grounded in yourself, you take care of yourself, you love yourself. That's why you take the decisions you take fore yourself, because you love yourself too much for not to do so.

I like this one: dragon's blood incense @Average Investor That video made me reflect

Groundedness. Being firmly grounded in reality and in yourself. Reposing in yourself, being authentic and clear in your mind and with others. Bias aware. Self-Love. Life purpose Willing to go through pain and suffering and not letting those stop you. Confort in disconfort. Humour and laugh Flow state This was my little brainstorm to do my bit.

Frank Yang on Solipsism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiZueRZaqM

Agree. It usually comes in waves for me though. Froom deep tripping to sober integration.

@Breakingthewall Yes I agree with you. It was just a funny anecdote more than a "thing" The weird thing is that it happened on weed in the afternoon after I tripped on 5meo in the morning. Never had any visuals on weed, first and last time was Leo. But again, just an anecdote

In one trip Leo appeared laughing histerically in my mind's space. And I was shocked like how is it possible? Which to Leo answered, I've been always talking inside your mind, don't you understand? (Implicitely saying that there was nothing special about that phenomena because it was always the case, when I saw a video of him, it was exactly the same) Which really blew my mind because 1 it was true and 2 because it would be what the "real" Leo would have said

I am not here to prove anything or to convince you. Posting and writing just feels good now and I'm going with it. After this recognition I wanted to reflect upon some points. God is reality itself, imagining this moment into existence. I am self conscious, abiding in myself. From this everything is born, my human narrative, with all it's intrincate knots and tapestry. They are all fantasies, this is reality, everything is included in this, fantasies included. I can't believe I could have ever thought I was a human, I thought this awakening would be epic but it's like how can I have been so blind, so stupid. It's tangible, it never leaves one, this experiential feeling of aliveness and consciousness that is indistinguishable with whatever it goes on. This would be the next point. IT'S ALWAYS ALREADY THE CASE. Ever realized, everything falls into God once the right moment comes. I feel empy and hollow and full in the same way. It's not the human that has become God, it's the seeing through the human, it's appereance in consciousness, the human is hollow like a castle that each piece holds the other. I don't know if you have seen this trick where everyone sits on each other in a circle, then remove all the chairs and everyone is still supported on each other in a loop fasion. Each one things the other is that, but everything leads to nowhere and to itself again. It's funny to see it all from the other side so to speak, everything seems so obvious. What else can you be? I mean seriously. Even if you believe you are a human, what is a human? If not the same as everything else. Love also comes into play. It's just what it is when there's nobody in there. Fear, pain and pleasure happen to some contracted knot-self. Once dissolved there is love. Why? I mean everything becomes it's own explanation at one point. What is an explanation but a circle to return to the same point, the point is the point and just better to give yourself fully to it, die in the point. Love is the point, Love is what remains. The human does not remain, but consciousness does remain. Feeling aliveness and sentience remains. Imagination and construction remains. But everything is itself, like everything fall into place in an obvious manner. It's beautiful and it's natural. Losing and gaining are beside the point. Nothing can be substracted or added, it's always whole, it's absence is it's union, it's difference is it's sameness. God is all there is. You are God, I am God, So is Everything.

Kundalini, kundalini, kundalini... Vipassana, kriya yoga, chi, tantric sex, martial arts... It's just solidities, contractions of the same oneness. Dissolve them and you will live in oneness, no more I, no more center. How bias it is to have a center! Kundalini, kundalini, kundalini. Wake it up! Again and Again, layer after layer, may consciousness permeate all your reality. Kundalini is the gatekeeper for baseline consciousness, the bottleneck. Once you have done all the work kundalini makes it a constant reality for the most gross self. It's like the actualization software. Permanent shifts, fully embodied and incarnated shifts, full circle shifts, have always kundalini in them.

Totally agree with that. My post is just to bring some balance into: "all religions are absolute nonsense and are clueless". I mean depends where you are, very few have transcended fully all religious breath and depth of states of consciousness/awakenings, yet some of them are here True. Everytime I awake deeper I find more meaningful the essence of each religion but I'm also disgust by it's ignorance and corruption. This is the reason why most religions are dying right now. No more mystics... no more saints... no more sages...

No, but I do claim that each religion has explored specific states of consciousness and developed a certain technology to access them. You can tap into those states for yourself but it's like discovering math versus studying maths. It's better to study what has been studied and awake to what has not been yet discovered. Maybe even develop a technology for that like Leo is doing with psychedelics.

Most people just laugh at religion but have not even gone through the deep end of religion and came out the other way to keep awakening. This is mostly the case with Leo but most people just think they can shortcut, laugh and strawman true religious mysticism. I'm sorry to tell you that you are kidding yourself. This is a general comment not intended to anyone specifically but I wanted to say this from a long time ago...

They must so. Too awake for most muslim, yet he awoke through islam and that's his flavour. His teachings and readings are profoundly permeated by islam; like intensely answering to you @Breakingthewall . He loved the path that worked for him and lead him to the realization of oneness with God and from that place he taught. The same way with Meister Eckhart. They have the exact same feeling you described but for Christianity. This guy is into something real but just leave him aside and let's forget about him shall we? Here are some quotes about him: "The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." "Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God." "God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk." "The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge." "There is a place in the soul that neither time, nor space, nor no created thing can touch." "The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great." "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action." "The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I am speaking in and you in hearing, and the now that is everywhere, and nowhere— that now is not temporal, it is the nunc stans [standing now] of eternity." "Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

I've studied comparative religion for many years and it just blows my mind how ignorant people are about religions, even their own religion. Also about Leo shitting on buddhist no-self but then praising selflessness as the highest like, don't you make some connection there? From all abrahamic traditions, to hinduism, shamanism and all the rest, I'm telling you all, there has been extremely awake individuals in ALL traditions. You have just scratched the surface, you have not studied, you have not experienced, you have not awoken, you have not locked and made it your default state. If you experienced the flavour of islam how inmense and humbling it is. If you have experienced the flavour of christianity how resurrective and forgiving it is, bloddy rose like. If you have experienced the flavour of hinduism in it's inclusiveness and energetic vibrance, intricately multidimensionally flourishing. If you have experienced the essence of buddhism, pure clarity and stillness, full seeing non locative. If you have experienced shamanism, what a beautiful race in the unconscious and primal, flipping you inside out. If you experienced the essence of Sikhism, what an elegant theological synthesis and selfless service centric lifestyle. If you have experienced the essence of the Tao, oh what a natural flowness, you cannot imagine how complete it is. Religion is mostly bullshit but there are some jewels that will kill you and fulfill you to your core. Each religion has mastered unique states of consciousness that you will very hardly access in your own. This is the Truth beyond the dogma.

"There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion." Ibn Arabi "Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another." "Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance." Ibn Arabi "My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith." "I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith." "When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same." "I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover" Ibn Arabi was a revered Sufi mystic whose concept of the "Unity of Being" and profound writings on divine love significantly shaped Islamic spirituality, philosophy, and theology. His legacy lies in his intricate exploration of the nature of existence and the soul's relationship with the divine, leaving a profound impact on Islamic intellectual history. Said in other words, it's impossible to fully understand Islam without Ibn Arabi.

I hope we have the traditional Halloween episode. Just don't buy a self torture mask this time

This video cannot be embedded but it's as good as it gets. The essence of Sri Anandamayi Ma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNTxSBkT7g "When you see the bud of a flower, you perceive the bud only; whereas actually the full blown flower, the fruit, the seed, and the whole plant are contained in that little bud. Manifestation is universal and unlimited, but your vision of it is partial, from one angle, dependent upon what, at a certain time, appears before your eyes. Look with an all-round comprehensive vision and try to find out who a particular 'yogi', a particular individual, in reality is!" ~ Anandamavi Ma Ma also spoke often of the mysterious qualities of the breath and its connection with the mind, and the efficacy of meditating and performing japa in tune with the breath. “From our worldly point of view we perceive everywhere animate or inanimate things; but in reality He who is Truth, He who is consciousness, permeates them all. As soon as the mind understands the fact of His immanence, He becomes active and vibrant within us, at first through the vehicle of the breath, which is an expression of the life-force (prana). Be ever aware of the following: what is called life-breath is really an aspect of universal, all-pervasive power that functions continually. It is indeed one of His forms; He who is Truth-Consciousness reveals Himself in this mode. If with the help of a mantra received from the Guru we can remain concentrated on the breath, or even without a mantra we simply keep on watching the movement of the breath, this will help to steady the mind and also be an aid in our search of Him who is the Life of our life, who is the Whole, the Eternal One.” “Through breath energy, Consciousness pervades Matter. Everything that is alive breathes. When breath stops, you die. Physical life depends on breath. Through Prana, matter becomes alive. Desires and wandering mind make the breath impure. Therefore, I advise the practice of concentration on breathing combined with taking any one of God’s Names. If the breath and the mind become one — pointed and steady, then the mind expands to infinity, and all phenomena are included in that one all – inclusive point. If you think of God with the breath it will purify the prana, the physical sheath and the mind. If you breathe while thinking of God’s Name, you will feel the call of His grace.” - Anandamayi Ma The Teachings Swami Mangalananda. Mountain Path. July 2011. In course of conversation Mataji said: World means that which is in constant flux and thus illusory. This pandal (canopy) in which you are sitting now will not remain to-morrow - therefore it is transitory. Just as a tree did not exist earlier and will not be in existence much later, thus it is impermanent. Why do you not aspire towards Truth and Eternity? According to the doctrine of Vedanta or Advaita, name and form are regarded as illusory. To think of name and form as separate from That which Is - this indeed is false. In the case of a living Vigraha (Concrete External Presence as form) there is no transitoriness. You are true, enlightened, the Atma (Self) beyond all names. You are the Atma Itself, free, Knowledge Itself. So long as God has existed, Maya is also in existence. But God is beyond Maya- just like the external relationship between water and ice. Exactly as ice is nothing but water, so Nirakara, the Formless and Sakara, God-with-Form are one and the same. - Matri Satsang. “A man's belief is greatly influenced by his environment; therefore he should choose the company of the Holy and Wise. Belief means to believe in one's Self, disbelief to mistake the non-Self for one's Self. There are instances of Self-realization occurring by the Grace of God, whereas at other times it can be seen that He awakens in some a feverish yearning after Truth. In the first case attainment comes spontaneously, in the second it is brought about by trials. But all is wrought solely by His Mercy. Man thinks he is the doer of his actions, while actually everything is managed from ‘There’; the connection is ‘There', as well as the power-house - yet people say: 'I do.' How wonderful it is! When in spite of all efforts one fails to catch a train, does this not make it clear from where all one's movements are being directed? Whatever is to happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time, is all fixed by Him; His arrangements are perfect.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

If you serve human beings or animals as such, it is not pure service. But if you serve them with the thought that there is only the ONE, that by serving whomsoever, you are serving God in that particular guise, then and then only does it become real service. Since nothing exists really but the Supreme Being, one should serve THAT alone. Purity means Truth, that which IS. Essentially, whatever aids towards the realization of Truth may be called pure and whatever is apt to retard it, impure. - The teachings of Ma Anandamayi. OLD DIARY LEAVES. Atmananda.

“If one loses one’s being in the contemplation of the Divine Name, one can merge oneself in the ocean of Heavenly Beauty. God and His symbolic names are one and the same.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

That is impressive. Thanks for sharing, I had never seen that.

"Do you want deliverance from the bonds of the world? Then weeping profusely, you will have to cry out from the bottom of your heart, ‘Deliver me, Great Mother of the world, deliver me!’ To obtain Her grace you will have to shed tears much more abundantly than when you desire things of the world. When by the flood of your tears the inner and the outer have fused into one, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish; nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart." ~ Anandamayi Ma