Davino

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  1. After that video is when the work starts, before that we are just aping
  2. A bit long for my taste but it gives a high quality big picture of Saudi Arabia
  3. I'm happy to hear that. Base line consciousness is becoming more and more important for me
  4. what can you give back to someone that gave you God?
  5. Yeah man, I'm almost crying. It sometimes feels vulnerable to express how you feel. Without glorifying Leo, i've just realized how much my life has changed just because of him. It's also sometimes hard to get the message across but yeah I'm just filled with gratitude and love right now.
  6. @Leo Gura I wonder if you are aware of the impact you had on so many people. I don't think you realize honestly. I've had an extremely good life, i've been so fortunate in so many levels, yet your contribution in my life is unparalleled. If anything, I do have to say thank you and that I appreciate you. I hope you are doing good and taking care of yourself. It's an egoist love as it is biased in many ways, but I do feel some genuine connection with you and your work. It really resonates with me. Take care and I don't know why but i do feel like being emotional. I love you and really thank you. I've been awakening very deep lately and you have made the difference, you have given me the tools man.
  7. As the saying goes, don't follow the sages but what the sages follow
  8. “To lose control over oneself is not desirable. In the search after Truth one must not allow oneself to be overpowered by anything, but should watch carefully, whatever phenomena may supervene, keeping fully conscious, wide awake, in fact retaining complete mastery over oneself. Loss of consciousness and of self-control are never right. While absorbed in meditation, whether one is conscious of the body or not, whether there be a sense of identification with the physical or not – under all circumstances, it is imperative to remain wide awake - unconsciousness must be strictly avoided. Some genuine perceptivity must be retained, whether one contemplates the Self as such, or any particular form. What is the outcome of such meditation? It opens up one’s being to the Light, to that which is Eternal.”
  9. I didn't have a choice, since I exist I have always lived to discover truth. That has given me some troubles but things have balanced themselves out in the end.
  10. I'm happy more people is watching that episode. Arguably his most underrated video.
  11. I'm a noob in nutrition compared with you all. I always ate a very healthy organic omnivore diet. However, a year and a half ago I switched to a vegetarian diet and just can talk wonders about it. I struggled in the beggining but after going to a nutrionist I was able to feel better than ever!
  12. This 2 quotes melted my heart: "I say unto you that I am a little child of yours and you are my parents. Accept me as such and give me a place in your hearts. By calling me as 'Ma', you keep me at a distance. Mothers have to be revered and respected. But a little girl needs to be loved and looked after, who is dear to the heart of everyone. So, this is my sole request to you all to make a place for me in your hearts." Anyone, to whatever faith or sect he may belong, is given by This Body whatever help he requires on his own path. It is his own Self that is assisting him - if only he will be good enough to accept the assistance.
  13. Multiple reasons. The unconscious plays a great deal. Carl Jung studied profoundly this topic if you really want to get to the end of it. Recurrent dreams and archetypes create gods and their stories. Also, it can be a way to connect with God in a particular form. As everything is god this seems to work up to a certain point. All forms and formelessness are but shapes of the one. This has proven useful in the path and aslo reconforting, allowing to recontextualize everyday reality into divinity. Like with mother kali, that represents all the terrorific in nature and reality, so many people have found that in the midst of the most terrible situation, all full of blood and with their life in their hands, they have said thank you mother Kali, all this is you. We are nearer than the nearest right now, thank you, I love you. See how profound the tool can be? Also we all have gods in one way or the other, idols in different facets of reality. Even in the highest, the form of consciousness or love or presence, that is still a lesser god so to speak. There is only but the one in the end.
  14. You are too far away to get to that point don't worry. If you just started to study maths, would it make sense trying to understand Advanced Calculus II? It does not. Go step by step, things take care of themselves. There arrives a point where all enigmas are resolved, in the meanwhile step by step keep dancing with the music that calls you to awaken. Nobody can say but it depends in the path you choose to walk. If you go into a discrimination path it surely will in the process, but not in the end, given that you arrive. However, if you choose the path of love, or something more femenine, motherly type, it can enhance your life so much. You will feel the mother of every kid you see, every living creature you will love them all as your own childs, you will feel the whole creation is your beloved child, your very own. It depends on the path you choose, so make sure it fits properly with your lifestyle. Some kind of stuff like I am not the body, not the mind probably not suitable, because you are responsible of your body and 2 more. Make it about love and serving, selflessless, compassion. However, if you want to go to the deep end of the pool you will have to face some things, but let's say that they will be by that point fully grown up adults. Also understand you need to take care of your body, mind and consciousness. All can and should be done simultaneously. In fact having a steady life makes meditation and awakening easy.
  15. What is the core problem? Don't beat arround the bush, go straight ahead. WHAT IS IT?
  16. I would like to thank @Leo Gura for this challenge. It has really changed my understanding of the world. I've travelled many countries and lived in a few but I have realized I was totally in a cultural bubble, bubbles within bubbles I should say, how deep society and culture goes! It's also great to be exposed to so much diversity
  17. That's surrender at a very high level in fact. So you don't even have to surrender, you just need to not resist surrender.
  18. It reminds me to U. G. Krishnamurti. I recommend you to try martial arts, it will ground you very quickly. This is just a grounding problem honestly, try dancing if you feel more femenine about it. Reconnect with your body, the trascendental must meet the inmanent otherwise is just an eternal slipping away. Also consider that you are scared because you are falling, but the problem is not falling, but thinkingt you will hit the ground. I assure you, there is no ground, it's infinite, relax fully and surrender to it, then all will be alright. I also wanted to crack a joke about the workout but after considering it. I thought it wouldn't be polite. But I can't resist myself, if you keep working out at this level you are gonna end up like him:
  19. what is your daily practice for upgrading base line consciousness?
  20. How wonderful is the play in God's creation? The Self, the Atma, is of course one. Nevertheless, there are 'you and I, yours and mine,' and all the rest of it. If you cannot give up the "yours and mine", then be the eternal servant of the Lord. How many lives have you not spent in the world, in family life, in the delusion of "this is mine and that is mine." Say to yourself: "I am immortal, the Self - there is only one Brahman without a second - I am His and His alone." If the distinction between you and I remains, then let the 'you' be God. What is in ice? Nothing but water. He is formless as well as with form. What is He with form? He Himself in action - actionless action. Attraction means to be attracted to one's own Self - MA. To lose all is to gain all. The Reality is merciful and compassionate. Whatever He does at any moment is all-beneficent, though certainly painful at times. When He manifests himself as all-loss, there is hope that He may also manifest himself as all-gain. To pine for the One who helps towards the light of Truth is salutary, for it kindles the awareness of Truth. - Words of Ma Anandamayi. “Happiness and sorrow exists in the world while one is ignorant about the Creator, that is to say, while he is ignorant about oneself. Hence only try, try and try again to know Him. Be in the Creator's Presence (through meditation) all the time. The reason why one is unable to continue being in dhyanayoga (meditation practise) is the cover of desire for worldly objects.” What man wants is divine love. From whom you are created, from whom are manifested mother, father, brother, friend, husband and everything, who has nourished you with breast milk, whatever word you use to address Him, that very word should be remembered with your heart and soul all the time.
  21. Classic Zen style. There is no point. It's the story. Besides, idk why they made the video private. I can't find it any more