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Its about being "Meditative", not performing a technique 24/7, this is the problem with applying Intellect to a non intellect aspect of Life we call Spirituality!

Your looking at it in the wrong context.. There are Householder Paths and Brahmacharya Path, most all of us here are Householders, we have families and work and social lives, the Brahmacharya are completely devoted to Spiritual Paths, those types will sit in Sadhana/Meditation for 5hrs a day, Householders do not, they do maybe an hour a day tops of what ppl think meditation is, eyes closed and sitting, the rest of the day is full of activity and then sleep, during those times, One is working on Awareness, Living Now, One Pointedness(focus), Responding vs Reacting, practical stuff like this.. Lots of this is dependent on two factors, Your Karma and Your Intention in Life, ppl today are too multi focused and on things that are not even their own creation, but borrowed dreams type stuff...

Whenever there is a Why or What question, its coming from this always questioning Mind and Intellect, Thinking ideologies mixed with Egoic identification, trying to find the Answer that cannot be answered! Some Self Appointed Authority says "God is this....", what choice do You have after hearing that answer, only to believe or disbelieve, that is a huge problem because right off the bat your on the path away from Truth.. This can go on forever, just like this forum is, same questions and threads repeating over and over again, its mind games totally! Do You want the Truth as an Experience or Not? Then just look inside, figure out how this thing called a Body and Mind works, and not thru intellectual research from someone else's work, just self Inquiry, can You do No Thing for an Hour a day, no thoughts, no judgement, no wanting/needing, no searching, no questioning, no reasoning, etc... and just observe what happens? I'm sure once everything gets quiet then something will be revealed that is Truly Yours and only Yours to know..

Define "God".. There are Individual Bodies and Minds, what I think of as God, or Shiva/Absolute/That which is Not, is a Grand Intelligences of Sorts, it was there before any sort of Creation happened, all of Us have this Grand Intelligence within Us, but that does not mean I am a God or God/Absolute completely and totally, I'm Human, I have this Absolute as the Seed of what I am, but I have to seek it and discover it, its not in my Awareness naturally, and its the same for most ppl, some are gifted and its easier to access for them. Once this Grand Intelligence/Absolute is accessed in Your Life, then Your Living beyond just Survival and Accumulating ppl, places and things, You live to a higher Possibility and Potential, it has no end really!

Knowing can only happen from Self Inquiry, by that I mean the knowing comes from within, not from any outside source via communication as we do it here, written, video, in person talking to one another, someone's truth is only a story for You once it is heard or seen, so maybe it only helps in the very beginning of the Spiritual path, ppl need to hear the words of someone that knows, it creates curiosity within them to seek, the seeking is there for them to know for themselves via direct experience, so in the end Belief of any kind is dangerous on the Spiritual path... Only thing Leo can do, or any Spiritual Teacher, for the most part is reveal his truth, his Knowing, its good up to a point, the problem today is ppl are too into ideologies, intellect, philosophy, and too much talking/thinking about Truth/Reality/Life and not Experiencing it..

I respect Leo, but he's way off on this dream stuff, yes I agree lots of ppl live in a sort of fantasy land within their heads, they make up stories and ideologies about all sorts of things, they live in a non reality of sorts, in this context yes ppl are living in a dream of their own, but that is much different from how Leo describes his philosophy of Reality, and that literally no one exists except for him and his dream land, imaginary reality that he is creating, it not the reality!

All noises are "Experienced" within You, not generated, all Experience happens only within You, all stimuli from 5 senses or others only happen within You, in a subjective sense there is only You, You are the center of the Universe, but there are others having the same experience and its the same with them...This is not Solipsism, this is just realizing that everything happens within You, when You go into Deep Sleep, nothing exists for You subjectively, then when You awake everything re appears, this does not mean nothing exists without You being Awake, it just means Subjectivity is really all You have, but again its the same with everyone!

You guys think too much, we all do really, that is what is slowing or stopping progress on the Spiritual Path, and yes there is such a thing... You have to do the Sadhana and practices more like a Devotional practice, Your Giving into it, rather than wanting to get a result. Wanting to get a Result is a Calculation, Calculation goes back to the Intellect, Intellect is a Survival Tool only, You will not progress and see the Ultimate via the Intellect, as Intellect Separates and Divides, partitions up things so You can understand it and live another day, Humans are so very capable of Living Beyond this sort of Survival Level of Awareness. As Princess said, Your Ego is super involved in this proclamation to the forum that Your giving up practices, its plain and simple! How to gain space from the Ego (we need the Ego while here on Earth unless You plan on being a Hermit), is simple Live Now absolutely, Accept Now absolutely and Respond to Now absolutely, then Ego is no longer a problem..

"3 hours ago, What Am I said: I like this AI-generated response regarding Hinduism's definition of God (Brahman). It uses words to label both what it is and also to describe the characteristics of the mystical experience itself. The latter could be considered more important. I think a good takeaway is that it's the true ultimate state of reality, and it's unknowable by anything less than the full direct experience, whether that's within the unified state of God as God, or as God filtered into the material realm. In Hinduism, Brahman is the ultimate, all-encompassing reality that is the unchanging, all-pervading, and eternal essence of the universe. It is often described as the ultimate truth, the absolute, and the unmanifest. Brahman is considered to be beyond human comprehension and is often referred to as the "unthinkable" or "unspeakable." Brahman is often described as having several key characteristics, including: Sat (existence): Brahman is considered to be the ultimate reality that exists beyond the cycle of birth and death. Chit (consciousness): Brahman is considered to be the ultimate consciousness that pervades all of existence. Ananda (bliss): Brahman is considered to be the ultimate source of happiness and bliss." Yes Exactly, Sat Chit Ananda... No other Culture has Explored Reality and Spirit Like India has, other have certain aspects of it, but India has it all, every question has been asked there and answered, Mark Twain said India was the most interesting Country on the planet!

Yes Francis Fong, well known in the Wing Chun community,,, here's my Utube page.. https://www.youtube.com/@Inclusivevingtsun/videos

I used to teach Wing Chun Kung Fu, that is me teaching...

Well I guess it is for this sort of existence.. Just Contemplate this, what really Does Absolute mean? Forget about simple Human emotions, for me Absolute means Everything, everything that is possible to happen has to happen, so since Duality is a possibility, here it is...In another place or realm it is different with a different set of rules and boundaries and so forth, its endless, we can't comp rend it on any real level, but that is my guess at it, I haven't heard any better yet...

As I've said, and its the only that makes sense to me, because of Us and the wide variety of People, Absolute is able to Experience itself in many many different ways, as well its an expression of Possibility, Duality has to exist somewhere so here it is existing here as an expression of possibility...we are playing it all out in a big game on this planet!

There is no natural God, God/s were created by Man, Yogis as tools to help You and Me Evolve to a Higher Possibility...

No, that is mental awareness, via the 5 senses, there are mystical ways to Perceive and be Aware that are beyond the 5 senses.. I would say contemplation is the game of the intellect as how are you to contemplate something without understanding it via the Intellect? Awareness is akin to Consciousness in many ways, but it is Human Specific, no other Life form has the Awareness capacity like we do, its beyond the physical and mental, and when You touch it, there are no words to describe it, just Bliss is the Experience...

Sounds about right, I would add that God or Shiva (That which is Not) are different in some ways, God is the Creator, or Brahma in Hinduism, but what was there before Creation? Shiva was there, not the Hindu God or Adiyogi, but the lets say "Force" behind creation, an Intelligence so grand and sophisticated, that from that big bang so long ago, we have what we have today, all done in less than a second, its evolution and it will continue to evolve. Especially True is Your Last Sentence, Shiva is everywhere, in every aspect of Creation, but that doesn't mean You are Shiva or God, it means You have to find it, its hidden on purpose, as You say for God to Realize itself!

The only thing really under your control is your response to whatever is happening. When You suffer, you are less able to make things in situations more empowering or better, when Your at Ease with it (Surrender or Acceptance) then Your more Empowered and able to make things better, that is all You can do. Your no good to your son when Your suffering inside, Your very good to your son when Your at Peace inside, that is all... If You were no one and a nobody, then why all the fuss, why all the drama? Contemplate this, this sort of thinking is coming from ego for sure... Feel Blessed that Your son is doing better, You all got thru it, don't see it as a negative or that You have no power to do something about it, you do, as I said above!

If you say so,,,notta:)

"56 minutes ago, Bandman said: Maybe its not the final station, but it makes me think the ultimate reality and consciousness can never be realized, which is akin to what Islam and Sufism teaches. If you can awaken ever deeper, the ultimate can never be known." Quit exploring with Your Mind and Intellect, You'll never find much with either, Explore with Your Awareness. Think of Awareness as another form of Intelligence, that is not attached to memory or 5 senses in any way, its beyond all that and is more inline with what we refer to as the Absolute, its from that place, once You get in touch with it, Perception opens up to another level altogether, of course our limited minds can't makes sense of it so You can't explain it in words, but You can Experience it, and that is the most important thing, so focus on Awareness, not mentally but by dropping all ideologies, philosophies, likes/dislikes, beliefs, and just being here right Now very intensely, try that and see what happens.. Good Luck to You!!

That's not it, If all those "Infinities" exist, then what does that tell You? It tells that anything can exist, anything can happen, that is Possibility, that is all it is, that doesn't translate to Rape is Absolute, it translates to Rape can Exist, Love can Exist, Hate can Exist, the key word is CAN.. The determining factor is You and Me and Everyone else, are You Aware and Perceptive enough to make the Life Empowering Choice? Rape is not Wrong or Bad, its just Disempowering towards Life (Life is the same as God/Absolute), Lifting someone up off the Ground and Helping them is Empowering to Life, its that simple, quit complicating it with all this philosophizing to support some sort of belief system with huge Assumptions about what God/Absolute/Life is, its simple one thing, POSSIBILITY! We are here to Realize this Possibility via our Awareness and Free Will!

I luv Sly Stallone's story, he was in New York back in the early 70's (before Rocky), he has some bit parts in movies and tv series, but he came to the realization that he would be severely type casted as the Bad Guy or Tough Guy cliche, but he knew he had an active imagination, so he began to write, and write and write screenplays. He was living in a very small apt, he put black paint on the window to get rid of outside distractions, and went out only for food, and just kept on writing, and then he saw the Ali/Wepner fight and that lit a spark and he wrote rough draft of Rocky in 3 days, it was then edited like 50 more times to get it too what we see in the movie, but he had the basic premise within 3 days... So it comes down to a burning desire, and laser like focus, do what it takes to get rid of the distractions and your on your way!

God is about Creation, what if I were to tell You all there was something there before Creation, before God.. then what???

Yes, I watched that one today too I think! He's one of the only ppl that can actually explain Truth using language, English Language that is, and it resonates with Me greatly.. This really changed my POV on things when he said that all experience only happens within You, that You have never experienced anything outside of Yourself, which is true, life changing sharing!