Ishanga

keep drinking the kool aid, see where You are in another year or two, or take charge make changes and see what happens.. These ideologies of nothing is happening, no one is here, everything is imaginary, a very tiny part of it is truth, your simple judgements, ideas about ppl and things maybe untrue, but ppl exist, other ppl exist, reality, the earth, the galaxy, universe, it exists, deny it and then suffering happens because Your denying basic existence. Ppl deny others, then go on and talking about broken relationships and/or wishing "Others" well, its completely ridiculous and crazy...

that's sad for You, Your missing out! and You will continue to suffer and live a low potential in life is that is what You actually think/believe!

Free Will has to exist because its a Possibility, just because You and many other don't access it doesn't mean it doesn't exist or isn't possible, its just a matter of exploring it.. Free Will in the case means "How You want to Experience Life"

No, we have Free Will, most do not engage with it, Even those that are brought in hell holes have Free Will, read Victor Frankl, he's one example, but the society and power players do not want us to know this, which is why ppl living the so called "Dream" are suffering that too.. Its just a matter of knowing how to access it, which is why we have methods to do this, but its super hard today with all the conditioning and bad habits ppl have, but it is totally possible in most all situations, of course if your being tortured You will Suffering but most ppl are suffering via their own unawareness, not because someone is torturing them or putting a war on their doorstep!

Absolute needs a way to experience itself, it can't in the realm that it exists, so here we are, living this sort of life out of Trillions of other Potentials, so that in the End Absolute can know itself, for that too happen an Experience of Forgetfulness has to take place, we think we are separate from everything else, this is the game board being set up, its up to YOU to figure out the way out and go beyond this basic game and live life to the fullest, Absolute gave us that at the minimum..

This "God" has nothing to do with whether Your Life is mediocre or suffering, that is up to You, that is why YOU are here, if You lay blame on another entity or person, place or thing, then You lacking Response Ability, or Free Will, and You will always be mediocre and suffer.. We (Human Beings) as a fundamental are here to live to our highest possibility and potential, for that too happen You have to engage Your Born right and capability of Free Will, the Will to determine how You want to Experience Life, if You don't do this as a fundamental (like learning how to read, write, do basic math and survival processes) then its tragic, because Your miss out on the basic reason why You are here, and its worse if You lay blame on another thing outside of Yourself.. At the very least live Peacefully within, after that see what happens in regards to Spiritual Enlightenment..

Definetely not a leisure trip, try it and see for yourself... Anyhow, you know what they say about arguing with fools eh:) Peace out!

Most of the ppl of the world have this issue, and a mental health issue, just look around and see how ppl are acting and behaving, the ppl of the world are heavily brainwashed, heavily unAware, UnConscious, which is why we have what we have today in this world.. Ppl make up stories in their head either because the mind is on autopilot, combined with egoic identification and such, it makes up stories, or its a drama play too feel alive, either way its a form of insanity, we all have it, I have it, most all do, its just a matter of how Aware are You of it, the more Awareness You have the less it will affect You and where You want to go in Life...

To facilitate what, an exploration of American Indian culture, You think this is a leisure trip?? I may be a 30K bike, would You rather he take a cheaper one, get in an accident and die or be seriously injured? What would You do if You plan was to do a trip like this and expose to many American Indian culture, how would You do it safely... Your looking from afar, making assumptions and projecting, no credibility at all,,, I only respond as others may read this and get distracted from a True path that works!

From my involvement with Isha, most all the money goes back into the foundation to pay its expenses, Sadhguru from I know has used vehicles, he makes his own cloths, the travel he does is not leisure time, its work.. I for one think he should take time off every year to recoup but he doesn't he's go go go full on all the time, I've never seen anyone like this in the world, totally selfless to really his own needs and personal wants... To criticize it is nuts, we should emulate it, be a small part of it, he wants undercover Yogi's for the most part, yes he needs ppl at the ashrams because of the volume of ppl visiting, but he wants Us outside in the world being the transformation so ppl can see it is real and they can have it too, that is worthy cause in my books... He's been accused of most everything nasty under the sun, stealing kidneys, stealing ppl, stealing land, etc,,,this happen when You try to do big thing, enemies, the elite show up and try to stop You, they don't want change the want us to be their puppets, and to not be Self Realized and Aware, as once we are we bring back our own power and screw it too them!

Include everything in Your Narcissism.,.. In the end everything we do is a form of Selfishness. The Mother doing everything they can so that her children don't suffer, this is because her inner feeling of seeing her children suffer causes HER to Suffer as well, if her children are laughing and having fun, she feels Happy, so it is this way for everything we do, all those claiming to be doing things for others, do it because internally it makes them feel good as well.. The only way this process does not happen is if You are completely able to control how You Experience Life within Yourself, if You choose "I want to be Happy all the time" then You can be, and if You are Happy within Yourself, this will reflect in Your Actions and Response towards others.. So don't focus on fixing a psychological issue like Narcissistic tendencies and such, just make Your Inner Experience Pleasant (Peacefulness or Blissfulness) then everything else will be fixed!

Sadhguru is just a Vehicle, I am never talking about the personality or such things, when I talk or share about him, its just his methods and how he puts things, his methods work and he puts things in simple perspectives, easy to understand.. Like when he explains Meaning, there is no meaning other than what You make out of it, which is mostly bullshit, so if there is no meaning, then what? Why not just experience Life completely and totally, then if that were in place, would You search for meaning? Probably not, so that makes sense to me, searching for meaning is useless, you get to the end goal then what, search for another meaning or goal and then it becomes cyclical and your looking for things outside of you to fulfil You, why not get to a spot of Experiencing Completeness within then establish Your BEING, and then go do action...so that makes more sense to me, I don't care about Sadhguru as a personality or anything of that sort. As I've said Leo has shared some value for sure, its just for me its too intellectual, and the idea of relying on psychedelics is not for me, it has its time and place but not as a method or path...

Material industry is tied to Survival Accumulation, it all is.. One can take the intellect to the deepest levels, via that it gives Spiritual Insights I would say, but then it has to go further and disregard the Intellect, which is why we have Yogic systems, Daoist Systems, Buddhist System and so forth, it goes beyond the Intellect and into places that don't require it...Leo I would say has gone as deep as one can go via the Intellect, he's done some Yoga but has to integrate it all and get past his Karmic hiccups still...at least this is what I am observing, he for sure had great insights and sharing, they have helped ppl for sure, but its very limited... P.S. what is the point of "proving me wrong" ?? makes You feel better?? sounds egoic too me..

Survival based level only, everything is that in todays society and culture, intellect is just that survival based living, I'm am talking Mystical/Spiritual levels of Realization, intellect has nothing to do with that... Our Potential lies in the Mystical and Spiritual, if one has not Experienced those Potentials, then we are no different than the cavemen, just accumulating different things, which is a sad state of affairs after 200,000yrs...

Leo is a Knana Yogi, he's dissecting the Existence via his mind and intellect, going so deep he has insight from that, that is clear, but he hasn't dealt with his ego and now obviously narcissistic tendencies, and he coitizes others from doing things differently than him and disregards them which is short sighted.. Ppl here luv or idolize him because they are intellectual too, but not on his level, but they relate to it, problem is existence has nothing to do with Intellect lol, that is the trick...poor idolizers!!! I can't listen to his lectures, their too long, eventually it all sounds like Bla Bla Bla... make it short and sweet... Not saying he is not on a level of Awareness that is high level, he is, but he hasn't dealt with certain karmas that are in place that stifle him big time..

Most aspect of Creation are predetermined, it has to be to allow Creation and Existence as it is here on this planet to happen, this is Karma, Karma is cyclical creation based on past Actions, but for a Human Being, which as far as we know is the most Capable Life Form (has the most Potential in all areas of Life), we can rise above Karma cycles and its influence and have Free Will or Response Ability, which means we can live a Undetermined Life, so Karma means my life is my Responsibility, I choose how to Experience Life and from that perform actions, of course actions are limited, but my Experience of Life is not and does not have to be Determined...

Self, the individualisation aspect of a Human Being, its in the Brain, and the Karmic makeup of the individual, Karma is what make You what You are and its unique, Karma also allows existence to happen, Physicality to Happen, its cause and effect, and the foundation to the existence of things, and its much more.. Think of it like the Software in a computer, it allows to the computer to function and have use to Us, then there is the hardware, motherboard, hard drive etc, that is our Body, Mind is Software, Karma is Software, memory on 8 different levels, layers upon layers of previous experience residue impression reflecting in your NOW experience influencing everything about You.. We cannot grab it, its invisible like air, but present in everything we do, unless we go beyond it via Awareness and the intelligence and clarity that Awareness brings Us!

Since Life is happening, and we live in a dualistic world and realm, Death has to happen, everything Physical is cyclical, we are just pop ups, here today, gone tomorrow or in a second when compared to the cosmic time scale, we don't matter at all, but we do in a way, we allow Potential to be Expressed Experientially, if no experience is possible then what potential is arisen??? So Death is just a consequence of Life, be aware of it, but don't dwell on it too much, you will miss the Living Possibility of this Moment by doing that...

God is just an idea, a concept, few know of it, brain on the basic level, like what is going on around here, just allows ppl to intellectually know of it, which is below 1% of what it is... No brain and You not even at that level...

Self (meaning personality, ideas about our self/others, individual traits/habits/patterns etc) it is real, but it is not what we are. To say it is not "real" is a misnomer. Maya means illusion, it does not mean something or things do not exist, it means they exist but not as You think or experience them too be, so Self exists, if it did not exist then none of us would be here on this forum, thinking and speaking as we do and You wouldn't care if You live or die or eat or sleep or are happy or sad... But as Human Beings, there are two aspects to Us, we have the Human aspect, which is Self, Survival instinct, procreation, and all the Bullshit You see ppl doing today with status, success achievement and accumulating material wealth and showing it off etc etc...., then there is BEING, this is what we are, We are what is before Self and allows Self to be possible, I call it Source Intelligence, Brain is just Body, it allows Experience and Expression to Exist and Happen, that Happens so we can be here to function in this dual, karmic, Potential arising realm called Earth and this present form Universe, so that we can reach Potentials beyond Self, Survival and such, this is in place so Absolute or Source Intelligence can Experience itself in boundless ways, it can't do that in realm that has no duality, Karma in place...Absolute or God is just a realm that is a Potential and Possibility making place, language/logic does not do justice to describing it, we are a particular expression of that Possibility and Potential, playing out a game of sorts in all reality!

The Brain focuses Infinity or Potential into Human Form so that we can understand life somewhat, if that was not in place, we would be here and overwhelmed by the brilliance and beauty, Awesomeness of Existence (this would make is so You wouldn't care about Survival, hence we would not have lasted long as a species and not here on this forum participating), so we have this pre wired Brain that lessens that affect, but we can go back to that state via proper Sadhana so its more balanced, we can live our normal lives but at anytime go back to how Brilliant Existence Is and Experience it Completely!

A saintly life for sure sounds nice! It means You are involved totally with life, but untouched by it, You don't form concrete opinions, you don't judge, You discern for sure, but judgement is less intense and concrete, you live simply, minimalistic. You bless those that come into Your life, whether a life time partner or friend or a moment to moment interaction, others come out of it Blessed and Empowered, You make the world a Better place. Not many Saints around that is for sure!

The problem with Joe, and many others and the whole idea of podcasts with many many guest with varying opinions/ideologies stated, is that he doesn't know what to think, he's mostly completely indoctrinated in what is being told to him but since he has many guest with varying ideologies he doesn't know what is what, its confusion, and that is the case when You have so many varying opinions about what is what, in whatever aspect of society you are investigating, ppl will find what they identify with and then become blinded by anything else presented, this is not healthy or empowering. One needs to look at information from others Yes, but unless You are completely isolated, just look around where You live, that will tell You what is what in the world, I live in Toronto, Canada's biggest city, its a very diverse here, many ppl from many different cultures and ethnicities, its chaos here, ppl go to the mall when it is nice and sunny outside, and they stay away from the mall when it is raining outside, this is a simple example but shows where ppl are at, they don't know anything about what life is about or where to find it, their Awareness levels are very low.. Every major north/south, east/west street here is packed full daily most all day, ppl love to drive their cars on nice sunny days going to places that they think will make them happy, that is their mindset, I know because my job allows me to witness this daily... I give humanity 150yrs, maybe less before we go extinct,, Sadhguru will die a failure, a blissful failure for sure, but he's Blissful of his own nature so who cares eh.. That is why I keep to myself, don't make friends, stay in on weekends, work on my own Awareness and Inner Experiences of Life, don't care about what others think or really how they live, its sad in a way to witness what I witness daily but it doesn't affect me internally...

Like I said he does not personally claim enlightenment, only that he knows the origin to the ultimate for a Human Being,, and he doesn't claim to make one enlightened or that is what he wants for ppl that do his methods or join his ashrams, he says he needs ppl to stay here on this earth to make it better, as the moment of Enlightenment and the moment of physical death is at the same moment, he only claims to allow You to have your Free Will back...