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This is just intellect dividing things up more and more, making things more complex and such. We are not talking about Spirituality here on this forum, we are talking around it, because language and communication comes from intellect, logic of which is a foundation of intellect, so intellect divides and separates, dark side this, light side that, sub concsious, unconscious, that lables and divides are just there for us to explain, which is intellectual, so that one listening and reading/watching can get curious, on the intellectual level. Most all of Humanity nowadays are highly intellectual, very much into their thoughts, emotions, internal philosophies about themselves and life, none of it is reality, reality is Your Alive, the sun has risen, the atmosphere is provided 02, your able to access the librarys of the world, and your still anxious, depressed, but if those things can happen within You at levels of intensity, so can Happiness, and Bliss, at the same levels of experience and intensity, so make the choice, that is Human Nature, Free Will, make the choice as to how You want to be, don't go searching for Dark Side, Light Side Ego or Super Ego complexes it just gets you further away...

What I meant is that Mods are more intouch with Leo, or they should be than someone like myself, non mod. Anyway it doesn't matter, he can do as he pleases, I'm not hear to get intouch with Leo or find out more about him or anything to do with him...

The Brain doesn't know the difference btwn something vividly imagined (Like Your dream) and something real, so there is a fine line or maybe not even a line btwn what we call Real and Dreamland. Everything is experienced internally, that is where Your/Our world is located, we individaully are the centers of our own universes, the key is to know with Clarity there are other Universes (8 Billion on this planet) and we are connected to them all. Humans are more the same that different, but the differences are popularized and promoted it causes more friction and division, which is good for business..

Like Sam Harris, Peterson is too intellectual, he's more emotonal than Harris, and Peterson has his own physical and mental health issues, I don't take advice or trust sources that claim to know but can't prove via their own lives situations, but I do listen to him once inawhile and watch some of his podcast reviews...always see how the person lives and do they have something you want, then listen to them..

This is wise, and seeing/experience Life this way is more empowering than Using Emotion all the time, which is sparadic in nature, but when You realize that Life itself, God if You will is Intelligence, and that You are a part of that Intelligence, which is everywhere, and very much a part of Your system, then You will come to more and more Realizations quicker imo. By Intelligence I am not meaning calculating and figuring out things, its more of a creation sort of intelligence, for intelligence to be present organization, deep levels of layers of it, has to be present, and that is present in nature and everything that is alive and not alive, the Universe, Us, plants, everything has deep layers of Intelligence, just see how everything is set up for Us to Thrive, its just a matter of Realizing it that makes the difference! Good sharing:)

The Samahdi series and Inner World/Outer World series. made by the same person are good docu's, here is the link to his Youtube page, he also has a retreat center in Ontario, seems like a legit guy with allot of knowledge, as well he has a forums page to.. Daniel Schmidt is his name.. https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenTheWorldFilm/featured

Him (Leo) not answering says allot, especially the question coming from a Mod, just sayin...

The essence of being Human, and why we are called "Human Beings" is the we can just BE, First establish Your Being, then go out, have relationships, share with other, don't extract from others, Life is partially about Giving, give all You can to others, when You establish Your Being, then everything is a giving... Good Video on this from Sadhguru....

The Insights are not new, they will naturally come to someone when their Awareness is raised and more intense as time goes on, how we express it may differ but in the end we are all saying the samethings in a general sense, little details maybe not the same but mostly insights are similar to others in the past... Life Insights: 1) Pain is real, Suffering is a choice, it happens mostly mentally, we over think, become too Intellectual and everything starts to offend You because of highly addicted population to ideologies, concepts and teachings that are outside of themselves, learned from data input via the 5 senes... 2) Successful ppl suffering just as much as Poor or Deprived ppl, maybe more, because once You have all the Money, Power, Fame, Admiration, Success, etc, and You still feel empty, then what else is there too do but get addicted to drugs/booze, gambling, sex, or some sort of death wish that requires you to do dangerous things to feel alive (think Tom Cruise)... 3) Technology or anything that we have invented for ourselves is mostly there as a convenience, not as a source or reason for Life to go on..nothing really new has been invented just things that are extensions of what we already have available to us naturally... 4) Reincarnation is True, many examples of kids knowing areas of geography, or have skills within them that would be impossible to learn at their age, Karma or result of residual actions travel from embodied life to emboded life, until one has reached a level of Awareness to move on to another plane..

1. Life/God/Source/Brahman/Grand Intelligence is all about Possibility and Potential, everything that can be exists and does not exist somwhere and nowhere. 2. In Onness no duality, no individuality exists, therefore no expression, no experience can exist, only Oneness, Completeness, Absoluteness. Possibility/Potential.. 3. Since Within Onness all Possibility and Potential does exist, so within that, Duality, Expression, Experience has to exist somewhere as another form of possibility. 4. This Earth, This plane of existence, this Universe is just one form of this Duality, Expression and Experience. 5. You, I, all of Us, as Human Beings, on this planet have the most potential to Experience this Duality and Oneness at the sametime within the same space. compared to other life forms which live between two points, a low point and high point, their potential is limited, Humans have no points by which they can live between, they can live/experience below Animal/Plant Level of Experience/Awareness, or be God/Saint Level of Love, Compassion, Blissfulness, Completeness, Enlightenment.. 6. Striving is what makes it possible for all to live to their Highest Potential, you had to Strive to learn A,B,C, 1,2,3 then how to make words, questions and paragraphs, and add, subtrack, multiply and divide, this did not come naturally for You, someone invented and developed the ability and skill, then it was passed on thru the generations,...Someone discovered the experience of Enlightenment (highest potential for Human Being), then it was developed and refined more (Yoga) and shared/spread to others interested and willing to Experience it... 7. Most Ppl are still living at the Cave Man stage of Existence Mentally, Emotonally and Spiritually, and rather than just collecting Food, Fire and Shelter to live another day, they collect Experiences, Money, Fame, Success, Recognition, Admiration, Pain for the most part with small experiences of Pleasure as a side dish and are capable of Suffering all of it, all the success, money, fame, everything that happens to them...but we live in the most informative time ever, so there's no excuse for anyone to be Ignorant of the Theory of Enlightenment, Spirituality and how it can bring one out of the dungeon of Suffering.

Yes, Truth is the Authority, Authority is never the Truth, they can only guide us, all of the practices available today are just guides, they allow us to see/experience for ourselves what is Truth, the Guru''s primary role is just that, it is not about them in a personal way, just someone that is already there, making it easier for anyone willing to strive to find it too..

Not yet in an absolute state, have had glimpses for sure..I've researched many masters, consider myself a disciple of Sadhguru, have sat in his presence many times, gone thru a few of his courses with him present, they don't all say life is an illusion or hallucination, they say the way You are understanding it may be. I don't think in an ultimate way we can Understand what Life is, its too complex, too layered and organized, too much intelligence is present in Life, but we can experience it, our limited minds will never be able to understand it all...

The world You and I perceive is not an Illusion, or Hallucination, but what You think about what You have Perceived is heavily filtered and influenced by your Karma (residual actions & effects that you have done thru the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic systems), Cultural atmosphere, Teachings exposed to, personal experiences in past and judgements about it, etc. In basic terms the Color Red is the same for You and I, they've proven this, but how You think about the color Red may be different btwn the two of Us, its the same with simple perceptions and complex ones. As well there's a bit of a paradox with this one, All Your experiences Happen within You, no where else, so in one sense you are the center of the Universe, when your in deep sleep the world does not exist in your perception, when you awake then it does, so most everything is Subjective, but we know that there is an Objective world, other ppl, places and things out there whether we exist here or not, the tree does make sound when know one is around to hear it. So the paradox is everything is Subjective but the Objective exists as well, the key to Life is getting to a point where You have absolute Clarity of Reality, this is done via the Yogic practices, you then realize You are not the Body or Mind, and then another form of Perception opens up (3rd eye per say), and reality is now perceived with absolute Clarity.

I'm not sure if he has actually said it, or maybe he doesn't know, but Shiva or Adi Yogi may have been an Alien..One thing for sure, he's the perfect person to have contact with them, have You seen the video where he allows a unique being of sort near Kailash Mansarovar (in the Himmilayas) to possess on of the participants and he was actually surprised by what happened, I wasn't sure it was possible for Sadhguru to get surprised by anything:)

Ramana is a bit overrated, he was born basically already in an Enlightened state, he just had to sit a bit and realize it, and he did at a very young age, now ppl today think they can do the samething lol, no work needed, this is the biggest falsehood, as those that think that need the most work,,Just sayin:)

@Squeekytoy I disagree, at the level of survival yes there is competition, but at the most fundamental level of existence there is balance, harmony, intelligence working for life not pitting it against itself. For some forms of life, like I said earlier, survival of the fittest is the best way for quality life to evolve further on, that is competition, but we are the highest level of evolution on this planet (if we are not then what is?) so for us competition just keeps us in survival mode, but we have much more potential than just sleeping, eating, working, procreating then dying like most every other life form on this planet...

If this was truth, then there is no hope for anyone, if their belief or present experience is that of suffering immensely, and that is where they "should" be right now then what is the point of anything, where is the possibility, might as well not be alive is suffering is inevitable and that is that, nothing to do about it lol. Yes one must accept things as they are right now, if Your feeling suffering then that is the way it is, but acceptance does not mean you want it to be this way or that nothing can be done about it. Who wants to suffer, really? No one wants to suffer, we are designed to live at higher levels of Pleasureable experiences, everything about us works better when in a pleasureable state like Bliss, so that is the point of it all, one may never get to a point of Bliss, but at the minimum they can be at Peace within themselves as a natural experience, compared to suffering every moment of the lives like many are doing now...

when I posted that I was referring to experiences and feelings/ things that have qualities, anything below 0 is disempowering for You, anything at 0 (peace) or above 10 (Ecstasy) is empowering for You, infinity is not relevant here, as infinite is not an emotion or thing you can feel or has a quality...

Like You said here, the opposite path leads you to hell, what is hell? Hell represents suffering, Truth represents Bliss, or intense pleasure, pleasure not in the sense of eating a ice cream cone or having a favorite meal, Pleasure in the sense of feeling fulfilled, complete and intensely alive. There is one equation in Life, gain as much Pleasure/Joy/Bliss vs avoiding as much pain and suffering as you can, most all your choices come from this fundamental. You respond to posts because not responding is more unpleasant, this equation is happening every second for every decision you make, just try it now after reading this post, observe your reaction to it and see what need comes up in your mind in how to respond, then resist it, see what happens...

Here's a video of SRI M, a Kryia Yogi/Guru, he seems super legit, this is his initial talk at a session he was holding, many topics talked about, Sat Chit Ananda, Consciousness, Vedas, Yoga, Mind, and the whole point of life... Even though I consider myself a disciple of Sadhguru, I still listen to others and research what they say, on the basic level the real ones are saying the samething, just in different ways, Enjoy:)

As a long time researcher and of course I've done the practices for years, so this is not just about researching what others think, but from my own experience, what are the main problems in the Human World, we have been around for thousands of Years, in the last 100 yrs we have had the greatest amount of change in how we live, and how we are within ourselves. Even in this small community here, you can see what the problems are, here are what i think are the biggest Spiritual challenges, it is because we as a whole humanity are not Spiritually minded that the problems we have exist, we are still living in Cave Man days, it is just we are not searching for fire, water, food, shelter, but entertainment, life and purpose outside of ourselves... 1) Massive Unconcsiousness - what this is means in basic form is that Reality is not experienced by the majority of People on this planet, ppl are not Living Life, they are thinking about Life, making up little worlds in their minds and believing it is reality. Reality is not separate from Yourself, you are a part of nature, can actualize it and experience it as a huge part of Yourself. Nature/Reality is the most perfect thing we have to perceive in all the Universe, its so perfect we can predict the rise of the sun, when the seasons change, patterns that exist in nature. All of this, the ability to have Life as available as it is on this planet, is as perfect as it can get, but we don't experience Perfection at all on the larger scale in Human Experience because we are Unconcsious to Reality, our role and connection to it... 2) Identified with things we are not - Identity tells You who You are, the majority are identified with the Body or Mind or both in differing intensities. But both Body/Mind are Accumulated things, Body via the food You eat, so Body is Earth, Body only know procreation and surival. Mind is accumulated Information brought in via the 5 senses, its societies Garbage Bin, you have no choice of the data you have within Your Mind, subconcsiouns/unconscious aspects of it, but it is not You, something else has to be there beforehand to allow You to accumulate anything, don't label it, just get intouch with it and identify with that aspect of what You are. Once a space is created btwn what You are and what You have accumulated, then Life opens up... 3) Massive Conditioning - the world of Humanity is under massive conditioning programs, some natural in make up some man made, but the way we are educated, the way we see and live in the world is why the world is the way it is, we still have wars, we still have massive suffering both physical and mental, but we live in the most informative and technologically advanced time ever for the most part..Conditioning is a part of the Karma equation, Karma is the residual effect of all the actions You take coming back to You and making you experience life as You are right Now. Action is on 4 levels, Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic. how conscious are You of all the actions taking place every second of Your Life in these areas? Most are less than 1% aware of any of it, but have the potential too be 100% aware of all of it, how would that change life for You? 4) Belief, and that Life is outside of You - Belief is false Knowing, its information coming in from outside of Yourself telling You a story, sharing an ideology/concept and You mentally accept it as Truth or embibe it as Reality of sorts, which leads you on a path of false knowing. Life is within You, not outside of You, all experience you have happens within You, ppl just use outside stimuli to create an experience within themselves. If You have 100% control of You inner experience how would You want to be, Happy or Sad? How would being Happy at will transform your life today, compared to being a slave to outside situations creating how You feel within Yourself now?

My Father he died at 85, the year before that he was mostly in bed, and had changed considerably, he was pretty pig headed, stubborn and such most of his life, he did many good things, provided for his family, police work saved lives, volunteered but had his faults, but when near death he became quiet and didn't want any drama, I attributed this too his energy levels being low, but Sadhguru is the man, he's got more knowing than all of us combined, and shares it, so I would listen to him whole heartedly if I were You, and his methods work very well:)

Checkout Paul Chek, he's very knowledgeable in body, mind, and spiritual areas, he has a school of sorts set up where you can get certified, its a 4yrs course, he's very good...

why do you want Truth? Why do ppl want to go to Heaven, or post on this forum, or do anything in life?

Competition is on the level of Survial, if all of life/nature was in competition with itself, then no material existence would be possible, ppl use animal nature as an example of why we need to compete and such, even plant life, plants trees fighting for space and sunlight, but these forms of life are limited and not capable of the possibility and potential that we have as humans, even though most humans are not living anywhere near that potental, so harmony, balance, equanimity are what is needed today, competition has given us what we have today, which is not so empowering imo:)