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Sleep means forgetting, waking up means remembering. Both are important.

Next episode preview. "Heeey, this is Leo and in this episode we're going to discuss the illusory nature of reputation points. That's right! Reputation points do not exist in reality. Radical openmindedness required. Once you get a conscious traction of this fact and not just think about it intellectually, your entire life will flip upside down. What I'm saying here is beyond radical and your life will never be the same. Some of you might ask," But Leoooo, if rep points aren't real, then what is real?". I'm here to tell you about the truth of Emptiness points. They are automatically given after every forum post. Emptiness points permiate everything, you have an infinite amount of them and you give infinite amount of them without even knowing. Emptiness points are your true nature!"

Close your eyes and dont refer to the past. There are only sensations present. "The body" and "room" are only a thought you have. There you go, experiment with exploring that.

I've heard Osho speak negatively of TM. He said something along the lines of "Transcendental Meditation (TM) is not meditation. Meditation is simply being alone with yourself. When you can't be alone, you need to speak a mantra, now it is you and the mantra, you are not alone and you feel better, because you cant stand being alone."

My new life as a - - - begins. I think it's morse code for "Enlightened Master Baboon"

You sir are great at explaining things. You should write a book... Oh wait! +1

I have another "pro rep points" argument. From time to time I would get an odd rep point from a really old post, which would let me remember about it and revisit it in the present to refresh my memory on the matter.

I also agree that thumbs up should stay at least for individual posts. Reasons were stated by others before me. I would have thumbed them up if I could and you would know my standpoint without me having to write this paragraph. -- There is another option which I havent seen discussed, which would be a win win for everyone. There could be an option to enable you seeing the reps on individual posts or remove them based on your personal preferences. It was said about Adblock, which is a solution as well, but it is an external solution. On this forum we look for the solutions within ? Also, it would be fun if this is implemented to have an indicator whether someone has the reps activated and who deactivated them.

One time I dreamt we were getting promotions at work and the next day we were given cash bonuses. I was like I also dreamt the end of the world... Like 50 times maybe... Failed every time to materialize

I don't really remember ( I have poor memory due to weed use / abuse) but I do remember the unforgettable - when one time I was falling asleep in my first day of holiday in Bulgaria... The whole day I was meditating on a chair, nobody knew I was there and I could be free from all distractions. I approached self inquiry in a different way and as I was falling asleep using this technique, I knew I could expect something weird to happen, so I had set myself the idea to 'accept whatever happens' cause it's not me anyway - that type of commitment, until I find myself. So as I was laying there falling asleep doing this self inquiry, at some point it I could feel the sheets starting to move, as if they became alive. But I didn't open my eyes just yet. I wasn't asleep! I was just laying there, doing the self inquiry with closed eyes and this happens... I decided to not open my eyes (react) because I knew this could be from the inquiry. I was ready to accept and surrender to whatever happens.... Suddenly tho, I experienced somehow what could only be described as my soul leaving the body through the crown, and I don't know how but I think I was seeing it from a third person view... This was a bit too much for me and I opened my eyes to discover everything normal again. Hasn't happened since.

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I've definitely experienced emotional pain, fear, sexual feelings, orgasms and definitely death (like a lot) in dreams. For the rest I don't have memories of having them, but could be. I don't consider these real pain. For me real pain is the pain of a dog biting you. The closest I've come to pain in dreams is in my childhood - when I had the most horrible recurring nightmare - which might sound silly to you, but definitely isn't! I was being tickled by demonic creatures. Like sadistically, and I couldn't escape. It was like those dreams you have where the monster is chasing you, but you can't open your eyes or move/move really slowly - I've also had those - the fear is what gets you there, but no actual physical pain is felt. For me the tickling was worse than pain tho! LOL I can still remember their millions of tiny fingers arghhhh go awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (im extremely ticklish)

I feel that a nice way to think about time is parallel realities. So here's how it could be viewed: All exists now - the baby version of you, the version of you 1 second ago, the version of you 1 second ahead and the dying version of you for example exist now. Not only that but ALL possible versions of baby you, all possible versions of you 1 second ago, all possible version of you 1 second ahead and all possible versions of the dying you exist now - somewhere. You are simply jumping from one frame to another as to create the illusion that you are born, growing and finally dying. Is that close to what you meant? OOh, or you mean that the present moment can be like in infinite amount of ways and that's why it's creating these constant changes... Sounds very legit! Like it. You might be on to something

There are similarities, but you forget few factors. In dream there's no suffering - you don't feel tiredness for example. Also, the consequences will not be long-term - in a dream you won't have to rot in prison for example. You'll just fly away for example or start a new dream. Also I've never felt hungry in a dream - haven't needed to eat to survive - or do anything to survive. Yeah I'm with you that the awareness in the dream is the same as the awareness in waking. Well of course it is, it's you that is experiencing both, but the content is radically different - with few similar themes. In my last dream, I was walking along with one of my ex-girlfriends - from really long time ago and some guy stole one of her bags. I rushed after him and jumped in the car he jumped in and started punching him and the driver too. As they were unconscious I stopped the car by pulling the foot of the driver from the gas and then the car crashed into another car. Don't know if I survived. The point of this story is, I wouldn't do such actions in waking life. I wasn't aware that I was dreaming in my dream, but I simply was this NO-thing without fear AT ALL. I was just there, doing whatever I needed to do, with no suffering involved - no sensations of pain or fear even. Waking life includes pain and that pain generates an associated (and much needed in certain cases) fear of pain. (not to mention that in reality those 2 guys would've probably whooped my ass ) They were kind of non-responsive in the dream, just taking the beating.

But you proved that the dreams are not like this reality/waking dream. IF you shoot people here they will die... There will be consequences. In a dream - no. One of the reasons I prefer dreams! But have to deal with this reality as well. fuckin eyyy Nice dream tho! Sounds a lot similar to my dream oneness experience that dream Leo induced for dream me. Or at least the same type of intensity.

Leo also takes the position that there is no free will. No free will either means that the future is predetermined or it means that the future is probabilistic (which means that luck/random factor is also included) For example it may be pre-determined that you will go play roulette or not, but not predetermined whether you will win or lose (because it uses RNG - although it's never a true randomness. But perhaps the universe has a true randomness factor as well.)

Maybe smurfs exist. Hey what happened to Leo's investigation of trolls under bridges anyway?

Oh my, Annetta, I had a very realistic dream once *or was it* where I had teleported to another dimension and saw and said hi to two entities and they were freaked out that I can see them. How it played out is that the two guys would stand there as I teleported (I guess they teleported me) and the more rookie entity pointed at me saying "I see him" to which I responded with pointing back and tell him " I see you too" ? They freaked and sent me back. But maybe is just a dream, who knows tho these days! But your story sounds creepy as..

I don't understand what you mean. Please rephrase. From what I understood I think you're over analyzing belief. Are you saying that even if it works for me, without my prior blind belief in it (before trying and checking in my own experience) , it's still a belief? That's cool, but not my definition of belief. I think you're too radical!

I think the matter is simple: Try it if you want to see if it works. If it works - it works. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Yes, no need to believe. Just relax and let it happen, or don't. Why believe or not believe, just flow.

When you slay a dragon, it is no longer suffering. Celebrate!

Yeah, we can see how the fundamentalists may start 'thinking' that cube should become water i.e. everything should blow up into emptiness But the resistance vs fluidity explanation shows that this is more of an attitudinal change, a change within. The ice block is the resistance within the fluidity already present in us.

No, this is an explanation of a Royal Ape. Ps: Pointing fingers is an egoic action. See the root of that. We all have to look at our own soup when Ego is concerned. All you see of me is this profile. I am not identified with this profile, it is a tool. It is not my Ego.

Your thoughts are based on your web of beliefs. The web of beliefs swims in an ocean of Awareness. There is a sure and easy way to be aware of awareness alone. Beware, this is like exercising, you have to do this consistently to get some proper results in your actual web of beliefs. Whenever you can/want ask yourself the experiential question "Am I Aware?" (Rupert Spira™) and be interested in that. To be aware of objects, awareness needs to rise in the form of attention and place itself on objects. In order to know itself, it needs to relax attention away from the objects of experience and remain as it naturally is. So it's actually a non-practice, it requires no effort. You can visualize the process as awareness just shining in all directions without a limit (object) in its way to shine on, and so it simply is, like a star if you will, feeling it's own being. The light is used to shine on objects, but the core knows itself by itself without the need to shine itself with attention (well it can't, it's not an object) oops forgot to label the rays as 'Attention'