How to be wise

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  1. @Martin123 I surrender my mind during my inquiry practice, not when watching videos. I watch videos for information that could help my inquiry practice. P.S. Kahn can’t enlighten you in his videos. If you’re not getting some sort of information or inspiration from his videos for your PRACTICE, then you’re wasting your time.
  2. @Martin123 I guess that’s not my cup of tea. I don’t feel anything when watching those gurus. If they have fascinating techniques and a clear cut goal I listen. Otherwise I’m out of there.
  3. @MM1988 The only reason why Leo appeals to logic is to convince you to wake up from it. Since you understand only logic, that’s the only thing he can speak with you guys of. But ofcourse logic is another concept, and is false. To wake up from the dream includes realising that.
  4. @Martin123 Matt Kahn’s videos are impossible to watch! I tried watching several of them, but I could never go past 10 mins, because I can’t figure out what he’s trying to say. He just rambles on about love. What does he teach in his videos?
  5. @Outer LOC 768. Although I don’t agree with him.
  6. @Barry J Read Ramaji’s book ‘1000’. It’s basically a model for how enlightened you are. Of course some people are enlightened, but the question comes to who is more enlightened than who. That’s what this book answers.
  7. @Outer Jed McKenna is far from enlightened. LOC 580. Quite shocking for me, given that his big time fan Mickey Mouse sounded quite enlightened.
  8. Leo: “I’ll talk more about that in the future.” Lol that’s his favourite phrase.
  9. @Revamped most likely it’s because you have an emotional issue that’s avoiding you to open yourself up to love. It could be something like social anxiety or social repression. Something along those lines. Do some emotional work first.
  10. @K VIL Lol Byron Katie is fully self-actualized why would she need this forum. I myself feel like I will outgrow actualized.org very soon. The only vision I see that he gives are enlightenment, emotional mastery, no mind, integration of non duality into daily life and life purpose. I now know how to achieve all of them and am currently working towards them. If he doesn’t reveal anything new soon, I will no longer have any need for this website. Although it has been a very useful stepping stone, I must now find a higher vision, or at least a more supportive website of the above goals I mentioned. I guess we’ll see what happens...
  11. Teal Swan seems to be a very clear person. Everything in this world is perfect the way it is. Of course including racism and slavery.
  12. If I think that somebody else needs help, I need to turn that around: ‘I need help’. Whenever I think that somebody else needs help, in that moment I need help.
  13. @Sahil Pandit Yes. Also loving unkindness.
  14. @Sahil Pandit I don’t know why people fuss over this topic of body/mind tension so much. There is one technique that can cure ALL of that shit, and can take you to enlightenment at the same time. The Work of Byron Katie. I doubt any of this PALO crap ? (or any other technique for that matter) can take you nearly as far.
  15. @LaraGreenbridge As Leo says, 1% theory, 99% application. Going to satsangs counts as theory. The only true satsang is within. Application, is only the self inquiry practice. When you sit down, close your eyes and inquire. Although meditation can be counted as practice, unfortunately I’ve heard too many stories of people meditating for decades and not going anywhere. Rick Archer, the interviewer for Batgap, has been doing transcendental meditation for 25 years, teaching and everything, and he is not enlightened AT ALL. Not even ‘no self’. Leo has been meditating for five years and he’s still basically nowhere (I mean his baseline consciousness). The way forward is inquiry/investigation. Everything else is theory.
  16. @Nahm Less talking, more doing my friend. Talking about non-duality is easy. Actually working towards it is a whole other thing. I have a rigid practice of 90 mins a day for the last four months. I’ve had many changes in my conciousness since. What I found is that the more I practice, the less I want to talk about non-duality. Do you have a rigid practice? How many hours a day? What is your current progress?
  17. @Silvester all you have to do is fill in a judge your neighbour worksheet. It can actually be quite pleasurable filling it in. It’s in her book ‘Loving What Is’, which again is a must-read.
  18. @Silvester Yes, of course. It’s a very strong shadow work process, but will also take you to enlightenment, because The Work is about unattaching from your long held beliefs. I recommend you buy the book ‘Loving What Is’ before you start, and also listen to the following audios: There’s a lot to learn about the process. If you want to see the progress of a friend of mine on The Work, here it is:
  19. @Leo Gura it’s shoking how Plotinus, whose biography you recommended in the book list, is only at LOC 674. What is all that absolute, nothingness crap you mentioned in the booklist under his book ?. He’s only at the level of no self.
  20. @Rilles No. Meditation will not purge your shit! There have been many people who have meditated for decades and were still raging inside. You can’t just quiet your mind. It has been tried and tested by hundreds of people. It’s a dead end. You need to investigate the thoughts that are causing your suffering. Inquiry, not meditation. That is the only way to let them go. Check out The Work of Byron Katie for more on that.
  21. @Leo Gura What LOC would you characterise yourself in for your baseline conciousness? I mean, you’ve been meditating and self-inquiring for close to five years. If you haven’t reached 600s yet, then what does that say about those techniques?
  22. @Good-boy the person in my photo is Byron Katie. I do her ‘Work’.
  23. @Oliver Saavedra but it’s possible to live through purely the absolute truths. Imagine how sweet your life would be if you only immersed yourself in the absolute, and let your heart take over the relative illusion of maya.
  24. I am reading the book ‘1000’ by Ramaji. But when you look at the amount of enlightened people he rated (with exact numbers, eg 734 and 856), it makes you doubt whether this book is actually real or not. I mean, how can you give them exact numbers. He gave people like Muhammad and Lao-tzu 1000, but how can you be sure? All we have of those people are stories and books. Who here believes that this book is actually real? If so, explain how he gave those ratings.