How to be wise

@Leo-Tzu he’s standing. Can’t you tell by the way he moves around.

@Pernani it’s the same book ‘Loving What Is: 4 questions that will change your life’ If you’re interested in the results you will get from the work, read the book ‘a thousand names for joy’ where Katie just talks about her daily experience and the results that she got from the work. Personally, it was that book that motivated me to start doing The work.

@Leo Gura the subtitles you gave for the contemplation journal episode and the context episode in the iTunes podcast are the same.

@Pernani Loving What Is

@thehero what’s so hard about doing The Work? What are you struggling with?

In this podcast, Byron Katie helps people through problems in relationships that they have. These problems are probably the ones that you are facing right now, but you are stuck and don’t know how to go beyond those problems. An enlightened master helps people through those problems and heals their emotional wounds. Just listening to this podcast will most likely solve those problems for you as well. Enjoy.

@thehero most of the problems you could write about cover the same concepts that bother you. So just doing around four worksheets will already give you lots of peace and joy in your relationships. If you do this work for one year, you will achieve emotional mastery and unconditional love. You will live in joy and rapture for the rest of your life. No moment of negative emotion again. Powerful do you not think.

@Leo Gura Leo can you make a video about how to access infinite intelligence? It’s very important for us.

@SoonHei The self inquiry process in the book ‘Loving What Is’.

@MM1988 I’ve had many of them already. Physical illnesses like diarrhoea, extreme stomach aches and even a fever which came during my self inquiry practice. Of course I’ve had my episodes of extreme anxiety and anger which came up during or shortly after my self inquiry. I often experience severe leg pain and chest pain during the practice. I even had several instances where I experienced something that actually happened moments later. I remember once I woke up and went over to my iPad to check the time. Just before I clicked the iPad, I had a vivid image in my mind of ‘11:27’. Two seconds later I clicked it and that was the exact time. Another time I was on the street and I had a thought of somebody shouting ‘laa’. Five seconds later, somebody in the streets shouted exactly that. I’ve been doing the self inquiry for four months now.

So I’ve been doing The Work of Byron Katie for four months, and these days I get many glimpses of the absolute truth. For example, during one of my sits, I became conscious that only what I’m percieving right now is true. That means that the rest of the world doesn’t exist, because right now it’s only a belief, not in my direct experience. I also became conscious that even the room that I was looking at is not true, because that was just a belief too. I wasn’t actually looking at a room, I was only looking at a form of colours and shapes, and without my beliefs they meant nothing. In another of my sits I became conscious that I was awareness. Actually this experience happens many times when I do the work. I became conscious that I wasn’t the body, because I was only experiencing it as sight and feeling. That created a distance between me and my body. I became conscious that the world that I was experiencing this moment only comprised of sight, sound and sensation that I was experiencing. Pretty cool, do you not think, given that I’ve only been doing The Work for four months. A reason to consider taking up this practice.

@SoonHei that’s a belief. Whether the belief is true or not is up to you. But you need to distinguish between what is in your direct experience and what is a belief.

I have to add that I really don’t have any spiritual talents. I’ve done Leo’s self inquiry for three months and Kriya yoga for four months. The results I got from The Work is astronomically higher than the results that I got from all of those other practices combined. Do not overlook this gem called The Work!

What would happen to a stage red or blue person if they somehow received full emotional mastery and enters a constant state of bliss and joy. Hard to think they would carry on being a warlord or inforcing religion (now they no longer have fear of disobeying god). So how would that person start acting tomorrow. What stage would they be in? I know that Ken Wilber said in his interview with batgap that ‘waking up’ (enlightenment), ‘growing up’ (spiral dynamics) and ‘cleaning up’ (emotional mastery) where separate things and mostly unrelated. But when you think deeper, you can’t imagine a guy who is in constant bliss chasing money or attacking people. What stage would such a guy be in. What are your opinions?

@Leo Gura Ok, but hypothetically, if a tribe in Africa somehow received full emotional mastery this instant, how would they start acting? How would they start living?

@Cudin I’m not saying you shouldn’t play with animals. But your internal state, you must not have feelings of sorrow for animals. It’s delusion. Because animals don’t exist! Nonduality 101.

@Cudin Spiritual teachers have transcended feelings for animals. You should too.

Very influential Muslim speaker. He’s known to have converted many thousands of people to Islam.

@Leo Gura You once said that being conceptual was your greatest obstacle of being enlightened. Does that mean that reading a science book or some other conceptfull book will slow down our path to enlightenment, because we’re filling our heads with more concepts.

@Leo Gura does that mean that stage yellow is moving us away from enlightenment, because it is full of concepts. Stage yellow is more conceptual than stage green, so does that mean it’s harder to become enlightened as a stage yellow guy than a stage green guy?

@cirkussmile he doesn’t interview people worldwide. Most of the people he interviews are in North America.

@cirkussmile watch the interviews! A lot of them haven’t even had an enlightenment experience. Let alone being enlightened and embodying enlightenment. The only enlightened people that he interviewed in his long career include Rupert Spira, Mooji, Shinzen Young, Francis Lucille, Fred Davis, Tony Parsons, Adyashanti, Daniel Ingram and Ken Wilber. There are a few others but their names escape me. You can say that around 50 of his interviews are with enlightened people. The rest are with people who had instant glimpses, women who claim they are working towards enlightenment (they’re not), and scientists who only study enlightened people. But then again, when you look at the number of videos he has, this should be obvious. Do you expect there to be over 400 highly enlightened people around. Not even close.

@Paulus Amadeus most of the people he interviews are not enlightened. Not even close. Granted he does interview some highly awakened people. But very few of them.

@Chrissy j once Byron Katie was having a surgery. The surgeon asked her if she should be resuscitated in case the surgery went bad. She said that she couldn’t decide between whether to get resucitated or not because she really didn’t care whether or not she died. Her husband made the choice for her to be resuscitated. True masters really don’t care about their own life and death, let alone anything else. It depends on how much you embody enlightenment.