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Likewise, they are also different

@Nahm I used to love being right all the time... until I realized I was also wrong!

Do you really think that someone who is selflessly helping out in a poor community gives a damn about dying from thieves or getting anything back in return from that community?

I love this question.

This reminds me of Chester Bennington. He was a beautiful soul, and during his final moments on earth he spoke about love and the journey of finding that which does not need to run away from problems. He perfectly expressed anger and frustration in his music; millions of people now and in the future will be impacted by his life on earth.

First, I’d say that it’s a good practice to slowly drop labels like “this is good”, “this is obsessive, compulsive”, etc. Trust me, I personally have OCD and I can say from experience that these types of labeling will go on forever and ever. The mind will seek things to be a “perfect reality” (for your idea of reality, of course). Make up your mind about what you want to do, and stay with it for a while. Start slow. Assess from your own direct experience if it feels “obsessive” or not. If it does, you can drop it and try a different technique. Ultimately if you are expecting a negative thought to come up for you in the future, it will arise for you. The same thing applies if you are wishing for no negative thoughts to arise.

He spent over 9000 hours doing pickup and he earned eternal access to Absolute Love Look at your own direct experience. You are confused by the 4th law, therefore you are confused.

There is a meaning if you want there to be. There is a plan if you want there to be. There are awakening tools if you want there to be. It’s all up to you. Trust yourself!

Damn, that took me a while to get. You “higher stage folks” are geniuses

Hey Leo. I recall years ago that you said you had a (hyper?)thyroid and take medication for it. If I may ask, do you still take medication for it, or were you able to get that under control and don’t take them anymore? I was diagnosed with a high thyroid and will be seeing an endocrinologist in November.

The singer, Mark Hoppus, actually explained that this song was written about a bad psychedelic trip he had when he was younger. Someone slipped a psychedelic in his drink, so he had no idea what was going on.

“Even Da Vinci couldn't paint you And Stephen Hawking can't explain you Rosetta Stone could not translate you I'm at a loss for words, I'm at a loss for words I couldn't put it in a novel I wrote a page, but it was awful Now I just want to sing your gospel I'm at a loss for words, I'm at a loss for words”

Is this half-assing meditation practice, or is it acceptable? Of course this question applies to people who are able to; those who don’t have a physical or mental condition that prevents them from sitting still for long periods of time.

@winterknight I really commend you for that honest response. I am going to now introspect and be on an indefinite hiatus from posting on this forum about enlightenment questions because this is a lot, if not too much information I’m trying to take in at once. It feels like being awarded a lifetime pass to an all-you-can-eat buffet that you could enter at any time, but instead I’m lost in imagining how tasty the food will be and what kinds of foods will be served. I will PM you if I have any serious doubts or concerns (: Thanks again!

What’s your take on Leo’s comment about you? Thought it’d be fair that you knew about this, if you didn’t already He made a video explaining his awakening to this. It’s 48 minutes long, but I think it’s worth your time watching since this is making a lot of people confused on here (I say confused because the Absolute Love topic has 200+ posts in less than a week). Leo’s claim is that becoming awakened to your true nature is just one out of many facets of this work to become conscious of, and that you’re not fully awake until you are. Do you care to explore about this “Absolute Love”? Does it matter to you that you’re supposedly “not fully awake”?

Ditto. Let’s do this.

Thank you for this post <3 Even when I am feeling so confused, lost and hopeless by all the seemingly endless paradoxes on here, I somehow find myself loving myself and everyone on here even more because I’m seeing that we can all speak our individual voices freely and openly without being completely ignored, while simultaneously being guided back to the One source (:

@winterknight Sometimes when I go to do a self-inquiry session (in silence; without doing anything else), spontaneous insights about why I behave in certain ways or where it stems from arise in a verbal, but very clear form. I think they sometimes also arise when I find myself reliving past events and then I have an “aha!” moment where I’m able to connect the dots. The insights are profound in that I never get them this deep when I’m in my regular monkey-mind waking state. Should I just let go the insight and inquire who is aware of it... because I get really tempted to write down that insight. I do convince myself to wait until the session is over, but then I forget about the insight

If you are 100% certain about this, aren’t you considering creating a course or a mini series about it? Or is even the use of language and real life example not going to cut it?

Can any living being on this earth be “fully enlightened”? If you say there are facets to the Absolute, I can only imagine from my limited knowledge that there are infinite facets. How the hell would a human being be able to walk the earth permanently as that???

@Leo Gura This might be the dumbest question you ever got, but does one need to fully awaken to their true nature first before becoming conscious of Absolute Love? Or can someone become conscious of Absolute Love without knowing their true nature?

@Aeris What I meant to say is that if you believe that your hand is the source of the Force just because you can lift up objects by moving your hand, then you are deluding yourself.

Actually it is if you believe you could use the Force with it

It was peaceful relative to the previous times I’ve entered into a similar state like this. Before I would not be able to even inquire about it; I would immediately start to panic. For example, a month ago I was lying down with my eyes closed, and all of a sudden it felt as if “myself was disappearing”. I literally jumped out of the bed and ran to the bathroom. The big issue I am becoming aware of now is that my ego will Immediately claim these experiences for itself after they subside... “yes, I’m so special, look what I was able to do. I’m a 1 in a million hot shot baby!”. Okay... I don’t actually say like that exactly, but you get the point . However, this ego high is followed by obsessive thinking and analyzing the experience with my mind nonstop until I distract myself with the usual human activities again. As an aside, I will also say that I’m about 3 months consistent into my SSRI treatment; I feel like my mind is much more stable compared to when I’m not on it. For many years, though, I had a battle with myself on whether or not I really needed to be on them. I would start them, quit after only 1-2 months, get back on then a few months later when my anxiety hits rock bottom, then quit again thinking I don’t need them again, etc., etc. As you probably already know there is a stigma with being on these pills. Should me depending on an SSRI have any influence on the awakening process? My ego keeps trying to convince me that being on them is going to stunt my spiritual growth, even though in my own direct experience it seems to be doing quite the opposite. What is your take on this? I know it’s tricky me asking you about medical advice, but if I explained everything I just did just now psychiatrist he might take me into a mental ward right then and there That aside, I called the psychoanalysis place you referred me to this morning. I will have an appointment soon

I was doing self-inquiry earlier while lying down. There was a strange instance where I found myself just staring at what was in front of me, not planned out at all (my eyes just felt a need to open gradually on their own). The objects that I observed didn’t disappear or change at all, but rather I felt like my relationship with what a I was aware of changed noticeably. It felt as if I was hyper-focused, but at the same time almost like a vegetative state if that analogy makes sense. What struck/concerned me, though, was my eyes weren’t blinking at all for a good while. I used to have this kind of behavior when I was around 2 years old (we have old videos of me) Same thing, I would just stare at what’s in front of me and not move my head at all. I think it’s worth mentioning, but I was diagnosed with Asperger’s a few years ago; so they didn’t know back when I was 2 why I was exhibiting a few unusual behaviors like that. Is this “staring” phenomenonI I explained something that I should be concerned about? Why did I have no desire to blink for such a long time (whereas if I tried it right now it would probably be impossible)? I tried my best to be as open and curious about this experience as best I could by asking myself “who is staring?” and similar questions that I honestly forgot about. I didn’t get any verbal answer in my mind, and that hyper-aware + vegetative state remained predominantly (with some monkey chatter in my mind, but much less “loud” or ongoing).