AlwaysBeNice

Truth is happiness, oneness, enjoyment, freedom. Ego is fear, entrapment, paranoia, depression.

Sounds like a low dose of 5-MeO.

Preference is not a phase, worrying about it and disliking situations you find yourself in with people are.

It can be beneficial or temporarily creating an even more wobbly life, it just depends on how ready you are. How much do you meditate now and for how long has that been going on?

Everyone at some point in their practice, probably sooner than later, will get in touch with their deep suffering they have been carrying around, and which we generally have learned to let out but to stuff up: 'be happy, tough up, don't cry, be a man, don't be selfish, don't be a drama queen' etc. But crying is a big part of the path and it will happen, and if you block it you are bringing yourself to a halt if, if you honestly seek to feel it you will fasten the transformation, either way, the dam should break at one point or the other. And if there is one thing that feels good, lightens the burden and in so literally enlightens you, it's getting in touch with our emotions and crying, it brings you to yourself, you can feel it. And paradoxically, when you feel the sadness, you don't get more attached to the 'drama' but less, you get closer to the still self and actually become more detached and at peace. So it's important and it's beautiful, always. The despair drama that is often associated with sadness does not come from the sadness but from suppressing it and not letting it all out and thinking there is no way out , and also because the belief that death is the total end and thus bad, however I know from my experience it's not, and anyone can come to the same conclusion through direct experience and or research (www.evidenceforthesoul.weebly.com). - So aside from meditation, which is always the key and path to inner fruition, what helps me also is a lot consciously connecting with a passed loved one, feeling the beauty of their return to their true self and the presence of it (either in dreams, meditation and or in an attuned regular state of being), but also the sadness that you might not feel them completely and also the strong emotion that comes from realizing the pain you have been carrying around and the lack of knwoing and being your true self as pure clear consciousness without suppression and delusion of separation. And also, watching people cry and looking at the suffering of the world head on. I always avoided these things because I thought i could not bear, but I found out that truly getting to the depth of the pain and compassion you see actually is what makes it also profound and beautiful in it's own way, that one can go so so deep (but also knowing that all eventually know the light as well). So if you feel like it, I would recommend looking at the suffering head on, look up the crying people from Syria or even people putting out their true selves in singing contests and getting recognized for once in their life. Don't be afraid, what you get in touch with you integrate and it feels good, whole and safe, but what you resist persists and that actually feels uncomfortable. Thanks for listening I hope it helps. God bless.

It's more like de-actualization. First disabling youtube comments under the how to become a sage video, then removing the big discussion about Athene, a big youtuber, wanting to debate with Leo, albeit asking him in a trollish arrogant matter. Now, I am not saying you can't, but this trend is a track of the path in my opinion, not very reflective of oneness/unconditional love. I understand it may be challenging being a figure many people look up to, people expect something from you and you don't want to disappoint them but why shut down potential of discussion all together? People weren't less appropriate then other times, in fact I saw a genuine civil discussion, and if people derail topics or are inappropriate you don't shut down the fun for all but ban folks. Peace out and thanks for your service.

Can't it be both again? If there's one thing that seems to stick it's the paradox, it's always both. Yes, master and no masters are the same, and no, they are not the same. Yes, there is nothing to do, and because there is nothing to do, there is everything to do. Also, the system stands because people uphold it and don't act to change it, but it will change just like it always has in the past, because some minority got up and inspired the majority, which will you be?

It lacks a definition of logic, though it seems like they point to inner connection with the one spirit, albeit they seem to be confused about that themselves, and step 3 is oversimplified and does not create full purification of the self in my experience.

You want to be whole, happy, engaged, alive, emotions are a crucial part of this, and they never have to be experienced as negative or undesirable, they are the shakti of life, the other side of the emptiness and peace. Only the stress and fear associated with them make it seemingly undesirable. In that sense, I would put fear in it's own category aside from emotions, because that is not opening up, that is closing down, caused by attachment. Even sadness is beautiful in it's own way when you can just feel it in it's raw state and know that death and change is not the end of life's magnificence at all. To live emotionally suppressed is more like true death, and surprisingly how most people in the 'advanced' western world live their lives, dead and empty on the inside because of the suppression of who they truly are and how they feel, looking for temporary fulfillment in food, entertainment etc. No, you want to be as in touch with your emotions as you can, it's what flavors and fuels life, all it takes is willingness and honesty, honesty that you are in pain now, a lot of it, that's what's paradoxically the way out. And techniques that work well with this are meditation, meeting good people and talking honestly, meditating on weed/psychedelics, walking meditation. Life can be truly delicious that way and it's within everyone.

Going within for healing and truth creates the best and safest foundation, there is no real danger to damage yourself, in fact the damage has already been done by the suppressing the spontaneous self of the child and creating unbalanced societies, it is more like anti-danger truly.

I'd say it's naturally there but you are too distracted with a mind and emotional body full of fear that you won't be in a flow state when looking at information.

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yes AND no Always the case with these ultimate questions, it's both.

I think striving for sagehood in the relative world is the finest idea and don't see at as a contradiction with there is nothing to do and you are already whole, because that means that you can do everything, and then why not shoot for the stars? Though one thing @Leo Gura, disabling youtube comments, how come?

Yes, we were naturally in the flow state as children as well. Though we were already conditioned and affected to a degree still, and now we can go beyond that even.

> By this I mean that you have to become the kind of person who can be enlightened before reaching enlightenment. That resonates. Makes sense, if an unstable person gets too much insight it might shake the foundation of the ego mind/life too much.

Beautiful!

There are billions of ways to be sage because there are billions of different beings. The way is to live a lot is easy as well: love-oneness-truth. By the way, calling out all sages to live with the minimum required needs and donate the rest to proven good charities (see 'effective altruism') or good projects.

I think if you can ask if some movements are ego related they are.

Where did you get that howling from? It's in Martin Ball's book novel as well

The death of a close loved one can be used for great spiritual growth and will sooner or later be realized as a great gift. Not only because most people have learned not to feel their emotions and not to show them, as this is a huge suppression of the true self and can create a very unbalanced mind full of confusion and frustration and the shock of such a death can break that pattern and allow for (collective) opening and release, if that doesn't happen then the burden gets heavier and a breakdown is even more likely. So yes, by all means take (a lot of) time to get in touch with the sadness. I've also noticed that a lot of the sadness is not actually related to the loss of the physical form of the beloved, but it reminds of the pain we feel because of the separation with our true self in spirit. My dad died 6 years ago, some years after that moment I started to learn to become more conscious in this life and in my dreams, which has resulted in having clear amazing contact in dreams and sometimes even contact here consciously. I know this is real, I've had one very confirmatory dream experience which I validated in 'real life' and the evidence in general is clear. (www.evidenceforthesoul.weebly.com). Yet still, often it still touches me deeply when I might feel him in meditation or wake up from a dream, not because I am that sad he isn't here physically, after all, we meet on the regular, but because it reminds me of the free true free self full of unconditional love and free from suppressed emotions, fear and actually least importantly, I think, the physical body. Every time it touches me, it allows for the growth of my being, because it sheds some of the suppression and creates more realization of the true self which I then may re-member. And contrary to what you might expect, I actually dream more often of him now then I used to do a few years ago. I belief because it's less of such a shock to my system now, whereas otherwise it might be too much of a distraction and too strong of an desire for suicide if you are not settled strongly enough on the path. Peace and love, you can handle it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te74BIXbx8o

It's the paradox. Yes reincarnation is real. Yes other people are real. Yes you are real. Yes the soul is real too and so are an infinite amount of non-physical dimensions, worlds and entities. And simultaneously, you are everyone and everything, where in no souls exist, just one. Wherein no time exists only eternal now. Where in no sort of any space or place exists, only infinite being.

You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't surround yourself with like minded people if you can.