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@Leo Gura agreed nationalism is an illusion of the ego. It's created by people the ground doesn't have a name it's humans that say this/that soil is ours etc.

Nice new quote Leo what made you change it from the Socrates one?

Sometimes they use science to back themselves up.

No problem.

The question of no destiny and consciously creating your future. Skip to 23:40

@Leo Gura I think for your next topic maybe you should talk about the same things Dr. Joe Dispenza is talking about. He seems to be onto something here. Healing yourself by the power of thought alone. Letting go of past negativity.

I do it for about 10 minutes hardly feel anything but, I get the urges to yawn and stretch often.

I got the same exact problem I hate small talk. I found this article that I can relate to a lot. https://www.elitedaily.com/life/why-you-hate-small-talk/1461552

This post is for @Leo Gura and anyone else who has read the authentic happiness book. I just got it Today any major chapters that I should be seeking specific attention to?

So I was thinking ego sucks because ego gives you expectations and when those expectations aren't met you feel some suffering. The thing is thought that even when Leo said he had an enlightenment experience (at least came close) he said that even after that there were still things that "peeved" him. That's what bothers me what's the point of getting enlightened if you can still feel the emotions of pain, suffering, and hurt. That kind of sucks. Also what's the difference between ego loss and Alzheimer disease like losing your memory. If you lost all your memory forgot your name and everything you went through in life is that also like ego loss or is that different. Without an ego too isn't a life purpose also attached to an ego or are the two mutually exclusive?

Interesting. My main goal is not to suffer things.

To anyone like me who struggles with negative thought loops. This video seems like it's a great help and explanation of how to get out.

I'm talking about autism not being a problem. The problem is societies attitudes towards autism.

Can someone autistic still self actualize and become enlightened?

Why aren't more people bringing this up in the public sphere?

@Leo Gura I'm in Los Angeles near the Century City shopping mall. It'd be pretty cool to hang out with you.

@Joseph Maynor On the other hand some regret going because precious time was wasted. Of course never just quit without a plan.

@Leo Gura life and you don't exist for the failure to happen or you to fail in it.

My father said that if life was fair it wouldn't have started with crying. It's like somehow babies know that existence is going to suck somehow. Existence itself as crazy as it is (and after watching a lot of actualized.org videos) seems like a scam. I don't remember my non-existence and I don't remember myself suffering in my non-existence. I think there are different kinds of suffering that affect you in different sorts of ways. The first suffering I think we experience is the suffering of pain because at young enough of an age we don't really know or understand relationships. This suffering is I think the easiest to understand physical pain comes from getting hurt. Other than physical pain the only other suffering I can think of is the one Buddha talked about. Having some kind of relationship to something whether it's a person, animal, idea, dogma, and/or material and losing that relationship for example losing the material, the idea that you based the way of living your life being false, and losing the relationship to that person or animal whether they decided to run away, end the relationship, or they died. @Leo Gura Could you possibly know that the only way to end this suffering. Is it only through death and/or enlightenment (I say and/or because you said in one of your videos enlightened masters are already dead). You know it kinda reminds me of video games. Long time ago when I was in 5th grade I played a game Final Fantasy 9 and in this game there was a crystal that gave life/existence to the Universe the villain of the game found out that he was not immortal and was going to die at any time. In his narcissism he wanted to destroy the crystal and end all of life because if he didn't exist he didn't want anything else to exist either. His destroying of the crystal gave birth to an entity who's purpose was to end all existence. This entity told the hero's of the game his theory. Basically he thought he was a noble entity and without any life and everything being returned to the "zero world" there would be no more suffering so returning the Universe to the "zero world" was noble. In the end of the game the hero's managed to defeat the entity and life went on. Although I couldn't help but, thinking what that entity said rang true in some sense. In another video game which you may all know Halo, in that game the flood is the scourge of the Universe it's some disgusting parasite that takes over planets. The only way to stop it is to activate Halo but, activating Halo means the destruction of the Universe. Sometimes even the fear of death may be much more suffering than death itself. My poor uncle had cancer and knew he was going to pass away but, didn't know when and his suffering caused me suffering because I didn't want him to suffer. I'm looking at it in a different way though how about if death is like a hair cut. I don't know if you people can understand this but, your hair is attached to your body and you think that anything attached to your body when you cause harm to it it's painful. Although when you clip your nails and you cut your hair the pain isn't there but, when you clip your finger or cut out a piece of your scalp you will feel pain. So I can only hope that death is like that hair cut and not like getting your teeth drilled by a dentist. I'm wondering if some people have managed to end their suffering for good and if so what steps did they take and what practices did they implement. I am willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve this result. I know it's not going to be easy but, I do know it'll be a worthy investment.

Or one can call death eternal life when looking at it from a perspective of non-duality

Like the answer in the quora question https://www.quora.com/Do-enlightened-people-die-before-their-death

I was afraid that would be the answer. Although I did kind of allude to it in my original post. In that case how do we overcome the fear of death? So it appears that Necron was right... "All life bears death from birth. Life fears death but, lives only to die. It Starts with Anxiety. Anxiety becomes fear. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. The only cure for the fear is total destruction (not saying I agree with Necron here). In a world of nothing fear does not exist. This is a world that all life desires." Anyway... I guess enlightenment is death with out actually dying? Instead of suicide I guess it's killing all of your desires with out the desires there is nothing to cling on to and nothing to cause you suffering when you don't have it. Including friends and family. Including parts of your body and any ideas you hold on to as "facts" and "truths". The thing is that we as humanity are trying so hard to avoid the void. Instead of avoiding the void why not get comfortable with the void and embrace the void. I guess a way of not avoiding the void is meditation. At a young age I always thought that death means eternal darkness. I had this idea of death in my head as blackness that I am staring at and it's just my thoughts surrounded by this darkness for the rest of eternity and that scared me a lot. Then again that can't be true because these thoughts would have to be coming from somewhere. Well in one video you said we don't spend a lot of time contemplating and we are trying to manipulate things around us. Well in this instance I am not doing that and genuinely trying to understand this "void" so I can get comfortable and accept it. I'm also wondering if there is anything to be learned from Near Death Experiences https://www.near-death.com/science/research/void.html. So the more time we spend alone doing absolutely nothing I'm wondering if that is the best chance we have to not fear death as much as we do (or at least I do).

OK that's fine anyway that's not my main concern. My main concern is the ending suffering part of the post