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@Edvin Consciousness = present awareness.

@littleBIG Positive thinking, that's all you need.

@Malelekakis Maybe there's a prize for killing one's self! After all, you kill you all the time, and the new you replaces the old you, just be conscious of the process. Killing yourself isn't a killing literally, it is a realization of what you really are, just like that. You can't imagine what or how much you're missing out on everytime you ignore that. I've only glimpsed that for seconds and I'm stunned by the profundity of killing one's self. There's even no you to be killed, such a beautiful thing to be.

@Mikael89 Don't cling to literalism. When Leo talks about death, he doesn't mean physical bodily death. He means the death of ego, AKA self-image, the idea that someone is living inside of your body behind the scenes, it's just an idea. There's no one there, that's what we mean by life equals death, there's no 'self' living or dying.

@Monkey-man In Arabic, everything that requires an effort (or struggle) is Jihad, Jihad like mentioned in the video is derived from the word 'Jahada' (جهد) which ultimately means 'got tired after struggling', when you make a 'Johd', you put in effort. In Qur'an, Jihad is linked to Allah (the sake of Allah), and the Qur'an promotes every kind of endeavour to please Allah, whether it's fighting with one's self or with others. Unfortunately, people easily misunderstand Jihad and its purpose which are really acquiring the satisfaction of Allah by sticking to his orders and letting go of 'the restricted' (Haram), no matter what. So for example, judging other people and killing them, does that make Allah (the most Benevolent, the most Merciful) pleased with me? Of course not, it's pretty obvious. Jihad is mandatory, whether it's with the self or with others or with environment. The trick here is to read the Qur'an as a whole, and not just take only one verse and try to apply it to the whole world. Radical Muslims ignore verses like: "And do not start the fight, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits". (obviously). "Surely Allah does not love the unjust". (obviously). "Surely Allah loves those who do good (even when treated badly)". (obviously). And they would only remember this kind of verses: "And kill them wherever you face them" (only during the battle, and of course not all the time, also obviously). Many people would object and say: well, why promoting violence in the first place? And the answer is that you as a human being, you have to defend yourself and your existence against the harmful factors out there, otherwise you're dead, this is not religion, this is the human physiology whether we're conscious of it or not. The ego has to survive. In other words, Jihad is not about offence, it's about protection, and survival (for the sake of Allah 'Truth'). Another point is, religion is not about studying or understanding the scriptures, it's about studying and understanding God. You can debate forever with an unconscious person about their scriptures, yet they will never be able to understand God, because of the dogma that has control over them. Scriptures are pointers to God (or more accurately motivators to find God), not God. But fundamentalists don't understand that.

Unfortunately, physical death needs to be experienced to verify your claims or any religious claims. Faith is necessary when there's no clue. Because no dead can wake up and tell us what they have experienced. You can choose whatever beliefs you want (acknowledging that they are beliefs) and wait for your physical death to occur. There is no truth to be said about death, just ideas and beliefs.

@Dream Why bro, why? Don't believe Leo, but also don't believe anyone else. Leo actually promotes life. He accepts what is, and advises you to do so. Leo can't kill you remotely through a "screen". In fact he said that you don't have to worry about others deceiving you, you have to worry about you deceiving yourself. That's not just Leo, that's the Truth.

@5thPablo Start building philosophical conversations in every possible opportunity. If you feel her accepting the comments and interacting with them positively, then go deeper, until you draw a good image about your way of thinking, and then when you feel like it's safe to talk about the crazy stuff do it. She might not agree with you at first, but she'll accept you anyways. Good luck there ?

@iyfe In reality, there's nothing to really care or worry about. Worrying is thought-driven and so are all emotions. If that's the case, then you smoke because you don't want to face that fact and take responsibility for your own emotions. What's even trickier is that you think it's not an existential problem while in fact it is. It feels that way from an addict perspective, but you can see it clearly in others if you know what's really going on. Good luck ?

@Source_Mystic I'm with you. But I still have to do some research, then I might try that technique again. @moon777light Running and swimming etc... are exercises, you can't exercise too much or too hard or you're gonna kill yourself, this is a physiological limitation of having a body. Breathwork is an intense exercise for the whole body when it doesn't need to. Nobody wants to mess with their physiology.

Your mind is a bubble-generator. It creates bubbles all the time out of nowhere. - Every bubble is an idea. - A state of problem solving sequence results in firing sets of bubbles as many as possible (much thinking), a bubble vanishes in a while unless you revoke it over and over again (consciously or unconsciously). - Bubbles differentiate from each other by density, volume, content. - The bubble-generator's job is to protect itself by a (or a set of) governing bubble(s) that contains the engine and the whole generator. A bubble very soild becomes a ball (belief). - Meditation is the process of shutting down the engine. Self-inquiry is the process of popping up the solid bubbles. Enlightenment is watching the engine, the whole generator, and the bubbles, working at a whole, knowing how this generator works and the nature of bubbles. Non-duality is the biggest picture possible of everything above. - Leo is a technician who teaches us how this thing works. - This post is a bubble inside of infinite number of bubbles alongside an infinite number of infinite sets of bubbles in infinitely infinite dimensions. - A bubble that says it's not a bubble is normal. - A bubble with no substance is everything. - Reality is the biggest bubble you lock your self up in. ... Any corrections or other metaphors are welcomed. Have a nice bubble ? ❤️

It was very intense to me, I couldn't get to minute 3.

Wisdom is the proper thinking/behaviour to all of life circumstances.

@Yonkon It is a cult only if you take what's said for granted.

So, if all what I'm concerned about is what's here and now. Am I not being closed-minded to all the other possibilities out there, and therefore totally happy? Any opinions?

It's then the belief that all beliefs are not true? A strange loop? That's exactly the closed-mindedness I'm talking about. There has to be some beliefs running in the back of the human mind, but when being enlightened, you shut down all the beliefs that you used to believe in before, like tomorrow's plans, work problems, etc.. See how limiting 'being in the now' can be. There is no future in the now. But there is a future in the future. Ignoring problems won't solve them, considering though that problems are relative.

Nice, much to learn from you. ?

For your questions, morality and free will are strange loops. Once you give up morality, you become most moral. Once you give up control, you control everything. A strange loop.

Bro, are you high right at this moment? Very wise though.

Guys, I've been thinking for a while after reading many times that being is the only existence and that it is primary to consciousness. Could anyone please give me a brief of explanation about that? Is that another distinction that we make? Am I confusing consciousness with being during my meditation (the no monkey-mind phase)? All I know is that things are the way they are because they are. Is there anything else more to know about that? What is the maximum understanding that one can reach?

Tell me something I don't know. It's obvious to me, this solipsism. I call it consciousness, you call it being. Is that the difference?

1) I don't know, that's why I'm asking. 2) I don't know, and I don't think I need. I just read that there is a difference between them on this forum. 3) I don't know, I call my calmest experience of the present moment during meditation: "consciousness". Thank you so much, that helps a lot. ❤️ ?

Why do you think I don't understand that? I might, but how do you know? Is it the way I'm talking or the question itself? Then I guess that leaves me with no choice but to do psychedelics. I don't know yet, I don't think I'm ready. Thanks though. ?

@Telepresent I only recognise it as consiousness. That's why I asked my question in the first place. @Faceless Quite interesting, I think I understand that. But I'm digging deeper, is it just a word game?

I appreciate difference. I think the man did what he had to do. The idea of God back then was very acceptable, also, you can't make people want to increase their awareness. Mohammed made the motivation for them. Even nowadays, though we suffer a lot, very few people choose the way of Truth. I think the man did a great job making the motivation, unfortunately wasn't enough, because the ego corropts everything. But also he realised throughout his life that life is a game between the ego which he called the devil, and awareness which he called Allah, he realised that you can do nothing about it, both are necessary and inevitable, yin-yang. Intuition must support the idea of God, in any kind of way. It's only after we disconnect from our intuition we can't see God anymore. Glad to hear your opinion dude. Recently I just realised that life is one, for me and everyone else, it's just the point of view is the only difference. And it's inevitably inevitable, and absolutely infinite.