Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[r0ckyreed]

@Leo Gura Your blog post about Awakening & Meditation was a good one.

You say meditation is like being brain dead and being 100% present. Any thought is a distraction from presence.

I just wondered what role contemplation plays in understanding God? Isn’t contemplation the main method for realizing God and Truth? Contemplation is simply direct questioning of the present moment to derive insight, understanding,  and truth. 

Meditation is thoughtless and there is nothing intelligent about that. I meditated for 5 hours straight of breath-awareness and got nothing out of it. My mind naturally loves to contemplate, so I think contemplation for me is the best tool. That’s why I resonate with Peter Ralston because he teaches contemplation as the main path to awakening.

I think meditation can be good, but long-term meditation I think has its consequences. There is a certain limit where meditation stops benefitting you, and contemplation typically is a much more in-depth process.

I think balancing concentration meditation and contemplation meditation might be the best practice. Contemplation I think yields greater insight and clarity than meditation, whereas meditation I think does better with developing discipline, concentration, equanimity, and tranquility. 

Like when you are bored out of your mind from meditating, that is a great opportunity to start contemplating boredom.

Is contemplation a distraction from God?

Edited 7 hours ago by r0ckyreed

[r0ckyreed]

I don’t think it’s possible to realize God from meditation alone of purely strict meditation. I think contemplation is definitely needed along with psychedelics.

Edited 7 hours ago by r0ckyreed

[Yimpa]

2 hours ago, r0ckyreed said:

I don’t think it’s possible to realize God from meditation alone of purely strict meditation. I think contemplation is definitely needed along with psychedelics.

I say we do all 3 .

Think of meditation while on a psychedelic not as thoughtless, but as present-fullness

Edited 4 hours ago by Yimpa

[Happy Lizard]

@Leo Gura For the What is Politics video, the guy has other videos explaining how he categorizes what historically left and right means. I don’t think he is actually confusing or calling the right evil and left good. He admits in the video that he’s unsure which system is better but he asserts that the authoritarian one ends up with the powerful giving themselves the most advantages because of human nature.

you say that if it takes a lot of education to know what left means then it already failed to scale, but you personally have defended and put light on what a true right/conservatism means, and called some of Trump and Jordan Peterson’s actions un-conservative in the same way. I think this is the same case for what this guy is doing.

I think this video is when he adresses this, but there are others too:

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Happy Lizard

[Rafael Thundercat]

" The stupidity of leftism is in not understanding that humans are too evil to be egalitarian. The leftist misses that if you try to make evil and stupid people be egalitarian, what will happen is not socialism, but a total clusterfuck that ends in war, murder, Gulags, and dictatorship." 

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The guy in this video describe actually the mindset of the people Lefts dream to turn Equalitarian

Coincidencie he have a video about woke 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Rafael Thundercat

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Happy Lizard said:

I don’t think he is actually confusing or calling the right evil and left good.

But he is claiming wokeness is right-wing. That is my problem with him.

[Magnanimous]

How does Kriya Yoga cause a realization of God if it's a bunch of visualization techniques? I know it does but it's very thought heavy.

[Leo Gura]

12 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

How does Kriya Yoga cause a realization of God if it's a bunch of visualization techniques? I know it does but it's very thought heavy.

No, it is not thought heavy. It builds concentration. Yoga requires sitting in presence. It also rewiring the brain physically.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura