How does an enlightened mind function?

[Wilhelm44]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

kick the alcohol

Microdosing golden teacher mushrooms.

[Joseph Maynor]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

God-Realization is far beyond enlightenment.

Do not be fooled by these nondualists.

This is a great topic for a video you could create.  

[Yimpa]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

This is a great topic for a video you could create.  

 

[Joseph Maynor]

I think @Inliytened1 is being misunderstood in a way.  I think he is trying to get real about dating in the way he sees it.  He is always open to discussion.  It is an interesting counter-balance to the over-intellectualized accounts of dating that seem to fly over the heads or under the heads of most people.

[Ajay0]

There is no unconscious thinking and emoting in the enlightened state, and thought is used consciously for communication or planning voluntarily, and after the task the thinking process effortlessly subsides. This is obviously a challenge in unenlightened minds.

Intuition is at an optimal state in enlightenment. I remember a young westerner telling me how an enlightened sage told him to avoid air travel in 2001 and be in the ashram in Asia, before 9/11. 

The enlightened state is also associated with high bliss levels effortlessly that is usually felt in people nearby as well. The degree of sensitivity is proportional to how much this is felt, and this usually develops in the company of a sage.

Also the enlightened state is associated with high levels of prana or chi or life force, and which usually permeates to those around the sage.

( Disease at physical and psychological levels is associated with lower levels of prana in eastern medical systems of Ayurveda, Reiki, Pranic healing and Acupuncture, and which can be removed by increasing prana levels or removing blocks. )

The female enlightened sage Rajini Menon reported observing her physical ailments disappearing upon enlightenment, as well as gaining high energy levels, possibly due to permanent ending of leakage of prana through compulsive thinking and emoting.

This is also a reason why cases of spontaneous healings comes up in people around an enlightened  sage, both at psychological and physiological levels. 

The sage can also infuse high levels of prana into a fruit or leaf or glass of water which when taken results in healing.

I know of  an enlightened sage in India in the early twentieth century who used to infuse prana into jackfruit leaves and giving them for healing purposes which was successful, and leading to greater fame for him in the region.

A  man suffering from a certain disease came to the sage seeking healing.  He was disappointed to be given an ordinary jackfruit leaf by the sage who asked him to eat it.

The man went home with the leaf, lost it, and ate an another jackfruit leaf he had plucked. When he visited the sage later, he complained about the lack of healing after taking the leaf.

When the sage enquired whether the man had taken the leaf which the sage had given, the man replied in the negative. This time, the sage gave him an another leaf which he was made to eat over there at the presence of the sage himself. This resulted in the man's healing later on.

Healing associated in certain pilgrimage points could also be due to the high presence of prana in the region. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Ajay0

[Davino]

8 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

@Davino claimed you have never had a cessation. Is that true?

That was his claim in the many facets of Awakening video, six years ago. And for full context this was my take on that thread:

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I've taken quite some time to study many spiritual teachers and these are my conclusions about Leo (although I could be wrong).

 

For baseline state of consciousness (meaning everyday awareness) Leo is slightly above average for what is expected of a serious spiritual teacher (the category of people who make of this path their full time job). In this category many of his contemporaries surpass him greatly, like let's say, Frank Yang.

 

For peak states of consciousness (meaning how far have you reached towards the most mystical, trans-human, Infinite and Godly Awakenings), Leo is the Goat. I haven't seen any records going at the length and breadth of the Awakenings described in Actualized.org, with a key focus on how integral, multifaceted, radical and holistic they are. The only reasonable thing to be objected here is that he has awaken to all popular facets and even pioneered new ones, except for Cessation. Leo has not had the Cessation type of Awakening, for what he has publicly reported so far. This is due primarily because the methodologies he uses are mainly incapable of producing that very specific type of Awakening, in the same way that some types of Awakenings can only be reached through psychedelics. 

 

[Breakingthewall]

Enlightenment is the openess of the eye that the self is to the total nature of the reality. To what reality is. You don't need stop thinking, what you need is not being attached to thoughts or attached to anything else. You are the reality now, not other, it's what is happening now, just remove the obstacles and that's it. 

 

[Yimpa]

17 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

 

[Oppositionless]

20 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

God-Realization is far beyond enlightenment.

Do not be fooled by these nondualists.

In terms of insight I think I agree with you but most people just want to end their suffering . I want both.

 

[Carl-Richard]

12 hours ago, Davino said:

That was his claim in the many facets of Awakening video, six years ago. And for full context this was my take on that thread:

@Leo Gura Any confirmation?

[JoshB]

21 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

@Leo Gura I love you man. You have the best teachings on the planet.  But you ain't no me or Ralston. 

Ralston denies Love as an aspect of awakening which is one of the core features of infinity. 

21 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

God-Realization is far beyond enlightenment.

Do not be fooled by these nondualists.

Yes, enlightment is not the end all be all as it was hyped up to be. 

You can be enlightened and still not fully concious of what consciousness is and its function

Many enlightened people deny fundamental aspects of God. 

Edited 3 hours ago by JoshB

[JoshB]

22 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

@Leo Gura how can you make that claim when your sober awakenings are zero.

Also how would you know every single awakening leo has had? He could have dozens if not more being sober alone. He also has 100x the pyschdelic experience then you. 

Leo also has said he doesn't share some of them because there is no medium to even point at them with.

Edited 3 hours ago by JoshB

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

@Leo Gura Any confirmation?

I reject all Buddhist framing.

Buddhism is a hallucination.

[gengar]

10 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I reject all Buddhist framing.

Buddhism is a hallucination.

As is Alien Consciousness.

[gengar]

2 hours ago, JoshB said:

Ralston denies Love as an aspect of awakening which is one of the core features of infinity. 

Why is why the bible is still superior to Ralston's work, contrary to Leo's blogpost. because it claims that Love is real and God. No matter how much bullshit the bible contains, and it's a lot, just that one fact makes it superior.

Ralston hasn't been awake a second of his life.

[Leo Gura]

10 minutes ago, gengar said:

As is Alien Consciousness.

No.

[gengar]

13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

No.

Yes.

Anything other than God by itself is delusion. God is the only thing that's real; without external atrributes or combinations.

You're opening the door to whatever; people could be claiming to have Jesus Consciousness and that those are higher than even Alien Consciousness or whatever. It's idolatry and delusion.

Your teachings used to be extremely straight-forward and tautologically true; God is everything, God is one, God is reality, God is you. This I have experienced and it is the most pure reasoning that exists on earth.

There is nothing tautological about Alien Consciousness.

Edited 43 minutes ago by gengar

[Carl-Richard]

34 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I reject all Buddhist framing.

Buddhism is a hallucination.

So if you have not had a cessation, how do you know it's not higher than "God-realization"? And same for enlightenment (which cessation is usually a pathway to).

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

So if you have not had a cessation, how do you know it's not higher than "God-realization"? And same for enlightenment (which cessation is usually a pathway to).

Because I experienced God so deeply that it blows all of that out of the water by 100x.

God is not what Buddhists talk about. It took me many years to finally accept that.

[Leo Gura]

27 minutes ago, gengar said:

Anything other than God by itself is delusion.

I never said it was other than God. It is a much higher dimension of Awakening. It is Awakening so high that you discover a new order of Awakening.

It's always God though. Everything is always God. Just seen from various levels.

Edited 21 minutes ago by Leo Gura