How does an enlightened mind function?

[Yimpa]

@JoshB You. Are. Communicating. With. Yourself.

[JoshB]

Just now, Yimpa said:

@JoshB You. Are. Communicating. With. Yourself.

ofc but there are parts to me 

[Yimpa]

3 minutes ago, JoshB said:

ofc but there are parts to me 

Yes, I was wanting to bring this up. Thank you for adding that point for me. When I say You, I am not referring to an individual self.

Edited yesterday at 02:41 PM by Yimpa

[JoshB]

1 minute ago, Yimpa said:

Yes, I was wanting to bring this up. Thank you for adding that point for me. When I say You, I am not referring to an individual self.

Absolute Relative 

Self self 

Tomato to ,mato

[Seraphim]

Nice to see that Gary Weber made it. That state of no thoughts is a must, otherwise the I-thought is still alive and larping that it's enlightened. 

[Joseph Maynor]

1 hour ago, Yimpa said:

@JoshB You. Are. Communicating. With. Yourself.

The key is in realizing what yourself/Yourself is.  That is the issue.  

[Sandhu]

Inshallah one day I'll realize God and infinity as deeply as the Master Leo Gura. I'm highly fascinated by his comittmented to the Truth. How can you fail if all you seek is Truth🫠. Truth is the highest value. The first thing is always working on being more truthful to yourself. It's very painful when you catch yourself deceiving yourself. IMO Leo's most important teachings are about epistemology and Truth-seeking. Truth seeking is not the end goal but is the attitude, the lifestyle, the no 1 principle 

[OBEler]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Because God has no control over anything.

You guys still keep on thinking there is someone who controls things. That's not how God works.

The hallucination is Absolute.

But didnt you have the realization that god has a limitation in creation, god aims always for maximizing love? 

[Oppositionless]

Thing about psychedelic states is you can't make them your baseline . Enlightenment can be your baseline though. I'm gonna keep tripping cause I want more of those insane experiences, but I also want to be enlightened on a day to day basis, that's why I meditate my ass off regardless of my trips.

Edited yesterday at 08:22 PM by Oppositionless

[Joseph Maynor]

There is the psychedelic experience and then there is the interpretation of it.  

[Leo Gura]

10 hours ago, JoshB said:

Well No self and Nothing being the substance of everything is valid insight

Yes. There is much valid insight in Buddhism.

10 hours ago, JoshB said:

Could one reach a point where they are conscious completely of what you are? 

Yes. Sure. You can even outdo me. I am not superior to anyone.

Edited yesterday at 08:48 PM by Leo Gura

[JoshB]

19 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes. There is much valid insight in Buddhism.

I'd say the biggest delusion of buddhism is they see consciousness as co dependent and arising and not the ultimate ground of reality

[Joseph Maynor]

2 minutes ago, JoshB said:

I'd say the biggest delusion of buddhism is they see consciousness as co dependent and arising and not the ultimate ground of reality

The danger of the ists is always lurking lol.  

[JoshB]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

The danger of the ists is always lurking lol.  

The Buddha is a sneaky bastard

[JoshB]

27 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes. Sure. You can even outdo me. I am not superior to anyone.

I was referring to accessing your memories and state. You, basically a total realization of Leo. The I'm Leo Awakening.  

[Oppositionless]

12 minutes ago, JoshB said:

I'd say the biggest delusion of buddhism is they see consciousness as co dependent and arising and not the ultimate ground of reality

Mahayana Buddhism sees awareness / Buddha nature as fundamental, they distinguish it from conditioned consciousness.

the back and forth between Buddhism and Hinduism is really interesting. Buddha wanted to distance himself from Hinduism so he rejected a lot of Vedic stuff, and then a lot of the later Mahayana Buddhists were like wait we fucked up and went back and added some Vedic stuff back, but had to do it with Buddhist sounding words. And finally Advaita Vedanta showed up and was like a marriage between the older Vedic culture and the later Mahayana Buddhism .

Edited yesterday at 09:01 PM by Oppositionless

[Willy Phallicus]

10 hours ago, JoshB said:

Obviously there is only One Mind but would i be able to access all your insights and memories directly?   

You would just imagine them on the fly like you're doing with everything else.

[Joseph Maynor]

7 minutes ago, JoshB said:

The Buddha is a sneaky bastard

He is lol.  

[JoshB]

2 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

Mahayana Buddhism sees awareness / Buddha nature as fundamental, they distinguish it from conditioned consciousness.

I guess it depends on which branch we are talking about.

[Willy Phallicus]

8 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

He is lol.  

Thats why you gotta kill him.

Dont worry though, he aint mad at ya.