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Changing your behavior is distinct from Consciousness/understanding.

By conflating these two things or placing behavior above it, you will get into all sorts of trouble. This is a classic trap.

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1 hour ago, Blackhawk said:

@Leo Gura So it's impossible for me to awaken since I don't tolerate psychedelics? (I can only get bad delusional trips on psychedelics).

13 hours ago, Moksha said:

 

There are two phases in the use of psychedelics. the first, which is hard trips, consists of revealing your subconscious and bringing it to the surface. Face your deepest fears. serious fears, since being human is trauma. this requires intelligence and courage. once your subconscious has merged with the conscious, the second phase begins, the mystic. This is serious hard work, not a magic pill for happiness.

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12 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Changing your behavior is distinct from Consciousness/understanding.

By conflating these two things or placing behavior above it, you will get into all sorts of trouble. This is a classic trap.

Changing your behavior can happen as a conscious intent to 'make a change' or can be a consequence of a transformation of substance (i.e. learning).

Consciously changing your behavior so as to appear as higher understanding to others and then to gloat with their approval, is, of course, a trap of self-delusion.

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2 hours ago, Bobby_2021 said:

 

I get that you understand finite things.

I don't understand how you can comprehend infinity. There isn't anything to comprehend since it's everything.

You can dream about a demon riding a bicycle having an elf on his shoulder and there isn't anything to understand about it.

It's simply one configuration of the infinity of imagination/perception or you can even say it's infinity itself. 

Maybe it's a different type of comprehension. 

Damn I need to take psychedelics fast. 

Trust me on this...you can understand Infinity.   Only it must be AS infinity.   The finite cannot grasp the Infinite.   But the Infinite, IS itself, and thus can grasp itself. Not really something I can explain for the reason just stated. 

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5 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

Trust me on this...you can understand Infinity.   Only it must be AS infinity.   The finite cannot grasp the Infinite.   But the Infinite, IS itself, and thus can grasp itself. Not really something I can explain for the reason just stated. 

It's not good for anyone to "trust you". What you explained could just be parroted from something you've read or imagined. Your apparent confidence has no value for someone else, and actually could mislead them. This is the kind of pissing contest that happens everyday on this forum.

"I'm so enlightened (more than the others) but it can never be demonstrated to you."

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16 minutes ago, Jwayne said:

It's not good for anyone to "trust you".

You're correct.  I didn't mean it literally.   Go out and do the work yourself.  Then come back and join those who did.  You're sitting here bullshitting are you not?  How many hours of meditation have you done?  How many trips?  Have you done either?  All you need are the metaphysical videos and then spiritual practice.  You don't need this place.   This place is to push you to go back out the door from which you came.

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17 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

You're correct.  I didn't mean it literally.   Go out and do the work yourself.  Then come back and join those who did.  You're sitting here bullshitting are you not?  How many hours of meditation have you done?  How many trips?  Have you done either?  All you need are the metaphysical videos and then spiritual practice.  You don't need this place.   This place is to push you to go back out the door from which you came.

I prefer studying books over watching videos. What should happen is that people return from individualist spiritual practice with some kind of productive, generative contributions in some way conducive towards collective aims .

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1 hour ago, Jwayne said:

That assumes not-murdering is a necessary outcome of understanding.

In that case, I would argue, your action to murder was necessarily informed by understanding. It is certainly not divorced from understanding, so to speak. Because whatever you understand is with you - inescapably - in your decision-making.

You can have very deep understanding and very deep mystical states, but later in your human existence you will encounter human challenges. If someone tries to destroy what you are constructing, you can choose to fix it by killing them. this is not necessarily wrong. If you move in high states of consciousness, you will directly understand what is right or wrong for you at a given moment, there is no universal recipe.

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3 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

You can have very deep understanding and very deep mystical states, but later in your human existence you will encounter human challenges. If someone tries to destroy what you are constructing, you can choose to fix it by killing them. this is not necessarily wrong. If you move in high states of consciousness, you will directly understand what is right or wrong for you at a given moment, there is no universal recipe.

I generally agree with that. Every challenge will summon a response from understanding, both the embodied/internalized aspect and the part you must consciously work out in the moment.

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12 minutes ago, Jwayne said:

I prefer studying books over watching videos. What should happen is that people return from individualist spiritual practice with some kind of productive, generative contributions in some way conducive towards collective aims .

And what would be a productive contribution in your eyes?  If you want me to coddle you about spirituality that's just not my style - I'm gonna tell you how it is.  I'm not gonna beat around the bush.  Because I see no gain in that.  And I'm telling you there is a state of Consciousness, a state of Being - that IS just Pure Being.   And AS pure Being, you will still have understanding.   You will have it in its most pristine form - you will have Omniscience.    Here, where you have piled levels of conceptual thought on top of Being and hidden Being, there still lies understanding.   That is because Being is still there.  But if you can remove the cloak, you will have God.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

And what would be a productive contribution in your eyes?  If you want me to coddle you about spirituality that's just not my style - I'm gonna tell you how it is.  I'm not gonna beat around the bush.  Because I see no gain in that.  And I'm telling you there is a state of Consciousness, a state of Being - that IS just Pure Being.   And AS pure Being, you will still have understanding.   You will have it in its most pristine form - you will have Omniscience.    Here, where you have piled levels of conceptual thought on top of Being and hidden Being, there still lies understanding.   That is because Being is still there.  But if you can remove the cloak, you will have God.

 

 

Your description - typical of the way people on this forum write - demands much elaboration. When this is left to the reader's own translation, you end up with pseudo-communication, e.g. pseudo-agreement/disagreement. Because everyone is talking past one another. If you are using the terms used in some video series, then I trust people will be in common understanding. But even then, there must be exhaustive clarification of each term. That typically happens within the practical dimension of a tradition wherein humans contextually transmit meanings directly.

As for a productive contribution, I said it should regard collective aims - which substantiates it into something beyond private indulgence.

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13 minutes ago, Jwayne said:

Your description - typical of the way people on this forum write - demands much elaboration. When this is left to the reader's own translation, you end up with pseudo-communication, e.g. pseudo-agreement/disagreement. Because everyone is talking past one another. If you are using the terms used in some video series, then I trust people will be in common understanding. But even then, there must be exhaustive clarification of each term. That typically happens within the practical dimension of a tradition wherein humans contextually transmit meanings directly.

 

As for a productive contribution, I said it should regard collective aims which substantiates it into something beyond private indulgence.

I assume you have a level of spiritual advancement when I speak with you.  If you are a specialist in a certain field and you are having a dialogue with someone and speaking in certain lingo, then it may seem foreign to someone outside of the conversation listening in.  Like, for example, if you are talking about computers to your fellow geek.  Your mom probably won't understand a word you are saying.  So I am assuming you have listened to the videos and have a clue of what I am talking about.  Most who have bothered to create an account on the forum have taken some time to study the work.   So yes, I speak In a very specialized way about Spirituality.  But really, you can replace certain words with other words and they would still mean the same thing.  There is still a very general thing that is being pointed to, regardless of the verbage.

As to your ideas regarding proper contribution, God can't be proven, so that's out.  Don't expect that.

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1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:

I assume you have a level of spiritual advancement when I speak with you.  If you are a specialist in a certain field and you are having a dialogue with someone and speaking in certain lingo, then it may seem foreign to someone outside of the conversation listening in.  Like, for example, if you are talking about computers to your fellow geek.  Your mom probably won't understand a word you are saying.  So I am assuming you have listened to the videos and have a clue of what I am talking about.  Most who have bothered to create an account on the forum have taken some time to study the work.   So yes, I speak In a very specialized way about Spirituality.  But really, you can replace certain words with other words and they would still mean the same thing.  There is still a very general thing that is being pointed to, regardless of the verbage.

As to your ideas regarding proper contribution, God can't be proven, so that's out.  Don't expect that.

God can absolutely be proven. It's already been proven in Science. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/

So they just proved the MAYA concept in Spirituality, or the Pure Imagination aspect. Now all they need to do is take some psychedelics or do some Yoga long enough to discover WHY the Universe is just an illusion to discover that everything is just pure imagination/being/Isness.

So it most definitely can be proved, Western Science has proved it MULTIPLE times they just create barriers so they cannot accept it. 

Hell a Video Camera actually proves God. A video is a motion picture. A bunch of frames stacked on top of each other. That means when you move your hand from left to right your hand is disappearing and reappearing. This means everything is phasing in and out of existence. This means everything is both dead and alive right now. This means everything is both impermanent and permanent RIGHT NOW!!! This is what vibration is!! Vibration is impermanence!!!

So because nothing can be tied down, this is why change is possible because everything is just an appearance!!! So nobody was ever truly alive because to make any motion you literally are disappearing and reappearing!!! When you see it on video you create a bias and call it movie film reel not realizing you can just as easily call everything you see a visual frame which PROVES everything is imaginary!! 

It's simple....but when you don't want to wake up you complicate it and create concepts and constructs to deny!!! Self-Deception at its best!!


You are a selfless LACK OF APPEARANCE, that CONSTRUCTS AN APPEARANCE. But that appearance can disappear and reappear and we call that change, we call it time, we call it space, we call it distance, we call distinctness, we call it other. But notice...this appearance, is a SELF. A SELF IS A CONSTRUCTION!!! 

So if you want to know the TRUTH OF THE CONSTRUCTION. Just deconstruct the construction!!!! No point in playing these mind games!!! No point in creating needless complexity!!! The truth of what you are is a BLANK!!!! A selfless awareness....then that means there is NO OTHER, and everything you have ever perceived was JUST AN APPEARANCE, A MIRAGE, AN ILLUSION, IMAGINARY. 

Everything that appears....appears out of a lack of appearance/void/no-thing, non-sense (can't be sensed because there is nothing to sense). That is what you are, and what arises...is made of that. So nonexistence, arises/creates existence. And thus everything is solved.

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8 minutes ago, Razard86 said:

God can absolutely be proven. It's already been proven in Science. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/

So they just proved the MAYA concept in Spirituality, or the Pure Imagination aspect. Now all they need to do is take some psychedelics or do some Yoga long enough to discover WHY the Universe is just an illusion to discover that everything is just pure imagination/being/Isness.

So it most definitely can be proved, Western Science has proved it MULTIPLE times they just create barriers so they cannot accept it. 

Hell a Video Camera actually proves God. A video is a motion picture. A bunch of frames stacked on top of each other. That means when you move your hand from left to right your hand is disappearing and reappearing. This means everything is phasing in and out of existence. This means everything is both dead and alive right now. This means everything is both impermanent and permanent RIGHT NOW!!! This is what vibration is!! Vibration is impermanence!!!

So because nothing can be tied down, this is why change is possible because everything is just an appearance!!! So nobody was ever truly alive because to make any motion you literally are disappearing and reappearing!!! When you see it on video you create a bias and call it movie film reel not realizing you can just as easily call everything you see a visual frame which PROVES everything is imaginary!! 

It's simple....but when you don't want to wake up you complicate it and create concepts and constructs to deny!!! Self-Deception at its best!!

Haha.   Don't tell me how, but I FELT you were gonna respond to my post.  I saw you online and I felt it.  

Here's the deal.  Quantum mechanics debunked materialism.   So yes, materialism can be thrown out if you bother to look at the science.  But this is NOT God realization.   Do not confuse that with God realization.   And in your own words, "all you have to do is take..."

Well, that part isn't so simple. 

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On 3/25/2023 at 0:56 PM, Yimpa said:

Once this thread reaches 1,000 posts, somebody will awaken :D

Alright, show of hands…

… who here is AWAKE?! 


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1 minute ago, Yimpa said:

Alright, show of hands…

… who here is AWAKE?! 

This post was not for a Show of hands - it was a Call to Arms.  


 

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4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Excuse me? You what?

Apologies for the confusion.

What I meant is that I understood what you were saying.

But at the same time, I don't see what is there to understand about reality as a whole.

Understanding things is a noble pursuit and I would love to realise that you can understand reality as a whole. At this point I can only understand finite things and it's a great source of joy for me. 

For me Understanding whole of reality is a lesser complicated phenomenon than understanding a doorknob or a tree. Precisely because it's amechanical. 

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Understanding has nothing to do with mechanicalness. These are independent issues.

This is what I wanted to know. 

But my point is subtler, still.

I am saying that understanding reality is trivial and not something profound.

You can just dream up distinctions. That's all. What's so awesome about it? I do this every night in my sleep. Reality is the same as nightly dreams, but it has more distinctions.

Literally what else there is.

As far as reality/God is concerned, you can simply imagine up a tree or a dog and that would make up no difference.

Now, I am talking about understanding reality in sober states regardless of whether you have used psychedelics before.

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Just notice that your whole life hinges on understanding. You could not even get through this thread without it.

Understand?

Yes. My life and everything within it is finite. So yeah you can understand it. Also it heavily depends on underlying mechanics.

What I don't understand is how it relates to understanding REALITY AS A WHOLE. 

Reality is infinite. Everything that can be imagined is imagined in reality.

Reality is every configuration of all possible distinctions. What's there to understand about it other than this?

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

For you to know that reality is amechanical would already require extremely profound understanding of it.

So your logic defeats itself.

This is not true.

To understand that reality is amechanical requires you to not make up human bullshit. There is no requirement of serious understanding.

Mechanics is pure bullshit. Of course reality is amechanical. Realisation of amechanicalness of reality is a function inversely proportional to the amount of bullshit in you. 

Not having bullshit is not UNDERSTANDING.

All mechanics is either made up bullshit based on observations. The doorknob could be working in a way that your understanding cannot grasp.

Let's say that you have a chimpanzee, and everytime that chimp pushes the doorknob, a banana is given to it by a machine. The will radically alter chimp's understanding of the doorknob. As far as it is concerned, it's understanding is that you get a banana when you push the knob. And it's correct from it's own perspective perfectly as it is. Maybe you as a human may invalidate that Understanding because you understand the doorknob at even more depth. An alien consciousness may invalidate the human understanding if the knob.

This actually makes sense since FINITE REALITY IS SELF DECEPTION. You do not understand reality. God is fooling you into making you think that you understand finite things. The invention of mechanics is simply self deception. 

The doorknob is merely perception/ imagination and nothing more. You don't even understand the doorknob,  forget the entirety of reality. There is no mechanics to the doorknob. The finite understanding based on mechanics is SELF DECEPTION. 

 

Now with all that said, I don't know if you think that being and comprehension is one thing or not.

If at sufficiently high states of consciousness, if being becomes the same as understanding, then I am wrong. 

Being is dreaming. Dreaming is existence. If dreaming is understanding or virtue of it, then God can comprehend itself.

You should make a video on comprehension. 

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@Bobby_2021 I think you are conflating Being with insight.  Being incorporates insight but yet you can also have an insight or an epiphany about a thing, such as God, or Yourself.   

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11 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

@Bobby_2021 I think you are conflating Being with insight.  Being incorporates insight but yet you can also have an insight or an epiphany about a thing, such as God, or Yourself.   

Cool. God is the imagination of all possible distinctions.

Is there anything to understand of God more than this?

(Excluding being/experiences of awakenings)

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12 minutes ago, Bobby_2021 said:

Cool. God is the imagination of all possible distinctions.

Is there anything to understand of God more than this?

(Excluding being/experiences of awakenings)

Umm...yeah?  You are conceptualizing God.  That's what God wants.  To keep himself asleep.  As stated in an earlier post, God prides itself in staying asleep and conceptualizing itself.  But you can BECOME God.   You are excluding everything that matters!

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