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  2. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Joseph Maynor replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Is Omniscience a goal or a state? Both of these it seems cannot be true at the same time.
  3. Now you know.
  4. Existence is as an active presentation. If the active unfoldment of presentation stopped suddenly. It would be exactly the same as deep sleep. Notice this is not the same as 'non-existence' as humans imagine it. Certain aspects of the Conscious Field have the capability of showing you the Truth of Consciousness itself. Every piece of Awareness, contains the entire image. A song where every note and every silent pause contains the entire song. A pointillism image where each point contains the entire image, each containing themselves the exact points which the main is composed.
  5. posting his christian stuff as a cope I guess
  6. And yet none of this seems to help survival
  7. Absolute Infinity. This is not merely an ideal of mine, this is the current Reality at hand. Perhaps Infinity itself is a Dream? It is the only Dream without fleetation. the only permanancy in Existence. An Empty Expanse. It has No Quality. No Shape or Form. Under the constant upheld guise of limitation does Infinity have the capacity to exist as 'other' than Infinity. The Ego is the immaterial 'device' which clings onto identity. Ego actively hooks itself into form, and then deceives itself of even being involved in such an act. The entire narrative of one's life is a function of ego. It is not occuring through time or space, but rather occuring within the vision of consciousness. Time & space of which are mere presentations created through the 'activitiy' of Imagination. It becomes real paradoxical and twisted. Imagination is what creates all 'activity', stationary or in motion, and yet it also seems to be an direct & active upholdment of an 'activity' itself? You exist as a bootstrapping catch-22 which grounds itself inside of itself. Notice that to ground a thing of such nature within itself, actually means there exists no ground. The ground itself is as part of the Illusory bubble, which floats in Nothing. What lies beyond the veil of the bubble? What exists beyond the edges of the visual field? Is there anything to see there? Go looking. When you are having a sleeping dream, where exactly is the space in which that dream occurs? what is the transition space between the Aware-Awake state and the Aware-Dream state? What exactly lies between the two? Have you observed in your direct experience what there is 'out there'? You may Initially assume it is Nothing. Nothing there to see right? Well, yes it is. Exactly. It Is Nothing. But also No. It isnt just Nothing as you the human Imagine Nothing to be like. You can become directly conscious of what it is. It is a Nothing which is Something but also Nothing back in on itself. Imagine a wide open expanse. It has no quality. It has no light or dark, but it exists and you can 'see' it. Another way to say The current visual field. A sensory bubble? Does it have an edge? Is it shaped like a circle? An oval? Maybe a sphere? Look for the edge of sight, and when you find it, look passed the edge. That is the part of the entire Trick. ~♤~ Imagine now the eyes, Take your awareness, and literally shine it back in towards your pupils and irises. Become conscious that you can do this. Look deeper. There is a wide open expanse that lie just passed the edge of the iris. It is both inside & outside. Living just at the meeting point. The ego is pretty much held here too, right in the center between inside and out. The balancing point, as thin as a razors edge. Find it. See the entire visual field to be a unified whole. No one single piece can be separated from another, as they are connected through your awareness. Take your finger, look straight ahead, Place the point of the finger all the way at the edge of your peripheral vision, now retaining focus straight ahead, draw a straight line across the visual field horizontally with the tip of your finger. Watch it as it moves while focusing straight ahead. When you reach the right side of your periphery, draw the finger one last motion passed the edge of the vision. Pay very very close attention to this entire process. Where does the finger go? This is what we point to. That is Absolute Infinity. That is Consciousness. Yes, Consciousness can & does know itself. Both the entire unified field, & what lies beyond. This is what this work is all about. You are able to become conscious of what lies there. It is not a form. It is the formless. Typically, human beings are not conscious of any of this. Unless you happen to be Lucky, in which case, Merry Christmas, Happy Easter, Birthday & Cinco De Mayo!
  8. @Miguel1
  9. Rarely nobody will get to be an institutional trader at the top firms unless you come from a top economics university and even there you have only a couple of chances of making it there. Luck is a multiplier of your effort. Some people obviously are so lucky they are literally born from an old money billionaire family, others are lucky enough to not have had a shitty childhood that fucked with their mental health or some other trauma through their lives that cripples them and turns them into homeless drug addicts. Not even mentioning genetics. Just overcoming by itself the hopelessness itself to get yourself going on some path that your brain is telling you that feels risky is very hard for most people, there is a lot of fried dopamine circuits to overcome and being able to handle dedicating yourself consistently towards money consciously. Some people naturally feel more confident. But some will use their confidence to get stuck chasing women and getting drunk, others might use it to pursue a doctor's degree and be wrecked by the routine, or perhaps have a small private practice that never truly makes enough money for them to have "no fucks given" money. Some people feel just fine going through some crazy work routines and they are perfectly confident and their dopamine circuits are not fried of trying to sooth themselves, and they are able to logically follow steps for months and years. That is something some people find hard because you have to let go of all of your personal interests and way of behaving when you're in that mental space of being at home and not doing school or work stuff, that mental space creeps in, as opposed to getting a job that you just show up to or even if the job requires a lot of brain power like programming. I'm pretty sure a lot of very rich and "successful" people out there they have been since young educated and developed the kind of personality that they have no concerns for anything but their career and business, and they do it in a way that isn't trying to be too out of the box otherwise that also cripples you as the wannabe entrepreneur that spends time on passion projects here and there, but also not too strict, otherwise they become a bureaucrat that inflates his lifestyle to live pay check to pay check and never building wealth to dedicate himself to any other pursuits, or perhaps, to him, life is literally all about the bureaucracy and they don't even want to build anything that will give them a multi-million dollar exit to live from, or a business that is more low touch, because their consumerist golden cage is good enough to them, to live in some overpriced cramped up apartment in New York or something. Or coming back to the programmer example, he/she might not have still the emotional and organizational skills to pull off certain things business-wise because it's emotionally ingrained into you and even the knowledge you have of the world, and their mind is about having high discipline and being in the mental space of programming a specific set of specifications and knowing how to prioritize based on what the stakeholders want, but they wouldn't take the risk themselves to try to find that market fit. And then, when people do pull off, they might put themselves in a situation they work many times as hard as if they stayed employed but earning roughly the same and not really building equity or saving enough money to have "no fucks given" money, like the book below speaks about. Business is a fucking minefield as much as dating, health and spirituality. "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael E. Gerber
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  11. Give me kangaroo juice
  12. How could I explore my shadow without doing this? Was my method wrong?
  13. Yes he seemed typical stage green to me in 2019.. i've listened to quite a bit of his podcasts during that time. I thought it was quite an inspirational person back then. But with covid he completely changed or he showed his true face. I got alienated pretty quickly with a the crazy conspiracy stuff. Perhaps it was all just a performance as mentioned??
  14. I dont know how to take this forum seriously anymore outside the journal section. So may as well just do satirical truth from now on so at least I get an ROI each time.
  15. That’s nice. I relate. 🙂
  16. @Mellowmarsh You & I both Love, you & I both.
  17. @oOo I cannot simply let this slide Your Boundaries are completely and utterly Illusory. There is Bullshit. And you are under the Influence of it. Highly Intoxicated. You should see a Doctor, Warden, or Reverend.
  18. I have a theory Covid broke a lot of people mentally. Putin with his invasion for example. I don’t think it would have happened if not for Covid. From what I read he was isolated the whole time reading Russian nationalism revisionist history. A lot of people got huge egos over Covid.
  19. I agree with Rupert that being is knowing. I’d like to expand on this by saying the only absolute truth you can say for certain is that you are conscious, and that everything else is just linguistics.
  20. I got Peter Ralston’s new book Whereof One Cannot speak. I just started reading it and am noticing one thing that doesn’t seem right. Peter Ralston states in the book that experience is subjective/relative/indirect and isn’t what is true/objective/direct. It seems like he is hinting at a veil of perception or something when he says our experience/perception isn’t truth. But it is. Qualia is Absolute Truth. Experience is what Truth is. I can understand if he was referring to something subjective within our experience, but experience itself is Truth. It cannot be otherwise. He also seems to hint at there being an objective world in which we interact with. I will continue reading and contemplating to see if any new understanding comes about, but it seems like Ralston may be meaning something totally different when he refers to Consciousness and experience/perception. But they are both the same in my eyes - no pun intended. Let me know your thoughts.
  21. Don’t over analyze these models. What he said is correct. What is here now is the most important thing happening, and you are always exactly where you are supposed to be. Washing the dishes isn’t some glitch where you fucked up along the way and are now having to devote time towards stuff you aren’t supposed to be doing. There isn’t some absolute hierarchy of how you spend your time in the sense that one moment is less valuable compared to others. There are just moments and in each one remembrance, and from this you have a canvas where you can create a life that is authentic and important to you and delights your soul. Zen recognizes this. Reality is open to everything and jsut because it doesn’t align to how you think it should be it doesn’t mean you are not walking your authentic path. Life purpose is a tricky word because it can carry a lot of hidden expectations about how we think things should be. Life purpose is not some grand destiny that’s charted out. It’s alive, constantly evolving, not entirely knowable, embracing uncertainty and going with the flow while using your faculties to chart and plan the way. It’s discovering what you’re good at through trial and error and delighting in surprises of what happens when you embrace your talents and authentic self. It’s being keen enough to ride waves of luck when you are able to catch them and capitalizing on different opportunities.
  22. Definitely not just an American thing, in Europe it is the same way. One thing I don't really understand about this whole democracy thing anymore; is that neither side would be actually willing to uphold it anymore. Yes, you got individual people like Trump who are actively trying to become authoritarian, but that doesn't mean conservatism has to inherently be anti democratic. Neither does liberalism. But in these current times, if both sides believe that they are completely correct and everyone is so polarized, and both sides believe that the other side is the ultimate threat, then both sides are now anti democratic. Right? So why are we playing these cringe word games such as "saving democracy" if you inherently believe that your opposition should not exist? I see that from the both sides in the US now, and the attempts of censorship from the EU wokies specifically. So, we are all clearly moving in the undemocratic direction worplwide and yet people are still using these empty phrases such as "save democracy" like it means something

  23. George Leonard disproves passion and life purpose

    integration journey replied to Ramanujan's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    George Leonard is not some entity that has it all figured out. I would cross reference with other writers and “thinkers”
  24. The only model of truth that can work is one that defines absolute truth as all that there is..therefore it would be prior to knowing. It is not something you can come to know as a specific piece of information in the future after reading a thousand books. It is both the journey and the destination..not just the destination. If you assume there is an absolute static truth in the form of a piece of information that you will eventually come to know ..you also have to account for the constant changes in your experience..thoughts..worldview..and convictions. How many times in your life have you believed you had found the absolute truth only to later change your mind?
  25. This is a question that I've struggled a lot with too that kept me from taking action in the market, this feeling of not wanting to be unethical. I think you just have to see how others do it in practice, and see how far you wanna take milking your customers. It happens mostly through seizing the information advantage you have over their ignorance and nobody ever thinks that's unethical in general unless they are doing an extremely conscious analysis of human survival at large. The problem with marketing is that you might end up having to promise results that are not typical, but with cleaver rapport you can get around this. I think the ethical stance is one that you teach your customers of the risks at the same time you hype them up. Unethical marketers will try to sell dirt to people and hype them up to even get in debt to buy their bullshit course that they know most people, specially in that situation, won't ever make a penny from it for example. There are some kinds of marketing and products that are so bad they are straight up scams such as casinos, but somehow that shit is legal in many jurisdictions and SOME PEOPLE DECIDE TO BE SCAMMED BY A CASINO WILLINGLY. As a casino owner would you try to educate your customers of the mathematics that makes it impossible for them to make money overtime? No, you end up focusing on "it's for fun!", "Oh, see some players give good reviews that they got money!". They are literally ignorant of the negative mathematical expectation of the probabilities built into the casino's algorithm and they are incapable emotionally of even being taught of the realities of the market. My point is, some clients are so lost, that you can't even help them make a good decision for themselves no matter how you try, and the market doesn't find it unethical at all when your customer willingly makes bad decisions even though you tried to warn them. I think my ethical rule of thumb is: What would I do for a friend?
  26. Is she asking for the receipt? There are ways to ask this question. Each of them gets a different answer. Whenever she/he wants. They can keep it aswell. Perhaps, you don't have to share your past. People should respect that.
  27. Yeah, and people tend to come out of prison more damaged than when the went in. Prison removes the immediate danger for society, but doesn't solve the problem in the long run. If the world developed empathy for criminals in general, we would have proper rehab and lasting solutions. A culture that just wants to punish ends up shooting itself in the foot.
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