Leo Gura

All I'm saying is you are hallucinating the burn mark. You are like the guy in the dream saying, "Look! This can't be a dream because I have a burn mark!"

So you imagine. The mistake you are making is that you are imagining imagination as some stupid, childish thing. Imagination is as precise and concrete as a bullet flying towards your head.

An underdeveloped mind seeks control in order to feel safe. So it looks for control over trivial aspects of Reality like light switches or kitchen drawers.

That is good enough. Don't overcomplicate a simple thing. 0.2ml is too much, reduce it to a few drops.

It literally does.

In a weird way, if you eat poison that is part of God's Perfection. But God gave you a mind so that you can use it. Don't blame your irresponsibility on God. God gave you the freedom to be foolish. Just like you can jump off a cliff in a video game. Is that the purpose of the game? No. But you can do it.

That is the illusion. There is no object permananence. The past is imaginary. Turning your head in a dream does not make it any realer. You can turn your head in VR too.

That's where it gets tricky. What you hear, see, and feel is all that exists, but in a minute you can hear, see, and feel more stuff, and you can be more conscious. Just by turning your head you can see more stuff.

Yes. That's why it's so important to deconstruct the idea that you were ever human.

Well, God is priceless.

That is the contradiction of conservatives. None of them want to live in Afghanistan, the most conservative place on Earth. They are in denial that liberalism is more economically and technologically successful. It is not an accident that Big Tech was born in Silicon Valley. Because the culture in Cali was cutting-edge progressive relative to the rest of the world. Why is there no Silicon Valley in Russia? Because their culture is too corrupt and backwards.

That is the thing at issue. Awakening is about realizing that the dish cannot require something outside of your imagination because your imagination is Total. If you eat a pizza in a dream, was the pizza made by a chef, or by the dreamer?

There is whatever you imagine there is. Sure, you imagine greed. Greed is as real as anything else. Is it useful to judge people for it? Depends entirely on the situation. Sometimes it is useful if greed is getting out of control. But judgment and demonization can also backfire if taken too far. Your judgment could also just be wrong. Maybe that person is not as greedy as you believe. It is easy to project your stuff onto others.

1) This assumes that the pizza was made by someone other than Yourself, which is begging the question. 2) If a chef put poison in your pizza, then You imagine he put poison in your pizza. 3) The problem is the way unawakened people use the word "you" is misleading and wrong. "I did not imagine poison in the pizza" and "I did not make the pizza" is to be speaking of the false you. I am not claiming that ego imagines the poison or the pizza. A Self above the ego is being talked about. The ego-self's imagination is very limited. The ego does not know how to hallucinate edible pizzas. God is hallucinating the pizza, not the ego.

Yes. You imagine different degrees of realness. You imagine that a Skyrim dragon is less real than a skin and bones dragon.