Leo Gura

A beautiful example of stage Blue ethnocentrism:

Best to keep dating and enlightenment separate pursuits. If you wanna date, go date. If you want enlightenment, go do enlightenment work. Dating is not about finding some Buddha to bang. You bang whoever you can and see where things go from there. Don't expect your partner to know anything about enlightenment. Maybe if you're lucky you'll bump into a girl who meditates or does Hatha yoga. But even that is rare. And even then it will all just be surface level stuff.

Sit, be silent, and don't do anything with your mind. Sit like a cat.

Notice that consciousness is prior to speech. Stop taking what people say so seriously.

Whiting out would be past the point of disturbing. Disturbing comes first. If you're whiting out, you're going too far. Maybe you find some value in it, but I would call this too dangerous to repeat.

Reality is an infinite mind. This is not a framework, assumption, belief, or axiom. It is what it is.

Doesn't look fake. You're probably just misusing it. Making you sick to your stomach is just how a noob would perceive it at first. You need to be more clear about how you're using it.

@Revolutionary Think Good, now you're starting to see the enormity of what love is.

@krockerman You already asked this question in your other thread.

I'm working on part 2 of the How Fear Works videos and wanted to solicit your questions. Is there anything you still don't understand about fear?

Obviously not normal, but seems normal for you. People have different brain chemistry and wiring.

That will be different for everyone. The limit is the point where it becomes too disturbing to dose any higher.

To admit idealism is to admit that reality could all just be imaginary. What serious intellectual wants to do that? The whole appeal of being an intellectual is to take one's mind seriously. So it's a problem of the fox guarding the hen house. An academic cannot admit idealism because that then leads to mysticism and that then leads to the end of his career. People who discover mysticism either leave academia or don't enter it in the first place.

So in other words, he's teaching you exactly what you need

Not for many years.

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug.

You are really misunderstanding Ralston. All that stuff is your projection on him.

This is where psychedics can do wonders. Hope he gets better.

@Tiny Nietzsche If your soul loves music, decouple that from piano itself. Create a LP around your love for musi, not piano. This is a much broader notion than mastering piano. Love of music might not require you to play the piano at all. Think more outside the box. What are new ways you could sharing your love of music. Like maybe you could invent a new musical instrument, or whatever. Get creative here.

I don't see how one could be in a hell realm otherwise. If you were fully conscious of no-self, you'd be in heaven, not hell.

Bibi gonna fight like a cornered animal cause he might end up in jail. Now it gets personal.

Keep in mind that you can also just have hobbies. Perhaps playing piano is a hobby of yours? In which case you gotta keep looking for your LP.

I have never experienced a hell realm.

Suffering IS the loss of self. Suffering is what it feels like for the ego-mind to get crushed.

Low quality thread. Add something of value to the conversation or don't start a thread.