Leo Gura

No, you're misquoting me. I said: Being = perception - ego Being = experience - ego Truth = perception - ego Truth = experience - ego Truth = Being Perception = experience These distinctions are subtle but important. Remember, I am not saying that colors and sounds will disappear. They will still be around. But they will get recontextualized. You can look at an apple and see it as an apple. Or you can look at an apple and see it as not an apple. In both cases there is a round, red shape visible. But how you interpret that shape is very significant. Try looking at an apple while letting go of your idea that it is an apple. Just stare at it in silence.

So what? Big deal. If you can register a car, you can register a gun. How come I have to register my business with the IRS but not an arsenal of 20 assault rifles? It's absurd. Do not confuse registration with a ban on guns. Illegal guns will always exist, but requiring registration of all new firearm purchases would help eliminate young teens from buying up guns for their sprees. Many of these mass shooters purchased a firearm within weeks or months of their spree. Currently you can go to a gun show and buy a gun from a private party without any background check or waiting period whatsoever. It's absurd. These gun shows a very problematic. Back in the 90's I was once at a gun show where they were selling flamethrowers, grenades, body armor, and all sorts of other shady stuff. That particular gun show had to be closed because of how much illegal stuff was sold there. I'm sure that kind of stuff still goes on around the country. It's not hard to go to a gun show and purchase a firing pin which will turn your semi-auto AR-15 into a fully-auto. I have family members who were able to purchase grenade launchers at gun shows.

No, just do it as long as humanly possible. It's very important that when you do your whole routine, that it be natural and organic. Don't waste too much mental energy criticizing yourself, timing things, analyzing yourself, etc. You must enter a flow state. The whole thing must become silky smooth and effortless. Let go of any self-conscious thoughts and just follow your heart. Turn off your targeting computer and use The Force

I'm quite sure I have not reached the end. But at the same time, there are things I have realized which cannot be forgotten or denied. God & Love are two such things.

Because if I don't explicitly use such examples people will not understand that torture is Love. The ego will make exceptions to unconditional love, treating "evil" things as evidence that Love isn't unconditional. The fact is, anything which seems like it's not love is a lack of holistic consciousness and a judgment of the ego-mind. When something happens to you in life which you hate, and you want to say, "But that's not love, that's evil." Be aware that in that moment, your vision is clouded by self-bias. You hate that thing because it conflicts with your survival agenda, not because it isn't Love. That was said ironically, in jest. There are many ways to corrupt even the highest of spiritual teachings. Be careful to distinguish Advaita from Neo-Advaita. Neo-Advaita is a watered-down Western version which is popular nowadays on Youtube and elsewhere online because it is so simple and easy, but which grossly oversimplifies what enlightenment is. Neo-Advaita is dangerous. Remember, all spiritual teachings get corrupted on a regular basis and very few people truly understand the full depth of the highest teachings. They stop far short because the methods they use are not very effective and they have no other way of knowing what they are missing. This is precisely where psychedelics become indispensable. Psychedelics can show you new aspects of awakening which you would have probably missed. If you think you've reached the end, chances are you're fooling yourself. So just be careful. Don't hesitate to dig deeper. The irony here is that there's not real contradiction. It's just a matter of depth and comprehensiveness of understanding.

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I usually take one slow breath in and out between leg changes. Just do the best you can, even if it's less than 90. The idea being that you will improve over time so it's not a big deal. Holding your breath to 90 is quite hard when you're holding all the 3 locks. Your body will get very tense and burn through more oxygen than usual.

I'm working to fix this. Thanks for letting me know.

@OmniYoga There is consistency only because you deny the inconsistencies by outrageous degrees of self-deception and self-bias. Your mind has deceived itself so completely that you cannot even imagine what no-self is. Because your very life depends on you not seeing it. If you understood what I'm saying here, you would experience death.

Conventional human love, like romantic love, or love for your family, is like the tip of an infinite iceberg. You are conscious enough to realize love for only certain objects which serve your ego's survival. But once the ego is fully dissolved you realize that conventional human love was merely the tip of the iceberg. Then you realize that EVERYTHING is love. The deepest love you have for your family is the love God has for all of its creation. You as a limited human feel a tiny portion of that universal unconditional love. Most of the time you are disconnected from it because you are disconnected from yourself as God. If you were fully conscious that you are God, your love would be infinite and totally unconditional. You would not even be able to think of anything other than love. Love is an Absolute and has no opposite. Feeling love is not necessary for Love to be at work. Love is at work even if you are torturing a puppy. There is nothing you can do to shake God's love. You can be the most evil, egotistical, deluded person of all time, and God will still love you.

Love is everything that has ever "physically" occurred, that you have ever known, seen, or felt. Love is every "physical" object. Love is Nothing.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

Actually, I have decided to unlock this thread so those of you who wish to vent can do so here. I imagine many will want to do so. If you have objections to the truth of God and Love, air your doubts and grievances with me now because going forward, God and Love will be the teaching. This is not something we can just sweep under the rug. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

You are God. You are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. It would help if you stopped telling yourself otherwise. Since you are God, whatever you imagine becomes true. So if you imagine you're a limited human, that's precisely what you create.

This attitude is overly-simplistic, overly-reductionistic, & misses a giant swath of the spiritual terrain. To teach spirituality and not teach the metaphysical nature of Love is incorrect not only from the standpoint of doing your students a disservice, but also from the standpoint of Truth itself. By shutting off your mind through self-inquiry, you've disconnected yourself from the very source and purpose of existence and awakening: LOVE. Love is not an emotion or feeling. Love is identical to Truth. This is the danger of Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhism as commonly taught in the West today. The nuances and depth of awakening is lost, reduced to a binary flatland. I have interacted with many enlightened masters. I was once told of the following case: A modern day Buddhist came to an enlightenment self-inquiry intensive, inquirying into the question of What am I? After a few days of intense inquiry he had an awakening to Absolute Love. But he immediately rejected the awakening as inauthentic because his Buddhist dogma led them to believe that Love is not a real thing. He was trapped in looking for Nothingness. This is a mistake. The Love is right there, yet you deny it. We are not really in disagreement here. There are just aspects of the Absolute you have not yet become conscious of because you've over-reduced it. I understand that some of you guys will disagree with me. But I can only lead you as best as I know how. Whether you want to follow is up to you. Nothing said here should be taken as dogma. Discover the many facets of the Absolute for yourself. Directly! Through no human source. P.S. I have no problem with you guys doing psychoanalysis. My only point was that psychedelics will take you deeper than any talk-therapy will. But of course you're welcome to use them both. I support the use of multiple tools.

@Bodigger Congress has already proposed sensible gun control which is being blocked by Senate Republicans. Here's the bare minimum that I would propose: Federal background checks on all firearm sales Closing the gun show loop holes on private sales Ban of high capacity magazines Ban of bump stocks & other such mods Ban of body armor and armor piercing rounds Red flag laws Serious training and licensing in order to buy a gun at all. Like the DMV but for guns. Ban open-carry of firearms in public places Mandatory locks for all firearms Legal liability if someone accesses your gun to shoot a person when it wasn't properly locked Federal database of all firearms purchased and some kind of limits on people amassing arsenals. Waiting periods to buy firearms. A week or more. Ban mentally ill people or domestic abusers from owning firearms. All of this is totally reasonable and supported by the majority of Americans and even responsible gun owners. Of course this will not prevent all mass shootings. But it's a good idea to have these protections in place.

@Phoenixx The point of human life is become more conscious of what you are and what reality is. This requires raising awareness of oneself through self-reflection, contemplation, inquiry, meditation, disciplined practices, etc.

@OmniYoga The I you think you are is conceptual. It exists as a concept. In the same way that Santa Claus exists conceptually. Which is you say, the human self is imaginary. You are imagining that you were born. This a story you tell yourself to create a sense of self. Think of it this way: just because you have a thought about something -- like Santa Claus living on Mars -- doesn't mean that thought refers to anything in the real world. So the question is: why you assume that body is "yours"? Why isn't that body the universe's? See, you've confused the universe and yourself. Or to put it more accurately: the universe believes it is a human. In the Absolute sense, there is only the universe believing it is a human. The universe is trying to act human to convince itself that it is human. But it's just the universe. The human part is imaginary.

@abrakamowse "He" is you. Watch out for subtle ways in which "otherize" God. God is not some other, nor some external authority -- it is you.

Unfortunately this is no minor disagreement. This goes against the core of my highest teaching. My highest teaching is: 1) You are God 2) Truth = Love This is what I am guiding you guys to realize. I don't want this teaching corrupted or made shallow with neo-Advaita or Buddhism or some Jed McKenna silliness. What I teach is distinct from all that.

Just different.

Absolutely not. We talk not talking about gym class yoga here. We are talking about meditative yoga. These are totally different things. No. This is delusion. You need to access nondual states of consciousness to really grow. You have not even begun human growth until you've had your first mystical experience. This doesn't mean that all spirituality boils down to chasing mystical experiences, but you need some first hand experience of samadhi states. If you are not inclined to be spiritual then go watch some cartoons or whatever.

@Scholar I think you're nitpicking a bit. Not every Green person is some animal rights activist. Plenty of Green people eat animals and don't think much about animal rights. That's not what defines Green.

Because that is a very different trip.

@yellowschnee That is not nearly a high enough dose. You'd need double that for a chance of breakthrough via plugging.