Leo Gura

Direct exp is prior to interpretation.

This is nonsense.

I want to understand you better, to better tailor future content to your needs and to be a better teacher. To that end, post here your biggest challenges and obstacles with spirituality and enlightenment. Avoid obstacles related to basic life success or general personal development, because we have a separate thread for that in the Self-Actualization sub-forum. I don't need to hear your entire life story and all your petty problems. Try to condense it down to two or three core issues that you feel really stuck on within the domain of spirituality. These might include being stuck in a 9-5 job and thus not having time for self-inquiry, or not understanding how to self-inquire, or fear that enlightenment will screw up your social life, or not understanding why enlightenment is not an experience, or just not being able to motivate yourself to meditate every day, etc. What's bugging you? What's keeping you up at night? What's triggering you emotionally? What's keeping you stuck? What's got you confused? Note: This thread is not meant to be me coaching you or giving you solutions to your problems. I just want to gather some data to better understand you. In the process, you may also better understand yourself. Thanks!

Self

Hahaha....

You need to practice talking more about yourself and what interests you. Push your personality out onto others. Share yourself. This takes courage and practice. Probably you feel deep down that you will be rejected or that people are not interested in what you have to say. This boils down to a low self-esteem issue.

Your time would be better spent doing spiritual practices than deciphering Lacan. But whatever. If you like to intellectually torture yourself, have at it.

I have not. I basically don't consume spiritual teachings any more. As I have my own personal and deeper understandings.

Imagine having that creepy thing wiggling around in your belly! Haha!

My dread is everyday life without spirit.

Just suffer thru it. Let go of needing it to go away.

@Bno If you are a progressive, going after TYT just feels like shooting yourself in the foot. TYT is so progressive it will take 50-100 years to enact all their ideals. The bottleneck lies elsewhere. You could choose to be happy that something like TYT even exists and that they got people like AOC elected. Learn to appreciate small victories. Progress is always happening, even under Trump.

@Bno Before you go spreading awareness, make sure you're aware of what you really are: Self-Love. It's not enough to talk about it or to "know" it. Genuine and deep awakening is required, over and over again. Lesser vs Greater Jihad

The ego-mind is making improper assumptions about what will happen once the ego is transcended. Laziness is part of the ego-mind. Without ego-mind, you become a super-conductor for Infinite Intelligence. A ton of energy is freed up. You can be more productive than you've ever been as an ego. But also, there is no need to be productive. You can be just as happy going off in the forest to starve to death. Since nothing matters, you are free. And you don't need to control anything. Everything will unfold according to Infinite Intelligence. Infinite Intelligence isn't lazy. Ego is lazy. You don't even need to worry about what will happen -- there is a total surrender to the flow of the Universe. Resistance is 100% ego and falsehood. There is zero resistance once ego is purged.

To be on the safe side, I'd lower your starting dose to 1g. Better to start low and go higher later than overshoot. You have no idea what you're getting yourself into with psychedelics. You don't need any books. Throw them away and focus on direct experience.

@Bno A thing you might want to practice is being appreciative of the being of all of your political rivals. Be careful of judgment. All judgment is devilry and ignorance.

Nothing is wrong with anything. It's just not a means of you reaching Truth. If you're looking for a public debate to reveal some deep truth to you, you're not getting what this work entails. The real work is completely internal. You should not expect anyone to prove or explain anything to you. Turn inward. Turn to direct experience.

@Bno Look, dude, you are too wrapped up in this. Just drop it and do some consciousness work. This fighting is all ultimately survival nonsense. The solution here is to go meta.

@Nak Khid You're about to get kicked out of this forum if you keep up with this foolishness. I have less and less patience for people on this forum talking shit they clearly do not understand. Either have enough wisdom to listen to those who know more than you, or find some other place on the internet to BS. It's not gonna fly here. I see you.

"How could I survive?" is a totally deluded question. That is ego asking from fear. A rock does not ask such a question. The beauty is, after awakening, you would have no problem just starving to death. It wouldn't matter at all.

The ego cannot have emotional groundedness because all of it is false. The only thing there is to ground into is Truth, which the opposite of the you who wants control. For a calm attitude, you must die.

That's exactly my point. That's marketing.

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@undeather That's all relativistic hearsay. Existential truths are of another order. Truth cannot be found through hearsay or external authority figures. Just because a debate sounds convincing to the ego-mind doesn't make it sound.

Bernie Sanders is not a business. TYT is a business & a corporation! Oh the hypocrisy! You might say. But of course business is not an absolute evil. Actualized.org is technically a corporation, don't forget To some extent, probably. But this is always the case. You think Bernie Sanders is not swayed by his grass-roots volunteers? Just the other day Bernie Sanders was forced, by this upset volunteers, to un-endorse Cenk. Bernie was forced into a politically correct position due to reasons of image, not substance. TYT is a much bigger organization than all those one-man YouTubers. TYT has like 50+ employees. A lot of mouths to feed. As they grow they will become more corporate. All of these issues are far too deep to be avoided through some simplistic approach like "Corporations are evil." The devil cannot be cast out so easily precisely because the devil is you. Survival forces all of us to sell out to some extent.