Leo Gura

Haha, this is just a basic physics question. The Earth shrinks every time you send objects into outer space. If you send a trillion pounds of books to outer space, the mass of the Earth will decrease by a trillion pounds. Eventually the Earth would become so small that it could no longer hold a tree or a rocket. But you'd be dead long before that happened. Plants leech matter from the Earth. They don't get it out of thin air.

Every time you say the word me, I, my -- those words refer to nothing. In other words, the human you was never born. It is imaginary. The trick is figuring out what that means and how that could be. Life is not being experienced by a "you". Yeah, it's a mindfuck. But you are not reading this sentence, rather this sentence is reading itself, minus you. Take the whole world and strip out all trace of you. That is what awakening is about.

@herghly Don't get discouraged. It's okay. Enjoy it a bit and carry on with the work. Guilting yourself for backsliding only adds fuel to the fire. Don't forget to love yourself and have compassion for yourself in this work. This is very challenging work you're doing.

My ex-girlfriend was from HK. HK people consider themselves very different from mainland Chinese. HK is basically like its own country with a unique culture. Or at least it was. HK culture is much more Western due to a century of British rule. And the Hong Kongers like it that way.

UBI is actually a quasi-libertarian thing. Many technocrats and libertarian types propose the UBI as a replacement for all the welfare systems. Which is very problematic. There are good and there are bad ways to do UBI. If UBI is proposed as a replacement for all social benefit programs, that's very problematic.

I'm glad you had enough wisdom to escape that cult. That's the trick, libertarians don't really think much about how others struggle. They assume that everyone in the world is as comfy and privileged as them. When you live in a peaceful white suburban neighborhood with nice streets, clean water, good grocery stores, in the wealthiest country on the planet, life seems easy and all you could ask for is more personal freedom. The libertarian does not consider what life is like for a disabled single mother working two minimum wage jobs because her parents were drug addicts and sexually molested her and didn't have enough money to send her to private school and university. Such cases are not part of the libertarian reality.

In practice, when anarchy and chaos run amok what's required is a strong dictator who will rule with an iron fist to get everyone to shut up and get in line and stop being devils. Ironically to achieve this the dictator must himself be the biggest devil to rule them all. Qaddafi was such a guy. The problem is that such political problems are so complex and tricky that there often aren't pleasant solutions. This makes you appreciate the functional role that dictators play. They are not merely evil bad guys. They are necessary at a certain stage of development.

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Formlessness is not separate from form or human experience. You need to go further and realize that form and formlessness are one. This. Now. Here. Is. It. It is all possible states and non-states alike. But from certain states it is easier to "see".

@Key Elements LOL, drunk bitches making out at the club is more like stage Orange

Just finished the 1st episode. Classic, classic stage Blue. Like clockwork! Yup, that's how all fundamentalists think. Stage Blue devilry.

This is just a belief. No different than when a Christian believes that the Earth is 5000 years old. Question all your assumptions. Where did you get this belief about brains and sense organs and biological creatures? Notice that all of it is hearsay from other people. You do not find any of this in direct experience.

What more do you want? Do those things more rigorously rather that looking for new stuff to do. It's like you went to the best buffet in town, surrounded by food, and you log onto a food forum and ask the people there, "Guys, I'm at this buffet, but tell me how to increase my chances of finding more food." This work is not about more flashy stuff, it's about going deeper with the basics.

No! Infinity is not a quality, it is all qualities and their negation simultaneously. Infinity & God are not concepts. Of course they are concepts, but those concepts point to something prior to concept. In the same way that Australia is a concept BUT there is also the actual land which the word "Australia" points to. Besides which, concepts themselves are part of Infinity, otherwise they could to occur.

Find out for yourself by doing the work. Begin by having a few enlightenment experiences.

Apparently it's based on a book: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053 Which is also available on Audible.

Gold Minus the L

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But the majority of mainstream Muslims are either ignorant of this or in denial about it. A mainstream Muslims will deny that he is Allah. This is very easy to test. Of course I do. It's an excellent resource overall. Of course it's one of a thousand other sources I use.

Because you aren't aware that you are me. You are implicitly assuming that there is a you and a me (these two beings). But there isn't. And you don't understand that yet. You acknowledge the possibility that you and I are one, but you are only doing this at the level of concept. You aren't doing it actually. If you did it actually you would experience a death of yourself. Enlightenment at the level of concept is not enlightenment, it is theory. You must go from theory to actuality. Come to a point where there is actually no difference between me and you. Not in theory, but ACTUALLY! This requires a change in your state of consciousness. You cannot do it through thinking.

I wouldn't think of kundalini complications as being dark. It's just various sorts of energetic unlocking & processing. An energetic block doesn't have to be dark to be uncomfortable, frustrating, or troubling. So you can practice being loving, but an energetic upheaval can still get ya. Then again, for some people there might be a dark aspect to kundalini. There's a lot of variety to how these things can unfold. Some people report experiencing demons and other weird stuff. Personally that's foreign to my experiences but I think it's possible for some. I've never had a demonic experience in 70+ trips. I'm not sure what causes it. I guess demons don't like me

This is false. You can have direct experience of and genuine insight into the nature of death, afterlife, and pre-life. Of course people concoct all sorts of theories, but there are also some people who actually know through direct experience and mystical insight.

@CreamCat Self-deception is the currency of the human mind and of the collective species mind.

Cancer of the mind. Notice that people who hold these ideologies have almost no historical understanding of how government works, nor do they have any understanding of human psychology. It's simply ignorance, naivete, and arrogance rolled into one. You'll notice that no country in the history of the Earth has ever been libertarian or anarchist. Because it doesn't work to meet the needs of the people, so it would never be tolerated. You'd have to be a fool to even begin implementing it because you would quickly be kicked out or killed. Try to imagine a libertarian or anarchist going to Russia or China and promoting their agenda. LOL

It's actual Paradise. If you only knew, it would kill you. You have to appreciate that since the devil has co-opted your mind, what you find desirable is precisely the opposite of Paradise. Why are you so gullible as to trust your desires? Haven't you realized yet that desire is how the devil manipulates you? You gonna keep allowing the devil to make a cuck out of you? Remember, Truth is an acquired taste. To a devil, Truth tastes bitter.