Leo Gura

Some Youtuber criticizing Sadhguru is like a kid in 1st grade criticizing Albert Einstein. LOL

@Andreas It's not bullshit. Go to the gym and observe people's body types. Trust your eyes, not videos or "science". Observe females too. You can clearly spot female endomorphs vs ectomorphs. Some girls are super skinny and it's not a diet thing. Some girls are beefy. You can clearly see this by watching porn. Underlying body type is independent of fat or muscle. You can also see this in animals. Some breeds of dog are naturally very skinny while others are squat. Compare a grey hound to a pitbull. I am like a grey hound. Joe Rogan is like a pitbull. The mistake is expecting a grey hound to be like a pitbull. That mistake is on you, not the grey hound. The grey hound is designed for speed. If you were a careful observer, you would notice the perfection of its design rather than judging it.

What you guys are overlooking is that my natural body shape is very tall and lean. Don't compare me to guys like Joe Rogan who are short, squat, and beefy-looking. To look buff, I would have to add 60 pounds of muscle onto a 6'2" frame. This is not sustainable or healthy for me. Remember that people have fundamentally different body types (regardless of fat or muscle). There are endomorphs, mesomorphs, and ectomorphs. (And also xenomorphs ) I was always an ectomorph. An ectomorph who happened to be fat due to poor diet. Muscles do not scale proportionally if your body goes from 5'8" to 6'2". You will become leaner and it will be much harder for you to look buff at 6'2" than at 5'8". Of course there are some tall endomorphs like The Rock. But that ain't me. If you go to the gym and just observe people there, you'll clearly see who is an ectomorph, mesomoroph, endomorph. Our culture -- especially bro culture which tries to be macho -- devalues ectomorphs while idolizing mesomorphs and endomorphss. But all of these assignments of value is ego.

This is a supremely important question. I encourage you to really contemplate it and research it deeply. The mind is almost entirely symbolic. But what are symbols? What is language? These are not easy questions to answer but in them lies to key to liberation from the mind.

It's not about playing victim, it's about recognizing systemic inequalities which are de-harmonizing society and creating needless suffering. It's not just black people who are hurt by it. When people are not treated fairly, they then lash out and we all suffer the consequences collectively. What I am saying actually requires taking responsibility for the systemic inequalities in our government. It is irresponsible to call people who were economically and racially oppressed for 200 years "victims". That is gaslighting. That's exactly like beating your wife and then telling her, "Oh, stop crying. Stop playing the victim here. It's all just a state of mind. Think positive." That's the definition of devilry. There are real material inequalities at work here. You're not appreciating the systemic downstream effects of slavery and racism. It doesn't just fix itself in 50 years.

It certainly helps, especially when starting out. If only as emotional support and accountability. Might as well have fun doing it. It tends to be more fun with wings.

@Hello from Russia This is a very trick topic. Yes, for survival (illusion) cause and effect is great. But at the level of Absolute Consciousness, cause & effect are a total illusion. This cannot be thought about. You must enter a totally nondual, Absolute state of consciousness. Cause/effect = duality If reality is ONE, how can it be caused or be an effect? You must have two parts for cause & effect to be viable. So within duality there is cause & effect but within nonduality there is not. Another way to phrase it is: cause & effect is relative.

He was a con man for most of his life. It's just that power corrupts and makes all personal defects 100x worse. You have to understand that Trump has manipulated his media image from the very beginning. His whole public image is a thin lie. He's neither successful, nor powerful, nor a good negotiator, nor a good businessman, etc. It's all bullshit spun by his ego. Also with age ego can get worse. The devil gets absorbed in his own devilry until he is too far gone. Alex Jones is a good example of this. I agree that Trump is serving his function for the greater ultimate good, in a twisted sort of way. We need someone to show up how ugly Orange can be.

Moral of the story, don't play the game of life as an orc mage or an elf tank

Be careful with such stereotypes. Don't forget that the majority of Americans voted against Trump! Technically Trump represents a minority of the country. Not only that, but most people voting for Trump were duped by his con game. The media did a really bad job informing voters of Trump's true nature prior to the election. Most people voting for him thought he was a successful business guy at stage Orange, when in fact he is closer to stage Red. America is not that regressive. Most Americans are conscious enough to see that Trump behaves like a devil. Even conservatives see this. Politics, government, and culture are always evolving. We are in a transition period from Orange to Green. It's going to be a bit rocky but we'll make it. Just because there is ego backlash doesn't mean we give up hope and stop evolving. The ego will always bitching and moaning. We don't let that deter us. The American political system is very corrupt and does not accurately represent the will of the people. Democracy is being undermined by money and ego. The majority of Americans are for policies like Medicare For All, Free College, ending wars, net neutrality, etc. It's just that corporate interests exert a corrupting influence on elections. In the future this will all change and money in politics will be outlawed. The hearts of the people are not so bad. It's the corporate influence which is heartless. This is a function of stage Orange materialism running amok. We will grow out it in time. 2020 might be a pivotal election cycle -- the beginning of the end for Orange domination. We'll see.

LOL --------- Here's a great example of stage Green reacting against solid stage Blue: It's like both of them are play out a script.

You've dipped your toe in the rabbit hole so far. From here it only gets better (or worse)

@Igor82 A decent intro trip. Be very careful about combining 5-MeO with something like modafinil. I don't get that much of a body load on 5-MeO.

It's not about handing out money. It's about correcting systemic inequalities. The system is rigged by wealthy and powerful egos. The ego never plays fair. The money is a compensating force against centuries of systemic rigging.

Not so fast!

Right, which shows you the connection between brain chemistry, mind state, and behavior. What psychedelics reveal is just how many different kinds of states of consciousness there are. Not just a dozen, but millions of radically different states. Various people can be in those various states depending on their brain chemistry, genetics, etc. Some people are stuck in an insane state and that is their reality. The fact is that some states are far more conducive to awakening and spiritual practice than other states. If your brain is in the right state, waking up is effortlessly easy. Other the other hand, if your brain in the wrong state, nothing you do will wake you up. State is absolutely critical for this work.

Yes, this is a huge issue. What the world needs more than enlightened gurus teaching nonduality is a bridge from where the world is now to a place where folks can just be openminded enough to buy a book about nonduality. Which is why I teach a lot of stuff besides strict nonduality.

I'm a fan. He had a wonderful way with words. Almost poetic. I love this one:

If blacks in America received $30 trillion dollars in reparations for slavery (which is just one estimate of the damage done during slavery), the IQ gap would disappear. That's my empirical claim. It could be tested. But of course the whole point is that no one wants to test it. The whole point of the IQ race debate is to deny that blacks are economically abused. The ego wants to blame it on their "inferior genetics", rap music, drugs, sex, black culture, laziness, etc. The economic unfairness is deliberately overlooked. Because it's too true to admit! It's too much responsibility. What white ego wants to admit that blacks in America incurred $30 trillion dollars worth of abuse? It's too outrageous to admit. The amazing thing is that blacks have as high an IQ as they do, given the amount of abuse they incurred. A 10 point IQ difference is very small given the historical context and their economic situation. Hell, one easy way to remove the black IQ gap is to simply change the way we fund public schools. Make all our public schools evenly funded rather than basing the funding off local real estate taxes. This would equalize funding for school in regions with low real estate values. This one change alone could equalize the IQ gap. But no one wants to implement it because it means whites will lose their best schools. See, blaming genetics is very convenient because then it means we don't have to make any tough policy changes. The ego abuses a victim out of selfishness, then it blame the victim's genetics. This way the ego can feel righteous and superior while it keeps behaving like the selfish devil that it is. The whole purpose of the ego is to prevent honest self-reflection. The devil cannot look himself in the mirror, so he covers up all the mirrors.

There is some truth to this. But it's important to teach stage Blue & Orange memes in a healthy, non-pathological, non-exclusionary way. For example, Jordan Peterson teaches these memes but he laces them with his toxic, judgmental, ethnocentric, dualistic shadow -- which then rubs off on his students. You must actually sit down and contemplate through these issues to understand how your mind works. Believing me is next to useless. Sit down with a journal and contemplate questions like: What is reason? What is evidence? What is data? What is interpretation? What is science? What is truth? What is knowledge? How do we know anything? How do I know I can trust my own mind? What if my mind is lying to me? How is my perspective biased? Where did my beliefs come from? Why do I believe the things I believe? If I don't know anything, how should I act? etc. See my video: How To Contemplate Using A Journal All the answers are inside you. But you have to sit down and dig them out.

Yes, it definitely does. But I was sensitive to psychedelics even before 5-MeO. 5-MeO just took my sensitivity through the roof. There are many factors at work here.

Reminds me of this guy: https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-pineal-gland-artist

Indeed There is good reason for unhappiness and delusion though. It keeps you alive. If all delusion was removed tomorrow, society would collapse into anarchy and cannibalism. You can remove delusion within yourself, but doing it across all of society is unworkable at this point in human evolution. Society is like a house of cards held together with snot (delusion). If you insist too much on cleaning up all the snot, it will all fall apart. So the snot must be cleaned up very carefully and gradually to prevent catastrophic collapse.

We'll be covering that one in the next episode.

That only pushes the question back one step. The question is, why do most people not want to be? Want, after all, is not a free thing. Your wants are determined by your genetics, environment, and other factors outside your control. Why do some people want to eat people? Why do some people want to murder people?