Leo Gura

@LoveandPurpose Just ask yourself. It isn't so complicated. All the answers are inside you. You are looking everywhere but inside.

Well that is definitely true. Not sure why this would make you doubt his enlightenment. Keep in mind, people can talk about the same things in different ways.

Baseline human awareness is not high enough to notice the Eternity of NOW. Human consciousness is deliberately time-bound to aid your survival. Eternity will only become noticable through practices or psychedelics. But Eternity is always the case. It is always NOW, NOW, NOW. Every temporal experience is actually eternal and has existed forever. But you aren't noticing it. You must realize that you are inside the Absolute at all times. The relative is actually the Absolute when looked at deeply enough.

@ValiantSalvatore If you get your hands on 5-MeO, you will not need anything else.

None of that comes anywhere close to 5-MeO-DMT. Many Western enlightened masters have taken LSD. But LSD ain't good enough. Shinzen probably is open enough. But I would worry it might kill him. Him's pretty old. A full-on 5-MeO breakthrough is a terrifying thing. It will give you a panic attack.

@mkrksms Yes, because it requires a change in your state of consciousness. You cannot ever understand it while maintaining your current state.

You can do all that. But when you chase 4 rabbits you may end up catching none.

@Joseph Maynor In practice your action will all be co-opted by ego and survival, thus perpetuating Maya. The most important thing is changing your state of consciousness. Without that, all actions stems from a fundamentally deluded state.

This particular discussion is fruitless. God both created itself, and it has always existed. Because existence, creation, intelligence, being, will, truth, understanding, and love are all one.

The problem with offering an old man 5-MeO is that I don't wanna kill the poor guy. I offered it to Ralston. He refused, ridiculing me. Closedmindness is a hell of an obstacle to this work. A person with 40 years experience is also a know-it-all in his own mind.

The chances that volunteer work will lead to your awakening is extremely low.

Guys, all these explanations you come up with are dualistic. Notice this. You are trying to capture infinity in conceptual schemes, which will not work.

You need to find a unique and underserved need in the marketplace and invent a creative and effective solution for it, providing people with massive value. That is the heart of business. Everything else is distraction. What you eat and when you wake up is irrelevant. Business is a very concrete thing. Try not to muddy that with a bunch of cute self-help ideas or philosophy. "How can I add massive value to the world??" << that should be your top question when thinking about biz. If you're not adding real concrete massive value, you will not succeed.

Another good way to put it: when you realize there never was a self. When you realize you were never born.

You guys pose some great questions. Unfortunately to answer them all would require writing several volumes on Conscious Politics.

The house rules are: BE HERE TO LEARN! You are being shown advanced things here which are over your head. I fear you may have to be kicked out cause you're not interested in learning and it's a waste of time dealing with such people.

Just wing it. You've can only figure stuff out like this by living through it. Your mind is very strong. Even after a terrifying experience you will return to homeostasis quite fast. A week later you will be back to normal in most cases. Your body and mind have automatic healing mechanisms. You're not some fragile vase. Did I say that? If so, it was just a metaphor. Don't take it literally. This technique is not a replacement for meditation. Rather where it shines is in dredging up latent emotional baggage, which meditation does only very slowly. Meditation's primary purpose is not dredging up emotional baggage. You can spend years meditating, and become a good meditator, but you may still carry deep emotional baggage.

@zunnyman When you are fully conscious that you are God, the notion that your body will decay does not even make sense. Since your body is totally infinite and omnipresent. The human body is no more you than a brick wall. I was looking at a brick wall the other night and I could not tell the wall apart from my body. The wall is as much my body as my body. Being immortal is not about living forever through time. It is realizing that each moment is eternal already and that there is nowhere else for God to go. God cannot go anywhere because God is everywhere. You will not become enlightened. Rather enlightenment will reveal that your birth was just an idea, a story. The story of you will be erased. What will remain is omnipresent consciousness, which is God. Your perceptual field will be radically recontextualized and realized to be the body of God. You are not understanding just how radical enlightenment/God/no-self is! It's so radical you cannot imagine it, and it does not fit that materialistic paradigm you're using. That whole paradigm of a physical world will be wiped out at the moment of enlightenment. There never was a self. Ta-da!

What you have yet to realize is that the entire universe is your body, every grain of sand on every beach of every planet is your child. Not figuratively. Literally! There is nothing which is not your direct offspring. When you realize that, you will understand Absolute Love. Limiting yourself to your body is the grand illusion which we are here to overcome. This is the larger reality to which you are being pointed to. Discover Absolute Love and you will become a better parent too.

User @ColdFacts has been banned from this forum for displaying a consistently closedminded attitude. Warning: I am on the lookout for trolls and people who are not here to learn but waste people's time.

@CreamCat Root access comes after some deep enlightenment. How do you think advanced yogis acquire siddhis (paranormal abilities)?

@SerpaeTetra Be careful. Lest your love be put to the test. Life can put you through some brutal tests. Many parents would break. And even if you love your child very much under all conditions. That's still such a narrow love. What about the other 1 billion children on this planet? Why don't you love them too?

It is simply what's true.

This is false. There is no suffering in manifestation other than what you add to it. If you cannot find lasting peace right now, you will never find it. You will not find nirvana anywhere but right here. Your job is to realize that this here and now is nirvana. Don't go looking for nirvana somewhere else or at some future point in time. Those stories are the thing keeping you from realizing nirvana. Nirvana is Truth, and Truth is NOW, NOW, NOW.

Learning does not require blindly believing things. If you were serious, you'd be here to learn. But your cup is full and you're here to double down on your existing worldview, which is the opposite of the purpose of my teachings. If you do not want to learn from me, then you should not be here. Learning from me does not require blind belief. But it does require an open mind and a willingness to lay aside your existing worldview. Your choice of username betrayed your ideological position from day one. You are just here acting out a materialist program, like a robot. You are not questioning yourself but instead fighting externally.