Leo Gura

I can't really answer that. You just gonna have to walk your path and see where it leads. Part of the process is letting go of control or the need to plan it out or have a safety net. You gotta trust that you'll sort out the obstacles as you encounter them, not beforehand. That's life. Life's gotta be lived. It's a visceral experience. Get more comfortable with improving and letting things unfold organically. Experiment. Trial and error. Adventure.

Yeah.... fear is a bitch. The solution to fear is to be fearless.

Some do, some don't. At that point is hardly matters. And yet some of them still work to make an impact. That's the paradox of detachment.

Hawaii's a beautiful place. Lots of helicopters though which ruins the whole nature vibe. Helicopter noise is inescapable on the Big Island

Don't disagree. Sit down and observe what suffering actually is and why you create it. Suffering arises out of resistance. Resistance is pure survival. If you did not care about survival you would not resist or suffer. Death isn't a real thing. You imagine it to maintain your false identity.

What you have to understand is that those who reach such a radical degree of selflessness are not doing it out of a desire to have an impact. They are doing it because they seek the highest Truth, and everything else is just an organic consequence of that. To become that selfless would require that you drop all personal desires, including any desires to change the world. All attachments would have to be surrendered. The irony is, your ability to impact the world skyrockets when you come from a position of total detachment and selflessness. But the detachment has to be real. You have to surrender everything before you get it all back in the end.

Nope, that's conditional love.

Yes The come up is very smooth and gentle. That's the whole beauty of plugging. It's as easy as this process can get.

@ColdFacts All understanding is metaphoric.

All suffering was to ensure you lived a long life. Of course in the end all life comes to nothing. But there is a big difference between living 0 years and 80 years from your POV.

@ColdFacts I used that word "bored" in a loose metaphoric sense. Don't take it too literally. In the strictest sense God just is. This is-ness necessitates all things.

It's a common defense mechanism, especially at first. Do inquiry after a good rest/nap, when you are max alert. Don't do inquiry at the end of the day when you are dead tired. Inquiry must be done at the peak of your day, not as an after-thought.

@1liamo78 You are still assuming an external objective world within which beings reside. This notion must be discarded if you wish to understand spirituality. Don't assume the Earth's population or even the Earth as an object fact. You are inside a dream. Never mistake the content within the dream as having a greater reality than the dreamer of the dream.

You are just parroting words here without actually bothering to investigate your direct experience. Locate within yourself the distinction between a thought and a feeling. It is there to be located.

Smoking is harsher than plugging. Plugging doesn't produce visuals, at least for me. Unless it's a really big dose, but even then the visual is: everything become infinite. It's not a psychedelic visual. It's more like pure consciousness being aware of its own infinitude. It's like a transparent sort of visual. Like the air got sucked out of the room and every object became infinite. At higher doses there's a freaky effect called recursion: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Recursion Don't close your eyes during the trip.

Actually it's the most common scenario that even after an awakening or two the identity still stays. Very rarely is the identity totally transcended. Usually a spiritual identity is created. This happens even with many gurus, monks, and yogis. To transcend all identity completely is a very rare and challenging thing.

That doesn't matter. It's still survival even if it's deluded or wrong. Someone pursuing enlightenment to escape suffering, for example, is doing it out of survival. Now maybe he happens to finally reach nirvana, where survival is extinguished, but that's distinct from how/why he got there. His motivations were still survival-driven in this case. This is false.

If you say so.

Where is the full movie found?

Yes, it would certainly work, and work powerfully. But be careful what you wish for. Depending on how many inner demons you got, it could get hairy. But then again, that's where the real growth is. There tends to be an inverse relationships between growth and comfort. You can't have both at once.

Actual vs conceptual is a duality. Mind vs not-mind is a duality.

Suffering is a principle tool of survival. You create suffering to ensure you stay alive.

It certainly can. People create whole identities out of seeking Truth. @Norbert Lennartz Do not conflate thinking with feeling. They are distinct. You can feel without thinking.

@mandyjw You cannot be worthy of love because love requires no worth. True love is unconditional.

Even then you are still limited.