Leo Gura

@Zeus You're not going insane. Talk freely to them. Ask them deep questions and write down their answers. They can help you navigate life. Help you to be more conscious.

Should and shouldn't don't exist. You are free to do whatever you want. But conscious beings care about their environment in the same way they care about not poisoning their bodies. Unconscious beings poison their bodies, minds, and environments.

@Emerald My point was, a person would have to be a total fool to place his life in the hands of Donald Trump's trustworthiness. Trump changes his mind more than a teenage girl. Because he is purely opportunistic.

Yes, it's possible. But realize that in the ultimate sense you and them are one. Whoever you are talking to in life, whether aliens, angles, or humans, you're really just talking to yourself. But also keep in mind that it is possible to get wisdom and guidance from "others". If the wisdom rings true, might as well follow it. Just be careful taking the words of "others" on blind faith. You need to validate the wisdom in your direct experience, as with any teacher or teaching. Your personal experience is the ultimate authority. Also, don't get too dependent on "others". Stand on your own two legs.

@How to be wise If you insist on being dense, go right ahead. God won't stop you.

From Kim's POV it does not even matter if Trump is truthworthy. Even if Trump is the nicest guy in the world, in 2-6 years he will be out of office and Kim will have to deal with a new US administration which will want to overthrown him if an overthrow is easily possible without killing millions of people. So Kim's incentive is to be able to kill millions of people in order to survive. The North Koreans are not stupid. They are very selfish. So the last thing they'll do is undermine their own survival odds. Kim handing over his nukes is like Trump handing over his taxes. Lol. Trump says he doesn't mind handing over his taxes, but he never will. It's just a ploy.

@How to be wise How many times have I warned you about such naive absolutistic thinking? You're overlooking something. Environment is a relative term defined against the human self. By neglecting the environment people are precisely failing to realize that environment and self are one. Because they are convinced that environment is something "other" which they don't need to care about as long as their body is cared for. But the body cannot be cared for without caring for the environment. Unity and holism is the highest truth. Anything short of that leads to pathology.

I will soon shoot a video on all that. Yes, it's a bit tricky. Will can be exercised without moral judgment. For example, if a child is playing with Legos, the child can choose what she wants to build. Anything she builds is perfect. There is no right or wrong or best or worst thing to build. But she still exercises will. Will is creation itself! Will is what's deciding what will be created. Try not to look at it as good or bad. Creation is done for its own sake, not because something is lacking. The creator doesn't need anything, it's just creating for the sheer joy of creation. You can train to live your life in such a matter. Then you create but you're detached from your creation.

You ignore that many of them did not. In fact most Zen practitioners never fully awaken. The failure rate is very high. And you ignore that many of them, even after they awoke, were still devils who abused, molested, raped, and even killed. Zen monasteries waged entire wars against each other, slaughtering monks by the hundreds. Having a satori is just the start. It is not mastery by any means. And without good teachings devilry is pretty much guaranteed. Yes, teachings about enlightenment are not enlightenment. But they can still be very useful for keeping you on the right track. By saying little about enlightenment the teacher leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation and falling into traps. While enlightenment cannot be described well with words, the traps can be.

Intuition is your HIGHEST feeling. It is the voice of your soul/spirit. And don't discount feelings either! Feelings are faithful indicators of how things really are for you. Listen to your feelings more, not less. The problem is that you repress and judge your feelings too much. This is what gets you into trouble. Feel your feelings without reacting to them or overthinking them. Just feel for the sake of feeling, not as a means to some end.

Ego and militancy go hand in hand. The biggest egos cause the most violence, suffering, and death. Because ego is always in fear it must lash out at others. Ego is fundamentally insecure about itself. And Trump is the most insecure president we've ever had. So it's bound to manifest in ugly ways. Enemies only exist from an ego's POV. A conscious person has no enemies.

Aye, that's the rub. Can't frame it more directly than that.

@oMarcos He could have found God much sooner and gone deeper had he not been so distracted by chasing success. But either path is valid. Sometimes you gotta be foolish for many years to realize what wisdom is. Given Tyson's starting point, his path was just right, for him. I wouldn't recommend it for most people though. Too painful. It's like punching yourself in the nuts over and over again just to learn not to do that.

@Chumbimba Great work! You're getting it. But also stick around for more advanced theory. You still have much advanced stuff to learn. Vipassana lone will not be enough. There are many important things Vipassana will not teach you. This not a critique of Vipassana. It's just one tool within a much larger framework. All tools have their limits.

Beautiful! Yeah, success is really no different than religion. It serves the exact same function for the ego. Success becomes one's God until the true God is found.

@Soul-lover 2020 You have much to learn about Truth. Keep your mind open if you really wish to realize God. Your mind is not open enough.

Don't confuse my degree of openmindedness and self-reflection with that of Republican. I have no problem re-evaluating my positions and changing them. I've changed my positions and worldview more than you can imagine. If Trump denuclearizes North Korea, I will acknowledge it and my understanding of him will change. I will have to admit that I underestimated him. But I wouldn't bet on that happening. There's higher odds of him starting WWIII. There is no way North Korea will give up its nukes given the US's penchant for regime change. Kim would be suicidal to do so. If he gives up his nukes the US will want to bomb and overthrow him like in Iran, Iraq, and Libya. Think about it, if you were a dictator and you had nukes, why would you ever give them up? Having them means you will never get invaded. The US cannot invade North Korea because they would nuke South Korea. So counter-intuitively those nukes are maintaining peace. North Korea having nukes is not as big a problem as people make it out to be. They would never use them aggressively because they know it would be suicidal. If North Korea ever used a nuke first, they would be nuked by the US until there was nothing left of North Korea. And they know this. North Korean nukes cannot even reach most of the US. So they are severely overpowered by the US. So all that having a few nukes does for North Korea is provide a nice obstacle to US invasion. The irony is that the US is the aggressor, not North Korea. North Korea is practicing self-defense. Which is totally expected. What else can they do? They have to maintain their regime as any ego would do. I'm always open to being proven wrong. The above position is not ideological dogma. It's just my best analysis of the situation. Of course my analysis can be disproven in the future. You can't do better than your best analysis at any given point in time. Political analysis is never Absolute, it's probabilistic given so many unknown variables.

The forum software is very complex and it cannot simply be modified at will. It is what is it and we have little control over it.

Yes, that's is the myopia of your current level of development. As you develop higher you will reach a point where you will realize the deep interconnectedness of yourself and your community. And then such a dualistic attitude as you now hold will become untenable. There is still a fundamental selfishness to your position. To neglect your community is to neglect yourself, since you and other are one. But do as you like. I am not judging you, just making a prediction about where you growth can take you. I see that many of you folks here need a serious education in the connection between spirituality and politics. Spiritual work alone is not enough to make one politically wise. Especially not with the traditional non-integral spiritual schools like Zen, Vedanta, etc. This is a major spiritual pathology: neglecting ecological concerns for personal salvation. It's about as selfish as eating all the food on the life-raft while others are looking the other way.

@zeroISinfinity You are going to be creator no matter what. The only question is whether you are creating consciously or unconsciously. To refuse the call of taking ownership of your godly creative capacity is a creation you create. If you choose to sit in your Mom's basement your whole life eating Cheetos and jerking off to anime, that's what you as God created. But you did so not aware that you could have created something else. And so in effect you created a devil of yourself.

@Anderz Like I said, Trump is an opportunist. He has no principles or political ideas. All he cares about is narcissism and personal success and glory. He would call himself a communist if that allowed him to advance his narcissistic agenda. You misunderstand his motives. In his mind whatever gets him the most power, money, fame, and sex is what's considered true and valid.

@Anderz Your ego's biases are clouding your vision. Raise your level of consciousness and the whole situation will look very differently. Trump will not pull off a North Korea deal. He does not know how to make deals.

No. People will vote however they want. But if people were more engaged in the process, more knowledgeable, more conscious, they would elect more conscious and humane leaders. The quality of our leaders directly reflect the quality of the voters. If you follow Actualized.org and you don't vote, that's one conscious person surrendering his responsibility to devils. The key here is that you must take responsibility for being a member of society. Stop thinking of yourself as merely an individual. You are NOT merely that. Wake up to the fact that you are part of a community. In a conscious community members act for the good of each other.

I will talk more about that soon. But in a nutshell, your work is be a Creator, embody the Goodness, Love, and Wisdom of God in your life. To truly be God is to live a God-like life. It's not enough to realize God and then go back to working at Starbucks. Your vision of your life must match that which a God would create. Would a God sit around while the Earth was raped and pillaged by devils? Guess again. Of course you don't have to. But if you fully understood your power, you probably wouldn't squander your life as you now do. See, right now you are not a conscious creator. But God is a conscious creator. You must take ownership of your creative capacity. Which is a distinct thing from enlightenment. As the saying goes: You work towards "A more perfect union" Today conscious creators are more needed than ever before in human history. Or civilization will collapse.

I will reveal it on my blog at some point I think with a short vid. That's been my plan but I haven't gotten around to it. Too many videos to shoot, not enough time.