Leo Gura

Pretty accurate stuff. Of course TES metaphysics was taken from Hindu philosophy, which tends to be quite truthful.

Sam Harris is a good real world example of what happens when a stage Orange person has some mystical/nondual experiences. It's not all that deep. Rather surface level spirituality. But still better than nothing. At least he advocates for meditation. But he does not understand the full depth of this work. There are many degrees of wokeness.

I don't read fast nor do I skim books. I tend to read books in their entirity. Reading many books takes 10+ years. It's a long-term project.

@ColdFacts You cannot get the result of awakening without awakening. The solution to your questions is to awaken. Do it. Don't talk about it.

@ColdFacts What you have to wonder is how does a human come into existence at all? You are taking this completely for granted. A human simply cannot be at all unless as God pretending to be a human. God has to play stupid so to speak because there is and never could be an actual material reality. Creation is imagination and illusion. Your deeper issue is that you are not doing serious self-inquiry so you are not conscious that you are God. This problem cannot be solved for you in any other way but to awaken. You will NEVER figure it out mentally as you are trying to do. All your reasoning will be wrong and irrelevant. So do the practices! This is not a matter of philosophy.

@Cody_Atzori Hehe, tis good, but if you were impressed by that, actual enlightenment will make you shit your pants

Free will vs no free will is yet another duality. The way the whole question is framed is fundamentally dualistic and silly because it assumes there is more than one entity. If there only exists one entity/object, does it have free will or not? See? It's an absurd question because anything it is, is identical with its will. There is no other outside it that could control it. The whole notion of control breaks down because control requires two objects: a controller and the controllee. This cannot hold if nonduality is the case. Being and Will turn out to be identical in a nondual state of consciousness.

I stumbled into a bear once on LSD. It was a real bear.

@pfletcha You can't in the sense that it isn't aligned with Truth and Love, and you do it unconsciously. See, if you were deeply conscious, those habits would break your integrity and connection with the Truth. If you lie and steal while doing enlightenment work you will not get very far. Your lying and stealing will catch up with you. Karma 101. That guilt you feel is your soul telling you that you are not living up to your highest potential as God.

A flute with no holes is not a flute, and the Truth without love is not the Truth.

@Knock Don't forget that doubt is ultimately fear. And fear is delusion.

God decides that! God decides for maximum Goodness and Love. If you were unlimited, why decide anything less? A being of unlimited intelligence and consciousness would not hate itself, as that would be foolish.

Hahaha......

@john23 Yup

What's bullshit is not self-actualizing, what everyone else is doing.

One/many is a duality.

@reves Good. That was a glimpse of the Ox's tail. A nice samadhi experience. It goes way deeper, so keep tripping keep exploring, keep questioning, keep trying to understand what Consciousness/God/Absolute/You are. Explore all the many facets of the Ox.

Horrible is a judgment coming from survival. Truthfully, horrible does not exist. Truth is "good" in that is totally frees you of all such judgments.

@kieranperez Thinking empowering thoughts is far better than worrying. Affirmations will of course not resolve the fundamental issue of duality or ego. But they can be a good intermediate technique. Not every technique has to be existential. This work requires nuance.

@chudders What I said was: if you constantly worry about getting cancer, that can actually create cancer in you. The mind is a very powerful thing. When it's misused it can create all sorts of problems, even physiological ones. Start a daily meditation habit which will teach you to let go of your thoughts and tame your monkey mind. Of course is you are doing something in your life which can cause cancer, like smoking or eating lots of processed meat, then you should also cut that out. But don't obsess over it.

I talk about a lot more than enlightenment. Be careful not to naively boil everything down to enlightenment. There's a lot more to this work than that.

@chudders Thoughts which are fear-based have a tendency to be self-fulfilling. What you worry about tends to become true simply because you obsess about it so much. It's hard to improve your life when you're constantly in fear. The solution is to change your thoughts to love-based thoughts and shift your state to a more positive, optimistic, empowered one. Research Law Of Attraction. You want to create a positive, exciting vision for your future. Stop focusing on what you don't want and start focusing on what you want to create. Negative stuff can always happen, but constantly worrying about it is not a solution.

You're just not getting it. You are like a donkey who is being told 1+1=2 but you're not getting it. It requires a leap in consciousness. You can't get it at your current state of consciousness. So maybe do the practices rather than arguing.

Mu

Your question is thoroughly riddled with dualistic assumptions. Language is unavoidably dualistic. You are assuming Truth can be captured with language, but it can't because language is a small subset of Truth.