Leo Gura

It cannot be easily formalized. Low quality is a nebulous thing. When I see it, I will moderate it. The Mods are mostly enforcing standard forum guidelines. The purpose of locking low quality threads is reduce distraction. It's all too easy for people to come here and become keyboard jockeys, wasting their own time and those of the Mods, myself, and all of you guys. No serious spiritual school would allow such distractions. This forum needs to maintain a certain focus and quality level. Otherwise I would rather just shut the whole thing down.

We lock very few threads. This forum will moderate low quality posts and posters. You don't appreciate how bad this place would be without moderation. This place is not 4chan, where you get to post any random nonsense. If you want that, go to 4chan. Experience what that is like.

I have already endorsed Sanders on my blog.

This thread has been reinstated.

That's the beauty of it: you are free to do whatever you want. It's called liberation for a reason. There are no shoulds in life. All shoulds are relative. But don't forget, all actions have consequences. So you are not free from the consequences of your choices.

There is nothing but direct experience, so you have no other other but to trust it. Name one thing which isn't in your direct experience? You cannot. The problem is how you are misinterpreting your experience with egoic distortions.

Some of those locks were made by me. And so was this one. I am taking action to clean up this forum. People are being banned and low quality threads are being locked.

Do the work and stop with the silly questions.

@Inder This issue goes deeper than you yet understand. Of course ego also cares a lot about physical survival. Your physical, social, and psychological survival are all intertwined. Intuition and even the higher self are often also part of survival. Try to locate what isn't survival in your experience. Most things will be survival.

Each stage integrates all the lower. So Turquoise already contains all the lower stages within it, but properly moderated and transcended.

A few good options here: 1) "My friends are around here somewhere." [point into a large crowd], or "I'm waiting for them to show up" or "They just left. They were tired." 2) Just own it and admit you're out alone. "I was bored at home and I felt like going out, so here I am." or "That's how I roll girl. I'm not part of some gaggle of sheep." 3) Just ignore and change the conversation into something else, "You seem like the kind of girl who voted for Trump. Admit it! You voted for Trump, didn't you?!" or "Why are you being so racist?" They lose interest because you don't own your aloneness. If you think it's weird, she will think its weird. If you think its totally normal to be out at a club alone, she won't care either. But you have to keep the conversation moving. Don't just say you're alone and then let it hang. You gotta immediately follow up with some other conversation topic as if her question was nothing at all. In general what you're lacking here is confidence. A confident man does not let some random girl judge him or frame control him. You gotta feel that you are way cooler than her no matter how many sheepish friends are around her. Her sheep friends are all fools and so is she for herding up with them. Be the badass lone wolf. And treat everyone in the club as your friends. You can make instant friends with some random guys in the club. When you are in the club you gotta walk around like you are the owner of the place. Exude that kind of confidence and comfort.

@Inder Human survival is not primarily about physical survival, it is about survival as a unique persona. That's what ego is mostly doing: surviving the complex social persona of you. And it's doing it perfectly. All of your thoughts are about that.

@Arhattobe In other words: being selfish keeps people from being selfless. That's why I call people devils. To point that out.

That's exactly what I'm saying. The nature of a symbol is such that for it to serve as a symbol is its being must be overlooked. If a symbol's being is recognized, then it stop being a symbol and becomes being/Absolute. The word cat is not itself a cat. Because of this, the Truth cannot be symbolized. Truth is prior to symbols. Truth cannot be pointed at because any pointer is already itself the Truth, but not recognized to be so.

@Arhattobe Of course. As I have said from the very beginning, the devil is God.

@Shadowraix Do you beat your heart?

@zunnyman You wouldn't really care. But your body would still have preferences. It has instinctive programming to avoid stuff which endangers survival. So in practice you will survive just fine because your body has an intelligence of its own and it's not going to do something as stupid as sawing your own leg off. But at the same time, you will be at peace with the prospect of the body dying. You can survive without being attached to survival. What happens to the body become irrelevant when you're conscious enough because you're so conscious you know that you're not limited to the body. The body is like clothing you are wearing. The body is God's jacket.

Don't flatter yourself. You think you are the only nondual wise-ass here? Take a number.

You answered your own question.

@ElenaO Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

You are God creating muppets. That's real magic

@Peo Try Kriya yoga then.

How can you move away from being when being is all there is and no matter where you move, you're still being. Desire and movement ARE being.

It's actually more radical than that. You can achieve a state of consciousness so total that you realize you always ARE doing precisely what you want. So if someone is sawing your leg off, you can be conscious that you (as God) are doing that to yourself. Because EVERYTHING that happens is God's Will and it is all Absolutely Good and done out of pure Love. It is a love that you as a human cannot fathom or embody because it is infinite. When you are that conscious, there is no need to exert your own personal human will. Whatever happens, however it happens, becomes fine by you because you realize THAT is your will. By defintion, anything that happens is your will. Not your human will, but your God's Will. Your personal will must be surrendered completely so that whatever the universe does becomes your will.

@Scholar At those radical degrees of consciousness Spiral Dynamics is just a dream. It's a handy model, but when you go deep enough you gotta let it go.