Leo Gura

Absolute Truth is Absolute. So of course it's certain. The paradox of being totally openminded is that you will eventually reach a point where you 100% Absolutely Without-A-Single-Doubt understand Absolute Truth.

The two are deeply one. God gives you guidance if you ask for it and listen carefully to your highest thoughts and feelings. Your highest feelings are God speaking to you. Or rather it is you reconnecting with the Goodness of God. But also, suffering IS deep guidance. You may not like it but suffering shows you the way to God.

That is what I've said from the beginning. The Truth cannot be spoken. And yet I must speak it. I've spoken much in the past about the limitations of language & why Truth cannot be proven or symbolized.

That's exactly correct. The Truth happens to be farfetched. That's not a bug, that the key feature, LOL. Oh absolutely! See my 3 part series on Self-Deception. It's WAY worse than you can imagine. The self-deception is utterly total. Pretty much Without an ego you can't be born at all! Ego is literally the fantasy that you were ever born.

I am pointing you to amazing things you can discover for yourself. How will you discover them unless someone brings their possiblity to your attention with a story? It's like I'm an explorer in on Mars. I send you back stories of stuff I've discovered back to Earth and you are very skeptical. That's understandable, but my purpose is to get you excited to actually come visit Mars for yourself and see all the cool stuff that's here. If you never visit Mars, you will never understand its depth and beauty. I don't have a problem. You merely imagine I do.

Yes, it's extremely loaded. As all spiritual terminology is, precisely because the devil/ego deliberately corrupts it. See, the ego's whole modus operandi is to call falsehood truth and truth falsehood. It cannot survive without doing so.

The "I" you're referring to in that statement is ego. Ego can fabricate whatever it wants, but that's not Absolute Truth. However you think reality is, is how it will appear to you. Because you are imagining the whole thing. Also, you and I are one. So you and I both ARE the Truth. Truth is not something you "have". It's what you ARE. And it is the same for all people. But the mind will understand it and speak of it many different ways. It's also important to distinguish relative from absolute truth. You can "have" your relative truths which will be different for all people, but Absolute Truth is one. I will have videos in the future explaining the differences between absolute and relative truth, and what Truth really is. It's a complicated and nuanced topic.

It both is and isn't mine. Truth is what I am. Truth is the only thing that exists. See, the problem here is, you guys speak of "truth" but you don't actually have a direct consciousness of what "truth" is. You confuse it with conceptual constructions, ideas, models, and beliefs. Absolute Truth is none of that. And yet also all of that. Discover for yourselves. No degree of believing me will be Absolute Truth.

Not with that attitude. There can be no access to Truth without radical openmindedness. The things I talk about are extremely advanced. Do not make a mockery of these teachings with simplistic expectations. You mind will absolutely not be able to warp itself around the Truth. I've told you guys many times the importance and trickeries of epistemology. You don't know what you don't know. You don't know what you can or cannot know. Hence the wisest course of action would be remain radically open and tread carefully. Just because you disagree with the things I say does not make them false. There is also the possibility that your ability to discern truth from falsehood is corrupted by ego and lack of consciousness such that when you hear the highest truths they will sound preposterous to you. Precisely because that's what serves your survival and maintains your imaginary worldview.

@Truth Addict Hahaha! I've told you many times. Verify everything I say. The reason you're not understamding what I said is because you have not reached those levels of consciousness because you aren't doing the practices seriously enough and you are not studying the books seriously enough. It's just that simple. Stay openminded. Don't let the religious language fool you. You will eventually discover that Truth and the good life are identical. There will come a point in your growth when your understanding will be so deep you will sound like a madman to others. They will not be able to know how you know the things you know. And yet you will possess the highest Truth. And no one will understand you nor will you be able to explain yourself. And so it must be. Because by that point you will have done 10-20 years of work which no one else is willing to do. P.S. Watch your projections.

You cannot imagine, symbolize, or qualify the Absolute in any way whatsoever. So you might as well stop trying. It will never work and you will waste years of your life trying. At some point you have to ditch all metaphor, maps, and symbols because none of them are the Absolute. You must to the meditative practices.

It takes some practice before your videos will be release worthy. Make like 50 videos just for yourself. Just for practice and experimentation. So there is no pressure to publish them. Then you'll be much better. A writter doesn't release his first 50 pieces of writting, nor does an artist. It takes a lot of practice in any field to reach the point where your work is ready for public release. With making videos it's actually easier than with music, writting, or painting. Those all requires many years of practice to release anything decent.

That's definitely more challenging. At your age I would spend more time on awakening and spiritual practice. Of course you can work on some books and so forth, or start a community, but also your priorities should be different at your age. It's less about impacting the world and more about deepening your spiritual connection with yourself. Awakening is more satisfying than meeting any career objectives anyhow. You don't want to be filling the last quarter of your life with a busy work schedule at the cost of your spirituality.

@Gili Trawangan You've only seen the tip of the iceberg so far. What you're missing is that this field of consciousness which everything is, is infinitely intelligent. Everything you see is materialized by this pure intelligence via Will into being. "Physical reality" is actually occuring inside a giant Mind which "thinks" it into being. Like a dream. Start to deeply notice the intelligence of every little thing around you. Every particle of dust is filled with infinite intelligence. Once you start to notice it, it will take your breath away. You've just gotten to used to overlooking the intelligence of everything. Also, there is no how. The very mechanism of reality is before you on full display. Reality does not work via any mechanism. It is impossibly direct. The how is the what. What a thing is is exactly how it is coming into being. In nonduality there are no mechanisms because those are all dualistic. It's hard for people to appreciate how radical this is. It means, for example, that your sense organs are not actually causing your perceptions. Nonduality denies sense organs basically because all of that is mechanical, dualistic, and indirect. Nonduality breaks all scientific chains of causation. From a certain level of consciousness you will see that there is no causation at all. Everything is instant manifestion. As if the whole universe exists in suspended animation. It is Eternal and Absolute. Keep tripping and you will discover more of these facets of God. Awareness is nothing. Even to call it a witness is too much and incorrect. There is no witness. The witness is nothing. If you turn your gaze back in on itself and ask what it is, you can feel there's nothing there. That's your so-called "witness". Just zero.

@Pernani Don't follow instructions blindly like a robot. You must intuit the purpose and reason behind the technique. Then you will not need so much instruction as you will know what is the goal.

Was this not explained in the Turquoise video?? You won't really understand Turquoise unless you hang out with some Turquoise level people and have some mystical experiences while you are at Yellow. It's not enough to just have mystical experiences, as you could have them at Purple, Blue, Orange, Green. Your cognitive development must already be at Yellow and then the mystical experiences will push you past Yellow in Turquoise.

The Bible is NOT the word of God.

@hariseldon74 You got it backwards, you picked that career because you are that kind of thinker.

Firstly, there is shaktipat which is how some gurus awaken their students. But more importantly the guru cannot wake you up because you do not want to awaken. So they will never force any teaching on you. You are the obstacle here! No one can wash you of yourself but yourself. The only people who will awaken are those who seriously want it and are willing to pay any price to get it. You are God making yourself unenlightened. If you wish to awaken, stop doing that.

@Jamesc None of your ideas of it are it. Whatever you imagine it to be, it isn't that for sure.

No, that clearly won't happen since 99% are unenlightened. Most people don't awaken in one lifetime. What you actually want is to awaken and lead a loving, inspired spiritual life. Don't get all nihilistic on me. Nihilism is its own delusion.

@mandyjw Intelligence is a dangerous thing when co-opted by ego. Intelligence without consciousness could destroy the world. It's useful to distinguish between two kinds of intelligence: Linear, rational, analytic, little picture, materialistic, technical, divisive Holistic, synthetic, heart-centered, soul-centered, big picture, spiritual, wise, unitive

@Nivsch It's hopeless trying to convince such people (strong right-wing Blue) because they will always project their own biases onto you or the model you're presenting. Because they are not aware of how their mind is working backwards from their conclusions. Their dogmatic position is that right-wing is superior to left-wing. This is held as an absolute. And they have no interest in questioning that. So their mind will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to have that look true for them. They will cherry-pick evidence and use whatever rationalizations are available in order to generate their conclusion. Of course left-wingers also do this to some extent because this is not a left vs right thing, but a fundamental mechanic of the ego-mind. But right-wingers do it a lot more precisely because they are less cognitively developed on average. Of course you are never going to be able to convince them of this, precisely because they are not open to it. There is no cure for closedmindness. "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." — Oliver Wendell Holms If everyone could be convinced of their bigotry and closedmindedness, half the world's problems would be solved overnight. The whole trick is that people are in denial about it. And what's worse they are in denial that they are in denial. That's just the nature of ignorance. It cannot help being ignorant. It is also almost always the case that such right-wingers have a very poor understanding of history. Right-wingers do not have an accurate historical understanding of Hitler, Stalin, nationalism, white supremacy, Marxism, capitalism, racism, civil rights, slavery, feminism, The Constitution, etc, and government in general. They are not interested in deeply exploring these issues other than as a way of justifying their pre-existing dogmas. Because the whole point of being a right-winger is that you have some position which you wish to defend out of a sense of fear of losing it. You have some position which you hold as absolute which is actually merely relative. This makes genuine inquiry virtually impossible. Such reactive egoic motives corrupt all inquiry towards truth. But good luck convincing a Blue/Orange right-winger of any of this. Of course the left-wing in also not immune. But still better.

@SQAAD Ultimately you are all things at all times happening NOW. One of those is your present human experience. Try not to think of Nirvana as somewhere or somewhen else. It is precisely THIS and NOW! But you ain't conscious of it.

@nowimhere Yeah, been there. Plugging can last as long as 1-2 hrs. Usually closer to 1 hr. You struggle to remember it because it is not a memory but the very present moment. So any memory of it will not be it. You can't capture Nothingness in any way. It must be located NOW, NOW, NOW. No symbols can be used.