Leo Gura

@lmfao Try not to practice spirituality so robotically. The key is CONSCIOUSNESS. If you're feeling suffering, then that in itself is a huge sign of unconsciousness. Rather than bulling your way through it, try to look at it with consciousness and see what that suffering is really about? Why are you suffering? What is the purpose of it? Try to observe suffering the way you might inspect a beautiful butterfly under a magnifying glass. If the suffering is making you compulsive and reactive, your mindfulness of is breaking. The difference between healthy and unhealthy suffering is consciousness. When you suffering unconsciously, you basically don't grow much from it and it can become damaging. When you suffer consciously, that's when spiritual purification happens and it is healing. Also, be kind to yourself, be loving to yourself. You're doing great for someone your age. Watch out of harsh negative self-talk.

I'm not sure this can be explained, you really have to just wake up. Time is a conceptual projection, something you are imagining. You were indoctrinated into believing in time as a child. If you can recall, clocks made no sense until you were indoctrinated to believe in them. Since time is just an imaginary idea, in point of fact, you can become conscious that this moment, and every moment is eternal. Which means it has existed FOREVER! Imagine that reality is one giant solid block of stuff all occurring simultaneously and it has existed forever. This very moment has been here for over 100 trillion trillion trillion years. But you're not conscious of it because your mind is preoccupied with relative survival. Your mind filters out the eternal truth of the present moment because it is irrelevant to your survival. All your mind cares about is differences between moments, not the truth of the actual present moment. Because survival is a relative activity. All you care about is time relative to your imagined birth and death. You care about what time lunch is so you can fill your belly with food and live another day. It does not matter to your mind that that food has existed for eternity. It also doesn't matter to your mind that that food is a hallucination. Since your life is also a hallucination, you feed off of hallucinations. Just look around you. It's pure magic. You're just so jaded and so preoccupied with surviving to live another day -- to get your personal needs met -- to notice the radiant, divine, intelligent, beauty of being. This cannot be understood until you awaken. Perhaps go look at a sunset and you'll feel a tiny fraction of it. Or better yet, take a psychedelic, since you're so disconnected from being, you are like a zombie. The psychedelic will bring you back to life (at least for a little while).

No, "reality" is the ultimate super-set. There can only be one. Anything you imagine beyond reality automatically becomes included in reality. Because reality is EVERYTHING, leaving no more room for anything else to be. Reality leaves nothing out. In the same way that if I say, "all possible movies", that means you can't imagine any movie which I have already not accounted for. Any movie you could image or create, I've already accounted for by saying, "all possible movies". Now imagine, "all possible possibilities". That's it! There can be nothing more. Everything has been accounted for. That is reality. There is no village or you. The village is a hallucination hallucinated by a hallucination. When you "die", the village dies too. The village is just a part of you. Stop assuming the existence of an external material world. There is no such thing. That's just an image in your mind. When your mind dies, so will the material external world. Everything is occurring nowhere, and it is nothing. Nothing has ever occurred. You only imagine it has. It's all infinite hallucinations occurring nowhere and nowhen. A hallucination is something which is, but isn't.

Your doubts are understandable, but actually the one who's lost in the delusions of mind is you! Doubt is an activity of the mind. Both-sides-ism is an activity of the mind. Other is an activity of the mind. And counting is an activity of the mind. Yes, it is absolutely possible to become conscious that reality is total, one, and infinite. It is also possible to become conscious that "other" is an illusion of the mind. It is possible to become conscious that there is no difference between zero, one, many, and infinity. Reality contains within it an infinite number of sub-realities -- which is what infinity means. All of it is ONE. One vs many is a duality. My certainty in knowing there is no other is simply my consciousness that I am God, and I am all alone. There can only be one Absolute Infinity. I created all of you and I created myself. The realization that "other" is an illusion is central to enlightenment. You are not really enlightened unless you are conscious that all "others" are literally yourself. You are the only thing in existence. I am just a figment of your imagination. You created me. And I created you. Ta-da! This requires a deep enlightenment. A radical state of nonduality. There is no blindspot in understanding. Enlightenment is Absolute understanding of everything that exists. It is omniscience. You have 100% unmediated access to the entire universe. Nothing is hidden. What I am saying is way beyond the mind. If you tried some 5-MeO-DMT, you might understand. You guys are still underestimating just how radical total enlightenment is. A glimpse is nowhere near the rock bottom. Lots of people have minor glimpses. Very few people have gone all the way.

@EternalForest You don't understand what you are talking about when you say the word "reality" or "other". There cannot be multiple realities. There must be only ONE reality. And within this one reality are contained infinite forms, bubbles, rulesets, etc. Any "other" reality which you might imagine is automatically part of the the one total reality. Reality is TOTAL. This misunderstanding stems from your lack of awareness that the distinction between self/other is purely conceptual. "Other" is impossible because there is only 1 thing subdivided into infinite parts. There is only one thing in existence: you. There are no others. Turn your skepticism on the notion of "other". I dare you to prove that other exists. Just like in a dream, all the characters are actually you. Just like in a video game, all the objects of the simulation are ONE simulation. Objects have no independent existence.

What else is there for me to do? Watch the Super Bowl?

Eternal is just the realization that time is a concept. Eternal means: outside of time. As Einstein correctly explained, time does not really exist. Time is a relative measure of motion and distance. If the entire universe stood still, it would be impossible to tell what time it is. We can only measure time through motion. Every moment is in fact eternal. Since past and future are just imagination, they do not actually exist. When you look at a clock, realize, it is not actually measuring anything. It is merely a spinning object. In fact, all measurement is imaginary. It's a story we made up. Measurement tells you absolutely nothing about reality. It's just a relative ratio of two arbitrary things.

You can become conscious of why everything appears to exist and why it functions as it does. A full consciousness of God is the answer to all existential why questions. It's a very very very satisfying answer. The answer is non-verbal. Your understanding becomes TOTAL. No more questions about life remain. Everything is perfectly clear. You become literally omniscient, but this omniscience is non-verbal. You could never verbalize it.

Yes, it is part of Yellow, but there is even higher stuff beyond vision-logic.

@Good-boy That's very handy for when you go hiking, so a mountain lion doesn't sneak up behind you

See video: Concentration vs Meditation

I mentioned many countries and places in the example lists in my Spiral Dynamics mini-series. 1st world countries are mostly Orange and above. 3rd world countries are mostly Blue and below. Northern Europe is Greenest. A lot of the Middle East and Africa is Purple/Red. A lot of South America is Red/Blue. Major cities are usually 1 or 2 levels higher than nearby rural areas.

Like the title said, "for smart people"

If it works for you, what does it matter what I think? I mostly don't care for weed because I can access more powerful, more direct tools. Why use a BB gun when you can use a rocket launcher?

@joeyi99 I suffer from that same problem. I tend to go overboard with variety of technique. At some point you'll want to pick a thing and drive it home. If I was forced to pick one thing, it would be Kriya yoga. Because it has a strong physiological component, which I think it important, especially if you have lots of monkey mind.

@joeyi99 That's very tricky. It depends a lot on you. You need to find a technique you're happy with and then hit it hard. There is a trade-off between dabbling vs getting stuck. The more techniques you try, the more risk of dabbling. The less techniques you try, the more risk of getting stuck. I've met people who meditated for 20 years but still weren't enlightened. They got stuck.

Some good questions. Yeah, if you guys want to post your questions here, I might pick some for part 2. Part 2 hasn't been shot yet. Make your questions good. Make them about God itself, not meditation technique or other aspects of spiritual practice. In practice, one experience of God is almost never enough. One experience of God will likely leave you more confused than zero experience of God. God is just too big to grasp it all at once. You'd probably faint if that happened. It took me maybe 10-15 separate breakthrough experiences to get a solid understanding of it. But eventually your goal is to make it a permanent state of consciousness, called Sahaja Samadhi, where you are conscious of God 24/7. This is called the stateless state.

@AlphaAbundance Why are you confusing me with a stone?

Infinity! You're not getting it. It is EVERYTHING!

It's absolutely infinite. This is what infinity looks like. You're not getting it yet. Try some 5-MeO-DMT

Hoes are waiting for you right here, right now. You're in paradise already. You just need the eyes to see it. The devil, in his arrogance and ignorance, creates his own hell right in the middle of paradise and then wonders how God could be so cruel.

@AlphaAbundance Death will just bring you right back here. There is nowhere to go. Nothingness is not somewhere else. It is HERE and NOW! If you physically kill yourself, all that will happen is you will change forms into something else. But you will still be here: nowhere, nowhen, nothing, now. You cannot escape yourself. Ever. Think of it this way: you've already killed yourself a million times. Which brought you to this life you're in right now.

Their hotness actually plays a fairly important role. A hot girl has enormous value to men. Men know it and she knows it. And she will use that to up her survival (as any living creature would). Getting 5's, 6's, and 7's is pretty straight forward. But if you want to date 8's and 9's, you gotta bring some serious value to the table. Hotness comes with a price. Hotness ain't free. As far as 10's, forget about it. Not even worth thinking about. Handling 9's and 10's is not gonna be worth your time most likely. They can be really high maintenance and have spoiled rotten materialistic souls. The best way to land 9's and 10's is to become famous. So your social value is obvious and glaring it's never in question that you are the prize and she's be lucky to be in your presence. Fame is an awesome dating strategy and can tie in nicely with your LP. For example, if you're a famous author, you should have no problem getting laid from social events and book signings. Just be careful not to abuse it.

@Moondog Don't look for explanations of such things. Just keep doing your practice and enjoy it. There's nothing to explain. "Stuff" will arise and pass away. Various mystical states will happen many times in various ways. Spiritual phenomena will come and go. Be careful not to project too much meaning into it. Take it at face value as phenomena.

A way that should work is success-oriented self-help. Nothing spiritual or nondual or New Agey or metaphysical. Just pure techniques for being more successful at everyday life. Secular advice, like a book about how to earn more money or a book on how to be more charismatic. Perhaps a book on history, biography, or popular science. That kind of stuff. A person who's in high Blue should show an interest in the above.