Leo Gura

"You can't fire me, I quit!" Watch that ego playing its games. That you have managed to convince yourself that you would know my (non-existent) knee pain better than me is rather silly. Think about the arrogance and presumptuousness of such a position. Practice whatever you want. But don't make false claims about me. I understand your intention was good, to help me. But good intentions alone are not sufficient. You must also get your facts right.

Speaking more usefully to the POV of the ego: enlightenment is awesome. It is like sex, but better. You can think of it as cosmic sex. You'd be a fool not to enjoy it. It beats all other goals and pursuits.

That's begging the question. You're already assuming in that case that you are the thing being hit. Why do you assume you are a body? Just because pain happens does not mean it is you. What if you are a thing which cannot feel pain but mistook yourself for a thing that can? How would you know? Question the basics of your metaphysics.

Why, when I could do other psychedelics with less hassle?

Those are called Kriyas. It doesn't really matter. The body/mind bio-machine is just rewiring itself and working stuff out. Let it happen naturally, don't cling to it, don't get wowed or distracted by it, and carry on with your practices with your eye on the ball: Truth/Enlightenment Basically, no matter what happens during spiritual practice you just keep doing the practice. Unless it gets so bad that you cannot function, then you can ease up on the practice for a bit, but then get back into it. There are lots of potential side effects and none of them really matter other than as signs that you are growing.

Hence the video: All Criticism Is Untennable All blame is delusion.

@Jed Vassallo Ayahausca should be more uncomfortable than 5-MeO-DMT. You're overthinking it. Stop listening to all the stories you've heard about 5-MeO and just go based on your direct experience. If you haven't tried it you have no idea what it will do and nothing to fear. 5-MeO is quite beautiful, peaceful, benevolent, and straight-forward as far as psychedelics go. At least for me. For me it has the least potential for weird, twisted trips. It's just a pure increase in consciousness. No funny business. If you can handle Ayahausca you can handle 5-MeO.

@elias Welcome

There is no point and no you.

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@Robby Look up Joseph Rubano in San Diego. He's enlightened and leads retreats there.

No! All communication is dualistic. Contemplate what language is.

It is an idea but it is also a state of consciousness. Which is why it's so difficult to drop. It doesn't really go away even if you stop thinking for a few minutes. Because there is an entire egoic state of consciousness which makes it feel as though you are real. It takes a lot of deconstructing and focused concentration to break down that egoic state of consciousness.

Only if you want

@FredFred It's all relative. Importance hinges on what is important to you at which time in your life. Enlightenment is most important for me. But that's me and I already resolved my life purpose a long ago. For some people, paying their mortgage is most important.

@Serotoninluv Yes, you have yet to realize that all form is none other than void. That would be the ultimate integration. Take smaller doses and don't lay down or close your eyes during trips and you should see it. Try contemplating: What is form? while you do this.

I don't recall saying that. If I did, I have since forgotten what I meant. I have said so many things at this point that I cannot keep a record of them all in my head. There are entire videos which I have forgotten I even recorded. It's way too much information to keep track of without a computer database.

You need to distinguish awakening itself from changes to one's sensory field. Psychedelics tend to alter the sensory field a lot as well as produce awakening. It is possible to awaken without any change to the sensory field at all. And this is usually the case in non-psychedelic awakening. Or it's possible to have radical changes to the sensory field, such as the entire sensory field disappearing or morphing into fractals and all sorts of other stuff like a DMT alien hyperspace landscape. If you are in pure void with no sensory field at all, then that would be pure void. Obviously there's nothing there. No perceptions, no forms at all. Like deep sleep. Obviously there are no colors and shapes in deep sleep. BUT! That is not strictly necessary for awakening. You can awaken without your sensory field changing at all. In fact, you can realize that "the void" is ALWAYS the case! Even when the sensory field is fully here, it is still void. The sensory field is not other than void. All of these possibilities are possible with or without psychedelics. But with psychedelics you are much more likely to get radical alterations of the sensory field.

You can! It's like I'm saying the glass is half empty and you are saying, "But why can't we say it's half full?" Yes, you can. It amounts to exactly the same thing. It's both. Anything said about nonduality will always be a half truth because all language is dualistic. No self = The Self Just understand that The Self is NOT ego, not the biological creature you always assumed you were.

@2018 You are void. Which is why you are so hard to find. How does one find a void? It's like trying to grasp the vacuum of outer space with hands.

There is no perceiver. The perceiver would be the ego or sense of self or "you", which does not exist. Perceptions exist in an empty vacuum or void. This void is the "True Self" or God. This void is not seperate from the perceptions themselves. Perception ARE the void! Which is just another way of saying that perceptions happen to no one. God is no one. The feeling that there is a perciever is the chief delusion that must be deconstructed.

There is a causal strange loop relationship between sense organs and perceptions. Sense organs are themselves perceptions which have a global affect on other perceptions. If you lose an eye, your perceptions will never be the same. No self and universal Self are identical. Appearances don't need to dissolve. Appearances are already nothing. Nothing is not merely an empty space. It is that, but it is also all matter, form, shape, color, etc. The very room you are sitting in is what Nothing looks like! Nonduality means that the distinction between something and nothing is relative and must ultimately collapse. Yes, the bubble dissolves in deep sleep but you currently lack the consciousness necessary to know the deep sleep state. After a deep awakening you can be conscious even during deep sleep. It will be a consciousness of formless infinity. I explained intelligence in the What Is Intelligence video. Intelligence is an aspect of consciousness. The universe has infinite intelligence, which it used to design itself.

@MM1988 You are failing to take full responsibility for your life and falling into the trap of victim mentality. What you presently think of as "bad luck" is actually likely the result of egoic ways in which you live your life. Which can be changed. Suffering is NOT an accident. There is a big component of it which is self-inflicted. So starting thinking about how to change your ways to align more with truth, goodness, love, and selflessness.

@Wyze Realize there is no other way it can be. Everything that happens is inevitable. Reality is perfect no matter how bad it may seem to the ego.

Nonduality includes duality within it. Therein lies the full circle. See image of ying-yang.