Leo Gura
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Leo Gura replied to David1's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I was asking myself how it was possible for ME to have a bad trip on mushrooms, not the general population. I can easily see how the general population gets bad trips. Doesn't surprise me at all when I read the stupid things people do in their trip reports, like dosing potent psychedelics by eyeball without a scale, or drinking and smoking weed at the same time. -
Leo Gura replied to strwbrycough's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@strwbrycough Because it's so radical. How can something grasp Nothing or Infinity? How can you grasp that you and reality are literally an infinite self-conscious singularity? There is no way. It's utterly baffling. And yet the truth is that you are that. Knowing is NOT sufficient. You have to become it. -
Leo Gura replied to strwbrycough's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Consider that actually you haven't see the Absolute Truth, and that the Truth is SO radical you cannot even imagine it in your wildest dreams during your wildest trips. The mind cannot really hold Absolute Truth. It seems like it has to dip into it, then come back down to the human level and integrate the Truth is limited human ways. At least it's like that until you've REALLY done TONS of work. Then it seems like it can stick. Don't underestimate the power of the ego-mind. It will take more than one enlightenment to make a significant dent in it. And a regular psychedelic trip is not even enlightenment. So yeah... -
Leo Gura replied to Electron's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You have no idea yet how radical enlightenment insights are. They will utterly transform your entire relationship to reality. You cannot judge enlightenment from your current position AT ALL. Like ZERO. You have no idea how radical it is. Your wildest imaginations of it are still infinitely far away from the majesty of Absolute Truth. It's more radical than being abducted by aliens and taken to live on an alien planet. Everything gets turned upside down. The pursuit of anything becomes laughable. You are already 100% complete, infinite! There is nothing to pursue, and nothing to avoid. Imagine you became God. Now... do you still care about pleasure & pain? Do you care about anything human at all? What can you do but just cry and laugh in delight at your own infinite magnificence and limitless, boundless being? -
Leo Gura replied to WhatAmI's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Mystical experiences can be had. But they ain't enlightenment. I can't articulate it better than that until I'm actually enlightened. But I know enough to know that these experiences ain't it. Enlightenment is much more radical, and it doesn't go away. Sometimes I say "enlightenment experience" in a loose way, which is actually more like mystical experience, because enlightenment isn't an experience. But you can certainly have samadhi experiences of union. They are really cool, although not enlightenment. I haven't really seen any teachers explain this well. And I've talked to many highly enlightened teachers. I'll try to explain it better when I get there myself. -
If you can't handle AP classes, how you gonna handle self-actualizing? I loved AP classes in high school. Best decision I made back then was to enroll in them. Regular classes will make you lazy and dumb. I found regular classes harder than AP classes because of all the foolish kids and dumbed-down subject matter. But that's just me. I dunno what your goals are in life.
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@ChimpBrain It's a life-changer. David Deida knows his shit.
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Ain't no girl care that you hit on her at the nightclub while she's tipsy. That's what nightclubs were invented for! Definition of a nightclub: place to go to get drunk, listen to music, and get laid. Girls know this.
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Seems like you're taking the rejections too personally, and that's because you probably aren't talking to nearly enough other girls. You gotta realize that MOST girls will NOT like you. It's that way with every guy. It's not just you. You don't need every girl to like you, you only need a handful. Focus on the variables you can control, which are: How many new girls you meet per week Improving your mood, self-esteem, and life Construct a great life for yourself, so you're happy without girls at all. And then you'll notice girls start to be more interested in you and it's much easier to attract them when you feel great about your life.
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Leo Gura replied to WhatAmI's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
No, enlightenment is a whole nother ballpark. Be careful about the delusions possible in this work. Enlightenment is not any kind of experience at all. -
@actualized1 Superficial? The depth of that book is astounding. You gotta learn how to digest great books properly.
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@David1 The whole idea is moot. There is no universe. Reality is nothing at all, and it's already a perfect unity. It always has been and it always will be. You don't need a technological revolution for that to happen. It's already the case. You just need to wake up from the dream you call life. Kurzweil is speaking about consciousness but he has no idea at all how consciousness really works. It doesn't work at all the way he assumes. The funny thing is, if Kurzweil just dropped all the singularity talk and just sat down and became enlightened, he would achieve the very thing he is seeking, minus the silly sci-fi technology. But then of course he would have to write a massive "sorry" letter to all his readers, apologizing for the nonsense he's been telling them for decades. Still, it would be worth it for him, given how keen he is on immortality.
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@Samuel Garcia You will NEVER understand it with the mind. NEVER! It's utterly speechless. It's beyond anything you can imagine. Imagine actual aliens showed up at your house tonight, abducted you, and flew you to another galaxy. Well... that's peanuts compared to what we're talking about here. Aliens would seem normal by comparison. At least you can imagine aliens. Stop listening to scholars. They have no clue what reality is. A million scholars working for a million years would still not know. That's how radical this stuff is. I don't know how enlightened Muhammad was. My guess is, he had some deep mystical experiences but not full proper enlightenment. Which would explain the Quran. The universe is an idea in your mind. There is no such thing. The ultimate conscious being is Nothingness. Something can ONLY come out of Nothing. Nothing is NOT an experience. It's Nothing!
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Where did I say that? I dunno. It's a tricky issue. The depth that consciousness goes to is staggering. I don't know where it ends. If your entire reality hasn't been turned inside-out forever, I'd hesitate to call it enlightenment. Haven't watched that much of him.
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Leo Gura replied to Baul's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Because your mind will otherwise totally delude you. You will never even understand what enlightenment is. It's nothing you can imagine, and you won't know that unless you study the shit out of this topic. The only reason I haven't gotten lost so far is because I've literally researched 100s of perspectives. If you're not doing that, you basically haven't got a chance. You're gonna get deluded one way or another, and you will never even know it. That is why I started doing psychedelics. Everything has to be considered and seriously investigated. No stone can be left unturned. It's really a deep admission of ignorance. Which most people cannot humble themselves to do. -
Yes, of course! That means you're growing. It takes a while for a snake has to shed its skin.
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I've covered this in several videos. Can't even remember which ones now. But it's all there.
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6'2" Nope, I suck at basketball I virtually watch nothing on Youtube, and I've blocked most websites on my PC. It's a huge distraction. If I do sometimes find some good channel on Youtube, I will download the audios and listen to it on my own time. But I do feed myself with TONS of educational information. Just not through such low-quality sources. Welcome Stop doing, sit down, and just investigate the fears you have until you get to the rock-bottom beliefs and assumptions fueling them. You need to face the beliefs that create the fears. Get to know your fears intimately. I have not. Sounds interesting. Of course that's basically true. He just took it personally. This is just how society is evolving.
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For me it's not about pushing yourself. It's about consistency. The MASS comes from steady, slow, consistent daily work, NOT from becoming a frenzied self-help maniac. Slow and steady wins the race. Try installing 1 new powerful habit every couple of months. That's all you really need. A snowball effect will develop after a couple years.
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Oh, well, yeah. Of course you could. Look at Scientology Of course every religion is dogmatic and limited. It's a partial, incomplete understanding of nonduality. You gotta understand that 2000 years ago, given the state of humanity back then, this was a huge advance. Islam was a very peaceful and civilizing force back in the Middle East of 2000 years ago, when neighboring tribes were raping and pillaging each other left and right with no sense of decency, worshiping dozens of various deities. Today of course, it's very outdated, and there are MUCH better techniques and conceptual frameworks available for reaching enlightenment (God).
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Leo Gura replied to Nexeternity's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Nexeternity Proud of ya -
It feels like getting married to the person of your dreams.
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No, it is actually not possible. Because all thoughts are illusory and false. The mind cannot access Absolute Truth by definition. Any symbolic representation you make of the Truth will never be the Truth itself. So Truth is always hidden by language & beliefs. Science is no better. You can have a perfect description of the Truth in scientific terms but it will still be 100% untrue. So science is not any more accurate than religion when it comes to grasping Absolute Truth. There is no approach possible for Absolute Truth. Which is why so few people every grasp it. The only way is to step outside the mind. But that requires consciousness, which is lacking, which is the whole problem. Hehe, it's so obvious if you actually do self-inquiry and study nonduality. It's just so freaking obvious! There's nothing subjective about it at all. It seems subjective to you because you are operating on the level of the mind: beliefs & thoughts. None of which can get you access to Absolute Truth, which is what God is. What Islam is talking about is the only thing in the world that is NOT subjective. God is the only objective thing there is. That's what makes it God! It's infinite! There is nothing outside it. It covers everything!
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In 2035, we'll be lucky if the apps we install on our smartphones are all patched up and not-buggy. A technological singularity won't happen for hundreds of years. Science doesn't have a clue how consciousness works. Like zero. It's quite sad. Their paradigms aren't even right yet. Kurzweil is talking nonsense.
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Leo Gura replied to Mr Here and Now's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@dice The point is that stress is gonna shorten your life more than anything else. And someone who meditates a lot basically becomes stress-free. Of course there are hundreds of other factors, but sitting isn't a big one. Plus it's not like you have to sit all day. You're free to exercise.