Leo Gura

The entire universe's collective functioning.

@Saitama No reason why you couldn't. Goals #2 and #4 might drop out though if you get deep enough into enlightenment. Then again, there's no reason you can't do a math PhD and enlightenment. Enlightenment doesn't negate science. It just puts it into proper perspective.

Just all part of the natural growth curve. Stay calm and carry on. The first few years of self-actualization work are the slowest. It picks up after that and only keeps getting better and better with time. The key is to not quit during the slow phase.

@Nomad Of course a poor upbringing affects one's psyche. It makes you neurotic and unable to see the illusory nature of your neurotic "needs". A psychotic person is so screwed up that he can't distinguish reality from fantasy. It sure feels real to him. And a brain scan may verify he's psychotic. He might believe he NEEDS to wear a dildo on his head to protect himself from the soon-to-be invading Martian race. But none of this changes the fact that he's lost in a web of illusions. Did a history of abuse cause him to be this way? Sure. Likely so. The problem here is that you're taking the legitimate physical needs of a developing biological organism and them using that to open the doors for justifying all the adult's petty egoistical "needs", which really aren't needs but confusion based on poor social conditioning. Do note: thousands of abused people have successfully released the "need" for heroin. How did they do it? If you look at your own life, you'll find examples of where you completely released a neurotic need and don't even think about it any more. It's like a joke to you now, but back then in the past it was this giant NEED!

This is flat out false! Green is very much concerned about their development. Green, unlike Orange, has finally realized the difference between fake growth and real growth, and are now focused on real inner growth, which is why people see them as anti-materialistic hippies. All hippies do is talk about inner growth! Try this experiment: go to your nearest Wholefoods and look at the magazines and books by the checkout counter. What do you see? It's all yoga and meditation and healing and chakras and raising your energy and detoxing your mind/body. AKA: inner growth! Your problem is that your mind doesn't recognize this because it's thinking ,"Development & Goals = MY materialistic success". And of course that's to be expected because you're at stage Orange, but that's a very limited understanding of development and goals.

There's no good answer to your question. How can you expect such a thing to be quantified? Here's the simple fix: Implement a 20 minute daily mindfulness meditation habit and you'll never have to worry about it again.

Enlightenment and unconditional love are ultimately the same thing. But it will take you years to realize that, and true love will not be possible until the ego is kicked out of the castle. You can still apply self-love techniques now, even if you're very far from enlightenment. It's sort of a fake-it-till-you-make it approach. It definitely helps. But it's not a replacement for discovering your true existential nature. Nothing big can shift in your psyche as long as you believe that you actually exist as a human character. Why? Because it's a bald-faced falsehood. You can't do something deep and meaningful based on a lie.

You need to do a LOT more study and research to orient yourself within this field. Any new field you enter requires some time for laying the theortical groundwork so that you start to have at least a basic map of what's possible and how things ought to be prioritized. Right now you're like a rat in a maze asking if you should turn left or turn right. The proper solution is to zoom out and study the maze from a birds-eye-view. What does this practically mean? Lots of reading, watching videos, taking notes, and introspection. Don't be afraid of getting a bit nerdy and theoretical. This is a necessary first step to get your bearings straight. In other words, gather your intel.

Ask yourselves this: How does a heroin addict release the need for heroin? Most of your "needs" are not different from heroin. Your mind just tells you they are, and uses scientific studies -- or whatever's justification de jure -- to back it up.

Of course, because for it to "stick" all the 100 billion neurons in your brain have to rewire. Usually takes a decade. Maybe you could speed things up with nano-robots who rewire your brain for you (patent pending ) While at it, you may as well invent a technology to cram 12 years of school + 4 years of college into your brain in the flash of a second.

Just sit for many hours at a time doing absolutely nothing. Suicide will happen automatically after a few thousand hours of this. Don't ask how to sit. Just sit in a relaxed manner and be aware of reality.

If you could do it without destroying the person's brain, similar to binuaral beats, then hell yeah! It would be a revolutionary technology greater than electricity or the PC. Psychedelic drugs do just this. Nothing unethical about them. The unethical thing is banning them.

There's a lot of shit we just flat out don't know. Enlightenment is not about knowing everything. It's about seeing the beauty of the unknown.

@Philip Haha! Awesome! Try gnawing on this chestnut: is the distinction between true/false true? Or false? Is falseness true, or is falseness false?

No, most don't even become teachers.

JUST?? To become a yogi is the only thing of significance. Everything else is fool's gold.

@Neill Bolton You can tell her that Leo called her a succubus.

@Maty The ego is an illusion. It's no one's fault because there isn't anyone here.

Good God! This place is going to turn into a cult after I'm dead.

Unfair to the silly ego that thinks it exists, and thinks time exists. To the True Self, everything is great! If you really feel enlightenment should be wide-spread, why not commit your life to helping people become enlightened?

@A way to Actualize What you're missing is the part about enlightenment being just a BEGINNING, not an end state. It will take a decade for your psychology to fully adapt to the revelations of truth. And you'll have much deeper enlightenments in the future too! For the truly wise, the spiritual path NEVER ends! Only a fool has an enlightenment experience or two and thinks he's arrived.

You should take a 10 day Vipassana meditation retreat. It will blow your mind wide open. There's nothing like 10 hours a day of meditation for 10 days! It's the stuff that makes Buddha's

I doubt the artist had enlightenment in mind. It just struck me as a great allegory for enlightenment.

In Zen, they commonly only give you 4 hours of sleep. So you learn to meditate through sleepiness and tiredness and stop being a little pussy. But, hey... that's just Zen.

Lol Just look at this bald-faced lie! Hint: confusion is only a feature of the ego. Without ego there cannot be confusion.