Leo Gura

No You do not need to think to understand language. The mind handles that automatically already. In fact, you could be in a conversation with someone, speaking to them, while simultaneously meditating. Even speaking does not usually require thought. Thinking is far less necessary than most people think.

@SriBhagwanYogi No, it is not the same. The techniques are quite different, although they both lead to the same place. I find Isha Kriya to be less potent. I assume this is by design. Sadhguru's teachings are very mainstream and he probably does not want to freak noobs out and get himself into hot water. I assume Sadhguru reserves his most powerful techniques for advanced students. He doesn't give it to noobs to reduce complications.

It isn't. Consciousness is everywhere. But for the sense of you to exist, you've tricked yourself into thinking it is planted in that body. Without an ego consciousness would not feel planted in that body. Look around the room. The entire room is made of consciousness. Consciousness is not located inside your body or head. There is no you who is aware, and vision is not yours. That's the illusion ego creates. You ARE everyone and everything. But you believe you are not, so it feels to you like you are separate. What you think affects your reality. By thinking your exist, you come into existence. Stop thinking you exist and you will cease to exist. Because you believe you're alive. Stop thinking you exist and you will disappear. The body will continue as though it was never yours. You will cease to be "stuck to it" because you will cease to be at all! No, all objects arise within one unified field of consciousness. Imagine a hard drive with many virtual partitions. It is always one hard drive but the virtual partitions help to create temporary sub-domains within the drive, which can be useful. The key is to always remember that the partitions are not real but imaginary. Consciousness subdivides itself through imagination, because in truth there is only unity. Division can only happen through imagination. Kind of like how a hard drive cannot physically cut itself into separate parts, but it can partition itself virtually.

@tentacion What more is there to say? I have said it many times already very plainly: there is only one thing in existence: consciousness. The entire universe is one mind. Take a psychedelic and see for yourself that this is true. But you have to stop thinking of mind as happening inside a brain. Rather, the brain is happening inside a mind. The conventional definition of mind must be expanded. To say that consciousness is all that exists is identical to saying the universe is one giant mind, the mind of God. There cannot be two substances to reality because you'd need a third substance to seperate the first two, and so on ad infinitum. The substance is always ONE, regardless of what you choose to call it: awareness, consciousness, God, energy, etc. If your picture of reality has more than one substance, it is dualistic and wrong. @ground Stop speaking of things you clearly have not experienced.

Like I said, you don't know because you are not awake. Forever = eternal = prior to time = infinite time Zero time and infinite time are the same thing. Again, because you have not yet has a direct experience of God. God is not limited to your present limited experience. God is not solipsism, as you think. As far as God is concerned, it is EVERYTHING. But you still don't understand what that means because you lack the direct experience of God. The only solution here is to have a direct experience of God. You're not going to understand it using your mind, arguments, or proof. It is not necessary for me to see every object in the universe for me to know that I am every object in the universe. You are assuming it is. That is a false assumption. It is possible to become conscious that you are all things that have ever lived or will ever live. For example, I once became conscious that I was the dinosaurs. I did not have to become a pterodactyl to do that. Yes, all of this sounds impossible.

@SoonHei No, you're still not getting it. There is no you! The you who thinks it is reading this sentence does not exist. You are a fantasy. Reality is happening without you. The idea of "a you" is being attached to that reality to create the illusion that it is happening to "a you". For a minute right now, try to totally eliminate any sense that reality is here for you, or is in any way related to your body. Eliminate the sense of yourself entiry. Look at the room you're in an imagine you were never born, but the room still exists exactly as it is. Eliminate every ounce of you-ness from experience. If you are still saying the words, "me", "I", or "my" you still aren't getting it. Those words refer to nothing. Or just take a psychedelic and it will be so obvious. Stop wasting time on ineffective methods. Psychedelics answer all questions.

You are inside a hallucination. You are busy trying to accomplish things in this hallucination without realizing its a hallucination. The mind spins this hallucination. You would be far more effective if you realized you're in a hallucination. Think Neo in The Matrix vs some fool slaving away in a cubical like Elon Musk. Musk is great at being the busiest rat in the maze hunting for cheese. Is that what you want to be?

Infinity cannot be different.

There are no sides. There are scientific projections which predict 1-10 ft of sea level rise which will leave millions homeless, or there is propaganda paid for by corporations with vested interest in denying such studies.

@Geromekevin You still aren't getting it.

@purerogue Read the scientist and government reports.

@Beeflamb Sounds like you've barely scratched the surface of nonduality. Try 5-MeO-DMT to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

@purerogue Millions of people will die, but okay.

@purerogue And maybe if you were slapped upside the head it might be good for you.

I have warned you guys. But you refuse to listen. The Buddha wasn't talkin shit on a forum but starving himself to death in the forest.

@Elisabeth That's good progress, now figure out what that abstraction really means in concrete real-world terms. You should be able to frame your impact statement in such a way that a child understands what your impact is on the world.

This issue is answered in the course.

It's just like deep sleep, unless maybe they don't give you enough gas.

@Serotoninluv Nowhere is your true nature

Lol, that is the ox. And you are it.

"Illusion", "reality", "existence", "God" are themselves categories. It all collapses into Absolute Oneness. Within this Oneness nothing can be distinguished. It is pure undifferentiation. It contains all things. Like how white light contains all possible colors of light.

@traveler Why make it so complicated? The situation is simple: Either there is Truth or there isn't. If there is Truth you want to know what this Truth is. Pursue the Truth regardless of whatever. Truth is Truth is Truth. If knowing the Truth is wrong then you shouldn't want continue living. Let nothing stand in the way between you and Truth. Period. Truth can only be found if it occupies #1 priority in your heart. What use if family if it means giving up Truth? Can you see that without Truth nothing else matters? Nothing matters if you cannot distinguish it from falsehood.

@LastThursday You are not. The deeper question being asking here is, What is reality? That question can be answered, but it's one hell of an epiphany. Don't expect it to come easily. If you still believe in a watcher, you haven't realized no-self yet. Everything is nowhere and nothing.

@Antonius Better to have too much knowledge than too little. You just have a lot to implement.

A) Spirituality is full of traps no matter how you slice it. B) This problem is solved through studying diverse sources and having maps like the Zen ox-herding pictures and Spiral Dynamics. The greater danger with the way you are presenting enlightenment -- as total mastery -- is that people will always fall short of the fantasy, including yourself. Which then produces guilt and suffering. What you are really talking about is totally emotional mastery, and that is VERY different than enlightenment. It is significantly harder and a lot of people can become very frustrated chasing that. This sort of all-or-nothing approach is counter-productive and fills newbies with fantastical ideas of becoming perfect human beings after awakening. The fact is, you will awaken long before you become a perfect human being. Because these are independent variables. By all means pursue mastery. But make a distinction between it and awakening. If your definition of enlightenment excludes Ramana Maharshi, Shinzen Young, Osho, etc. you might want to rethink your definition.