Leo Gura

@Pelin There are plenty of teachers sharing and demonstrating high consciousness. Go pay them a visit in person or on YouTube. They will be happy to see you. Most of them are starving for eyeballs and barely paying their bills. Why try to get blood from a stone when it's flowing freely over there?

@Shiva Yes, we ultimately want to raise the entire herd with us. But when you're starting off, it does feel nice for the ego to see itself doing relatively better than others. And also, it's good to rise above the mediocrity and low consciousness which the herd represents. If not for that -- if all the chimps were rising above you -- higher consciousness would have no hope at all. You are humanity's last hope before we kill ourselves We also do care that we don't suffer and fall prey to the stupidities of the herd. For example, it's nice to know that you don't get drunk every weekend and suffer a hangover like all your friend do. It shows you that you're doing something right and that your wisdom is paying off. Otherwise you might get discouraged and join the debauchery. You can take a little bit of pride in that. Although of course it would be a trap to get cocky about it.

@beastmode 99% of people in society are mediocrity zombies. So the percentage of people excelling in anything -- let alone consciousness (the hardest thing to excel at) -- is of course super low, but that doesn't say much. The bar is set very low at this point in human civilization. Which is good news for you in a way. It's easy to rise above the herd with a bit of wisdom, intelligence, and heart.

@egoless I know it's frustrating. This stuff is very tricky to understand conceptually. It must be directly experienced. Self-inquiry Or, 5-MeO does the trick nicely in 15 minutes flat P.S. Now you can appreciate why Zen master's speak in riddles and infuriate their students. They're not just being assholes, although some of them are

Once you're dead, there are no problems. Yes, the ego will fight this process every inch of the way, kicking and screaming like a stubborn mule. Then the second after it dies, you will experience Nirvana, and exclaim, "OMFG! Why was I so stupid!!!!! And you will laugh and laugh. Death?? Death?? Ahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" But until then, you will take death deadly serious, because hey, that's what keeps you alive

@egoless Yes, I asked him. And then I died and became God. And that is all that can be said about that.

@egoless Absolute is Absolute. You will not understand that until you encounter the Absolute yourself. By all means, don't take my word for it. You must discover all this for yourself. I am just giving you a push in the right direction. None of this is to be taken as a belief system. Reality IS a delusion within a delusion within a delusion -- to infinity! That's what enlightenment means! It covers absolutely everything possible. You literally become conscious of everything that could possibly be. You become God. Your consciousness becomes so total, nothing else remains.

Of course it feels damn wrong to the ego. You're not grasping that we are talking about a radically different mode of living here. After enlightenment, life as you know it is gone. Reality has literally ceased to exist, you are dead inside. Like REALLY! Imagine that! You are a zombie inside and you will NEVER return to the old you! Someone could rape you, and you wouldn't care, because you've already died! Try to imagine that radical of a transformation. Imagine yourself not being human any more, but still appearing human to others from the outside. They will think you're a human, but you will know you're not. I have done it before, and I will do it again. There is nothing better than death. We are dealing with highly counter-intuitive stuff here. It utterly boggles the mind. It is totally unbelievable until you arrive there. It's such a deep mindfuck, the realization of it alone is enough to kill you. P.S. They are two separate things, but once you've become it, you have no more need to judge it. The judging is what you do to distract from becoming it. The sooner your stop judging, the sooner you will become it.

@phoenix666 Because it will literally kill you! This ain't no joke! This isn't some cute Ekhart Tolle teaching on Oprah. Your entire existence is at stake here!!! You are like a shark, which can only live so long as it's moving forward. The trick is to realize that you're better off dead. And then actually make it happen. What comes natural to you is self-survival. Which is why you're here in the first place. When you exist as a lie, the truth (the present moment) is your greatest enemy, because it means your death. You have to realize this. You have no material substance of which you are made. You exist as a mental fabrication, an optical illusion. So your only way of surviving is to not look at this illusion closely. Which, BTW, is why you keeping stalling to do self-inquiry. You look for less direct methods, because you REALLY don't want a direct method to your death. You want to play spiritual games instead. You don't actually want enlightenment! You just want the IDEA of enlightenment, but not the real thing. No ego does, because the point of ego is to be a wall from enlightenment.

Lol Enlightenment explains evil perfectly. It's the simplest thing possible: evil doesn't exist! The problem is, the ego doesn't want to accept that. Because the ego feels threatened by things like murder, rape, and theft. The ego's job is to be biased, to favor itself at all costs. So this notion that rape isn't evil offends you. Because you don't like the idea of absolute freedom. It's literally too much freedom for you to handle. It's so free, it will kill you. So you want to constrict infinity to a manageable, finite size which your mind and psyche can easily handle. The cost of that, however, is that you are very easily disturbed and you suffer. As soon as reality goes against you, you cry and shout and get angry. That's because you refused to surrender to the fact that your very life is worthless and meaningless in the big picture. The whole point of your life might be to be a cum receptacle for a rapist, or fuel for Hitler's ovens. But of course you don't like that idea. It's too REAL. Yet nonetheless, no matter how much you resist all this, the fact remains that reality has all these freedoms. There is a real possibility that one day you will get raped or thrown into an oven. And even if you don't, no matter what, you will die. So you will lose this ego-game you're playing no matter what! The only question is, will you resist the freedom of reality or accept it? Of course there is nothing wrong, bad, or evil about ego. You can be selfish if you want. Reality doesn't care if you remain lost in untruth, or rape a horse. To reality, there is no preference for one thing over another. From the enlightened perspective, ego isn't bad or evil. Ego is confusion of the mind. And there is also nothing bad or evil about confusion. Of course! You are one with all the rapists who ever lived, and ever will live. They are literally you, and you are literally them! Which is why judgment of people is pointless and delusional. Jesus told you to love people, and not to judge them, for this very reason. He wasn't telling you to be cute or lovey-dovey, or "a nice person" so that Saint Peter could let you into the gates of Heaven. He was telling you to surrender all of your attachments to self, until the point where someone could nail you to cross, and you would be happy about it, because whatever happens to your body doesn't matter. It's not you, and it will die anyways. Enlightenment literally means: self-less-ness. No self, no evil, no resistance, no problem. vs. Self, evil, resistance, suffering << the way you live now. Heaven is not a place you get to for being "a good person". Heaven is just the state of being without a self. This is True Religion. Mainstream religion corrupts this truth because it's too unpalatable. The whole point of culture is to serve the ego's self-biases. So a truth like this cannot be transmitted uncorrupted through mainstream culture.

@faith You can search Reddit for threads of people who go HPPD. Interesting reads. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Areddit.com+psychedelics+hppd

@MM1988 You need to go approach more girls and develop some skill in this area. They aren't giving you signals because you are not attracting them with your personality, because you're probably like the typical IT guy. You need to learn how to push a girl's buttons a bit to get her attracted to you. That's called hitting the hook-point. It's hard to do at first if you're very socially awkward. I had to approach 450+ girls before I got one to sleep with me. That's how things go when you suck with girls. But you keep learning and you get much better. Pickup didn't work for you because you didn't really make a serious investment in it. Imagine how cool it would be get a hot girlfriend, and to feel confident around girls? Isn't that worth some effort? Time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. It sure beats being depressed and wasting your time moping on this forum. Think about it. Pickup can be a lot of fun too. It's not like punching keys on a computer all day... oh wait... bad analogy

@Key Elements Of course it has consequences. That is another matter. The reality is that human beings are horny creatures. To pretend otherwise actually makes the horniness more dangerous, not less.

@Spider Jerusalem Well of course the point of seeking to get to non-seeking. All goals work that way. Nothing paradoxical about it. You seek lunch. You eat lunch. You stop seeking lunch. Tada! Magic! At least until you realize that there's more than one enlightenment to be had, and more things to realize than just enlightenment! Such is life. You're doing shit until you're dead no matter what. The only question is, what are you doing and are you enjoying it? You're right though, enlightenment isn't an object or a destination. It's here right now! There is no difference between enlightenment and non-enlightenment. Everything is enlightenment all the time, 24/7, forever. So seeking it is a bit silly, because every step you take is one step too far. And yet nonetheless, if you don't take that step, you'll never realize it. That is the delicious paradox of it.

No, of course not. Each person has various karma to burn through. Some don't need sex at all. Some are sex fiends who have sex till their dead from it and never even get to starting meditation. Most people are somewhere in the middle. It's rare that a person can go straight to celibacy. That's either extremely rare, or it's done as a kind of neurotic suppression which tends to backfire, as in the case of many Catholic priests and Buddhist monks who end up molesting children. True spiritual celibacy is possible, but it requires not suppression but very high degrees of personal development and spiritual purification work, which is best done after you get your basic sexual needs met (and also being older) You don't do that as a stopgap measure. Many celibate yogis are only celibate in their later years (40s, 50s, 60s) after their hormones have subsided and they have already had much of sex. For example, Gandhi was celibate, but not before he banged his wife's brains out for years In his autobiography he talks about how much he craved his wife in the early days. Gandhi was as horny as your average teenager.

Man, that's a lot easier than shooting videos every week. I should start giving hugs. What a business plan! P.S. On second thought, some of you are probably diseased. So it might be more tricky than it sounds.

I need to print some #TooWokeForThisShit t-shirts

@Spider Jerusalem Actively seeking succeeds quite often. Don't get caught in this non-seeking trap. People get enlightened very day using seeking. Hardly anyone gets enlightened non-seeking. You just have to understand what seeking means, how to do it properly, and where it's pointing to. Your problem is not over-abundance of desire for enlightenment, but the severe lack of desire. It takes decades because people are generally clueless, and seek in stupid ways. If you seek directly, with great desire and clarity of purpose, it will not take decades.

@Gabriel Antonio Interesting. Do you brew your own Ayahuasca or what? How often do you use it?

Why didn't you succeed at pickup? How many girls did you approach? Also, pickup isn't the only way to attract girls you know. 99% of men do not know pickup, and yet they still manage to get laid. What is the crux of your problem with attracting girls? Are you highly introverted and anti-social? Do you have social anxiety? Do you have confidence problems? Speaking problems? Appearance problems? The single most important factor for attracting girls is simply being near them. If you sit at home all the time reading books and playing video games, then yeah, it's very hard to get laid. You need to find ways to bump into girls your age. Try to brainstorm ways to get more involved in social activities like yoga class, dance class, workshops, seminars, music festivals, parties, networking events, Toastmasters, events on college campuses, etc. What city do you live in? It helps a lot to move to a hip city like Austin, LA, NY, Miami, Vegas, London, etc. It's much easier to find girls in those kinds of cities than in someplace like Kentucky.

@MM1988 You're missing the obvious: Go get laid. Learn to attract girls. Not every problem in life is meant to be meditated away. Meditation is an advanced tool, for mature people who've already taken care of the basics of life. It is not a crutch to avoid the basics of life like food, money, shelter, health, relationships, work, family, etc. You wouldn't tell a starving child to meditate his hunger away. You would tell him to go make a sandwich. If you don't know how to make a sandwich << that's the first-order problem right there. Learning to make a sandwich is a lot easier than learning to meditate.

It's becoming Absolute Infinity. You are it.

Never hurts to start with half your dose. After you have one horrible bad trip, you will start to appreciate the wisdom of such precautions for each new substance you take. Psychedelics are so easy to underestimate. Increasing you dose in half-dose increments is the safe way to go. And even then, you will be thoroughly mindfucked.

@Samuel Garcia All the nondual theory in the world probably won't help you. At your age, just go out and make friends, have sex, get into some relationships. Consciously. This is probably just a Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs thing. Once you get some friends and you exhaust that game, you'll be ready for deeper work, bigger fish to fry. Just don't get lost chasing friends forever. For example, the more sex I have, the less I feel like I need it, or that it's important at all to my happiness. But it doesn't work this way for all people. Not sure why. Some people get stuck on it even if they get lots of it. Point being, don't be that person.

@spicy_pickles Good But they don't guilt you. You guilt you.