Leo Gura

If you're brand new, start with just gathering information. Realistically, you need to digest a bit of information before you get your bearings. Watch videos, read books, acquire the right theory. Theory is important to start getting your bearings and deciding what your first move should be. You can't make a good first move until you know what your options are. If you bought the course, that's a really good intro for newbies.

@kieranperez That's where it all starts. Totally normal. Just make a commitment to make babysteps and not quit. Failure isn't a problem so long as you keep taking babysteps and don't quit in frustration. Start with small habits like just reading a self-help book every day for 30 minutes. Don't go comparing yourself to me or anyone else. Most of us had to start in a shitty place. It's just been years and years of work. This work requires great patience and a long vision.

@Principium Nexus You're talking bullshit. Sit down, stop your thoughts, and see what results. It is possible. Many people have done it.

@Ilya You are not even 1% of the way to enlightenment. You are still stuck at the level of ideas and intellect. Drop everything and start from scratch. Back to the self-inquiry salt mines!

It's too direct to put into words. Things become knowing directly, without language or concept. It's like hyper-intuition. Nothing in particular is heard, seen, or felt. Deep truths just dawn on you out of the blue, and you know they are 100% correct. It's not a logical linear process, but a massively multi-parallel process. As David Hawkins once said: Not through logic.

No, only thought is thought. Notice that the world does not disappear during the gap between two thoughts. Maybe your thoughts are not as important as you think

You'll have to drop the belief that you are a small finite body.

@Privet There is no such thing as "my awareness". There really isn't even awareness. There is only one substance making up everything. It cannot be named or defined. It's what the visual field is made out of for example, and all the other sensory fields. Although calling it "visual field" is misleading because then people think of it as happening inside a brain or body, which isn't the case. It really helps to completely destroy the notion that there is an external world of any kind, or that you have a brain. There is no external world or brain. There is only phenomena afloat in nothing, nowhere, nohow. What you see is exactly what there is. Except notice that there isn't a "you" seeing it. It's important to realize that the question, "But how is that possible?" isn't a valid question. This isn't science. This is mysticism. There can be no mechanical explanation.

First start by researching the conspiracy theory called "self". If any questions are left that's done, feel free to research whatever you want.

@Afonso 1) By training your mind to focus, it will start to become much more natural and then it will be easier to be still without manipulation. They definitely synergize. But probably not until you do 100s of hours of practice. Disciplining the monkey mind seems very manipulative and forced for the first 1000 hours. 2) It's not their style. Remember, there are many ways to skin the same cat. Also, often they just assume you're already capable of it. They can easily underestimate how much modern media has rotted our focusing muscles. The prerequisite for self-inquiry is concentration skill. You cannot self-inquire effectively when your mind jumps around to various subjects. 3) Not sure. I never get headaches unless I physically over-strain. Learn to make the whole process relaxed and effortless. Don't strain any muscles. Just sit there as you would if you were waiting for a bus. But of course some people might get headaches and various energies might build up in your head over time. Try to release them or massage them out.

@Principium Nexus Progress has nothing to do with happiness. Progress is a rat race. It never leads to happiness. It's a tool of self-survival.

Seems like folks are generally excited about the idea of cleaning up their diet, so I thought it would be great to hear your nutrition hacks. What tasty, healthy, practical recipes have you found? It would be really helpful to get a juicy list going here.

Yes, it's all fun and games until it actually hits you. Then it's a whole nother matter.

Gonna lock this one, since I think we've beaten this dead horse long enough.

No, I don't mean internet trolls. I mean the trolls of fairy-tale lore. Again, this one requires some radical openmindedness. Here's some food for thought: Upon further research I was unable to find any corroborating sources or additional stories. Anyone here from Iceland ever hear of such stories??? It would be amazing to know what specific lichens they are. This is supposedly what it might look like: P.S. Don't go eating random lichens! Some are toxic and will kill you.

A) Nothing is necessary. Having an impact is of course meaningless in the absolute sense. B) Don't confuse different levels of advice. When I say "Make an impact" this not a nondual truth. This is pragmatic advice for ordinary people. C) If you take a look, the most enlightened people, even though they realize that all action is meaningless, NEVERTHELESS devote their lives to making an impact. Because that's what a high quality human being is wired to do. Think of making an impact as eating or crapping. It's something the human being does, which if you ignore, you'll be sorry. D) Making an impact is not some mandatory thing. I'm just pointing out to you what kind of life you will enjoy living most. People simply don't think through these things. Your psychological needs do matter when it comes to your happiness. E) If you really don't want to make an impact, don't. But even that is an impact. You cannot not have an impact. The question is, what kind of impact will you want to have? A conscious one, or an unconscious one? F) If a guy makes 1500 videos about something, that's quite an impact he's making. G) Life purpose is a conscious CONSTRUCTION. Life purpose is not something you "find in the world". It's something you decide to create in the world. Not for any reason. Simply because you want to create something.

@Shakazulu Strong Determination Sitting would be a good technique for that. To become dispassionate, you will have to spend 1000s of hours observing your passions as they arise in the moment, and also resisting and surrendering them mindfully.

What??? Why do you want to create something which has no value in your eyes? Remember, value is always a projection of the human mind. Nothing actually has value. Including gold, money, family, love, business, science, enlightenment, or anything else. The question of value always just boils down to what you enjoy and want for its own sake. If you enjoy art, make it. If you don't enjoy art, don't. People who become artists simply enjoy the process of making their art. It's really that simple. Of course that doesn't mean it's easy.

Most of you guys are just speculating. I don't hear anyone here speaking from a direct consciousness of the absolute nature of reality. I'm starting to regret telling you about psychedelics because it just makes you skeptical of me. I've told you what reality is. It's a radical thing. If you don't like how it sounds, oh well. That is that. These are things a Zen monk with 20 years expereince can still fail to grasp. You have almost no hope of grasping it unless you commit your whole life to this, are spiritually gifted, or you do some very serious investigating using psychedelics. Good luck

Lol, if it didn't disappear, in what sense could you go to sleep? It would keep you up all night Stop treating reality as an abstraction. Reality -- as far as you know -- is only what is experienced right this moment.

It seems that way from your current paradigm. But after you encounter the Absolute, you'll realize you were wrong. Everything is absolutely relative. You guys are failing to grasp the significance of that. There is no standard by which to say that something is real or unreal. To put it another way, reality itself cannot know what is or isn't real! Any standards you have for judging reality are arbitrary and groundless. They only seem solid because you hold them to be so. The whole point of enlightenment is that you become conscious of EVERYTHING. There is no room left for something to "hide". There can be nothing outside Infinity. But don't believe me. Discover it for yourself. Don't underestimate enlightenment. You guys keep doing that.

Actually, when I look around the room, or go for a walk, I am starting to be actively mindful that all is a hallucination. Took a nice 30 minute walk outside last night, and it was quite remarkable. All the trees, the lights, the stars... just hallucination. All of it is void. Just beaitful. When I look at my hands these days, I know they are a hallucination. Which makes them all the more remarkable. As you become more conscious, this will become your living reality. Certain truths, once they are really understood, cannot be unseen, even though the peak experience goes away. The point of psychedelics is not the high, it's the understanding you come away with. The whole point of spirituality is to experience everyday life as a hallucination. That is what you're working towards. That's what peace and happiness are. When you know that everything is unreal, you feel detached. It's an amazing thing. Like being a child again. Freedom from life, freedom from death. I have seen that there is no external world. That would be a duality. Don't ask me how I've seen it. You can only see it a high states of consciousness. That's what the Absolute is. There is nothing that could ground an external world. Reality is far more ingenious than that.

@dead man walking It is simply impossible to imagine Nothingness. You are trying to imagine God. All ideas you have of it, including your ideas of "everything" and "nothing" are not it, not even close. If you want to understand, the best thing to do is: A) Self-inquire, B) psychedelics. The problem with the human mind is that it just cannot resist trying to imagine God. But the more it tries, the more wrong it is. You're not going to get much better than the descriptions I gave in my Absolute Infinity episodes.

@Joseph Maynor That is why we each must walk our own unique path. No path is right or wrong. It's Allah's will no matter which fork in the road you take. Ignorance needs room to play itself out. Which is fundamentally why we must be tolerant of all people and why nonduality wars are silly.

Nothing in this work is obvious. The grass is wet = the grass is wet. Nothing more, nothing less. Notice the rest is monkey-mind. What you're calling "evidence" IS what you're imagining to be the "the world independent of perception". You're looking too far. The world IS the flux of perception. Look! That's what it is! Stop looking for something else. The reason you do that is because you secretly do not want to admit that the world is mystical. You keep looking for a mechanism, not realizing that the mechanism is simply its being. BEing is all there could ever be. It is itself. Period. A = A It's so obvious you're overlooking it.