Leo Gura

@lmfao That's right. What you are intuiting the is infinity nature of reality. That's because it really is infinite. Which means that you will never pin down the Truth with finite symbols or thoughts. Cause/effect is a linear, dualistic, finite scheme which cannot get at the whole of reality. It can only get at finite, limited pieces of reality. It will always be just a partial map, never the whole territory. The territory is truly infinite, nonlinear, and non-causal. In fact, you can have a direct insight that every object in your room has an infinite chain of causes leading to its creation. I once become conscious that my Apple laptop power cord was created by an infinite chain of causes. What a mindfuck that was. To this day I cannot look at my power cord the same way again. Every object in your room has actually existed for eternity.

@Jonty What you are really objecting to is not the physical manifestations of this issue but how it makes you feel, the suffering it causes. How you feel about a situation is definitely created by the way your mind evaluates or interprets it. And this you can definitely change with lots of consciousness work. You may not be able to change how your son behaves. But that does not matter because the key is to change how you feel about how he behaves. If you were more grounded in yourself your sons action's -- as bad as they might be -- would not bother you nearly as much, and you would also be more resourceful at finding an external solution, like for example, helping him to pinpoint the root cause of his problems. What consciousness will teach you is to let go of control and to surrender and accept terrible things gracefully. The idea that you can always control every bad thing in life is foolish. It just cannot happen because fundamentally the ego is not in control of anything. Control is one of the chief illusions which consciousness work tackles. You have to learn to accept things more. Counter-intuitively, this will make you more powerful, not less.

This is a one word solution to this problem: psychedelics

Yup, nonduality = nihilism But it's not negative the way your mind is painting it out to be. There is no morality in a video game.

@hgill There is no difference between the one and the many. One = Many Many = One The Absolute reincarnates infinitely as EVERYTHING. That's nonduality. Not only that, you are ALL beings at all times right now! You just aren't conscious of it. There is no need to wait for an afterlife as you are ALL beings already right now. There is nowhere in the universe you can go where you are already not. You are the whole shebang!

Cough... cough... https://www.actualized.org/articles/the-paradox-of-developing-self-trust

@Thanatos13 What you are talking about it manipulating your own mind with lies to enhance your survival agenda. That is what most people do. The only problem with it is, it's fundamentally based on falsehood, which requires that you enter a cycle of self-denial which then creates lots of suffering and stifles your ability to be a conscious and loving human being. To be truly moral, you must surrender morality. Is it threatening to your way of life? Of course, which is why almost nobody does it. Takes massive courage and lots of inner work. But it is worth it. The counter-intuitive solution is to surrender your way of life.

It's not wrong because absolutely nothing is wrong. But it does create suffering, and you will regret it eventually as it comes from a position of ignorance. It is not wrong to be ignorant. But I would advise against it if you can.

@SageModeAustin You should draw a distinction between inherent objective value vs having personal preferences. Absolutely-speaking, everything has equal value. Relatively-speaking, some things have more survival value to you than other things. Value is a relative notion. A thing has instrumental value to you precisely because it helps the ego survive. You can be conscious that all human beings have equal Absolute value, but you can still be selective about who you hang out with. For example, even though a murder has the same Absolute value as a non-murder, it would be foolish and even dangerous to make friends with a bunch of murders. The mistake people make is that they then take the extra step of demonizing murders and denying that they have equal Absolute value. So, you can be very selective about who you choose to sleep with, but it would be a mistake to demonize and judge those women who you don't want to sleep with. Just be honest and admit to yourself, "I don't want to sleep with that person. But this does not diminish that person in any way. They can still be a good person even though I don't find them sexually attractive." The mistake that guys like you make is that they think like this: "That women is ugly to me, therefore she is a low, worthless human being." This is a narcissistic evaluation. You are saying that just because a person doesn't fit your survival agenda that they are somehow inherently flawed or lower. When the truth is, she just doesn't fit your survival agenda. Also realize that when you call anything in reality "ugly" you are actually disowning that aspect of reality, of yourself. Because the truth is, that ugly thing you hate is actually, literally, metaphysically, your very self. So you are placing yourself in an adversarial relationship with reality, with yourself! Which is the very definition of neurosis. When you call a thing "ugly" you are failing to become conscious of its inherent beauty. The beauty is there no matter what. But you are failing to see it because you are being too self-centered. It is possible to live in a non-judgmental way. The irony of chasing hot girls is that the karma of it always comes back to bite you in the ass and make you suffer. Just by thinking, "Oooooo... look at this hot girl, so much better than that ugly fat girl" you are causing your own misery without realizing it. When you lose that hot girl, it will hurt all the more. I'm not saying you should sleep with girls you aren't attracted to. But you might want to reconsider the way you objectify women and use them to gratify your most base, most low consciousness desires in a purely materialistic fashion. Maybe rather than basing your attraction purely on looks, you give more weight to her personality and her level of consciousness, and you focus more on how you can give her love rather than how she can please you. The only reason a hot girl has value to you is because you crave her. And yes, it is possible to let go of craving. The trick is convincing your ego to do it.

Careful, it is a cult-like organization. You can find non-cult-like forms of meditation or yoga which are just as effective if not more effective, and without the cult ideology. Many cults have legit spiritual techniques that they offer to newbies, but they are still manipulative cults.

The downside of hardwiring anything is that you then become inflexible in a rapidly changing environment. The most effective survival strategy is not mechanical, but highly intelligent, fluid, and conscious.

@Serotoninluv Awesome!

@Tom T Wow! Very cool to hear. Happy for ya

@brugluiz You should be very careful and clear by what you mean when you say "psychosis". Spiral Dynamics is not a model for diagnosing or understanding legit mental disorders. So watch out. Spiral Dynamics is based on "normal" or "average" people.

@kieranperez Christian monks famously wore hairshirts -- shirts made out of coarse, itchy, irritating animal hair -- as a means of self-inflicted suffering for purpose of spiritual purification. The reason spiritual traditions all over the world use suffering as spiritual practice is because it awakens the mind, while pleasure and comfort usually dulls the mind into unconsciousness. Same idea as cold showers. Of course this is often done is a dysfunction, pathological, moralistic manner, which is the opposite of consciousness.

Depends of course on the particular skill. There are so many! Lynda.com is great for all sorts of technical computer skills. You can pretty reliably create a six-figure income just from mastering a handful of the skills on Lynda.com

You're lucky you're not in a Zen monastery, as that kind of question would get you a hard kick in the nuts. Like I said, you haven't really suffered yet.

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@Scholar There is no reason to avoid anything. Rather, you are being invited to become conscious of how you are creating suffering. That is all. Don't turn consciousness work into some sort of normative morality guilt trip. You don't have to do anything. If you want to kill yourself, you are free to do so. There are no shoulds here. It's a question of how you want to live life. It would be pretty stupid to live life kicking yourself in the nuts everyday. But of course you are free to do so. Just think about how stupid what you are saying is. If you had to power to stop your own suffering, you would do so without hesitation. It sounds like you live a cushy life without having suffered deeply. One day, you will face suffering so deep you will rethink your compacent position about it. You have no good sense yet how deep humans can suffer. Let's see how you will feel after you get into a car crash and half your face burns off in the fire. At which point you post your whiney victim story here and we will respond with: "How is this any different than joy? Why is suffering bad?" Then you will rethink your position. The ego loves to talk shit and act aloof while it is safe and comfy. But then, as soon as it gets a scratch, it cries and whines about how life is terrible and unfair.

Yes, it still has its old memories, beliefs, langauge, etc. You don't all the sudden start thinking in Chinese.

People seem to enjoy playing FPSes, which always ends with a bullet in the head and a respawn. Maybe God enjoys FPSes too?

I'll release a video about cults in the future.

Depends on why you're doing it. What is the point of your investing? Also, keep in mind that just because something qualifies as a life purpose doesn't mean it should be YOUR life purpose. Your LP needs to fit you like a glove.

@kieranperez Sweet! Happy for ya