Leo Gura

Infinity contains all finities. So here you are. Infinity cannot stop itself. It creates every possible thing, to infinity. Like an infinite runaway chain reaction.

@Serotoninluv After 30 mins of contemplating you should have at least 2 full pages of writings. I usually ponder for a minute, then write a bit down. Then ponder for another minute, then write a few more sentences. Etc. You can write quite a lot once you're on a roll. But be careful not to write blindly without contemplating. Your writing must be grounded in direct experience, or it will devolve into spectualation and grand theory-building. Don't just ponder in your head, also ponder on the page.

Content and context are actually distinct things. But that is a challenging topic for another day. In that video I didn't actually get into what context is. I only defined it loosely for the purposes of explaining the phenomenon of recontextualization. To really understand context, you will have to contemplate: What is context? It's a lot more profound than people realize. In the ultimate end, everything is ONE, but it is very good to look at context in isolation.

No marketing trick. I was very fat. But I don't have any photos. My Mom does. I keep forgetting to ask her for one. I'll post it on the blog someday. When I do, you guys will not believe your eyes.

@kieranperez Great example. Notice how differently Deepak responds to Trump vs the way Green might respond to Trump: by hating Trumping. Green hates on haters. Turquoise loves on haters. That's a very significant paradigm shift and takes a lot of consciousness, development, and selflessness to embody. Green is not there yet. Green's ego is still too triggered by Blue/Orange to see the bigger picture.

Just hanging around Green people, or even just listening to Green people can be very helpful for outgrowing Orange. Check out the Youtube Channel, Majority Report. They are very Green and love to ridicule Orange. Just be careful not to get trapped in Green.

That's where the hard spiritual work begins. That's why you have Vipassana, yoga, Actualized.org and all these other "silly" practices and theories. It's easy to feel spiritual for 10 hours on 500ug of LSD. The real trick is grounding that level of consciousness into everyday life. Are you still gonna think it's silly when someone pisses in your soup? How about when someone rapes your Mom? That is the real test of your development. How conscious will you be then?

It's weak sauce. A drop in the bucket compared to the power of Kriya. His online course is mostly just meant to recruit new people. It's not going to transform your life. That's not so say it is bad. You just have to understand that the reason I chose Kriya was because it is the most potent thing I could find. It's yoga on steroids. With the size of Sadhguru's organization, he cannot teach the most powerful techniques to noobs. He has to teach weak mainstream techniques as introduction. I'm sure he also has powerful techniques, but you won't get those without jumping through all the hoops. The popular a spiritual teacher or teaching is, the weaker it must be. The best teachings are very niche and they are not advertised on YT to mouthbreathing noobs.

Definitely I feel like I'm on a mild psychedelic high throughout the day if I just sit still for a minute. Kriya is like microdosing psychedelics. It also significantly calms the monkey mind. It only takes a month or two to start to feel that. At least for me. Your results may vary. I have done a lot of psychedelics over the last 2 years, so I am much more conscious than I would be if I was starting Kriya from zero. Don't recall exactly which book it is from. I think it's the Kriya Supreme Fire. You basically just breath in, do the 3 locks, then hold it for 90 seconds (or as long as you can).

When I speak of contemplation, it includes conceptual understanding. Be careful about reduce contemplation to "just sitting in silence". That is not contemplation, that is meditation. Which is great, but not the same thing as what I described in my latest contemplation video. When you question something like "What is science?" that is CONCEPTUAL! Just sitting in silence will not result in a deep understanding of how science works, for example. Be careful about boiling contemplation down to being in a nondual state. One way to think of contemplation is that it is a way of cleaning up and clarifying your conceptual understanding. Which can be very valuable in and of itself. Without contemplation the mind is very confused and murky. Be careful, people can use the word "contemplation" to mean very different things.

@Widdle Puppy I like to think of it as two phases: Exploration phase: where you learn about and sample lots of various methods. Little results but lots of options and new ideas. Consolidation phase: where you get serious, buckle down, choose a few methods to master, and get to work. Lots of results but kinda boring and grindy. Both are important.

Sure Although don't make contemplations always about you. That in itself can sorta feed the ego. Make sure you're also contemplating things which are not directly about you, like, what is language?

By that logic, you should stop doing meditation too. Don't go to amateurs for advice on psychedelics. You might as well be asking Sadhguru for golfing advice.

It's a nice start, but not nearly deep enough. It's still mostly intellectual understanding and the ego is still in near total control of your consciousness. Keep questioning deeper until you stop feeling like you're inside the body or the head. Until your heart starts to pound in terror at the prospect of death. And then keep questioning even deeper until you actually die. In self-inquiry your job is nothing short of collapsing all of physical reality. Keep questioning until the floor beneath your feet disappears. This is a level of questioning most people do not think is possible. It should get very intense. It requires enormous presence and focus. Focus like you intend to burn a hole through a steel plate with your mind. But at the same time also be gentle. Don't strain yourself.

Why you asking us? Go contemplate it!

It can be painful but also not. It all depends on how you look at it. Surrender for me is usually very mellow on psychedelics. I just surrender my life and die. There is no great struggle, no drama, no epic ordeal. But it won't be like that for everyone. The more conscious and developed you are, the less struggle and drama there will be. When it is realized that the ego never existed, there is no struggle with the death process. It feels totally organic and it is no big deal. If you are making a big deal out of death, that is ego resisting, and that is itself the only obstacle, the very thing to surrender. Kriya yoga helps a lot to pacify the ego-mind and all of its drama. The ego-mind will naturally want to turn this entire enlightenment process into an epic ordeal. That's ego being ego.

Becuase Infinity. When you fully experience Infinity, you will understand why.

@Serotoninluv All jokes work through recontextualization. That's the punchline of any joke, which is what causes the laugh. You realize the context was other than what you initially thought. Which is also why a lot of people laugh after enlightenment. It's like the mother of all jokes.

@Pure Imagination Sounds like someone's been trippin balls

@ChimpBrain That is like saying "I meditated for 1 day and saw no results". You know better than that.

It's not dogma, it serves an important physiological function, but you can add it to your routine later on. The most important thing is to get your basic routine into place, so you're seeing results from it and you're happy with it. Then you can add on the extravagant bells and whistles. I would spend a few months building up your basic routine (Mahamudra + Pranayama + Breath Of Fire) before investing a lot of effort into the tongue exercises. You can always add those later. Don't let anything hinder you from building your core routine. The core routine alone is very powerful and you should start to feel it working on your mind within a month or two, which should give you motivation to keep building on top of it.

@MsNobody Happy for ya Welcome to awakening. All hail the mighty Toad God!

Pluck has been banned I welcome criticism of me, but Pluck was just spreading stage Orange ideology. He had no real interest in growing beyond it.

A Jordan Peterson fanboy. Why am I not surprised? If you think you are gonna spread his whiney, crypto-conservative, libertarian, sexual communist nonsense here, think again. I am becoming less and less tolerant of such nonsense. You can go hang out on an Ayn Rand forum.

Shamanic breathing Kriya yoga Psychedelics And many other techniques you could try (as folks have suggested above).