Leo Gura

I'd rather not, as it creates fruitless debate and drama.

Eventually you will go so far in this work that you will realize that no concept given to you from a human is good enough, and you will drop all that in order to derive everything by yourself from scratch based on your direct experiences. And as you do this, you will grow faster in a month than you did in years. You will feel every philosophical concept just holding you back from doing the real work. The real work is not based in theory or logical deduction or philosophy. And I am not just talking about Awakening. I'm talking about understanding all the dynamics of yourself and your mind. How you work.

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If that were true then why are 99% of people asleep and care nothing about truth? See, what I am cautioning you against is this kind of objectification of your value system. You want to create your value system and then project it onto the world. And I'm saying that it would be a lot better if you just noticed for yourself that whatever value system you construct, all of those are your biases, and nothing in reality has to obey. Even if you care about absolute truth that is your personal bias. God doesn't care.

One of Ralaton's strengths and weaknesses is that he sees reality his unique way and he's not interested in other opinions or perspectives about it. He doesn't do comparative analysis of various spiritual teaching styles. He only does his style, and its his way or the exit. This is unfortunate because important stuff is being missed.

Just keep in mind that all values are ultimately a mental construction. You cannot put a value on God. Even Oneness or Love are not values God has. They are what God is. Reality is beyond any value. You as a human can have values to guide your life, but recognize that all this is baised and relative and wrapped up with your personal preferences and survival needs.

To be honest, there is much philosophy I overlooked, but it is counter-productive for me to spend time reading it at this point. It really depends on what stage you're at in this work.

I disagree with him on multiple fundamental things. It is what it is. I cannot account for his positions. But I don't need to agree with him on everything or even the fundamental things in order to see the value of his work.

Ralston does not have a cult around him. Ralston is one of the most genius humans on this planet. It takes insane intelligence to appreciate everything he offers. Most people will never understand what Ralston has achieved. He's NOT just another enlightened nondualist. He has achieved a level of understanding of reality which hardly any human on this planet has achieved.

One day you will realize how scary true that is. I share a book list with you guys of 200+ books. Obviously stuff like that is worth reading. But at some point you have to go beyond the books, beyond human ideas. Humans can offer you fresh perspectives. But eventually you gotta focus on developing sovereignty of mind. Where you draw that line is up to you. And you don't have to draw it just once. You can go through phases, redrawing the line as needed. There are phases in my life where I study lots of human perspectives, and phases where I rely solely on myself. Can you get value out of reading the entire canon of Western philosophy in meticulous detail? Sure. But also you will fill your head with some many concepts you might regret it at some point. One of the top traps of our work is getting lost in concepts, models, theories, abstractions.

It's a coherent dream. You could dream random noise but it would not be a life. So really, what you're catching onto is the thing of A LIFE. Nobody in the spiritual community even talks about this. A LIFE is a profound phenomenon. You're not merely alive. You are inside A LIFE! Contemplate: What is A LIFE? These spiritual people don't even realize what A LIFE is, as an existential thing.

I wasn't flippant. I was saying that following the work of all those great men will limit your mind's ability to think original thoughts. I am dead serious about that. If you take humans ideas too seriously eventually you will end up believing them. You won't be able to help yourself. And you won't even know what you missed. But hey, do it your way. Maybe it will work for you.

Like what?

There are some limits, I don't even remember what they are at this point.

Then it's no longer distilled. Not mineralizing it is the thing I'm warning about.

The devil must be purged before God can appear But be careful running around your house like a maniac. You could carelessly hurt yourself on something sharp or hard.

One of the best ways is to have a daily visualization practice where you picture only positive things for your life for 20 mins per day. And do it every day, like a meditation practice.

Look up the case of Aubrey Marcus. He drank distilled water for a month and it ruined his health to the point where he could barely function.

I didn't say you have an obligation to reduce suffering for others. I said to reduce the suffering your selfishness causes others. That's an important difference. Otherwise you will feel obligated to hunt down every asshole in the world. Hunting down bad guys is a selfish-motivated activity.

I did know. But I studied philosophy anyway because I needed that foundation for my own work. I also just enjoyed the doing of philosophy, which is ultimately why I did that major.

Wanting to kill someone IS your selfishness at work. Not killing Hitler is not selfish, unless you have some twisted reasons.

You will not find Truth in academia. I have said this many times. Academics are not pursuing serious consciousness nor comprehension of existential issues. They are doing human stuff. It has some legit goals. 1) Scholarship, historical accuracy 2) Many narrow technical issues which are useful and important for advancing certain fields. 3) Exploration of political and ethical issues. But mostly it's about building careers. Academia becomes its own aim. Academic philosophy can be useful in helping people think more carefully and deeply. But that's not good enough for the kind of work I am interested in.

That's correct. There is a backlash against Big Pharma and the mainstream healthcare system because it does gaslight people and get many things wrong, and it is very corrupted by capitalism. But people over-compensate for that and misuse skepticism and cynicism and fall into fantasies. RFK Jr and his ilk are the prime example of this backlash and overreaction, which falls into falsehood and foolishness.

That's exactly what I aim to do. But I actually invent a new wheel in the end. I studied all that in university. I took a formal logic class where I did a lot of annoying proofs. It doesn't help with our work, almost at all. It's a great way to get lost in concepts and maps. You can study academic philosophy forever and get nowhere in your understanding of what's important.