Leo Gura

Many conservatives among that bunch. Especially 100 years ago. Especially when you felt your nation was shafted by the settlement of WW1. Many Germans were just pissed off and looking for scapegoats. You have some weird views on Nazis from what I recall.

Not usually. And it tends to work the other way around. It's state change which gives you the deep insight. Warning: Ralston has an usual definition of "state" and "contemplation". He doesn't use those words to mean the same things I mean.

@Vrubel My posts are not about you.

That's not enough. You need a shift in your state of consciousness. Awakening is much more than an insight, it's a state change. Of course curiosity is good and important. Although it can actually get in the way of stilling your overactive mind.

Sigh....

What you have to understand is that the far-right mind is full of shit. It talks out of both sides of its mouth. It's not an internally coherent intellectual system. It's a loose network of fears, hatreds, disgust, dogma, myths, and rationalizations. As I said, if you go far-right far enough you overturn your own traditions. This is not a mistake in my analysis. A far-right Islamic fundamentalist does not truly observe the tradition of Islam. Hitler was above all an ego-maniac like Trump. So of course he wanted to put his own stamp on things. It takes humility to blindly follow tradition as Mike Pence does. All you have to do to see that Nazism is conservative is to look at the kind of people who find it appealing, and the type of people Nazis consider their enemies. Who finds it appealing? Conservatives! Who are it enemies? Who did Hitler kill? Liberals!

My repsonses in these Israeli threads are quite sparse. Haha That's the rub. I don't ban people unless I am forced to.

@SamC No guru will save you when shit hits the fan.

Sure looks that way if you are cartoonishly biased.

I am planning to but had to hold off for weird health reasons.

@TheSelf And so how are you living with that energy today? What would a guru have you do differently to avoid that problem?

It could be a temporary stepping stone to something higher. The real problem here would be if there was something more meaningful that you could do with your life, and you gave it up in pursuit of something easy and profitable. But again, it is a valid strategy to earn some money to fund yourself towards something higher. Realistically you will get sick of streaming after 5-10 years and desire something more meaningful. But those first 5 years could be good and leave you in a nice financial spot. The trap would be to get stuck in streaming forever.

Even the largest sun cannot escape a black hole's love.

I would not chalk that up to autism.

Lol Zionism is cartoonishly biased. Your meme would be correct if the ones you were holocausting were not the grey peeps but some random squirrels on whose land you built your own place. "The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people. Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing from our 2,000 years of suffering and will deserve our fate." -- Albert Einstein

If this is true, there's little a guru can do to help you other than pointing out the traps. Which could be written down in a book. And said book exists in my book list. In the old days you would live with your guru 24/7 and get constant one-on-one guidance. That is nearly impossible to find these days and not accessible to householders. In the end, yoga is designed to activate kundalini, which comes with risks. From what I understand the best way to minimize those risks is to not do too much yoga too quickly.

Let's get real. What is Sadhguru gonna do for you if you accidentally activate kundalini in the wrong way? You're never even gonna get access to him over email. So I just can't take this stuff seriously. Once you activate your kundalini, you're stuck with it. No one is gonna save you.

Love like a black hole.

Not just the ground of reality, but all of reality. Not all questions. But many. Many questions are poorly formed or simply irrelevant. Well, that's something you could inquire into. Whether you will ever get an answer is unclear. Any psychedelics could potentially do it. 5-MeO and DMT are of course two of the most powerful ones and have a good chance to give you more insight into the ultimate nature of reality. By the time you reach the necessary level of liberation you will no longer exist as a human self. So it's a bit like curing cancer by shooting yourself in the head. To keep you alive.

That's not an argument in your favor. You can damage your system with psychedelics. And this is not a good thing. You should be careful with activating kundalini, so you don't harm yourself.

They finally got him to shave.

The Shaggy Dog, Lol

Looks about right.

Of course. But the guru himself is also a trap. A good guru must teach you that.

I prefer to call it The Toxic Age