Leo Gura

It is a subtle framework which constructs a paradigm that will limit your awakenings and access to the full gamut that consciousness is capable of. Nonduality is not contradicted per se. Of course reality is ONE, but there's way more to consciousness than just that. Just don't forget, gravity's a bitch

Yes, that's the challenge of this situation. On the one hand I must allow for diversity of opinion and perspective. I have no interest in being a tyrant here. On the other hand I cannot allow people to run wild with ideas about Awakening/Consciousness/God which I know are untrue. Which makes for a challenging balancing act. In the end you have to decide whether you trust my leadership or not. Ultimately this issue is not avoidable. You can't really follow a set of teachings if you fundamentally disagree with the creator of those teachings or you think he's leading you in the wrong direction. You can't sign up for a meditation retreat and then also hold that the guy who organized the retreat is deluded and wrong about the most fundamental of things. If you think that I am fundamentally wrong about Awakening/Consciousness/God, then don't waste your time playing games with me. Go be with a teacher or community where your views align. Don't waste time. Do whatever you feel you need to wake up and get closer to Truth/God. There is no use hanging around here struggling against me. I am here because I cannot leave this place without shutting the whole thing down. You, on the other hand, can find any number of spiritual communities which will fit your values and worldview if this one does not. There is no point in following a spiritual leader who you do not respect. If you truly believe that I'm bullshitting you, then you shouldn't follow me and you shouldn't be here. The reason I kick some people off this forum is when I see that they clearly do not respect my leadership but stick around here just to play games and argue. This is a waste of time and energy so eventually I will kick such people out. Not only for my sake, but for theirs. Do not waste your time in unproductive argumentation. The goal is not to argue, it's to increase consciousness. I teach very radical things which are not for most people. My teachings do not align with many conventional, happy-go-lucky spiritual schools which seek to be noncontroversial, nonconfrontational, and "all-accepting". I am not spiritually "all-accepting". There are worse and better ways to do spirituality. Traditionally the way this worked is, you find a guru who you deeply respect, and then you follow his leadership. And if you think you know better than him, then he cannot be your guru. Now, I don't really consider myself anyone's guru. I don't want to be your guru. I want you to think for yourself. But some baseline of respect for my authority is necessary because what I do is lead people to consciousness. And I think I do a decent job of it. If you disagree, then don't interact with me. It's that simple. I am not going to waste time on people who do not want my leadership when there are thousands of other people who want it. We are not on the same level. I am in a leadership position. You are free to reject my leadership. But then we have no more business talking because I am certainly not going to be following you. Nothing personal. I wouldn't follow the Buddha himself. I teach things that nobody else teaches. It's up to you to decide whether you want such teachings. I do take responsibility for what I say. In this case the issue isn't one of my word choice, it's more fundamental. Even if I chose my words to be the sweetest ones possible, the core issue would remain: people here who think they understand Awakening/Consciousness/God, but actually don't. And there's no nice way to tell them that. They will fight it tooth and nail because that's how the illusion is maintained. But at the same time I cannot sit by and allow such misinformation to flourish on a platform that I am responsible for. This does not mean that I cannot be sweeter or kinder. I can make improvements there. But my core positions on the nature of Truth/God/Love/Awakening/Consciousness -- this is not negotiable for me, I am very certain about these things after all the work I've done, and I have a low tolerance for spiritual bullshit. It's very clear to me when spiritual people do not know what they're talking about but have convinced themselves that they do. Of course you can always claim that I am wrong/deluded. In which case we just have a fundamental disagreement which will never be resolved through talk. In which case, go do it your way. But don't waste time arguing with me, trying to convince me of something. No human is every going to change my positions on Consciousness. Because all of my positions on Consciousness from this point on can only be grounded in my personal experience, not anything human. No amount of talking with any human will ever reveal to you the true nature of Consciousness.

It doesn't falsify it per se, but nonduality is a mental framework which limits what consciousness is very much. You have all sorts of ideas in your mind what about consciousness is and how it works from all the nondual stuff you've read. These frameworks need to be dropped to truly explore consciousness. No Samadhi is much less interesting or radical. I've had plenty of samadhi with physical objects.

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Don't even get started with me. You don't know what Awakening is yet. Notice something: all you guys here who think you're advanced and humble, you're actually extremely arrogant. More arrogant than me. You just hide it under a veneer of spiritual humility. Don't think for one minute that that's fooling me. That will fool your Buddhist gurus, because they play the same game, but it won't fool me.

As I told you, you're playing games. And none of this is personal. If you're gonna be on this forum, I will tell you when you are not Awake. And if you find that unloving and disrespectful, you're not gonna like being here. It's not about being better than you.

@Etherial Cat Keep playing your games. Meanwhile don't kid yourself. You've got a lot of awakening left to do and your fave gurus will not help you achieve it because they themselves don't have it. All I'm here to tell you is that your spirituality is a sophisticated game. But none of that is fooling me. Nothing personal.

You sure would like that to prove your case. Unfortunately for you I'm not so insecure about whether you believe me or not. I don't ban people just because they disagree with me.

I'm sure there were war crimes committed in that region by both sides. It's basically Russian vs Ukrainian ultra-nationalists fighting against each other for control over that land. Atrocities are just gonna be part of any fighting that happens in that region. I wouldn't blame any one side over that. We clearly see Russian troops committing all sorts of atrocities in this war. They are just not very professional or well-managed military forces. They are mostly just winging things and so atrocities result.

It's okay to do 5-MeO-DMT before Aya because 5-MeO is out of your system after about 90 minutes. But if you reverse the order it can get into lethal territory.

Not really

@Hello from Russia Of course Putin is just using that as a lame excuse to have his way. The real problem for him is not Nazis, it's the West taking over Ukraine.

Every time you open your legs, Earth is watching

No, it's not a visual thing.

Earth demand you be less slutty

Great show.

There is nazis (extreme nationalists) in every country. This idea that Putin says that there are literal German Nazis in Ukraine is silly. What he means is extreme nationalists, which of course every country has. Basically the hardcore American MAGA are akin to nazis.

Hitler comparisons will not help you understand this situation. Maybe. I'm not really arguing for or against that here. There is a larger issue of NATO and Western hegemony which everyone in the West just ignores. But Putin cannot ignore that.

Listen to his interviews, speeches, and study his life. He does not behave at all like what you suggest he is. He's not at all like Trump. Trump is a shallow moron and coward. Putin is a genius and patriot. You are not considering how much stronger NATO would be if Putin just let the West slowly co-opt Ukraine and turn it into their staging ground. And yet, consider how American politicians would react if Russia co-opted Mexico and placed missile silos in Tijuana. In practice Ukraine is not powerful enough to have a voice in this. This is a proxy war over who controls Ukraine, Russia or the West. From Putin's POV Ukraine is just a puppet for the West. Ukraine has no power without the West and it does the West's bidding. Also, Putin considers Ukraine as part of Russia, historically. To give it up to the West is like a huge betrayal of loyalty. I'm not saying Putin is right. I'm just saying, try seeing the situation from a non-Western perspective.

I suggest being careful not to project your human "stuff" onto planet Earth's consciousness.

Rational doesn't mean you can't miscalculate. His calculation was that the Russian military would overwhelm the Ukrainian military. This was a reasonable calculation. It's also not rational from Russia's perspective to sit back and just allow Ukraine to become a staging ground for NATO nuclear missile launch sites. Because NATO would start installing nuclear missiles sites in Ukraine. That's not as contradictory as you think. Putin basically wants to create a independent geo-political pole to the West. This will involve some short-term suffering for long-term gain in power and autonomy. He also could not allow Ukraine to join NATO without a fight. Putin basically sees NATO as a virus that is spreading across Europe to infect the Russia empire. You're not really seeing the Russian agenda. You are looking at this from a Western agenda. Which is not sufficient to make sense of the situation. It is not the case that Putin is just a greedy bad guy.

Putin is not doing this for personal gain. He's doing it to strengthen Russia's geo-political power on the world stage. He wants Russia to be a respected and formidable super-power again. He's doing it so that we no longer have a monopolar world order dominated by the West. He's doing it to increase Russian sovereignty, because he is a patriot and nationalist at heart and he wants Russia to be respected. Basically, this is a war about respect and sovereignty.

Certainly better than drinking.

Tell that to the 40% of the Roman population who where slaves. You have no idea how brutally hard life used to be.

@Hello from Russia Putin is a clever fox.