Leo Gura

That's one of the wisest things you've said on here. Time to make some bold decisions.

I would say that you are dreaming, and only you can awaken to the fact that you are imagining everything and everyone beyond yourself. Consciousness is radically -- infinitely -- self-involved. As long as you keep dreaming of Buddhas, you cannot fully awaken to your own Absoluteness.

Yes. God is dreaming, then God is awake. But even when God is dreaming, it's still God. It just doesn't know itself as God because it's too busy thinking it's a human. Dreaming is the best analogy. You already have an experience of how this works every morning you wake up.

Yes, that's a good way to put it. Although technically it's about MORE CONSCIOUSNESS. There is such a thing as MORE consciousness than you currently have. Way more. You are describing classic nonduality, neo-advaita, or Buddhism, which is not God-Realization. Spirituality is badly corrupted by people who don't know what the highest consciousness is because they've never accessed it. The highest and purest spirituality is about becoming so conscious that you are fully conscious that your mind constructs all of reality around you and all sense of other. This is God-Realization. Once you reach God-Realization you've solved the entire riddle of existence. The common element is that you are God dreaming up everything and everyone, including all spiritual teachings and teachers.

There are states which are absolute and omniscient, from which all of reality is made perfectly conscious. In these states it's like the fog of war has been removed from all of reality. So yes, others states are less than that, less truthful. In lower states you don't actually see reality clearly, not at all. God can be in various degrees of dreaming and various degrees of wakefulness. And the wakeful degrees of consciousness are more truthful/accurate than the dreaming degrees, just like when you're drunk your perception of reality is less accurate. It's not just different. It's less truthful.

As I have said, if I had to agree with everything in a book in order to recommend it, I would have zero books to recommend. LOC is not the reason I recommend those books. I expect you to be able to read books critically, with independent judgment. Just because I share some resource does not mean everything in that resource is something you should adopt without critical thinking. I deliberately share many diverse and divergent perspectives as part of my approach to understanding reality. I've talked about this in past epistemology videos. Not all of these perspectives are going to align. There will be many contradictions. And your job is to hold all that in your mind at once without getting lost in ideology.

Your thinking on how progress happens is too black and white and simplistic. That's why you're getting hung up on this stuff. Progress isn't some battle you win or lose once. It's a neverending evolutionary process that started billions of years ago and will continue for billions more. See yourself as just in the middle of that and be at peace.

Lol I am a progressive. I'm just not also naive about how civilization works. The problem with most progressives is that they are blinded by self-bias. They are unable to go meta on their own perspective. And so they are constantly fighting a war they cannot win.

Not only do I disagree with it, I find it a joke. A Stage Yellow person isn't more valuable than Blue, just more developed and self-aware. Value is a very relative notion. The issue there is, what are your values? If you value development and self-awareness, then Yellow is more valuable, according to you.

In my experience quality flour products do not cause acne. So no. What you should be concerned about is powdered veggies and powdered protein like whey. And any products that contain them, like protein bars.

How so? State is all there is. There is no body to whom the state is happening, other than You/God. You/God ARE state. Why? You are always in some state and your state changes depending on the situation: asleep, exhausted, sick, drunk, horny, meditating, suffering, etc. It's a very simple, practical, and useful idea. Don't over think it. Changing your state is the key to waking up.

If you consume powdered food or protein, yeah, that will cause massive acne in my experience. Protein from organic whole meat does not. The best thing I did for my skin was to cook all my own food. Once you get your diet right no other routine should be necessary.

"Sexual assault" is a very loaded phrase. What exactly does this mean to you? Generally you should screen men for integrity.

@Hello from Russia Lipstick on a pig, eh?

Well, most people are morons. If you realize that, you'll have solved at least half the puzzle of life

All good points. But also, I'm not really that interested in lower things. I am not going to bend over backwards to save the world. I teach at a level that I myself can enjoy. People who can accept what I teach will gravitate towards me, and those who can't will naturally repel. It's a natural self-selecting mechanism. I have a radical mind and I teach radical things. There's no sugarcoating that.

All your ideas of solipsism are NOT God-Realization. God-Realization is unimaginable to a human. When you finally realize you are God. You will be all alone, but you will not be disappointed. I promise you that

The thing that will really break your heart is when you wonder: Why allow anyone to suffer but yourself? And then you realize: God wouldn't allow anyone to suffer but itself. And then you realize that the only one who has ever suffered is YOU. And that's when God's Love truly hits you. Don't you see? You are too Good to allow anyone else to suffer but yourself. If there existed anyone other than you, you would have caused their suffering. What kind of God would allow that? Therefore, if God is to be Love, God must have no other. God's Love is to subject no other to the torrents of consciousness than itself. Consciousness has no one to dazzle, love, and torrent but itself. Because Consciousness is One. You see? If it's not happening to you, there's no one else it could be happening to. That's what it means to be Absolute. God is Absolute. You are Absolute. You are God. Your Mind is absolutely sovereign. Your Mind is Absolute Reality. Reality is your Will. And God's Will is Good. God is Absolute Good. You are Absolute Good. Until you realize this, you're not awake. Don't focus on your aloneness. Focus on your Goodness. If reality is imaginary, don't you see? Then all suffering is imaginary. If all suffering is imaginary, what is that? GOD'S LOVE God is that which cannot suffer because it is too awake to its own Goodness.

If you have an actual full-blown God-Realization you will not be disappointed with anything. Just trust me on that Your disappointments and regrets tell you that that's not it. That's not God. God will not disappoint you. You cannot imagine how good it is. God will not disappoint you.

I've very serious about the whole deconstructing thing. Maybe a tiny one. Much higher awakening is required for a full integration. Look, the key to integrating it boils down to this: Fall in love with consciousness itself and its endless capacity for trickery, deception, and imagination. All of reality is imaginary! How fucking cool is that?! That's the best news you could ever discover. Just think about it until you realize how cool that is. When I think about how my own mind can spin up an entire universe from nothing, it makes me feel amazing. That's all I really need from life. Everything else is icing on the cake. Your consciousness is endlessly beautiful. And that's all you could ever ask of life. Drop the human neediness and just focus on the innate beauty of consciousness itself. When I look around me, I am amazed by my own infinite, radiant beauty. And this is the deepest level of happiness you can achieve in life. But it's not the same as snorting cocaine. It's a very sober, mature kind of happiness.

Yeah, well... accepting God as it is, is the work. God is how it is, not how the ego wants it to be. Yeah, well, truth can be unexpected. Yup, God is scary when you first encounter it. How come you are able to enjoy a video game when you know it's just a fictional world? God cannot have an other because God is One. So yeah, God has to trick itself into creating others. Where else could others come from? No, you don't have to suffer from it. You can enjoy being precisely whatever is TRUE. There is such a thing as a love of TRUTH for its own sake. That would be the integration. Stop telling yourself it's fake. God is an endless dream. That's what reality is, absolutely. Enjoy that. You have no problem enjoying a movie even though you know it was staged for your entertainment. You have no problem laughing at a magic trick even though you know magic is just a trick. You have no problem enjoying a cartoon. There absolutely is. Just think about it: it would be absurd for Absolute Truth to not be able to accept/integrate itself. If God exists then God should be able to accept itself exactly as it is, however it is. And if you are God then you should be able to do it. Your problem is that you haven't really had a proper God-Realization. You're trying to integrate a conceptual fantasy of God, not actual God. But, look, I get your point. Yes, it is emotionally challenging. It took me several years of work to integrate it. It did not happen in a single weekend.

It works the other way around too. You have a weakness for skewering young, hot, dumb girls who are not right for you.

Be careful. I am talking about God-Realization, which is not at all the same as you listening to a video and then having some ideas about it. Integrating those ideas is not the same as integrating actual God-Realization. Without the God-Realization there's nothing to integrate yet, just some negative ideas. There is no choice in the matter. Absolute Truth is absolutely true and there is nothing you can do to change it. It also doesn't matter how you feel about it. Your feelings don't change it. I wake up most days knowing I am God. And then I go about enjoying my day and appreciating myself. God is an endless dream. Enjoy it. Or don't. You can love yourself or hate yourself. The point of this work is to just love yourself more. Kills the ego, yeah. But that's what spirituality promised you: selflessness. If you don't want selflessness, don't do spirituality. There are hundreds of teachings out there that will teach you how to be more selfish. Go do that if it tickles your fancy.

Democracy is fundamentally about compromise with people you disagree with. It is naive and foolish to expect to demonize everyone else and get your way. Progressives are a minority in America. So they will rarely get their way, no matter what stories they tell you. And they tell A LOT of stories about how they are a majority.

That's just the ego-mind acting up. If you actually awoke to being God it would be the happiest day of your life. But yeah, you would be all alone in that happiness, making it somewhat bittersweet. Look, TRUTH is an acquired taste. It's not something humans are ready for. Which is why I won't push it on people any more. I am tired of dealing with people who are not serious about wanting to know it. I will no longer be trying to convince anyone of it. If you deny it, you'll just never get it, and I'm totally okay with that. I'm not going to force feed it to you. Facing TRUTH requires a lot of integration work and cope. It's a process. You don't just find the TRUTH and then you're all peachy the next morning. It's heavy stuff.